Dozier

This is a mandamus proceeding to compel the Board of Supervisors of the County of Shasta to redistrict said county into supervisorial districts because of gross inequality of said districts in population. The court below denied the writ and petitioner appeals.

It is conceded that in 1921 the Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance, dividing the county into supervisorial districts, which ordinance is still in effect. Further it is conceded that the districts by said ordinance established are not as nearly equal in population as may be.

Section 4029 of the Political Code reads as follows: "The Board of Supervisors may, by a two-thirds vote of the members of said Board, change the boundaries of any or all of the supervisor districts of a county. Said districts shall be as nearly equal in population as may be. The boundaries of no supervisor district shall at any time be changed in such manner as to affect the term of office of any supervisor who has been elected and whose term of office has not expired. No change in the boundaries of any supervisor district shall be made within ninety days next preceding a general election.”

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