The record-union., 1898-10-24

being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 49,
A resolution proposing to the people OF
the State of California an amendment 10
the Constitution of the State, by adding
new section, to be known and designated
as Section Seven and one-half, Article
Eleven thereof, providing for the framing
county government Acts for their own
government The said proposed new sec
ton to read as follows:
Section 713. The inhabitants OF any
county may frame a county government
Act for their own government, relating 70
the matters hereinafter specified, and CON
sistent with, and subject to, the Const1tu-
ton and laws of this State. by causing
board of fifteen freeholders, who have
electors eject Of such coun mye to be- elected by
the qualified electors of such county, at
any general or special election. whose
such election to prepare and propose g.
county government Act for such county,
which shall be signed in duplicate by the
them, and returned, one copy thereof to
| the Board of Supervisors or other legisla-
tive body of such county. and the other
copy to be sent to the recorder or deeds
| of the county. Such proposed county gov
eminent Act shall then be published in
| county, or IL there be not two such pa
| pers, then In one only, for at least twenty
days, and within not less than thirty Gays
! after such publication it shall be submit
| ted to the qualified electors of such coun-
| ty, at general or special election, and II
a majority of such qualified electors vot,,
| ing thereon shall ratify the same 1t shall
| thereafter be submitted to the Legislature
| for its rejection or approval, as a whole
| without power of alteration or amend
| ment, and If approved by majority of
| the members elected to each house, IT
SUCH such co e 9ne s 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
seal OF such county. setting forth the sub
mission of such county government Act to
! the electors, ard it's ratification by them,
| shall be made in duplicate and deposited,
one in the Office of the Secretary Of State
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 o by 5s by
| thority of the. county, to the qualified
| electors thereof, at a general or special
| publication of such proposals for twenty
| days in newspaper of general ,circula-
! ton. in such county, and ratified by at
| voting thereon, and approved by the
Legislature as herein provided for the ap-
prOVaI 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
| eminent 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-
| numbe 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-
| ton 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-
| ple shall be conducted; and may in add
| upon which electors, political parties and
| organizations may participate in any pri-
| mary election.
whenever any county has, in the man.
| 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
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 70 the electors and ratified in
| the manner hereinabove set forth.