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any incorporated city or town; and Whereas, by Ordinance No. 881, the board of Trustees of the City of Santa Ana, a municipal corporation of the fifth class, which ordinance was approved on the 2Vth day of Narch, 1922, called an election to be held in said city on the 24th day of April, 1922, in which said Board of Trustees, as the legislative branch of said municipality, ordered submitted to the electors of such municipality the question of whether or not the said new territory should be annexed to and incorporated in and made a part of such m~icipal corporation; and Where~s, such question was according to said ordina~n sub~.~i~ted at a special e~ection held for that purpose in said municipality on the 24th day of April, 19225 and Whereas, notice of said election was published in the Santa Ana Daily Evening Register, a newspaper printed in said city, at least once a week for a period of two weeks next preceding such election;.and W"nereas, said notice stated that it was proposed to incorporate the territory sought to be annexed as a part of such municipal corporation and did invite the electors of said city to vote upon such proposition by marking t~eir ballots "for annexation" or "against annexation"; an~ Whereas, in sa~d notice the territory sought to be annexed was generally described in such manner as to ap- prise the voters of the particular land sought to be an- nexed; and Whereas, by said ordinance said legislative body es- tablished and in said notice of election tLc~,~ Were dJsi~nated the voting precinct or precincts and the plaoe or places at which the polls would be opened in said city and said legislative body appointed the officers of such election, which, for each voting place were at least two judges and one inspector, each of Whom was a qualifie~ ~lector of such city$ and ~'hereas, the judges and inspectors of such election did immediately upon the closin~ of the polls Count the ballots, make up and certify the returns of the ballots cast at their respective polling place as quickly as practicable in the manner provided in the laws of this state and did deposit all of said returns with the Clerk oi said city; and Whereas, said legislative body did at the time pro- vided for its regular meeting next after said returns were filed with the Clerk of the said city, to-wit, on the