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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 a spe-
eial municipal election will be held 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 system or
plan of the cost of siXty-tive thousand dol
city; and for the purpose also of submit
ing 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:
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-
dnce 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.
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 or drain on S
street from Front to Seventeenth streets
to be constructed of brick as follows:
On said S street, from Front to Fifth
streets, said sewer or drain to be 200
lineal feet and six feet in diameter; on said
street, from Fifth to Seventh streets, TO
be 500 lineal feet and five and one-half feet
IN diameter; on said street, from Seventh
TO Ninth streets, to be 500 lineal feet and
HVe 1eet IN diameter; on said street,
from Ninth to Thirteenth streets, to be
i,0o0 hneal feet and four and one-half feet
III diameter; on said > street, from Thlr-
teenth TO seventeenth streets, to be 1000
lineal feet and four feet in diameter; and
at the corner of and Front streets. at
the terminus of said drain or sewer, a
stump shall be constructed and a pumping
plant erected OF sufficient capacity to pump
all OF the water and matter conveyed by
Sald lnterceptlnS sewer or drain to the said
stump The estima ted cost of said plant is
siXty-flve thousand dollars, and in the cost
OIL the construction OF said work Will be-
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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 viii be printed in relation to said
plan the following:
Yes
For the plan of sewerage or drainage,
No"
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 it's ratitica-
ton snail 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
$1,000
Those electors voting that the money re-
quired to carry out said plan shall be
raised by the issuance of bonds shall mark
an \ 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 Y 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
Tor 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 y 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 Sa1G pIdn or system ana VIII enter INTO
contracts in relation to the same: and
the said plan or system of drainage or
sewerage viii 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.
II 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
shall 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 sXty-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 or system of
drainage or sewerage and the construc-
ton of the same; the rate of interest of
said bonds shall be AZ per cent. per an
mum, payable seni-annually
The polls will be open at sunrise on the
morning of said August IL, 1896 and re-
main open until I 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-
tors-Thomas Harper, a. j. Rhoads.
b. Nielsen, w. A. Anderson,
Clerks-I j. Simmons, Max Ginsberg. Bal
mansky.
SECOND WARD.
Polling place, No. 1881 Second street
Inspectors-W. E. Kent, E. Coney Judges
}. G.. Black, James Friel. Clerks-John
William Bening. Ballot Clerks
a. Brewer, T. c. May.
THIRD WARD.
Polling place Armory Hail. Sixth and 7.
streets Inspectors-John King Michael
Morley Judges-Charles A. Steinmetz, W.
r. Campbell. Clerks. w. Stafford. NJ j.
Keegan. Ballot Clerks-M. j. Bannon,
Joseph Scott.
FOURTH WARD
Polling place, Meister's Carriage Shop.
Ninth street, between l and streets In
spectors-D. McDougan, F. w Day.
Flaherty, d. ellis Clerks
George Z. Boyd, G. Meister Ballot
Clerks-Thomas Carroll, Hiram Cook
FIFTH WARD.
Polling place, northwest corner Thir-
teenth and streets. Inspectors-J. J.
Bauer, Il. II. Hawley. Judges-G. H.
Richie, j. NJ. Woods. Clerks-S. l. Hop
kins, A. l.. Tryon. Ballot Clerks-J. i.
Stafford, N. ]. Sligor.
SIXTH WARD.
Polling place, southwest corner Ninth
and n streets. Inspectors-H. G. Chapman
Henry Meyer. Judges-W. H. Deyine
Thomas Byrne. ClerkS-George Johnson
NJ Hanrahan Ballot Clerks-A Dillon. n
Patterson.
SEVENTH WARD.