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action of the State Board. 10 increase or
lower the entire assessment roll, or auy
assessment contained therein, 30 as to
eopaliZe 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
in said roll; pr0Uided, that no Board of
EouallZatiOn shall raise any mortgage
deed OF trust, contract, or other Obligation
by which debt Is secured, money, OIL SOL
vent credits. above its face value. The
State Board of Equalization elected in
eighteen hundred and ninety-iour shall
continue in office until their successors, as
herein provided for, shall be elected and
shall qualify.
AMENDMENT NUMBER SEVEN.
SENATE CoNsTIT UTIoNAL AMENDMENT No. 16.
A res solution to propose to the people of
the Stale OF California an amendment TO
article thirteen of the Constitution, sec
Jion one, in relation TO revenue and taxa
ton.
Section /. All property in the State. not
exempt under the laws of the United
States, shall be taxed in proportion to its
value, to be ascerIained as provided by
law. The word property, as used IN
this article and section, is hereby declared
to include moneys, credits. bonds. STOCKS,
dues, franchises, and all other matters ana
things, real. personal and mixed, capable
of private ownership; prGUided, 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 to any county OF 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
credits of debts due to bona fde residents
OF this State.
AMENDMENT NUMBER EIGHT.
ASSEMBLY CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT No 81
A resolution to propose To the people of
the State of California an amendment to
section seven % of article nine QN) of
the Constitution of the State of CaliIor-
Mia, by increasing the number Of MEN,
bsrs constituting the State Board OF Edu-
cation, oy adding thereto the President
and Professor of Pedagogics of the mi
versty of California.
Section Z. The Governor, the Superin-
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-
tion, and shall compile, or caused TO be
compiled, and adopt, uniform series Of
textbooks for use in the common schools
throughout the State. The State board
may cause such teXtbo, ,ks, when adopted,
TO be printed and published by the Super
intendent of State Printing, at the Stats
Printing Office, and when so prin ted and
published, to be distributed and sold at the
cost price OF printing, publishing, and dis
tributing the samr. The textbooks so
adopted shall continue in use not less than
four years; and said State Board shall
perform such other duties as may be pre-
scribed by law. The Legislature shall
provide for Board of Education in each
county in the State. The County Superin-
tendeDts and the County Boards Of Educa-
ton shall havo control OF the examination
OF teachers and the granting of teachers
certificates within their respective juris-
dlctiuns.
AMENDMENT NUMBER NINE.
SENATE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENnMEST No. 20.
An Act to submit TO the people OK the State
OIL 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 ior
their services, the sum of one thousand
| (S1OOO) dollars. and mileage not to eXcesd
ten GEMS per mile, and for contingent eX-
penses not to exceed twenty tive 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 lie is
elected or appointed.
NOW, THEREFORE. pursuant to the
provisions or the Constitution and an act
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, I'D.
1883. viz:
Section 1. Whenever the Legislature
shall propose any amendment or amend
ments to the Constitution of this State.
tEh nh an.n d,N1nn
have bsen passed in the manner and form
required by section one oil article eighteen
of the Constitution. and no other mode is
provided by law for the submission of such
amendment OF 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 circula ton 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 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
be separately voted upon by ballot By the
qualified electors of the State. on
Tuesday, November Glib, A. D. 1894.
Each ballot used at such election mus.
contain. printed thereon. the words:
Assembly Constitutional Amend Yes
ment Number Eight. ~
Senate Constitutional Amendment Yes.
Number Fourteen. y
Assembly Constitutional Amend Yes.
ment Number Seven. ~
Assembly Constitutional Amend Yes.
ment Number Twelve. "
Senats Constitutional Amendment Yrs.
Number Seventeen. NJ
Senate Constitutional Amendment Yes.
Mum Der Seven.
Senate Constitutional Amendment Yes
Number Sixteen.
Assembly Constitutional Amend Yes.
ment Number Thirty-one. ~
Senate Constitutional Amendment Yes.
Number Twenty. -
Witness my hand and the Great Seal OF
the State, affixed at Sacramento. the dav
ana wear hrSt above written.
lSEAL II. n. MARKHAM.
Governor.
ATTEST: E. G. WAITE.
Secretary of State.
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