Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-31
PROCLAMATION.

YKUULAMHllUN.
STATE or CALrFoRNIA,
ExECUTIvE DEPARTMnNT,}
SACRAMENTO, August o, 1892.
w HRRRAs, THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
w State Of California, at its twenty ninth
session, beeinning on the ffth day Of January.
elected to each Of the two houses of said Lesis-
following described amendments to the Constf-
tuition of the State of California, towit;
Amendment Number One.
[senate Constitutional Amendment No. l0J
ARTICLE Nv.
Section q The sessions OF the Legislature
shall commence at 12 O'Clock m on the hrst
Monday after the first day OF January next sue,
ceeding the election OF LIS members ana Is snaa ts
interim convene the Legislature by proclama-
ton. No pay shall be allowed to members for
Bill shall P be- introduced in either house after
the expiration OF sixty days from the com
mencement OF each session, without the con-
sent OF two-thirds of the members thereof
Amendment Number Two.
ASSEMBLY Constitutional Amendment No. 81
ARTICLE XII.
SKcTIoN 10. No county, city, town, town
ship, Board of Education, or school district
any manner, or for any purpose, exceeding in
any year the income and revenue provided for
it for such year, Without the assent Of two.
at an election to be held for that purpose, nor
unless, before or at the time Of incurring such
Indebtedness, provision shall be made for the
collection OF an annual tax sufficient to pay the
interest on such Indebtedness as 1t falls que,
aud also provision to constitute sinking fund
for the payment OF the principal thereof on or
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years from the time of contracting the same.
Any Indebtedness or liability incurred contra
ry 10 this provision shall be void.
Amendment Number Three.
SENATE Constitutional Amendment No. Ill
ARTIcLEV.
Section IS. A Lieutenant Governor shall be
elected at the same time and place and In the
same manner as the Governor, and his term Of
also be the same. He shall be President of the
Senate, but shall have only casting vote there
IN. He shall also, when the Senate Is not In
reformatory schools, asylums and other insti-
tutions, supported In whole or In part by the
manner in which the appropriations for the
support of such institutions, and for permanent
Improvements, have been expended, and re-
port the result of his examinations tothe Gov
ernor, to the Legislature, and to any other
officer or Board of Oficers, that the Legislature
may direct; provided, that In case the office OF
the case of the functions of Governor devolv-
ing upon him, the President pro tenn of the
Senate, or his successor, shall perform the
Lieutenant-Governor,d during the term of such
vacancy. or the time he Is performing such
functions of Governor. The Legislaturel may
examinations shall be made. II. during va
cancy in the office of Governor. the LieUten-
ant Governor shall be imp.sched, displaced,
the duties Of his office, or be absent from the
st ate, ths President pro tenn Of the Senate shall
81 shSl
ernor shall ne disqualified from holding any
other office except as specially rovided in tlis
shall have been elected.
section 10. Governor Lieutenant Governor
Secretary of State, Controller. Treasurer, At.
torney- General, Surveyor-Geners Il, shall, at
stated times during their continuance In office,
receive for their services q compensation,
which shall not be. increased or diminished
during the Term. which compensation is hereby
fixed for the following officers for the two terms
next ensuing the adoption of this Constitut on,
as follows:; Governor, six thousand ls60o0j
three Thousand ($3, ,OOO) dollars per annum; the
Secretary OF State, Controller, Treasurer. three
thousand 5000, dollars each per ,,o snn1%;
lars per annum; and for the following officer
for the fractional term and for the two terms
next ensuing the fourth day Of November, A.
lows: Lieutenant-Governor, four thousand
$4,0O0) dollars per annum, and travelling ex-
Hs eom
pensstion to be in full for all services by them,
respectively, rendered, in any official capacity
spective terms of ofiice; provided, however, that
the Legislature, after the expiration OF their
terms hereinbefore mentioned, may, by law,
diminish the compensation of any or all such
officers. but in no case shall have the power to
increase the same above the sums hereby fixed
by this Constitution. The Legislature may, in
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G. neral. and none of the officers hereinbefore
named shall receive for their own use any fees
or perquisites for the performance OF any Of
fetal duty.
Amendment Number Four.
[Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 81
ARTICLE ".
Section "a. No bill making an appropriation
for money. except the reneral appropriation
bill, and the deficiency bill for the appropria-
tion of money exclusively devoted to the sup
stitutions, shall contain more than one appro-
priation, and that for a single and certain pur-
pose, to be therein expressed. When the
deficiency bill is presented to the Governor, he
may object to one or more items. while approv.
ing other portions of the bill No officer Of the
State shall have power to incur any deficiency
only upon the written authority, first ontained,
of the Governor, Secretary of State, and Attor
ney-G General. Any deficiency incurred in viola
Legislature shall not have the power to appro.
pirate money to pay the same.
Amendment No. 5.
[Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 14.l
ARTICLE XII.
Section 8. Any city containing q population
of more than three thousand five hundred in
habitants, may frame a charter for its own
government, consistent with and subject to the
Constitution and laws of this state. by causing
a Board of fifteen FreehOlders, who shall have
been for at least fve 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 election, to prepare and propose charter
for 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 newspaperso 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; provided, that in cities containing
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 II
q majority of such qualified electors voting
thereat shall ratfy the same, 1t ehall thereafter
be submitted to the Legis ature for Its approval
or rejection as a whole, without power OF alter
alton or amendment. Such approval may be
made by concurren resolution, and II approved
by q majority vote OF the members elected to
each house, 1t shall become the charter OF such
city, or If such city be consolidated with
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