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$5,000 ; city treasurer, $10,000 ; and that these respective officers are re- 

 quired to submit their bonds within five days, to the board of trustees. 

 Ordinance No. 4 adopts forthwith a common seal the design of which is a 

 key resting within a crown, and the words " City of Pasadena, incorporated 

 June, A. D. 1886," within its rim. Ordinance No. 5 provides for the im- 

 posing and collection of a street poll tax of $2 for each male inhabitant of 

 the city, to be due and payable by the 15th instant. The board will meet 

 at Mr. Webster's office until the necessary furniture can be obtained for 

 meeting in the rear of A. Cruickshank's store on Fair Oaks avenue." 



Ordinance No. i is not mentioned in the above article, and this requires 

 historic explanation. Chas. A. Gardner was at this time editor of the 

 Valley Union ; he was also justice of the peace for San Gabriel township. 

 Now, the first ordinance ever enacted by a Pasadena city council was one 

 making said Chas. A. Gardner city recorder — that is, police "judge." And if 

 I had merely copied the newspaper report and not hunted up the why and 

 wherefore of this remarkable omission, the readers of Pasadena history 

 would have been left in a state of perpetual quandary as to " what was the 

 matter with Ordinance No. i," that it had so quickly slipped out of reckon- 

 ing, " unhonored and unsung." It was a case of editorial modesty that beat 

 all previous records. 



Business now pressed hard upon the board, to get proper ordinances 

 prepared and enacted, and all the machinerj^ of city government set in 

 motion ; and to meet these conditions they were obliged to meet often in 

 formal session, and to be in informal session almost continuously. Their 

 next official meetings were held July i, July 2, July 6, July 8, July 10, July 

 12, July 13, July 19, July 24, July 27, July 29 ; August 2, August 9, Aug- 

 ust 14, August 21, August 24, August 31. In September only four meet- 

 ings were held ; and the same in October; etc. 



On July 10 they appointed Geo. W. Dunmore as the first city police- 

 man who ever wore the official star in Pasadena. 



By August they had enacted all the first necessary ordinances to regu- 

 late their own proceedings, provide for bonds and salaries of city clerk, 

 marshal, treasurer, recorder, attorney, policemen, surveyor, printer, etc., so 

 that the business of the city was all going on under lawful procedure, and 

 all necessary appointive offices had been filled. But there was no city treas- 

 ury as yet, and no funds with which to pay the necessary current expenses ; 

 hence they were obliged to negotiate a loan until such time as the city 

 revenues could be gathered in. And accordingly on July 2, 1886, they 

 voted to borrow $500 for ninety days, thus providing for this financial 

 emptiness.* 



The first city council room was K. C. Webster's office, over Stevens's 

 hardware store in a frame building on ground where the Carlton Hotel 



*" The city recorder paid into the city treasury on Wednesday $So in fines collected. A |2o fine 

 was the first money the city ever owned." — I'ailey Union, August 27, 1&S6. 



I tried my best to find out who paid this historic fine, and what it was for, but records and mem- 

 ories were all empty of the knowledge. 



