The County: The "Dark Continent" of American PoliticsGilbertson, Henry S.
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The County: The "Dark Continent" of American Politics
Gilbertson, Henry S.
County government -- United States
the same manner as may be provided by general law for the nomination,
by petition of electors, of candidates for county offices, to be
voted for at general elections. It shall be the duty of said board of
freeholders, within one hundred and twenty days after the result of
such election shall have been declared by said board of supervisors,
to prepare and propose a charter for said county, which shall be
signed in duplicate by the members of said board of freeholders, or a
majority of them, and be filed, one copy in the office of the county
clerk of said county and the other in the office of the county recorder
thereof. Said Board of Supervisors shall thereupon cause said proposed
charter to be published for at least ten times in a daily newspaper
of general circulation, printed, published and circulated in said
county; _provided_, that in any county where no such daily newspaper
is printed, published and circulated, such proposed charter shall be
published for at least three times in at least one weekly newspaper,
of general circulation, printed, published and circulated in such
county; and _provided_, that in any county where neither such daily
nor such weekly newspaper is printed, published and circulated, a copy
of such proposed charter shall be posted by the county clerk in three
public places in said county, and on or near the entrance to at least
one public schoolhouse in each school district in said county, and the
first publication or the posting of such proposed charter shall be made
within fifteen days after the filing of a copy thereof, as aforesaid,
in the office of the county clerk. Said proposed charter shall be
submitted by said board of supervisors to the qualified electors of
said county at a special election held not less than thirty days nor
more than sixty days after the completion of such publication, or after
such posting; _provided_, that if a general election shall occur in
said county not less than thirty days nor more than sixty days after
the completion of such publication, or after such posting, then such
proposed charter may be so submitted at such general election. If a
majority of said qualified electors, voting thereon at such general
or special election, shall vote in favor of such proposed charter,
it shall be deemed to be ratified, and shall be forthwith submitted
to the Legislature, if it be in regular session, otherwise at its
next regular session, or it may be submitted to the Legislature in
extraordinary session, for its approval or rejection as a whole,
without power of alteration or amendment. Such approval may be made
by concurrent resolution, and if approved by a majority vote of the
members elected to each house, such charter shall become the charter of
such county and shall become the organic law thereof relative to the
matters therein provided, and supersede any existing charter framed
under the provisions of this section, and all amendments thereof, and
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