The record-union., 1898-10-31
Amendment Number Two.
(Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 10)

(betng 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 q
new section, to be known and designated
as Section Seven and one-haf, Article
By the Of COUNTIES Da @ Of local
county government Acts for their own
government The said proposed new sec
Section ~. The Inhabitants of any
county may frame county government
Act for their own government. relating TO
sistent with. and subject to, the Constitu-
tion and laws Of this State. by causing a
board Of fifteen freeholders, who have have
been, for at least five years, qualified
the qualified electors OF such county, at
duty It shall be within ninety days after
such election to prepare and propose
county government Act for such county,
members sis,f Of M such board, or a majority Of
them, and returned, one copy Thereon 10
the Board OF Supervisors or other legisla-
tive body OF such county, and the otner
copy to be sent to the recorder or DEEDS
Of the county. Such proposed county gov,
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
after such publication 1t shall be submit
ted to the qualified electors of such coun-
IT, at ef such OF 6psed snS So Il
thereafter the be sui, submitted to the Legislature
without power of alteration or amend.
ment, and If approved by majority OF o,t
the members elected to each house, IT It
such county, and shall in such case be-
come the organic law thereof and super
ana ali amendments thereof, and ali sps-
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 or such county, setting forth the sub
mission of such county government Act to
the electors. and its ratification by them,
h shali T. be En- made IN g d4Rliests and deposited
the other, after being recorded in the of
nee of the recorder of deeds in the coun-
" All 1s courts s Shall "a take judicial S notice
thereof The, county governments Act SO
ratified may be amended. at intervals of
therefor, submitted by the Legislative au-
thority OF the. county. TO the qualified
election held at least forty days after the
publication of such proposals for twenty
days in a newspaper of general circula-
least @ Il three-ffths | t Of the e qualified electors
voting thereon, and approved by the
Legislature as herein provided for the ap-
submitting any such county government
Act any alternative article or proposition
may be presented for the choice of the
voters. and may be voted voted on separately
It shalt 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
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
such boards, and of their clerks and at
taches: also, to precribe the manner and
method by which all elections by the peo-
fjon 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
Sections Four and Five of this article.
providing for the uniformity of q system
Of county governments throughout the
fion 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
county government Act, not be subject to
and law or amendment enacted by the
Legislature except by amendment first
the manner hereinabove set forth.