The record-union., 1898-09-26
Amendment Number Two.
being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 10)

Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 10)
A resolution proposing to the people OF
the Constitution of the State, by adding
new section, to be known and deslgnateu
as as Section Seven and one-half' "A ArtiGle 1,in5
Eleven thereof, providing for the framing
by the inhabitants of counties, of local
county government Acts for their own
government. The. said proposed new sec
Section ~ The inhabitants of any
county may frame county governments
Act for their own government. relating 1d eon 10
the matters hereinafter specified ana con-
sistent with, and subject to, the Consutu-
ton and laws of this State, by causing
board of fifteen freeholders, who have
been, for at least five years, quaInei
electors of such county, to DE elected py
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 d
county government Act for Such county,
which shall be signed In duplicate py tne
members of such board, or a majority OF
them, and returned, one copy tnereo1 10
the Board of Supervisors or other legiSIa-
tive body Of such county, and the other
copy to be sent to the recorder or deeds
of the county. Such proposed county gov
ernment Act shall then be Pnph5inea pup iI Such IN
county, or if there be not two such pa
pers, then III 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
a majority of such qualified electors Vot,
ing thereon shall ratify the same 1t shall
thereafter be submitted to- the Legislature
for its rejection Of or approval as ar Wa1.e
ment, and if approved by majority OF
the members elected to each house, II
shall be the county government Act or
such county, and shall in such case be-
come the organic law thereof and super
sede any existing county government Act.
TT,Dn re "a
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
the electors and its ratification by them.
shall be made in duplicate 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
not less than. two years by proposals
thority of the. county, to the qualified
electors thereof, at a general or special
election held at least forty days after the
days in a newspaper of general circula-
ton in such county, and ratified by at
least three-fifths of the qualified electors
Legislature as herein provided for the ap-
proval of the county government Act. In
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
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
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
such boards, and of their clerks and at
taches: also, to precribe the manner and
method by which all elections by the peo-
pie 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.
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 Il approved by the
Sections Four and Five of this article.
providing for the uniformity of system
Of county governments; throughout Jug the
ton and appointment OF officers, and the
regulation of their compensation, shall
not apply. Said county government Act
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 20 the electors and ratified in
the manner hereinabove set forth.