(A) At a special session of the Council, duly convened on 9-9-1893, a petition was presented to the Council signed by more than one-third of the legal voters residing within a certain territory therein described, asking the Council that the territory be incorporated as a town by the name of “Upland”, which the petition was duly entered upon the records of the Council, whereupon, the Council there made an order that the votes of the legal voters residing within the territory be taken upon the question whether the territory should be incorporated as a town, and whereas it appears that notice of the election on 9-25-1893 for the purpose aforesaid was duly given by publication in The Upland Monitor, a newspaper printed and published in the territory in the manner required by law; and it further appears from the verified written statement of the inspectors and the clerk of the election that the qualified voters of the territory meet within the territory, and the votes of the legal voters of the territory were duly taken on 9-25-1893, and that a majority of the votes cast at the election on the day pursuant to such order and notice given as aforesaid was in favor of the incorporation of the territory as a town by the name of “Upland”, all of which appears upon the records of the Council according to law.
(B) It is, therefore, considered and adjudged by the Council that the prayer of the petition contained in the petition contained in the petition as presented on 9-9-1893, be and the same is hereby granted, and it is further ordered that the territory described in the petition be and the same is hereby incorporated as a town by the name of “Upland”.
(Prior Code, § 11.01)