Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-05-13

tinsbHrg. P0Ssed March "a.
1882.
DE 1T ENACTED BY THE LEGIS-
- LATURE OF WEST VIRGINIA /:
That section one Of an act passed Feb
ruary twenty-ninth, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight, entitled an act
amending and re-enacting the charter of
the town of Martinsburg, as amended
and re-enacted by an act passed Febru-
airy twenty-eighth, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-two, be and the
same is hereby amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:
l.. On the fourth Monday in May,
eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and
on the same day 10 every alternate year
thereafter. the voters of tho town of
Martinsburg, in the county of Berkeley,
qualified to vote for members of the
Legislature, and who shall have resided
within said town FOR one year next pre-
ceding the election, and who shall have
paid the head tax assessed against them
for the current year, ten days before
they offer TO vote. shall elect fit and
proper person, being free-holder and
resident of said town, to serve as Mayor
thereof, for the period of two years, or
until bis successor be duly elected and
qualified. And it shall be the duty of
the collector of taxes, thirty days before
the regular May election, in each and
every year, or before any election to fill
vacancies in the Office Of Mayor and
members of the common Council, or any
or either of them, to prepare list of
those delinquents who for the current
year have failed to pay the head tax as
sessed against them, and who but for
that would be entitled to vote for the Of
fcer or officers to be elected, and post
the said list within two days after it is
prepared as aforesaid, in the Mayors
office, to remain there and be kept post
ed up until the polls are closed on cleo
ton day, subject to be inspected by any
citizen of the town. The names of those
voters upon said list, who may have
failed to pay the said tax, for the cur
rent year, shall be furnished by the said
collector to the Commissioners of Elec-
ton at each voting place, and at any
time before the polls are closed, upon
producing a receipt, showing payment
of said tax to the proper officer ten days
before said election, said voter shall be
allowed to vote. No change or altera-
ton shall be made in the delinquent list
by the Collector or any one else after
the same has been prepared and posted
as aforesaid. Nor shall any voter be
prevented from voting, unless his name
appears on said list and he has failed to
pay his tax ten days before the said cleo
ton; nor unless said list has been pre-
pared and posted as provided for in this
section: provided that this act shall not
take effect until a majority of the legal
voters of said town shall, either at a
special election ordered for that purpose
by the Council, or at the regular cleo
ton in May, declare their assent to this
act Publication in one or more news
papers of the town, and by hand-bills,
shall be given at least ten days before
the said election, of the day on which
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ent places of voting. The election shall
be conducted, and the returns thereof
made as is provided by law for all other
elections held in said town for officers or
other purposes. And if from any cause
an election cannot be held at the time
appointed by this act, the Mayor and
Council are hereby authorized and re-
quired to order an election to fill all ex-
isting vacancies, after thirty days notice
by proclamation published in one or
more papers pub!ilhed in the said town i,
and posted at at least one public place
in each Ward.
2. All acts and parts of acts coming
within the purview of this act, and in
consistent therein, are hereby repealed.
Z. w. WILSON,
Speaker of the House Of Delegates
A. E. SUMMERS,
President ofMe Senate