The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-11-21
Election Notice.

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Mississippi:
You are hereby notified that on Sat
urday, November 22nd, 1918, an cleo
ton will be held in the city of Grenada,
at the regular voting precincts, the may
or's office in the East Ward, and the
White Public School building in the
West Ward, at which time the follow
ing proposed amendments to the char
ter of the city of Grenada will be SUBJ
united for your ratification or rejec-
ton, namely:
Sec. 8. 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 IA
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 ele ction to fill said offices by
giving ten days notice thereof, either by
publishing notice in a newspaper pub
lished in the city, or if nj newspaper 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
~istrars, to be a~ppoiEted 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
city. The Board of Registrars shall
hold the election at one, and appoint a
suitable number of judges and clerks 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 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
him by the former mayor or by any Of
fcer authorized to administer oaths.
Line street and a line directly south
from the southern terminus thereof to
the southern boundary line of the cor
pration, shall constitute the dividing
line between the East and the West
wards of the city; all that part of
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 9TH
er officers of the city shall be appointed
by the Mayor and Aldermen and shall
hold their Offices for the same term as
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
the la US of the state upon assessors
and collectors of state and county taxes
so far as said laws are applicable, or as
may be adopted by said mayor and al
dermen. AS such assessor and collector
of taxes, he shall do and perform all
the acts and things heretofore done and
performed by the marshal in his capac-
ity as assessor and collector of taxes in
said city, and all the duties heretofore
required to be done by the marshal as
tax assessor and collector shall be done
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 be
performed by the officers appointed by
them.
Any officer or employe of said city
appointed under this section may, in ad-
dillon to being discharged or removed
by the mayor and aldermen, be dis
charged or removed by the qualified
electors in the manner as is now provi-
ded for the removal of such officers or
employees of cities operating under the
commission form of government, pro-
vided, however, that no petition for
the discharge or removal of any such
officer or employee will be considered
unless signed by at least one-third of
the qualified electors of the city.
This section shall repeal all the pro-
visions of the present charter in con-
f1ict with it, and shall be in force and
become operative on and after the
first Monday in Ma, 1914, provided
that it shall not affec the present ad-
ministration of the city.
Sec. II. The Mayor and Aldermen
shall have authority to borrow money
and give notes, or other evidence of in
debtedness, for the purpose of provid-
ing funds to pay warrants issued to the
teachers of the public schools of the
city, and warrants issued to the street
hands and laborers of the city, provided
that said funds so borrowed shall be
kept separate and distinct from all
other moneys of the corporation, to be
applied exclusively to the purpose for
which borrowed. And sand notes so