The record-union., 1898-11-06
Amendment Number Two.
Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 10)

tBeing Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. l0)
"A resolution proposing to the people OF
| the State of California an amendment 10
the Constitution of the State, by adding a
| new section, to be known and designateo
As Section Seven and one-half, Article
| Eleven thereof, providing for the framing
by the inhabitants of counties, of local
county government Acts for their own
gcvernment. The said proposed new sec
Section ~ The inhabitants of any
county may frame a county government
| the matters hereinafter specified, and CON
sistent with, and subject to, the Constitu-
board Of fifteen freeholders. who have have
been, for at least five years, qualihed
| electors Of such county, to be elected by
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
| which shall be signed in duplicate by the
members of such board, or majority OF
| 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 the county Such proposed county gov
| ernment Act shall then be published In
two papers of general circulation in such
county; or if there be not two such pa
| days, and within not less than thirty Gays
after such publication it shall be submit
| ted to the qualified electors Of such coun-
| ty, at general or special election, and II
a majority of such qualified electors vot-
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, IT
shall be the county government. Act Of
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-
q UG W
| government ACT.
A copy of such county government Act,
certified by the President of the Board Of
such county, and authenticated by the
seal OF such county. setting forth the SUBJ
mission of such county government Act to
the electors. ard it's ratification 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 of
! fee of the recorder of deeds in the coun-
ty, among the archives of the county
thereof, M The s County V sovernment e Act a''se SO
ratified may be amended. at intervals Of
not e5s sbmtS than to ny bs by
thority of the. county. to the qualified
electors thereof, at a general or special
election held at least forty days after the
| publication of such proposals for twenty
| days in a newspaper Of general circula-
ton N such foun b ana Ianed by at
| voting thereon, and approved by the
Legislature as herein provided for the ap-
Il.
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 he 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
| and county officers, other than Judges of
| the Superior Court, shall be elected or
| appointed; for their compensation; for
| the number of such officers, for the con-
| solidation or segregation Of Offices for the
| 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
| terms for which the members of all
| hcards of election shall be elected or op-
| pointed: and for the constitution, regula-
! ton, compensation and government of
taches; also, to precribe the manner and
| method by which all elections by the peo-
| ple shall be conducted: and may in addi-
upon which electors. political parties and
| organizations may participate in any pri-
! Whenever 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
! Of county governments throughout the
| State. and likewise providing for the cleo
| tfon and appointment of officers, and the
regulation Of their compensation. shall
| shall as to any of the matters herein
| Shove provided for and declared by such
| county government Act not be subject to
| and law or amendment enacted by the
submitted to the electors and ratified in
! the manner hereinabove set forth.