Official oath and bond.

Council may re

bonds.

municipal corporation of the State. All votes for or any appointment of any such defaulter shall be void. All officers of the village, elected or appointed, shall take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by the constitution of the State, and file the same with the clerk, and in case of failure to do so, within ten days after receiving notice of their election or appointment, shall be deemed to have declined the office.

SEC. 8. Every officer elected or appointed in the village, before entering upon the duties of his office, and within the time prescribed for filing his official oath, shall file with the village clerk such bond or security as may be required by law, or by any ordinance or resolution of the council, and with such sureties as shall be approved by the council, conditioned for the due performance of the duties of his office, except that the bond or security given by the clerk shall be deposited with the treasurer.

SEC. 9. The council may, at any time, require any officer quire additional to execute and file with the clerk additional or new official bonds, with such new or further sureties as said council shall deem requisite for the interest of the corporation. Any failure to comply with such requirement within fifteen days shall subject the officer to immediate removal from office by the council.

Resignations.

When office vacated.

When council may declare

office vacated.

Vacancy of

president and trustees, how filled.

Surety not exonerated.

Property to be delivered to successor.

VACANCIES IN OFFICE.

SEC. 10. Resignations of officers shall be made to the council.

SEC. 11. If any officer shall cease to be a resident of the village during his term of office, the office shall be thereby vacated. If any officer shall be a defaulter, the office shall thereby be vacated.

SEC. 12. If any person elected or appointed to office shall fail to take and file the oath of office, or shall fail to give the bond or security required for the due performance of the duties of his office, within the time herein limited therefor, the council may declare the office vacant, unless previously thereto he shall file the oath and give the requisite bond or security.

SEC. 13. Any vacancy occurring in the office of president, trustees or any other elective office, shall be filled by appointment by the council, and such appointee shall hold his office until the next annual election thereafter. All vacancies in any other office shall be filled by the president, by and with the consent of the council.

SEC. 14. The resignation or removal of any officer shall not, nor shall the appointment or election of another to the office, exonerate such officer or his sureties from any liability incurred by him or them.

SEC. 15. Whenever any officer shall resign or be removed from office, or the term for which he shall have been elected or appointed shall expire, he shall, on demand, deliver over to his successor in office, all the books, papers, moneys, and

effects in his custody as such officer, and in any way appertaining to his office; and every person willfully violating this provision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be proceeded against in the same manner as public officers generally for the like offense under the general laws of this State, now or hereafter in force and applicable thereto; and every officer appointed or elected shall be deemed an officer within the meaning and provisions of such general laws of the State.

CHAPTER III.

ELECTIONS.

SECTION 1. After the first election an annual election of Annual election, officers shall be held on the second Monday in March in each

year, at such place in the village as the council shall designate.

SEC. 2. Special elections may be appointed by resolution special election. of the council, and held at such times as they shall determine,

the purpose and object of which shall be fully set forth in the resolution appointing such election.

election.

SEC. 3. The president and clerk, and two of the trustees, who to be or any four of the trustees, to be appointed by the council, Inspectors of shall be the inspectors of election. The president, when present, shall be chairman of the board of election inspectors, and the clerk, if present, shall act as clerk of the election, and the inspectors shall appoint one of their number to act as second clerk. In case four of the inspectors do not attend at the opening of the polls, or shall not remain in attendance, sucb vacancy shall be filled as provided by the general election laws of the State, and in case either the president or clerk, or both of them, are absent, the inspectors shall designate from their number a chairman and a clerk. Each Compensation inspector of election shall receive as compensation two dollars of inspectors. per day.

to be published.

SEC. 4. Notice of the time and place of holding any elec- Notice of time of tion, and of the officers to be elected, and the questions to be holding election voted upon, shall, except as herein otherwise provided, be given by the clerk, at least eight days before such election, by posting such notices in three public places in the village, and by publishing a copy thereof in a newspaper in the village, if any is published therein, the same length of time before the election; and in case of a special election, the notice shall set forth the purpose and object of the election as fully as the same are required to be set forth in the resolution appointing such election.

election com

SEC. 5. The council shall, at least ten days previous to any council to apelection, appoint a board of three election commissioners, not point board of more than two of whom shall belong to the same political missioners. party, who shall be the board of election commissioners for such village for such election, and they shall perform such duties relative to the preparation and printing of ballots as are required by law of the boards of election commissioners of

Opening and

counties. The council shall also provide and cause to be kept by the clerk, for use at all elections, suitable ballot-boxes of the kind required by law to be kept and used in townships.

SEC. 6. On the day of elections, the polls shall be opened closing of polls. at seven o'clock in the morning, or as soon thereafter as may be, and shall be kept open until five o'clock in the afternoon, at which hour they shall be finally closed. The inspectors shall cause proclamation to be made upon opening the polls, and shall also cause proclamation to be made of the closing of the polls, one hour, thirty minutes, and fifteen minutes, respectively, before the closing thereof.

Manner of conducting elec

tions.

Canvass of votes to be public.

Certificate of election.

Council to deter

election.

SEC. 7. All elections in said village shall be conducted as nearly as may be in the manner provided by law for holding general elections in the State, except as herein otherwise provided; and the inspectors of such election shall have the same powers and authority for the preservation of order, and for enforcing obedience to their lawful commands during the time of holding the election and the canvass of the votes, as are conferred by law upon inspectors of general elections held in this State. If at any election vacancies are to be filled, or if any person is to be elected for less than a full term of office, the term shall be designated on the ballot.

