The herald., 1898-11-03
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
A q A 4 L I..I 1909


WHEREAS, THE LEGISLATURE OF
the state Of California, at its thirty-sec-
ond session, beginning on the fourth day
Of January, A. d. 1897, two-thirds of all the
members elected to each of the two houses
of said legislature voting in favor thereof
proposed the following described amend.
ments to the Constitution of the state OF
California, to-wit:
Amendment Number One
iBeing Senate CONSTITUTIONAL Amendment
A resolution TO propose to the people of
the state of California an amendment to
section eighteen of article eleven of the
Constitution in relation to revenue and
taxation. by which it is proposed to amend
said section to. read as follows:
Section 1s Nc, county. city, town. town.
ship, board of education or school district
shall incur any indebtedness or liability in
any manner or for any purpose excssd-
ing in any year the income and reveaue
assent ASSENT of -t two-thirds % Of the qualified elsc-
tors thereof, voting at an election to be
held for that purpose. nor unless, before,
ness, provision shall be made for the col
lection of an annual tax sufficient to pay
the interest on such indebtedness as 1t falls
due and also provision to constitute
cipal thereof on or before maturity, which
shall not exceed forty years from the time
Of contracting the same; provideSd, g. howev- 9Se
cisco may at any time pay the unpaid claims
with interest thereon for materials fur
nished to ard work done done for saia eity n. ana
fourth fiscal years out OF the income and
revenue Of any succeeding year or years;
provided, that any. and all claims for max
ing, repairing, altering, or for any work done
upon or for any material furnished for any
street, lane, alley, court, place or sidewalk,
or for the construction of any sewer or
sewers in said city and county are hereby
excepted from the provisions of this sec
tion; and in determining any claim per-
mittsd to be pad by this section, no stat
ner; and provided further, that the city of
Vallejo, in Solano county, may pay its ex-
listing indebtedness incurred In the con-
thirds of the electors thereof, voting at an
election held for that purpose, shall so de-
eide. Any indebtedness or liability incurred
contrary to this provision, with the excep-
Amendment Number Two
(Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 10)
A resolution proposing to the people of
the state of California an amendment to the
Constitution Of the state, by adding new
section, to be known and designated as Sec
ton seven and one-half, artce eleven
thereof, providing for the framing by the
inhabitants of counties, of local county
government acts for their own government.
The said proposed new section to read as
Section ~. The inhabitants of any
county may frame q county government
act for Their own relating to
sistent with and subject to the Constitution
and laws Of this state, by causing board
of fifteen freeholders, who have been. for
such county, to be elected by the qualified
electors of such county, at any general or
special election, whose duty 1t shall be
within ninety days after such election, to
prepare and propose county government
act for such county, which shall be signed
in duplicate by the members Of such board.
copy thereof to the board of supervisors
or other legislative body of such county,
and the other copy to be sent to the re-
proposed county government act shall
then be published in two papers of general
circulation in such county, or If there be
not two such pagers, then nd th In one only for
than thirty days after such publication it
shall be submitted to the qualified electors
of such county at a general or special cleo
ton, and If majority of such qualified
electors voting thereon shall ratify the
same, it shall thereafter be submitted to
the legislature for it's rejection or appro-
val, as whole, without power of altera-
ton, or amendment and If approved by
majority of the members elected to each
house, it shall be the county government
become the organic law thereof and super
sede any existing county government act
and all amendments thereof, and all spe-
C1al laws lHCOHSlSlcuI Win SuCn 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
of such county, setting forth the submission
Of such county government act to the cleo
tors and its ratification by them. shall be
made in duplicate and deposited, one in
other, after being. recorded in the office
of the recorder of deeds in the county.
among the archives of the county.
All courts shall take judicial notice there
of. The county government act so ratified
may be amended at intervals Of not less
than two years, by proposals therefor,
the county, to the qualified electors thereof,
at a general or special election held at least
forty days after the publication of such
proposals for twenty days in a newspaper
Of general circulation In such county, and
ratified by at least three-fifths of the uuali-
fed electors voting thereon, and approved
by the legislature as herein provided for The
approval Of the county government act.