Imperial Valley press., 1908-03-21
NOTICE OF ELECTION.


 below described on Monday, the 9th day of April, 1908, for the purpose of determining whether said territory shall become incorporated as a muni- cipal corporation of the sixth class by the name of the City of El Centro, un der and by virtue of the provisions of the Municipal Corporation Bill of the State of California, entitled An Act to provide for the organization, incorpor ation and government of municipal corporations" approved March IS, 1883, and acts amendatory thereto.
 I he boundaries of said proposed cor poration as defined and established by the Board of Supervisors of Imperial County, California, are as follows, to- wit:
 Beginning at the Southwest corner to Section 5, Township .16 South, Range IA East S. B. M, and running thence East two miles to Southeast corner of Section in said Township; thence North one and one-half miles; thence West two miles, and thence South one and one-half miles to place of beginning, and situate in El Centro Judicial Township, Imperial County, California.
 And the number of inhabitants re- siding in said territory has been as certained and determined by the said Board of Supervisors to be and is 700.
 The voters are required to cast bal lots which shall contain the words, For Incorporation; to the right and opposite such proposition and in sep arate lines the words, Yes" and "NO;" and to the right and opposite thereto voting squares so arranged as to en- able a voter to express his choice on said proposition by voting for incor- poration or against incorporation, ac- cording to the general election laws, by stamping a cross (X) Tn said voting square opposite the word Yes" and "No;" and said ballot shall contain the following words: ITO vote for incor- poration, stamp a cross (X) in the square to the right of the word Yes" To vote against incorporation, stamp a (X) in the square to the right of the word "No To vote for a person, stamp a cross (x) in the square to the right of the name."
 Also such ballot shall contain other fixed by law for voting by writing in names in blank column and odlu DCtllOJ Sudll dlSO ClO of persons voted for to fill the various elected municipal offices of town of the sixth class below designated, with voting squares opposite and to the right of the name of each candidate. The following officers may be voted for, tO-Wit:
 1. Five members of the Board of Trustees.
 ?. A clerk who shall be ex-officio assessor.
 3. A treasurer.
 4. A marshal who shall be ex-officio tax and license collector.
 And for the purpose of said election, the territory shall constitute one vot- ing precinct and>t polling place for said election, is hereby designated and fixed to be at the office of the Imperial Valley Abstract, Title & Trust Co.,, within said territory.
 The following have been appointed officers of said election:
 Inspectors: T. B. Putnam, A. P. Nuffer.
 Judges: J. Stanley Brown, w. O. 
 Ballot Clerks: M L. Watson, Dan D. Shaffer.
 Clerks: Phil D. Swing, J. J. Colby, Jr.
 The polls will be open on election day at 6 o'clock a. m. and keep open until o'clock in the afternoon of the same day when the polls shall be and said election shall be con- ducted in accordance with the general election laws of the State, and no per son shall be allowed to vote thereat unless he shall be qualified elector of the County of Imperial, enrolled upon the Great Register thereof, and shall have resided within the limits of said proposed corporation for at least 50 days next preceding such election.
 By order of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Imperial, State of 
 F. $. WEBSTER, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors.
 D. s. ELDER,
 Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
 of Imperial County.