Los Angeles herald., 1892-11-07

bill, and the deficiency bill for the appropria-
tion of money exclusively devoted to the sup
stitutions, shall contain more than U one appro.
priation, and that for a single and certain pur-
pose, to be therein expressed. When the
%ay object one or Sse whie
ing other portions OF the BILL No officer OF the
State shall have power to incur any deficiency
only upon the written authority, first obtained,
of the Governor, Secretary of State, and Attor
ney General Any deficiency incurred in viola
Legislature shall not have the power to appro.
pirate money to ray the same.
Amendment No. 5.
[5enate Constitutional Amendment No. 14.]
ARTICLE XI.
section 8. Any city containing population
of more than three thous ma Ave hundred in
habitants, may frame a charter for its own
government, consistent with and subject tn the
Co stitution and laws of this state, by causing
been for at lesst five year qualified electors
thereof, to be elected by the qualified voters of
said city at any general or special election,
whose duty IL shall be, within ninety days after
such election, to prepare and propose charter
Tor such city, which shall be signed, in dupli-
cate, by the members of such board, or a ma
jority OF them, and returned, one copy to the
Mayor thereof, or other chief executive officer
of such city, and the other to the Recorder of
the county. Such proposed charter shall then
be published IN two daily newspapers of gener-
al circulation in such city, for at least twenty
days and the first publication shall be made
within twenty days after the completion OF the
charter; pr0vided. that in cities containing
population of not r ore than ten thousand In
habitants. such proposed charter shall be pub
lished in one such daily newspaper; and within
not less than thirty days after such publication
1t shall be submitted to the qualified electors of
said city at general or special election, and If
a majority of such qualified electors voting
thereat shall ratify the same it shall thereafter
be submitted to the Legis ature for its approval
or rejectioH as whole. without power Of alter
alton or amendment. Such approval may be
made by concurren resolution, and if approved
by a majority vote of the members elected to
each house, 1t shall become the charter of such
city, Or II such city be consolidated with
county, then of such city and county, and shall
become the organic law thereof, and supersede
any existing charter and all amendments
thereof, and all Jaws inconsistent with such
charter. copy of such charter, certified by
the Mayor, or chief executive officer, and au-
thentieated by the seal of snch city, setting
forth the submission of such charter to the
electors, and its ratification by them, shall,
after the approval of such charter by the Leg
islature, he made, in duplicate, and deposited,
the other, after being recorded In said Record.
er's office, shall be deposited in the archives of
judicial mott notice OF said charter. The l Charter,
| SO ratified, NAV be amended at intervals of not
less thsn two years by proposals therefor sub
mitted by the legislative authority of the city
to the qualified electors thereof, at general or
| special election, held at least forty days after
| the publication OF such proposals for twenty
| uhyS III d udlly newspaper VI SelleIdl ClrCuld'
ton in such city, aud ratified by at least three
| fifths of the qualified electors voting thereat,
and approved by the Legislature, a. herein pro-
| vided for the ap oroval of the charter. In SUBJ
| mitting any such char er, or amendments
| thereto, any alternative article or proposition
! may be presented for the choice of the voters,
and may be voted on separately without preju-
| dice to others.
NOW, THEREFORE. Pursuant to the pro-
| visions of the Constitution, and an Act of the
| Legislature entitled 'An ct to provide for the
submission of certain proposed amendments to
the Constitution of the State OF California to
proved March z, A. d. 1883, viz: "Section 1.
Whenever the Legislature shall propose any
| amendment or amendments to the Consii ution
| of this sta e, which amendment or amend
ments shall have been passed in the manner
| and form required by section one of article
| eighteen of the Constitu ion, and no other
mode is provided by law for the submission of
! such amendment or amendments to the people
| for their approval, 1t shall be the
duty of the Governor to advertise such
proposed amendment or an,endments
eral circulation in this State for three
months next preceding the next general elec-
| ton. one of said newspapers must be pub.
| lished at the city of Sacramento, and two at
the city of San Francisco: and in issuing his
| procl nation for an election at which any
amendment or amendments to the Constitution
are to be voted upon, he shall include slch
amendment or amendments therein, and he
shall designate them by mum bers, ,iu the order in
| which they have been proposed" The said
| amendments are submitted, to be separately
| of the State, on
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