Mintzer

The town, or, as it is called officially, the city, of Long Beach, in Los Angeles county, is a municipal corporation of the sixth class, in which class are included all cities having less than three thousand inhabitants, organized under the act of March 13, 1883, “To provide for the organization, incorporation, and government of municipal corporations.” Defendants compose the board of trustees of said town, which board is the legislative body of the corporation. Among the provisions of “An act to provide for the disinco- *362 poration of municipal corporations of the sixth class,” approved March 26, 1895 (Stats. 1895, p. 115), are the following: “A municipal corporation of the sixth class may disincorporate after proceedings had as required in this act. The council, the board of trustees, or other legislative body of such corporation, shall, upon receiving a petition therefor, signed by not less than one-fourth of the qualified electors thereof, as shown by the vote cast at the last municipal election held therein, submit to the electors of such corporation the question whether such municipal corporation shall disincorporate. Such question shall be submitted at a special election…