The San Francisco call., 1898-08-08
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
EAECU IT ' E OI-I <14t N -I1 ,odo
 SACRAMENTO, July 30tn, lose.

l wuEREAs The Tegislature of the State of California at It's thirty-seeond session oes5 gsaT
 6n Se of o tbe ~ members elected each | of the two houses of said LeglsiaLure Volll5 scrfbed amendments to the Constitution of the | State of California, to-wit;
 AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE.
 CBeing Senate Constitutional Amendment No. All
 State of California, amendment to section
 65 G of article to eeyenne @ and axaton by which 1t Is proposed to amend sald sec'ioN U
 Section 1S No county, city. town township board of education school district snall II III tn- cur any indebtedness or liability In any my nrss uasr ner or for any purpose exceeding III . any o for the Income and revenue provided TOT II I9l such year. without the assent oi at an election to be held for that purpose. nor ldt uh, less before or at the tune % ot h ada for the collection of annual tax sufficient 10 pay due. and also provision 10 cohsttute q .hnran5 fund for the payment of the prinGlpai tnereo5 eod forty years from the time of coHfraG%s ~ Itt enS e same; provided. however, that the 1ity @ aliu the unpaid claims with interest thereon aqs aos materials furnished to and work oons Tor saI4 forty-fourth fiscal years. out of the income ana ana revenue of any succeeding year or years pIo- v!ded. that any and all claims for making, re- pairing altering or for any work done upon or for any material furnished for any street, laIis ssy S2u of Paee Pny sewer 9T or in said city and county are hereby excepted rom the pro claim permitted to be paid by this section. no statute of limitations shall apply in any Ilan Vallejo. in Solano County, may pay its exist ing indebtedness incurred in the construction electors thereof voting at on election held for that purpose, shall so decide Any lndeo1eo- vision. with the exception hereinbefore recited. shall be void
 AMENDMENT NUMBER TWO.
 CBeing Senate Constitutional Amendment No.
 10.)
 resolution proposing to the people Of the the State of California amendment to the con stitution of the State, by adding new sec, sec seven and one-half, article eleven thereof, pro viding for the framing by the inhabitants or counties. of local county government acts LOT LOT their own government. The said proposed new section to read follows: may frame county government act for their own government, relating to the matters here- ject to- the Constitution and laws of this State by causing a board of fifteen freeholders. wh9 have been for at least five years, qualified electors of such county, to be elected by the qualified electors of such county, at any gen eral or special election whose duty it snail be within ninety days after such election. to pre- pare and propose a county government act for such county, which shall be signed in dupli- cate by the members of such board, or ma jority Of them, and returned. one copy thereot tive 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. eral circulation in such county, or If there De not two such papers then m one t 4hg Tss TOT ta thirty days after such publication 1t shall be submitted to the qualified electors of such county at general or special election, and Ii a majority of such qualified electors voting thereon shall ratify the same, it shall there after be submitted to the Legislature for It's rejection approval, as whole, without power of alteration or amendment, and II ap, ,,oio ifx of to each house, 1t shall be the county govern ment act of such county, and shall In such ca SC become the organic law thereof and super sede any existing county government act, and all amendments thereof. and all special laws
 copy of such county government act, certi- fed by the President of the Board of Super and authenticated by the seal of such county, setting forth the submission of such county fion hy them shall be made In duplicate and deposited one in the office of the Secretary of office of the recorder of deeds in the county, among the archives of the county.
 The county government act so ratified may be amended at intervals Of not less than two iegisiative authority of the county. to the qualified electors thereof. at a general T speciaI election held at least forty days a. ger the publication of such proposals for twenty days in a newspaper of general circulation fin ffths of the qualified electors voting thereon. and approved by the Legislature herein pro yid ed ment act In submitting such county gov ernment act any alternative article or proposi- ton may be presented . Tor I the choice or the out prejudice to others.
 Ii shau be competent in all county govern ment acts framed under the authority given by this section. to provide for the manner in which the times at which, and the terms for other than Judges of the Superior Court. shall be elected or appSlnted scb for iher 1 2 consolidation segregation of offices for the number of deputies that each officer shall have, and for the compensation payable to each of such deputies for the manner In which. the 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; also to prescribe the and method by which all elections by the people shall be con ducted; and may in addition determine the tests and conditions upon which electors, po- iitical parties and organizations may partici-
 Whenever any county has. In the manner and method herein pointed out adopted any county approyed by the Legislature as aforesaid the directions of sections four and five of this system of county governments throughout the State and likewise providing for the election ton t.5p of tiiair compensation shall not apply Said county government act shall: as to any of ciared by such county government act not be subject to any law or amendment enacted by sibDitfed to the electors and ratified in the manner hereinabove set forth.
 AMENDMENT NUMBER THREE. (Being Senate Constitutional Amendment No
 44)
 resolution proposing to the people of the State of California amendment to the Con stitution of the State. by adding new section, to be known and designated section five and one-half article six, thereby providing for the organization of a court. to be known the Court of Claims. The said proposed new sec tion to read follows:
 Section 5h. The Court of Claims shall con- If thrpa I1dP q who may be requested by the Governor to hold I court at the regular terms thereof The Court T of Claims shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine all claims Of every kind and character against the State, under such | laws as may be passed by the Legislature. and its judgment thereon shall be final. The terms 1 of the Court of Slalms shall be held as fol- | lows:
 In the City of Los Angeles. commencing on | the second Monday of March
 In the City and County of San Francisco. | commencing the second Monday in July. 1 and
 xn the City of Sacramento. commencing on l