HomeMy WebLinkAbout0595 Whereas, a petition has been submitted to the City Council of the City of
Bremerton, containing more than one fifth of the qualified electors of said city
as shown by the vote cast at the last I~unicipal election hel~ in said city, peti~im-
lng the City Council to submit to the electors of s~i~ City, and to the electors
residing in certain territory referred to in said petition, the question whether
such territory shall be annexed to and be made a. part of the Gity of Bremerton,' there
fore~,
TtTE CITY COUNCIL 0F THE CITY 0~ BREMERTON DO 0]tDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Sec. 1. That a special election shall be held in the City of Bremerton~ and
in the several voting places of said City, on Tuesday. the 3rd day of September, 1918
between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. , at which said election there shall be submit
to the qualifies electors of the City of Bremerton, the question whether that certain
territory here in after described and set forth, shall ~be annexed to the City limits
of the City of Bremerton, and become a part thereof, to' wit:
0ommencing at a point where' the :~:/est line 5f Section 14, township 24, North
~ Range l, East intersects the U.S. ~leander line at Port Washington Narrows; t)~ence
South along the West line of siad Section 14, to the Southeast corner of Block 3, of
B.H.Hurts ~dd,, thence East along the South line of B.H.Hurts Add., to the S.E. Ocr.
of said Add., Thence East along the South line of Bremerton 0emetery to,the center of
Naval Avenue; thence following the present city limits of Charleston to the inter
section ~f said City limits of Bremerton, vith the U.S.Meander line; thence followin
the U.S.ivIeander line in a Northwesterly direction to the pint of beginning.
Sec. 2. On the same day and date, and at the same hours there shall be hel,
an election in the .territory referred to in Section one of this Ordinance, the said
election' to be held at store on lot I block 9 Reese's ls~ Addition te Port Orchard
U.S. Navy Yard at which time and place, the qualified electors residing within the
siad territory referred to, and describ ed in Section 'l hereof, shall be invited to
vo~e on the question of the annexation of the said territory to the City limits of th,
· City of Bremerton.
Sec. Z. Due notice o~ said election skall be ,given by publication of a
notice therof in the official journal of the City of Bremerton, and by publication of
the due notice thereof in the Charleston .&merican, being a newspaper published outsid,
of the limuts of the 0ity of Bremerton, there being no 'newspaper published within the
territory described ig Section i of this Ordinance.
Electors voting at said election inside the 0ity of Bremerton, and within
the territory described in Section i thereof, shall be invited to vote upon the
proposition for annexation or against annexation, or words equivalent thereto.
Sec. 4. The said election shall be held at the usua~l voting places at the
several precincts in the City of Bremerton. and at[ as .in Section 2
in said territory of Section one thereof. The names of the election offficers to condu~
~he said election, shall be hereafter set forth by the City Council.
Sea.ts5~ Tha~ there~te~ t~ Cit~i~nBnC~eO~ ~he.l~m~_~si of B~eme~gn,
o~hall
canvass the vo casa~ sa~a e±ec~on, ~ioy of ~y
Bremerton, and those cast within the limits of the territory referred to in Section 1
of this Ordinance, separately, and if it shall appear that a majority of all the
votes cast in the said territory referred to in Section I hereof, and a majev~t~ of a
all the votes carat within the limits of the City of Bremerton, shall be for~annexati~
a certified abstract of such vote shall be forwarded ~o~ the Secretary of State, and 'i'
from and after the date of filing such abstract, the annexation of said territory to
the City limits of Bremerton, provided, that no property within such territory so
annexed, shall ever be taxed to pay any portion of any indebtedness of the City of
Bremerton, contracted prior to, or wxisting at the date of such annexation.
~eo. 6. This ordinance shall e of full force and effect from five days aft
after its passage, approval and publication.
Passed by the city council and approved by me this 2~nd day of Jd~ly, 1918.
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