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revenue of any succeeding year or years; pro- 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 for the con struction of any sewer sewers in said city and county are hereby excepted from the pro- visions of this section: and in determining any claim permitted to be paid by this section. no statute of limitations shall apply in any man. ner and provided further, that the City Of ing Indebtedness incurred in the construction of its water works, whenever two-thirds of the that purpose shall so decide. Any indebted ness or liability incurred contrary 10 tnls pro vision with the exception herelnbetore reclleu shall be void.
 AMENDMENT NUMBER TWO.
 CBeing Senate Constitutional Amendment No A resolution proposing tn the people or tke State of California an amendment to the Con stitution of the State. by adding new sec seven and one-ha1f. article eleven thereof. pro. viding for the framing by the inhabitants or counties of local county government acts 2i for their own government. The said proposed new section to read as follows;
 Section 71e The inhabitants of any county may frame a county government act for their own government. relating to the matters here matter specified. and consistent with and sub by causing a board of fifteen freeholders, who 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 1t shall be within ninety days after such election, to pre- pare and propose county government act for such county, which shall be signed in dupli- cate hy the members of such board, ma iority of them, and returned. one copy thereof 10 the Board of Supervisors or other leS1sla- five bodv of such county and the other copy to he sent to the Recorder of Deeds of the sbsii then be published In two papers of gen. not two such papers, then in one only, Tor at least twenty days, and within not less man submitted to the qualified electors Of such county. at a general or special election ana II
 aIf 1nd ole thereon shall ratify the same. it shall there after be submitted to the Legislature for its newer of alteration or amendment, and if ap- proved by a majority of the members elected ment act of such county, ana snal Tn sucn ase become the organic law thereof ana super ali amendments thereof. and all special laws inconsistent with such county government act- 6a6 nv the President of the Board of Super yisors or other legislative body of such county. and authenticated by the seal of sucn h county, n government act to the electors, and its ratihca- tion by them, shall be made in duplicate and State the other after being recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds In the county ornone the archives of the county.
 All courts shall take judicial notice thereof. The county government act so ratified may be ~ears bv proposals therefor. submitted by the legislative authority of the county, to the qualified electors thereof, at general or spe- ciaI election held at least forty days after the D,,b,ication of such proposals for twenty days fn a newspaper of general circulation in such county, and ratified by at least three-ffths of inc qualified electors voting thereon, and ap- nroved by the Legislature as herein provided p,oth fpr tha approval of the county government act. Tn submitting any such county government act any far the choice of the voters and may be voted separately without prejudice to others. l., r .o,,,+ ,,,a-, ment acts framed under the authority given by at xvhi and for which the several township and county officers other than Judges of the Superior Court. shall he elected or appointed; for their compensa- tdor. for the number of such officers, for the consolidation segregation of offices, for the and for the Compensation payable to each of such deputies, for the manner in which, the sSeTs tmeS n WHef of sl boards @ of election shall be elected or appointed and for the constitution. s,eb boards and of their clerks and attaches also. to prescribe the manner and method by %nien T,intad aii and may in addition determine the tests and conditions upon which electors. DO iitical parties and organizations may partici- Whenever any county has. in the manner and method herein pointed out adopted any have been approved by the Legislature as aforesaid the direction of sections four and five of this article providing Tor the uniformity nf a system of county governments throughout the state, and likewise providing for the cleo tio, ord anpointment of officers and the regu- Itin IaVi oN of their compensation shall not apply Said county government act snail: as 70 any or tha rnetters hereinabove provided for and de cia,ed bv such county government act. not be subiect to any law or amendment enacted Dy tbe Legislature except by amendment first sm6rnitted to the electors and ratified in the manner hereinabove set forth
 AMENDMENT NUMBER THREE.
 fRs,ng Senate Constitutional Amendment No NDS Al
 resolution proposing to the people of the c,ata of California an amendment to the Con- stit,,tion of the State, by adding section to he known and designated section five and one-haif. article six thereby providing for the o-ganization of a court, to be known as the Court of Claims. The said proposed sec tion to read as follows:
 Section 5Ik The Court of Claims shall con sist of any three Judges of the Superior Court S.ho may be requested by the Governor to hold conrt 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 as may be passed by the Legislature and its Judgment thereon shall be final. The terms of the Court of Claims shall be held as fol- lows:
 Tn the City of Los Angeles, commencing on the second Monday of March:
 Tn the City and County of San Francisco, commencing on the second Monday in July. ' In the City of Sacramento. commencing on