The morning call., 1894-09-30
PROCLAMATION.

PROCLAMATION.
Boards may prescribe as to the county ass
sessments. and under such rules of notice
as the State Board may prescribe as to the
acUon or the State Board, to increase or
lower the entire assessment roll, or any
assessment contained therein, so as to
eduaiiZe the assessment OF the property
contained in said assessment roll. and
make the assessment conform to the true
value in money of the property contained
10 said roll; prOplded, that no Board Of
Equalization shall raise any mortgage,
deed OF trust. contract. or other obligation
| by which a debt is secured, money. or SOL
vent credits. above its face value. The
State Board of Equalization elected in
eighteen hundred and ninety-four shalt
continue in office until their successors, as
herein provided for, shall be elected and
shall qualify,
AMENDMENT NUMBER SEVEN.
! SENATE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT No. Is,
A resolution to propose TO the people OF
the State of California an amendment to
article thirteen of the Constitution. sec
tion one, in relation to revenue and taxa
| ton.
Section l. All property in the State. not
exempt under the laws of the United
Otates. shal! be taxed in proportion to its
value, TO be ascertained as provided by
/ law me word property" as used in
inns article and section, is hereby declared
! TO include moneys. credits. bonds. stocks,
! dues. franchises, and all other matters and
| telngs, real, personal and mixed, capable
| OF private ownership; prOJlded, that prop
| erty used for free public libraries and free
museums, growing crops, property used
! exclusively for public schools, and such as
may belong to the United States, this State.
| or 10 any county or municipal corporation
within this State, shall be exempt from
! taxation. The Legislature may provide,
except IN case of credits secured by mort
gage or trust deed, for a deduction from
/ Ia A tn hNn FHaW4f
OF this State.
AMENDMENT NUMBER EIGHT.
ASSEMBLY CONSTITUTIONAL AMENpMENT No 81
| resolution to propose to the people OF
! the State of California an amendment to
| section seven G) of article nine QX) of
the Constitution OF the State of Califor-
| MIA, by increasing the number of mem.
bers constituting the State Board of Edu-
cation, DV adding thereto the President
and Professor OF Pedagogics of the Uni-
| versity of California.
/ Section z. The Governor. the SuDeTin-
] tendent of Public Instruction, the Presi-
! dent of the University of California and
/ the Professor of Pedagogy therein and
| the Principals of the Slate Normal Schools,
shall constitute the State Board OF Eduea-
| tion, and shall compile, or caused TO be
/ compiled, and adopt, uniform series OF
! textbooks for use 10 The common schools
| throughout the State. The State Board
may cause such textbooks, when adopted,
! 10 be printed and published by the Super
lntendent of State Printing, at the State
| Printing Office. and when so printed aud
! published. to be distributed and sold at tbs
| cost price OF printing, publishing, and dis
! trlbuting the same The textbooks so
| adopted shall continue in use not less than
! four years; ana said State Board shall
perform such other duties as may be pre-
| seribed by law. The Legislature shall
! provide for a Board of Education in each
| county in the State. The County Superin-
tendents and the County Boards Of Educa-
! ton shall have control or the examination
| OF teachers and the granting OF teachers
| certificates within their respective juris-
| dictions.
AMENDMENT NUMBER NINE.
! SENATE CONSTITUTIONAL AMESDMENr No. 20.
! An Act to submit TO the people os the State
of California an amendment to section
! twenty-three of article four of the Consti-
tuition of the STATE of California.
| Section %. The members of the Legis.
! lature shall receive, in full payment Tor
| their services, the sum of one thousand
! $4,000 dollars, and mileage not to exceed
I ten cents per mile, and for contingent ex-
penses not to exceed twenty-five dollars,
! for each session, to be paid out of the pub
| lie treasury. No increase in compensation
or mileage shall take effect during the
| term for which the members of either
house shall have been elected. and the pay
| of no attache shall be increased after he ls
elected or appointed
NOW, THEREFORE. pursuant to the
PROVISIONS Oh tHs constitution ana an ace
of the Legislature. entitled can act to pro.
vide for the submission of proposed amend.
ments to the Constitution of the State of
| California 10 the qualified electors for
their approval" approved March Z. AID.
| 1883. viz:
Section /. Whenever the Legislature
shall propose any amendment or amend-
ments to the Constitution of this State,
which amendment or amendments shall
| nave 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 submission of such
amendment or amendments to the people
| Tor their approval, 1t shall be the duty of
/ the Governor to advertise such proposed
| amendment or amendments in at least four
| newspapers OF general circulation in this
! State, for threa months next preceding the
| next general election. One of said news
| papers must be published at the city OF
! Sacramento and two at the city of San
! Francisco; ald in issuing his proclamation
| for an election at which any amendment or
! amendments to the Constitution are TO be
voted upon, he shall include such amend
ment or amendments therein, and he shall
! designate them by numbers, IN the order in
| which they have been proposed"
The said amendments are submitted to
bs separately voted upon by ballot by tha
qualified electors of the State. on
Tuesday, November 9Th, 4. D. 1894.
! Each ballot used at such election must
coRtaln. printed thereon, the words:
Assembly Constitutional Amend Yes.
ment Number Eight. "
Senate Constitutional Amendment Yes,
Number Fourteen. ~
Assembly Constitutional Amend Yes
ment Number Seven. n
Assembly Constitutional Amend Yes.
ment Number Twelve. ~
Senate Constitutional Amendment Y@s.
Number Seventeen. n
Senate Constitutional Amendment Yes.
Mum ber Seven.
Senate Constitutional Amendment Yes.
Number Sixteen. -
Assembly Constitutions Amend Yes.
ment Number Thirty-one
Senate Constitutional Amendment Yes.
Number Twenty.
Witness my hand ard the Great Seal OF
the State, affixed at Sacramento. the daV
and year first above written.
lsEAL.I 81. II. MARKHAM,
-. Governor.
Attest: E q WAITE