The record-union., 1898-09-16

(Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 10)
A resolution proposing to the people OF
the State of California an Amendment u
the Constitution of the State, by addl.ls y
new section, to be known and designated
as Section Seven and one-half Article
Eleven thereof. providing for the framing
by the inhabitants Of counties OF local rsa
government The said proposed new sec
ton to read as follows:
Section ~. The inhabitants OF any
county may frame a county government
Act for their own government, relating 70
the matters hereinafter specihed, ana CON
sistent With and snbjest to- fhe tn cauang
board of fifteen freeholders, VINO nave
been, for at least five years, quail @
the qualified electors of such county, at
any general or special election, whose
duty it shall be within ninety days atter
such election to prepare and propose d
county government Act for such county,
which shall be signed in duplicate by the
members of such board. or majority to o1
them, and returned, one copy Thereon 10
the Board of Supervisors or other leeiSld-
tive body Of such county, and the other
of the county. Such proposed county 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 lays
after such publication 1t snail De suomi au,n
ty, at a general or special electlon, ana IL
a majority of such qualified electors Vot,
ing thereon shall ratify the same 1t shall
thereafter be submitted to- the Legislatur
for it's rejection or approval, as whole,
without power of alteration or amend
| ment, and if approved by majority OF
the members elected to each house, IL
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-
NIT n
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 OF such county setting forth the sub
| mission of such county government Act to
| shall be made in duplicate and deposited,
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
ratified may be amended, at intervals of
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 twenty
| ton in such county, and ratified by at
| least three-ffths of the qualified electors
voting thereon, and approved by the
| legislature as herein provided for the ap-
provaI of the county government Act. In
submitting any such county government
| Act any alternative article or proposition
| may be presented for the choice of the
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 OPP
pointed; and for the constitution, regula-
| tion, compensation and government of
| such boards, and of their clerks and at
| method by which all elections by the peo-
| ple 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
| 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,
| nroviding for the uniformity of a system
| If county governments throughout the
| State and likewise providing for the cleo
] tion and appointment of officers. and the
| regulation Of their compensation, shall
| shall as to any of the matters herein
| above provided for and declared by such
| county government Act, not be subject to
| and law amendment enacted by the
/ legislature except by amendment first
/ submitted 10 the electors and ratified in
/ the manner hereinabove set forth.