The San Francisco call., 1898-08-04
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
 SACRAMENTO. July 3oth: 1Sss California at Its thirty second session begin ming on the fourth day of January. A, D. 1897. of the two houses of said Legislature voting in favor thereof. proposed the following de scribed amendments 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 of the State of California. an amendment to section eighteen of article eleven of the Constitu- tion, in relation to revenue and taxation. by which it is proposed to amend said section 10 read as follows:
 Section IS. No county. city, town, township. board of education school district shall in cur any indebtedness or liability in any man ner for any purpose exceeding in any year ear such year without the assent of two-thirds of the qualified electors thereof. voting al an election to be held for that purpose. nor un- less before or at the time of mourning such Indebtedness. provision shall De Haoe to. @ snv collection of an annual tax sufnclent lo pay the interest on such indebtedness as It iaIs due and also provision to constitute sitiat.5 .s5 on or before maturity, which shall not exceeo forty. years from the time ot contraGIS SitS and County of san francisco may at any time pay the unpaid claims with interest therson s aGd & iay d na1tv drng g the fortythird and forty-fourth fiscal years out or the lilcolie @ ro @ revenue or any sue su6ceeqins @ for making, re- pairing altering or for any work done upon or for any material furnished for for. any fo tha con- struction of any sewer or sewers in salo cI.y and county are hereby excepted rom ,I tre anv visions of this section; and in deterfnlhins any claim permitted to be paid by this section, IT. , no statute of limitations shall apply III any 9tv of Vallejo. in Solano County may pay lts ing indebtedness incurred In the of tbe electors thereof voting at on election nslp a that % m shn So earary to this vision, with the exception hereinbefore recited. shall be void.
 AMENDMENT NUMBER TWO. (Being Senate Constitutional Amendment No
 A resolution proposing to the people of the State of California an amendment to the oon- sen- tion to be known and designated as sectlon and one-half, article eleven tnereoI, Pro, ., counties. of local county government acts for their own government. The said proposed ne"
 Section 71S. The inhabitants of any county may frame a county government act TOT bnta tnear matter specified. and consistent with and stao sup ject to- the Constitution and laws oI tnls otate by causing board T Saait H1 fen ye yearS qualed | electors of such county, to be elected py ene qualified electors of such county at any i gehs he eral or special election whose duty 1t snail o pc within ninety days after such election, 10 pre- pare and propose a county government as. u L1r | cate bv the members of such board. or ma. jority of them, and returned one copy ,s tnereoi five body of such county and the other copy to be sent to the Recorder of Deeds or the | shall then be published in two papers of gen | eral circulation in such county, or II there pc not two such papers, then in one only. for IT., at thirty days after such publication II snaiI m ms pc submitted to the qualified electors Of such conntv. at a general or special election. and If l a majority of such qualified electors young thereon shall ratify the same, IL snail tnete- 1 c,,I11 cd tO | rejection or approval. as whole, wishouV power of alteration or amendment ana olaoaapG IF ap | to each house. 1t shall be the county govern ment act of such county. and snail III .Hn, suen 1 case hecome the organic law thereof and super | sede any existing county government act, and | all amendments thereof, and all special laws | Inconsistent with such county government act. | A copy of such county government act, certi- 1 fled by the President of the Board of super l end authenticated by the seal of such county, setting forth the submission Of such county Jovernpoent act to the electors, and It's ratihca- 9fon bv them shall be made in duplicate and deposited one in the office of the Secretary oi ofdce' of the recorder of deeds in the county among the archives of the county
 All courts shall take judicial notice thereor The county government act so ratified may be amended. at intervals of not less than tive i've | ieeisiatiye authority of the county. to the 1 qualified electors thereof, at a general or special election held at least foTty o 6ayf days in a newspaper of general circulation Tn such county @ t onsled electors voting thereon. and approved by the Legislature as herein p2 pro2-
 for the of any sns such county ernnent act any alternative artlcIe or propossi- = tion may be presented for the cnoloS oI ,tt the voters and may be voted OH separaeeiy "i'h- out prejudice to others ro,,o-n- ! It shali be competent in all county govern r,ant acts framed under the authority given by this section to provide for the manner In which the times at which. and the terms for l which the several township and county ofncers l ether than Judges of the Superior Court, snail 1 be elected or appointed; for their compensa- oi6ation ton i6s or segregation of offices for the number of deputies that each officer shall nave: snG ancb iSe Seputies for the manner in which the | times in which. and the terms Tor wnicn the elected or appointed and for the constitution, l regulation, compensation and government or susn sIso fo nrescribe the manner and method by 1 which ali elections by the people shall be con ducted and may in addit9n bc ad,ars no ne | litical parties and organizations may partlci- pate in any primary election, method herein pointed out, adopted any county government act and the same shail have been cen directions of sections four and five of this article providing for the uniformity of .,a 1 State and likewise providing for the election and appointment of officers. and the reguia- l tion of their compensation. shall not apply. Said county government act shall as to any of the matters hereinabove provided for and de- l subject to any law or amendment enacted by l the Legislature, except by amendment first | eubnoitted to the electors and ratified In the i manner hereinabove set forth
 AMENDMENT NUMBER THREE. 1 fr,eing Senate Constitutional Amendment No. | 44.)
 resolution proposing to the people of the | State of California amendment to the Con- l stitutfon of the State, by adding new section, to be known and designated as section nve and one-haif article six. thereby providing for the organization of a court, to be known as the | Court of Claims. The said proposed new sec- | ton to read as follows:
 | Section 5I1 The Court of Claims shall con- sist of any three Judges of the Superior Court, | who may be requested by the Governor to hold | court at the regular terms thereof. The Court | of Claims shall have exclusive Jurisdiction to | hear and determine all claims of every kind and character against the State. under such | laws as may be passed by the Legislature, and its Judgment thereon shall be final. The terms | of the Court of Claims shall be held as fol- | lows:
 Tn the City of Los Angeles. commencing on the second Monday of March;
 Tn the City and County of San Francisco, commencing on the second Monday in July, and
 the second Monday of November of each year. | The Judges holding such term of court shall | receive no extra compensation therefor, but ~I t ha rNnfl