HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrd. 0038Ordinance No _ b_
An Ordinance of the Board of Trustees of the
City of Lynwood, Cal., approving the Annexation to
the said City of Lynwood of "Addition No 4.
Whereas the Board of Trustees of the City of Lynwood on the
,30th day, of April 1924, received a waitten petition signed by not less
than one - fourth (i) of the qualified electors residing in the territory
described therein (and hereinafter described) as shown by the registra-
tion of voters of the County of Los Angeles, being the Counts* in which
such territory is situated, which said petition contained a description
of certain now territory proposed to be annexed to the City of Lynwood,
and asked that such territory be annexed to, incorporated in and i:iade a
part of the said City of Lynwood; and whereas the said petition contained
a request that the question be submitted'to the electors residing in the
said territory, as hereinafter set forth, and
Whereas the said Board of Trustees immediately after the re-
ceipt of the said petition and on the 30th day of April, 1924, did by its
Resolution No. 177 on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of
Lynwood order that a Special Election be held in the territory so proposed
to be annexed on the 31st day of May, 1924; and that notice of such Spec-
ial Election be given by the publication of a Notice thereof in "The.New
Compton," the same being a newspaper of geheral circulation printed and
published outside of the City of Lynwood but in the County of Los Angeles,
at least once a week for a period of five successive weeks next preceding
the date of such election, the said Notice being set forth.substantially
in said Resolution, and
Whereas the said petition requested, and the said Notice spec-
ified, that the said election be called and held in pursuance of the pro-
visions of the Act of the Legislature of the State of California entitl.od.
"An Act to provide for the Alteration of the Boundaries of and for the An-
nexation Territory to TAinicipal- Corporations, for the Incorporation of - -
such Annexed Territory in and as a part thereof, and for the Districting,
Government and Municipal Control of such Annexed Terr.itory," approved June
11th, 1913; and all amendments thereof, and
Whereas the said Notice set forth in detail all matters required
by law, including the date of such election, the proposal required to be
submitted, a specific description of the boundaries of the territory proposed
to be annexed and a designation of said territory as "Addition No. 4 to the
City of Lynwood," and
whereas pursuant to the proceedings hereinafter indmcated and
in accordance with the provisions of the said Act of the Legislature of the
State of California, and all amendments thereof, a Special Election was held
in the territory in said petition and hereinafter described and designated
as "Addition No. 4 to the City of Lynwood," on the 31st day of A4ay, 1924;
at which election there was submitted to such electors the said proposition,
and
Whereas notice of such election was given by publication in
the time, form and manner required by said Act, as appears from the affida-
vit of publication on file with the City Clerk of the City of Lynwood, and
Whereas it appears that the said Special Election was duly X
called and held pursuant to said Notice and in accordance with.law on the
31st day of May, 1924; that the polls for said election were kept open dur-
ing.the time required by law and in accordance with the said Notice and that
the said Special Election was held and conducted and votes thereof received
and canvassed and the result thereof determined and declared in the time,
form farm- and manner required by law, and
Whereas the said Board of Trustees did on the 4th day of June,
1924, being the'time provided for, its regular meeting next after the ex-
piration of three days from and after the date of said election, meet and
canvass the returns of the said Special Election as required by law, where-
upon the result of the said canvass having been found to be as hereinafter
stated, and entered upon the Minutes, Now Therefore
The Board of Trustees of the City of Lynwood does ordain as
follows, to -wit:
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Section 1: That the new territory proposed to be annexed to
the City of Lynwood, as aforesaid, is particularly described as follows,
to -wits
Beginning at the most easterly corner of Block 15 of Belle -Ver-
non Acres, as'shown on map recorded in Book 9, Page 196, of Maps, records of
Los Angeles County, being a point'in the westerly boundary line of the City
of "Lynwood as'it existed April 24, 1924; thence northwesterly along the north -
easterly line of said Belle- Vernon Acres to the westerly line of Belle- Vernon,.
Boulevard (formerly named Long Beach Boulevard,) as shown on the aforesaid
man of Belle- Vernon Acres; thence southerly along the westerly line of said
Belle= Vernon Boulevard to the westerly prolongation of the - southerly line of
Lot,4,.Block 12, of said Belle- Vernon Acres; thence easterly along said pro-
longation "and southerly line'to the southeast corner of said Lot 4; thence
easterly in a•direct line to the southwest corner -of Lot 9,of, said Block 12;
thence easterly in a direct line to the southeast corner 'of Lot 21 of said
Block 12; thence northerly along the easterly line of said Block 12 to the
southwest corner of the City of Lynwood, as it existed.April 24th, 1924;
thence northerly along the westerly boundary line of said City of Lynwood to
the point of beginning. ✓
Section 2: That there was but one election precinct established
and provided for -the holding of said Special, "Electio "n,'•the boundaries of which
were, and are, the.boundaries of the said territory.
Section 3: • That the proposition voted on in said Special Elec-
tion was whether said described territory should be 'annexed to the City of
Lynwood; and that the whole number of votes cast on said proposition at said
Special Election on May 31st, 1924, was Fifty -Nine (59) votes; and that the
number of votes cast at such election in favor of said proposition was Thirty
(30) votes, and the number of votes cast against the came was Twenty -Nine (29)
And whereas.it appears from the canvas3 of the returns of the said election
so held in said territory on said proposition are in favor of said annexation.
It is further ordained that the annexation of the said territory to the City
of Lynwood is hereby approved; and the said territory is hereby declared to
be annexed to, incorporated in and made a part of the City of Lynwood.
And it is hereby, ordered that a copy of 'this Ordinance,
giving the date of its passage, under the seal of the City of jynvrood, be
submitted to and filed with the Secretary of State of the State of California.
From and after the date of which filing the annexation of such territory shall
be deemed to be complete, and thenceforth the -said annexed territory shall be
to all intents and purposes a part of the City of Lynwood.
_ Passed and approved this _/_L -day of June, 1924..
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Certification.
Presider_t of the Board of Trus-
tees of the City of Lynwood
I. Fred E. 'Welch, City Clerk of the City of Lynwood, and ex- officio
Clerk of the Board of Trustees of said City, do hereby certify that the fore -
goin'g Ordinance, being Ordinance No. 3i of the City of Lynwood, was intro-
duced and read for the first time June 4th` 1924, second reading
1924, . third. reading and final passage June -�I - -, 1924; and tha', the same
was passed by the follo w.-I vote: ( - --
Ayes: Trustees - 0�9?�
Noes: - ------ -------------- -------- ----------------
Absent :- _ -----------------------------
Clerk City of Lynwood.
I further'certify that Ordinance No v_a was published once in The
Lynwood Tribune, a newspaper of heneral circulation on the ZO day of ,� µ --
1924.
Clerk City of Lynwood