The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-29
GENERAL LAWS
Enacted By the Legislature of Alabama

limits of the proposed city or town as in- spectors to manage the election which shall be conducted under the same sane ton and penalties as is provided by the general election laws, except that voter may furnish his own ballot, upon which must be written. or printed "corporaton' or mo corporation" and any person who is qualified elector under the State law and has resided within the boundaries of the proposed city for three months next preceding may vote at such election Sec. s. Within five days after the cleo
 tion. the inspectors must certify the result to the Judge of Probate. who must. II a majority of the votes cast at the cleo
 ton are for "Corporation," cause an enumeration of the inhabitants residing within such territory to be made by such inspectors, or other persons appointed bv him. and within three days after such enumeration has been completed and re- turned to him, shall make an order to be entered of record in the minutes of the court that the inhabitants of such terri tory are incorporated as a town or city, as the case may be, by the name and with the boundaries shown by the peti- tion; thereupon such town or city shall be vested with the rights and powers herein granted, incident to such corpora tions.
 Sec. 3. Upon making such order of in- corporation the Judge of Probate shall order an election to be held, by the same inspectors, or others appointed by him. for the purpose of eecting a mayor and members of the council authorized by this act who shall, at such election, be elected from the city or town at large Such Inspectors shall give thirty days notice of the time and place of holding the cleo 1 tion by posting a notice in five public 1 places within the limits of such town or city. Said inspectors shall have the powers and discharge the duties as in- spectors and clerks in municipal elections, and said election shall be conducted as 1 far as practicable, in the manner herein prescribed for the election of city off cers, and and no person shall vote at such election unless he Is qualified elector of the County and has resided within the limits of the municipality for three months next preceding the cleo tion.
 Sec. 10. Within five day after such cleo tion, 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 officers shown by such report to have been elected, shall upon the recording of such order, be entitled to hold office until the next general mu- nicipal election and until their successors are elected and qualified. The Judge of Probate may, for fraud or material ir- regularities, set either of such elections aside and order another election, in like manner to be held by the same or other inspectors to be by him appointed. If any person fails to qualify within thirty days after he shall have been declared elected, the Judge of Probate may appoint some person to fill 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 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 entered dismissing such proceedings.
 Sec Il. Town or cities that have per m tied their organizations to become dor mant and inefficient may, by petition of a majority of the tax payers of such town laafr corporate organization reinstated by an order of the Probate Judge, entered of record, and thereupon he shall appoint 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 qualified.
 Sec. 12 Municipal corporations may by ordinance, require a census to be taken of the inhabitants residing with in the corporate limits of such munic- ipality 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: "I solemnly swear that I will honestly and conscientiously enumerate the in habitants living within the town or city, or portion thereof allotted to me for enumeration" and any such enum- orator who willfully causes false enumeration to be made, knowing the same to be false, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500 and also may be sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than six months.
 Sec. IS. Such enumeration shall be alphabetically arranged and returned to the mayor, together with the origi- nal books of enumeration. The mayor shall thereupon certify to the secretary of state the result of such census, giv- ing the total number of each race re- siding within the corporate limits of the municipality and the result so cer- tified 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 heen taken When rnuniciDa1 census