The record-union., 1896-07-29
OFFICIAL
Election Proclamation
STATE OF CALIFORNIA.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
City of sacramento, July g. 1896.
The Board of Trustees of the city OF
Sacramento hereby give notice that spe-
cial municipal election will be-heiu in the
city Of Sacramento on TUESDAY. the nth
day of August, 1896, for the purpose of
submitting for ratification to the electors
OF said city of Sacramento a system or
plan OF the cost of sixty-hve thousand dol
lars for sewerage and drainage OF said
city; and for the purpose also of submit
tlng to said electors, If such plan be
adopted or ratified by them, the question
OF whether the money required to carry
out the said plan shall be raised by the
issuance of bonds or by direct taxation;
ana, also. If 1t shall be determined at said
election that the money required to carry
out said plan shall be raised by the issu-
ance OF bonds, the question of whether or
not the Board of Trustees shall be author
lzed to issue for that purpose bonds of the
description hereinafter contained.
Ihe following is a description of the plan
OF sewerage or drainage to be voted on by
said electors, to wit:
A main intersecting sewer or drain on S
street from Front to Seventeenth streets
to be constructed of brick, as follows:
On said street, from Front to Fifth
streets, said sewer or drain to be 1.7o0
hneal feet and six feet in diameter; on said
street, from Fifth to Seventh streets, TO
be 800 lineal feet and five ana one-half feet
In diameter; on said street. from Seventh
10 Ninth streets, to be 500 Eneal feet and
nve feet In diameter on said s street.
from Ninth to Thirteenth streets, to be
16SO llneal feet and four and one-half feet
In diameter; on said street, from Thir-
teenth to Seventeenth streets, to be 1900
iineal feet and four feet In diameter: and
at the corner of and Front streets, at
the terminus OF said drain or sewer, a
sump shall be constructed and pumping
plant erected or sufficient capacity to pump
all OF the water and matter conveyed by
said intercepting sewer or drain to the said
sump. The estimated cost of said plant is
slxty-five thousand dollars, and in the cost
OF the construction of said work Will be
expended sixty-five thousand dollars. The
money required to carry out said plan
shall be raised either by the issuance of
bonds or by direct taxation, as the electors
OF said city shall determine
Upon the ballots to be voted at said
election will be printed in relation to said
plan the following:
For the plan of sewerage or drainage,
Yes.'
For the plan of sewerage or drainage
Those electors voting for said plan and
Tor the ratification of the same shall mark
an X opposite the word Yes" and those
voting against said plan and its ratitica-
ton shall mark an x opposite the word
Upon said ballots will also be printed IN
relation to the matter Of raising the money
to carry out said plan the following words,
to wit:
For raising money to carry out the plan
o, OF drainage or sewerage by issuance of
For raising money to carry out the plan
ton.
Those electors voting that the money re-
CURED to carry out said plan shall be
raised by the issuance of bonds shall mark
an X opposite the words, For raising
money TO carry out the plan of drainage
OF or sewerage by issuance of bonds; and
those voting that the money required to
carry out said pi2u SHALL be raised by di-
rect taxation shan mark an X opposite
the words, For raising money to carry
out the plan of drainage or sewerage by
dlrect taxation"
Upon said ballots shall also be printed
the following words in relation to said
bonds, to wit:
For the issuance of bonds to pay for
sewerage and drainage plan. Yes"
For the issuance of bonds TO pay for
sewerage and drainage plan, No"
Those electors voting that the Board of
Trustees shall be authorized to issue bonds
of the description herein contained to pay
Tor said sewer or drain shall mark an Y
opposite the words, For the issuance of
bonds TO pay for sewerage and drainage
plan, Yes and those voting against such
issuance shall mark an X opposite the
words. For the issuance of bonds to pay
for sewerage and drainage plan, No"
II the said plan or system of drainage
| or sewerage shall be ratified by the peo-
pie, and if the electors shall determine
that the money to pay for the same shall
| be raised by direct taxation, then and in
| that case the Board of Trustees of the
| city of Sacramento will create debts and
obligations, without interest, against the
said city for the purpose Of carrying out
contracts in relation to the same; and
the said plan or system of drainage or
sewerage will be paid for by the levy of a
| special tax, in one levy, such tax to be
levied and collected during the fiscal year
first succeeding the said special election.
| If the said plan or system of drainage or
of said city, and the electors of said city
shall determine that bonds be issued for
| the payment of said plan and determine
also that bonds of the description herein
contained shall be issued, then, and in
that case the Board of Trustees of said
city will proceed to issue bonds of the fol-
| lowing description, to wit: The amount OF
said bonds will be sixty-five thousand dol
| lars; the term of years the same shall run
will be twenty years; the object for which
the said bonds shall be issued and in
debtedness thereby incurred will be the
carrying out of the said plan system of
drainage or sewerage and the construc.
said bonds shall be Az per cent. per an
mum, payable semi-annually.
The polls will be open at sunrise on the
morning of said August II, 1896, and re-
main open until O'Clock p. m. of said day.
The following are the precinct polling
place inspectors, judges and clerks of
said election as established and fixed by
the Board of Trustees. to wit:
FIRST WARD.
Polling place, No. 316 street. Inspec-
Judges-H. B. Nielsen, w. A. Anderson,
Clerks-I. ]. Simmons, Max Ginsberg. Bal
lot Clerks-James T. McNiff. Jacob Ze-
mansky.
Polling place, No. 1881 Second street.
InspectorsEW. E. Kent, E. Coney. Judges
j. G. Black, James Friel. Clerks-John
Schacht, William Bening. Ballot Clerks
A. Brewer 7. c. May.
THIRD WARD.
Polling place, Armory Hall, Sixth and l.
streets Inspectors-John King, Michael
Morley. Judges-Charles A. Steinmetz, w.
r Campbell Clerks-J. W. Stafford, M. j.
Keegan Ballot Clerks-M. J. Bannon,
Joseph Scott.
FOURTH WARD.
Polling place. Meister's Carriage Shop
spectors-D. McDougall, F. W. Day
George T. Boyd, c. Meister. Ballot
ClerksSThomas Carroll, Hiram Cook.
FIFTH WARD.
Polling place, northwest corner Thir-
teenth and J streets. Inspectors-J. j.
Bauer. r. H. Hawley. Judges-G. H
Ritchie. j. NJ Woods. Clerks-S. l. Hop
kins. A. L. Tryon. Ballot Clerks-J. T.
Stafford, N. J. Sligor.
SIXTH WARD.
Polling place, southwest corner Ninth
and streets. Inspectors-H. c. Chapman
Henry Meyer. Judges-W H. Devine,
Thomas Byrne. Clerks-George johnson,
M. Hanrahan. Ballot Clerks-A. Dillon, T.
SEVENTH WARD.
Polling place, w. H. Hanlons barn,