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Home My WebLink AboutORD NO 130 An Ordinance providing for the issuing of Election Proclamation and Notice'of the Sp.ecia'~ Election. ~to be' held in the City.of Bakersfield, on the Tw~"."Tifth day' of February, Nineteen Hundred and Eight, for the pl~rpose of deten~.~ining the QUestion of Bakersfield, shall.be. consolidated into.' 'on'e Mtm!.cipal Corporation~ for the appointing of Boards of Election and fixing their compensation; for designating the place in each Election Precinct for holding .said Special Election; for the publishing of Notice of such Special Election, and for posting the-same; for the pUblishing of a Notice of the places designated for the. holding Of said Special Election in eac~ precinct: t°gether with .' ' the names of the Boards of Election, and for posting the sa~. e;.' pre.. viding also for the. forms of ballots to be used at sucB,,Special Election; for the Mailing of mma~ Sample" Ballots to. each qualified Elector together ·with a Notice of the Place of holding such Special Election in the respective precinmts~ The Board of Trustees of the 0ity of Bakersfield' do'ordain· as follows~ Section 1. The City Clerk shall cause a No~ice of Election and Proclamation to be published in the Bakersfield Californian', and in each of the' dail~ issues 'thereof, of the Special ElectiOn · to be held in the Ci-.ty of Bakersfield.. ~.~1. the 25th day of Peb-.. ruary, 1'908, for the purpose of determining whether the two Municipal Oorporations of the Town of Kern, and the City of Bakersfield, shall be consolidated :~'o. one'Municipal corpor~t~i.~'rr~- .......... said Notice of Election and Proclamatio~ shall be substantially in the following form: NOTICE OF ELECTION AND PROOLANATION. TO ALL WttON IT NAY OONOERN: KNOW YE. THAT pursuant to' .law and to the order of the · Board of Trustees of the City of Bakersfield, County of Kern, State of California, duly s':mde and entered upon its minutes on the SOth clay of December, 1907, Notice is hereby given, that a Special "'-?'.. Election will be held in the maid City of Bakersfield, said County and State aforesaid on the first Tuesday after the last Monday in the Month of February. A.D. 1908. The' said Tuesday being the twenty-fifth d.~,y of said Month , the said Special Election is called for the purpose of deterimining whether the two municipal Corporations, to-wit:- the Town of Kern, a city of the sixth class and the City of Bakersfield, a city of the fifth class, shall be consolidated into one Municipal Corporation. The name of ~:uch proposed new corporation shall be City o~ Bakersfield and said purposed new corporation will belong to the cities of the fourth class. And the qualified electors within the corporate limits of the ~ow City of Bakersfield, ~re, and each of them is hereby invited to vote upon said proposition of such Special Election to be held on said twenty-fifth day of February, A. D. i~OS, in said City of Bakersfield, by placing upon their ballots, the words FOR CONSOLIDATION or AGAINST CONSOLIDATION or words equivalent th ere to. By order of the Board of City e~g Trustees of the City of Bakersfield, County of Kemm, State of California, this~ day of. January.,, A. D. 1908. So. id Notice shall be signed by the President of the Board of Oity Trustees and by th,; City Olerk, and the Oity Clerk shall ca~se the seal of said ~it7 to be attached thereto and shall cause said Notice of Election and Proclamation to be published for not less than four weeks prior to the day of said Special Election. Sec t ion 2. The Election Precincts which existed for the last General Election in said. City are hereby designated as the Election Precincts for this Special Election and the places herein named shall be the places in each~said princinct~in which said Sp.'