Supervis ors to supregisters. ply great Amend ment of ordi nances. No extra pay for official duties. Acts of Legislature, etc. Certificate freeholders. copy without charge, and every citizen to a copy at the cost of publication. At the end of every fifth year, instead of the publication then as above required, the Common Council shall cause to be compiled, classified under appropriate heads, and published, all the ordinances then in force, and the same shall be subject to distribution as above provided. SEC. 19. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Clara, when great registers are being printed, to provide for the printing of a sufficient number of such registers, in addition to the number required otherwise by law to be printed, for the general and special municipal elections to be held, or likely to be held, in the City of San José, and it shall be the duty of the County Clerk of said county to furnish such registers in sufficient number, when so required by the Mayor and Common Council of said city. The said County Clerk, when so required, for the purpose of a general or special municipal election, shall furnish to said Mayor and Common Council a supplemental list of all voters who have registered since the time of the last printed great register. SEC. 20. No ordinance shall be amended by reference only to its title, but when any ordinance is amended, the section or sections thereof shall be reënacted at length as amended. Every ordinance shall embrace but one subject, which shall be clearly indicated in its title. In all cases where the subject is not so indicated, the ordinance shall be void as to the matter not indicated in the title; that which is indicated shall remain in full force and effect. SEC. 21. The Council shall not allow any extra or additional compensation beyond what this charter expressly authorizes to any officer, for services that the Council have power to require the officer to perform by virtue of his office. SEC. 22. All Acts of the Legislature relating to the City of San José, and all the ordinances, resolutions, and other regulations now in force, and not inconsistent herewith, shall be and remain in force after this charter takes effect, until changed or repealed by the proper authority, and all rights vested under any former Act or regulation, when this charter takes effect, shall not thereby be lost, impaired, or discharged; and all actions and proceedings commenced in any court wherein the City of San José is a party, shall be continued under the law existing when said action or proceeding was commenced. WHEREAS, The City of San José, a city containing a populaof board of tion of more than ten thousand, and less than one hundred thousand inhabitants, did, on the 2d day of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, at a special election, and under and in accordance with the provisions of Section 8, Article 11, of the Constitution of the State of California, elect the undersigned a board of fifteen freeholders, to prepare and propose a charter for said city; Be it known, that in pursuance of said provision of the Constitution, and within a period of ninety days after such election, said board of fifteen freeholders has prepared, and does propose the foregoing articles, signed in duplicate, as and for the charter for the said City of San José. In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, at the City of San José, State of California, this second day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. Done in duplicate. WM. B. HARDY, Chairman. WM. G. ALEXANDER. A. S. KITTREDGE. H. J. B. WRIGHT. Attest: THOS. BODLEY, Secretary. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, JOSÉ.} COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, CITY OF SAN JOSÉ. SS. This is to certify that we, V. Koch, Mayor of the City of Certificate San José, and J. W. Cook, City Clerk of said City of San José, of Mayor have compared the foregoing proposed and ratified charter clerk. with one of the duplicates mentioned therein, and find that the same is an exact copy thereof; and we further certify that the facts set forth in the preamble preceding said charter herein. are true. Dated San José, Cal., February 24, 1897. [SEAL.] V. KOCH, Mayor of the City of San José. City Clerk of the City of San José. ture. Now, THEREFORE, BE IT Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assem- Approval bly thereof concurring (a majority of all the members elected of Legisla. to each house voting for and concurring herein), That said charter of the City of San José, as presented to, and adopted and ratified by, the qualified electors of said city, be and the same. is hereby approved as a whole, for and as the charter of the said City of San José aforesaid. Christian CHAPTER XVI. Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 9-Resolution welcoming to the State of California the Societies of Christian Endeavor of the World, upon the occasion of their sixteenth annual international convention, to be held in the City of San Francisco, July 7 to 12, 1897. [Adopted March 11, 1897.] Society of WHEREAS, The sixteenth International Christian Endeavor convention is to be held in San Francisco, in this State, July 7th to 12th of this year; and Endeavor. WHEREAS, The Society of Christian Endeavor is an organization WHEREAS, This society is an inter-denominational organization, WHEREAS, It has come to our notice that at the conventions held in sister States within the past few years, the attendance has reached as high as fifty thousand persons; and WHEREAS, The railway associations of the United States have agreed upon rates for transportation to and from the State, on account of this convention of 1897, lower than were ever granted at any previous time, upon any account whatever, which rates of transportation are available to everybody, whether members of the societies or not, and such rates being upon terms that will allow reasonable time for all visitors on that occasion to not only attend the convention, but also permit them to visit the innumerable points