The record-union., 1898-10-19
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
new section, to be known and designated
as Section Seven and one-half, Article
by the Inhabitants of counties, Of local
county government Acts for their own
government. The said proposed new sec
ton to read as follows:
Section 71a. The inhabitants of any
county may frame county. government
Act for their own government, relating to
sstent with, and subject TO, the Const1tu-
tion and laws of this State, by causing
beard of fifteen freeholders, who have have
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
county government Act for such county,
members Of such board, or a majority OF OF
them, and returned, bne- copy, Thereon 10
the Board of Supervisors or other legiSla-
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
county, or if there be not two such pa
pers, then In onelonly, for at least twenty
after such publica tionsit shall be submit
ted to the qualified electors of such coun-
ty at general or special election, and II
majority Of such qYal4ifiied electors syoII yof
thereafter the @ T be si isubmffttea 10 the Legislature
10r s Of Of or
ment, and If approved by majority OF
the members elected to eacn house, "
shall be the county government Act OF
such county, and shall in such case be-
come the organic law thereof and super
and all amendments thereof, and ali spe-
cial laws inconsistent with such county
government Act
A ,eopy OF Of such county goyernment Act:
such h county, and asheensseated ISy' by the he
mission of Such c6s rDran to
the electors, and its ratification by them,
shall be made {,fod in dqpicsate and deposted.
the other, after being recorded in the Of
flee of the recorder of deeds in the coun-
All courts Shall take judicial notice
thereof. The county government Act so
ratified may be amended. at intervals of
therefor, submitted by the legislative au-
thority of the. county, to the qualified
electors thereof he at & general or special
days in newspaper of general circula-
ton in such county. and ratified by at
voting thereon, and approved by the
Legislature as herein provided for the ap-
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 rnder 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 Sompensat ton; for
solidation or segregation Of offices, for the
number of deputies that each officer shall
have and for the compensation payable
in which. the times in which. and the
terms for which the members of all
boards of election shall be elected or op-
pointed; and for the constitution, regula-
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-
upon which electors, political parties and
organizations may participate in any pri-
mary election.
ner and method herein pointed out, adopt
ed any county government Act, and the
same shall have been approved by the
L,egislature as aforesaid, the directions of
providing for the uniformity of system
OF county governments throughout the
State and likewise providing for the cleo
tion 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 ana no declared t ar & BY such
and law or amendment enacted by the
Legislature except by amendment first
submitted to the electors and ratified in
the manner hereinabove set forth.