The record-union., 1898-11-05
Amendment Number Two.
(Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. f0)

(Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. f0)
"A resolution proposing to the people of
the State of California an amendment TO
the Constitution of the State, by addlng
rs Section Seven and one-haif. Article
Eleven thereof. providing for the framing nn
oy the inhabitants Of counties mt sne Of loGa o@n
government. The said proposed new sec
tion to read as follows:
Section IA The inhabitants of any
county may frame county government
Act for their own government. relating to
the matters hereinafter specified. and con-
sstent en With and sub5eet to- the
board of fifteen freeholders, who nave
been, for. at least Ave years, qualified
the qualified electors Of s: such county at
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 by the
members of such board. or a majority OF OF
them, and returned, one copy Thereon 10
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 s
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 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-
thereafter be submitted to- the Legislature
for its rejection or approval, as whole
without power OF alteration at M or lame amend d.
the members elected to each house. 1t
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-
cial laws inconsistent with such county
government ACT.
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 sub
mission of such county government Act to
the electors, and its ratification by them,
shall be made in duplicate and deposited,
one in the office of the Secretary of State.
fee of the recorder Of deeds in the coun-
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
electors thereof. at a general or special
election held at least forty days after the
Days ' in newspaper @ p PofUg Of general al crcuia ssy
tion In such county, and ratified by at
least three-fifths of the qualified electors
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. otherr than Judges of
the Superior Court, shall be elected or
appointed; for their compensation; for
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
terms for which the, members of all
be ards 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-
ple shall be conducted and may in a1di-
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
legislature as aforesaid, the directions of
Sections Four and Five of this article
providing for the uniformity of a system
State. and likewise providing for the cleo
fion and appointment OF officers, and the
regulation Of their compensation. shall
not apply Said county 20 1ta government oven1 Act
above 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.