The record-union., 1898-11-02
Amendment Number Two.
(Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No 1Ql

(Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 10)
"A resolution proposing to the people of
the State of California an amendment 10
the Constitution of the State, by adding
as Section Seven and one-half, Article
Eleven thereof, providing for the framing
S hs q cts fo1 their oa
government. The said proposed new sec
ton to read as follows:
Section 713. The inhabitants or any
county may frame a county government
Act for their own government, relating 70
the matters hereinafter specified, and CON
ton and laws of this State, by causing
board Of fifteen freeholders, who have
s0o Of sncb least ye to be esed
the qualified electors of such county, at
any general or special election, whose
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 majority OF
them, and returned, one copy thereof to
the Board of Supervisors or other legisla-
copy to be sent to the recorder of deeds
ernment Act shall then be published in
county, or If there be not two such pa
pers, then In one only, for at least twenty
after o anob wlhh pbIcation @ ne II shall be Submit
ted to the qualified electors of such coun-
ty, at q general or special election, and II
majority of such qualified electors yot77
ing thereon shall ratify the same 1t shall
thereafter be submitted to- the Legislature
fSr its OF or as Or aend
ment, and If approved by a majority OF
the members elected to each house, 1t
such county, and shall in such case be-
come the organic law thereof and super
d any tbsreof and ali sp
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
mission Of such county government Act to
the electors, and it's ratification by them,
shall be a made S in duplicate and deposited,
the other, after being recorded in the of
fee of the recorder of deeds in the coun-
All courts shall take judicial notice
thereof The county government Act so
ratified may be amended, al, intervals of
therefor, submitted by the legislative au-
thority of the. county, to the qualified
ect05 ba ssrsf at least at oR sys or tspr spef s
days in newspaper of general circula-
least three-ffths of the qualified electors
voting thereon, and approved by the
Legislature as herein provided for the ap-
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.
It shall be competent in all county gov
ernment 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
solidation or segregation of offices, for the
number Of deputies that each officer shall
have and for the compensation payable
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-
such boards, and OF their clerks and at
taches; also, to precribe the manner and
method by which all elections by the peo-
Die shall be conducted; and may in addi-
upon which electors, political parties and
organizations may participate in any pri-
mary election.
Whenever any county has. In the man
ner and method herein pointed out, adopt
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,
Of county governments throughout the
State, and likewise providing for the cleo
ton and appointment OF officers, and the
not apply. Said county government Act
shall as to any of the matters herein
above provided for and declared by such
county government Act, not be subject to
legislature except by amendment first
submitted to the electors and ratified in
the manner hereinabove set forth.