SEC. 8. Immediatey after closing the polls, the inspectors of election shall, without adjourning, publicly canvass the votes received by them, and declare the results, and shall on the same day or the next day make a statement in writing, setting forth in words at full length, the whole number of votes given for each office, the names of the persons for whom such votes for each office were given, and the number of votes so given for each person, and the whole number of votes given upon each question voted upon, and the number of votes for and against the same, which statement shall be certified under the hands of the inspectors to be correct, and they shall deposit such statement and certificate on the day of election, or on the next day, together with said poll lists, and the register of electors, and the boxes containing said ballots in the office of the village clerk. The manner of canvassing said votes shall be the same as prescribed by law for canvassing votes at general elections held in this State, and the inspectors shall in all other respects, except as herein otherwise provided, conform as nearly as may be to the duties required of inspectors of election at general elections.

SEC. 9. The council shall convene on Thursday next sucmine result of ceeding each election, at their usual place of meeting, and determine the result of the election upon each question and proposition voted upon, and what persons were duly elected at the said election to the several offices respectively; and thereupon the clerk shall make duplicate certificates of such determination, showing the result of the election upon any question or proposition voted upon, and what persons are declared elected to the several offices respectively; one of which certificates he shall file in the office of the county clerk of the county

in which the village is located, and the other shall be filed in the office of the village clerk.

mine by lot.

SEC. 10. If there shall be no choice for any office by reason In case of tie of two or more candidates having received an equal number of council to detervotes, the council shall at the meeting mentioned in the preceding section, determine by lot between such persons which shall be considered elected to such office.

notify persons

SEC. 11. It shall be the duty of the clerk, within five village clerk to days after the meeting and determination of the council, as elected, provided in this chapter, to notify each person elected, in writing, of his election; and he shall also, within five days after the appointment of any person to any office, in like manner notify such person of the appointment.

to file oath or

SEC. 12. Within one week after the expiration of the time Clerk to report in which any official bond or oath of office is required to be fallure of officers filed, the clerk shall report in writing to the council the names bond. of all persons elected or appointed to any office, who shall have neglected to file such oath or bond.

precincts.

SEC. 13. The council of any village having more than six Division of vilhundred and fifty electors according to the poll list of the last lage into voting preceding election, may cause such village to be divided into two or more voting precincts, and the manner of making such division, the registration, and holding of elections and of canvassing the votes, and all other matters pertaining to the division of villages into voting precincts, and of the holding of elections therein, shall be governed by the general laws of the State relating thereto.

CHAPTER IV.

DUTIES OF OFFICERS.

PRESIDENT.

He

SECTION 1. The president shall be the chief executive officer Duties of presiof the village. He shall preside at the meetings of the coun- dent, cil. He shall be deemed a member of the council, but he shall have no right to vote upon any question except in case of a tie, in which case he shall give the deciding vote. shall from time to time give the council information concerning the affairs of the corporation, and recommend such measures as he may deem expedient. It shall be his duty to exercise supervision over the affairs of the village and over the public property belonging thereto, see that the laws relating to the village and the ordinances and regulations of the council are enforced.

conservator of

SEC. 2. The president shall be a conservator of the peace, President to be and may exercise within the village the powers conferred upon the peace. sheriffs to suppress disorder; and shall have authority to command the assistance of all able-bodied citizens to aid in the enforcement of the ordinances of the council, and to suppress riot and disorderly conduct.

1

May remove

SEC. 3. The president may remove any officer appointed certain officers. by him at any time when he shall deem it for the public interest and may suspend any policeman for neglect of duty. He shall have authority at all times to examine and inspect the books, records and papers of any agent, employe, or officer of the corporation, and shall perform generally all such duties as are or may be prescribed by the ordinances of the village.

Acting president.

Clerk, duties of.

To be general accountant.

To have charge

ers, etc.

SEC. 4. In the absence or disability of the president, the president pro tempore of the council shall perform the duties of the president.

CLERK.

SEC. 5. The clerk shall keep the corporate seal and all the documents, official bonds, papers, files and records of the village, not by this act or the ordinances of the village entrusted to some other officer; he shall be clerk of the council, and shall attend its meetings. In case of the absence of the clerk, or if from any cause he shall be unable to discharge, or be disqualified from performing the duties required of him, then the council may appoint one of their own number, or some other person, to perform the duties of the clerk for the time being. The clerk shall record all the proceedings and resolutions of the council, and shall record, or cause to be recorded, all the ordinances of the village. He shall countersign and register all licenses granted; he shall, when required, make and certify, under the seal of the village, copies of the papers and records filed and kept in his office; and such copies shall be evidence in all places of the matters therein contained, to the same extent as the original would be. He shall possess and exercise the powers of the township clerk so far as the same are required to be performed within the village, except as to the filing of chattel mortgages; and he shall have authority to administer oaths and affirmations.

SEC. 6. The clerk shall be the general accountant of the village; and all claims against the corporation shall be filed with him for adjustment. After examination thereof, he shall report the same, with all accompanying vouchers and counterclaims of the village, and the true balance as found by him, to the council for allowance, and when allowed shall draw his warrant upon the treasurer for the payment thereof, designating thereon the fund from which payment is to be made, and take proper receipts therefor; but no warrant shall be drawn upon any fund after the same has been exhausted. When any tax or money shall be levied, raised or appropriated, the clerk shall report the amount thereof to the village treasurer, stating the objects and funds for which it is levied, raised, or appropriated, and the amounts thereof to be credited to each fund.

SEC. 7. The clerk shall have charge of all the books, of books, vouch vouchers and documents relating to the accounts, contracts, debts, and revenues of the corporation; he shall countersign and register all bonds issued, and keep a list of all property and effects belonging to the village, and of all its debts and