The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-10-27
Amendment Number Two.
(Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No 10

(Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No 10)
A resolution proposing to the people OF
the State of California an amendment 10
the Constitution of the State, by ADDING
new section, to be known and designated
as Section Seven and one-haf, Arucle
Eleven thereof, providing for the framing
by the Inhabitants of counties OF local n
government. The said proposed new sec
ton to read as follows:
Section IA. The inhabitants of any
county may frame a county government
Act for their own government, relating TO
the matters hereinafter specified, and con-
sistent with. and subject to, the Ccnstitu-
board of fifteen freeholders, who have
been, for at least five years, Qualihed
the oualied ue SECTORS a Of 81 such county. at
any general or special election, whose
duty it shall be within ninety days after
county government Act for such county,
which shall be signed in duplicate by the
members of such board or majority OF
the Board of Supervisors or other leglSia-
tive body Of such county, and the other
copy to be sent to the recorder OF dee o1I
Of the county. Such proposed county gov
eminent Act shall then be published In
two papers of general circulation In such
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 general or special election, and II
q majority of such qualified electors vot-
Ing BE- ssa tst
for its rejection or approval, as whole
without power of alteration or amend
ment, and If approved by majority OF
the members elected to each house. 1t
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
A copy OF such county government Act,
certified by the President of the Board of
Supervisors or other legislative body of
such county, and authenticated by the
seal or such county. setting forth the sub
mission of such county government Act to
shall i be made in duplicate and deposited t
one In the office of the Secretary of State
the other, after being. recorded in the Of
ty, among the archives of the county
All courts shall take judicial notice
thereof. The county government Act SO
not less than two. years, by proposals
therefor, submitted by the legislative au-
electors thereof, at a general or special
election held at least forty days after the
publication of such proposals for twenty
ton in such county, and ratified by at
least three-fifths Of the qualified electors
her ahd for fy the
prevail of the county government Act. In
submitting any such county government
Act any alternative article or proposition
NAV be presented for the choice of the
voters and may be voted on separately
without prejudice to others.
1t shall he competent in all county gov
eminent 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
appointed; for their compensation; for
the number of such officers, for the con-
soldation or segregation of offices, for the
number of deputies that each officer shall
to each of such deputies, for the manner
in which, the times in which, and the
terms for which the, members of all
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-
nile shall be conducted, and may in afl1i-
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 system
State, and likewise providing for the cleo
ton and appointment OF officers, and the
regulation of their compensation, shall
not apply Said county government Act
shall. as to any of the matters herein
above provided for and declared by such
county government Act, not be subject to
and law or amendment enacted by the
submitted to the electors and ratified in
the manner hereinabove set forth.