Ordinance - 26ORDINANCE NO. 2(0
AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
CITY OF WEST COVINA APPROVING THE ANNEXATION
TO, INCORPORATING IN AND MAZING A PART OF THE
SAID CITY OF.VIEST COVINA CERTAIN TERRITORY
OUTSIDE OFTHE, SAID CITY AND CONTIGUOUS THERETO,
WHICH SAID ANNEXATION WAS APPROVED BY THE QUALIFIED
ELECTORS OF THE SAID TERRITORY AT. A SPECIAL
ELECTION HELD ON 'THE 13TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1926,
VOTING IN FAVOR OF THE ANNEXATION OF THE, SAID TERRI-
TORY TO THE SAID,CITYj WHICH SAID TERRITORY HAS BEEN
•AND
IS DESIGNATEDAS NORTHWEST ANNEXATION DISTRICT.
WHEREAS$ the' Board of Trustees of the City of West
Covina did., on the 12.th day of January, 1926, receive a written
petition signed by not less than one fourth in number of the
qualified electors residing within the territory described in
the said petition, 'which said aid territory is hereinafter particu-
larly described, asking that the territory hereinafter described
be annexed to, incorporated and included in, and made a part of
the City of West, Covina; and
WHEREAS, at the time of the filing of the said, -pe-
tition, the said territory, was outside of the said City of West
Covina and was contiguous thereto; and
WHEREASt the said petition was by the said Board
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of Trustees duly referred to the City Clerk of the said City of
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West Covina, and the said City Clerk did on the 12th day of
January, 1926, report to the said Board of Trustees that he had
examined the said petition:and the register of voters of the
County of Los Angeles, and found that the said petition was
signed by more than one fourth in number of the qualified elec-
tors residing within the said territory described in the said
petition; and
WHEREAS, the said Board of Trustees did on the
12th day of January, 1926, in the manner required by law, call
a special election in the said territory described in the said
petition and did designate the 13th day of February, 1926s as
the day for holding the said election, and did cause notice of
said election to be published in a newspaper of general • circula-
tion outside of the said City of Vilest Covina., but in the County
of Los Angeles, the same being the county in which the said ter-
ritory was and is situated, at least once a week for a period of
four successive weeks next preceding the date of said election,
which said notice was in the form and was published in the man-
ner -required by law; and
IMEEAS, the said Board of Trustees, by resolution,
did designate the said territory as Northwest .Annexation district,
and did appoint officers of the said election in the manner re-
quired by. law, and did establish the saidterritory as a voting
precinct, and did designate a polling place therein; and
a MAS, the said election was duly and. regularly
held on the said 13th day of February, 1926, andthe same was con-
ducted and the votes cast thereat were received and counted, and
• the returns made thereon.in the time, in the form, and in the
manner required by law; and
WHEREA89 the said, Board of Trustees did meet on
_ the 17th day of February, 1926, the said date being the first
regular meeting of the said Board.of Trustees next after the
expiration of three days from and after the date of the said
election, for the purpose of canvassing the votes cast at the
said election and the returns of the said election, and the said
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Board of 'I"rustees did at its said meeting canvass the returns of
the said election and completed the canvass thereof, and
by the said canvass it vies found that, the total number of votes
cast in favor of said proposition, and the 'total number of
votes cast against the said proposition were in number as here-
inafter particularly.set forth; and
L,,vEEREAS,'it was found that a special election was
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held on the 13th day of February, 1926, in the territory desig-
nated as Northwest Annexation District, more particularly herein-
after described-, at which election there was submitted to
the qualified electors of said district 'the question whether the
said territory lie annexed to, incorporated- in and made a part of
the said City of TvIest Covina; and that at the said election the
total number of votes cast was <Y? votes; and
that the total number of votes cast for the proposition:
Shall the territory designated as "NORTMirEST
&-NNEXATION DISTRICT" be annexed to. -the City
of 'West, Covina?
YES
0
wa votes; and that the total number of votes
cast for the pro position:
• Shall the territory designated. as "NORTHWEST
A
M MXATIOIa DISTFICT" be annexed to-th.e City
of West Covina?
NO
was Vo tee; that the total number of
vo�-Ps cast in the said election in favor of annexation of the
aforesaid territory to the said City of West Covina was
votes, and that the total number of 'votes cast against the an-
nexation of the said territory to, the said City of TvVest Covina
was votes; and
WHEREAS, the City Clerk' of the said City 'of West Covina
did on the 17th day of February, 1926, cause a record of the
canvass of votes to be made and entered upon the minutes of
the said Board of Trustees, stating the proposition submitted to
the qualified electors of the said territory, the total number of
votes cast upon the said proposition in the said territory, the
• number of votes cast therein in favor of the annexation of the
said territory to the said City of West Covina, and the total
number of votes cast therein against the said annexation; and
WHEREAS, it appears from the canvass of the votes
cast at the said special election that the proposition of the
annexation of the said territory to the said City of West Covina
described in the said petition and hereinafter particularly de-
scribed, received a majority of all of the votes cast at the
said election;
ISOW, THEREFORE, the Board of Trustees of the City of
West Covina do ordain as follows:
Section 1. That the annexation to the said City of
West Covina of the territory hereinafter described and designated
on the ballots used at the said special election held in the
said territoryas Northwest Annexation District be and the
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same is hereby approved, and that the territory hereinafter
described be, and the same is hereby annexed to, incorporatedin and made a part of the City of West Covina::.
