Bellah

In mandamus. The alternative writ was issued by this court upon the filing of an affidavit setting forth that the petitioner, a municipal corporation, through its board of trustees, employed certain engineers to assist in making estimates of the cost of a proposed municipal water system for the city; that after consultation with such engineers the board of trustees made an estimate that the cost of such proposed water system would amount to $107,513.76; that thereafter the board, by an ordinance adopted February 6, 1912, determined and declared that the public interest and necessity demanded the acquisition, construction, and completion of such improvement; that the estimated cost of the same is $107,513.76; that such cost is too great to be paid out of the ordinary annual income and revenue of said city, and that it is the intention of the board of trustees of said city to call a special election for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of the city of Oxnard the proposition of incurring a debt in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars for. the purpose of acquiring, constructing, and completing such municipal waterworks, which ordinance was duly published.…