The record-union., 1892-10-21
Amendment Number Five.
SENATE Constitutional Amendment No. 14.l
ARTICLE XI.

ARTICLE XII.
Section 8. Any city containing a popula-
ton of more than three thousand five hun
dred inhabitants, may frame charter for its
own government, consistent with and subject
to the Constitution ana laws of this State, by
causing a board of fifteen freeholders who
shall have been for atleast five years qualified
electors thereof to be elected by the
qualified voters of said city at any general
or special election, whose duty it shall
be, within ninety days after such cleo
for such city, which shall be signed, in dupli-
cate, by the members of such Board, or q 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 gen
eral circulation in such city, forat least twenty
days, and the first publication shall be made
within twenty days after the completion of
the cnerter; provided, that in cities containing
population OF not more than ten thousand
Inhabitants such proposed charter Shall be
published in one such daily newspaper; and
within not less than thirty days after such
publication it shall be submitted to the quail
ned electors OF such city at general or
special election, and If a majority of such
qualified electors voting thereat shall ratify
the same, 1t shall thereafter be submitted to
the Legislature for its approval or rejection
as whole, without power OF alteration or
amendment. such approval may be made
by concurrent resolution, and if approved by
a majority vote OF the members e.ected to
each house, it shall become the charter of such
city, or if such city be consolidated with q
county, then OF such city and county, and
shall become the organic law thereof and su-
persede any existing cnarter and all amend
lnents thereof, and all laws inconsistent witt
such charter. copy OF such charter, certi-
fled by the Mayor, or chief executive officer
and authenticated 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 Legislature, be made, in duplicate
and deposited, one in the office OF
the Secretary OF State, and the other,
after being recorded in sald Re
corder's Office, Shall be deposited in the arch
ives of the city, and thereafter all Courts shall
take judicial notice of said charter The
charter, so ratified. may be amended at inter
walls OF not less than two years by proposals
therefor. submitted bv the legislative author
ity OF the city TO the qualified electors thereof
at general or special election. held at least
forty days after the publication OF such pro-
posals for twenty days in a daily newspaper
of general circulation in such city, and rati-
fed by at least three-hfths of the qualified
electors voting thereat, and approved by the
Legislature, as herein provided for the ap-
proval OF the charter. In submitting any
such charter, or amendments thereto, any al
Tentative article or proposition may be pre-
sented for the choice of the voters, and may
be voted on separately without prejudice to
others.
Now, therefore, pursuant to the provisions
OF the Constitution. and an Act Of the Legsla-
ture entitled "An Act to provide for the sub
mission of certain proposed amendments TO
the Constitution of the State OF California to
the qualified electors for their approval" ap-
proved March z, A. d. 1888. viz: "Section ! .
Whenever the Legislature shall propose any
amendment or amen dments to the COnstitu-
ton Of this State, which amendment or
amendments shall have been passed in the
manner and form required by section one OF
article eighteen of the Constitution, and no
other mode is provided by law for the SUBJ
mission OF such amendment or amendments