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Ordinance No.c$/
AN ORDINANCE Affecting the Government of the Town of
Atlantic Beach, Duval County, Florida; Providing for an Increase in the
Limit of its Bonded Indebtedness; and Calling a Special Election for
the Approval Hereof:
BE IT ORDAINED BY TIE;: MAYOR AND TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN
OF ATLANTIC BEACH, DUVAL COUNTY, FLORIDA:
Section 1: Pursuant to and in accordance with the authority and
power conferred by Chapter 16314, Laws of Florida, Special Acts of
1933, the limit of the bonded indebtedness of the Town of Atlantic Beach,
a municipal corporation in Duval County, Florida, is, subject
only to the condition imposed in and by Section 2 hereof, hereby
increased from ten percent (10;1 to twenty percent (20;1 of the assessed
valuation of the real and personal property within the corporate limits
of the said Town,
Section 2: Such limit of said bonded debt shall be increased
only after this ordinance shall have been approved by the majority of the
votes cast in an election in which the freeholders who are qualified elect-
ors residing in said Town shall participate,
Section 3: Any qualified elector in the State of Florida
who has resided in the Town of Atlantic Beach thirty (30) days during
this calendar year A. D. 1939, and who shall register as is provided by
Ordinance No. 49, of the said Town, and who is a freeholder of said
Town, shall be a qualified elector , for the purpose of the election hereby
called and directed to be held.
Section 4: An election, of which notice is hereby given, is
hereby called to be held on the 27th day of October, 1939, to determine
given by publishing this Ordinance in its entirety in a newspaper
published in Duval County, Florida; and such publication shall be
made at least once in each week for four consecutive weeks during
said period of thirty (30) days. It is hereby expressly declared
and stated as a fact that there is no newspaper published in the said
Town of Atlantic Beach , Florida, at the date of this Ordinance; and
true and correct certified copies of this Ordinance shall therefore ,
and as further and additional notice of said election, be posted in
at least ten places within the corporate limits of the said Town.
The election herein ordered to be held on the 27th day of October,
1939, on which date there will also be held an election at which a,ill
be submitted to the voters of the Town of Atlantic Beach the question
of the ratification of certain acts enacted by the Legislature of
Florida in 1939, shall be held separately from said other election,
and it is hereby expressly directed that separate ballot boxes
and separate ballots shall be used for the election herein ordered
to be held , and separate returns of said election shall be made and
canvassed.
Section 5: For the election called in and by the terms of
this Ordinance , the voters shall register in accordance with the
provisions of Chaoter 14715, Laws of Florida, Acts of 1931, and of
Ordinance 1;o. 49 of the said Town of Atlantic Beach; and a list
of the registered voters shall, in compliance with said Chapter 14715,
be prepared and furnished to the hereinafter provided for Inspectors
and Clerk of the election.
Section 6: The Town Council shall have prepared and
furnished all necessary blanks and ballots and shall make all other
necessary preparations for said election, and shall pay all the expenses
OFFICIAL BALLOT,
SPECIAL ELECTION.
October 27th, 1939 ,
TOWN OF ATLANTIC BEACH.
Directions to Voter: Express your choice by
marking a cross mark (X) in the voting
square after the words "For Ordinance" or
Against Ordinance", accordingly as you
approve or disapprove this Ordinance.
Ordinance No. entitled, "AN ORDINANCE Affecting the
Government of the Town of Atlantic Beach, Duval County, Florida;
Providing for an Increase in the Limit of its Bonded Indebtedness;
and Calling a Special Election for the Approval Hereof". For
Ordinance :
Ordinance No. entitled, "AN ORDINANCE Affecting the
Government of the Town of Atlantic Beach, Duval County, Florida;
Providing for an Increase in the Limit of its Bonded Indebtedness;
and Calling a Special Election for the Approval Hereof" . Against
Ordinance :
Each cross mark on said ballots in the voting square follow-
ing the words "For Ordinance" shall constitute a vote , by the elector
making such cross mark, approving this Ordinance; and each cross mark
on said ballots in the voting square following the words "Against
Ordinance" shall constitute a vote , by the elector making such cross
mark, disapproving this Ordinance. If in said election the majority
of the votes cast by the participating freeholders who are qualified
said Ordinance shall have been approved; and the limit of the bonded
indebtedness of said Town of Atlantic Beach, a municipal corporation in
Duval County, Florida, shall be increased, as provided in and by Section 1
hereof, from ten percent (10;,) to twenty percent (20 ,2) of the assessed
valuation of the real and personal property within the corporate limits
of the said Town. But if in said election the majority of the votes
cast by the participating freeholders who are qualified electors residing
in said Town shall not be "For" this Ordinance, then said Ordinance
shall not have been approved; and the limit of the bonded indebtedness
of said Town shall not be increased from ten percent (10;x) to twenty percent
20,4 of the assessed valuation of the real and personal property within the
corporate limits of the said Town.
Section 7: The Town Council, at least six days before the
date of said election, shall appoint two (2) Inspectors and One (1)
Clerk of Election to hold said election in the said Town. If any
Inspector or the Clerk of Election so appointed shall fail to attend
at the proper polling place at the time for opening the polls on
the day of the election, the Inspector present shall fill the vacancy
or vacancies; and if all the Inspectors be absent , then those
persons present qualified to vote at said election shall fill the
vacancies. The polls shall be opened at eight o' clock in the
fore-noon and closed at sun down, with an intermission of one-half
an hour between twelve and one o' clock, and shall be located
at, or as nearly as possible to, the polling place used in the last
Town general election; to-wit, the Town Hall. The Inspectors and
Clerk of election shall without delay canvass the vote cast and
make out and sign due and duplicate returns of said election,
and shall deliver one copy thereof to the Town Clerk, and one copy
to the President of the Town Council, and said returns shall show the
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total number of residents of the said Town of Atlantic Beach, Florida,
legally qualified to participate in the said election, the number
of persons actually voting at said election, and the number of
votes cast respectively, "For" and "Against" this Ordinance .The
Town Council shall, as soon as practicable, canvass, and declare, from
the said returns of the Inspectors and Clerk of said election, the
results of said election; said results to show (1) the total number of
the freeholders who are qualified electors residing in said Town of
Atlantic Beach who actually voted at said election, (2) the total
number of votes cast respectively "For" and "Against" this Ordinance,
and (3) whether or not said Ordinance shall have been approved by the
majority of the votes cast in said election. The Town Council shall
then cause such results of the said election to be duly recorded in the
Minutes of the said Town Council.
Said election shall in all other respects be conducted
as nearly as may be in compliance with the laws regulating the holding,
returning, certifying, and canvassing of general Town elections.
Passed by the Town Council of the Town of Atlantic Beach,
Florida , on first reading
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1939; passed by the said Town
Council on second reading ,.+; , / c/ ,- 1939; passed by the said Town
Council on t•: rd and final reading ilerfr ,Vp, 1939; and presented to
theayor _:„.44 R`'1.39•
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