twelfth, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fiftyfour, is hereby repealed.

SECT. 3. The provisions of this act shall be void, unless submitted to and approved by the voters of the city of Fall River, at meetings held simultaneously in the several wards, upon notice duly given at least seven days before the time of holding said meeting.

Passed to be enacted.

House of Representatives, April 20, 1857.

CHARLES A. PHELPS, Speaker.

In Senate, April 21, 1857.

Passed to be enacted.

CHARLES W. UPHAM, President.

April 24, 1857.

Approved.

HENRY J. GARDNER.

Adopted May 1, 1857.

CHAPTER 77, ACTS OF 1857.

1. Appointments to be made by mayor and 1 3. Act to be void unless, etc.

aldermen.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1. The mayor and aldermen of the city of Appointments Fall River shall have full and exclusive power and authority to appoint a city marshal, and such number of assistant dermen.

to be made by mayor and al

Act to be void unless, etc.

marshals, constables and police officers, as they shall deem expedient, and the same to remove at pleasure.

SECT. 2. All parts of the eighth section of the charter of the city of Fall River, inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed.

SECT. 3. This act shall be void unless it shall be accepted and approved by a majority of the legal voters of the city of Fall River present and voting at meetings called for that purpose, in the several wards of said city, at least seven days before the time of holding said meeting.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:

SECTION 1. At the next annual election in the city of Fall River, shall be elected, by ballot, a school committee Number of for said city, consisting of six members, one-third for the school committerm of one year, one-third for the term of two years, and See ch. 48. acts one-third for the term of three years.

SECT. 2. The ballots for said school committee shall designate the term of years during which each person voted for shall serve, and the election shall be conducted in all respects as is now provided for the election of mayor of said city.

tee.

of 1860, post.

How elected.

Future elec

SECT. 3. After such election shall have been held, the provisions of the two hundred and seventieth chapter of tions. the acts of the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven shall apply to all future elections of school committees in said city.

when to com

mence.

SECT. 4. The official year of said school committee official year, shall commence on the first day of April* in each year. SECT. 5. This act shall not take effect until accepted see ch. 48 acts by the voters of said city, at a meeting duly held for said of 1860, ante.

purpose.

House of Representatives, April 4, 1859.

Passed to be enacted.

CHARLES HALE, Speaker.

In Senate, April 5, 1859.

Passed to be enacted.

CHARLES A. PHELPS, President.

April 5, 1859.

Approved.

NATHANIEL P. BANKS.

Adopted May 9, 1859.

*Now the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January.

Aunual election, when.

Change to take effect, when.

School commit

begin.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:

*

SECTION 1. The annual election in the city of Fall River, which is now by law held on the first Monday of March, shall in future, be held on the first Monday of December; and the mayor, aldermen, common councilmen and ward officers chosen at said election, shall hereafter enter upon the duties of their respective offices on the first Monday in January, annually, and shall hold their said offices for the term of one year thereafter, and until others are chosen and qualified in their stead.

SECT. 2. This change shall take effect on the first Monday of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty; and the term of office of the mayor, aldermen, common councilmen and ward officers, elected on the first Monday of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty, shall expire on the first Monday of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

SECT. 3. The provisions of chapter one hundred and tee, services to sixty-eight of the Acts of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, entitled "An Act amending the charter of the city of Fall River," are so far amended as to limit the first official year of the school committee elected under it, to the first Monday of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and the official year of said school

*Now, first Tuesday after first Monday in December.

.

committee shall thereafter commence on the first Monday of January in each year.

unless, etc.

SECT. 4. This act shall be void unless the inhabitants Act to be void of the said city of Fall River, at a legal meeting called for that purpose, shall by a majority of the voters present and voting thereon by ballot, determine to adopt the same.

SECT. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:

may be

SECTION 1. The city council of the city of Fall River Ward limits may, during the current year, alter the wards of said city, changed.