ment of state buildings at Sacramento, for the erection and equipment of a state building at Los Angeles, for the erection and equipment of a building or buildings for the University of California at Berkeley, and for the erection and equipment of a building or buildings for the University of California at Los Angeles, is hereby authorized and directed, and the said California state buildings and state university

buildings bonds act of 1925 is hereby approved, adopted, legalized, validated and made fully and completely effective. All provisions of this section shall be self-executing and shall not require any legislative action in furtherance thereof, but this shall not prevent such legislative action. Nothing in this constitution contained shall be a limitation upon the provisions of this section.

Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 27-A resolution to propose to the State of California an amendment to the constitution of said state by amending section one a of article thirteen thereof relating to the exemption from taxation of colleges and secondary schools accredited to the University of California.

Resolved by the assembly, the senate concurring, That the legislature of the State of California at its forty-sixth regular session commencing on the fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred twenty-five, two-thirds of all the members elected to each of the two houses of said legislature voting in favor thereof, hereby proposes to the people of the State of California that section one a of article thirteen of the constitution of this state be amended to read as follows:

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PROPOSED AMENDMENT.

(Proposed changes in provisions are printed in black-faced type.)

Sec. 1a. Any educational institution of collegiate grade, within the State of California, not conducted for profit, and any educational Institution of secondary grade, within the State of California not conducted for profit, and which shall be accredited to the University of Califor nia, shall hold exempt from taxation its buildings and equipment, its grounds within which its buildings are located, not exceeding one hundred acres in area, its securities and income used exclusively for the purposes of education. EXISTING PROVISIONS.

Sec. 1a. Any educational institution of collegiate grade, within the State of California, not conducted for profit, shall hold exempt from taxation its buildings and equipment, its grounds, within which its buildings are located, not exceeding one hundred acres in area, its securities and income used exclusively for the purposes of education.

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Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 26-A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the constitution of said state by amending section one and one-quarter of article thirteen, relating to exemptions of property on account of military service.

Resolved by the senate, the assembly concurring, That the legislature of the State of California, at its forty-sixth regular session commencing on the fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred twenty-five, two-thirds of all the members elected to each of the two houses of said legislature voting in favor thereof, hereby proposes to the people of the State of California that section one and onequarter of article thirteen of the constitution of this state be amended to read as follows:

PROPOSED AMENDMENT.

(Proposed changes in provisions are printed in black-faced type.)

Sec. 11. The property to the amount of one thousand dollars of every resident of this state who has served in the army, navy, marine corps

or revenue marine service of the United States in time of war, and received an honorable discharge therefrom or who has been released from active duty because of disability resulting from such service in time of peace or under other honorable conditions, or lacking such amount of property in his own name, so much of the property of the wife of any such person as shall be necessary to equal said amount; and the property to the amount of one thousand dollars of the widow resident in this state, or

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if there be no such widow, of the widowed mother resident in this state, of every person who has so served and has died either during his term of service or after receiving an honorable discharge from said service, or who has been released from active duty because disability resulting from such service in time of peace or under other honorable conditions, and the property to the amount of one thousand dollars of pensioned widows, fathers, and mothers, resident in this state, of soldiers, sailors and marines who served in the army, navy or marine corps or revenue marine service of the United States shall be exempt from taxation; provided, this exemption shall not apply to any

person named herein owning property of the value of five thousand dollars or more, or where the wife of such soldier or sailor owns property of the value of five thousand dollars or more. No exemption shall be made under the provisions of this act of the property of a person who is not legal resident of the state; provided, however, all real property owned by the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic and all property owned by the California Soldiers Widows Home Association shall be exempt from taxa. tion.

EXISTING PROVISIONS.

(Provisions proposed to be repealed are printed in italics.)

Sec. 11. The property to the amount of one thousand dollars of every resident of this state who has served in the army, navy, marine corps or revenue marine service of the United States in time of war, and received an honorable discharge therefrom or who has been released from active duty under honorable conditions, or lacking such amount of property in his own name,

so much of the property of the wife of any such person as shall be necessary to equal sald amount; and property to the amount of one thousand dollars of the widow resident in this state, or if there be no such widow, of the widowed mother resident in this state, of every person who has so served and has died either during his term of service or after receiving an honorable discharge from said service, or who has been released from active duty under honorable conditions, and the property to the amount of one thousand dollars of pensioned widows, fathers, and mothers, resident in this state, of soldiers, sailors and marines who served in the army, navy or marine corps or revenue marine service of the United States, shall be exempt from taxation; provided, this exemption shall not apply to any person named herein owning property of the value of five thousand dollars or more, or where the wife of such soldier or sailor owns property of the value of five thousand dollars or more. No exemption shall be made under the provisions of this act of the property of a person who is not a legal resident of the state.

Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 20

A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the constitution of said state by amending section one of article two of the constitution relating to the right of suffrage.

Resolved by the assembly, the senate concurring. That the legislature of the State of California, at its forty-sixth regular session, commencing on the fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred twenty-five, two-thirds of all the members elected to each of the two houses voting in favor thereof, hereby proposes to the people of the State of California that section one of article two of the constitution of this state be amended to read as follows:

PROPOSED AMENDMENT.

(Proposed changes in provisions are printed in black-faced type.)

Section 1. Every native citizen of the United States, every person who shall have acquired the rights of citizenship under or by virtue of the treaty of Queretaro, and every naturalized citizen thereof, who shall have become such ninety days prior to any election, of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a resident of the state one year next preceding the election, and of the county in which he or she claims his or her vote ninety days, and in the election precinct thirty days, shall be entitled to vote at all elections which are now or may hereafter be authorized by law; provided, any person duly registered as an elector in one precinct and removing therefrom to another precinct in the same county within thirty days of an election, shall for the purpose of such election be deemed to be a resident and qualified elector of the precinct from which he so removed until after such election; provided, further, no allen ineligible to citizenship, no idiot, no insane person, no person convicted of any infamous crime, no person hereafter convicted of the embezzlement or misappropriation of public money, and no person who shall not be able to read the constitution in the English language and write his or her name, shall ever exercise the privileges of an elector in this state; provided, that the provisions of this amendment relative to an

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educational qualification shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who had the right to vote on October 10, 1911, nor to any person who was sixty years of age and upwards on October 10, 1911: provided, further, that the legislature may, by general law, provide for the casting of votes by duly registered voters who, by reason of their occupation, are required to travel and who, by such affidavit as the legislature may prescribe, show that they expect to be absent from their respective precincts on the day on which any primary or general election is held, or who, by reason of their being engaged in the civil, congressional, military or naval service of the United States or of the state, may be absent from their respective precincts on the day on which any primary or general election is held, or who because of Injury or disability are absent from their precincts or unable to go to the polling places; which votes (a) may be east in the office of the registrar of voters, or of the county clerk of the county or city and county in which such voters respectively reside, and on a day prior to the date of such election, under such provisions as the legislature may see fit to make; or (b) may be cast in the city, city and county or town within this state in which such voters may be on the day on which such election is held, under such provisions as the legislature may see fit to make, and shall be forwarded in such manner as the legislature may prescribe to the officers respectively of the city, city and county or town having charge of the counting of the ballots cast at such election; or (c) in cases where said voters are engaged in such military or naval service, may be cast at any place, under such provisions as the legislature may see fit to make, and shall be forwarded in such manner as the legislature may prescribe to the officers respectively of the city, city and county or town having charge of the counting of the ballots at such election; all of which votes shall be kept in such manner and counted by such methods as the legislature may prescribe; provided, that it must be required that all ballots cast in any other place than the precinct of the voter must be received by the county clerk of the county in which the voter

18 registered, within two weeks of the election, in which such ballots are to be counted.

EXISTING PROVISIÓNS.

(Provisions proposed to be repealed are printed in italics.)

Section 1. Every native citizen of the United States, every person who shall have acquired the rights of citizenship under or by virtue of the treaty of Queretaro, and every naturalized citizen thereof, who shall have become such ninety days prior to any election, of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been resident of the state one year next preceding the election, and of the county in which he or she claims his or her vote ninety days, and in the election precinct thirty days, shall be entitled to vote at all elections which are now or may hereafter be authorized by law; provided, any person duly registered as an elector in one precinct and removing therefrom to another precinct in the same county within thirty days of an election, shall for the purpose o fsuch election be deemed to be a resident and qualified elector of the precinct from which he so removed until after such election; provided, further, no native of China, no idiot, no insane person, no person convicted of any infamous crime, no person hereafter convicted of the embezzlement or misappropriation of public money, and no person who shall not be able to read the constitution in the English language and write his or her name, shall ever exercise the privileges of an elector in this state; provided, that the provisions of this amendment relative to an educational qualification shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who had the right to vote on October 10, 1911, nor to any person who was sixty years of age and upwards on October 10, 1911; provided, further,

