Additional powers. No provision of this constitution shall be construed as a limitation upon the authority of the legislature to confer upon the railroad commission additional powers of the same kind or different from those conferred herein which are not inconsistent with the powers conferred upon the railroad commission in this constitution, and the authority of the legislature to confer such additional powers is expressly declared to be plenary and unlimited by any provision of this constitution. The provisions of this section shall not be construed to repeal in whole or in part any existing law not inconsistent herewith, and the "Railroad Commission Act" of this state approved February 10, 1911, shall be construed with reference to this constitutional provision and any other constitutional provision becoming operative concurrently herewith. And the said act shall have the same force and effect as if the same had been passed after the adoption of this provision of the constitution and of all other provisions adopted concurrently herewith, except that the three commissioners referred to in said act shall be held and construed to be the five commissioners provided for herein. CHAPTER 54. Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 18, inviting the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic to hold its forty-sixth annual encampment in the City of Los Angeles, California. [Filed with Secretary of State March 25, 1911.] WHEREAS, The Grand Army of the Republic, representing and composed of the survivors of the great army of the union which fought the battles for the integrity of the republic from 1861 to 1865, has during its forty-five years of existence held its annual encampments but twice on the Pacific coast, viz., in San Francisco in 1886 and again in San Francisco in 1903; and WHEREAS, The people of the State of California are desirous of again seeing this gallant body of men, once the flower of the youth and manly strength of the country, now well advanced. in years, as the guests of the State of California, that its people may be enabled to extend to them the hospitality of highly honored guests, and that the children of the state may have the opportunity of seeing those who have been spared of that Grand Army, thereby inciting them to an increased reverence to the principles of patriotism which a passing through our streets under the tattered battle-flags of a half century ago cannot fail to inspire; and WHEREAS, An invitation was extended by the governor and the state legislature to the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic to hold its session in Los Angeles in 1911, but in the wisdom of the national encampment it was found impossible to accept this invitation for that year; and WHEREAS, The three Grand Army posts of Los Angeles, Bartlett-Logan No. 6, Stanton No. 55 and Kenesaw No. 106, and the Department of California and Nevada G. A. R. through its council of administration have renewed their invitation to the Grand Army to hold its forty-sixth national encampment in Los Angeles in 1912; now, therefore, be it. Army invited to Resolved by the senate of the State of California, the assem- Grand bly thereof concurring (a majority of all members elected to of the each house voting for the adoption of this resolution and con- Republic curring therein), That the forty-sixth national encampment of Los the Grand Army of the Republic be, and is hereby, invited to Angeles. hold its annual encampment in the year 1912 in the city of Los Angeles, State of California. CHAPTER 55. Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 19, approving fourteen certain amendments to the charter of the city of Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles, State of California, voted for and ratified by the qualified electors of said city of Los Angeles at a special municipal election held therein on the 6th day of March, 1911. [Filed with Secretary of State March 25, 1911.] ments to charter. WHEREAS, The city of Los Angeles, in the county of Los AmendAngeles, State of California, contains a population of over Los one hundred thousand (100,000) inhabitants and has been Angeles ever since the year 1889 and is now organized and acting under a freeholders' charter adopted under and by virtue of section 8 of article XI of the constitution of the State of California, which charter was duly ratified by a majority of the qualified electors of said city at a special election held for that purpose on the 20th day of October, 1888, and approved by the legislature of the State of California on the 31st day of January, 1889 (Statutes of 1889, p. 455), and, WHEREAS, The city council of said city of Los Angeles did, by ordinance designated as Ordinance No. 21,557 (new series), adopted by said city council on the 30th day of December, 1910, and approved by the mayor of said city on the 30th day of December, 1910, and pursuant to section 8 of article XI of the constitution of the State of California, duly propose to the qualified electors of said city of Los Angeles fourteen certain amendments, hereinafter set forth, to the charter of said city, to be submitted to said qualified electors at a special municipal election to be held in said city on the 6th day of March, 1911; and, WHEREAS, Said fourteen proposed amendments hereinafter set forth were and each of them was published for twenty days in a daily newspaper printed and published in said city and of general circulation therein, to wit, "The Los Angeles Certificate of ratification. Daily Journal," said publication ending on the 23rd day of WHEREAS, Thereafter the city council of said city did, by an ordinance designated as Ordinance No. 21,755 (new series), which was duly adopted on the 31st day of January, 1911, order the holding of a special municipal election in said city of Los Angeles on the 6th day of March, 1911, which last mentioned date was at least forty days after the publication of said fourteen proposed amendments hereinafter set forth, for twenty days in said daily newspaper of general circulation in said city of Los Angeles, to wit, "The Los Angeles Daily Journal," and did provide in said ordinance for the submission of said fourteen proposed amendments to the said charter to the qualified electors of said city for their ratification at said special municipal election, which said ordinance was approved by the mayor of said city on the 31st day of January, 1911, and was published for at least ten days prior to the time appointed for the holding of said election in "The Los Angeles Daily Journal," a daily newspaper printed and published in said city; and, WHEREAS, At said election a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon voted in favor of the ratification of and did ratify each and all of said fourteen proposed amendments hereinafter set forth to said charter; and, WHEREAS, The city council of said city of Los Angeles, at a regular meeting thereof held within ten days after said election, duly canvassed the returns of said special election and duly found, determined and declared that a majority of such qualified electors voting thereon had voted for