The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-10-24
Amendments to City Charter.

sion, that the following amendments be
made to the city charter of Grenada,
Mississippi:
Sec. 8. The elective officers of the
city shall be a Mayor and four Alder
men, one from eacl. 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 a
failure to hold the election upon the
day prescribed, the said offices shall
not thereby become vacant, nor
shall said corporation become there
upon, become the duty of the
mayor and aldermen to order an
election to fill said Offices by giving ten
days notice thereof, either by publish
ing notice in q newspaper published in
the city, or, if no newspaper be then
published in the city, by posting noti-
ces thereof in three public places in
said city, and the officers so elected
shall hold their offices until their sue
lcessors 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
Iistrars, to be appointed by the chancery
and circuit clerks and the mayor and
aldermen of the city, one registrar be-
ing appointed from each ward and one
from the city at large, and the terms
of their Office shall be the same as 9TH
er officers of said city. The Board of
Registrars shall have and discharge all
the duties and powers as are conferred
by law upon boards of registration un-
der the laws Of the state. There shall
. be a voting precinct in the East, and one
in the West, ward of said city. The
Board Of Registrars shall hold the
election at one, and appoint a suitable
number of judges and clerks to hold the
election at the other, precinct. Said
elections shall be conducted as other
elections are conducted under the laws
of the state, and at such place in the
respective wards as the Board of Reg
istrars shall determine. Certificates of
election shall be given to the success
full candidates by the Board of Regis
trars, when they have determined the
result of the election. The Mayor
I elcCL SHdll lat OdtI VI OlllOC III
ministered to him by the former Mayor
or by any officer authorized to admins
ter oaths.
Line street and a line directly south
from the southern terminus thereof to
the southern boundary line of the
corporation shall constitute the divid-
ing line between the East and the West
wards of the city; all that part of the
corporation east of said street and the
prolongation of the dividing line shall be
the East ward and all that portion of
said corporation west of said street and
~prolongation line, shall be the West
ward of said city.
The City Clerk, Marshal, and all other
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 collector
of taxes in the city and shall have like
power and authority in the assessment
and collection of the same as are now,
or may hereafter be, conferred by tht
laws of the state Upon assessors ant
collectors of state and county taxes 81
far as said laws are applicable, or a!
may be adopted by said Mayor and AL
dermen. AS such assessor and collector
of taxes. he shall do and perform al
the acts and things heretofore done
and performed by the marshal in his
capacity as assessor and collector OF
taxes in said city, and all the dutie.
heretofore required to be done by the
marshal as tax assessor and collector
shall be lone and performed by saic
clerk as such assessor and collector o.
taxes.
The mayor and aldermen shall pro
vide, by ordinance, the duties to be
performed by the officers appointed by
: them.
Any officer or employee of said city
: appointed under this section may, ir
' addition to being discharged Oh removed
t by the mayor and aldermen, be dis
S charged or removed by the qualified
= electors in the manner as is now provi
ded for the removal of such officers Of
: employees of cities operating under thu
t commission form of government, pro
S vided, however, that no petition foi
the discharge or removal of any sucl
S officer or employee will be considered
unless signed by at least one-thirt
of the qualified electors of the city.
This section shall repeal all the pro
visions of the present charter in con
| hict with it, and shall be in force ant
become operative on and after tn
: first Monday in May, 1914, provided
: that it shall not affect the present ad
f ministration of the city.
Sec. II. The Mayor and Aldermen
shall have authority to borrow none,
ard give notes, or other evidence of in
debtedness, for the purpose of provid
y ing funds to pay warrants issued to tn,
! teachers of the public schools of tn
a city, and warrants issued to the stree
; hands and laborers of the city, provide
. that said funds so borrowed shall b
q kept separate and distinct from al
e other moneys of the corporation to b,
applied exclusively to the purpose 70
which borrowed. And said notes s.
given shall not be included in any limi
%tations placed by law or the. city char
n ter upon the Indebtedness of the mu