The herald., 1898-09-08
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

SACRAMENTO. July 80. 1895.
WHEREAS, tsa l3. THE LEGIsLATURE OF
ond session, beginning on the fourth day
of January, A. D. 1891 two-thirds of all the
members m a, elected to each Of the two houses
proposed the following described amend
ments to the Constitution Of the state Of
California, to-wit:
Amendment Number One
(Being Senate ConstitqYtional Amendment
A resolution to propose to the people of
the state of California an amendment to
section eighteen OF article eleven of the
Constitution, in relation to revenue and
taxation. by which 1t is proposed to amend
Section IS. No county, city. town. town
ship, board Of education or schoS district
shall incur any indebtedness or liability in
10y or f9s any
assent Of two-thirds Of the qualified elsc-
tors thsreof. voting at an election to % be
or at the time of incurring such indebted !
ness, provision shall be made for the col
lection of an annual tax sufficient to pay
the interest on such indebtedness as 1t falls
due, and also provision to constitute
sinking fund for the payment Of the prin-
eipal thereof on or before maturity, which
of contracting the same; provided, howev-
er, that the city and county OF San Fran
cisco may at any time pay the unpaid claims
nished to and work done for said city and
county during the forty-third and forty
fourth fiscal years out of the income and
revenue Of any suceaedng year or for ynnrk
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 or this Sec
tion; and in determining any claim per-
ute Of limitations shall apply in any man.
ner; and provided further, that the city of
Vallejo, in Solano county. may pay its ex-
listing indebtedness incurred in the con-
struction of its water works, whe enever 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 rec!ted, shall be void.
Amendment Number Two
(Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 10)
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 ana 9esghat,ea iiu, as vn sec,
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
Section ~. The inhabitants of any
county may frame county government
the matters hereinafter specified, and con
sistent with and subject to the Constitution
and laws of this state, b. causing board
of fifteen freeholders, VINO nave been, for
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 government
act for such county, which shall be signed
in duplicate by the members of such board,
copy thereof to the board of supervisors
or other legislative body of such county,
and the other copy to be sent 10 the re-
corder of deeds of the county. Such
then be published in two papers OF genera!
circulation in such county. or If there be
not, two such papers, then ., IN one only io ior
than thirty days after such publication 1t
shall be submitted to the qualified electors
of such county, at general or special elec, !,
electors voting thereon shall ratify the
same. it shall thereafter be submitted to
the legislature for its rejection or appro-
majority of the members elected to each
house, it shall be the county government
act of such county, and snail IN d such case
sede any existing county government act.
and ali amendments thereof, and all spe-
ciaI laws inconsistent with such county
government act. -
copy Of such county goyfFnment 20 tha act
suneryisors or other legislative body of
county and fntb BY the seal
Of such county government act to the cleo
and its ratacaaon anG by thm shall be
The office OF the secretary of state the
other after being recorded oGd in the office
Ali courts shall take judicial notice there,
of. The county government act so ratified
than two years. by proposals therefor,
submitted by the legislative authority of
the county, to the qualified electors thereof,
at a general or special election held at least
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 quail
fled electors voting thereon, and approved
by the legislature as herein provided for the
approval of the county government act.