Form of certificate of register. Form of cer tificate of doubtful names. Doubtful persons notified. Register subject to certain changes. purpose of making the return of doubtful names on the registers, and also blank certificates, and all other necessary things for said purpose. SEC. 25. The certificate to be attached to the precinct register shall be substantially in the following form, to wit: We, the undersigned, Inspectors and Judges of Election forming the Board of Precinct Registration for the Precinct of the Ward, of the City and County of San Francisco, do jointly and severally certify that on the day of, 18, we met and organized as such Board, at the place appointed by law for the holding thereof in said precinct. That the precinct register was delivered to us by -, Esquire, Registrar of Voters for said city and county, containing at the time of its delivery to us the names of (stating number) voters. That we have examined and inquired into said list to the best of our ability, and have noted all doubtful registration thereon. We also certify that we sat as a Board of Precinct Registration at said place, -, from the - day of till the day of 18-, and have admitted to registration (showing number) citizens, whose names and other matters of qualification will appear upon the foregoing register, and that the whole number of qualified voters upon said register is (number) SEC. 26. The certificate to be annexed to the list of doubtful names shall be substantially in the following form to wit: We, the undersigned, composing the Board of Precinct Registration for the Precinct of the Ward, of the City and County of San Francisco, hereby certify that the accompanying list shows all the names and other matters of qualification of voters upon the precinct register for said precinct about whose right to registration we entertain a reasonable doubt, together with a statement of the cause or grounds for such doubts. Dated, San Francisco, 18-. SEC. 27. It shall be the duty of the Registrar to forthwith notify all persons certified as doubtful, of said fact, and to cite them before the Board of Election Commissioners, as provided in section six of this Act, in cases where the Registrar has reason to believe persons have been improperly registered, and the same proceedings shall be had as to citation and cancellation as provided for in said section. SEC. 28. Fifteen days before a general election all registration or enrollment of voters shall cease, and the precinct registers as they stand shall be the precinct registers for said ensuing election, and until the next general election, subject only to changes in the following cases: I. All that for any reason are illegally on the precinct register shall be canceled. II. Any name that has been once lawfully on the precinct register so as to entitle the person to vote at said ensuing election, and which has been by fraud, mistake, or otherwise improperly removed or canceled, may be restored, on proper evidence thereof III. Any legal voter who applied in time for enrollment on a precinct register, and through any fault or neglect of the Registrar, or Board of Precinct Registration, or for want of time on the last day, he having duly applied on said day, has his name left off, may have the same put on afterward, on showing that he applied in time, and that it was through no fault or neglect of his own that it was left off. persons. Any voter entitled to have his name upon the precinct Enrollment register under the terms of any of the three preceding subdi- of certain visions, and no others, may have the same placed upon the supplementary register provided for in the next section within five days from the time herein provided for the cessation of enrollment on the precinct register. Any person who does not so apply within said time shall not be enrolled on the precinct register for said election; provided, that nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent any lawful changes, additions, and supplements to said precinct registers after the general election and prior to any special election thereafter to be made under the regulations fixed by the Board of Election Commissioners, and to be used at other than general elections. SEC. 29. As soon as the Registrar shall receive the pre- Printing of cinct register from any Board of Precinct Registration he registers. shall proceed with the greatest diligence to cause said precinct register to be printed, and the same shall be printed and copies of them posted in his office for public inspection within three days. He shall also proceed by means of clerks Suppleand other assistants, to be provided by the Board of Election mental list. Commissioners, to ascertain by inquiry and examination the correctness of said precinct registers, and to cancel all names not legally thereon, and shall prepare a supplemental list for each precinct showing the cancellations and additions to the regular list made after the publication of the same, which supplemental list shall be printed and posted in like manner five days before the election, after which no changes shall be made; provided, that all cancellations and additions to the registers made by the Registrar shall be subject to the approval of the Board of Election Commissioners. In printing precinct registers each letter of the alphabet shall be commenced upon a new or separate page, and blank pages to a sufficient and proper number shall be left with printed headings only so as to allow for such additional names as are authorized by law to be written in by the Registrar supplementary to the printed names. enrollment. SEC. 30. Not less than ten days before the day for the Notice of exsitting of the Boards of Precinct Registration the Registrar piration of shall cause an advertisement to be printed for ten consecutive days in three daily morning and three daily evening Renewal of (including the official paper) newspapers published in said city and county, giving notice to the voters of said city and county, that the time for the enrollment of voters on the precinct registers will expire on a certain day, naming the day, fixed in this Act for the last day of registration, and inviting them to present themselves for registration at the place of the meeting of said Boards, which shall be named, within the time, under penalty of being debarred the privilege of voting at such election. Such notice shall specify the day upon. which the precinct registration by the Board of Precinct Registration shall commence, and also the day upon which it is to end. SEC. 31. Any elector who has been legally registered in registration, the precinct register, provided he has not changed his residence or otherwise lost his right to vote in his precinct, shall not be required to renew such registration until the making up as herein provided of the precinct register for the next ensuing general election, after the election for which such registration was made, but may vote in such precinct at any election taking place before such general election. The precinct registers shall be printed in