The record-union., 1898-08-15

No. 10)
A resolution proposing to the people of
the State of California an amendment 70
the Constitution of the State, by ADDING q
as seeton Seven ee a6G anh krce
Eleven thereof, providing for the framing
by the inhabitants Of counties nir 81 loSa1 own
government. The said proposed new sec
tion to read as follows:
Section 712. The inhabitants OF any
county may frame a county government
Act for their own government, relating TO
the matters hereinafter specified, and con-
sstent with, and subject to. the Constitu-
tion and laws of this State, by causing a
board of fifteen freeholders, who have
been, for at least five years, quanhed
electors of such county, to be elected py
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 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
ernment Act shall then be published in
two papers of general circulation in such
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 days
after such publication it shall be submit
ted to the qualified electors of such coun.
d
a majority of such qualified electors vot-
ing thereon shall ratify the same Ii shall
thereafter be submitted to the Legislature
Without power Of alteration or amend
ment, and II approved by majority OF
the members elected to each house, II
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.
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
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,
the other, after being recorded in the Of
flee of the recorder of deeds in the coun-
ty, among the archives of the county.
thereof. The county government Act SO
ratified may be amended, at intervals of
not less than two, years, by proposals
thority of the county, to the qualified
electors thereof. at a general or special
election held at least forty days after the
days in a newspaper of general circula-
ton in such county, and ratified by at
least three-fifthS of the qualified electors
Voting thereon, and approved by the
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, other than Judges of
| the Superior Court, shall be elected or
arpointed for their cOmpensa ton; for
| the number of such officers, for the con-
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
| 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-
| 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 auy county government Act and the
| same shall have been approved by the
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
4 not apply Said county government Act
| shall as to any of the matters herein.
above provided for and declared by such
and law or amendment enacted by the
| Legislature except by amendment first
| submitted TO the electors and ratified ir
the manner hereinabove set forth.