The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-11-07
Election Notice.
To the qualified Electors of Grenada,
Mississippi:

at the regular voting precincts, the may
or office in the East Ward, and the
White Public School building in the /
West Ward, at which time the follow i
ing proposed amendments to the char
ter of the city of Grenada will be SUBJ
mitted for your ratification or %rejec-
ton, namely:
Sec. 3. The elective officers of the !
city shall be a Mayor and four Alder
men, one from each ward and two from !
the city at large, who shall be elected !
on the first Monday of May, 1914, and
| every four years thereafter, and who
! shall hold their Offices for four years
and until their successors are qualified. |
If from any cause there should be d
failure to hold the election upon the ,
day prescribed, the said offices shall
not thereby become vacant, nor shall
said corporation become thereby dis
solved, but it shall, thereupon, become
the duty of the mayor and aldermen to
order an election to fill said Offices by
giving ten days notice thereof, either by
publishing notice in a newspaper pub
lished in the city, or if nonewspaper be
then published in the city, by posting
notices thereof in three public places in
said city, and the officers so elected
shall hold their Offices until their sue
~cessors are elected and qualified at the
next regular election. All persons re-
siding in said city qualified under the
laws of the state as electors of the mu-
nicipality shall be lawful voters of the
city in all elections.
The election for city officers shall be
held and conducted by a Board of Reg
i%strars, to be appointed by the chan
Gerry and circuit clerks and the mayor
and aldermen of the city, one registrar
being appointed from each ward and
one from the city at large, and the
terms of their office shall be the same
as other officers of said city. The
Board of Registrars shall have and dis
charge all the duties and powers as are
conferred by law upon boards of regis
"tration under the laws of the state.
; There shall be a voting precinct in said
East, and one in the West, ward of the
9 city. The Board of Registrars shall
t hold the election at one, and appoint a
: suitable number of judges and clerks at
1 the other, precinct. Said elections
Z shall be conducted as other elections
are conducted under the laws of the
= state, and at such place in the respect
i've wards as the Board of Registrars
shall determine. Certificates of cleo
ton shall be given to the successful
candidates by the Board of Registrars,
when they have determined the result
of the election. The Mayor elect shall
have the oath of office administered to
e him by the former mayor or by any of
= ficer authorized to administer oaths.
r. Line street and a line directly south
n from the southern terminus thereof to
d the southern boundary line of the cor
J. poration, shall constitute the dividing
line between the East and the West
" wards of the city; all that part of
It of the corporation east of said street
&c and the p%rolongation of the dividing
ed line shall be the East ward. and all that
portion of said corporation west of
ell said street and prolongation line, shall
be the West ward of said city.
The City Clerk, Marshal, and all 9th
er officers of the city shall be appointed
by the Mayor and Aldermen and shall
- hold their offices for the same term a:
provided for elective officers. The City
Clerk shall be the assessor and collect
:" or of taxes in the city and shall have
like power and authority in the assess
ment and collection of the same as are
now, or may hereafter be, conferred By
e the laws of the state upon assessor:
wv and collectors of state and county taxes
he so far as said laws are applicable, or a.
"a, may be adopted by said mayor and al
y, dermen. AS such assessor and collector
in of taxes, he shall do and perform al
the acts and things heretofore done anC
performed by the marshal in his capac-
,,k ity as assessor and collector of taxes il
said city, and all the duties heretofore
required to be done by the marshal al
tax assessor and collector shall be dom
and performed by said clerk as such as
SCISSOR and collector of taxes.
The mayor and aldermen shall pro
vide, by ordinance, the duties to b
performed by the officers appointed b.
ST. them.
ew Any officer or employee of said icit,
appointed under this section may, in ad
Id ditlon to being discharged or remove
b. by the mayor and aldermen, be dis
he charged or removed by the qualifie
N electors in the manner as is now prov
ded for the removal of such officers o
:. employees of cities operating under tn
Tx commission form of government, pre-
t vided, however, that no petition fo
- the discharge or removal of any sue
officer or employee will be considere
unless signed by at least one-third c
the qualified electors of the city.
!" This section shall repeal all the pre-
visions of the present charter in cor
of fiict with it, and shall be in force an
ed become operative on and after tn
GU first Monday in May. 1914, provide
rot that it shall not affect the present az
or. ministration of the city.
lys -
'ou Sec. II. The Mayor and Alderme
shall nave authority to borrow none
no. and give notes, or other evidence of il
MS debtedness, for the purpose of PROVE
'di- ing funds to pay warrants issued to II
so teachers of the public schools of Il
city, and warrants issued to the stree
l hands and laborers of the city, provide
ION that said funds so borrowed shall |
kept separate and distinct from 8
Ugh other moneys of the corporation, to |
applied exclusively to the purpose Fl
se. which borrowed. And sand notes
In given shall not be included in any lin
en- %tations placed by law or the city cha