Cause for removal. Proposition to incur bonded indebtedness. Certificate of mayor and clerk. the manner provided for such tax levy, the Supervisors shall levy and collect annually a tax sufficient to pay the annual interest on such bonds, and also the proper aliquot part of the aggregate amount of such indebtedness so incurred. Such taxes shall be in addition to all other taxes levied for municipal purposes, and shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as other municipal taxes are collected. That Section 14 of Article XII of said Charter be amended by renumbering the same so as to be known as Section 13 of Article XII of said Charter, viz: Section 13. A neglect or refusal on the part of the Supervisors to comply with the provisions of this Article shall constitute cause for the removal from office of any member or members of the Board guilty of such neglect or refusal. That Section 29 of Article XVI of said Charter be amended so as to read as follows: Section 29. When the Supervisors shall determine that the public interest requires the construction or acquisition of any permanent building or buildings, improvement or improvements, land or lands, the cost of which in addition to the other expenses of the City and County will exceed the income and revenue provided for the City and County for any one year, they must by Ordinance submit a proposition or propositions to incur a bonded indebtedness for such purpose or purposes to the electors of the City and County at a special election to be held for that purpose only. All provisions of this Charter providing for the acquisition of public utilities, so far as the same are applicable, shall apply to the manner of submitting such proposition or propositions to the electors, to the limitations of said bonded indebtedness, to the issuance and character of the same, and to the time when and the kind of money in which said bonded indebtedness shall be payable. The proceeds of the sales of such bonds shall be paid into the treasury to the credit of the Public Building Fund. This is to certify that we, E. E. Schmitz, Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco, and Chas. W. Fay, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of said City and County have compared the foregoing proposed and ratified amendments to the Charter of the said City and County of San Francisco with the original ordinances proposing such amendments and submitting the same to the electors of said City and County at a Special Election called for that purpose on Thursday the fourth day of December Nineteen hundred and two, and find that the foregoing is a full, true, correct and exact copy thereof, and we further certify that the facts set forth in the preamble preceding said amendments to said Charter are and each of them is true. In Witness Whereof, we have hereunto set are hands and cause the same to be authenticated by the Seal of said City and County of San Francisco, this 14th day of January Nineteen hundred three. [SEAL] E. E. SCHMITZ, Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco. CHAS. W. FAY, ture. Now, therefore be it, Resolved, by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly Approval thereof concurring (a majority of all of the members elected by legisla to each house voting for and concurring herein), That said amendments to the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco as proposed to and adopted and ratified by the electors of said City and County be and the same are, and each of them is, hereby approved as a whole without amendment or alteration, for and as amendments to, and as part of the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco. CHAPTER XII. Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 8, relative to the consent of the legislature to the absence of his excellency, George C. Pardee, Governor of the State of California, from the state for more than sixty (60) days. [Adopted February 5, 1903.] absence for Resolved, by the senate, the assembly concurring, That the legis- Leave of lature of the State of California has consented, and does hereby governor. consent, that his excellency, George C. Pardee, Governor of the State of California, may absent himself from the State of California at such times as he may choose, or as necessity may require, during his official term for a period of more than sixty (60) days; provided, that the periods of such absence taken together do not exceed in any one calendar year a period of four (4) months. CHAPTER XIII. Assembly Joint Resolution No. 4, relative to about seven million acres of public land in this state withdrawn from public entry by the Commissioner of the General Land Office as proposed forest reserve, and requesting investigation before making said reserves permanent. [Adopted February 6, 1903.] To the President of the United States, Congress of the United The legislature of the State of California, now assembled, presents the following memorial: Forest reserves. Urging investigation Special commission. WHEREAS, A Commissioner of the General Land Office has caused to be withdrawn from entry over seven million acres of government land in this state, as proposed forest reserves; and WHEREAS, No definite action has yet been taken by the President of the United States and the Department of the Interior towards making these proposed reserves permanent reserves; and WHEREAS, Many interests of the people of the whole state are involved in said proposed reservation, including mining, stock, and agricultural interests; and WHEREAS, The permanent establishment of these reserves under the present existing reserve laws will cause great and lasting damage to many of the aforesaid interests; now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the legislature of the State of California, representing the whole people of this state, request the President of the United States, the Department of the Interior and the Commissioners of the General Land Office to defer all action tending towards the permanent establishment of said reserves pending investigation into the question by the Department of the Interior; and be it further Resolved, That the legislature of the State of California hereby requests the President of the United States, or the Department of the Interior, or Congress of the United States, whichever body may have such power, to immediately appoint a special commission to investigate and report the facts, conditions and matters connected with and surrounding the said proposed forest reserve in the State of California, and that said commission be empowered to hear testimony, personally examine the proposed forest reservations, and report fully thereon as to all conditions and interests surrounding, involved in and affected by the said forest reservations. Resolved, That the Clerk of the Assembly be instructed to forward a copy of the resolution to the President of the United States and the Secretary of the Interior. CHAPTER XIV. Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 4, a resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the constitution, by adding thereto a new section to article nine to be known as section twelve, relating to the exemption from taxation of the property now or hereafter belonging to the “California Academy of Sciences." [Adopted February 6, 1903.] Resolved by the senate, the assembly concurring, That the legis lature of the State of California, at its regular session, commencing on the fifth day of January, nineteen hundred and three, two thirds of all the members elected to each of the houses of said legislature voting in favor thereof, hereby proposes that article nine of the Constitution of the State of California be amended by adding thereto a new section, to be known as section twelve, and reading as follows: California of Sciences tion. Section 12. All property now or hereafter belonging to the Property of "California Academy of Sciences," an institution for the Academy advancement of science and maintenance of a free museum, exempt and chiefly endowed by the late James Lick, and incorporated from taxaunder the laws of the State of California, January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, having its buildings located in the city and county of San Francisco, shall be exempt from taxation. The trustees of said institution must annually report their proceedings and financial accounts to the governor. The legislature may modify, suspend, and revive at will the exemption from taxation herein given. CHAPTER XV. Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 10, approving the charter of Salinas City, a municipal corporation in the County of Monterey, State of California, voted for and ratified by the qualified voters of said city at a special election held therein for that purpose, on the 12th day of January, 1903. [Adopted February 11, 1903.] WHEREAS, Salinas City, a municipal corporation in the Preamble. County of Monterey, State of California, now is, and was at all of the times herein referred to a city containing a population of more than three thousand five hundred and less than ten thousand inhabitants; and, WHEREAS, At a special election duly held in said city on the eleventh day of August in the year one thousand nine hundred and two, in accordance with law and the provisions of section eight, article eleven of the constitution of said state, a board of fifteen freeholders, duly qualified, was elected, to prepare and propose a charter for the government of said city; and, WHEREAS, Said board of freeholders did, within ninety days after such special election, frame, prepare and propose a charter for the government of said Salinas City; and, WHEREAS, Such a charter was, on the third day of November, in the year one thousand nine hundred two, signed in duplicate by all of the members of said board of freeholders and, on said last mentioned day, one copy was returned to and filed with the Mayor of Salinas City, and the other copy thereof was filed with, and in the office of the County Recorder of the County of Monterey; and, WHEREAS, Said proposed charter was thereafter published in the Salinas Daily Index, a daily newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated in said Salinas City, Corporate name and powers. Resources and liabilities. for a period of twenty days and more, and the first publication thereof was made within twenty days after the completion of said charter; and, WHEREAS, Said proposed charter was, within not less than thirty days after the completion of said publication, submitted by the Mayor and Common Council of Salinas City to the qualified voters of said Salinas City, at a special election, previously duly called and thereafter held in said city on the twelfth day of January in the year one thousand nine hundred three; and, WHEREAS, At said last mentioned special election a majority of the qualified electors of Salinas City voting thereat did vote in favor of and duly ratified said charter so proposed; and, WHEREAS, The same is now submitted to the legislature of the State of California for its approval or rejection as a whole, without power of alteration or amendment, in accordance with the provisions of section eight of article eleven of the constitution of the State of California; and, WHEREAS, Said charter so ratified is in the words and figures following, to wit: CHARTER OF SALINAS CITY. ARTICLE I. BOUNDARIES, GENERAL POWERS AND LIABILITIES. Name, Powers and Liabilities. SECTION 1. The municipal corporation now existing, known as Salinas City, shall remain and continue a body politic and corporate, in name and in fact, by said name of Salinas City, and by that name shall have perpetual succession; may sue and defend in all courts and places and in all matters and proceedings; may have and use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure; may make and enter into contracts and incur indebtedness; may purchase, acquire, receive, hold and enjoy real and personal property, within and without its corporate limits, and may lease, sell, convey and dispose of the same for the common benefit; may purchase, construct, or otherwise acquire water works, artificial light works, street railroads and other public utilities and manage and operate the same; may determine and declare what are public uses and when the necessity exists of condemning land therefor and what land it is necessary to condemn; may receive bequests, gifts, or donations of every kind of property, within or without said city, in fee simple or in trust for charitable or other lawful purposes, with full power to do and perform all acts and things necessary to carry out the purposes of such bequests, gifts, or donations; and may do and perform all other acts necessary or incident to the exercise of the powers, by the charter or otherwise, granted to said city. SEC. 2. All public buildings, land, property, rights of property, rights of action, money, revenue and income belonging or appertaining to Salinas City at the time this charter shall go into effect, shall continue thereafter to vest in, and belong |