Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-22
PROCLAMATION.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, !
ExECUTIvg DEPARTMGNTsl I
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ExEcUrIvG DEPARTMaST,l
SACRAMENTO, August 8, 1897.
w HKRRAs, THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
w State Of California e. its twenty ,arS -nln.n
A. D. 1891. two-lhirds Of all the members
elected to each of the two houses of said Legls-
following % described ri d amendments IN 10 the Consti-
tuition of the State of california, towit;
Amendment Number One.
SENATE Constitutional Amendment No. 1O.l
ARTICLE ".
Section 2. The sessions of the Legislature
shall commence at IL O'Clock M on the nrst
ceeding the election of its members, and snail
be biennial, unless the Governor shall IN the
interim convene the Legislature by proclama
a longer period than one hundred days, andno
bill shall be introduced in either house atter
the expiration of sixty days from the com.
mencement of each session, without the con-
sent of two-thjrds Of the members thereof.
Amendments Number Two.
Assembly Constitutional Amendment .No.7.l
ARTICLE XII.
SECTION 49, No county, city, town, town.
ship, Board of Education, or school district
shall incur any indebtedness or liability, IN
any manner, or for any purpose, exceeding IN
any year the income and revenue provided 1or
it for such year, without the assent of two
thirds of the qualified electors thereof voting
at an election to be held for that purpose, nor
unless, before or at the time of mourning such
Indebtedness, provision she'll be made for the
collection OF an annual tax sufficient to pay the
interest n such Indebtedness as 1t falls que,
and also provision to constitute sinking fund
before maturity, which shall not exceed forty
years from the time of contracting the same.
ANY Indebtedness or liability incurred contra.
ry 70 this provision shall bevoid,
Amendment Number Three.
Senate Constitutional Amendment No. Ill
ARTICLE v.
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
ONCE and his qua ificattons of eligibility shall
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
session, visit all the state institutions. prisons
| reformatory schools, asylums, and other insti
| tutions, supported in whole or In part by the
| State, snd make careful examinations of the
| manner in which the appropriations for the
| support OF such institutions, and for permanent
| port the result of his examinations 10 the Gov
| ernor, to the Legislature, and to any Other
| officer or Board of Officers, that the Legislature
Lieutenant Governor becoming vacant, or In
| the case of the functions of Governor devolv
| ing up n him, the President pro tenn of the
| Senate, or his successor, shall perform the
| duties and receive the enlolumeats of said
| Lieutenant Governor, during the term of such
| vacancy OF. the time he is performing such
| Dy law prescribe the time and manner that such
| examinations shall be made. II. during va
| cancy in the Office of Governor the Lieuten
| ant Governor shall be impe ached, displaced
resign, die, or become incapable of performing
| the duties of his Office, or be absent from the
State, ths President pro tenn of the Senate shall
disability shall cease. The Lieutenant, GOV.
ernor shall be disqualified from holding any
other Office except as specially provided in tlis
Constitution, during the term for which he
section 49, Governor Lieutenant Governor
Secretary of State, Controller Treasurer, At.
stated times during their continuance in Office
receive for their services q compensation
which shall not be increased or Diminished d
during the term; which COMPENSATION is hereby
next ensuins he adoption of this Constitution
as I II, ws: Governor, six thousand l$6,000,
dollars per ennnm m 90 the Attorney General
Sc retary uf tale, Controller, Treasurer. three
thousand (s3,0UO) dollars each per annum
surveyor General, three Thousand ($ ,,O00) dol.
lar per annuni: and for the following officer
for the fractional term and for the two terms
next eusu uing he fourth day of November, A.
D. eighteen hundred and ninety-t two, as fol.
lows: Meutenant-Governor, four thousand
| ($4, ,000) dollars per annum, and travelling ex
| penses when he may be employed in visiting
and examining State institutions such com
| ensat on to be in full for all services by them
respectively, rendered, in any official capacity
or employment whatsoever, during their re-
spective terms of Office; provided, however, that
| the Legislature, after the expiration OF theil
| terms hereinbefore mentioned. may, by law
| diminish the compensation of any or all such
officers. but in no case shall have the power te
| increas the same above the sums hereby fixed
by this Constitution. The Legislature may, in
it's discretion, abolish the Office of Surveyor
G neral, and none of the. officers hereinbefere
named shall receive fov their own use any fees
or perquisites for the performance of any Of
fetal duty. i
Amendment Number Four.