The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-10-07
PROCLAMATION.

Boards may prescribe as to the county ass
sessments. and under such rules of notice
as the State Board may prescribe as TO tbs
action OF the State Board, to increase OK
lower the entire assessment roll. or any
assessment contained therein, so as to
eQuailZe the assessment OF the property
contained in said assessment roll, and
make the assessment conform to the true
Value in money of lie property contained
IN said roll; proDided. that no Board Of
Equalization shall raise any mortgage,
deed OF trust, contract, or other Obligation
Dy which debt is secured, money. or SOL
vent credits. above its face value. The
State Board of Equalization elected in
eighteen hundred aud ninety-f0ur shalt
continue In office It'll their successors, az
herein provided for, shall be elected and
snail qualify.
AMENDMENT NUMBER SEVEN.
SENATE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT No. l6.
a resolution to propose to the people OF
tne stale OF California an amendment to
article thirteen of the Constitution, Sec
tlon one, In relation to revenue and taxa
ton.
Section 1. Ali property in the State. not
exempt under the laws of the United
States, shall be taxed in proportion to it's
value, to be ascertained as provided by
law. The word property" as used in
tnls article and section, is hereby declared
TO include moneys, credits. bonds, stocks,
dues, franchises, and all other tiers and
OF private ownership; frOciaed that prop
erty used Tor free public llbrarles and free
museums, growing crops. property nsed
exclusively for public schools. and such as
may belong to the United States. this State,
or TO any county or municipal corporation
within this State, shall D. exempt from
taxation. The Legislature may provide,
except 10 case OF credits secured by mort
gage or trust deed, for deduction from
credits Of debts due to bona fide residents
of this State.
AMENDMENT NUMBER EIGHT.
ASSEMBLY CONSTITUTIONAL An ENDMENT No 81
resolution to propose to the PEOPLE OF
the State of California IN amendment To
section seven (7) of article nine 1N) Of
the Constitution of the State of Calltor-
MIA, by increasing the number Of MEM
bers constituting the STATE Board of Edu.
cation. by adding thereto the President
and Professor of Pedagogics of the Uni.
versity of California.
Section Z. The Governor, the SupeTin.
tendent of Public Instruction, the Presi-
dent OF the University of California, and
the Professor of Pedagogy therein, and
the Principals of the State Normal Schools.
shall constitute the State Board OF Educa-
ton, and shall compile, or caused TO he
complied, and adopt, uniform series of
textbooks for use in the common schools
throughout the State. The State Board
may cause such textbooks. when adopted,
to be printed and published by the SUPER
.
Printing Office. and when so prin ted and
published, 10 be distributed and sold at ths
cost price OF printing. publishing. and dis
trbuting the same. The textbooks so
adopted shall continue in use not less than
four years; and said State Board sh sill
perform such other duties as may be pre-
scribed by law. The Legisla ture 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 OF the examination
of teachers aud the granting of teachers
certificates within their respective juriS-
dictions.
AMENDMENT NUMBER NINE.
SENATE CONSTITUTIONAL AHENDMENT No. 20
An Act to submit to the people OF the State
OF California an amendment to section
twenty-ihree of article four of the COnsti-
tuition of the State of California.
Section %. The men: bers 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
ten cents per mile. and for contingent ex-
pensss not TO exceed twenty i've 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 is
elected or appointed.
NOW. THEREFORE, pursuant to the
of the Legislature, entitled can act to pro.
vide for the So omission of proposed amend.
ments to the Constitution of the State of
California TO the qualified electors for
their approval" approved March Z, D.
1888. viz:
Section /. Whenever the Legislature
shall propose any amendment or amend.
ments to the Constitution of this State.
which amendment or amendments shall
have been passed in the manner and form
nj al o.
OF the Constitution. and no other mode 10
PROVIDED by law for the submission Of such
amendment or amendments to the people
for their approval, IL 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 three 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; and In issuing bis proclamation
for an election at which any amendment or
amendments to the Constitution are 10 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 pr0p0s ed"
The SAID amendments are submitted to
be separately voted upon by ballot by the
qualified electors of the State. on
Tuesday, November 9Th, A. D. 1894.
contalp, printed thereon, the words:
Assembly Constitutional Amend Yes.
ment Num- Der Eight.
Senate Constitutional Amendment Yes.
Number Fourteen. "
Assembly Con Institutional Amend. Yes.
ment Number Seven. ~
Assembly Constitutional Amend Yes.
ment Number Twelve. ~
Senate Constitutional Amendment. Yes.
Number Seventeen. NJ
Senate Constitutional Amendment Yes.
Mum Der Seven.
Senate Constitutional Amendment Yes.
Number Sixteen. "
Assembly Consttutio Amend Yes.
ment Mum Der Thirty-one. ~
Senate Constitutional Amendment Yes.
Number Twenty. ~
Witness my hand ard the Great Seal OF
the State, affixed at Sacramento the day
and year first above written.
[sEAL.1 H. II. MARKHAM