Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-05-25
Terms of County Officers.

The Santa Maria Times says our elec-
tion this year takes place on the first
Tuesday in November, and in addition
to State and Legislative ticket, full
set of county officers, excepting Superior
Judges, will be elected to hold office for
four years. 1t is almost universally un-
derstood that the county officers hold
office for only two years. This is a
popular mistake, as Sec. 4l09 of the Po-
litical Code, as amended, will be found
to read as follows:
The successors of all county officers
Except judicial officers and School Su-
perintendent) who were elected in the
year 1879, under general or special laws,
for two years, shall be elected at the
general election to be held in the year
1880, and shall take office on the first
Monday in March, 1881; and all county
officers Except judicial officers) who
weIe elected in the year 1879 for four
years, shall hold Office until the first
Monday in March, lSS3 At the gen.
eral election to be held in 1882, and at
the general election to be held every
four years thereafter, all county officers
Except judicial officers) shall be elected
and hold office for four years from and
after the first Monday in March next
succeeding their election. Superior
Judges shall be elected at the general
election in 1884 and at the general elec-
ton to be held every six years there
after. Township officers shall be elected
at the general election in 1880, and every
two years thereafter.
This will throw double amount o.
interest into the canvass.-Santa Bar
bara Press.
Our contemporaries, the Santa Bar
bara Press and Santa Maria Times are
both sadly mistaken in the above. The
election is important from the great va
riety of candidates of oil grades who
will come before the people. But the
county officers will be elected for two
and not for four years. To take the
matter out of the domain of doubt for
all time, we reproduce below Mr. Hart
sons amendment, which was approved
March 7, 1881, and which is as follows:
The People of the State of California,
represented in Senate and Assembly,
do enact as follows:
Section l. Section four thousand one
hundred and nine of the Political Code
is amended to read as follows:
4l09. All elective county, city and
county, and township officers, except
Superior Court Judges, Superintendents
of Schools, and Assessors, shall be elect
ed at the general election to be held in
the year eighteen hundred and eighty
two, and at the general to be held every
second year thereafter, and shall take
Office ON the first Monday after the first
day of January next succeeding their
election, and shall hold office for two
years. The years that said officers are
to hold Office are to be computed re-
spectively from and including the first
Monday after the first day of January
of any one year to and excluding the
first Monday after the first day of Janu-
ary of the next succeeding year; pro-
vided, that all Supervisors and Justices
of the Peace shall take office on the first
Monday after the first day of January
next succeeding their election, and shall
hold Office for two years. The years
during which Supervisor and Justice
of the Peace is to hold Office are to bt
computed respectively from and includ
ing the first Monday of January of any
one year to and excluding the first Mon
day of January next succeeding. As
SCISSORS of every county, and of ever,
city and county, shall be elected at tn
general election to be held on the frs
Tuesday after the first Monday in Nov