Tombstone epitaph., 1890-04-05
DISIyCORPORATION.
The Committee Present Their Petition and It
 k Granted.

On Tuesday last the committee of citizens who are agitating for the dis incorporation of the city of Tomb stone, and to reincOrporate under what is known as the Blinn act, pre- sented their petition to the Board of Supervisors asking that an election be ordered as provided by law.
 The meeting was opened at p. m. by Chairman B. $. Coffiman, full Board being present, as also number of the committe and citizens who are interested. MT. Coffman read the law and exhibited the petition, which was hled, and the Chairman then an nOunced that the Board was prepared to hear arguments for and against the granting of the petition.
 Allen R. English then arose and ad- dressed the Board. He argued against granting the prayer of the petitioners and gave as his reasons that the peti- tion was not according to law, claim ing that 1t did not contain a sufficient number of names and that 1t was not right on the part of few men to try and legislate out of office men who had been elected by the people at large. Mr. English contended that the Board should act in accordance with the strict letter of the law, and not al- low any other consideration to in huence them ill their decision.
 R. w Wood followed and spoke at some length Tn favor of granting the petition. He showed, according to his figures, that there were only 243 people in town who are qualified to vote at the election asked for, and as a petition containing 129 names had been presented the prayer of the peti- tioners should be granted. MT. Wood read section from the statutes pro- viding that a liberal construction should be given to all laws, and said that the committee did not want law, but did want what he claimed was justice.
 c. s. Clark addressed the Board, claiming that they had the right to take judicial notice of everything in connection with the subject.
 A general discussion then followed as to the qualifications of an elector under the law. District Attorney S ;ilwell gave it as his opinion that the Board should consult the tax roll only as to property qualifications, and that the Board had no right to construe law, their duty being to enforce 1t. MT. Stilwell also said that it was a bad law, and that he did not think it was right to legislate men out of office.
 MT. English offered to show that the petit n, according to the tax roll, was insufficient, but the Board declined to investigate, taking for granted all the statements of the citizens committee.
 Supervisor Montgomery expressed himself as being in favor of granting the petition, saying that the fight had been brewing for some time and he was in favor of letting the two sides fight it out.
 Supervisor White expressed himself in about the same manner, but in sisted that the committee should guarantee the county against any of the expenses of the election.
 After some hesitation MT. Wood, who was the only member of the committee then left in the room, gave his personal guarantee that no ex- pense should accrue to the county CT any member of the Board, after which the Board unanimously granted the prayer of the petition.
 MT. English then rendered the money for certified copy of the pro- ceedings, after which the meeting ad- journed.