The record-union., 1899-08-24
CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETS
PETITION FOR A REPUBLICAN
PRIMARY.
The Delegates Will be Apportioned
to and Elected by
Wards.

| Ihe RepuD1can City Central COM
mittee held a meeting last night at
the rooms of the Chairman, William NJ.
Sims who presided.
| Messrs. Sims. Daroux, Rohrer, Cav
anaugh, Conran, Finn, Meister, Eagan
and Smith were present.
| The report of the special committee
appointed at the last meeting was pre-
sented and is as follows:
| Petition of the Republican party TO
participate in the city primary cleo
tion to be held in the city of Sacra-
mento, State of California, September
| 26, 1899:
To the Board of Trustees of the City
of Sacramento, State OF California: The
| petition and certificate of the Repub-
| lican party respectfully shows:
That the Republican party is a polit-
ical party duly organized and existing,
which at the last general election, prior
to the ensuing primary election, polled
at least 3 per cent. of the entire vote
cast in the city of Sacramento, State
of California.
That the governing committee of said
Republican party in and for said city
of Sacramento is a city committee OIL
which William M. Sims is the duly
elected, qualified and acting Chairman,
and Wilber f. Smith the duly elected
qualified and acting Secretary.
That it is the intention of said party
to hold a City Convention for the pur-
pose of making nominations of candi-
dates for public offices, to be voted for
at the next ensuing general municipal
toIo haf ic To he haI1 lar
November Z, 1899
That the said Republican party re-
quests that place be given it upon
the official primary election ballot.
That said convention shall be COM
posed of 206 delegates, apportioned IN
said city of Sacramento on a basis
numerically of the average vote cast
for the candidates of the Republican
party at the last preceding general
election, as hereinafter more particu-
larly set forth.
That said delegates are to serve in
said City Convention and in any or all
subdivisions of the same for any pur-
pose whatsoever.
That the delegates to said conven-
tion shall be apportioned by wards, up
on a basis of one delegate for each
fifteen votes cast at the said last gem
eral election for the candidates of said
party in each of the wards in said
delegate for a remainder of ten such
votes or over.
That said apportionment is specified
in detail as follows, to wit:
To First Ward are apportioned eight
cen delegates
To Second Ward there are appor-
toned seventeen delegates.
To Third Ward there are apportioned
twenty -four delegates.
To Fourth Ward there are appor-
toned thirty-one delegates.
To Fifth Ward there are apportioned
forty delegates.
To Sixth Ward there are apportioned
thirty-one delegates.
To Seventh Ward there are appor
toned thirty-seven delegates.
To Eighth Ward there are appor-
toned thirty-five delegates.
To Ninth Ward there are appor-
toned twenty-three delegates.
That this writing or petition is au-
thenticated by the proper officers of
the party committee.
Wherefore, The said Republican par
ty requests your honorable board to
give it place upon the official pri-
mary election ballot, to be used at the
primary election to be held in said city
of Sacramento on the Goth day of Sep
tember. 1899.
The City Committee of the Repub-
lican party.