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l 2 4 6 7 8 9 12 13 14 ).6 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 the said Board of Supervisors to fo~m the precincts within the City of Santa Ana, to fix the p~lling places, appoint the precinct boards, ~rovide for the expenses of said election and canvass the returns of 3aid special election. That the election officers serving at said consolidated election shall receive as compensation for their services the sum fixed by the Board of Supervisors of Orange County, that the polls shall be open between the hours of 7 o'clock A. M. and 7 o'clock P. M. , that the voting precincts, polling places and election boards shall be those named and established by said Board of Supervisors for the general election to be held November 2, 1954, which is a state-wide election. That the Clerk of the Council is hereby directed to publish the proposed amendment to the Charter of the City of Santa Ana in one issue of the Santa Ana Independent not less than 4© days nor more than 60 days before said election, to cause the same to be printed and to cause a copy thereof, enclosed in an envelope with a sample ballot, to be mailed to each voter, to advertise in said newspaper, ~until November 2, 1954, a notice that copies of said proposed amend- ment may be had upon application therefor, to publish once a Notice of Election and to publish twice a Notice of Measure to be ~oted On, all as required by law. That said amendment to be submitted to the electors as herein shall be submitted to the electors under the following set forth, messure~ INITIATIVE PROPOSITION TO AS~ND THE SANTA ANA CITY CHARTER Shall the Charter of the City of Santa Ana be a~ended to provide that five wards be established prior to Narch 5, 1955 which wards shall not vary, one from another, more than five percent of the numerical one-fifth of the total number of registered electors, to require that one councilman reside in each ward, that a candidate be nominated from the ward where he resides, that councilmen be elected at large, that the boundary lines of wards be changed every two years by four-fifths vote of the Council unless no ward varies by ten percent from any other, that the Council must publish a map diagram of the new ward line~ and hold a public hearing on notice before making any change, to provide for seven wards when City has a population of 120,000 2