OFFICE REVISION COMMISSION, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, * * SACRAMENTO, August 31st, 1872. We, the undersigned Commissioners to Revise the Laws of the State of California, and authorized by an Act entitled "An Act to put into effect certain parts of the Codes and to provide for their publication," approved March twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to "furnish the State Printer with full copies of such Codes, all fully arranged for publication" (see Section 13, Subdivision 5, of said Act), and to "read all proofs, and see that the printed copies agree with the originals" (see Subdivision 8 of said section), do hereby certify that Volumes 1 and 2, entitled "THE POLITICAL CODE," is a full, true, and correct copy of the Act entitled "An Act to establish a Political Code," approved March twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and contain full, true, and correct copies of all Acts supplementary and amendatory thereof properly inserted, together with the Federal and State Constitutions, and the laws of the United States relating to naturalization and the authentication of writings, properly head-noted. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands, at office in the City of Sacramento, this thirty-first day of August, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-two. CREED HAYMOND, Attest: CAMERON H. KING, WILL J. BEATTY, Secretaries. JOHN C. BURCH, Commissioners. ANALYSIS OF THE CONTENTS. PART I. OF THE SOVEREIGNTY AND PEOPLE OF THE STATE, AND OF THE POLITICAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF ALL PERSONS SUBJECT TO II. OF THE CHIEF POLITICAL DIVISIONS, SEAT OF GOVERNMENT, AND III. OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE. IV. OF THE GOVERNMENT OF COUNTIES, CITIES, AND TOWNS. V. OF THE DEFINITION AND SOURCES OF LAW; THE COMMON LAW; 4. Construction of the Political Code................ 5. Provisions similar to existing laws, how construed.... 6. Tenure of offices preserved........... 7. Construction of repeal as to certain officers...... 8. Actions, etc., not affected by this Code............. SECTION 16. Words and phrases......... 17. Certain terms used in this Code defined........... 18. Statutes, laws, or rules inconsistent with Code repealed................ TITLE I. SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATE. II. PERSONS COMPOSING THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE. III. POLITICAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF ALL PERSONS SUBJECT TO THE CHAPTER I. Residence of sovereignty........... II. Territorial jurisdiction of the State............. 16 |