of interest in the State; and WHEREAS, It is confidently believed by those who have charge of the affairs of the societies and the sessions of the convention, that many thousands will visit our State by reason of the holding of the convention of 1897 in California; and WHEREAS, It is the sense of the Legislature of the State of California that it is but meet and proper that the people of California should welcome to our beloved State the delegates to the convention of 1897, and their accompanying friends, and others drawn here upon this auspicious occasion, from which we must inevitably derive much benefit; therefore, be it Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate concurring therein, That the Legislature of the State of Cali to Cali fornia, at its thirty-second session, beginning on the 4th day of Welcom January, 1897, does hereby extend to the Societies of Christian ing the delegates Endeavor of the World, and their friends, a cordial welcome and friends to our State upon this the occasion of their sixteenth annual fornia. convention, better known throughout the world as "California 1897 Christian Endeavor Convention," and we assure them and their visiting companions that they will find in our people a deep and earnest interest in that moral culture which is elevating and helpful to humanity, and a disposition to aid and encourage those who have already devoted much time and labor to this cause. While those who will come to California during July next are within our State, we hope they will not fail to visit the many points of interest for which the State is famous, and see for themselves what a goodly heritage is ours; and we especially call their attention to Anno Domini 1601, when the first Christian Endeavor work on the western coast was initiated; where, "twenty years before the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, there was reflected a rude cross in the waters of the Bay of Monterey," which cross was erected by the Spanish padres. We also invite their attention to the early missions at Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, San Luis Obispo, and elsewhere; and to the more modern churches of every denomination in the cities, villages, and hamlets of the State. The material progress of our State from its earliest control by Americans, we think is well illustrated by the respective state capitol buildings-the first erected at Monterey in 1849; the next at San José, 1849-51; the next at Vallejo, 1852-53; the next at Benicia, 1853-54; the next at Sacramento, 1854; the next at Sacramento, 1855–69; then our present magnificent state building. In addition to this evidence of our prosperity, we are proud of the educational development of the State as shown by our great university at Berkeley, adjacent to Oakland and San Francisco, and of the numerous other educational institutions, at the head of which stands the Leland Stanford Jr. University at Palo Alto, near San José; the State Normal School at Los Angeles, in the south, San José in the center, and Chico in the north; while on Mount Hamilton, near San José, will be found the great Lick Observatory, with its complete astronomical equipment; and thus throughout our State, from "Siskiyou to San Diego, and from the Sierras to the sea," will be found much to attract the eye and satisfy the fancy of those who love the wonderful and beautiful in nature. In the great Sierra Nevada range will be found the richest gold mines of the world, while in the valleys and plains are located the agricultural, horticultural, and viticultural developments of the State, which are unsurpassed anywhere on the face of the globe. For remarkable topographical features, there will be found Mounts Lowe and Wilson, near Los Angeles; farther north, the world-famed Yosemite Valley and Mount Whitney, while to the north is Mount Shasta clad in perpetual snows. All of these are easy of access by rail, while by our fourteen hundred miles of tidewater shore-line, the commerce of the world could be accommodated in a score of places from Del Norte, in the northwest, to San Diego, in the southwest, with Eureka, San Francisco, Oakland, Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles between. By the inland waters of the State may be reached a hundred cities and towns of greater or less importance, notable among which are Stockton, Sacramento, Marysville, and Red Bluff, and by the same inland waters, and by rail, may be reached the great national navy yard, at Mare Island, opposite Vallejo. In the eastern central portion of the State will be found the location of Sutter's mill, where James W. Marshall discovered gold, from which discovery came the impelling forces which have so materially aided in the development of what is now this great State of California. With all these and many other attractions for the gratification of the senses, in addition to the benefits to be derived from associations at the convention, it is the belief of the Legislature of the State of California that much good will come to those who will visit us during the convention days, and we feel assured that much benefit will be derived by our own people from the visit of those who will come to us in connection with this memorable occasion. Therefore, again we say to our expected guests, whether their stay with us be temporary or permanent, "Welcome, thrice welcome, to California." Dispensing CHAPTER XVII. Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 11, relative to dispensing with joint rules forty, forty-eight, and forty-nine. [Adopted March 12, 1897.] Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That joint with rules. rules forty, forty-eight, and forty-nine be dispensed with for the remainder of the session. Adjourn CHAPTER XVIII. Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 12, relative to adjournment sine die.. [Adopted March 12, 1897.] Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That the two ment sine houses adjourn sine die at twelve noon of Saturday, March twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. die. |