...California in effect at the time of the adoption of the charter was as follows : "Sec. 6, Article XI. Corporations for municipal purposes shall not be created...in proportion to population, of cities and towns. * * * and cities and towns heretofore or hereafter organized, and all charters Opinion of the Court....

...constitution and the acts of the Legislature relating to the subject. Sec. 5, Art. 11, Const., provides that, "The Legislature, by general laws shall provide for...the incorporation, organization, and classification of cities." There is no provision of the constitution defining the powers and duties of incorporated...

...public and municipal moneys which may be paid to them, or officially come into their possession. J 6. Corporations for municipal purposes shall not be created...and towns, which laws may be altered, amended, or appealed. Cities and towns heretofore organized or incorporated may become organized under euch general...

...public and municipal moneys which may be paid to them, or officially come into their possession. SEC. 6. Corporations for municipal purposes shall not be created...heretofore organized or incorporated may become organized xinder such general laws whenever a majority of the electors voting at a general election shall so...

...public or municipal moneys which may be paid to them. SEC. 7. Supervisors shall be electel . Sue. 8. Corporations for municipal purposes shall not be created...organization, and classification, in proportion to inhabitants, of cities and towns; and cities and towns heretofore incorporated or created by special...

...Committee of the Whole to section six. INCORPORATION OF CITIES AND TOWNS. THE SECRETARY read: '•SEC. C. The Legislature, by general laws, shall provide for...in proportion to population, of cities and towns; and cities and towns heretofore organized or incorporated, may become organized under and subject to...

...will not conflict with the organic law. This measure, and such general laws as your wisdom may suggest for the incorporation, organization, and classification,...proportion to population, of cities and towns, which by Section 6, of Article XI, of the Constitution it is required you shall enact, are among the most...

...be subject to and controlled by such general laws as the legislature shall enact, other than those for the incorporation, organization, and classification,...in proportion to population, of cities and towns. Judgment reversed and cause remanded, with directions to the court below to overrule the demurrer....

...amended in that regard. It is urged that the language of section 6, art. 11, of the constitution — "corporations for municipal purposes shall not be...in proportion to population, of cities and towns" — refers solely to organization as such; and that when the corporation is once launched, and has...

...special laws, but the Legislature by general laws shall provide July, 1881.] WOOD v. ELECTION COM. 569 for the incorporation, organization, and classification...to population, of cities and towns, which laws may bo altered, amended, or repealed." These provisions are clearly prospective; but the framers of the...