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CITY CHARTER.
CITY CHARTER.
SECTION 1. The inhabitants of the town of Laconia, in the county of Belknap, and the inhabitants of all that part of the town of Gilford lying westerly of a line described as follows, viz. : commencing at the south-east corner of School District No. 13 in said Gilford, thence northerly on the division line or rangeway, between ranges one and two, as shown by the Gilford town plan, to the south line of lot originally owned by Joseph Libby; thence easterly on said Libby lot line to the division line or rangeway between ranges two and three ; thence northerly on said division line or rangeway to Lake Winnipiseogee -- shall be a body corporate and politic under the name of the City of Laconia.
SEC. 2. The said city of Laconia is hereby divided into six (6) wards which shall be constituted as follows, viz .: Ward No. 1 shall include all that part of Laconia lying and being northerly of a line beginning on the present town line between Laconia and Gilford at a point on the south-easterly shore of Round Bay or Lake Opechee, so called, where said town line strikes said shore, and thence extending in a straight line westerly by the northern-most point of Hog Island in Lake Winnisquam till it strikes the shore of said lake.
Ward No. 2 shall include all that part of said Laconia bounded westerly by a line commencing on the easterly shore of Round Bay or Lake Opechee (the point first mentioned as the beginning of the boundary line of Ward No. 1), thence southerly by the said easterly shore of Round Bay or Lake Opechee and the easterly shore of the Winnipesaukee river, to a point on the easterly shore of said river at the south-easterly corner of the Mill street bridge ; southerly by a straight line easterly from said last mentioned point to the south-westerly corner of Prospect street at its intersection with Lake street ; thence easterly along the southerly side of
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said Prospect street to Avery street ; thence in a line south seventy-six degrees east to the town line between Laconia and Gilford ; easterly by the present town line of Gilford ex- tending from the last to the first mentioned bound.
Ward No. 3 shall include all that part of said Laconia bounded westerly by a line commencing at a point on the southerly line of Ward No. 1, in the centre of the highway leading northerly from the postoffice to the Belknap county farm; thence southerly and south-easterly in a line through the centre of said highway and Pleasant street to the centre of Main street southerly of the Belknap Savings Bank ; thence south-easterly through the centre of said Main street to the southerly shore of the Winnipesaukee river in the centre of said Main street ; north-easterly by the easterly shore of the Winnipesaukee river and the easterly shore of Round Bay or Lake Opechee to the Laconia and Gilford town line ; norther- ly by the south line of Ward No. 1
Ward No. 4 shall include all that part of Laconia bounded easterly by the westerly side of Ward No. 3, and by a line continuing from the westerly side line of Ward No. 3, in the centre of Main street on the southerly shore of the Winnipe- saukee river, southerly through said Main street to a point in said street opposite the centre of Bowman street ; southerly by a line commencing at last mentioned point and extending through the centre of said street to the centre of Academy street ; south-eastly by a line commencing at said last men- tioned point and extending south-westerly through the centre of said street and the Mile Hill road to the Belmont town line and westerly by said Belmont town line and the shore of Lake Winnisquam.
Ward No. 5 shall include all that part of Laconia as exist- ing at the time of the passage of this act not embraced in the other wards.
Ward No. 6 shall include all that part of the town of Gil- ford hereby made a part of the city of Laconia.
SEC. 3. Wards 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 shall elect each one repre- sentative to the general court, and Ward 6 shall elect two
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such representatives, and the town of Gilford shall elect one such representative, until such time when their constitutional rights shall entitle any of said wards or said town to a greater number.
SEC. 4. The administration of all the fiscal, prudential and municipal affairs of said city shall be vested in one principal officer to be called the mayor, and one board consisting of fourteen members to be called the council, and the members whereof shall be called councilmen. The mayor and council shall sit and act together and compose one body, and in their joint capacity shall be denominated the city council.
SEC. 5. Said city shall constitute one school district, and the administration of all fiscal and prudential affairs of said school district, not vested in the board of education by this act, shall be exercised by the city council.
