The record-union., 1898-09-04
Amendment Number Two.
(Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No 10.)

A resolution proposing to the people or
the State of California an amendment TO
the Constitution of the State, by addlng
new section, to be known and deslgnateu
as Section Seven and one-haf, Article
Eleven thereof. providing for the framlng
by the inhabitants Of counties OF local
county government Acts for their own
government. The said proposed new sec
ton to read as follows:
Section 7h. The inhabitants OF any
county may frame a county government
Act for their own government, relating 10
the matters hereinafter specified, and con-
sistent with, and subject TO- the ConS1lsu consul
board of fifteen freeholderS, VINO nave
been, for at least five years, quanhed
the qualified electors of 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
them, and returned, one copy thereoI 10
the Board of Supervisors or other leSlSid-
tive body of such county, and the 0th6r
to be sent to the peeoTde6 e6u1v 9t soY
ernment Act shall then be puphShed III
two papers of general circulation IN such
county, or if there be not two such pa
pers then in one only, for al least twenty
days, and within not less than thirty days
after such publication it shall be submit
ted to the qualified electors OF Such coun-
ty at a general or special election, and II
a majority of such qualified electors Vot,
ing thereon shall ratify the same II shall t
thereafter be submitted to- the Legislature
for it's rejection or approval, as a 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 Oh
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 ana all spe-
cial laws inconsistent with such county
government Act.
Nf sue, nrY1rro ont A ri
certified by the President of the Board or
Supervisors or other legislative body or
such county and authentieated by the
mission of such county government Act to
the electors. and it's 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
flee of the recorder of deeds in the coun-
All courts shall take judicial notice
thereof. The county government Act so
ratified may be amended, at intervals Of
therefor, submitted by the legislative au-
thority of the. county. to the qualified
electors thereof. at a general or special
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
Legislature as herein provided for the ap-
| proval 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
appointed: for their compensation; for
| the number of such officers. for the con-
soidation or segregation of offices. for the
| have and for the compensation payable
| 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
| taches: also, to precr1be the manner and
| pie shall be conducted; and may in addi-
tion 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.
| Droyiding for the uniformity of system
| of county governments throughout the
State and likewise providing for the cleo
| tion 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
! and law or amendment enacted by the
| legislature except by amendment first
| submitted 10 the electors and ratified in
| the manner hereinabove set forth.