The herald., 1898-10-19
STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.


the state Of California. at It's thirty-sec-
Of January, A. b. 1897 two-thlrds of all the
N .sS " vnnx saih Of fs
proposed the following described amend,
ments to the Constitution Of the state OF
California. to-wit:
Amendment Number One
(Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. H.)
~ A resolution TO propose to the people PIn OF OF
the state Of California an amendment 10
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 IS. No county. city, town. town.
ship, board Of education or school district
shall incur any Indebtedness or liabi.ity N
ing in any year the income and revenue
provided for it for such year, without the
assent of two-thirds OF the qualified elsc-
tors thereof, voting at an election 10 be
held for that purpose. nor unless. before,
or at the time of incurring such indebted
ness, provision shall be made for the col
lection Of an anm%a ncS TAX fails
due. and also provision to constitute a
sinking fund for the payment OF the prin-
cipa! thereof on or before maturltyi @ wn;ua men
of contracting the same; providea. howev-
er that the city and county of San Fran
cisco may at any time pay the UNPAID claims rms
nished to and. work done for said city and
county during the forty.third and forty,
fourth fiscal years out OF the income ana
revenue of any succeeding year or years;
provided, that any and all claims for max
Ing, repairing, altering, or for any work Gone
upon or for any material furnished Tor any
street. lane, alley, court, place or SIDE wax,
or for the construction of any sewer or
sewers in said city and county are hereby
excepted from the provisions OF TINS sec
tion: and in determining any. claim per-
mitted to be paid by this section, no stat
ute Of limitations shall apply In any man
ner; and provided further, that the city OF
Vallejo, in Sosno county; may +, pay Se IT'S cen.
struction Of Its water works, whenever Two
thirds Of the electors thereof. voting at an
election held for that purpose, snai !. SO ae
eide ANY Indebtedness or liability incurred
contrary to this provision, with the excep-
tions hereinbefore rec!ted. shall be void.
Amendment Number Two
(Beins Senate coIstitationai Ss to Amendment
A resolution proposing to the people OF
the state Of California an amendment to the
Constitution Of the state, by adding new
tion seven and one-half, article eleven
thereof, providing for the framing by the
inhabitants of counties, OF local county
government acts for their own government.
rhe said proposed new section to read as
Section Tx. The Inhabitants Of any
s sSsnty tSr ssKr dTsms own s1n
the matters hereinafter speclhed, ana con-
sistsnt with and subject to the Constitution
and laws Of this state, by causing boara ,ra
at least five years, qualified electors OF
such county. to be elected by the qualified
electors of such county. at any genera or
within ninety days after such election, to
prepare and propose county government
act for such county, which shall be signed
Of JnH hnA ri
in duplicate by tne o. sucm nne
copy thereof to the board Of supervisors
or other legislative body of such county,
and the other copy to tbs be sent 10 'ns sueh
proposed county government act shall
then be published IN two papers Of general
circulation in such county, or II there pc
at least twenty days, and within not less
than thirty days after such publication 1t
shall be submitted to the qualified electors
81 f,oS suca and eI if majority OF such qualified
slent,oe. silon, r voting thereon shall ratlfy the
same, it shall thereafter be submitted to
the legislature for rs reJeeuon n OF aPpro-
ION. nai; o. or Amendment, and II approved by a
majority of the members elected to each
house, it shall be ths county government nt
hecome the organic law thereof and super
sede any existing county government act
and all amendments thereof, and all spe-
A copy Of such county. government act
certified by the 81 tHe Sody
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 bs
made in duplicate and deposited, one in In
otber. 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
smhmitted by the legislative authority 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 circulation in such county. ant
ratlfisd by at least three-f1fths OF the quail
by the Legislature Is herein provided for the
approval of the county government act