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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSeal Info OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK The personification of Justice (holding the scales) and Agriculture or bounty holding a sheaf of grain and sickle. The verbiage “Chartered May 1st 1876” (the date of the first meeting of the new city’s elected officials) is not quite correct as the Legislature passed the act creating the city on March 20 receiving the Governor’s signature a few days later. In March 1884 an unusual notation in the Minutes directs the Clerk “to have the date of the charter erased from the present City Seal” which would then “constitute the Corporate Seal” of the city. Since impressions from both before and after this directive are the same, it is assumed any erasure was not done or once impressed upon a document, a change was written. San Luis Obispo became a Charter City in 1911 under different state laws …and not in 1876 when it was incorporated. (NOTE: 1911 Charter: Article VII, Section 45a: Powers of Council: “To provide a corporate seal, with appropriate device, to be affixed to all instruments or writing needing authentication.”)