and ratified each and all of the said fourteen proposed amendments to said charter; and, WHEREAS, The mayor and city clerk of said city of Los Angeles did, on the 7th day of March, 1911, duly certify to the submission to the electors of said city of Los Angeles of said fourteen proposed amendments to said charter and to the ratification of said fourteen amendments and did further certify to a copy of said proposed amendments, authenticated by the seal of the said city of Los Angeles, which said certificate is in words and figures following, to wit: CERTIFICATE OF RATIFICATION OF PROPOSED CHARTER AMEND- We, the undersigned, Geo. Alexander, mayor of the city of Los Angeles, State of California, and Lorin A. Handley, city clerk of said city, do hereby certify as follows, to wit: That the city of Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles, State of California, contains a population of over one hundred thousand (100,000) inhabitants and has been ever since the year 1889 and is now organized and acting under a free holders' charter adopted under and by virtue of section 8 of article XI of the constitution of the State of California, which charter was duly ratified by a majority of the qualified electors of said city at a special election held for that purpose on the 20th day of October, 1888, and approved by the legislature of the State of California on the 31st day of January, 1889, (Statutes of 1889, p. 455); That the city council of said city of Los Angeles did, by Ordinance No. 21,557 (new series), adopted by said council on the 30th day of December, 1910, approved by the mayor of said city on the 30th day of December, 1910, and pursuant to section 8 of article XI of the constitution of the State of California, duly propose to the qualified electors of said city of Los Angeles certain amendments to the charter of said city, to be submitted to the qualified electors at a special municipal election to be held in said city on the 6th day of March, 1911, which said amendments were and are in words and figures as follows, to wit: CHARTER AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE. That article I of the charter be amended to read as follows: ARTICLE I. INCORPORATION AND POWERS. SECTION 1. The municipal corporation now existing and known as "The City of Los Angeles," shall continue to be a municipal corporation under the same name and with the same boundaries that it now has, to wit: aries. Beginning at the northwest corner of section 2, township 1 Boundsouth, range 14 west, S. B. M.; thence south along the west line of said section to the south line of lot 46 of Hollywood Heights, as shown on a map recorded in book 1, page 48, of maps, records of Los Angeles county, State of California; thence westerly, northerly, westerly, southerly and westerly along the southerly line of said lot 46, to the west line of said lot; thence west along the east and west center line of section 3 of the township and range hereinbefore mentioned, to the west line of said section 3; thence south along the said west line to the northwesterly line of the Rancho La Brea; thence southwesterly along the northwesterly line of said rancho to the north line of section 9 of the township and range hereinbefore mentioned; thence west along the north line of said section 9 to the northeast corner of section 8 of said township and range; thence west along the north line of said section 8 a distance of eight chains; thence southerly and parallel to and distant eight chains west of the east line of said section 8 to the south line of the northeast quarter of said section 8; thence easterly along said line to the west line of Crescent avenue, as said avenue is shown on a map recorded in book 54, page 52, of miscellaneous records of said county; thence south along the west line of said Crescent avenue to the north line of Fountain avenue, as shown on said map, produced westerly; thence easterly along said Boundaries. prolongation and the north line of said Fountain avenue to its intersection with the easterly line of La Brea avenue (formerly Plummer street), as shown on map of Tonner and Garbutt's subdivision of the S. W. Little tract, as recorded in book 19, page 30, of miscellaneous records of said county; thence south along the easterly line of said La Brea avenue to the north line of Fountain avenue, as shown on map of Hollywood square recorded in book 9, page 77, of maps, records of said county; thence easterly along the present north line of Fountain avenue to a point distant 225 feet westerly of the center line of Seward street, as shown on the map of Colegrove recorded in book 53, page 10, of miscellaneous records of said county; thence south 6 minutes east parallel to that portion of said Seward street lying north of Santa Monica avenue and its southerly prolongation, to an intersection with the northerly prolongation of the westerly line of Victoria Park, as recorded in book 12, page 2, of maps, records of said county; thence southerly along said prolongation and the westerly line of said Victoria Park and its southerly prolongation, to its intersection with the westerly prolongation of the southerly line of that portion of the right of way of the Los Angeles Pacific Railway Company lying southerly of said Victoria Park and easterly of Sherman drive, as shown on the map of said Victoria Park; thence easterly along the said production and the southerly line of the right of way of said railway company, to the northwest corner of lot 24 of the Crenshaw Boulevard Tract, as recorded in book 8, page 68, of maps, records of said county; thence southerly along the westerly line of said Crenshaw Boulevard Tract and the westerly line of Jackins Arlington Heights Tract, as recorded in book 8, page 22, of maps, records of said county, and the southerly prolongation of the last mentioned line, to an iron pipe in the center line of Washington street,, as shown on the county surveyor's map No. 5330, on file in the office of the county surveyor of said county; thence southerly in a direct line to the northwest corner of lot 1 of Harry Jackins Tract No. 2, as recorded in book 9, page 133, of maps, records of said county; thence southerly along the westerly line of said last mentioned tract to the southwest corner of lot 50 of said tract; thence southeasterly in a direct line to the southeast corner of lot 61 of said tract; thence southeasterly in a direct line to the southeast corner of lot 14 of the Home Villa Tract, as recorded in book 72, page 25, of miscellaneous records of said county; thence southerly in a direct line to a point in the southerly line of Adams street, said point being distant 47.30 feet easterly from the north common corner of lots 12 and 13 of said Home Villa Tract; thence easterly along the south line of Adams street, 65.15 feet to its intersection with the southerly line of Montclair street; thence south 37° 3′ east along the southerly line of Montclair street and its southerly prolongation, a distance of 1216.60 feet to an iron pipe; thence south 63° 38′ east parallel to and distant 201.3 feet from the center line of a portion of Montclair street, a |