Moore

From the record herein it appears that under the provisions of an act to provide, among other things, for the “consolidation and abolition of certain municipal offices, and to provide that their duties may be performed by certain officers of the county” (Stats. 1895, p. 219, and amendments thereto; Deering’s Gen. Laws [1923] Act 8464), as well as pursuant to the provisions of the charter of the city of San Diego (chap. 4, art. I; sec. 32, chap. I, art. VI) a properly signed initiative ordinance was filed with the city clerk of said city of San Diego, which in effect provided that the duties of assessing the property and collecting taxes provided by law to be performed by the assessor and the tax collector of said city should thereafter be performed by the county assessor and the county tax collector respectively of the county of San Diego—said county being the county in which said city of San Diego is situated. Thereafter, and on the fourth day of May, 1927, and in due course of law (without election by the people), the city council of the city of San Diego passed and adopted the said initiative ordinance which, on the tenth day of May following, was signed and approved by the…