The record-union., 1898-11-04
Amendment Number Two.
(Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 1O0

(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 addlng
IS Section Seven and one-half. Article
Eleven thereof, providing for the framing
by the Inhabitants of counties OF local
government. The said proposed new sec
ton to read as follows:
county may frame county government
Act for their own government. relating to
the matters hereinafter specified and CON
tion and laws of this State, by causing a
board of fifteen freeholders, who nave
been, for, at least five years, quaIhed
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 OF
them, and returned, one copy thereof to
the Board of Supervisors or other leglslaS
to- be 0f to hs of
Of the county. Such proposed county gov
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
days. and within not less than thirty days
after such publication it shall be submit
ted to the qualified electors of such coun,
ty at general or special election. and II
q majority Of such qualified electors yot7
thereafter be submitted to- the Legislature
for its rejection % or aRproYta as a Wnois
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
.ede any existing county goyesnmaen1f5 a mi ACT. sn
cial laws inconsistent with such county
government ACT.
A copy of such county government Act,
Supervisors or other legislative body of
such county, and authenticated by the
mission of such county government Act to
the electors, ard its ratification 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 Of
flee Of the recorder of deeds in the coun-
T cons hs sha 1fhxfs tsse of adca th fepny Scce
thereof. The, county government Act so
ratified may be amended, at intervals of
therefor. submitted by the legislative au-
thority of the. county, to the qualified
bsd % at gaYs or f special
publication of such proposals for twenty
days in newspaper of general circula-
least three-fifths 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.
1t 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
| af nff for ~
solidation or 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
terms for which the. members Of all
be ards of election shall be elected or op-
pointed: and for the constitution regula-
such boards, and of their clerks and at
faches; also, to precribe the manner and
method by which all elections by the peo-
pie 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
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
providing for the uniformity of a system
OF county governments throughout the
State and likewise providing for the cleo
tion and appointment OF officers, and the
regulation Of their compensation. shall
shall as to any of the matters herein
above provided for and declared by such
county government Act, not be subject to
and law or amendment enacted by the
submitted 10 the electors and ratified in
the manner hereinabove set forth.