Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-29
7 AMENDMENTS TO
Be VOTED NOV. 8
Special Election of Nov. 10 Will
Consider Only the 80 Pro-
posed Charter Changes
TO SETTLE FOUR BOND ISSUES
State Department of Engineering
Asks S18,00O,OOO to
Build Highways
o SETTLE FOUR BOND ISSUES

There are seven proposed amend
ments to the state constitution which
are to be voted on at the general cleo
ton on November s. 1t appears that
some electors in this city are delaying
forming an opinion as to these amend
ments on the assumption that they
are to be voted on at the special cleo
ton on November 10.
Only the thirty-nine proposed char
ter amendments will be considered at
the special election. The constitution
al amendments will be approved or re-
jected on November 8.
Senate amendment No. l is the tax
alton amendment whose provisions are
being generally discussed, ana IL neeus
no explanation.
Senate amendment No. II is the
amendment respecting that provision
of the constitution which assesses
mortgages, as an interest in the land,
to the owner of the mortgage leaving
the entire tax on the land to be paid
by the mortgagor.
Senate amendment No. 36 PROVIDES
that Judge of any superior court may
hold a superior court in any county or
the state, and also providing that
causes may be tried by judges pro
tempore, who must be members of the
bar, agreed to by the litigants in the
case.
Senate amendment No. SO would en-
power the legislature to provide by
general laws for the alteration OF
county boundaries and the ADMISSION
of new counties, with the proviso that
no new county shall contain less than
5000 inhabitants or reduce the popula-
ton of any other county below 10000;
and further providing that no boun-
dairy line of any new county shall pass
within five miles of the exterior boun-
dairy of the city or town in which is
located the county seat of the county
proposed to be divided.
Senate amendment No. A would en-
power the legislature to classify the
cities and towns by population for the
purpose of regulating the business or
banking-the intent being to permit
banks to be organized in small cities
with smaller capital than is safe in
large cities.
Assembly amendment No IA declares
the right of the people to fish upon
and from the public lands of the state
and in the waters thereof, and requir-
ing the reservation of this right in
the transfer of all lands sold by the
state.
An amendment proposed by the leg
TENDER provides for raising $5,000,000
in aid of the Panama-Pacific EXPOSE
ton, the money to be raised by tax,
to produce 81, 125, 900 each year for four
years, beginning next year.
100000 HARBOR BONDS
In addition to the seven constitu-
tional amendments, there are four
PROPOSITIONS for the issue Of state
bonds, payable, principal and interest,
in three cases, from the revenues or
harbors, and in one case, from the
proceeds of taxation.
The harbor improvement bonds all
run for seventy-four years except as
redeemed by lot by the operations of
the sinking fund, and bear per cent
interest. Interest only is to be paid
up to the year 1929, when collection for
the sinking fund shall begin, These
proposed bond issues are:
For the construction of sea wall,
docks, etc, in San Francisco harbor,
IS, 200, 900.
For the purchase of submerged lands
in Islais creek basin, in San Francisco
harbor, $1,OOO,O00.
For the construction of sea wall,
docks, ETC., in San Diego harbor,
81, 800 900.
The bonds proposed to be paid from
general taxation are the state high
way bonds, bearing per cent interest,
to the total amount of $18,000,000, inter
est only to be paid up to 1917, in which
year, and each year thereafter until
the whole issue is paid off, 100000
shall be due and payable. The pro-
ceeds of the bonds are to be expended
in the construction of a system of
state highways as laid out by the de-
partment of engineering, according to
the-general plan prescribed by the act.
The state highways, when completed,
are to be thereafter maintained by the
state. .,