that the legislature may, by general law, provide for the casting of votes by duly registered voters who, by reason of their occupation, are regularly required to travel about the state and who, by such affidavit as the legislature may prescribe, show that they will be absent from their respective precincts on the day on which any primary or general election is held, or who, by reason of their being engaged in the military or naval service of the United States or of the state, may be absent from their respective precincts on the day on which any primary or general election is held; which votes (a) may be cast in the office of the registrar of voters, or of the county clerk of the county or city and county in which such voters respectively reside, and on a day prior to the date of such election, under such provisions as the legislature may see fit to make; or (b) may be cast in the city, city and county or town within this state in which such voters may be on the day on which such election is held, under such provisions as the legislature may see fit to make, and shall be forwarded in such manner as the legislature may prescribe to the officers respectively of the city, city and county or town having charge of the counting of the ballots cast at such election; or (c) in cases where said voters are engaged in such military or naval service, may be cast at any place, under such provisions as the legislature may see fit to make, and shall be forwarded in such manner as the legislature may prescribe to the officers respectively of the city, city and county or town having charge of the counting of the ballots at such election; all of which votes shall be kept in such manner and counted by such methods as the legislature may prescribe provided, that it must be required that all ballots cast in any other place than the precinct of the voter must be received by the county clerk of the county in which the voter is registered, within two weeks of the election, in which such ballots are to be counted.

Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 14

A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to section eleven of article twelve of the constitution of the State of California, relating to the issuance of stock or bonds by corporations.

Resolved, by the assembly, the senate concurring, That the legislature of the State of California, at its forty-sixth regular session, commencing on the fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred twenty-five, two-thirds of all the members elected to each of the two houses of said legislature voting therefor, hereby proposes to the people of the State of California that section eleven of article twelve the constitution of the state be amended so as to read as follows:

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PROPOSED AMENDMENT.

(Proposed changes in provisions are printed in black-faced type.)

Sec. 11. No corporation shall issue stock or

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bonds, except for money paid, labor done, or property actually received, and all fictitious increase of stock or indebtedness shall be void. The stock and bonded indebtedness of corporations shall not be increased, except in pursuance of general law, nor without the consent of the persons holding at least two-thirds of the amount in value of the stock.

EXISTING PROVISIONS. (Provisions proposed to be repealed are printed in italics.)

Sec. 11. No corporation shall issue stock or bonds, except for money paid, labor done, or property actually received, and all fictitious increase of stock or indebtedness shall be void. The stock and bonded indebtedness of corporations shall not be increased, except in pursuance of general law, nor without the consent of the persons holding the larger amount in value of the stock, at a meeting called for that purpose, giving sixty days' public notice, as may be provided by law.

Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 11-A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the constitution of said state by adding to article nine thereof a new section, to be numbered fourteen, relating to the incorporation, organization, and classification of school districts.

Resolved by the assembly, the senate concurring, That the legislature of the State of California, at its forty-sixth session, commencing on the fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred twenty-five, two-thirds of the members

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elected to each of the two houses of said legislature voting therefor, hereby proposes to the people of the State of California that the constitution of said state be amended by adding to article nine thereof a new section, to be numbered fourteen, reading as follows:

PROPOSED AMENDMENT.

Sec. 14. The legislature shall have power, by general law, to provide for the incorporation and organization of school districts, high school dis tricts, and junior college districts, of every kind and class, and may classify such districts.

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Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 41-Relative to salaries of justices of the supreme court, of the district courts of appeal and of the judges of the superior courts. A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the constitution of said state by amending section seventeen of article six thereof, relating to the salaries of justices of the supreme court, of the district courts of appeal and of the judges of the superior courts. Resolved by the senate, the assembly concurring, That the legislature of the State of California at its regular session commencing on the fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred twenty-five, two-thirds of all members elected to each of the two houses of said legislature voting in favor thereof, hereby proposes to the people of the State of California that section seventeen of article six of the constitution of this state be amended to read as follows:

PROPOSED AMENDMENT.

