The San Francisco call., 1898-10-25
PROCLAMATION.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,

.ISTS I,r>I1,1I - - ao4t ,eoo | WHEREAS. The Legislature of the State of
 ming on the fourth day of January, A D. 1897. ! two-thirds of all the members elected to each
 in favor thereof, proposed the following de- | scribed amendments to the Constitution of the | State of California, to-wit:
 AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE. i C3eing Senate Constitutional Amendment No. A resolution to propose to the people of the
 State of Gaf4rnia an amenamebt be t9 setiT l tion in relation to revenue and taxation, by
 which it Is proposed to amend said section to
 Section IS, No county. city. town, township. | board of education or school district shaII ln-
 cur any indebtedness or liability in any man
 ner or for any purpose exceeding in any year
 the income and revenue provided for it for for | such year., without the assent or tWo-tnlrus | of the qualified electors thereof, voting at an
 election to be held for that purpose, nor un- less before. or at the time of mourning sucn l indebtedness, provision shall be made for the collection of annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such indebtedness as IL iaIIs due. and also provision to constitute slnklng
 fund for the payment of the principal thereof on or before maturity, which shall not e1ctSo forty years from the time of contracting the
 same; provided. however. that the City and County of San Francisco may at any time Pay the unpaid claims with interest thereon for materials furnished to and work done for said city and county during the forty-thlro ana forty-fourth fiscal years out of the income and 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. alley court, place or sidewalk, or for the con and county hereby excepted from the pro clam permitted to be paid by this section. no statute of limitations shall apply in any man. ner; and provided further, that the City or Vallejo in Solano County, may pay its exist ing indebtedness incurred In the constructlon of its water works, whenever two-thirds of the electors thereof voting at an election held for that purpose shall so decide Any indebted ness or liability incurred contrary to this pro vision with the exception hereinbefore reciteo' shall be void
 AMENDMENT NUMBER TWO. CBeing Senate Constitutional Amendment No-
 A resolution proposing to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Con stitution of the State, by adding new sec tion. to be known and designated as section viding for the framing by the inhabltants or counties of local county government acts LOT TOT section to read follows:
 Section 7h. The inhabitants of any county own government. relating to the matters here matter specified. and consistent with and sub by causing a board of fifteen freeholders, who have been for at least five years, quaIned qualified electors of such county, at any gen eral or special election whose duty 1t shall be within ninety days after such eiecuon: aot pre- pare and propose a county government act Tor such county, which shall be signed in dupli- cate by the members of such board or ma jority of them and returned, one copy thereon to the Board of Supervisors or other leg1sla-
 
 to be sent to the Recorder of Deeds of the county. Such proposed county government act shall then be published in two papers of gen. eral circulation in such county, or if there be not two such papers, then in one only. TOT at thirty days after such publication 1t shall be submitted to the qualified electors or such county at general or sPee eIsc0n eIcnTa @nfin @nd thereon shall ratify the same, 1t shall there after be submitted to the Leglsla{ure g T3T Its power of alteration or amendment and II ap- to each house, it shall be the county govern ment act of such county, and shall Tn such become the organic law thereof ana suPer ,1 sede any existing county goyernnent act' ana all amendments thereof, and all special laws inconsistent with such county government e aef. fled by the President of the Board or super and authenticated by the seal of such county retttnp forth the submission of such county | government act to the electors ana Its ratlnca3 deposited one in the office of the Secretary of l office of the Recorder of Deeds in the county among the archives of the county:
 Ali courts shall take judicial notice thereof | The county government act so ratified may be amended at intervals of not less than two | legislative authority of the county. to the | qua flied electors thereof. at general or spe- | cal election held at least f9rty @ days atter d the in newspaper of general circulation in such | county. and ratified by at least t three-nrths rd or Iroved by the Legislature as herein provided | for the approval Of the county goveTneIt act any alternative article or proposition may be | presented for the choice of the voters. ana may | be voted separately without prejudice to | others. l., ,, ,t .r ment acts framed under the authority given by | thjs section to provide for the manner in 1 which the times at which ana the terms d0r other than Judges of the Superior Court. shall | be elected or apPont@ed @ c Tor enr f9eir @ fS consolidation segregation of offices, TOT the | number of deputies that each officer shall have; sncb deputies for the manner in which. the | times in which, and the terms for which which the members of all boards of election shall be elected or appointed and for the constitution: regulation, compensation and government of i such boards and of their clerks ana attaches; also to prescribe the manner and d1 method Inc by by tests and conditions upon which electors. pc iitical parties and organizations may partici- pa1T WehenAver n any county has, in the manner and method herein pointed out, adopted any SoTn SounH been approved by the Legislature as aforesaid the direction of sections four 3Si1c ana ns ns system of county governments throughout the State, and likewise pr9yiding Tor the the & cleo iation tn % of their compensation. shall not apply: Said county government act shall as to any or ciored hv such county government act not be subject to any law or amendment enacted by the Legislature. except by amendment first manner hereinabove set forth.
 AMENDMENT NUMBER THREE. <,,o,,o Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 1 'oee A)
 A resolution proposing to the people of the l cta+a of California amendment to the Con- .t4,,tion of the State. by adding section | sso he known and designated as section five and euooabe1f eo article six thereby providing for the o,.e of court, to be known as the Tnnrt of Claims. The said proposed new sec tton to read as follows:
 Section 51. The Court of Claims shall con- sst of any three Judges Of the Superior Court. court at the regular terms thereof. The Court of Claims shall have exclusive Jurisdiction to and character against the State, under such laws as may be passed by the Legislature. and ifs Judgment thereon shall be final The terms | of the Court of Claims shall be held as fol- lows:
 the second Monday of March;
 Tn the City and County of San Francisco the second Monday in Jiiv