The herald., 1898-10-25
Amendmen ent Number Two
(Being Senate CONSTITUTIONAL Amendment

(Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 1o.)
A resolution proposing to the people OF
the state of California an amendment to the
Constitution of the state, by adding new
section, to be known and designated as sec
ion seven and one-half. article eleven
l>reof, providing for the framing by the
Inhabitants of counties, of local county
government acts for their own government
The said proposed new section to read as
Section ~. The inhabitants Of any
county may frame county government
act for their own government, relating TO
The matters hereinafter specified, and con-
sistent with and subject to the Constitution
and laws of this state, by causing board
of fifteen freeholders. who have been, for
at least five years, qualified electors Of
such county, to be elected by the qualified
electors of such county, at any genera! or
special election, whose DUTY 1t shall be
within ninety days after such election, to
prepare and propose county governmen mt
act for such county. which shall be signed
in duplicate b. the members of such board.
or a majority of them. and returned, one
copy thereof to the board of supervisors
or other legislative body of such county.
and the other copy to be sent to the re-
proposed county government act shall
then be published In two papers Of general
circulation in such county, or If there he
not two such papers, then in one only, for
at least twenty days, and within not less
than thirty days after such publication it
shall be submitted to the qualified electors
of such county, az general UT spSciaI eleC-
ton, and if a majority of such qualified
electors voting thereon shall ratify the
same, it shall thereafter be submitted to
The legislature for it's rejection or appro-
val. as whole, without power of altera-
ton. or amendment, and If approved by a
ma iorty of the members elected to each
house. It shall be the county government
act of such county, and shall in such case
become the organic law thereof and super
sede any existing county government act
and all amendments thereof, and all spe-
ciaI 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 submission
of such county government act to the cleo
tors and its ratification by them, shall be
made in duplicate and deposited, one in
the office of the secretary uf state, the
other, after being recorded in the office
Of the recorder of deeds in the county
among the archives of the county
All courts shall take judicial notice there
Of The county government act so ratified
may be amended at intervals Of not less
than two years, by proposals therefor,
submitted by the legislative authority Of
the county, to the qualified electors thereof,
at general or special election held at lea st
forty days after the publication of such
proposals for twenty days in newspaper
OF general circulation in such county, and
ratified by at least three-fifths of the uuali-
fled electors voting thereon. and approved
by the legislature as herein provided for the
approval of the county government act