The San Francisco call., 1898-08-07
PROCLAMATION
STATE OF CALIFORNIA. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

| SACRAMENTO, July 30th, 1858. WHEREAS The Legislature of the State o
 California. at it's thirty-second session begin,
 ming on the fourth day of January. A; D. 1S9i | two-thirds of all the members elected to eacr
 of the two houses of said Legislature voting
 in favor thereof. proposed the following de, es, | scribed amendments to the Constitution or me 1 State of California. to-wit:
 AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE | (Being Senate Constitutional Amendment No 4)
 A resolution to propose to the people of the | State of California. amendment to section eighteen of article eleven of the Constttu- l ton. in relation to revenue and taxation. by read as follows:
 Section IS. No county, city. town. township
 cur any indebtedness or liability in any man. ner or for any purpose exceeding in any year such year, without the assent of two-thirds 1 of the qualified electors thereof, voting at an less before, or at the time of incurring such Indebtedness. provision shall be made for the collection of an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such indebtedness as 1t falls due. and also provision to constitute sinking
 on or before maturity, which shall not exceed forty years from the time of contracting the County of San Francisco may at any time pay the unpaid claims with interest thereon TOT
 city and county during the forty-third and forty-fourth fiscal years, out of the income ana
 vded that 9 amy amy and s ess sa for making | pairing. altering or for any work done upon or
 
 alley court; place or sidewalk or for the con a,1 | struction of any sewer or sewers in sald clty
 xsiope o M are neteD 1d % dsteTmninr any claim permitted to be paid by this section. no
 Ttauts and f Tsa @ aPR Rs, n any g | Vallejo, in Solano County. may pay it's exist
 ing Indebtedness incurred in the constructi3Sn iS of it's waterworks. whenever two-thirds or the electors thereof voting at on election nsl4 I9f
 that purpose shall so decide Any indebted ness or liability incurred contrary to this pro vision. with the exception hereinbefore recited. shall be void
 AMENDMENT NUMBER TWO. (Being Senate Constitutional Amendment No.
 resolution proposing to the people of the
 State Of California an amendment to the con con
 ton, to be known and designated as section
 seven and one-half article eleven tnereol, pre-
 counties. of local county government acts ., Tor their own government. The said proposed new
 Section 71z. The inhabitants of any county may frame county government act TOT theIr own goyerneh 1d s1 9fe with and sub feet to- the Constitution and laws or this state. by causing board of fifteen ya auaed electors of such county. to be elected oy the qualified electors Of such county & at any ya geh be within ninety days after such election. to pre- pare and propose county government aS n adI dnnI5 iT cate by the members of such board or ma tority of them and returned one copy ,ree tnereor tive U 'ii body of such county, and the other copy 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. eraI circulation in such county or if there be least twenty days, and within not less than thirty days after such publication 1t shall be county. at general or special election and if a majority of such qualified electors voting after be submitted to the Legislature for Its rejection approval as a whole, without proved by a majority of the members elected to each house. it shall be the county govern case become the organic law thereof and super sede any existing county government act, and all amendments tnersof, Land ana all special laws t
 A copy of such county government act certi- fled by the. President of the Board of Super and authenticated by the seal of such county. setting forth the submission of such county government act to the electors. and its ratiica- fion by them shall be made in duplicate and deposited, one in the office of the Secretary of 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 thereof. The county government act ratified may be amended, at intervals of not less than two wears. by proposals therefor, submitted by the ieTislatiye authority of the county, to the qualified electors thereof. at a general or the publication of such proposals for twenty days in a newspaper of general circulation in such county. and ratified by at least three
 
 and approved by the Legislature herein pro vided for the approval of the county govern ment act In submitting any such county gov- ernment act any alternative article or proposi- tion may be presented for the choice of the voters, and may be voted on separately with out prejudice to others.
 It shall be competent in all county govern this section. to provide for the manner in which the times at which. and the terms for fns pres of the upeqoT anI 9o@y r S be elected appointed; for their compensa- ton; for the number of such officers. for the or segregation of offices. for the number of deputies that each officer shall have and for the compensation payable to each of times in which, and the terms for which the members of all boards of election shall be elected or appointed: and for the constitution, regulation compensation and government of such boards and of their clerks and attaches: which all elections by the people shall be con Dy ducted; and may in addition determine the iitical parties and organizations may partici- pate in any primary election:
 method herein pointed out adopted anv countV government act, and the same shall have been
 by 'se ecegs fo@r aso a T f the article providing for the uniformity of a stste and likewise providing for tSs electin5 tne and appointment of officers, and the regula- ton of their eompensatlon. shall not apply. the matters hereinabovs provided for and de clared by such count county government act. not be the Legislature, except by amendment first submitted to the electors and ratified in the manner hereinabove set forth
 AMENDMENT NUMBER THREE. CBeing Senate Constitutional Amendment No
 44)
 resolution proposing to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Con- stituton of the State, by adding new section to be known and designated as section five and one half article six thereby providing for the organization of court, to be known as the Court of Claims. The said proposed new sec ton to read follows
 Section 5h. The Court of Claims shall con- sist of any three Judges of the Superior Court who may be requested by the Governor to hold court at the regular terms thereof. The Court of Claims shall have exclusive Jurisdiction to hear and determine all claims of every kind and character against the State under such laws may be passed by the Legislature, and its Judgment thereon shall be final. The terms 1 lows: