Lawrence

Original application for a writ of mandate to be directed- to the respondent requiring him, as treasurer of the city of Venice, to sign a certain municipal bond in the sum of five hundred dollars, it being one of forty bonds of like denomination voted by the electors of said city for the purpose of constructing an outfall sewer.

It appears from the petition, all the allegations of which are admitted by a general demurrer interposed thereto, that on January 22,1912, the hoard of trustees of the city of Venice duly adopted a resolution, approved by its president, whereby it determined that public interest and necessity demanded the acquisition and construction of a garbage incinerating plant, the cost of which was twenty three thousand dollars, and the construction of an extension to the sewer outfall pipe, the cost of which was twenty thousand dollars, the cost of which improvements it was declared would be “too' great to be paid out of the annual income and revenue of the city of Venice.” The resolution contained thé following: “The proceedings for the incurring of said indebtedness and the issuance and sale of bonds thereunder, be conducted in accordance with the provisions of…