March, 1909, order the holding of a general municipal election in Salinas City, on the 7th day of June, 1909, which said. ordinance, among other matters, set forth the said three proposed amendments to the charter of Salinas City, and provided for their submission to the qualified electors of said city for their ratification at said general election, and provided that the city clerk of Salinas City cause notice by publication in the Salinas Daily Index, a daily newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated in said Salinas City, to be given of said general municipal election, and provided that each notice of said general municipal election contain, among other matters set forth therein, the said three proposed amendments to the charter of said city; and, WHEREAS, Pursuant to said Ordinance No. 84, (new series), the said city clerk of Salinas City caused notice of said general municipal election, containing and setting forth said three proposed amendments to the charter of Salinas City, to be published in said Salinas Daily Index, for a period commencing on the 22nd day of March, 1909, and ending on the 5th day of June, 1909; and, WHEREAS, Said three proposed amendments were published in said Salinas Daily Index on the 22nd day of March, 1909, and continuously thereafter for a period of twenty days, and such publication as aforesaid was made at least forty days before the 7th day of June, 1909, the day fixed for holding said general municipal election; and, WHEREAS, At said general municipal election, a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon, voted in favor of the ratification of, and did ratify, one of said three proposed amendments, to wit: Amendment number two thereof, and did not ratify numbers one and three of said proposed amendments; and, WHEREAS, The city council of said city, at a regular meeting thereof, held within five days after said general municipal election for such purpose, as provided by the charter of said city, duly canvassed the returns of said election, and duly found, determined and declared that a majority of such qualified electors voting thereon had voted for and ratified number two of said proposed amendments, and rejected said numbers one and three of said proposed amendments; and, WHEREAS, Said proposed amendment to said charter, so ratified by a majority of the qualified electors of said city voting at said general municipal election, is in words and figures as follows, to wit: "AMENDMENT NUMBER TWO. "That a new article be added to the charter of Salinas City, to be known as article XVIII, which shall read as follows: "THE REFERENDUM. "SECTION 1. No action providing for the sale or lease of any city property exceeding five hundred dollars in value and ordinances may no ordinance passed by the council, (except when otherwise Time when required by the general laws of the state or by the provisions go into of this charter, respecting street improvements, and except an effect. ordinance for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety, which contains a statement of its urgency, and is passed by a vote of five members of the council, and approved by the mayor or the unanimous vote of all members over the mayor's disapproval, but no grant of any franchise shall be construed to be urgency matter), shall go into effect before thirty days from the time of its approval by the mayor or the time of its passage over his veto, as the case may be; Electors and if during said thirty days, a petition signed by electors of protest. the city equal in number to at least ten per cent of the entire vote cast for all candidates for mayor at the last preceding city election at which a mayor was elected, protesting against the passage of such ordinance, be presented to the council, the same shall thereupon be suspended from going into operation and it shall be the duty of the council to reconsider such ordinance and if the same is not entirely repealed, the council shall submit the ordinance proposed to the vote of the electors of the city, either at the next general municipal election or at a special municipal election to be called for that purpose, and such ordinance shall not go into effect or become operative unless a majority of the qualified electors voting on the same shall vote in favor thereof. If the provisions of two or more measures approved and adopted at the same election under the provisions of this charter, conflict, then the measure receiving the highest affirmative vote shall control. "SEC. 2. Any measure that the council or the electorate of the city, as herein provided, has authority to adopt, the council may, of its own motion, submit to a vote of its constituent electors at a general or special election. "SEC. 3. Notice of any such election shall be given in the same manner as notices of other city elections are given." THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That we, F. A. Abbott, mayor, and John J. Kelly, city clerk, of Salinas City, have compared the foregoing proposed and ratified amendment number two with the same as set forth in said petition submitted, received and filed. with the council of Salinas City, pursuant to section 8 of article XI of the constitution of the State of California, on October 19th, 1908, duly and regularly signed by fifteen per cent of the qualified voters of Salinas City, requesting, among other matters, that said proposed and ratified amendment number two be submitted to the qualified electors of Salinas City for approval, and find that the foregoing is a full, true, correct and exact copy thereof. And we further certify that, the facts set forth in the preamble preceding said amendment number two are, and each of them is, true. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and caused the official seal of Salinas City to be hereto attached this 7th day of January, 1911. [SEAL] Attest: JOHN J. KELLY, City Clerk of Salinas City. F. A. ABBOTT, Mayor of Salinas City. AND WHEREAS, Said proposed amendment so ratified as heretofore set forth has been duly presented and submitted to the legislature of the State of California, for approval or rejection in accordance with section 8 of article XI of the constitution of the State of California; Now, therefore, be it Resolved, by the assembly of the State of California, the senate thereof concurring, (a majority of all members elected to each house voting for the adoption of this resolution and concurring therein), that the said amendment to the charter of said Salinas City hereinabove set forth, as presented and submitted to, and adopted and ratified by, the qualified electors of said city, be, and the same is hereby, approved as a whole for and as an amendment to the charter of Salinas City. Charter of CHAPTER 29. Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 10, approving the charter of the city of Monterey, State of California, voted for and ratified by the qualified voters of said city at a special municipal election held therein for that purpose on the 12th day of December, 1910. [Filed with Secretary of State March 2, 1911.] WHEREAS, The city of Monterey, a municipal corporation Monterey of the county of Monterey, State of California, now is and was at all times herein referred to, a city containing a population of more than three thousand five hundred, but less than ten thousand inhabitants; and WHEREAS, At a special election duly held in said city on the 25th day of July, 1910, under and in accordance with law and the provisions of section 8 of article XI of the constitution of the State of California, a board of fifteen freeholders, duly qualified, was elected in and by said city, by the qualified electors thereof to prepare and propose a charter for the government of said city; and WHEREAS, Said board of freeholders did, within ninety days after said election, prepare and propose a charter for the government of said the city of Monterey; and WHEREAS, Said charter was on the 13th day of October, 1910, signed in duplicate by the members of said board of freeholders and was thereupon duly returned and filed, one copy with the president of the board of trustees of the city of Monterey, and the other copy with the county recorder of the said county of Monterey and filed in the office of the said county recorder; and WHEREAS, Said proposed charter was thereafter published in the "Monterey Daily Cypress,' a daily newspaper of general circulation in said the city of Monterey, for a period of twenty days and more, the first publication thereof having been made within twenty days after the completion of said proposed charter; and WHEREAS, Said proposed charter was within thirty days after the completion of said publication submitted by the board of trustees of the city of Monterey to the qualified electors of said city at a special election, previously duly called and therein held on the 12th day of December, 1910; and WHEREAS, At said last mentioned special election a majority of said qualified electors of said the city of Monterey, voting at said special election, voted in favor of the ratification and duly ratified said charter as proposed as a whole; and WHEREAS, Said board of trustees, after canvassing the returns of said last mentioned special election, duly found and declared that the majority of said qualified electors voting at said special election had voted for and ratified said charter as above specified; and WHEREAS, The same is now submitted to the legislature of the State of California for its approval and ratification as a whole without power of alteration or amendment in accordance with section 8 of article XI of the constitution of the State of California; and WHEREAS, Said charter was ratified in the words and figures following, to wit: CHARTER PREPARED AND PROPOSED FOR THE CHARTER OF "THE CITY OF MONTEREY." ARTICLE I. NAME AND RIGHTS OF THE CITY. Name of the city. the city. SECTION 1. The municipal corporation now existing and Name of known as The City of Monterey shall remain and continue a body politic and corporate in name and in fact, by the name of The City of Monterey, and by such name shall have perpetual succession. Rights and liabilities. SEC. 2. The city of Monterey shall remain vested with and Rights and continue to have, hold and enjoy all property, rights of prop- liabilities. erty and rights of action of every nature and description now pertaining to this municipality, and is hereby declared to be the successor of the same. It shall be subject to all the liabilitites that now exist against this municipality. Boundaries. General municipal Boundaries. ARTICLE II. SEC. 3. The boundaries of the city of Monterey shall be as follows: Beginning at a point near Point Aulones on the S. W. shore line of Monterey Bay where the same is intersected by the S. E. boundary line of the Point Pinos Rancho; thence following said S. E. line of said rancho S. 58° 45′ W. 5280 feet; thence leaving said rancho line and running S. 24° 10′ E. 12,568 feet; thence N. 73° 15′ E. 7,445 feet; thence N. 11° 27′ W. 2,916.5 feet to the S. W. corner of the Del Monte Hotel grounds; thence following the western boundary line of said grounds N. 11° 27′ W. 2,363.5 feet to the northerly side of the county road; thence along the north side of said road N. 88° 03′ W. 1,458.85 feet; thence N. 89° 15′ W. 1,094 feet; thence N. 0° 45′ E. 475 feet to the shore line of Monterey bay; thence north into said Monterey bay 1 marine league; thence in a western direction to the intersection of a line drawn north from the place of beginning (the said Point Aulones); thence south to said place of beginning. ARTICLE III. ELECTIONS. General and special municipal elections. SEC. 4. A municipal election shall be held in the city on and special the second Monday in April, A. D. 1911, and on the second elections. Monday in April every second year thereafter, and shall be known as the general municipal election. Nomination and election of city officers. Form of nomination petition. All other municipal elections that may be held by authority of this charter or of general law shall be known as special municipal elections. Nomination and election of city officers. SEC. 5. The mode of nomination and election of all elective officers of the city to be voted for at any municipal election shall be as follows and not otherwise. SEC. 6. The name of a candidate shall be printed upon the ballot when a petition and nomination shall have been filed in his behalf in the manner and form and under the conditions hereinafter set forth. Form of nomination petition. SEC. 7. The petition of nomination shall consist of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred individual certificates, which shall read substantially as follows: I, the undersigned, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a qualified elector of precinct No. of The City of |