The San Francisco call., 1898-08-15
PROCLAMATION.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.


 SACRAMENTO. July Soth, 1888. WHEREAS, The Legislature Of the Staee aStnl ol ming on the fourth day of January. A; D. lss., t~o-thirds of all the members elected to .a saott in favor thereof, proposed the following de- scribed amendments to the Constltuli0ii VI SAs State of California, towit:
 AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE- CBeing Senate Constitutional Amendment No.
 A resolution to propose to the people otfne Of fne state shf or Cslfosna ias an amen1e tbs constitn- tion in relation 10 revenue and taxation. oy which 1t Is proposed to amend said seelloh 'o
 Section IS Nc county city. towa townshiP, oTg P cur any indebtedness liability in any man ner or for any purpose exceeding ID any year e saeh ea hog shf ha W Of the qualified electors thereof, voting at an less before, % or nO at the time of incurrng such indebtedness, provision shall be made TOT the enT the interest on such indebtedness as it falls due and also provision to constitute sinking on or before maturity which shall not exceed forty years from the time of contracting the same; provided, however. that the Clty anc County of San Francisco may at any time pay the unpaid claims with interest thereon foT materials furnished to and work done for saia city and county during the forty-thlro and fortyfourth fiscal years out or the income 5ro no vided, that any and all claims for making. re- for any material furnished for any street. lane, alley. court, place or sidewalk. or for the con and county are hereby excepted from the pro- visions of this section: and in determining any claim permitted to be paid by this section, no statute of limitations shall apply in any man. ner: and provided further, that the City or Vallejo. in Solano County, may pay it's exist ing indebtedness incurred in the construction of it's waterworks whenever two-thlroS or Lne that purpose shall so decide. Any indebted ness or liability incurred contrary to tnls pa3 shall be void.
 AMENDMENT NUMBER TWO CBeing Senate Constitutional Amendment Mo- 1o.)
 A resolution proposing to the people of the stitution of the State. by adding new sec ton, to be known and designated as section viding for the framing by the inhabitants of counties. of local county goyernment aets LOT LOT section to read follows:
 Section 71k. The inhabitants of any county own own government. relating to the matters here matter specified. and consistent with, ana SUD by causing a board of fifteen freehoIders. who have been. for at least five years quaiined qualified electors of such county, at any gen eral or special election. whose duty 1t snail De pare and propose county government act for such county which shall be signed h oupli- tority of them, and returned, one copy thereor to the Board of Supervisors or other legtsia- to te'G be e sent to the Recorder of Deeds of the county. Such proposed county government act eraI circulation in such county or If there be not two such papers, then in one only TOT as thirty days after such publication It shall be submitted to the qualified electors of such majority of such qualified electors voting thereon shall ratify the same, 1t shall there Te{ecton ra{er o or approval, as a whole, without power of alteration or amendment, and If ap, to zach house, it shan be the county govern ment act of such county, and shall in such sede any existing county government act. and all amendments thereof and all special laws
 4 copy of such county government act, certi- fled by the President of the Board or Super and authenticated by the seal of such county. setting forth the submission of such county fion hv them shall be made In duplicate and deposited. one in the office of the Secretary of ofSce of the recorder of deeds in the county, among inc archives of the county.
 rte county government act ratified may be amended at intervals of not less than two iegislatiye authority of the county. to the qualified electors thereof, at 8 general or sPeeiS1 spe 1bcaton of such proposals for twenty flaws in a newspaper or general clrcuIatlon Tn st seen os tbe qualified electors voting thereon and approved by the Legislature as herein pro Jad fOr ,oe1t n, act in submitting any such county gov ernu1ent act any alternative article or proposi- tinn may be presented for the choice of the voters. and may be voted on separately with out prejudice to others :. ou ,. ,,o- rnent acts framed under the authority given by this section. to provide Tor the manner In which ich tbe be several township and county officers other than Judges of the Superior Court shall tS pe for the number of such officers for the consolidation or segregation or offices, for the nna For inc Compensation payable to each of such deputies for the manner Tn which, the tllaT5 arnbars of all boards of election shall be elected or appointed and for the constitution, rsb hoerds and of their clerks and attaches also to prescribe the manner and method by Sunted: and may in addition determine the tests and conditions upon which electors. po- itieal parties and organizations may partici- pate in any primary election,
 Whenever any county has, in the manner and eoyernment act and the same shall have been Borrowed by the Legislature aforesaid. the ortfcIe o1+ect'ns nnroyidng for the uniformity of system of county governments throughout the er' end annointment of officers. and the regula- tion of their compensation, shall not apply. the matters hereinsbove provided for and de- ciared by such county government act. not be the Legislature, except by amendment first submitted to the electors and ratified in the manner hereinabove set forth.
 AMENDMENT NUMBER THREE Reing Senate Constitutional Amendment No
 44.)
 resolution proposing to the people of the State of California amendment to the Con stitution of the State. by adding a new section, to be known and designated as section five and one-half. 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 5h 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 shali 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 lows
 In the City of Los Angeles commencing on the second Monday of March:
 In the City and County of San Francisco | commencing the second Monday in July l end e.. ,,,