SEC. 6. The existing indebtedness of the present town of Gilford upon town notes, amounting March 1, 1893, to four- teen thousand two hundred seventy-one dollars and ninety- one cents (14,271.91), and the claim of the Winnipesaukee Lake Cotton & Woolen Manufacturing Company for rebate of taxes now pending, shall be assumed and paid as said notes and claim accrue and mature, by the city of Laconia; and the sums so paid by said city shall be repaid to said city from the proceeds of an assessment upon the polls and prop- erty in said Ward 6 made by said city for that purpose. Said assumption of indebtedness, by said city to be paid as afore- said, shall include all interest which has or may hereafter accrue on said notes and said claim of the Winnipesaukee Lake Cotton & Woolen Manufacturing company. The town of Gilford shall assume and pay existing town district school debts and all other existing claims and liabilities of said town, and shall have and own the town-house and vault and one road ma- chine, and existing town records, and its proportion of the savings bank tax, insurance tax and literary fund for the cur- rent year. and said Ward 6 shall have and own all the other corporate assets and property of the present town of Gilford, except that the school property located in the new town of Gil-
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ford shall be vested in the Gilford town school district, and the school property located in said Ward 6 shall be vested in the city school district of Laconia. The expense of maintaining highways in that portion of the present town of Gilford, which will constitute Ward 6 in the city of Laconia after the pas- sage of this bill that shall accrue after March first. 1893, and before this act shall take effect, shall be defrayed by said city of Laconia and reimbursed to said city out of taxes which it shall assess upon the polls and property in said Ward 6. The existing indebtedness of the present town of Laconia, includ- ing any school district and fire precinct indebtedness, shall be paid by taxes assessed upon the polls and property in Wards 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 ; the expense of constructing a system of sewers in said Ward 6 shall be assumed, and paid by taxes assessed upon the polls and property in said ward ; but when the amount expended for sewers in said ward shall equal, in proportion to its assessed valuation, the amount heretofore expended for sewers in said wards 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, then the expense for sewers in any all parts of said city shall be de- frayed by taxation upon all the persons and property of said city. All property of said Laconia and of said Ward 6, in- cluding all school property and property of the fire precincts, shall be vested in said city.
SEC. 7. The mayor and council created by this act shall have all the powers and respectively perform all the duties which mayors, boards of aldermen, and common councils of cities are by law authorized to perform, either separately or otherwise ; and all provisions of statutes pertaining to the duties of boards of aldermen and common councils of cities, separately or otherwise, shall be construed to apply to the city council created by this act, except as otherwise herein provided.
SEC. 8. Wards 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, at every state biennial elec- tion, shall each choose by ballot and plurality vote one super- visor of check-lists, and Ward 6 two such supervisors, and the city council shall also, on the Wednesday next following each state biennial election, by ballot and major vote, choose one
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supervisor of check-lists, who shall hold office for the term of two years.
The persons thus chosen shall constitute a board of super- visors of check-lists of all the wards of the city, and the mem- ber chosen by the city council shall be chairman of the board.
All vacancies occurring in the board shall be filled by the city council by ballot and major vote.
SEC. 9. Said supervisors having been first duly sworn to the faithful discharge of the duties of their office, and a cer- tificate thereof recorded by the city clerk, shall, previous to every election subsequent to the biennial election in Novem- ber, 1894, prepare, revise and post up in the manner required by law, an alphabetical list of the legal voters in each ward. In preparing said list, they shall record the full first, or Christian name of each voter, but may use initial letters to designate the middle name of any voter.
S c. 10. Said supervisors shall be in session, in such places as they shall designate, for the purpose of revising and correcting the list of voters six days at least before the day of election, from nine o'clock in the forenoon till noon, and from two till five o'clock in the afternoon of each of said days. The first session shall be upon the Tuesday next preceding the day of election. No name shall be added to said list after the last meeting except such as have been left off by mistake, and not unless the supervisor in attendance at an election in any ward where such omission occurs clearly knew before the list was made out that the name thus omitted legally belonged on it. Said board shall have all the powers and perform all the duties prescribed by law for supervisors of check-lists.
SEC. 11. Each member of the board of supervisors shall receive the sum of two dollars per day for each day's services performed by him in accordance with the provisions of this act, to be paid out of the city treasury.
SEC. 12. The annual meeting of the inhabitants of said city for the choice of all such city, ward and school officers,
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except supervisors, as are elected by the people, shall be held in the several wards on the second Tuesday of March ; their election shall be by ballot, and the terms of their respective offices shall commence on the fourth Tuesday of March following such election.
SEC. 13. At the first election under this act a moderator and ward clerk shall be chosen, by and from the qualified voters of each ward, who shall hold their respective offices until the close of the biennial election in November, 1894, and thereafter, at each biennial election, a moderator and ward clerk shall be chosen, by and from the qualified voters of each ward, who shall hold their respective offices for the term of two years ; and at the first annual election, after the passage of this act, three selectmen shall be chosen, by and from the qualified voters of each ward to serve, one for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, and one for the term of three years, and at each annual election there- after one selectman shall be chosen to serve for the term of three years. All vacancies in any of said offices in any ward shall be filled by the city council.
SEC. 14. The mayor of said city shall be chosen annually, and shall have the same negative upon all the actions of the council as, by the public statutes, the mayors of cities are given upon the action of aldermen. He shall preside in the meetings of the city council, but shall have no vote except in case of an equal division. In his absence, the council may elect one of their number chairman, who shall have all the powers and perform all the duties of mayor during his ab- sence or disability, or during a vacancy in said office from any cause. The mayor shall receive in full for his services an annual salary of three hundred dollars payable semi-annually, which shall be in full for all services of every kind rendered by him in said office.
