The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-07
NOTICE OF LOCAL OPTION ELEC
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Notice of a special election to be held
under the provisions of Article 3, of
Chapter SO, Of the Revised Statutes
of Missouri, 1909, Commonly known
as the Local Option Law, to deter
mine whether or not spirituous and
Intoxicating liquors, including wine
and beer, shall be sold within the
limits of the City of Lexington, in
LAFAYETTE County, in the State of
Missouri, lying inside the corporate
limits of said city, to-wit:-Lexing-
ton.
BE IT REMEMBERED That on the
fifth day of June 1916, among other
proceedings, a petition was filed and
received by the City Council Of said
City of Lexington, Missouri, signed
by M. w. Hatton, B. M. Little, H. H.
Spears, James Peak, E. B. Vaughan,
Ed. Brawner ct. al, praying for a
special election to be held in said
City, inside the corporate limits of
said city, to-wit: Lexington, to deter
mine whether or not spirituous and in
toxicating liquors, including wine and
beer, should be sold within the cor
porate limits Of said city, and on the
fifth day of June 1916, the following
among other proceedings were had
and entered of record, to-wit:-"NOw
comes M. W. Hatton, B. M. Little, H.
H. Spears, James Peak, E. B.
Vaughan, Ed. Brawner ct. al, and
present their petition to the City
Council of the City of Lexington,
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ton to be held in the City of Lex
ington, in Lafayette County, Missouri,
as provided by Article 8 Of Chapter
SO, of he Revised Statutes of Mis-
souri,, Revision of 1909, commonly
known as the Local Option Law, to
determine whether or not spirituous
and intoxicating liquors, including
wine and beer, shall be sold within
the corporate limits of said City of
Lexington, in Lafayette County, Mis-
souri,, and the City Council having seen
and heard said petition, and having
examined the poll books of the last
general election held in the city of
Lexington, in Lafayette County, Mis-
souri,, and having compared the names
on said poll books with the names on
said petition, doth find that said petit
ton is signed by one-tenth of the
qualified voters of said city who re-
side inside of the corporate limits of
said City of Lexington, Missouri, who
were qualified to vote for members of
the Legislature in said City at the
last previous general election held
therein, and that said City of Lexing-
ton now has a population of twenty
five hundred or more.
1t is therefore ordered by the CITY
Council that a special election be held
in said city, at the usual voting pre-
cincts therein, which are located in
side the corporate limits of said city.
at which general elections for State
Officers have been held, on the 18th
day Of July, 1916, to determine wheth-
er or not sp%irituous and Intoxicating
liquors, including wine and beer, shall
be sold within the corporate limits of
said city, and the tickets to be voted
by the voters in said election shall
have written or printed on them the
words:
against the Sale of Intoxicating
liquors.
For the Sale of intoxicating liz.
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1t is further ordered that said cleo
ton shall be conducted. the returns
thereof made and the result thereof
a%scertained and determined in accord
ance in all respects with the laws of
this State governing general elections
for City Officers, and the result there
OF shall be entered upon the records of
this Council and the expenses of said
election shall be paid out of the CITY
Treasury, as in case of the election of
City Officers. 1t is further ordered
that notice Of said election shall be
published in the Lexington Intelli-
gencer, a newspaper published in
Lexington, Lafayette County. Mis-
souri,, and that said notice shall be
published in said paper for four con-
%secutive weeks, and the last insertion
shall be within ten days next before
the day of said election.
A true copy of the record.
(SEAL.)
G. C. WRIGHT.
Clerk of the City
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