Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-12-04
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
SCHOOL ELECTION.

a Very Light Vote Polled-Three Repub-
Icans and One American Elected.
The election for four School Directors,
one from each ward, took place in this city
yesterday. But little interest was taken
the tickets put up by the politicians not
pleasing people generally, many saying
there was no choice and refused to 90 to
the polls. The total vote was only l, ,433
out of total registration of nearly 1000
The polls closed at 4:4l P. M, although
parties at each polling place protested
against such action.
The last Legislature passed the following
law, which was approved March 10, 1887:
Section l. Section ll6O of the Political Code
is hereby amended to read as follows: ll6O-
The polls must be opened at 6 o'clock on the
morning of the day of election, ana must be
kept opea until Z o'clock on the evening of the
same day, when the polls shall be closed.
The Judges of the Election Boards ie-
nored the statute, when the election proc
lamation of Auditor Mckee was consulted.
which said, Polls will open at O'Clock
and close at sundown." 1t did not say
A. NJ, but simply six o'clock The Election
Boards took it for granted that he meant
morning, and they were on hand bright
and early in the day. What does he mean
ny SuuuOWL ne CdlPnUdIS consulted
said sunset took place at 4:39, ard polls
were closed accordingly. Sacramento is
getting to be big town, as several degrees
of longitude seemed to separate some of
the polling places. Nine minutes between
the closing of the polls of the Fourth and
Second Wards would indicate that the Sec
ond Ward polls were some go miles west
of the Fourth. This is another proof of
the effects of our glorious climate.
a IL
OF Trustees never ordered the polls closed
at sunset in contravention of law; the
officers of the Election Boards were so
notified, but they got there just the same,
and there is great kicking through the CITY
especially among railroad employees, who
were thus shut off from voting II is said
the election will be protested. and citizens
last night were offering to bet that the
Courts would hold the election to be illegal.
The reasons they give are the plain
wording of the law, and that no citizens
legally entitled to vote can be thus de-
prived of their privilege, and still the result
be held legal. Also that the Supreme
Court, in the case of the People vs. Scale,
in 81 Cal. Rep, decided as follows, under
the old election law, which differs from the
present only in the hours named:
The notice to be published of an election to be
held for the imposition of tax must state the
time at which the election will be held, and if
1t states that the polls will be open between the
hours OF Il and P. NJ. ii is Illegal. The giving of
the prescribed notice is material, and the time
at which the election is to be held is required to
be stated in the notice. The election must be
held as nearly as practicable in conformity with
the general election law. It is essential that
neither the notice of election or any other pro-
Ceedings controvene the provisions of the gen
eral election laws. In this case the notice was
to the effect that the polls would be open only
between the hours of o'clock Pm. and clock
p. NJ and in point of fact the polls were kept
open only between those hours, and in this i'm
portant respect the election, as held was not in
conformity with the general election laws, for
that requires the polls to be open "at one hour
after sunrise on the morning of the election"
and to be kept open until sunset.
The vote was as follows:
First Ward-A. J. Senate (R.), 201; H.
b. Nielsen D.), Sc; W. r. Walters (A.). 10;
scattering l. Total vote of the ward 307
Second Ward-Joseph Hopley (R), 100;
J. N. Payne 3D., 15S. w. A. Caswell (A.),
A Total vote of the ward 392.
Third Ward-R. J. Van Voorhies (R),
134; A. G. Tufts (A.), 1877; II. L. Nichols
CD, As; scattering l. Total vote of the
ward 800.
Fourth Ward-H. c. Chapman (R.), 224;
W. A. DaShiells (D.) 36; B. II. Covell CA
152; scattering 2. Total vote of the ward
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