The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-06

T | graph, electric light or power com pafy within a city or town shall bt permitted or authorized to construct | its tracks. lay its pipes or mains. ol erect it's poles. or posts or other ap | paratus, or string its wires upon thu same, along, over, under or across thu streets. alleys or public grounds of [ | city or town, without the consent o | the proper municipal authorities ot l such city or town being first had anG | obtained.
 | Referred to Committee on Municipa NCorporations.
 The President-The next order oi
 business will be the call of the standing committees.
 The calling of the roll for this pur: pose was started.
 MT. waddell-I move we dispense with calling of the roll of the standing committees for reports. The Clerk-I think some are going to report.
 The President-Does the gentleman insist on his motion?
 MT. Waddell-No.
 The call was continued and the Muni- cipal Corporations Committee reported as follows: The Committee on Municipal Cor porations to whom was referred Ordi- nance No. 1S3 introduced by MT. Boone of Mobile and Ordinance No. 1S6 in- troduced by MT. Weakley of Lauder dale beg leave to report that they have considered the same and recommend the adoption of the following substitute by the convention
 John B. weakley, Chairman of Committee on Municipal Corporations.
 June 5th, 1901.
 Substitute by the Committee on
 Municipal Corporations for Ordinance
 No. 1s3 and Ordinance No. 1S6 relating
 to the organization and classification of cities.
 An ordinance to regulate the organi- towns.
 Be it ordained by the people of Ala
 bama in convention assembled. That the General Assembly shall provide by general laws for the organization and classification of cities and towns; the
 number of such classes shall not ex- ceed four, and the power of each class shall be defined by general laws so that
 all such municipal corporations of the
 same class shall possess the same
 powers and be subject to the same
 restrictions.
 The General Assembly shall assign
 the towns and cities of the State to the
 class to which they respectively be-
 long, and change assignments made
 as the population of such cities and
 towns increase or decrease, and in the
 absence of other satisfactory informa-
 tion as to their population the General Assembly shall be governed by the last
 preceding federal census. provided.
 however, that any town or city in
 Alabama may in the year 1905 and
 every ten years thereafter cause. census of all of its inhabitants to be taken, and the General Assembly may change the classification of such town or city according to the results of such census.
 Sec. Q. Any city having population of more than twenty-five thousand inhabitants may frame a charter for its own government consistent with, and subject to the constitution and laws of this State, by causing board of thirteen free-holders, who shall have been for at least five years qualified voters thereof to be elected by the qualified voters of such city at any general or special election; which board shall within ninety days after such election return to the chief mag istrate of such city the draft of such charter signed by the members of such board or a majority of them. Within thirty days thereafter, such proposed charter shall be submitted to the qualified voters of such city, at gen. eral or special election, and If four sevenths of such qualified voters voting thereat shall ratify the same, it shall at the end of thirty days thereafter become the charter of such city and superceed any existing charter and all special acts of the General Assembly relating to such city other than laws securing and enforcing the payment of debt of such city, and shall supercede any existing charter and amendments thereof. A duplicate certificate shall be made setting forth the charter pro- posed and it's ratification, which shall be signed by the chief magistrate of such city, and authenticated by its cor porate seal; one of such certificates shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State. and the other after being recorded in the office of the Judge of Probate for the county in which said city lies. shall be deposited among the archives of such city, and all courts shall take judicial knowledge thereof.
 Such charter so adopted may be by a proposal therefor pub lished for at least thirty days in two of said city and accepted by three-fifths of the qualified voters of such city voting at a general or special election and rRt otherwise; bSt such charter shall always be in har- mony with, and subject to the con- stitution and laws of the State of Ala bama
 MP. Sanford-I move to amend the report of the Committee by striking put that part of it which authorizes "a city of 25,000 or more to make its | own charter and amend it at will.
 MT. Reese-I rise to a point of order | that the Convention cannot now act on | hat report.
 The President-The rules require that | he report of the Committee shall lie | ,n the table and be printed. Amend | nents will be in order when it comes | up for its third reading.
 MT. Sanford-That is satisfactory.
 The President-The ordinance having been read second time to the Con yention will lie on the table and will be printed.
 The Clerk-The Committee on Mu- licipal Corporations also report as fol- ows:
 The Committee on Municipal Corpo- ations to which was referred Resolu- ion No. 23 introduced by MT. Coleman, equiring bond issues and contracts 1aturing at a later date than twelve months to be first submitted to a vote f the people, beg leave to report fla 'orably upon the attached substitute, nd recommend its passage.
 Jno. B. Weakley, Chairman of Committee on Municipal