line Street; thence southerly along said Adaline Street to the northerly line of Alameda Township; thence easterly along said line of Alameda Township to where the same is intersected by the dividing line between the said Sixth and Seventh Wards; thence northerly along said dividing line to the point of beginning, shall constitute the Fifty-third Assembly District. All that portion of Alameda County comprising Fifty-fourth. the First Ward of the City of Oakland, being all that portion of said City of Oakland lying west of Adaline Street; and all that portion of the County of Alameda, being a portion of Oakland Township, lying outside of said City of Oakland, bounded as follows: Commencing at the intersection of the northern charter line of the City of Oakland with the dividing line between Bay and Temescal election precincts; thence northerly along said dividing line to where it intersects the southerly line of Berkeley election precinct; thence westerly along said line of said Berkeley election precinct to the dividing line between Berkeley and West Berkeley election precincts; thence northerly along said dividing line last named to the southerly line of Ocean View election precinct; thence easterly along said last named line to the dividing line between Alameda and Contra Costa Counties; thence northwesterly and westerly along said Alameda and Contra Costa boundary line of Alameda County and the City and County of San Francisco; thence southerly along said last named boundary line to the said northern charter line of the City of Oakland; thence easterly along said last named line to the point of beginning, shall constitute the Fiftyfourth Assembly District. SEC. 56. All that portion of Alameda County comprising Fifty-fifth. the Second and Third Wards of the City of Oakland, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the intersection of the northern charter line of the City of Oakland with the center line of Adaline Street; thence southerly along said center line of Adaline Street to where the same is intersected by the center line of Tenth Street; thence easterly along said center line of Tenth Street to the center line of Broadway; thence northerly along the center line of Broadway to the dividing line between the Second and Fifth Wards; thence easterly along said dividing line last named to the dividing line between the Second and Seventh Wards; thence northerly along said last named line to the said northern charter line; thence westerly along said last named line to the point of beginning, shall constitute the Fifty-fifth Assembly District. SEC. 57. All that portion of Alameda County comprising Fifty-sixth. all of Oakland Township outside of the City of Oakland, and not included in the Fifty-fourth Assembly District, and all of the City of Oakland constituting the Fifth and Seventh Wards, not included in the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Assembly Districts, shall constitute the Fifty-sixth Assembly District. seventh. SEC. 58. The County of Contra Costa shall constitute the Fifty, Fifty-seventh Assembly District. Fifty-eighth. SEC. 59. All that portion of the County of San Joaquin comprising the City of Stockton shall constitute the Fiftyeighth Assembly District. Fifty-ninth. Sixtieth. Sixty-first. SEC. 60. All that portion of San Joaquin County not included in the Fifty-eighth District shall constitute the Fifty-ninth Assembly District. SEC. 61. The County of Amador shall constitute the Sixtieth Assembly District. SEC. 62. The County of Calaveras shall constitute the Sixty-first Assembly District. Sixty-second SEC. 63. The County of Tuolumne shall constitute the Sixty-second Assembly District. Sixty-third. SEC. 64. All that portion of the County of Santa Clara comprising the Townships of Almaden, Redwood, Fremont, Alviso, and Santa Clara, shall constitute the Sixty-third Assembly District. Sixty-fourth SEC. 65. All that portion of the County of Santa Clara comprising the City of San José shall constitute the Sixtyfourth Assembly District. Sixty-fifth. Sixty-sixth. Sixtyseventh. Sixty eighth. SEC. 66. All that portion of Santa Clara County compris ing the Townships of Milpitas, Burnett, and Gilroy, and all of the Township of San José, except the City of San José, shall comprise the Sixty-fifth Assembly District. SEC. 67. The County of Stanislaus shall constitute the Sixty-sixth Assembly District. SEC. 68. The Counties of Merced and Mariposa shall constitute the Sixty-seventh Assembly District. SEC. 69. The County of San Benito shall constitute the Sixty-eighth Assembly District. Sixty-ninth. SEC. 70. The County of Monterey shall constitute the Sixty-ninth Assembly District. Seventieth. Seventyfirst. Seventysecond. Seventythird. Seventyfourth. Seventyfifth. Seventysixth. Seventyseventh. Seventyeighth. SEC. 71. The County of Fresno shall constitute the Seventieth Assembly District. SEC. 72. The County of Tulare shall constitute