The Journal of the Senate During the ... Session of the Legislature of the State of California

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The Legislature, 1905

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Page 322 - The signatures to the petition need not all be appended to one paper, but each signer shall add to his signature his place of residence, giving the street and number. One of the signers of each such paper shall make oath before an officer competent to administer oaths that the statements therein made are true...
Page 209 - At any meeting of the board of trustees a majority of the trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a less number may adjourn from time to time...
Page 323 - Within ten days from the date of filing such petition the city clerk shall examine, and from the voter's register ascertain whether or not said petition is signed by the requisite number of qualified electors, and, if necessary, the council shall .allow him extra help for that purpose ; and he shall attach to said petition his certificate, showing the result of said examination.
Page 318 - The clerk shall, within ten days after such amendment, make like examination of the amended petition, and if his certificate shall show the same to be insufficient, it shall be returned to the person filing the same; without prejudice, however, to the filing of a new petition to the same effect.
Page 154 - And the President is hereby authorized to invite each and all the States to provide and furnish statues, in marble] or [bronze, not exceeding two in number for each State, of deceased persons who have been citizens thereof, and illustrious for their historic renown or for distinguished civic or military services such as each State may deem to be worthy of this national commemoration...
Page 577 - An act to provide for the organization and government of irrigation districts, and to provide for the acquisition or construction thereby of works for the irrigation of lands embraced within such districts, and, also, to provide for the distribution of water for irrigation purposes," approved March thirty-one, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, may be dissolved in the manner hereinafter provided.
Page 119 - At twelve o'clock, meridian, of the day following that on which proceedings are required to take place, as aforesaid, the members of the two houses shall convene in joint assembly and the journal of each house shall then be read, and if the same person shall have received a majority ' of all the votes in each house, such person shall be declared duly elected senator...
Page 371 - ... shall place his name on the official ballot without nomination. In any such removal election, the candidate receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected. At such election if some other person than the incumbent receives the highest number of votes the incumbent shall thereupon be deemed removed from the office upon qualification of his successor.
Page 319 - The holder of any elective office may be removed at any time by the electors qualified to vote for a successor of such incumbent. The procedure to effect the removal of an incumbent of an elective office shall be as follows: A petition signed by...
Page 564 - No person shall, on account of sex, be disqualified from entering upon or pursuing any lawful business, vocation, or profession.

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