The San Francisco call., 1898-10-11

WHEREAS, The Legislature of the State of California at it's thirty-second session begin ming on the fourth day of January, A D. 1897, two-thirds of all the members elected to each of the two houses of said LeglsiaII,u[e vo'ihs d scrfbed amendments to the Constitution Of the State of California, to-wit:
 AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE.
 Being Senate Constitutional Amendment No.
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 resolution to propose to the people of the State of California amendment to section eighteen of article eleven of the Constltu- b, which it is proposed to amend said section 10 read follows:
 Section IS. No county, city, town. township board of education or school district shall in cur any indebtedness liability in any man or for any purpose exceeding in any year ear the income and revenue provided for 1t for such year, without the assent Of tWo-tnlrus of the qualified electors thereof, voting at an election to be held for that purpose, nor un- less before, at the time Of incurrlng suSh indebtedness, provision shall be made TOT the collection of an annual sufficient to pay the interest on such indebtedness as IL lails due and also provision to constitute sihklng fund for the payment of the principal thereoI 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 materials furnished to and work done TOT salo city and county during the forty-thlro and forty-fourth fiscal years, out Of the income anu 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 TOT lns c9n It struction of any sewer sewers in sald clry and county hereby excepted from the pro claim permitted to be paid by this section. no statute of limitations shall apply ln any man ner; and provided further that the City of Vallejo, in solano County. may pay its exist ing Indebtedness incurfed in the constructloh of it's 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 thls Pr9- rha mi b6reinbefOTe 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 stitution of the State, by adding q new sec sec seven and one-half, article eleven thereof, pro. viding for the framing by the inhabltants @ or their own government. The said proposed new section to read as follows:
 Section TIA The inhabitants Of any county may frame a county government act for thelr own government, relating to the matters nere- s matter specified. and consistent with ana sup feet to the Constitution and laws or tIls 0tate, by causing board of fifteen treehoIoers, " MH9 2 have been. for al least nNT ien1.d bv the qualified electors of such county, al any seu- eraI or special election, whose duty lt shan pc within ninety days after such elecnon, 70 pre- pf pare and propose a county government act Tor such county, which shall be signed in oupn- cate by the members Of such board, or ma ma iority of them and returned, one copy thereof yo the Board of Supervisors or other legisla- tive body of such county, and the other copy to he sent to the Recorder of Deeds Of the county. Such proposed county government act sbsiI then be published in two papers of gen eraj circulation in such county, or If there be not two such papers, then Tn one oniy, TOT 0 ae least twenty days. and within not less II man an suhr1itted to the qualified electors Of such county. at general or special eiectlon' ana IT thereon shall ratify the same, il shall there after be submitted to the Legislature for its
 al power of alteration or amendment, and If ap- proved by majority of the members elected ment act of such county. and shall in such case become the organic law thereof and super ali amendments thereof, and all special laws Inconsistent with such county government act eed by the President of the Board of Super visors or other legislative body Of such county, and a.i1g 4epb the Submission of such county rovernment act to the electors, and It's ratihca-
 ton by them shall be made t n th anq o State. the other, after being recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds In the county, amon1 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 Saars by proposals therefor, submitted by the ieeiaIatIve authority of the county, to the qua aiection held at least forty days after the D,,hItcation of such proposals for twenty days in a newspaper of general circulation in such rn no,n+v and ratified by at least three-hfths of Isyy,,,Iifad electors voting thereon, and ap- o,,esS ,, by the Legislature as herein provided proEfbu +ba a3proval of the county government act. In i submitting any such county government act any alternative article or prop0steleh d may ma o he voted on separately without prejudice to others. L., u ,,-.,, ,o,,er, ,rent acts framed under the authority given by tbis section, to provide for the manner In h9cb .rt9 the times at which, and the terms for vypich tbe several township and county officers o+ber than Judges of the Superior Court. shall tyo-. for the number of such officers. for the consolidation or segregation or ofhces, TOT the number of deputies that each sI to fa eacb o such deputies for the manner in which the times in which and the terms as+i f0r whlGn a 'he he aIected ar appointed and for the constitution. regulation. compensation and government or such boards, and Of their clerks ana attaehes; nhcb ali elections by the people shall be con ts and conditions upon which electors, po- Uticsl parties and organizations may partfci- pat Whenever s any county has, in the manner on5 method herein pointed out, adopted any oa,rtv anu " government act. and the same shall S1.n county heen approved by the Legislature as tsoresaid the direction of sections four and i've of this article pT0Vidng f1r 1he Ike state and likewise providing Tor the elec- ton and app9ntment of a dno not ofe Dn1 SiS county government act shall, as to any of inc matters hereinabove provided TOT ana de-  ombteet to any law amendment enacted by sha IT,eSislature except by amendment first tns tttsd Ls to the electors and ratified in the manner hereinabove set forth.
 AMENDMENT NUMBER THREE.
 oRaing Senate Constitutional Amendment No. NISAA-s 44.l
 A resolution proposing to the people of the c.+a of California an amendment to the Con- stitution of the State by adding a new section, to he known and designated as section hye and oeU1ahaif article six. thereby providing for the ooIrleanization of court, to be known as the Gns,rt of Claims The said proposed new sec 'iS Section 5Ik The Court of Claims shall con- ,st nT any three Judges of the Superior Court wbo SIss may be requested by the Governor to hold "nsr, at the regular terms thereof. The Court S Claims shall have exclusive Jurisdiction to bsar and determine all claims of every kind nnS character against the State. under such laws as may bs passed by the Legislature, and tts Judgment thereon shall be final The terms Inf inc Court of Claims shall be held fol- lows:
 Tn the City of Los Angeles. commencing on the second Monday of March;
 In the City and County of San Francisco, commencing on the second Monday in July, and