The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-23

anu ne shaii serve for a period Of tW'
 years from the first Monday in Noyem
 Der, 1915. and until his successor is electe, and qualified, if this act shall be adoptes as the form of government of such cities l otHerWlse his term of office shall remain l, as provided by the terms of the act ap , proved March 31, 1911. If at the eleetio, ? to be held on the second Monday in Oc tober, 1915, in those cities which are nov organized under and governed by tho
 terms of the act approved March 31, 1911
 majority of the qualified voters O such city, voting in such election, eeci
 to be organized under and be governed by the terms of this act, then the com.
 missioners who shall be elected ths
 first Monday in December, shall serve
 as such commissioners for a term be
 ginning on the first Tuesday in Decem-
 Der, 1915, and ending on the first Monday
 Tn November, 1917 and until their sue cessors are elected and qualified. On the
 second Monday in October, 1917, and every
 four years thereafter, there shall be elected president of said commission and four other commissioners, who shall assume the duties of the office to which they are elected, the first Monday in November, 1917, and their term of office
 shall continue for a period of four years, and until their successors are elected and qualified.
 Sec. 6. The president and commissioners
 
 as the Commission of the city ot l.............." (the name of such city to 1 be inserted) and such commission shall have and exercise the powers, and per form the duties in this act provided and 1 in addition thereto the said commission
 shall have and exercise all the powers and duties granted to or imposed upon 1 municipal corporations by the general 1 laws of the state of Alabama. Each of
 the commissioners, the selection and cleo : 1 ton of which is provided for by this act, shall before entering upon their l duties, take the oath of office as pro-
 vided for by the constitution of the state l of Alabama, and the said commissioners shall also take oath that they are Quali- fled commissioners under the terms of this act. Said board of commissioners | shall not have, possess exercise any l legislative, executive, judicial or admin istrative powers of the state or county, nor shall the offices held by them be state offices; provided, however, that the
 office of commissioner. the term of which
 under the provisions of this act expires
 on the first Monday in November, 1915,
 is and shall be judicial office, and the l commissioner appointed thereto, and hereafter elected thereto is clothed with
 full and ample power to administer jus l tice under the ordinances of said city I only, and to administer judicially the St
 islative and executive powers herein l above conferred upon the commissioner whose term of office expires as afore- said, shall be an incident merely to said 1 judicial office, and shall be confined only l to municipal matters.
 l Sec. '. The commissioners herein pro- vided for when sitting as body and acting in their official capacity, shall be
 known as the "commission of said city, as hereinbefore provided and they shall ] have, possess and exercise, for, in the
 name of, and in behalf of said city, all l the municipal powers legislative. execu- I tive and judicial, which are possessed and exercised by the former governing bodies I of such municipality as prescribed by | the charter thereof, and all other gen. l eral acts relating to the government of such city, and also all the powers which | may have been granted to or exercised by any board or commission of any kind heretofore created by the legislature of Ala bama, charged with any duties in con nectton with the government of such city, except as the same have been modified or repealed by the general laws of the state of Alabama, or by the provisions l of this act, and all such boards, com missions and officers of such former boards and commissions, shall and the l same are hereby abolished, and the terms of office of any, and all such officers of officials shall cease upon the passage
 and approva lof this act; provided, how I ever, that nothing herein contained shall l be construed to repeal any law creating a board of education for such cities, and prescribing the duties of such board, ex- 1 cept that the president of the commits sion created by this act, shall by virtue | of his office be the chairman of such board of education
 I Sec. S. Any proposed ordinance may l be submitted to the board of commisson-
 CTS by petition signed by at least fifteen hundred Q500) qualified electors of the city. All petitions, circulated with respect 1 to any proposed ordinance, shall be uni 1 form in character and shall contain the 1 proposed ordinance in full, and have 1 printed thereon the names and addresses | of at least five electors who shall be officially regarded as filing the petition and shall constitute a committee of the petitioners for the purpose hereinafter 1 named. Each signer of a petition shall ! sign his name and shall place on the l petition after his name, his place of residence by street and number, if there be such street and number. The sigma lures to any such petition need not all be ! appended to one paper but to each such paper there shall be attached an affidavit | by the circulator thereof, stating the number of signers to such part of the petition and that each signature appended to the paper is the genuine signature of 1 the person whose name 1t purports to be, and was made in the presence of the af l liant. All papers comprising a petition l s4 all be assembled and filed with the clerk secretary of the board of com
 niissioners. or the secretary of said board, as one instrument. Within seven CD days from the filing of petition the clerk or secretary shall ascertain whether it is signed by the required number of qualified electors. Upon the comple- l ton of his examination the clerk or sec retary shall indorse upon the petition certificate of the result there- 1 of. If the clerk or secretarys
 certificate shows that the petition is
 insufficient, he shall at once notify each
 member of the committee of the peti- 1 tioners hereinbefore provided for, and the petition may he amended at any i time within ten 10) days from the l date of the clerk or secretarys cer- | tificate of examination, by filing with
 the Jerk an additional petition in the
 same manner as provided for the orig
 inal petition. Upon the filing of such
 an amendment the clerk or secretary shall within 10 days thereafter. ex- | anime the amended petition and at tach thereto his certificate of the re- l suit. If still insufficient, or if no | amendment shall have been filed the clerk or secretary shall file the peti- l tion in his office and shall notify each 1 member of the committee of that fact. 1 The final finding of the insufficiency | of petition shall not prejudice the filing of a new petition for the same | purpose. When the certificate of tho clerk or secretary shows the petition to l be sufficient, he shall submit the pro kl~-