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WHEREAS, there has been presented to the City Council of
the City of Bremerton an initiative measure upon petition which
has been filed with the City Clerk of the City of Bremerton,
Washington, and which bears the required number of signers,
petitioning for the adoption of an ordinance regulating dancing
and all other kinds of entertainment in establishments licensed
for the sale of beer, wine and/or spirituous liquor; and
WHEREAS, the filing of the necessary petitions and the
request for the holding of a special election create an emergency
which requires the holding of a special election in the City of
Bremerton; now, therefore,
· BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton:
1. That a special election be held in the City of Bremerton
between the hours of eight o'clock a.m. and eight o'clock p.m. on
the 7th day of November, 1950, for the purpose of submitting to
the electors of said City for their approval or rejection, the
question of whether or not an ordinance permitting and regulating
dancing and all other kinds of entertainment in establishments
licensed for the sale of beer, wine, and/or spirituous liquors
shall be adopted by the electors as an ordinance of the City of
Breme rton, Washington.
2. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the ballot title shall be
as follows: Shall an ordinance be adopted permitting and regulating
dancing and entertainment where beer, wine and/or spirituous liquor
are sold under license.
3. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that an emergency exists re-
quiring funds for which no appropriation has been made in the
general budget and that the need for such funds could not have
readily been foreseen at the time of adopting the budget for the
year 1950, and that it will be necessary by an emergency appropria-
tion to provide sufficient funds for the holding of said election.
4. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the City of
Bremerton is hereby directed to notify the County Auditor of
Kitsap County regarding the date of the special election pro-
vided for herein in sufficient time to permit said officer to
close the registration file as required by law, and to perform
such other duties as are necessary and/or required by law, to
the end that the question as herein provided for shall be sub-
mitted to the voters of the City of Bremerton at the aforementioned
election.
5. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the voting places for the
aforesaid special election shall be all of the regular precinct
voting places as established and used for the general election
which lie within the boundaries of the City of Bremert. On and/or
serve the electors of the City of Bremerton.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton, signed
by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in authentication of
such passage this 20th day of September, 1950.
~ E/ "HUM" KEAN, Mayor.
ATTEST:
E.H.~T. M~cGO~AN: City 'Cierk.
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