The San Francisco call., 1898-08-02
STATE OF CALIFORNIA. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
 :..... SACRAMENTO. July Soth; 1898 F" WHEREAS, The Legislature of the State of E California. at its thirty-second session begin ming on the fourth day of January. A; D. 1897. two-thirds of all the members elected to each of the two houses of said Legislature voting tn favor thereof. proposed the following de scribed amendments to the: Constitution or the B State of Catfornia, to-wit:
 E. 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 Constttu- tion. in relation to revenue and taxation. by which 1t Is proposed to amend said section 70
 Section IS. No county, city, town. township. board of education, or school district shall in cur any Indebtedness or liability in any man ner or for any purpose exceeding in any year ear the income and revenue provided Tor IL Tor TOT such year, without the assent of two-thtrds of the qualified electors thereof. voting at an election to be held for that purpose, nor , uli- less before. or at the time of mourning such indebtedness, provision shall be made for the collection of an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such Indebtedness as 1t falls due. and also provision to constitute sinking on or before maturity, which shall not exceed forty years from the time of contracting the County of San Francisco may at any time pay the unpaid claims with interest thereon for materials furnished to and work done TOT sald city and county during the forty-third and forty-fourth fiscal years. out of the income ana revenue of any succeeding year or years, pro vided that any and all claims for making, re- pairing altering or for any work done upon or for any material furnished for any street lane' struotion of any sewer or. sewers in said city Visions s of this section and in determining any claim permitted to be paid by this section, no her; and provided further that the, City of Vallejo. In Solano County, may pay US exist ing indebtedness incurred in the construction Of its waterworks, whenever two-thirds of the electors thereof voting at on election he4d TOT that purpose shall so decide. Any indebted ness or liability incurred contrary to this pro vision. with the exception heretnbefore recited. - AMENDMENT NUMBER TWO.
 (Being Senate Constitutional Amendment No,
 10)
 resolution proposing to the people of the State of California amendment to the Con stitution of the State, by adding a new sec ton, to be known and designated as section seven and one-half. article eleven thereof pgoss viding for the framing by the inhabitants of counties, of local county government acts , Tor their own government The said proposed ne" section to read as follows:
 Section. 71k. The inhabitants of any county own government, relating to the matters here matter specified and consistent with, and SUD hv causing a board of fifteen freeholders. who have been, for at least five years qualllled qualified electors Of such county, at any gen eral or special election, whose duty It snail De within ninety days after such election. to pre- such county, which shall be signed In. dupll- cate by the members Of such board. or a ma,
 
 to the Board of Supervisors or other legisla- tive body of such county, and the other copy county Such proposed county government act shall then be published In two papers ot gen eral circulation in such county, or if there be not two such papers, then in one only for at least twenty days. and within not less than thirty days after such Pudbsaon ada1s it a 5ha su6S 6s county, at general or special election, ana II a majority of such qualified electors voting thereon shall ratify the same. It shall there after be submitted to the Legislature TOT us rejection approval, as a whole. without power of alteration amendment, and If ap, proved by majority Of the members elected to each house. 1t shall be the county govern ment act of such county. and shall in such case become. the organic law thereof and super, sede any existing county government act ana inconsistent with such county government act
 A copy of such county government act certI-
 ed by o the fbe body of such county and authenticated by the seal of such county, setting forth the submission Q, suen 't e19ney 9 tion by then shall be made in duplicate and deposited one in the office of the Secretary Of State the other, after being recorded Tn the office of the recorder of deeds in the county, among the archives of the county.
 All courts shall take judicial notice thereof: The eounty government act so ratified may be amended, at intervals of not less than two legislative authority Of the county, to the qualified electors thereof, at a general or special election held at least forty days aiter days in a. newspaper of general circulation m such county, and ratified by at iease three ffths of the qualified electors voting thereon and approytd by the Legislature as herein pro- vided for the approval of the county govern ment act. h submitting any sucn county gov ernment aet any alternative article or preposi- ton may. be presented for the cneice or the voters, and may be voted on separately "ieh-
 It shall be competent in all county govern
 en acts framed rovids .hs for the manner in which the times at which, and the terms Tor IdQ 0f be elected or appointed; for their compensa- ton; for the number of such officers for the the number of deputies that each officer shall have. and for the compensation payable to each or tirnes in which and the terms for which the members of all boards or election snali pc elected or appointed dma sna 'ne of such boards and of their clerks and attaches; !; also to prescribe the ths peope s shall be con ducted; and may in addition oetermine the tests and conditions upon whieh electors; pc pate in any primary election
 Whenever any county has, in the manner and method herein pointed out, adopted any county goyernrnent act and the same shall have been approved by the. Legislature as aioresaia, the directions of sections four and five Of this article providing for the uniformity of system of county governments throughout the and appointment of officers. and the regula- tion of their compensation, shall not apply: inc matters hereinabove provided for and de- clared by, such county government act. not be subject to any law amendment enacted by the Legislature except by amendment first submitted to the electors and rafined Tn the manner hereinahoves set forth
 AMENDMENT NUMBER THREE. (Being Senate Constitutional Amendment No.
 44.) resolution proposing to the people of the State of California amendment to the Con- stitution of the State, by adding new section. to be known and designated as section five and half article six. thereby providing for the Organization of a court to be known as the Court of Claims The said proposed new sec
 Section 5il. The Court of Claims shall con-1 sst of any three Judges of the Superior Court. who may be requested by the Governor to hold court at the regular terms thereof The Court of Claims shall have exclusive Jurisdiction to hear and determine all claims of every kind and character against the State, under such laws as may be passed by the Legislature, and its judgment thereon shall be final. The terms of the Court of Claims shall be held as fol- lows:
 In the City of Los Angeles. commencing on the second Monday of March:
 In the City and County of San Francisco, commencing on the second Monday In July. and