continued. Misdemeanor. SEC. 156. All lawful city ordinances, resolutions and Ordinances regulations in force at the time this charter takes effect and not inconsistent with the provisions thereof are hereby continued in force until the same shall be duly amended or repealed. SEC. 157. The violation of any provision of this charter or of any ordinance of the city shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and may be prosecuted by the authorities of the city in the name of the people of the State of California, or may be redressed by civil action, at the option of said authorities. Any person sentenced to imprisonment for the violation of a provision of this charter or of any ordinance may be imprisoned in the city jail, or, if the council or ordinance shall so prescribe, in the county jail of the county in which the city of Pomona is situated, in which case the expense of such imprisonment shall be a charge in favor of such county against the city of Pomona. CERTIFICATE. WHEREAS, The city of Pomona, a city containing a population of more than three thousand five hundred inhabitants, on the third day of November, nineteen hundred and ten, at a special election, and under and in accordance with the provisions of section eight, article eleven of the constitution of the State of California, did elect the undersigned a board of fifteen freeholders to prepare and propose a charter for said city; BE IT KNOWN, That in pursuance of said provision of the constitution and within a period of ninety days after said. election, said board of freeholders has prepared and does propose the foregoing as and for the charter of the city of Pomona; and that in submitting and proposing such charter the board of freeholders, pursuant to said provision of the constitution, also presents with said charter for the choice of the voters, and to be voted on separately, without prejudice to the other provisions contained in the charter, an alternative proposition hereinafter stated, which shall, if approved by a majority of the voters voting thereon, take the place of section 89 of article XV of the proposed charter. Said alternative proposition shall be submitted to the voters for their approval or rejection at the same election at which the charter shall be submitted and upon the ballots shall be printed: "Shall the alternative proposition, providing that there shall be no sale of alcoholic liquors in the city of Pomona, except by druggists under proper restrictions, take the place of section 89 of article XV?" Said alternative proposition is as follows: ALTERNATIVE PROPOSITION. ARTICLE XV. ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS. SEC. 89. No person, either as principal, agent, servant or employee, shall open, establish, keep, maintain or carry on within the corporate limits of Pomona, any tippling-house, dramshop, cellar, saloon, bar, bar-room, sample-room or other place where spirituous, vinous, malt or other alcoholic liquors, are sold or given away; provided, that this section shall not apply to the sale of such liquors by regularly licensed druggists upon the written prescription of a practicing physician regularly licensed to practice his profession in the state of California, nor to the sale by such druggists of alcohol for mechanical or scientific uses, under such restrictions and regulations as may be fixed by the council. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands in duplicate this thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and ten. (Signed) FRED J. SMITH, President. (Signed) A. B. AVIS. (Signed) FRANK W. BALFOUR. (Signed) J. F. EVANS. (Signed) W. T. FLEMING. (Signed) R. B. HOFFMAN. (Signed) CLARENCE H. LEE. (Signed) J. F. LOBINGIER. (Signed) LEE R. MATTHEWS. (Signed) H. J. NICHOLS. (Signed) F. H. OSLER. (Signed) G. A. PHILLIPS. (Signed) RUSSELL K. PITZER, Secretary. Filed January 3d, 1911, at 10 A. M. with Frank P. Firey, president of the board of trustees of the city of Pomona. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, I, Frank P. Firey, president of the board of trustees of the city of Pomona, State of California, do hereby certify that the board of freeholders, whose names appear signed to the foregoing proposed charter, were on the 3d day of November, 1910, at a special municipal election held in said city of Pomona on said day, duly elected by the qualified electors of said city, to prepare and propose a charter for said city; that each of said freeholders has been a qualified elector and freeholder in said city for more than five (5) years previous to said election; that the foregoing is a true copy of said charter prepared and returned to me as president of said board of trustees within ninety (90) days after said election as required by section 8 of article 11 of the constitution of the State of California; that said proposed charter was then published in the Pomona Progress and in the Pomona Daily Review, which then were daily newspapers of general circulation in the said city, and that publication was made for more than twenty (20) days, and that the first publication of said proposed charter was made within twenty (20) days after the completion of said charter; that within thirty (30) days after the publication of said charter, as required in said section 8 of article XI of the constitution of the State of California, to wit: on the 16th day of February, 1911, said charter was submitted at a special election duly called and held in the city of Pomona, for the purpose of ratifying or rejecting said proposed charter and the alternative proposition submitted therewith; that by a majority of the votes of the qualified electors voting at said election, said proposed charter was ratified as a whole, excepting that the alternative proposition therein contained being separately voted on, was ratified by a majority of such votes and was thereafter chosen and substituted for section 89 of article XV of said proposed charter; that the returns of said election were duly canvassed by the board of trustees of said city of Pomona on the 18th day of February, 1911, and the result thereof declared as above set forth, and that in all matters and things pertaining to said proposed charter, all provisions of said section of the constitution and the laws of the State of California, pertaining to the adoption of the charter, have been fully complied with in every particular. