PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 571

it shall thereupon become valid and shall not be repealed or
amended, excepted by vote of the people. Any number of pro-
posed ordinances may be voted upon at the same election, but
there shall not be more than one special election for such pur-
pose in any period of six months. The Council may submit a
proposition to amend or repeal any such ordinance at any sub-
sequent election and it shall be amended or repealed if such
proposition receive a majority.

SEC. 19. No ordinance passed by the Council shall go into
effect until the expiration of twenty days after its passage and
publication unless otherwise provided by this charter of the
laws of the State. If within said twenty days a petition pro-
testing against its passage be signed by one-half as many legal
voters as voted at the last general election and filed with the
town clerk such ordinance shall be suspended and the Council
shall reconsider it; and if it be not repealed, the Council shall
submit it to a vote of the people at the next election. If the
next election occur more than ninety days thereafter, the Coun-
cil may call a special election such ordinance shall immediately
become opperative or be repealed by a majority of the votes
cast at such election.

SEC. 20. A petition to remove any elective officer for suffi-
cient cause may be filed at any time with the town clerk. If
said petition be signed by one-half as may legal voters as voted
at the election of such officers, and is filed more than ninety
days before the expiration of his term of office, the Council
shall order a special election held not less than thirty nor more
than forty days thereafter to elect his successor and the can-
didate receiving the majority vote at such election shall fill the
office the remainder of the term. If no candidate receive a
majority of the votes cast at said eleption, the incumbent shall
retain his office.

SEC. 21. This Charter shall not become effective unless it
shall be submitted to the voters living within the prescribed
limits of the said town of Brentwood as set forth in section 2
of this act, and accepted by a majority of the said voters at an
election to be held for the purpose on the 23rd day of April,
1912. If the said Charter is rejected at this election it shall
again be submitted on the third Tuesday in April, 1913, for
adoption or rejection.

SEC. 22. And be it enacted, That R. L. Smallwood and F.
J. Niedomanski shall be appointed judges, and W. F. Keyes and
A. R. Smith shall be appointed clerks of election for the ratifi-
cation of this charter and for the election of town officers to