...city of the requisite population named therein, through a board of freeholders elected by the electors "may frame a charter for its own government, consistent with and subject to the Constitution." A charter so framed must be submitted to the qualified electors for approval. If approved by the electors...

...government has the exclusive power of ••Const, art. 11, § 8. provides that any city of over 100.000 inhabitants may frame a charter for its own government, consistent with and subject to tho constitution and laws of the state, which shall be submitted to the legislature for its approval...

...as it is necessary to an understanding of the question, reads: "Any city or city and county • * * may frame a charter for its own government, consistent with and subject to this Constitution. * * * Any such charter shall be framed by a board of fifteen freeholders chosen...

...controlled by general laws." "Sec. 8. Any city containing a population of more than one hundred thousand inhabitants may frame a charter for its own government,...state, by causing a board of fifteen freeholders, * * * to be elected, * * * whose duty it shall be * * * to prepare and propose a charter for such city....

...itself (Const. § 16, art. 9) provide: "Any city having a population of more than one hundred thousand inhabitants may frame a charter for its own government,...Constitution and laws of this state, by causing a board of thirteen freeholders, who shall have been for at least five years qualified voters thereof, to be elected...

...Constitution adopted in 1875 ordains: "Any city having a population of more than one hundred thousand inhabitants may frame a charter for its own government...with and subject to the Constitution and laws of this state," etc. In 1887 (Acts 1887, p. 42) the General Assembly passed an act which in the briefs is called...

...City, among other things, provides: "Any city having a population of more than one hundred thousand inhabitants may frame a charter for its own government,...consistent with and subject to the Constitution and laws of the state." The first section of the Enabling Act contains the identical language of the Constitution...

...More than Section 8. Any city containing a population of more than inhabitants one hundred thousand inhabitants may frame a charter for its own government, consistent with and subject to the ConEiectionof stitution and laws of this State, by causing a Board of fifteen Freehoblers freeholders,...

...adopted pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution authorizing cities of a certain population to frame a charter for its own government, consistent with and subject to the Constitution and 54 SW 219) : "All of which Is the Interpretation which that learned court places on the provision of...

...containing a population of more than ten thousand and not 100,000!' an more than one hundred thousand inhabitants, may frame a charter for its own government, consistent with and subject Election of to the Constitution and laws of this State, by causing a Board freeholders. of fifteen...