the Seventyfirst Assembly District. SEC. 73. The Counties of Alpine, Mono, and Inyo, shall constitute the Seventy-second Assembly District. SEC. 74. The County of San Luis Obispo shall constitute the Seventy-third Assembly District. SEC. 75. The County of Santa Barbara shall constitute the Seventy-fourth Assembly District. SEC. 76. The Counties of Kern and Ventura shall constitute the Seventy-fifth Assembly District. SEC. 77. All that portion of Los Angeles County contained in the Townships of Soledad, San Fernando, El Monte, San Gabriel, La Ballona, Azusa, Wilmington, San Antonio, and all that portion of Los Angeles Township not contained within the city limits of Los Angeles City, shall constitute the Seventy-sixth Assembly District. SEC. 78. That portion of Los Angeles County contained within the limits of the City of Los Angeles, shall constitute the Seventy-seventh Assembly District." SEC. 79. All that portion of the County of Los Angeles not included in the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Assem bly Districts, shall constitute the Seventy-eighth Assembly District. ninth. SEC. 80. The County of San Bernardino shall constitute Seventythe Seventy-ninth Assembly District. SEC. 81. The County of San Diego shall constitute the Eightieth. Eightieth Assembly District. to be elected SEC. 82. Each Assembly District shall elect one member One member of the Assembly, as follows: A member of the Assembly from each shall be elected in each Assembly District at the general District. election, to be held in the year eighteen hundred and eightyfour, and every two years thereafter. etc.,shall not SEC. 83. Neither Boards of Supervisors, municipal Boundaries, authorities, or any other officer, shall have power to alter the be changed. boundaries of any township, ward, election precinct, or other local subdivision of any county, city, or town, so as to change the boundaries of any Assembly District as defined in this Act. SEC. 84. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Repeal of Act are hereby repealed. CHAPTER XLVIII. An Act to repeal an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act to regulate the practice of pharmacy in the City and County of San Francisco," passed March 28, A. D. 1872, and passed by the State Legislature February 3, A. D. 1876. [Approved March 13, 1883.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and conflicting Acts. Pharmacy SECTION 1. An Act entitled an Act to amend an Act Repeal of entitled an Act to regulate the practice of pharmacy in the Act. City and County of San Francisco, passed February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. This Act to take effect immediately after its passage. CHAPTER XLIX. An Act to provide for the organization, incorporation, and government of municipal corporations. [Approved March 13, 1883.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and CHAPTER I. ORGANIZATION OF MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. SECTION 1. Any portion of a county containing not less than five hundred inhabitants, and not incorporated as a may incor porate. City or town municipal corporation, may become incorporated under the provisions of this Act, and when so incorporated, shall have the powers conferred, or that may be hereafter conferred by law upon municipal corporations of the class to which the same may belong. Steps to be taken. Election; how conducted. SEC. 2. A petition shall first be presented to the Board of Supervisors of such county, signed by at least one hundred qualified electors of the county, residents within the limits of such proposed corporation, which petition shall set forth and particularly describe the proposed boundaries of such corporation, and state the number of inhabitants therein as nearly as may be, and shall pray that the same may be incorporated under the provisions of this Act. Such petition shall be presented at a regular meeting of such Board, and shall be published for at least two weeks before the time at which the same is to be presented, in some newspaper printed and published in such county, together with a notice stating the time of the meeting at which the same will be presented. When such petition is presented, the Board of Supervisors shall hear the same, and may adjourn such hearing from time to time, not exceeding two months in all; and, on the final hearing, shall make such changes in the proposed boundaries as they may find to be proper, and shall establish and define such boundaries, and shall ascertain and determine how many inhabitants reside within such boundaries; provided, that any changes made by said Board of Supervisors shall not include any territory outside the boundaries described in such petition. They shall then give notice of an election to be held in such proposed corporation, for the purpose of determining whether the same shall become incorporated. Such notice shall particularly describe