Section 2. That the territory hereinbefore referred
to, and which is hereby annexed to, made a part of and incor-
porated in 'the said City of West Covina, is more particularly
described as follows:
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That certain portion of the County of Los Angeles,
State of California, described as follows:
Beginning at the northwesterly corner of lot eleven
(11) of Eugene Riggin' s Subdivision of the Hathaway Tract, as
per map recorded in Book 53, page 37, Miscellaneous Records of
the County of Los Angeles, the same being an angle point in.
the boundary line of the City of crest Covina; thence easterly
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along the northerly line of��-the said lot eleven (11), (the said
line being also the northerly line of the said City of crest
Covina) to the northeasterly corner of the said lot; thence
northerly along the easterly line of lots twelve (12) , thirteen
(13) , fourteen (14) and fifteen (15) of 'the said Eugene Riggin's
Subdivision of the Hathaway Tract and the northerly prolongation
of the said line 'to a point in 'the northerly line of Covina
Boulevard (or San Bernardino Road), the said last mentioned line
being the southerly line of lot four (4) of the west part of
the fractional north half of section sixteen (16) , township
one (1) south, range ten (10) west, S. B. Be & Id. , as per map
recorded in Book 1415 of Deeds, page 44, Records of said County
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of Los Angeles; thence easterly along the southerly line of the
said lot four (4) to the southeasterly corner of said lot;
thence northerly along the easterly line of said lot Four (4)
to the northeasterly corner of said lot; thence westerly along
the northerly line of the said lot four (4) to the northwesterly
corner of said lot; thence in a direct line to the northeasterly
corner of lot sixteen (16) of the said Eugene 'Riggin's Subdivision
of the Hathaway Tract, the said. point being in the southerly
line of the right-Df-way of the Southern Pacific Railroad (Covina
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Branch) ; thence westerly along the southerly line of the said
right-of-vzay to the northwesterly. corner of a tract of 9.95
acres, more or less, belonging to Charles IE.endall, in lot tvao
(2) of section seventeen (17) township one (1) south, range ten
(10) west, S. B.B. & IkI. ; thence southerly along the westerly
line of the said 9.95 acre tract to the northerly line of the
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said Covina Boulevard; thence northeasterly and easterly along
the northerly line of the said Covina Boulevard to a point which
is ten (10) feet westerly, measured along the said line, from
the northerly prolongation of the easterly line of lot fifteen
(15) of the said Eugene Riggin's Subdivision of the Hathaway
Tract; thence southerly to a point in the northerly line of 'the
said lot fifteen (15) , which is ten (10) feet westerly from the
northeasterly corner of said lot; thence westerly along -the north-
erly line of the said lot fifteen (15) to the northwesterly corner
of the said lot; thence southerly along the westerly line of
lots fifteen (15) , fourteen (14) , thirteen (13) and twelve (12)
of the said Eugene Riggin's Subdivision of the Hathaway '.Tact
to 'the place of beginning.
. Section 3. That the City Clerk shall certify to the
passage of this Ordinance and cause the same to be posted in
three of the most public places in the City of ffest Covina, to
wit: At the door of 'the Wiest Covina Club House, and on Sunset
Avenue in front of the West Covina School House, and at the
northwest corner of Puente Street and Lark Ellen Boulevard,ancl
shall file a certified copy of this ordinance with the Secretary
of the State of California, and one with the County Surveyor of
the County of Los Angeles, and said Ordinance shall be in full
force and effect thirty days from and after the date of posting.
President of the Board of Trustees
of the City of West Covina.
At e st
City Clerk of theVCity of
West Covina.
STATE OF CALIFORNI^A, )
County of Los Angeles, ) SS :
City of Test Covina, )
I; C. D. Wolfinger, City Clerk of the City of West
Covina, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was duly
and regularly introduced at a regular meeting of the Board of
Trustees of the City of West Covina, held on the 17th day of
February, 1926, and thereafter finally adopted at a regular
meeting of said Board of Trustees, held on they of
February, 1926, by the following vote:
Aye s
Noes: _
Absent:
City Clerk of the C ty of West
Covina.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA, )
) SS:
COUNTY OF LOS �NGEI,ES )
0. D. Wolfinger, being first duly sworn, says:
That he is the City Clerk of the City of West Covina, and
is a citizen of the United States n _ over the age of
twenty-one years; 'that on the g-ay of February, 1926,
he posted three copies of Ordinance No.:k of the City of
West Covina, entitled "An Ordinance Providing for the
Posting of City Ordinances", in three public places in the
said city,. to wit, one at the door of the `eest Covina Club
.douse, the same being the place where the regular meetings of
the board of trustees of the said city are held, one on
Sunset Avenue in front of 'the West Covina -ichool House, and
one at the northwest corner of Puente Street and Lark Ellen
Boulevard.
SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me this '�-c5titLday
of February, 1926.
(NOTARI-L SEAL)
A --A - 9If.
Notary Public in and for the
County of Los Angeles, State
of. California.
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