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contract for such excessive expenditure shall be enforcible against them.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the Mayor and Com-
mon Council from making any agreements or contracts for any special
purposes to be payable out of the funds to be thereafter derived from
special sources for such special purposes.

RECALL OF ELECTIVE OFFICERS,

1916, ch. 200, sec. 21.

778. The holder of any elective office created herein may be removed
at any time by the registered voters of said town qualified to vote for his
successor by the use of the following procedure: A petition signed by not
less than 50 per cent, of the voters entitled to vote for a successor to the
officer sought to be removed, setting forth that the officer in question has
failed to perform the duties of his office in a manner desired by the peti-
tioners, and specifying the instances of such failure, and demanding an
election for the purpose of selecting a successor, shall be filed with the
Mayor and Common Council at a regular stated meeting.

The Mayor and Common Council immediately upon the receipt of
such petition shall pass upon the legal sufficiency thereof, and for the
purpose of determining whether the requisite number of duly qualified
voters have signed the same, they shall refer said petition to the Super-
visors of Election who shall report thereon in writing.

If the petition shall be found to be legally sufficient, the Mayor and
Common Council shall immediately order an election for the purpose of
electing a successor to said officer. The Supervisors of Election shall there-
upon proceed to fix a date for said election, and shall give at least ten
days' notice thereof in the same manner as they are required to give
notice of regular elections.

The Supervisors of Election shall also sit on the 10th day next preceding
and exclusive of the date of such election to receive nominations for the
office to be filled at such election, and nothing herein contained shall pre-
vent the officer whose removal is sought from becoming a candidate to be
voted for at such election. All nominations shall be in the form required
by Section 765 hereof, and all of the provisions hereof relating to nomina-
tions and elections shall be applicable to said election, unless they shall
clearly appear otherwise.

The officer elected at such election shall hold office only until the term
of his predecessor shall have expired.

PROHIBITION.
1916, ch. 200, sec. 22.

779. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, except
licensed pharmacists or physicians in the course of their practice, to
manufacture or sell in any manner any malt or spirituous or intoxicating
liquors of any kind or description within the corporate limits of Mount
Rainier as hereinbefore set forth, and any person, firm or corporation
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