The record-union., 1896-07-28
OFFICIAL
Election Proclamation
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
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City of Sacramento, July 6, 1896.
The Board of Trustees of the city OF
sacramento hereby give notice that a spe-
clal municipal election will be held in the
city of Sacramento on TUESDAY, the 11th
day of August, 1896, for the purpose OF
submitting for ratification to the electors
or said city of Sacramento a system or
plan of the cost of sixty-five thousand dol
lars for sewerage and drainage of said
city; and for the purpose also of submit
ting TO said electors, If such plan be
adopted or ratified by them, the question
or whether the money required to carry
out the said plan shall be raised by the
issuance of bonds or by direct taxation;
and, also, If it 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
ized TO issue for that purpose bonds OF the
description hereinafter contained.
The following is a description of the plan
OF sewerage or drainage to be voted on by
said electors, to wit
A main intersecting sewer OF drain on 3
street from Front to Seventeenth streets
| to be constructed of brick as follows:
] on said 5 street, from Front to Fifth
streets, said sewer or drain to be LOO
nneal feet and six feet in diameter; on said
S street, from Fifth to Seventh streets to
be 800 lineal feet and five and one-half feet
In diameter, on said street, from Seventh
10 Ninth streets, to be 500 lineal feet and
nmve m feet IN diameter; on said s street,
from Ninth to Thirteenth streets, to be
i,ooU hneal feet and four and one-haf feet
in diameter; on said street from Thir-
teenth to Seventeenth streets, to be 1900
Aneal 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 a pumping
pant erected OF Sufnclent capacity to pump
all OF the water and matter conveyed by
SAID lntercepting sewer or drain to the said
sump The estimated cost of said plant is
slXty-hve 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
plan the following:
For the plan Of sewerage or drainage.
Yes
For the plan of sewerage or drainage,
No."
Those electors voting for said plan and
Tor the ratlf1cation of the same shall mark
an opposite the word Yes" and those
voting against said plan and its ratifica
ton 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
OF drainage or sewerage by issuance of
For raising money to carry out the plan
OF drainage or sewerage by direct taxa
Those electors voting that the money re-
qulred 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
or sewerage by issuance of bonds; and
those voting that the money required to
carry out said plan shall be raised by di-
rect taxation shall mark an X opposite
the words, For raising money to carry
out the plan of drainage or sewerage by
direct 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
for said sewer or drain shall mark an X
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"
If 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
the said plan or system and will enter into
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
sewerage shall be ratified by the electors
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
hot hn o-d Of FTrtr- af "a
city will proceed to issue bonds of the fol-
lowing description, to wit: The amount of
said bonds will be sixty-ive 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 or system of
drainage or sewerage and the construc-
ton of the same; the rate of interest OF
said bonds, shall be 41a per cent. per an
mum, payable Semi-annually.
rhe 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.
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-
tors-Thomas Harper, A. ]. Rhoads.
Judges-H. B. Nielsen w. A. Anderson,
Clerks-I. J. Simmons, Max Ginsberg Bal
lot Clerks-James T. McNif, Jacob Ze-
IuduSky.
SECOND WARD.
Polling place, No 1881 Second street
Inspectors-W. E. Kent, E. Coney. Judges
j. G. Black, James Friel. Clerks-John
Schacht, William Bening. Ballot Clerks
A. Brewer, T. c. May.
THIRD WARD.
Polling place. Armory Hall, Sixth and L
streets. Inspectors-John King, Michael
Morley. Judges-Charles A. Steinmetz, ",
r. Campbell. Clerks. w. Stafford, NJ. ].
Keegan Ballot Clerks-M j. Bannon
Joseph Scott.
FOURTH WARD.
Polling place, Meister's Carriage Shop,
Ninth street, between / and ] streets. In
spectors--D. McDougall, F: w. Day
Judges-Peeter ct d Flaherty' D; Gillis Clerks
Clerks-Thomas Carroll. Hiram Cook
FIFTH WARD.
Polling place, northwest corner Thir-
teenth and J streets. Inspectors-J J.
Bauer, R. II. Hawley. Judges-G. H.
kins, A. L. Tryon. Ballot Clerks-J. f.
Stafford, N. ]. Sligor.
SIXTH WARD.
Polling place, southwest corner Ninth
and n streets. Inspectors-H. c. Chipman.
He Henry Meyer; Jgdgss-W T,dggss-H:or H. Dsyine
NJ Hanrahan. Ballot Clerks-A. Dillon, r
SEVENTH WARD.
Polling place, W. H. Hanlons barn,
Welch, Henry Carroll judges. 6. Van
tine. Sr.. James J. Devine. Clerks-Simeon
Brown, H W. Rivett Ballot Clerks
Frank Fleming, Charles Kappman.
EIGHTH WARD.
Polling place. Martins stables, Twen.
Treichler, George W. Nichols. Judges
j. A. Klein, w. D. Lawton. Clerks-Thos.
O'Brien, Lincoln Dwyer. Ballot Clerks