The herald., 1898-10-07
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

EAECUTINE h DEPARTM MENT.
SACRAMENTO. July 80 1898.
WHEREAS. THE LEGISLATURE OF
the state Of California. at It's thirty-sec-
ord session. beginning on the fourth, day
members elected to each Of the two houses
of said legislature voting in favor thereof.
proposed the following described amend
ments to the Constitution of the state Of
California, to-wit:
Amendment Number One
(Being Senate CONSTITUTIONAL Amendment
No. 41.)
A resolution to propose to the people of
the state OF California an amendment to
section eighteen Of article eleven of the
taxation, by which it is proposed to amend
said section to read as follows:
Section IS. No county. city, town, town
ship, board of education or school district
shall incur any Indebtedness or liza bi.ity in
any mariner or for any purpose exceed
ing in any year the income and revenue
provided for 1t for such year, without the
tors thereof, voting at an election to De
held for that purpose, nor unless. before,
or at the time of incurr!rg such Indebted
ness, provision shall be made for the col
lection OF an annual tax sufficient to pay
the interest on such indebtedness as it falls
due, and also provision to constitute
sinking fund for the payment of the prir-
cipa! thereof on or before maturity, which
shal! not exceed forty years from the time
Of contracting the same; provided. howeV-
er. that the city and county Of san Fran
cisco may at any time pay the unpaid claims
with interest thereon for materials fur-
nished TO ard work done for said city and
county during the forty.third and forty :,
revenue of any succeeding year or years;
provided, that any. and all claims for MAX
ing. repairing, altering, or for any work done
upon or for any material furnished for any
street, lane, alley, court, place or sidewalk,
or for the construction OF any sewer or
sewers in said city and county are hereby
excepted from the provisions of this Sec
tion; and in determining any. claim per
mitted to be paid by this section, no stat
ute Of limitations shall apply In any man
ner; and provided further, that the city OF
Vallejo, in Solano county. may pay It's ex-
istirg Indebtedness incurred in the con-
struction of its water works, whenever two
thirds Of the electors thereof, voting at an
election held for that purpose, shall SO de-
eide. Any indebtedness or liability incurred
contrary to this provision, with the excep-
tons hereinbefore recited. shall be void.
Amendment Number Two
CBeing Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. l0.)
A resolution proposing to the people OF
the state of California an amendment to the
Constitution of the state. by adding new
section, to be known ard des!gnat ed as sec
tlon seven and one-half, article eleven
thereof, providing for the framing by the
inhabitants of counties, OF local county
government acts for their own government.
The said proposed new section TO read as
follows:
county may frame county government
act for their own government, relating TO
the matters hereinafter specified, and con
sistent with and subject tc the Constitution
and laws Of this state, by causing board
of fifteen freeholders, who have been, LOT
at least five years, qualified electors OF
such county, to be elected by the quailneo
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. which shall be signed
in duplicate by the members of such board
| or a majority of them, and returned, one
copy thereof to the board Of supervisors
or other legislative body of such county
and the other copy 10 be sent TO- the re re-
corder Of deeds of the county. Sucr
proposed county government act shal
then be published in two papers OF genera
not two such papers, then in one only 1oi
| at least twenty days, and within not less
than thirty days after such publication II
shall be submitted to the qualified elector:
| tion, and If a majority of such qualihet
electors voting thereon shall ratlfy th'
same, it shall thereafter be submitted nn t'
ton, or amendment, and If approved by
| majority of the members elected to eacf
act of such county, and shall in sucn cas-
| become the organic law thereof and super
| sede any existing county goVernment act
and oil amendments thereof and al spe
cial laws inconsistent with such count!
! government act.
A copy of such county government act
| ,ertlIied by the president of the board o
supervisors or other legislative body o
such county, and authenticated by the sea
of such county, setting forth the submission
Of such county government act to the elec
tors ard it's ratification by them. Shall b
made in duplicate and deposited, one Il
the office of the secretary, Of state, tn
other. after being recorded in the offic
Of the recorder Of deeds In the county
among the archives Of the county.
| All courts shall take judicial notice there
Of The county government act so rattle
may be amended at intervals OF not les
submitted by the legislative authority o
the county, to the qualified electors thereof
at general or special election held at leas
forty days after the publication of sucl
proposals for twenty days IN newspape
Of general circulation in such county, an
ratified by at least three-ffths Of the quail
fled electors voting thereon and approve
by the legislature as herein provided for tn
approval Of the county government act