The record-union., 1898-10-29
Amendment Number Two.
Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 10)

(Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 10)
-. A resolution proposing to the people OF
the Constitution of the State, by adding a
new section, to be known and deslgnate1o 1a
by the Inhabitants of counties of local
county government Acts for their own
government. The said proposed new sec
Section ~ The inhabitants of any
county may frame county government
the matters hereinafter specified, and con-
sistent with, and subject to, the Constitu-
ton and laws of this State, by causing
board of fifteen freeholders, who nave
been, for at least five years, qualified
electors of such county, to be elected by
the qualified electors Of such county; oad at
duty 1t shall be within ninety days after
such election to prepare and propose
which shall be signed In duplicate by the
members of such board or majority or
them, and returned, one copy thereot 10
the Board Of Supervisors or other legiSla-
tive body of such county, and the other
copy to be sent to the recorder OF deeds
Of the county. Such proposed county SII GOV,
ernment Act shall then be published In
two papers of general circulation In such
county, or If there be not two such pa
pers, then in one only, for at least twenty
days. and within not less than thirty Gays
after such publication it shall be submit
ted to the qualified electors of such coun-
ty, at a general or special election, and II
q majority of such qualified electors yot-
ing thereon shall ratify the same 1t shall
thereafter be submitted to- the Legislature
for it's rejection or approval, as whole,
without power of alteration or amend
ment, and if approved by majority OF
shall be the county government Act OF
such county, and shall in such case be-
come the organic law thereof and super
sede any existing county government ACT,
and all amendments thereof, and all spe-
cial laws inconsistent with such county
government ACT.
certified by the President of the Board of
Supervisors or other legislative body of
:es Of snb anf faItb by the
mission of such county government Act to
the electors, and its ratification by them.
shall be made in duplicate and deposited,
one in the office of the Secretary of State,
the other, after being recorded in the Of
nee of the recorder of deeds in the coun-
ty, among the archives of the county
All courts shall take judicial notice
thereof The. county government Act so
not less than Wo years by Is
therefor, submitted by the legislative au-
thority of the. county, to the qualified
election held at least forty days after the
publication of such proposals for twenty
days in newspaper of general ,circula-
least three-fifths of the qualified electors
voting thereon, and approved by the
proval of the county government Act In
submitting any such county government
Act any alternative article or proposition
voters and may be voted on separately
without prejudice to others.
1t shall be competent in all county gov
ernment Acts framed under the authority
given by this section to provide for the
manner in which, the times at which, and
the terms for which the several township
and county officers, other than Judges of
the Superior Court. shall be elected or
arpointed; for their compensation; FOR
the number of such officers, for the con-
solidation or segregation OF offices, for the
number of deputies that each officer shall
have, and for the compensation payable
to each of such deputies, for the manner
in which, the times in which, and the
boards Of election shall be elected or op-
pointed; and for the constitution, regula-
ton, compensation and government of
such boards, and OF their clerks and at
method by which all elections by the peo-
pie shall be conducted: and may in addi-
ton determine the tests and conditions
upon which electors. political parties and
organizations may participate in any pri-
mary election.
whenever any county has, in the man.
ner and method herein pointed out, adopt
ed any county government Act, and the
same shall have been approved by the
Legislature as aforesaid, the directions of
Sections Four and Five OF this article.
providing for the uniformity of a system
State eou ana likewise providing for the eee e
ton and ,ban OF ocers and the
not apply Said county government Act
shall, as to any of the matters herein
above provided fof ana nf neeiared et ar by such
and law or amendment enacted BY the
Legislature except by amendment first
submitted to the electors and ratified in
the manner hereinabove set forth.