The record-union., 1898-09-13
Amendment Number Two.
(Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No 10)

No 10)
A resolution proposing to the people or
the State of California an amendment to
the Constitution of the State, by ADDING
new section, to be known and designated
as Section Seven and one-half, Article
Eleven thereof, providing for the framinS
by the inhabitants of counties, OF local
county government Acts for their own
Section ~ The inhabitants of any
county may frame county goyeTHnreno N,atinar ~
the matters hereinafter specihed, ana CON
ststent with, and subject to, the Constltu-
ton and laws of this State. by causing a
board of fifteen freeholders, who have
been, for at least five years, qua1ned
electors of such county, to be elected py
any general or special election, whose
duty it shall be within ninety days after
such election to prepare and propose d
county government Act for Such county,
which shall be signed in duplicate py tne
members of such board, or majority Oh
them, and returned, one copy theTeoI TO
the Board of Supervisors or other leglSla-
tive body of such county, and the other
copy to be sent to the recorder OF deeds
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-
y.
majority of such qualified electors Vot,
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
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 OF such county. setting forth the sub
mission of such county government Act to
! the electors, and its ratification by them,
shall be made & in duplicate se and deposited'
| the other after being recorded in the Of
| flee 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
| 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
| election held at least forty days after the
| publication Of such proposals for twenty
| days in newspaper of general circula-
tion. in such county. and ratified by at
voting thereon, and approved by the
legislature as herein provided for the ap-
DrOVdl OF the county government RCJ. 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-
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
| terms for which the members of all
| boards of election shall be elected or OPP
| pointed; and for the constitution, regula-
| ton. compensation and government of
| taches; also, to precribe the manner and
| method by which all elections by the peo-
| ple shall be conducted: and may in addi-
| 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 rive OF this article,
Of county governments throughout the
| 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
| legislature except by amendment first
| submitted TO the electors and ratified in
| the manner hereinabove set forth.