HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 431
The Committee to conduct such election shall consist of
Edward J. Ferguson, George A. Patterson and Charles L.
Morris, Jr., as Judges of Election, and Robert S. Nichols and
Sadie Q. Charity as Clerks of Election, and if any of said
Committee are unable or decline to serve, the remaining
members of said Committee are empowered to select some
resident voter of said town to fill his place.
The qualifications of voters on the referendum election
shall be the same as those herein before set forth in regard
to general elections.
The said Committee shall, not less than five (5) days
before said referendum election, post in five (5) conspicu-
ous places in the said town a written or printed notice
notifying all the residents of said town who are qualified
to vote under this act that an election will be held on the
date fixed in this act at a certain place and between certain
hours, which notice shall contain the said date, the hours
that the polls will remain open and the location of the poll-
ing place or places, and a statement that the election is to
be held for the purpose of deciding whether or not to adopt
this charter and form an incorporated town.
The said Committee, shall have power to register voters
in accordance with the provisions of Section Three (3) of
this Act, which registration shall be held at the time and
place of this said election, shall provide and furnish the
place or places where such an election shall be held, the
booths, ballot-boxes, and sufficient number of printed bal-
lots, upon which on one line the words "For Incorporation, "
shall be printed, and on another line the words "Against
Incorporation" shall be printed, with squares opposite each.
Said election shall be conducted as nearly as practicable
as an election for County officers, is conducted in all ways
not specially provided for in this Act, and on the closing of
the polls the said Committee shall canvas said votes and
publicly announce the result of said canvas. In the event
that the majority of the votes cast are for incorporation,
this act shall immediately become effective, and in the event
that a majority of said votes are against incorporation, it
shall be null and void.
SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That if this charter
is adopted by the citizens of said Fairmount Heights under
the provisions of the referendum above set forth, then the
same committee that conducted the referendum election
with the same powers of filling vacancies thereon shall on
the first Tuesday in May, 1935, hold another election for
the Mayor and Common Councilmen provided for herein
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