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Original Resolution Missing
Excerpt from minutes of Board of Trustees Meeting of April 9, 1918
The following Resolution, duly seconded was approved and
adopted.
"Whereas a general municipal election was held in the city
of Chula Vista, California on Monday, the 8th day of April, 1918,
for the purpose of electing three members of the Board of Trustees,
a clerk and Treasurer, and Whereas, it appears that said election
was held and conducted in accordance with the general laws of
the State as far as applicable, that the Board of Trustees
gave due notice thereof: and that said election was held and
conducted and the votes cast thereat were received and canvassed,
and returns thereon made in time, form and manner as required
by law. and Whereas, the Board of Trustees did meet on this
9th day of April, 1918 for the purpose of canvassing the
vote cast thereat, it was found the votes cast at said election
was as follows:
For Trustees
Judson Bent 378 Votes
Frank Howe 312 Votes
Thos, J.H. McKnight 385 Votes
Reverdy J. Wharton 105 Votes
For City Clerk
J.F. Morrill 362 Votes
Scattering 2 Votes
For Treasurer
M.A. Patterson 354 Votes
And Whereas it appears from a canvass of the votes cast
at said general municipal election, that the following named
persons received a majority of all the votes cast for the
respective offices mentioned; therefore it is resolved and
declared by the Board of Trustees of the City of Chula Vista,
California that at a general municipal election held in said
city on Monday, April 8th, 1918, the persons elected to the
respective offices for the term stated and until their successors
are duly elected and qualified, are as follows:
Judson Bent as Trustee for the term of four years.
Frank Howe as Trustee for the term of four years.
Thos. J. H. McKnight as Trustee for the term of four years.
J.F. Morrill as Clerk and ex-officio assessor for the term
two years
M.A. Patterson as treasurer for the term of two years.
The Clerk and Treasurer before entering upon the duties
of their respective offices, shall execute a bond to the City
of Chula Vista in sum as required by ordinance, which bond shall
be approved by the Board of Trustees and filed with the Clerk,
after which the bond of the Clerk shall be filed with the
president of the Board, all newly elected officers before
entering upon the duties of their office to which they have
been elected, shall take and subscribe to the constitutional
oath of office, and file the same with the clerk"
The motion was carried and the resolution approved and
adopted by the following vote, To-wit:
Ayes, Eitzen,Noyes, and Barnes
Noes, none
Absent, Monroe and Geyer