sufficient numbers to allow for their being used at all the elections likely to occur before the next general election after the one then for which the registration is made, and all necessary changes or additional names shall be noted upon the register for each special election thereafter, or added in supplements thereto, conformatory so far as the same is applicable to the provisions of the law governing the making of the general election register. The Board of Election Commissioners are hereby empowered to make rules governing such supplemental registration for special elections. The Board is also empowered to provide for and regulate all special elections occurring before the making of the first set of precinct registers under this Act, and for such elections the ward registers shall be used in the precincts, subject to such rules and regulations as the Board of Election Commissioners shall establish. Power of Registrar to procure SEC. 32. The Registrar of Voters shall procure rooms or rooms, etc. places both for the sitting of the Board of Precinct Registration as well as for polling places, subject to the approval of the Board of Election Commissioners both as to location and cost. SEC. 33. All provisions for carrying out the registration. and election laws in said City and County of San Francisco shall be made by the Board of Election Commissioners, and demands on the treasury authorized or allowed by them for such purposes shall have the same force and effect as if authorized or allowed by the Board of Supervisors. SEC. 34. All of the provisions of the Political Code touching the registration and qualification of voters and the method of calling, holding, and conducting elections in force in said city and county at the passage of this Act, shall continue in force therein, so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions hereof. SEC. 35. This Act takes effect from and after its passage. CHAP. CCLIII.—An Act to incorporate the Town of Anaheim. The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and CORPORATE NAME. SECTION 1. The people residing within the boundaries of Town of that tract of land in Anaheim Township, in Los Angeles Anaheim. County, described in section two of this Act, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the Town of Anaheim, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued in all Courts and in all actions whatsoever, and shall have and use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure, and may purchase, receive, hold, and enjoy real and personal property and sell and dispose of the same for the common benefit, subject to the provisions and limitations of this Act, and in no other way whatsoever. SEC. 2. Beginning at the northeast corner of the original Boundaries. purchase of Outiveras, being the northeast corner formed by the intersection of North and East Streets; thence on a line along the north boundary of North Street and North Street projected until it intersects a north and south line drawn through the center of sections nine and sixteen of township four S., range ten west, as now established; then along the said line southerly, until it intersects the south line of section sixteen, same township and range, being southwest corner of Anaheim extension; thence east along south boundary of Anaheim extension to Walnut Street; thence north along east boundary of Walnut Street to southwest corner of lot thirty-one; thence along south boundary line of lot thirty-one and along the south boundary of a two hundred and thirty-three-acre tract of land sold by Juan P. Outiveras to Hansen and others, now owned by B. Dryfus, John P. Zeyn, S. A. Sheffield and others, to the southeast corner of said tract; thence northerly to the southeast corner of the original Anaheim tract; thence along east boundary line of East Street to point of beginning. OFFICERS AND ELECTIONS. ment. SEC. 3. The government of said town shall be vested in a GovernBoard of Trustees, to consist of five members, an Assessor, Clerk, Marshal, Treasurer, and Justice of the Peace. ELECTION. SEC. 4. All elections held under the provisions of this Act Elections. shall be in accordance with the General Election Laws of this State. All the duties of an Election Board, which are or may be prescribed by the Statutes of the State regulating and governing elections, shall be performed by the Board of Election of said town, who shall be appointed by the Board of Trus Election of officers. Meeting of Duties and powers of Trustees. tees of said town, and have the same power as a Board of Election under the general laws of the State. Any elector of the county who, at the time of the election, and for thirty days prior thereto, has resided in said town, and whose name is upon the Great Register of said county, shall be entitled to vote, but no poll list is required to be made of the voters of said town. When the returns shall have been completed they shall be sealed and delivered by the Board of Election to the Town Clerk, who shall safely keep the same, not allowing any person to open the said returns, and deliver them to the Board of Trustees, at their meeting, on the first Wednesday subsequent to the election. The Board of Trustees shall meet on the first Wednesday subsequent to the election, and duly canvass the election returns in the manner prescribed by the General Election Laws of the State, declare the result, and direct the Town Clerk to issue certificates of election to the persons elected. ELECTION OF OFFICERS. SEC. 5. Said Trustees, Assessor, Clerk, Marshal, Treasurer, and Justice of the Peace, shall be elected by the qualified electors of said town on the last Monday of April of each year, and shall enter upon their duties upon the first succeeding Monday thereafter, and they shall hold their offices for one year and until their successors are elected and qualified. MEETINGS OF TRUSTEES. SEC. 6. The Board of Trustees shall meet on the first Monday after their election, qualify, and choose a President from their number. The time and place of holding their stated meetings shall be as provided by ordinance, and they may be convened by the President at any time by a written notice delivered to each member, and all meetings of the Board shall be within the corporate limits of the town, and shall be public. In case the Clerk shall not be present, the President may appoint one of their number as Clerk pro tem. SEC. 7. At the meetings of the Board a majority of the Trustees shall constitute a quorum to do business. A smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as the Board previously by ordinance may have prescribed. DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. SEC. 8. The Board of Trustees shall judge of the qualification of their own members and of all election returns, and determine contested elections of all town officers. They may establish rules for their own proceedings, punish any member or other person for disorderly behavior in their presence. They shall keep a journal of their proceedings, and at the desire of any member shall cause the ayes and |