~cial Election shall be held and the fol!o~ing named percons ere hereby appointed to constitute the Boards of Election of said Special Election of the various Precincts hereinafter n~ned to-wit :- PREOINOT NO. 1 Election must be held at the Harness Shop. of the Kern COunt7 Land Company at the North East Corner of "O" and 2,0th streets, The Board of Election of said precinct shall be, Inspectors, Prank N. Sawyer, Norman G. Bastian, Judges, George W. Whitaker, H. P. Gregory. Tally Clerks, Joseph Haggard and Lyman W. Lowell Ballot Clerks,Frank E. Seagraves and Edward Allen Keith. PRE~INOT NO. 2. Election must be held at the store of A. F. Stoner at the South West Corner of Che~ter Avenue and l~th street, The Board of Election of said precinct shall be, Inspectors, J.W. Crossland, J. B. H~nt, Judges, Charles A. Maul and Henry F. Condict. Tally Clerks, Rodney E. Farnum and Charles S. Heroney. Ballot Clerks,Nick Britz and Paul Galtes. PRECINCT. NO. S. .':'" Election n~.st be held at the Fire Engine House. The Board of Election of said' precinct shall be Inspectors, Edwin L. Willow and Peter Kosel. Judges, George Irwin and Alfred Rupp. Tally Clerks, Harry VI. McCray and John Carroll. Ballot Clel~$ Tho:'aas O'Toole and J. J. Goodwin. PRECINCT No. 4. Election ~u. st be held at the Second-Hand Store of White and Bro:vn, corner of Chester Avenue and 1Sth street. The Bo~rd of Election of said precinct shall be, Inspectors, A. F. Stoner and Pete Wilson. Judges, Jacob ~Talter and Ootthold Paehlig. Tally Olerks, Henry F. Fowler and Charles Bickerdike. Ballot Clerks, R. J. ~ite ~.nd Fermin Silva. PREOINOT NO. §. Election must be held at the rear building of the Tenth street School Building on ~I" street. The Board of Election of said precinct shall be, Inspectors, James E. Bolinder and Thomas A. Netcalf. Judges, ~,i. A. Duncan and F. H. Reynolds. Tally Clerks, Ernest H. ~,.~hite and ~yron Holmes. Ballot Clerks, Arthur C. Tupman and Albert Weedall. PRECINOT. NO. 6. Election must be held at the Gas Works on the North side of 20th street between ,'P,, and ,'Q" streets. The Board of Election of said precinct shall be, (4.) Inspectors, ;'~:. J. Weems and Calvin Dunlap. Judges, E. 0'Donnell and Ezra Rehfeld. Tally Clerks, W~.lter J. tfattson and T. A. Tracy. Ballot Clerks, Charles Spltler and A. D. Wl~itemo~e. P~EOINCT N0. ?. Election must be held at the old City Hall on 1.Tall Street between Chester Avenue and "I" Street. . The Board of Election of sal~ precinct shall be, In,--,pectors, D. Le~oy Hoenshell and Guy Rogers. 'i. ! Judges, ~red J Ecl~hoff and ~ .~ A. L indberg Tally Clerks, C!~ude R. Blodget and Clyde S. Garfield. Ballot Clerks, J. F. C. Reich and Clarence Wilson. Section S. ~he said Special Election Officers constituting the several Boards of Elections, shall each receive as compen- sation for their services on said Board the sun~ of $~.00. Sect ion ~. The City Clerk shall cause the nznes of such Special Election Boo~rds, together with the places herein named as the places where said Special Election must be held in each said Election Precincts, to be published in the Bakersfield Californian, and in each of the daily issues for at least four ~e~ks prior to the day of said Special Election, and he shall also post ~t each of tho said Election places in each of said Election precincts a copy of said publication together with a copy of the Election Notice ~ud Proclamation as set for~ in Section 1 of this 0rdin~nce at least ten days prior to the day of s~id Special Election. Section 5. The Cit7 Clerk shall cause to have printed ballots, vrhich said ballots shall be in the following forM. TO VOTE, STA].~ A GROSS (X) IN THE SQUARE OPPOSITE THE PRO- PROPOSITION INDIOATING YOUR 1 FOR CONSOLIDATION 2. AGAINST CONSOL~DATION in all other respects the ballot shall be in compliance with section 1197 of the Political Code of this State. Sect ion 6 The City Clerk shall mail a sample ballot to each qualified elector within the corporate limits of the City at least ten days before thc day of said Special Election. Section 7. .,. The Oity Olerk shall cause to have printed, and mailed to each qualified elector within the corporate limits of said Olty, a notice of the day of said special election together with the nul.~ber of the eBBction precinct to Which said qualified elector belongs, and a~so the place in said precinct where sai~ special election Is to be held~ ~ Passed this~_~(day of January, A. D. 1~08 by the roi!owe, nE vote. AB SEN. _ · ~~--~'~'~ ~-'~'k. o ~ '-f th CI~POM Of Bakersfield,~ . ' · "- I