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

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Ordered by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the city of Grenada, in regular SEES
sion. that the following amendments be
made to the city charter of Grenada.
Mississippi:
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 quallhed.
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 notl-
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 etate 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 appointed by the chancery
r and circuit clerks and the mayor and
5 aldermen of the city, one registrar be-
t 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
a 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 mold the
4 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
n tTdIS, WiCu tiCy haVC sN
result of the election. The Mayor
elect shall nave the oath of Office ad
r ministered to him by the former Mayor
- or by any officer authorized to admins
~ ter oaths.
y Line street and a line directly soutf
from the southern terminus thereof t.
the southern boundary line of thu
corporation shall constitute the divid
" ing line between the East and the Yves
wards of the city; all that part Of thu
+ corporation east of SAID street and tn
!, prolongation of the dividing line shall bt
ad the East ward and all that portion Of
- said corporation west of said street anc
Il; prolongation line, shall be the Wes'
l. ward Of said city.
The City Clerk, Marshal, and all othe
ss officers of the city shall be %appointe
!" by the Mayor and Aldermen and shal
~ hold their Offices for the same term a
provided for elective officers. The Cit
~ Clerk shall be the assessor and collecto
aap of taxes in the city and shall have Xix
power and authority in the assessment
~ and collection of the same as are now
10 or may hereafter be, conferred by tn
n laws of the state upon assessors an
m collectors of state and county taxes s
far as said laws are applicable, or q
may be adopted by said Mayor and A
dermen. As such assessor and c~ollecto
.;n of taxes. he shall do and perform a
.r4 the acts and things heretofore dor
"a and performed by the marshal in h
-. capacity as assessor and collector {
;Ds taxes in said city, and all the dutit
~ heretofore required to be done by tn
"a marshal as tax assessor and collectt
ot shall be done and performed by sai
d clerk as such assessor and collector
taxes.
lS The a and aldermen shall pr,
vide, by ordinance, the duties to
performed by the officers appointed /
Of them. =.
a. Any officer or employee Of said eli
o' appointed under this section may,
addition to being discharged OF remov,
by the mayor and aldermen, be di
charged or removed by the qualifit
electors in the manner as is now prov
ded for the removal of such officers
io employees of cities operating under t
commission form of government, pr
vided, however, that no petition f
the discharge or removal of any su
officer or employee will be consider
unless signed by at least One-thi
}. of the qualified electors of the city.
This section shall repeal all the pi
visions of the present charter in CO
hict with it, and shall be in force a
ost- become operative on and after t
the first Monday in May, 1914, provid
'nid that it shall not affect the present &
ID ministration of the city.
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Sec. II. The Mayor and Alderm
~. shall have authority to borrow mon
Jerk ard give notes, or other evidence of
Z. ~debtedness, for the purpose Of prov
t3t ing funds to pay warrants issued to
teachers of the public schools of
city, and warrants issued to the str,
hands and laborers of the city, provic
that said funds so borrowed shall
kept separate and distinct from
nam other moneys of the corporation to