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the corporate seal of said city of Pomona to be affixed this 18th day of February, 1911. [SEAL] FRANK P. FIREY, President of the Board of Trustees of the city of Pomona. Attest: T. R. TROTTER, City Clerk of the city of Pomona. And, whereas, said proposed charter, with said alternative proposition so ratified, has been duly presented and submitted to the legislature of the State of California for approval or rejection, without power of alteration or amendment, in accordance with section 8 of article XI of the constitution of the State of California; Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the assembly of the State of California, the senate thereof concurring (a majority of all the members elected to each house voting for the adoption of this resolution and concurring therein), that said charter of the city of Pomona, including said alternative proposition, as presented to, adopted and ratified by the qualified electors of said city, be, and the same is hereby, approved as a whole as and for the charter of the said city of Pomona. Charter of CHAPTER 46. Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 23, approving the charter of the city of Vallejo, State of California, voted for and ratified by the qualified voters of said city at a special municipal election held therein for that purpose on the 21st day of February, 1911. [Filed with Secretary of State March 11, 1911.] WHEREAS, The city of Vallejo, a municipal corporation of the county of Solano, State of California, now is and was at all times herein referred to a city containing a population of more than three thousand five hundred (3,500) but less than thirty thousand (30,000) inhabitants; and WHEREAS, At a special election duly held in said city on the 11th day of October, 1910, under and in accordance with law and the provisions of section 8 of article XI of the constitution of the State of California, a board of fifteen freeholders, duly qualified, was elected in and by said city by the qualified electors thereof, to prepare and propose a charter for the government of said city; and WHEREAS, Said board of freeholders did, within ninety (90) days after said election, prepare and propose a charter for the government of said city of Vallejo; and WHEREAS, Said charter was on the 3d day of January, 1911, signed in duplicate by the members of said board of freeholders and was thereupon duly returned and filed, one copy with the mayor of the said city of Vallejo, and the other copy with the county recorder of the said county of Solano and filed in the office of the said county recorder; and WHEREAS, Said proposed charter was thereafter published in the "Vallejo Daily Times" and in the "Vallejo Evening News," each being a daily newspaper of general circulation in said city of Vallejo, and the said charter being published as aforesaid for a period of twenty (20) days, the first publication thereof being made within twenty (20) days after the completion of said charter; and WHEREAS, Said proposed charter was within thirty (30) days after the completion of said publication submitted by the board of trustees of the city of Vallejo to the qualified electors of said city of Vallejo at a special election, previously duly called and therein held on the 21st day of February, 1911; and WHEREAS, At said last mentioned special election a majority of said qualified electors of said city of Vallejo, voting at said special election, voted in favor of the ratification of said charter as proposed as a whole; and WHEREAS, Said board of trustees, after canvassing said returns, found and declared that the majority of said qualified electors voting at said special election had voted for ratifying said charter as above specified; and WHEREAS, The same is now submitted to the legislature of the State of California for its approval and ratification as a whole without power of alteration or amendment, in accordance with section 8 of article XI of the constitution of the State of California; and WHEREAS, Said charter was ratified in the words and figures following, to wit: CHARTER OF THE CITY OF VALLEJO PREPARED CHARTER OF THE CITY OF VALLEJO. the city. Name of the city. SECTION 1. The municipal corporation now existing and Name of known as the city of Vallejo shall remain and continue a body politic and corporate in name and in fact, by the name of the city of Vallejo, and by such name shall have perpetual succession. Rights and liabilities. SEC. 2. The city of Vallejo shall remain vested with and continue to have, hold and enjoy all property, rights of property and rights of action of every nature and description now pertaining to this municipality, and is hereby declared to be the successor of the same. It shall be subject to all the liabilities that now exist against this municipality. ARTICLE II. BOUNDARIES. Rights and liabilities. SEC. 3. The corporate limits of the city of Vallejo shall Bound. be as follows: Commencing at a point where Magazine street aries. intersects with the water front, thence along the south side of Magazine street to the east side of Sixth street, thence along Sixth street to the south side of Benicia avenue, thence along Benicia avenue to the east side of Ninth street, thence along Ninth street to Solano avenue, thence running northerly along |