The record-union., 1898-08-10

C8eing Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. l0D
A resolution proposing to the people of
the State of California an amendment TO
the Constitution of the State, by adding a
new section, to be known and designated
as Section 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. The said proposed new sec
tion TO read as follows:
Section 12. The inhabitants Of any
county may frame county government
Act for their own government relating 70
the matters hereinafter specified, and con-
sstent with and subject to, the Constitu-
board of fifteen freeholders, who have
been, for at least five years. quall1led
electors of such county, to be elected by
the qualified electors of such county, at
any general or special election, whose
duty it shall be within ninety days after
such election to prepare and propose a
county government Act for such county,
which shall be signed in duplicate by the
members of such board, or a majority OF
them, and returned, one copy thereof 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
OF the county. Such proposed county gov
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 days
after such publication it shall be submit
ted TO the Quallned electors OF Sucn cOun-
ty, at general or special election, and II
majority of such qualified electors vot-
ing thereon shall ratify the same it shall
thereafter be submitted TO the Legislature
for it's rejection or approval, as a whole,
without power of alteration or amend
ment, and if approved by a 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
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 and deposited
one in the office of the Secretary of State,
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
not less than two years by proposals
therefor, submitted by the legislative au-
thority of the county, to the qualified
electors thereof, at a general or special
publication of such proposals for twenty
days in newspaper of general circula-
ton in such county, and ratified by at
least three-ffths of the qualified electors
voting thereon, and approved by the
Legislature as herein provided for the ap-
proval of the county government Act. 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
appointed; for their compensation; for
the number of such officers, for the con-
SOldation 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
tion 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 approved by the
Legislature as aforesaid, the directions of
Sections Four and Five of this article,
providing for the uniformity of a system
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.