The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-29
GENERAL LAWS
Enacted by the Legislature of Alabama.

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 ritory are incorporated as town or city, as the case may be. by the name and with the boundaries shown by the petition; thereupon such town or city shal be vested with the rights and
 powers herein granted. incident to such corporations
 Sec. g. Upon making such order of incorporation. the Judge of Probate shall order an election to be held, by the same inspectors. or others appoint 1 ed by him. for the purpose of electing I mayor and members of the council | authorized by this act, who shall, at 1 such election, be elected from the city | or town at large. Such inspectors shall l give thirty Jays notice of the time and | place of holding the election by post l Ing notice in five public places with | in the limits of such town or city Said I inspectors shall have the powers and | discharge the duties as inspectors and clerks in municipal elections, and said l election shall be conducted, as far as I practicable, in the manner herein pre- scribed for the election of city officers and no person shall vote at such cleo [ tion unless he is qualified efector of l the County and has resided within the limits of the municipality for three months next preceding the election Sec. 10. Within five days after such
 election, the inspectors shall report the result of the election to the Judge of Probate. who may enter an order confirming and approving the election and report, and in that event, the off, cers shown by such report to have been elected, shall upon the recording of such order be entitled to hold office until the next general municipal elec- ton and until their successors are elected and qualified The Judge of Probate may, for fraud or material ir- o..fAt q -. aside and order another election, in like manner to be held by. the same or other inspectors to be by him appoint ed. f. any person fails to qualify within thirty days after he shall have
 been declared elected. the Judge of Probate may appoint some person to i'll such vacancy. The judge shall make a record of the proceedings In
 the matter of such incorporation and election of officers and file in the office of the Secretary of State a certified
 copy of the entry showing the result of the elections preceding. The costs of
 all the aforesaid proceedings shall be
 paid by the town or city; but if no
 Judgment Is entered establishing the
 town or city, they shall be paid by the
 petitioners and judgment shall be en-
 tered dismissing such proceedings.
 Sec. II. Town or cities that have
 permitted their organizations to be-
 come dormant and inefficient may, by a
 petition of a majority of the tax pay
 CTS of such town or city to the Probate
 Judge, have their corporate organiza-
 tion reinstated by an order of the Pro-
 bate Judge. entered of record. and
 thereupon he shall appoint a mayor and
 councilmen for such town or city, who
 shall hold their offices until the next
 regular election thereafter and until
 their successors are elected and quail
 fled.
 Sec. 12. Municipal corporations may,
 by ordinance, require a census to be
 taken of the inhabitants residing with
 in the corporate limits of such munich
 pality. Such census shall be taken by
 enumerators, who shall be responsible
 citizens, appointed by the Mayor and
 confirmed by the council Such enum-
 orator or enumerators shall take such census block by block and shall state, as far as practicable, the name, age,
 sex and color of each person residing within such municipality. They shall
 before entering upon their duties, take and subscribe to the following oath: T solemnly swear that I will honestly and conscfentiously enufnerate the in- habitants living within the town or city, or portion thereof allotted to me for enumeration" and any such enurn-
 orator who wiilfuliy causes false enumeration to be made, knowing the same to be false, shall be guilty of a misdemsanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $100.0o nor more than. $5o0.00 and also may be sem tenced to hard labor for the County for not more than six months.
 Sec 13. Such enumeration shall be alphabetically arranged and returned to the mayor, together with the orfgi- nal books of enumeration. The mayor
 n Al A. 4t,.~ tary of State the result of such census giving the total number of each race residing within the corporate limits of the municipality, and the result so cer- tiled by the mayor under the seal of the municipality, attested by the Clerk, shall be the official census of such city or town until the next federal census or until a new enumeration shall have been taken. When a municipal census shall have been taken in an odd year. it shall not be necessary to take sep arate school census in such municipal ity during such year, but such school census shall be taken from the result of the enumeration made by the mu- nicipality, and certified as required by law to the State Superintendent of Ed ucation.
 Sec. IA. The councils of the several cities may, by ordinance, divide such city into not less than three nor more than fourteen wards, except as other wise provided herein, and the numbers and boundaries of such wards may be fixed and changed at any time, except as herein restricted. The several coun- ciis, respectively of cities, at least six months previous to- the first general municipal election held under the pro- visions of this act, shall divide such cities into wards, having as nearly as may be the same number Of inhabi- tants. the lines thereof conforming to the center of the streets or alleys. ana being rectangular as far as practicable Ward lines having once been fixed shall not be changed by the council within three months previous to an election, nor within eighteen months of the time last established, except in the case of a l census showing a population authoriz- ing q change in the form of govern | ment or unless within such time addi- tional territory shall have been an nexed to such city, when such councils | shall have the right to create new | wards or annex such territory to wards | already established.
 Sec. 15. The regular municipal elec- | tions in cities and towns shall be held | on the third Monday in September, | 1908, and biennially thereafter, Munic- | ipal officers elected at such elections | shall assume the duties of their re- | spective offices on the first Monday in | October following such election unless | herein otherwise provided. The voting | places shall be fixed by the council, one | or more voting places for each ward, | where such city has been divided into | wards, and the election shall be con