Garrison

The County of Alameda was granted an alternative writ of mandate on its petition to the Supreme Court of this state, directed to said defendants, as auditor and treasurer, respectively, of said county, commanding them to comply with the order of the board of supervisors of said county to charge and pay the expenditure represented by a certain warrant out of the “Estuary Bridge Bond Fund of Said County, ” or to show cause before this court why they had not done so.

Respondents answered the petition for the writ, and the matter has been submitted to this court on an agreed statement of facts.

On August 14, 1917, the electors of Alameda County, at a special election, authorized the incurring of a bonded indebtedness of said county in the sum of $900,000 to build a bridge across the estuary known as Oakland harbor, to connect the cities of Oakland and Alameda, including the acquisition of necessary land for construction and use of said bridge. Throughout the resolution calling the election and all other official proceedings preliminary to said election, the purpose for which the funds sought to be raised by the proposed bond issue were to be raised was uniformly designated as…