Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-01-08
PUBLIC OPINION

EDITOR EVENING NEWS
Who Is the temporary to
the mayor ii said office becomes
vacant by death, resignation or
otherwise?
BY the charIar Of the city of Perth
Ambov 1T is provided as follows;
Title 3, Section %. HsAnd be It
enacted that the legislative power OF
the city of Perth Amboy shall ne
vested in the mayor aldermen and
councilmen who shall constitute the
council. The council shall annually
elect one of their number TO be vice
president who shall preside IN Enc
absence of the mayor"
Public laws, 1881, page 2e. An
act tn provide for the adjustment,
division and creation of wards in
certain cities In the State and for the
election OF officers therein and IN
said eities." Section 2 OF this said
act reads as follows: THAT when
ever any city council or other legis-
lative body In any city of this state
shall divide, create, r~ecreate or re-
adjust the wards OF such city, or In
crease or diminish the number or
such wards in conformity with the
nrst section OF this act, each ward so
created, recreated or readjusted shall
be entitled to elect to the common.
council or other legislative body n
councilman or alderman, as the case
may be, and no MORE" etc.
Section 8. THAT in addition to the
councilmen or aldermen, as the case
may be, there shall be elected a
councilman or alderman at large by
all the legal voters OF such city,
which councilman or alderman so
elected shall hold his Office for two
years and may reside in any ward
therein and such councilman or al
derman so elected shall by virtue Of
such election become president of the
City Council or-Board OF Aldermen,
as the case may be, of the city in
which he was thus elected, with all
the powers and privileges appertain-s
ing to that Office and appertaining to-
the Office of councilman or alder.
man.
Section 8. "And be it senaeted that.
the word sor' wherever 1t occurs In
this act, shall be construed to mean
and wherever ii shall be necessary
to give effect 70 The provisions of this
act"
Now the legislative being vested in
the mayor, aldermen and eeunoilmen
by the charter OF the city of Perth
Amboy, (Pubifc Laws 1870, ID. 1I26,
Public Laws IS71, p. H26S) the act
of 1891 removed the mayor from
the Legislative branch Of the city
government and substituted lin The
Legislative body an alderman-at-
large to be president thereof, there.
by filling the vacnney created by the
Legislative act Of 1891 and thus
abolishing the office of vice president
under the charter.
The act of 1891 goes farther. TT
confers in addition to tho presidency
of the council "All the powers and
privileges appertainlng to the office.
from this ths duty or acting anayor
must necessarily be Included. ut
must also be observed that the Off
cial title OF the Legislative body Of
the city Is not Board of Aldermen
but the Council of the city of Perth
Amboy. And that to be properly and
lawfully constituted must consist of
an alderman and councilman from
each ward, In addition to the alder
man-at-large.
1t will be observed that the act Of
the legislature Of 1881 did not ereafe
or abolish offices but merely Tegulat-
ed the number to conform to the new
division OF the city into wards and
give each representation which could
not have been done Ia the three
wards that fhe city was dipided In at
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