The record-union., 1898-10-10
Amendment Number Two.
(Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 10)

(Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 10)
A resolution proposing to the people OF
the State of California an amendment 10
| the Constitution of the State, by ADDING q
new section, to be known and deslgnateo
as Section Seven and one-haf, Article
Eleven thereof, providing for the framing
by the inhabitants OF counties OF local Sr
county government Acts for their own
government The said proposed new Sec
ton to read as follows:
Section 712. The inhabitants of any
county may frame a county government
Act for their own government, relating to
the matters hereinafter specified. and con-
ton and laws of this State, by causing
board of fifteen freeholders, who nave
been, for, at least five years, qualiih,ed ed
the qualified electors of such county, at
any general or special election, whose
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 majority OF OF
them, and returned. one copy. thereof to
the Board of Supervisors or other legisla-
tive body of such county. and the other
copy to be sent to the recorder or deedS
of tie county. Such proposed county gov
ernment Act shall then be published In
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 uays
| after such publication it shall be submit
| ted to the qualified electors Of such coun-
| ty, at a general or special election, and If
| a majority of such qualified electors Vot11
| ing thereon shall ratify the same 1t shall
| thereafter be submitted to- the Legislature
| for its rejection or approval, as a whole,
| without power OF alteration or amend
ment, and if approved by majority OF
| the members elected to each house, 1t
| shall be the county government Act or
| 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-
R}a a w
! government ACT.
| A copy of 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 it's ratification by them
| shall be made in duplicate and deposited
| one in the office of the Secretary of State
| 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-
| electors thereof, at a general or special
! election held at least forty days after the
| DAYS in a newspaper of general circula-
| ton in such county, and ratified by at
| least three-fifths 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
| aCpointed for their compensation; FOR
| the number of such officers, for the con
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
| boards of election shall be elected or op-
| pointed; and for the constitution, regula-
| ton compensation and government of
such boards, and OF the their clerks and at,
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
Wherever 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
| nroviding for the uniformity of a system
| IF county governments throughout the
! State and likewise providing for the cleo
| tion and appointment OF officers and the
| regulation of their compensation, shall
| 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
| Tegislature except by amendment first
| Submitted TO the electors and ratified in
| the manner hereinabove set forth.