Solon

Petitioner has filed an application for a •writ of mandate directing the respondents to include his name on the list of candidates and on the ballot for the election of members of the Board of Governors of The State Bar, to be voted for in State Bar District No. 3 at the election to be held between the dates of August 30 and September 13, 1933. It is not disputed by the respondents that petitioner has offered to the respondents for filing the necessary nomination papers required by the State Bar Act. Respondents, however, contend that, under the State Bar Act, as amended by the recent act of the legislature (Stats. 1933, chap. 430), the petitioner is not qualified to be a candidate at said election in State Bar District No. 3, for the reason that he now maintains, and if elected would maintain, his principal office for the practice of law inside the city of Oakland.

Section 9 of the State Bar Act provides that two members of the Board of Governors shall be elected from State Bar District 3, and that “one member of the board from State Bar District 3 to be elected in 1933 for a two- (2) year term, and any successor to said member, at the time of his election shall, and any member…