1822 - Edocs

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some newspaper published in the City, and to secure thr
more equal representation of each ward in tne city, it
shall be in the power of the corporation to enlarge or diminish
the extent of said wards so that each, as near a
may he, may be made to contain an equal number of inhabitants.
11. Be it further enacted, That, in case of the refusal
of any person to accept the office of Mayor upon his election
thereto or of his death, resignation, inability or removal,
the President of the board of Aldermen shall perform
the duties thereof during the remainder of the term
for which the said Mayor was elected and the President
shall thereupon vacate his seat in the board of Aldermen,
aid in case of the absence or inability of said Mayor, the
said President shail perform all the duties of the Mayor
that may be required to be performed during- his absence
or inability. And the board of Aldermen shall have power
to nil vacancies in their own body by causing- elections
to be made in the manner herein before directed, out of
the citizens qualified to fill the said office in the ward in
which such vacancies shall have happened.
12. Be it further enacted, That, in case no election
shall be holden from unavoidable causes at the time pointed
out by this act, the charter of the corporation shall
not on that account be forfeited, but it shall be the duty oi
the Mayor to name another dav for holding the electior
as near as convenient to the one pointed out by this act,
and which said election, shail be as valid and legal as if
the same had been held at the proper time.
13. Be it further enacted. That, this act shall be anr
continue in force for the term of eight years and no long
cr.
J. C. BRONAUGH,
President of the Legislative Council.
\Afitiro-ved, 2oth August 1822.
WM. P. DUVAL,
Governor of the Territory of Florida.
TEST,
JOHN COPPINGER CONNOR,
Clerk of the Legislative Council.