The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-03-11
Resolution of Board of Supervis-
Ors Directing Election for
Local Option.

| WHEREAS, Forty-three petitions from as
many townships ana wards OF ST. Clair County.
Michigan, praying mat the manufacture OF liquor
and the liquor traffic be prohibited In said coun-
| ty have been laid before the board of supervls-
ors at the present October 1909 session of said
board by the County Clerk OF said County -
AND WHEREAS. Said petitions have been
duly examined, from which examination 1t APP
pears TO this board that forty-two OF said PEEL
tions are regular In form and In compliance With
the statute and that each Of said fOrty-two petit
lions Is accompanied by an afldavit regular In
form and In compliance with law. and II further
appears TO this board from such examination uf
said petitions, and by reference to the returns
and canvass OF the last general election for
state officers. held in said county in November,
l90S, that said petitions have been signed by
more than one-tnrd Gal OF the qualified electors
OF said county;
AND WHEREAS, The highest vote east for
any state officer In said county AT said last gem
eral election was liza votes, and said petitions
have been signed by 4,25j qualified electors of
said county as appears upon the face OF said
petitions and by reference to the returns and
canvass OF said last general election;
THEREFORE,. BE it resolved that the submits
sion of the question whether the manufacture of
liquor and the liquor traffic shall be prohibited
I'm st. Clair County. Michigan, has been prayed
for by more than one-third "a OF the qualified
electors of said county;
And be it further resolved. and it is hereby
ordered that the said question whether the
manufacture of lqHor ana the liquor traffic shall
be prohibited in st. Clair County, Michigan, I'M
der the provisions of Act No. III. of tho fublic
Acts of Michigan of 1899. and the acts ameDda.
tory thereof, be submitted TO the Qualfed cleo
tors of said county at the next general election
for township officers In the several townships.
villages and cities I'm st. Clair County. Michigan,
to be held on the first Monday i'm April. 1910. and
in the several wards of the cities of st. Clair,
Marine City and Yale. in said County and at
the next general election for city ottrills to be
held on the first Monday in April, 1910, and in
the several wards of the city of Port Huron,
where no general election for township or other
officers is to be held on said first Monday in
April, 1910, at the election TO be held on said
first Monday in April, 1870 for the purpose of
voting upon proposed amendment to the con-
sttution of said state, to ascertain whether or
not IL is the will of the electors of said county
that the manufacture of liquor and the liquor
traffic shall be prohibited within the limits of
said county:
And be IL further resolved, and 1t is hereby
ordered that If there be no general election pro-
vided for by law In any of the cities or villages
of st. Clair county, that such election be called
in any such cities or villages for the purpose of
voting on the question aforesaid.
STATE OF MICHIGAN-County of st. Clair, SIS
1, j. q. Brown, County Clerk and clerk of the
Board of Supervisors of said county, do hereby
certify that the foregoing is true and correct
copy of a Tesolut ion adopted by the Board of
Supervisors of st. Clair County, Michigan on
Thursday, February "a 1910.
j. G. BROWN,
County Clerk, and Clerk of the Board of Super
visorS of St clair County. Mich. 47-4