PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR CONVENING THE LEGISLATURE IN EXTRAORDINARY SESSION. WHEREAS, an extraordinary occasion having arisen, and now existing, requiring the Legislature of the State of California to convene, Now, THEREFORE, I, JAMES N. GILLETT, Governor of the State of California, by virtue of the power and authority in me vested by Section 9, Article V of the Constitution of the State of California, do hereby convene the Legislature to meet and assemble in extraordinary session at Sacramento, California, on Tuesday, the sixth day of September, 1910, at 10 o'clock A. M. of that day, for the purpose of proposing to the People of the State of California, Constitutional Amendments to be voted upon at the next general election, upon the following subjects, to wit: 1st. The raising of the sum of five million dollars by the State of California for the purpose of assisting in the establishing, maintaining and supporting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition to be held in the City and County of San Francisco, in the year A. D. 1915, and providing for a State Commission to have the exclusive charge and control of said sum of money and to expend and disburse it for such purposes, acting in conjunction with the Directors_of said Exposition; also providing that the said Panama-Pacific International Exposition be exempt from all taxes and from all license fees and charges. 2d. Authorizing the City and County of San Francisco to amend its charter by a vote of its electors at either a special or general election, without submitting such amendments to the Legislature of the State of California for ratification and approval, for the following purposes, to wit: (a) Incurring a bonded indebtedness which shall be exclusive of the bonded indebtedness now permitted by said charter, in an amount not exceeding five million dollars, and to grant and to turn over to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company (a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of California) the proceeds of said bonds, the same to be used and disbursed by said exposition corporation for the purpose of an exposition to be held in the City and County of San Francisco, to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal. (b) Authorizing said Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company to use and occupy that portion of Golden Gate Park westerly from Twentieth Avenue, as extended, for said exposition purposes, and placing such portion of said Park under the control of said corporation, for such time as shall be necessary for such exposition purposes. (c) Authorizing said Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company to use and occupy for such exposition purposes any lands held by the Board of Education of the City and County of San Francisco and by the City and County of San Francisco, and not then in actual use. (d) Authorizing said Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company to open, close and occupy streets in said City and County of San Francisco, westerly from Twentieth Avenue, for such exposition purposes. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed hereunto the great seal of the State of California, at my office in the State Capitol, this twenty-third day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of the admission of the State of California, the fiftyninth. [Seal] ATTEST: C. F. CURRY, J. N. GILLETT, Governor of the State of California. Secretary of State. STATUTES OF CALIFORNIA PASSED AT THE EXTRA SESSION OF THE THIRTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE. CHAPTER 1. An act transferring money from the general fund to the state printing fund, to defray the expenses of legislative printing for the extra session of the thirty-eighth legislature, and directing the state controller and state treasurer to make such transfer. [Approved September 9, 1910.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The sum of fifteen hundred dollars is hereby transferred from the general fund to the state printing fund to defray the printing expenses of the extra session of the thirty-eighth legislature. SEC. 2. The state controller and state treasurer are hereby directed to make said transfer in conformity with section one of this act. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS AND JOINT RESOLUTION. CHAPTER 1. Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 33.-A resolution to propose to the people of the state of California, an amendment to the constitution of the state of California, authorizing the city and county of San Francisco to amend its charter in aid of Panama Pacific International Exposition, and to that end amending article XI of said constitution by adding a new section thereto, to be known as section 8a. [Adopted September 9, 1910.] The legislature of the state of California at its extraordinary session of the thirty-eighth session of the legislature commencing on the sixth day of September, 1910, two-thirds of all the members elected to each house of said legislature voting in favor thereof, hereby propose that article XI of the constitution of the state of California be amended by the addition of a new section to be known as section 8a, said new section to read as follows: Section 8a. The charter of the city and county of San Francisco may be amended, in addition to the method and the times provided in section 8 of article XI of the constitution, in the following particulars: (a) Authorizing the city and county of San Francisco, a municipal corporation, by its legislative authority, to incur a bonded indebtedness in an amount not exceeding five million dollars, and to issue municipal bonds therefor, and to grant and turn over to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company (a corporation organized under the laws of the state of California March 22, 1910) the proceeds of said bonds, the same to be used and disbursed by said exposition company for the purposes of an exposition to be held in the city and county of San Francisco to celebrate the completion of the Panama canal; said bonds, so issued, to be of such form and to be redeemable, registered and converted in such manner and amounts, and at such times not later than forty years from the date of their issue, as such legislative authority shall determine; the interest on said bonds to not exceed five per centum per annum, and said bonds to be exempt from all taxes for state and municipal purposes, and to be sold for not less than par at such times and places, and |