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AN ONDINANCE LAttINO A SPECrA?. ELECTION
TO VOTE FOR THEnDOPT/Ott OR REJECTION OF
ORDINANCE NO. 224, PROVIDING FOR THE (MEN.
tNO OP REGISTRATION BOOKS, APPC/NTIN1
ELECTION of FICERS, AND Panto ?oRM of
BALLOT AND DECLARING TILTS TO Di+; AN
EMTIGENCY MEASURE,
WHEREAS, the Commission of the City of Miami at
its regular meeting held on February 19, 1924, duly adopted
Ordinance No. 224, being entitled an ordinance reading:
"An ordinance granting permission to, authorizing and'ernpowering
the Miami Gas Company, its successors and assigns to lay and
maintain pipes and other conductors in, through, along and under
the public streets, alleys, highways, squares and public grounds
in the City of Miami, Florida, and to do all things necessary or
incident to the construction, operation and maintenance of (;as
works in said city for the purposes in said ordinance set forth;
providing and fixing, compensation for such grant; providing for
the unnecessary impeding of public travel and for the obtaining
of permits, from the city for necessary excavations and far the
replacement of material taken from excavations; fixing; a maximum
charge for gas and the quality thereof; regulating the laying of
service pipes and the connection thereof with as mains of said
company; fixing a mimimum rate for gas and providing for a deposit
by consumers of gas; fixing the resp-n:sibility for damage caused
by excavations madd by said company; providing for the control and
aparoval by said city of the rules and regulations of said company;
granting permission to said company to convey gas through its pipes, for
the supply of gas toeonsumers outside of the corporate limits if said
city, reserving the right to said city to purchase all or any part of
the property of said Gas Company at the e-'piration of said franchise,
and reserving the right to repeal said franchise; providing for the
extensions of the plant and service of said company and for the audit-
ing of the records of said company and for the making of certain re-
gulations; providing that said ordinance shall be subject to the
further state control of said company; providing for the surrender
by said company of its existing franchise and for its acceptance of
the franchise granted herein; providing for a time limit as a con-
dition precedent to the acquisition of this franchise, that the
existing Receivership shall have been terminated and Receiver dis-
charged; providing for the payment of curtain expenses of said
company; and, providing for the publication of said ordinance and
the holding of an election thereon and fixing a time when said cr -
dinanoe shall take effect and repealing all ordinances and parts
of ordinances In conflict herewith." And
W iEAS, before said Ordinance oan take a f'eot it is
necessary that it shall first be approved by a majority of the quali.
Pied voters of the said city voting at an election hold therefor.
NJ1Y, T FORT4, be it ordained by the Comai.sst n of the
vity or 1144ui.;
Section 1.
That an e1oatibn 19 hereby caned and directed to
be hold in the City of Miami, 1'lbrida, at the City hall ih caid
city from eight o'clock A 'it% t6 sun.down on the 13th day of
April, 1924, for the purpose of voting for the approval or rem
jeotion of Ordinance No. 224 entitled as aforesaid, heretofore
adopted by this Body on February 1►9th, 1924.
Section 2.
That she City Clerk :3'r1a11 open the registration
books for said election from nine o'clock A. M. until four o'clock
P. M. on the 27 a day of 1?ebruar;y, 1924, and each day thereafter,
(Sundays excepted), to and including the third day of Aril, 1924,
in his office in the City Hall, on which last day such 'ookr shall
remain open► all day for the purpose of regist;erinnf, all persons :vh5
are qualified to register for such► election.
Section 3.
J. D. Godman, W. E. Glenn. and J. Ste;xart . on good are
hereby appointed as inspectors, and V. B. ';:oore as clerk of said
election.
Section 4.
The City Clerk is hereby directed to publish in The
Miami Herald, a newspaper published in the City of Miami, Florida,
on the 27th day of February, 1924 and also on Thursday of each of
the first four (4) weeks after February 27th, 1924, a notice of said
election and registration in substantially the following form:
Notice of Election
Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Ordinance No,
227 passed and adopted by the City Commission of Miami, Florida, on
February 26th, 1924, a special election will be held on the 15th
day of April, 1924, in the City Nall in sail city from eight olelook
in the forenoon to sun -down, at which election there •Trill he sub-
ui.tted to the qualified voters of said city the followisne, question;
Shall Ordinance No, 224 adopted by the City► Commission of Miami,
Florida, on February l9th, 1924, granting Permission to the Mien
Gas Company, its successors rind asssi;no, to do all things necessary
indideht tc the constrtaticn, Operation and Maintenance Of
os Works in said city tor the purposes and subjedt to the
eenditiens and prOlisiene in said Ordinance bet forth, be
nporotred. J. D. Goodman). E. Glenn and J. Stewart itorwood
have boon designated as inspectors, and n. n. Moore as clerk to
cottduet such election.
Section 5.
The official ballet to be ueed at said election
shall be, substantially►, in the following form:
OFFICIAL BALLOT
Special Election -----April 15th, 1924.
Cith of Miami, Florida.
(Make an (X) mari: after your choice for or against the proposed
measure.)
Shall Ordinance No. 224 adopted by the City Com:aission of Miami,
Florida, on February 19th, 1924, granting permission to the Miami
Gas Company, its successors and assigns, to do all things necessary
or incident to the construction, opowation and maintenance of gas
works in raid city for the curt oats and su') j=ect to the anndi.tions
and provisions in said ordinance set forth, be approved.
. For the Measure
Against the Measure
Section S.
The City Clerk will prepare the ballots in the farm
hereinabove set forth.
Section 7,
The City Commission declares t:lis Ordinance to be an
omor ancy noasure on the ground or urgont publio need i'or ;h0 pro.
servati.on of peace, health, safety and property.
PASSED AND ADOPTED TiiIS 2 ;Tii };4AI OF FEBRUARY, A.1),