SEC. 15. At the first annual election after the passage of this act two councilmen shall be chosen by and from the qual- ified voters of each of wards 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, to serve one for one year, and one for two years, and four councilmen from
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Ward 6 to serve two for one year and two for two years, and at each annual election thereafter one councilman shall be chosen by and from the qualified voters of each of wards 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 and two from Ward 6, to serve for the term of two years.
SEC. 16. In balloting for city, school, or ward officers, the ballots for so many of said officers as are then to be voted for shall be given in on one ticket or list, with the respective office designated against the name of each person voted for, and at the first annual election under this act with the length of time of service of the selectmen, councilmen, and board of education indicated upon the ballots.
SEC. 17. The mayor and council shall, at their first meet- ing, May 3, 1893, and thereafter annually, on the fourth Tuesday of March, meet for the purpose of taking their respective oaths, and shall elect a city clerk, who shall be clerk of the city council and have a salary of six hundred dol- lars per annum.
SEC. 18. The city council first elected under this act, shall, at their first meeting elect three persons, legal voters of said city, to constitute a board of health, to serve until their suc- cessors are chosen in March, 1894, and qualified ; and in the month of March, 1894, they shall elect one for one year, one for two years, and one for three years; and thereafter they shall annually, and in the month of March, and on or after the fourth Tuesday therein, elect one such person to serve on said board for the term of three years. Elections shall be so made that at least one member of said board shall be a physi- cian. Said board shall receive such a compensation for services as the city council shall prescribe.
SEC. 19. The city council elected at the first annual meet- ing under this act, viz .: on the second Tuesday of March, 1894, shall in the month of March, at their first meeting elect three (3) persons, legal voters of said city, to constitute a board of assessors, one to serve for the term of one year, one to serve for the term of two years, and one to serve for the term of three years ; and thereafter they shall annually in said
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month, and on or after the fourth Tuesday therein, elect one such person to serve as a member of said board for the term of three years. The appraisal of property made by the pres- ent selectmen of Laconia, and by the present selectmen of Gilford (who are hereby authorized to make the appraisal of polls and property in said Ward 6 as of April 1, 1893), for the year beginning April 1, 1893, and the taxes assessed by them upon the polls and property within the city limits, shall stand as the appraisal and assessment of said city for the year 1893, and said selectmen shall continue in office for the purpose of completing said appraisal and assessment, and so long as may be necessary therefor.
SEC. 20. The general management and control of the pub- lic schools, and of the buildings and property pertaining there- to, shall be vested in a board of education consisting of nine members, who shall be elected at the first annual meeting and serve three for one year, three for two years, and three for three years, and until their successors are elected and qualified ; and at each annual meeting thereafter there shall be elected three members to serve for three years. They shall have the power, perform the duties, and be subject to the liabilities pertaining to school boards of towns, except as otherwise pro- vided in this act. All bills, notes and demands made or contracted for school purposes shall be paid from the city treasury. They shall receive such compensation as the city council shall determine, and their term of office shall begin on the fourth Tuesday of March. The present boards of educa- tion of the Laconia High School district and of District No. 13 of the town of Gilford shall constitute the school board of said city until their successors are chosen at the first annual meeting in March, 1894, and qualified.
SEC. 21. The city council shall elect a collector of taxes, city treasurer, city solicitor, city physician, street commis- sioner, a chief engineer and assistant engineers of the fire de- partment, and elect or appoint all other officers necessary for the good government of the city, not otherwise provided for, in such manner and for such terms as the city council shall by ordinance determine, and shall fix their salary or compensation.
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SEC. 22. The choice of all officers herein required to be elected by the city council shall be by ballot and major vote, the length of the term of service of each member of the boards of health and education and assessors first elected being indi- cated upon the ballots ; and all city officers whose terms are herein specified, and all whose terms may be specified by or- dinance shall hold their respective offices during such specified terms, and until their successors are elected or appointed and qualified ; but all such officers, excepting those elected by the qualified voters of the city or wards, shall be removable at the pleasure of the city council.
SEC. 23. The police court of Gilford is hereby abolished, and the police court of the town of Laconia, as now existing and constituted, is hereby continued and established as the police court of the city of Laconia ; and all precepts, civil and criminal, which by law are made returnable to and which may be instituted and pending before said police court of the town .of Laconia and the police court of Gilford when this act shall take effect, shall be heard and determined before said court under the name of the police court of the city of Laconia, and all money payable by said police court to the town of Laconia shall be payable to the city of Laconia. The records of the police court of Gilford shall be deposited and kept with the records of the police court of Laconia.
