The San Francisco call., 1898-08-25
STATE OF CALIFORNIA.

two.thirds of all the members elected to each of the two houses of said Legislature voting scribed amendments to the Constitution of the State of California, to-wit:
 AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE.
 cBeing Senate constitutional Amendment No.
 resolution to propose to the people of the State of California amendment to section eighteen of article eleven of the Constitu- tion in relation to revenue and taxation, by which 1t is proposed to amend said section to read follows:
 Section IS. No county, city town township. board of education school district shall in- any indebtedness liability in any man. ner for any purpose exceeding in any year the income and revenue provided for it for such year, without the assent of two-thirds of the qualified electors thereof voting at an election to be held for that purpose, nor un- less before, or at the time Of incurring such indebtedness, provision shall be made TOT the collection of annual tax sufficient 10 pay the interest on such indebtedness as 1t falls due, and also provision to constitute sinking on or before maturity, which shall not exceed forty years from the time Of coniracIins the same; provided. however, that the City ana County Of San Francisco may at any time pay the unpaid claims with interest thereon for materials furnished to and work oone TOT said d forty-fourth fiscal years, out Of the income ana revenue of any succeeding year or years; pro- yided, that any and all claims Tor making. re- pairing, altering for any work done upon or 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 Cty or ing Indebtedness incurred in the construction of it's water works, whenever two-thirds of the electors thereof voting at an election held TOT that purpose shall so decide. Any indebted ness or liability incurred contrary to this pro- vision. with the exception herelnpeiofe reciteo' shall be vod
 AMENDMENT NUMBER TWO
 (Being Senate Constitutional Amendment No
 A resolution proposing to the people or the State of California amendment to the Con- stitution of the State. by adding new sec seven and one-haIf, article eleven thereof, pro- viding for the framing by the inhabitants Of tbeir own V, government. The said proposed new section to read as follows:
 Section 71s- The inhabitants or any county may frame county government act for their own government. relating to the matters nere- matter specified, and consistent with , and sa sup ject to the Constitution and laws of this state by causing board of fifteen freeholders, who have been. for at least live years, qualined electors of such county. to be elected by the qualified electors of such county, at any gen eral or special election, whose duty it shall be pare and propose a county government act for such county, which shall be signed in dupli- cate by the members of such board. or ma jority of them, and returned. one copy thereof to the Board of Supervisors or other leg1sla- to be sent to the Recorder of Deeds of the county Such proposed county government act shall then be published in two papers of gen. erai circulation in such county, or If there be not two such papers, then in one only, for at least twenty days. and within not less than submitted to the qualified electors of such county. at general or special election and if thereon shall ratify the same. 1t shall there after be submitted to the Legislature for it's nower of alteration or amendment and If ap- proved by majority of the members elected to each house it shall be the county govern ment act of such county, and shall in such case become the organic law thereof and super sede any existing county government act ana inconsistent with such county government act.
 A copy of such county government act, certi- fled by the President of the Board of Super yisors or other legislative body of such county. and authenticated by the seal of such county. setting forth the submission of such county government act to the electors, and its ratifca- tion 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 office of the Recorder of Deeds in the county, m courts ane shall take judicial notice thereof The county government act so ratified may be amended at intervals of not less '. than n. two legislative authority of the county. to the qualified electors thereof, at a general or spe- cial election held at least forty days after the publication of such proposals for twenty days in a newspaper of general circulation in such county and ratified by at least three-fifths of the qualified electors voting thereon, and ap- nroved by the Legislature herein provided the approval or the county RONeTnIneHI dCl- Tn 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
 It shall be competent Tn all county govern ment acts framed under the authority given by this section to provide for the manner in which. the times at which, and the terms for other than Judges of the Superior Court. shall he elected or appointed: for their compensa- ton: for the number of such officers. for the segregation Of offices, Tor the number of deputies that each officer shall have, and for the Compensation payable to each of rar s,,cb i deputies for the manner in which the times in which. and the terms for which the members of all boards of g election ss shall be regulation compensation and government of such boards. and of their clerks and attaches: aIso to prescribe the manner and method by which ali elections by the people shall be con- ducted and may in addition determine the tests and conditions upon which electors, po- iitical parties and organizations may partici- pate in any primary election
 Whenever any county has, in the manner and method herein pointed out. adopted any county government act. and the same shall have ,s been ,ba Pdipeeton of sections four and five of this article providing for the uniformity of system of county goverhments I rnT6agnout T % tion and appointment of officers, and the regu- lation of their compensation. shall not apply: Said county government act shall as to any of the matters hereinabove provided for and de- clared by such county government act not be subject to any law or amendment enacted by the Legislature except by amendment first submitted to the electors and ratified in the manner hereinabove set forth.
 AMENDMENT NUMBER THREE. fr,eing Senate Constitutional Amendment No
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 A resolution proposing to the people of the State of California amendment to the Con- stitution of the State. by adding a section to he known and designated section five and one-bal article six. thereby providing for the organization of court, to be known as the Court of Claims. The said proposed new sec tion to read follows:
 Section 5lk 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:
 In the City and County of San Francisco, and