The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1905-1908, 1906-06-07
CITY ORDINANCE.
Authorizing the City TO Vote on the
Issuance of Sixty Thousand Doll
lars In Bonds.


lars In Bonds.
WHEREAS. by an Act of the
Legislature Of the State Of Mississ-
ippi, approved February IA, 1905,
the Mayor and City Council Of the
City Of Columbus. Miss, is author
ICED to issue and sell the bonds OF
said city to an amount not exceeding
the sum of Sixty Thousand Dollars,
for the purpose of purchasing lands
and erecting thereon a new and ad-
ditlonal school house; to extend the
water and sewerage mains, improve
the waterwOrks plant, improve the
fire department, install steam heating
plant and water closets and sewers
at Franklin Academy, and to pay for
streets to be opened and condemned
provided, however, that before the
issuance of said bonds the said Mayor
and City Council shall submit the
1 question of Fol" or Against" the
/ issuance of said bonds to the quail
fed electors of said city, at a special
/ election to be held for that purpose,
in pursuance OF notice duly given.
Now, therefore, in order to ascertain
4 the will of the qualified voters of said
/ city relative TO the issuance of said
1 bonds
Be it ordained by the Mayor and
/ City Council of the City Of Columbus,
1 Mississippi, that a special election be,
and the same is hereby ordered to be
held at the Mayors Office in said city,
the usual place for holding municipal
/ elections, on
/ THURSDAY, THE FOURTEENTH
DAY OF JUNE (NEXT) 1906,
to ascertain the will of the qualified
voters relative to the issuance of
Sixty Thousand Dollars $3.50, 0OO) Of
/ bonds of said city, to purchase lands
and erect thereon a new and addi-
/ tiOnal school house, to extend the
water and sewerage mains, improve
the waterworks plant, improve the
fire department, install steam heating
/ plant and water closets and sewers
I at Franklin Academy, and to pay for
| streets to be opened and condemned.
Be it further ordained, that said
/ election shall be by ballot, and that
none but qualified electors of said
city shall vote at said election. Those
/ favoring the issuance of said bonds
will deposit a ballot with the words
| printed thereon: For the Issu-
ance; those opposed to the issu-
ance will deposit a ballot with the
words printed thereon: Against the
Issuance" That the polls be opened
at nine 60 o'clock, A. NJ, and kept
opened until six co o'clock, P. M,
and no longer. That the Mayor be
aud he is hereby instructed to give
not less than thirty 600 days notice
of the time and place of said election
and that said special election will be
conducted and concluded in all re-
| speets in compliance with the Con-
stitution and Laws of the State gov
erning Municipal Elections applicable
to this city, and the Charter and Or
dinances of the same; and that all
penalties imposed for violations of
cary of the laws thereof applicable. -.
elections, be aud the same are here
by made applicable to this special
election. That IL said election shall
result by a two-thirds vote of the
qualified electors of said city voting
at said election in favor of the is
suanee of said bonds, it shall be
final and conclusive as to the regu-
larity and legality of said proceed
ings, and render valid the issuance of
said bonds
Be it further ordained that w D.
| Humphries, w. K. POpe and Nathan
Whitfield be and they are hereby APP
pointed judges, and that |. II. Sykes
and H. L. Bailey be and they are
hereby appointed clerks of and to
hold said election. That w. d. Hum
phries, the first named of said judges,
shall have prepared the ballots for
said election, with the words: For
the Issuance" and Against the Is
suance' printed thereon; and on the
back, and outside of the ballot, shall
be printed the words "Oficial Ballot,
City of Columbus, Mississippi, June
14th, 1906 That the said w. d.
HUMPHREYS shall receive and distrib-
ute the ballots on the day of said
Special Election, according to law.
Be it further ordained that the said
judges and clerks of said Special
Election, after being duly sworn aC-
cording to law. shall, upon the day
designated in this Ordinance, to-wit,
Thursday, the 14th day of June,
1906, and at the place specified here
in. to-wit, the Mayors Office in said
city, and the usual and prescribed
place for holding municipal elections
proceed to open the polls at the hour
prescribed by law, tO-wit, nine 90
o'clock, A NJ, and keep them con
tinuously open until six 60 o'clock
P. NJ, and no longer. Said judges
and clerks are charged with conduct
ing and concluding said Special Elec-
ton in conformity to the require
ments of the constitution and laws
of this State governing municipal
elections applicable to this city, and
with the Charter and Ordinances OF
b this city relative thereto.
Be it further ordained that said
judges and clerks shall carefully and
accurately ascertain the result oil
said Special Election, and, as early
/ as practicable thereafter make a re.