HomeMy WebLinkAbout0594 OP DINANOE N0. 594.
An Ordinance providing for ant election in the cities of Bremerton and Charl~esto~
at which said election there shall be submitted to the qualifies electors in the
said cities the question whether such corporations shall become consolidated into
one corporation.
Whereas a petition has been presented to the Bremerton 0ity Council ,~,~.ed by
more than one fifth of the electors residing in each of the citie~s $~ ~harte~ ~n
and Bremerton petitioning for a special election in each of said cities to determine
the question cfi consolidation of said cities and
'~hereas the laws of the State of Washington require that either of such
corporations receiving such petition shall submit to the electors of each of such
corporations the question whether such coroporations shall become ¢:onsolidated into
one corpor~tion, ~nS.,,~.k~l],~es~uate a day for such special election in each of said
corporalio~$ ~.; ,an~ snA~± g~e~no~i~ of such action to the other said corporation,
which said notice shall desig~nate~,the name of such proposed new corporation, where
upon due notice shall be given, now therefore, in consideration of the premises and
the laws of the state of washington commanding the course of procedure in such. caeca
The City 0ouncil of the city of Bremerton do ordain as follows:
Sec, 1. There shall be held in the cities of Bremerton and Charleston, at the
usual voting places in the said cities, bet~vesn the hours of 8a.m. and 8p.m. on
Tuesday the 10th day of Seotember, 1918, a special election at'which the electors
shall be ,invited to vote upon the question whether the cities of Bremerton and
0harleston shall be consolidated into one corporation, to be thereafter named and
known as "BtiE~-[ERTON".
Sec. 2. Due notice of said election shall be given by publication of the notice
thereof in the 'Charleston American a newspaper published in the city of 0harleston ~d
and in the Bremerton Searchlight, the officaial journal of the city of Bremerton, f~
four consecutive weeks prRor to the election. At which election the electors of the
cities of Charleston and Bremerton shall be invited to vote upon such proposition
by placing on their ballots or by voting ballots containing the words "~or Consolida-
tion'' or "Against Consolidation" as the case may 'be according to the choice of the
elector.
Sec. Z. That thereafter the said legislative boRies of both of said corporation
shall meet in joint session at the usual place of meeting of the legislative body
of that one oi' the 'said corporations containing the largest population as shown by
the last cencus, towit, at the Bremerton City Hall, and proeede to canvess the votes
case at the said election. And an abstract of the votes cast for and against
consolidation in each of siad corporations shall be made, and if it appears that a
majority of the votes cast in each of said corporations shall have been cast in
favor of consolidation, an abstract of cush vote shall be recorded Upon the records
of each o£ said corporations, a,nd' a copy of "~ ~'
~:~on abstract of votes sRall be forwarded
{the clerk of each of said corporations to the Secreatry of the State of the
ate of 7~'ashin&ton. That thereafter upon the election of o ricers in the new
consolidated corporation the said consolidation mhall be deemed complete in the
manner and form provided by Law.
Sec. 4. That no part of the territory of eiRher of Said corporations as they
exist prior to consolidation shall ever be taxed in ca'se of consolidation for an~
of the debts of the other corporation at the time, of or prior to such consolidation,
but all such debts shall be paid by taxes against the territory of the city which
contrBcted them.
~ Sec. 5. That this ordinance shall be~e~~, full force and effect from fi~e days
after its passage, approvm~ ~nd publication.
Passed by the council and approved by the mayor this 22nd day of July,1918.
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Attest: -
Clerk. --