Cerini

Mandamus. The petition alleges the following facts: That petitioner is a qualified elector- of the territory described in section 1 of the act approved March 14, 1907 (Stats. 1907, p. 260), relating to the establishment of the boundary line between the counties of Kings and Fresno; that defendants are the duly appointed and qualified commissioners to carry out the provisions of said act; that pursuant to said act said commissioners duly ordered and gave notice of an election to he held within said territory, and each precinct thereof, on December 10, 1907; that said election ¡was so held on said day ‘1 and thereafter the election returns from the officers of the said several precincts established by said board in said territory, authenticated as required by law, were all duly made to said board at its office established by it in the city of Coalinga within the said territory”; that on the seventeenth day of December, 1907, and after said returns had been so made and received by said board, all the members thereof met as a board of canvassers, at its said office, for the purpose of canvassing the returns of said election, as required by said act. “That the said board, wholly…