The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-10-17
Amendments to City Charter.

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 eac'. 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 VINO
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
by dissolved, but it shall, 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 a 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
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 ali elections.
The election for city officers shall be
held and conducted by a Board OF Reg
~istrars, 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 n
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
elect shall have the oath of Office adj
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!
o provided for elective officers. The City
Clerk shall be the assessor and collector
of taxes in the city and shall have liks
power and authority in the assessment
and collection of the same as are now
or may hereafter be, conferred by thu
> laws of the state upon assessors an
collectors of state and county taxes 81
d far as said laws are applicable, OF 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 don
and performed by the marshal in hi
capacity as assessor and collector o
+ taxes in said city, and all the dutie
heretofore required to be done by tn
re marshal as tax assessor and c~ollecto
shall be done and performed by sal
clerk as such assessor and collector q
taxes.
ST. The mayor and aldermen shall pro
: vide, by ordinance, the duties to b
performed by the officers appointed b
them.
'" Any officer or employee Of said cit
Va appointed under this section may, i
addition to being discharged Oh remove
IN by the mayor and aldermen, be dis
a, charged or removed by the qualifie
-, electors in the manner as is now prov
Vi ded for the removal of such officers {
n. employees of cities operating under tn
commission form of government, pr
vided, however, that no petition II
the discharge or removal of any SUI
officer or employee will be considere
unless signed by at least one-thil
of the qualified electors of the city.
This section shall repeal all the pr
visions of the present charter in col
So fict with it, and shall be in force ar
he become operative on and after II
i'd first Monday in May, 1914, provide
va We that it shall not affect the present a
at. ministration of the city.
rk See. II. The Mayor and Aldermt
=. shall have authority to borrow none
! ard give notes, or other evidence of j
~debtedness, for the purpose of prOvi
ing funds to pay warrants issued to II
teachers of the public schools of tt
city, and warrants issued to the sire
n hands and labOers of the city, provid,
u that said funds so borrowed shall
kept separate and distinct from 8
other moneys of the corporation to
nd applied exclusively to the purpose f
which borrowed. And said notes
given shall not be included in any lin
tations placed by law or the city cha
. ter upon the indebtedness of the m
10 n%icipality. Said notes shall be paid o