The herald., 1898-11-01
New York SPECIALISTS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

EAECUIlNE Il DEPARIMENl
SACRAMENTO. July 80. 1888.
WHEREAS. THE LEGISLATuRE OF
the state Of California, at its thirty-sec-
ond session. begnning on the foufth VI n, gay ih
members elected to each of the two houses
Of said legislature voting in favor thereof,
proposed the following. described amend
ments to the Constitution OF the state OF
California, to-wit:
Amendment Number One
tBeins Senate cGnstitqti0nal %s t9 Amendment
A resolution TO propose to the people OF OF
the state Of California an amendment TO
ghteen Of ss 10 U1 aha hs
taxation, by which it is proposed to amend
said section to read as follows:
Il No city CIT sre
shall incur any indebtedness or liability In
any manner or for any purpose excssd-
ing In any year the income and revenue
assent Of two-thirds Of the qualified elsc-
tors thereof, voting at an election 70 De
held for that purpose. nor unless, Deiors,
or at the time Of incurring such 1ndebt~o-
ness. provision shall be made for the col
lection Of an annual tax sufficient to pay
the interest on such indebtedness as II Iaiis
due, and also provision to constitute
sinking fund for the payment OF the prin-
cipal thereof on or before maturity, which
shall not exceed forty years from the time
Of contracting the same; provlded, hoWev-
er, that the city and county OF san Fran
cisco may at any time pay the unpaid claims
with interest thereon & tof IN s.d aitx and
county during the forty-third ana forty,
fourth fiscal years out OF the income and
revenue. of any succeeding year or 9 years;
ing, repairing, altering. or for any Work done
upon or for any material furnished for any
street, lane, alley, court, place or sidewalk,
or for the construction of any sewer or
sewers in said city and county are hereby
excepted from the provisions Of this sec
tion; and in determining any claim per
mitted to be pad by this section, no stat
ute of limitations shall apply in any man
ner; and provided further, that the city OF
Vallejo in Solano county, may pay Its e1-
struction of its water works, whenever two
thirds Of the electors thereof, voting at an
election held for that purpose, shall SO de-
eide Any Indebtedness or liability incurred
contrary to this provision, with the excep-
tions hereinbefore recited, shall be void.
Amendment Number Two
(Bsins Senate CoSstitStional ms tS Amendment
A resolution proposing to the people OF
the state Of California an amendment to the
Constitution of the state, by adding new
ton seven and one-half. article eleven
thereof, 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
follows:
Section M The Inhabitants Of any
county may frame county government
act for their own government, relating to
the matters hereinafter specified, and con-
sstent with and subject to the Constitution
of flfteen freeholders, who have been, for
at least five years, qualified electors of
such county, to be elected by the qualified
electors Of such county a. any genera or or
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 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-
corder of deeds of the county. Such
proposed county government act shall
then be published in two papers of general
not two such papers, then in one only, for
at least twenty days, and within not less
than thirty days after such publication 1t
Of such county, at general or special elec,
tion, and If majority of such qualified
electors voting thereon shall ratify the
same, it shall thereafter be submitted to
the legislature for Its rejection or appro-
ton, or amendment, and If approved by a
majority Of tie ha en- eeesed to each
act Of such county, and shall in such case
become the organic law thereof and super
sede any existing county trr government na a act.
cial laws inconsistent with such county
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 of state, tho
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
NAV 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
ratified by at least three-fifths of the quail
fed electors voting thereon. and approved
by the legislature as herein provided for the
approval Of the county government act.
Witness my hand
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