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ORDINANCE NO. 874. AN ORDINANCE OF E{E CITY OF SANTA ANA DECLARING RESULT OF ELECTION. WHERE~S, a special election was held in that territory known as "North Flower Addition", on Thursday, the 18th day of April, 1929, pursuant to the pr~visions of an Act of the Legislature of June ll, 1913, relating to the annexation of territory to municipalities, and found in the Statutes of 1913, Page 887, as subsequently amended, at which e~ection there was submitted the question of whether said new territory hereinafteI described should be annexed to, incorporated in and made a part of the City of Santa Ana and WHEREAS, notice and manner as required by of said election was given by publication, in the time, form said Act, as appears from the affidavit of C.H. Powell, Business Mgr. Anaheim Bulletin, on file with the City Clerk; and ~VHEREAS, it appears that said special election was held in accordance with law and said notice on Thursday, the 18th day of April, 1929, and that the polls for said election were kept open during the time required by law, to-wit: from six o~clock A.M. to seven o'clock P.M. of said day, and that said special election was held and conducted and the votes received and canvassed, and the result thereof determined and declared in the time, of April, form and manner required by law; and WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Santa Ana did on Monday, the 22nd day 1929, being the time provided for its regular meeting next after the expi~atior of three (3) days from and after the date of said election, meet and proceed to canvass ~he returns of said special election as required by law; whereupon the result of said canvass having been found to be as hereinafter stated; The City Council of the City of Santa &ua do ordain as follows: 1. That the new territory proposed to be annexed to said City of Santa Ana as aforesaid is particularly described as follows, to-wit: Situated in the County of Orange, State of California, and part- icularly described as follows: Beginning at a point in the Northerly boundary line of the City of Santa Ana, said point.being distant 1D0 feet Westerly from the Westerly line of Flower Street; thence Northerly and parallel'to Flower Street to an intersection with the Southwesterly right-of-way line of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company; thence Northwesterly along said Southwesterly right-of-way line of the Southern Pacific Railroa~ Company to an intersection with the Westerly extended Northerly line of Chapman Avenue as it exists Easterly from the said Southern Pacific Railroad Company's right-of-way; thence Easterly along the said Westerly extended Northerly line of Chapman Avenue and along the Northerly line of Chapman Avenue to an intersection with a line drawn parallel to and distant 170 feet, measured at right angles, Northeasterly from the Northeasterly ri~t-~f-way line of the said Southern Pacific Railroad Company; thence Southeasterly along said line drawn parallel to and distant 170 feet, measured at right angles, Northeasterly from the Northeasterly right-of-way line of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company to an intersection with the said Northerly boundary line of the City of Santa Ana; thence Nesterly along said Northerly boundary line of said City to the point of beginning. there was but one election precinct established and provided for the holding of said special electi~, the boundaries of which were the boundaries of said 3. That the whole number of votes cast upon said proposition in the territory territory. to be annexed aa aforesaid was Eight, and the number of votes cast therein in favor of annexation was Eight, and the number of votes cast therein against annexation was none; WHEREAS, it appears from the canvass of the returns of said election held in and