The record-union., 1898-10-11
Amendment Number Two.
(Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 1Q.)

No. 10)
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 designate1d
as Section Seven and one-half, Article
Eleven thereof, providing for the framing
6 by the inhabitants Of counties boi Of Local oyn
government. The said proposed new sec
ton to read as follows:
Section ~. The inhabitants of any
Act Tor their own goVernment, reIat1ng 10
the matters hereinafter specified, and con-
sistent with. and subject to, the Constttu-
ton and laws of this State, by causing
board of fifteen freeholders, who nave
been, Tor at least five years, quallned
electors of such county. to be elected by
any general or special election, whose
duty it shall be within ninety days after
county government Act for such county,
which shall be signed in duplicate 0y the
members of such board, or majority OF
them, and returned, one copy, thereof to
the Board of Supervisors or other leglSla-
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
two papers of general circulation in such
pers. then in one only, for at least twenty
days. and within not less than thirty Gays
ted to the qualified electors of such coun-
ty, at a general or special election, and II
a majority of such qualified electors vot-
ing thereon shall ratify the same it shall
thereafter be submitted to- the Legislature
for it's rejection approval, as a whole,
without power of alteration or amend
ment, and if approved by a 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-
cial laws inconsistent with such county
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
shall be made in duplicate and deposited
one in the office of the Secretary of State,
the other, after being recorded in the of
ty, among the archives OF the county.
All courts shall take judicial notice
ratified may be amended, at intervals of
not less than two years, by proposals
therefor, submitted by the legislative au-
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
ton in such county, and ratified by at
least three-ffths of the qualified electors
Legislature as herein provided for the ap-
proval of the county government Act. In
submitting any Sucn 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
appointed; for their compensation; for
the number of such officers, for the con-
solidation 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
be ards of election shall be elected or op-
pointed; and for the constitution, regula-
tion, compensation and government of
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-
ton determine the tests and conditions
upon which electors, political parties and
organizations may participate in any pri-
mary election.
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
providing for the uniformity of a system
of county governments throughout the
State and likewise providing for the cleo
ton 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 and declared by such
county government Act, not be subject to
and law or amendment enacted by the
LEGISLATURE except by amendment first
Submitted 20 the electors and ratified in
the manner hereinabove set forth.