the boundaries so established, and shall state the name of such proposed corporation, and the number of inhabitants so ascertained to reside therein, and the same shall be published for at least two weeks prior to such election in a newspaper printed and published within such boundaries, or posted, for the same period, in at least four public places therein. Such notice shall require the voters to cast ballots which shall contain the words "For incorporation," or "Against incorporation," or words equivalent thereto; and also the names of persons voted for to fill the various elective municipal offices prescribed by law for municipal corporations of the class to which such proposed corporation will belong. SEC. 3. Such election shall be conducted in accordance with the general election laws of the State, and no person shall be entitled to vote thereat unless he shall be a qualified elector of the county, enrolled upon the Great Register thereof, and shall have resided within the limits of such proposed corporation for at least sixty days next preceding such Canvassing election. The Board of Supervisors shall meet on the Monday next succeeding such election, and proceed to canvass the votes cast thereat; and if, upon such canvass, it appear that a majority of the votes cast are for incorporation, the Board shall, by an order entered upon their minutes, declare such territory duly incorporated as a municipal corporation of the vote. class to which the same shall belong, under the name and style of the City (or Town, as the case may be), of (nam tion, how cated. ing it), and shall declare the persons receiving, respectively, the highest number of votes for such several offices, to be duly elected to such offices. Said Board shall cause a copy Incorporaof such order, duly certified, to be filed in the office of the authentiSecretary of State; and from and after the date of such filing, such incorporation shall be deemed complete, and such officers shall be entitled to enter immediately upon the duties of their respective offices, upon qualifying in accordance with law, and shall hold such offices, respectively, only until the next general municipal election to be held in such city or town, and until their successors are elected and qualified. porated city incorporate SEC. 4. The Common Council, Board of Trustees, or other How incorlegislative body of any city and county, city, or town, organ- or town may ized or incorporated prior to the first day of January, eighteen under this hundred and eighty, at twelve o'clock meridian, shall, upon law. receiving a petition therefor, signed by not less than one fifth of the qualified electors of such city and county, city, or town, as shown by the vote cast at the last municipal election held therein, submit to the electors of such city and county, city, or town, at the next general election to be held therein, the question whether such city and county, city, or town, shall become organized under the general laws of the State relating to municipal corporations of the class to which such city and county, city, or town may belong. Notice that such Notice. question will be so submitted shall be given by publication in a newspaper printed and published in such city and county, city, or town; or if there be no newspaper printed and published therein, by printing and posting the same in at least four public places therein, including the place or places where such election is to be held. Such notice shall be so published or posted for at least four weeks prior to such election, and shall also be made a part of the general election notice. Such notice shall distinctly state the proposition to be so submitted, and shall designate the class to which such corporation belongs, and shall invite the electors thereof to vote upon such proposition by placing upon their ballots the words "For reorganization," or "Against reorganization," or words equivalent thereto. The votes so cast shall be can- Election. vassed at the time and in the manner in which the other votes cast at such election are canvassed. If, upon such canvass, a majority of all the electors voting at such election shall be found to have voted for such reorganization, the said Council, Board, or other legislative body shall, by an order entered upon their minutes, cause their clerk, or other officer performing the duties of clerk, to make and transmit Certificate, to the Secretary of State a certified abstract of such vote; which abstract shall show the whole number of electors voting at such election, the number of votes cast for reorganization, and the number of votes cast against reorganization. Said Council, Board, or other legislative body shall Election of immediately thereafter call a special election for the election of the officers required by law to be elected in corporations of the class to which such city and county, city, or town shall where sent. officers. |