(Proposed changes in provisions are printed in black-faced type.)

Sec. 17. The Justices of the supreme court and of the district courts of appeal and the judges of the superior courts, shall severally, at stated times during their continuance in office receive for their service such compensation as is or shall be provided by law. Three thousand dollars shall be paid by the state upon the salary of each superior court judge, the remainder of such salary, as the same is now

or may hereafter be established, shall be paid by the county for which he is elected.

EXISTING PROVISIONS.

(Provisions proposed to be repealed are printed in italics.)

Sec. 17. The justices of the supreme court and of the district courts of appeal, and the judges of the superior courts, shall severally, at stated times during their continuance in office, receive for their service such compensation as is or shall be provided by law. The salaries of the judges of the superior court, in all counties having but one judge, and in all counties in which the terms of the judges of the superior court expire at the same time, shall not hereafter be increased or diminished after their eleetion, nor during the term for which they shall have been elected, Upon the adoption of this amendment the salaries then established by law shall be paid uniformly to the justices and judges then in office. The salaries of the justices of the supreme court and of the district courts of appeal shall be paid by the state. One half of the salary of each superior court judge shall be paid by the state; and the other half thereof shall be paid by the county for which he is elected. On and after the first day of January, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and seven, the justices of the supreme court shall each receive an annual salary of eight thousand dollars, and the justices of the several district courts of appeal shall each receive an annual salary of seven thousand dollars; the said salaries to be payable monthly.

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chase, with public funds, and use of the Holy Bible In the schools of this state shall not be deemed a violation of the constitution, and a copy of the Holy Bible shall be placed in every public school library, and in every public school classroom, and may be studied in any school or read by any teacher without comment, as a part of the dally school exercises, but no pupil shall be required to read the Bible, or hear it read, contrary to the wishes of his parent or guardian.

EXISTING PROVISIONS.

Sec. 8. No public money shall ever be appropriated for the support of any sectarian or denominational school, or any school not under the exclusive control of the officers of the public schools; nor shall any sectarian or denominational doctrine be taught, or instruction thereon be permitted, directly or indirectly, in any of the common schools of this state..

Sufficient qualified electors of the State of California present to the secretary of state this petition and request that a proposed measure, as hereinafter set forth, be submitted to the people of the State of California for their approval or rejection, at the next ensuing general election.

PROPOSED AMENDMENT,

Article XIVa-Water and power development.

Section 1. It is hereby declared to be the policy and purpose of the state to conserve, develop and control the waters of the state for the use and benefit of the people.

Sec. 2. The California water and power board, hereinafter called the board, is hereby established, composed of five members who shall be appointed by the governor after this amendment shall have been in effect ninety days, and he shall designate one member as chairman and executive officer, who shall devote all his time to the duties of the office. The members shall be qualified electors of the state and shall be so appointed as to be fairly representative of the state geographically and of its irrigation and municipal interests. Members shall hold office for four years, except that of those first appointed, one shall hold office until March 1, 1928, one until March 1, 1929, one until March 1, 1930, and two until March 1, 1931. The chairman shall receive a salary of

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fifteen thousand dollars per annum. The other members shall receive a per diem of twenty dollars while engaged in the performance of duty and all members shall receive their necessary expenses. The legislature may increase their compensation. Each member shall execute to the state such bonds as the governor may require. The legislature shall have power by a two-thirds vote of all its members to remove any one or more of the members of the board from office for dereliction of duty or corruption or incompetency; and it shall be the duty of the legislature to provide by law for the removal of members by recall, following so far as pertinent the provisions of article XXIII of the constitution, except that a successor of any member recalled shall be appointed by the gov ernor for the unexpired term, as shall be done in the case of a vacancy otherwise arising. majority of the members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and no vacancy in the board shall impair the right of the remaining members to exercise all powers of the board. The board shall maintain its office at Sacramento.

Sec. 3. The board shall have power:

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(a) To acquire by purchase, lease, condemnation, gift or other legal means, land, water, water rights, easements, electric energy and any other property necessary or convenient for the purposes of this article, and likewise to acquire, and also to construct. complete and operate, works, dams, reservoirs, canals, pipelines, conduits, power-houses, transmission lines,