4 - City of Oxford

97768- IMICIXIM-INTMEI
MINUTE BOOK No. 24, CITY OF OXFORD
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WHEREAS, the said resolution did direct that the aforesaid election
be held at the polling places therein set out; and
WHEREAS, due and regular notice of said election was given as direct-
ed by said resolution and as required by law, by publication in the Oxford Eagl
on the 19th and 26th days of June, 1969, and on the 3rd and 10th days of July,
1969; said Oxford Eagle being a newspaper published and of general circulation
in the City of Oxford, Mississippi, and in said District, and said newspaper
being a qualified newspaper under the provisions of Chapter 427, Laws of Mis-
sissippi, 1948; and
WHEREAS, said notice was published in said newspaper once a week for
at least three (3) consecutive weeks next preceding the date of said election,
the first of said publications having occurred at least twenty-one (21) days
before and the last one within seven (7) days prior to the date of said electio
and
WHEREAS, the Mayor and Board of Aldermen did direct that the Election
Commissioners of said City of Oxford hold and conduct said special election
in the manner required by law, and did make provision for the use thereat of
ballots in substantially the form as set forth in the aforesaid resolution
adopted on the 16th day of June, 1969; and
WHEREAS, said election was duly and regularly held in all respects
as required by the Statutes of the State of Mississippi; and
WHEREAS, following the closing of the polls of said election, the
Election Commissioners of the City of Oxford, on the 15th day of July, 1969,
did make out, certify and transmit to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen the retur
of said election; and
WHEREAS, thereafter, the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, on the 15th day
of July, 1969, did canvass the returns of said election and did then find and do
now again find, determine, and declare that a total of one thousand, six hundre
five (1,605) votes were cast on the aforesaid proposition at said election, of
which one thousand, eighty-two (1,082) votes were cast "FOR THE BOND ISSUE,"
and five hundred twenty-three (523) votes were cast "AGAINST THE BONDS ISSUE,"
and that the said proposition, therefore, was assented to by a three-fifths ma-
jority of the qualified electors of said District voting thereon at said eleo-
tion;.and'
WHEREAS, the result of the aforesaid election was duly and formally
declared by a resolution of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen adopted on the
15th day of July, 1969; and