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Mandamus to compel the respondents to call and provide for the holding of an election of city officers.

Prior to May 6, 1890, the city of Woodland, in Yolo County, was a municipal corporation under a special charter. On that date a proposition to reorganize as a city of the fifth class, under the general incorporation act, approved March 13,1883, was duly submitted to the electors of said city, and approved by a majority vote.

Thereafter, on June 16,1890, at a special election held in obedience to the provisions of section 4 of said act, the respondents and other city officers enumerated in section 751, i. e., the officers of a city of the fifth class, were duly elected, and have ever since been acting as such.

The petitioners, who are citizens, tax-payers, and electors of said city, have demanded that the respondents call a general city election to be held on the second Monday of April, 1891, for the choice of successors to themselves and the other officers enumerated in section 751; but the respondents, on March 9,1891, by formal resolution entered upon their minutes, refused to call such election, whereupon this proceeding was commenced.

It is proper to say that this…