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Excerpt from Charter and Ordinances of the City of Fresno, California: Issued Under Charter Provisions by Authority of the Board of Trustees The editors submit their work to the City and the public without apology. They were instructed to print the ordinances in the order of their passage, and to index them as fully as possible. They feel that, considering their limited experience in, and facilities for, such work, it is done as well as anyone could do it. Any defects that may appear in it are not due to lack of pains in preparation, but to inevitable oversight of some things in attempting to co-ordinate the treatment of the same subjects in various ordinances. Some explanation of the arrangement of the book in other respects should be made. The index to the Charter is given In the first of the book, for the reason that it is so long, and includes so many subjects in common with the ordinance index, that it was thought best to take it entirely away from the latter, so as to avoid confusion. Indeed, there are so many subjects common to the Charter and the ordinances, that we suggest that those having occasion to use the book should refer to both indexes. There has been prepared and placed in the first of the book, a list of all ordinances of the City, in numerical order, giving a general idea of the subject of each, and, when repealed, the number of the repealing ordinance; if in the book, a statement that it is published; and if a tax, franchise or other ordinance listed in the appendix, that it will be found there. The ordinances listed in the appendix are, many of them, still in force, or are ordinances which have fulfilled their function. The text of these may be found in the office of the City Clerk. The heading in parenthesis at the top of the pages of the index refer to sections, subsections and pages. Where the double parenthesis occurs, the first number refers to section and the second number refers to subsection. If only one parenthesis occurs it refers to section number only. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.