The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

No. STD AN AL 'ii D. '' To provide means for the extension Of the
 corporate limits of cities having twen-
 tv-fve thousand inhabitants or over,
 and exempting from city taxation
 property brought within the corporate
 limits for certain periods of time, and
 fixing the rights, powers, duties, labil-
 ities and jurisdiction of the city over
 the territory brought into the corporate
 limits and the rights of the inhabitants
 thereof, including right relating to pub
 lie schools, and to provide for the pro-
 portionment between city and county
 of the road and bridge tax collected by
 the county on property within the city
 and the expenditure of the fund by the
 city. Be it enacted by the Legislature
 of Alabama as follows:
 Section 1. Any city having twenty-five thousand inhabitants or more, at the time territory is brought within it's limits under the provisions hereof, as shown by the next preceding national census, or state census, may, at it's election in the man. ner herein set forth, from time to time extend it's corporate limits in the manner and with the rights and privileges as set forth herein, but the provision of this act Is not to precldue any city from extend Ing it's corporate limits in any other way or manner that may be authorized by law
 Sec ?. Whenever the council or govern Ing body of the city shall pass resolu- ton to the effect that the public health pr public good require that certain teH- rtory, describing it, shall be brought within the limits of the city:-O It shall be the duty of the mayor or other exec utiVe head of the city to certify a copy of such resolution to the judge of pro- late of the county in which the land is situated proposed to be brought into the city and said certified resolution shall have attached thereto a plat or map of the territory proposed to be brought into the corporate limits of the city, which certified resolution or plat or map shall be filed by the judge of probate. @ Within ten days from the date of the filing of such certified copy or resolution. with plat or map attached the judge of probate must take an enter an order upon the minutes of said court, directing and 
 qualified electors residing within the ter ritory described in such plat or map, not less than twenty days nor more than forty days from the date of the making of the order The said judge shall give notice of the holding of such election by pubh- cation in at least one newspaper (and at the discretion of the judge in more than Sba in wherein such election is to be held, which notice shall state the day on which the election be held, the voting place or places at which the election will be held, the boundaries within which voters must reside to vote at the respective voting places, which must be within the terri tory proposed to be brought into the city, such notice must give descrition of the territory proposed to be brought into the city, and must state that a map showing the territory proposed to be brought into the city is on file in the office or the judge of probate of said county, open to Inspection of the public. (3) The judge of probate may designate as many voting places in the territory proposed to be an nexed as he may deem necessary for the convenience of the voters, and must des- lgnate the boundaries within which the voters must reside to vote at the respect i've voting places and shall appoint three inspectors of election and one returning officer. for each voting place, which ln- spectors shall manage the election at the respective voting places at which they are appointed inspectors. cD Each qual- flied voter who has resided within the boundaries of the territory proposed to be brought into the city for three months next preceding the election, maysvote at such election, but must vote at the voting place designated by the judge of pro- pate~for voters in the territory in which he resides, within the territory propesd to be brought into the city. @) The elec- ton to determine whether or not the pro- posed territory shall be brought within the corporate limits of the city must he conducted in all respects AS provided by the general election laws, and under the same sanction and penalty, except as changed by the provisions hereof and ex- eept that an official ballot need not De provided. (6) Each voter may furnish his own ballot with the following words written or printed thereon, For Annex ation' if he desires to vote in favor os annexing the territory to the city. or .Against Annexation If he desires to vote against annexing the territory to tho city It shall not be necessary for the ballot to be of any particular size, form or color. @ The inspectors at the re- spective voting places must as soon as the polls are closed, ascertain and certify the result of the election at their respec- tive voting places, to the judge of pro- bate and deliver the same to the return ing officer, who must at once return the same to the judge of probate, and the judge of probate shall canvass the re- turns as made by the inspectors and il it appears that d majority of the votes east at the election were in favor of For Annexation the judge shall make and enter an order on the records of the court adjudging and decreeing the corporate limits of the city to be extended so as to embrace the territory described in the resolution. and designed on the map or plat attached to the resolution, and must cause the certified resolution and all orders and decrees or judgments to be recorded in the records fin his office, and must also cause the plat or map to be re- corded in the map records in his office. and from the time of the entry of such order, such territory shall be a part of and within the corporate limits of the city with the Limitations, rights, powers and privileges set forth herein. If 1t ap- pears that a majority of the votes cast
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