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RESOLUTION NO. 701
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE CITY OF AZUSA,
CALIFORNIA., URGING THE DEFEAT OF PROPOSITIONS 10-11 AND 30 AT THE
GENERAL ELECTIONS TO BE HELD NOVEIIIBER,7, 1922.
The Board of Trustees of the City of Azusa do resolve as
follows:
SECTION 1. WHEREAS, there will be presented to the
voters of the State of California on November.7th, 1922, three
proposed Constitutional Amendments, to -wit: Propositions Nos. 10-
11 and 30 on the ballot,as follows:
Proposition No. 10, designed to place a
tax upon all property owner by municipalities and
used in connections with the public utilities operat-
ed by such municipalities;
Proposition No. 11, which proposes to take
away from cities the power to determine rates and reg-
ulate their own municipally owned public utilities,
and to place them under the complete control both as
to rates and regulation of the State Railroad Commiss-
ion;
Proposition No. 30, which proposes to take
away from the cities the power to control their own
streets and to give the State Railroad Commission
exclusive power to grant franchises, unlimited as to
time, for interurban or local street railways or bue
lines over any and all of the streets of.the cities
depriving cities of all voice in the determination of
such matters;
and,
WHEREAS, the adoption of any of these proposed amend-
ments would be disastrous to the municipalities and to the best
interests of the people therein;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that_the Board of
Trustees of the City of Azusa is unalterably opposed to each and
every one of the said proposed Constitutional Amendments, to -wit;
Propositions Nos. 10, 11 and 30, and urges the citizens of this
municipality to vote NO on each of said porpositions, and to do
all in their power to'defeat them, and thus protect the public
interests.
SECTION 2, The City Clerk of the City of Azusa is
hereby authorized to certify to.the passage of this Resolution and
the same shall hereupon be in full force and effect.
ATTEST:
Adopted this 16th day of October, 1922.
ft 0. DURRE'
C ty Clerk.
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Pent of the Board of Trustees
of the City of Azusa.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF IAS ANGELES SS.
CITY OF AZUSA.
I, J. 0. DURRELL, City Clerk of the City of Azusa,
hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly adopted
by the Board of Trustees of the City of Azusa and signed by the
President of said Board at a regular meeting thereof held on the
16th day of October, 1922, and that the same was passed by the
following vote; to -wit:
AYES: TRUSTEES: Peirce Moon Meier. -Case.
NOES: TRUSTEES: None,
ABSENT: TRUSTEES: Chenoweth.
61ty Cie-rYc of tFie City of Xzusa.