The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1906-09-08
Sections from the New Chapter on
municipalities.

| Wednesdays issue the duties
prescribed in the new code chap.
ter on Municipalities for the
Mayor and Police Justice,
and some of those prescribed for
the city clerk and marshal. The
following additional sections are
pertinent at this time when the
question of candidates for alder
men and clerk are being consider
ed:
1876. Municipal Officers (Laws
1904, ch. 1867 The officers of
every municipality shall be a
mayor, aldermen, a marshal, a tax
collector, a treasurer, a clerk, and
| a street commissioner. The num-
Der of aldermen in a city Of over
four thousand inhabitants shall be
no less than FIVE nor more than
nine; and of four thousand or less,
and in town, FIVE; and in a vii
lage, three; and in cities of more
than ten thousand inhabitants the
board may increase the number of
aldermen in their discretion, not
to exceed twelve. The marshal
may be the street commissioner;
and in towns and villages he shall
be the tax collector, and may be
in city. The street commission
er and clerk may be an alderman,
and the clerk or marshal may be
the tax collector or assessor, if
the Mayor and Board of Alder
men shall so elect. All of the
said municipal officers shall be
elected by the people, except
where the Mayor and Board Of
Aldermen elect that the street
commissioner or that the clerk
shall be an alderman, in which
case the street commissioner and
the clerk shall be elected by the
mayor and board. When there
are eight or more aldermen, two
shall be elected by each ward in a
city, and the remainder at large;
and in all other cases an equal
number of aldermen shall be elect
ed in each ward of a city, the re-
mainder at large. When there
are six wards and less than twelve
aldermen, one shall be elected by
each ward in the city and the re-
mainder at large. When there
are twelve aldermen two shall be
elected from each ward. The
mayor, marshal, clerk, treasurer,
tax collector and street commits
sioner, and the police justice in
cities of six thousand inhabitants
or more, shall be elected at large.
1876. Office of alderman vacat-
ed by removal from ward. Ifl
any person elected as aIdermanl
from a particular ward shall re-
move his residence from said
ward, the Office shall become va
can't thereby, and shall be SO de-
clared by the Mayor and Board of
Aldermen, and such vacancy shall
be filled as in other cases of vacan-
cy as prescribed in this chapter.
3431. Penalty for unauthoriz
ed appropriation. If a mayor or
member of the board Of aldermen
of municipality shall knowingly
vote for the payment of any claim
not authorized by law, he shall be
subject to Indictment, and upon
conviction be fined in sum not
exceeding double the amount of
such unlawful claim or appropri-
alton, or may be imprisoned in
the county Jail for not more than
three months, or both such fine
and Imprisonment.
1882. The clerk to be auditor.
The clerk shall be the auditor
of. the municipality. He shall
keep well-bound book, in which
he shall enter and preserve ac-
counts of each particular fund,
and the accounts of each munich
pal officer. The treasurer shall
not receive money from any
source until the same has been
to the clerk and audited
and receipt issued
therefor. All fines and forfeit
ures shall be reported by the Off
Ger collecting the same Immediate
~ after such collection, and be-
paid into the treasury. The books
Of the auditor shall be subject to
inspection by the taxpayers of
the municipality at any time dur
ing business hours.
3446. Municipal officers not to
be interested in any municipal
contract. It shall be unlawful
for the mayor or any member of
the board of aldermen or councilE
or any other public officer Of anyf
municipality to enter into or to
have or to own any interest or
share individually or as agent,
empioye or any person or corpo-
ration either directly or Indirect
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