Pond

— This is an application for a writ of mandate to compel the respondents — the registrar and board of election commissioners — to count the votes in certain precincts of the city and county of San Francisco, alleged to have been cast for candidates to fill the office of supervisor for the first board of supervisors, and also those cast for candidates for the office of police commissioner. The first twelve petitioners named herein were candidates for the office of supervisor, and the last three named were candidates for the office of police commissioner. It is alleged that every one of the petitioners received about fifteen hundred votes, and was elected to the office for which he was a candidate, there being no opposing candidate; and petitioners ask that the respondents be required, after counting the votes, to declare the result, and to issue certificates of election accordingly.

*143 The questions argued by counsel for petitioners are not new. They may not have been presented so forcibly or with as great perspicuity before, but they have been determined adversely to the contentions of the petitioners, after careful consideration of the constitutional and statutory provisions…