SEC. 24. The justice and clerk of said court shall once in three months render to the city treasurer an account under oath of all fees and costs by them received or receivable, and shall at the time aforesaid pay over to said treasurer all fees and costs by them received.
SEC. 25. After the passage of this act, the supervisors of said town of Laconia and three supervisors from said Ward 6, consisting of the two Gilford supervisors now resident in said ward and one to be appointed by them, shall constitute a board of supervisors of the check-lists for the city of Laconia, to prepare check-lists to be used at all meetings provided for in this act, until the election of supervisors at the biennial election in November, 1894, and shall elect one of their num-
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ber chairman. Said board shall, for the purpose of the first election under this act, seasonably prepare, revise, and post up, in the manner required by law and according to the pro- visions of this act, an alphabetical list of the legal voters in each ward, and shall have, and continue to have, the powers and perform the duties of said supervisors until others are elected and qualified in their stead. Said supervisors shall also seasonably appoint a moderator, clerk, and three select- men in and for each ward, and from the legal voters thereof, who shall, after being duly sworn to the faithful performance of their duties, have the powers and perform the duties, of their respective offices at the first election under this act, and until others are elected and qualified.
SEC. 26. The selectmen of said wards so appointed for the purpose of said first election shall seasonably call a meeting of the legal voters of each ward for the choice of all ward and city officers then to be chosen, at some convenient place to be designated in their warrant, and within the respective wards, and said meeting shall be called in the same manner as town meetings are called by selectmen.
SEC. 27. The returns of votes provided by law to be made to the city clerk, shall at the first election be made to said supervisors, who shall forthwith perform all the duties in rela- tion thereto which are now prescribed by law for city clerks and city councils, respectively ; and if no mayor shall have been chosen at said first election, the selectmen shall forth- with, in manner aforesaid, call another meeting of the voters of each ward, and in relation to the returns thereof said super- visors shall perform all the duties assigned them in this sec- tion, and the same proceedings shall be had and repeated un- til a mayor is elected.
Said supervisors shall also select and provide a suitable place for the first meeting of the city council, and shall seas- onably notify the members thereof of the place selected.
SEC. 28. Said city of Laconia is hereby authorized"to hire money for the purpose of constructing a system of sewerage in Ward 6 and extending the sewerage system in the other
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wards, and to fund its indebtedness therefor and the indebt- edness of said town of Laconia and of said Ward 6 by issu- ing bonds of such kinds and denominations payable at such time and place, with interest annually or semi-annually, at a rate not exceeding six per cent. per annum, as by vote it may authorize, and to provide a sinking fund for the payment thereof.
SEC. 29. The said city of Laconia is hereby authorized and empowered to purchase the property and franchises of the "Laconia and Lake Village Water Works," and the "Laconia Electric Lighting Company," upon such terms as may be agreed upon by said companies and said city, and for said purpose may issue bonds, secured by a mortgage upon said property, drawing interest not to exceed six per cent. per an- num, and for such times as the city council may determine.
SEC. 30. The first city election under this act, for the choice of all officers herein provided for, shall be held in the several wards on Tuesday, the second day of May, 1893, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, and all officers then chosen shall hold their offices until the fourth Tuesday of March, 1894. The first meeting of the city council thus elected shall be held on the third day of May, 1893, at two o'clock in the afternoon.
SEC. 31. The first annual town meeting of the town of Gilford, as constituted by this act, shall be held at the town house in Gilford village, on Tuesday, April 18, 1893, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, for the choice of moderator, town clerk. three (3) selectmen, three (3) supervisors of check-lists, one (1) or more fish and game wardens, one (1) or more au- ditors, and all other necessary officers and agents for the transaction of town business. The officers and agents so elected shall hold their offices until the next annual town meeting on the second Tuesday of March, 1894. The terms of all the present officers of the town of Gilford shall expire when their successors are elected on said eighteenth day of April, 1893, and shall have qualified. Charles H. Sleeper, George P. Munsey, and William H. Weeks, all of said Gilford
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are authorized and empowered to warn said first annual meet- ing of the town of Gilford in the same manner as town meet- ings are warned by selectmen ; and are further authorized to revise and post the check-list to be used at said meeting.
At said meeting said town of Gilford may make such appro- priations of money for town and other purposes as may be provided by law and determined by the meeting, whether the notice of such appropriations is inserted in the warrant or not.
The time prescribed by law for the performance of official duty by the selectmen and other officers of towns. and by the officers of school districts and for school district meetings, with reference to the appraisal of property, assessment of taxes. appointment of agents, and with reference to all other duties, shall, for the present year, be extended for a period of thirty days, so far as relates to the performance of said duties by the selectmen and officers of the town of Gilford and the officers and meetings of the Gilford town school district.
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