Said City Council is hereby authorized to grant and allow by
ordinance such compensation to the Aldermen of said Council for their
services as shall be approved by a vote of two-thirds of all the members
elected. No alderman shall receive any compensation for his services
as such for serving on committees created by the City Council, nor
hold any office or station under this charter, unless an ordinance
providing for such service and compensation, and the amount of such
compensation, shall have been adopted by said City Council, and submitted
to the voters of said City, and a majority of the votes cast are in
favor of the same; but they shall be exempt from three days'
work on the streets, sidewalks, and highways herein provided for,
and be eligible to act as judges and clerks of elections under this
charter.
Any failure to hold any election or expression of opinion provided
for under this charter shall not operate as a forfeiture thereof,
but, in case of the Mayor and Aldermen of the town of Davenport failing
to provide for the election or vote to be had (herein provided for)
by them, the same may be holden on any day thereafter, and the said
Mayor and Aldermen of said town shall see that due notice is given,
and the election or vote had, which may have been neglected or omitted
to be held or had, in this act required of them, and in case of the
failure and neglect, after this charter shall take effect, of the
City Council, at any time, to hold, or cause to be held, an election,
or vote to be had, which may be required of them, the same shall work
no forfeiture of this charter; but such election or vote may be held
at some future time thereafter, as may be provided for by said City
Council nor shall the office of Mayor, Alderman, or any other office,
become vacant by such failure; but the incumbent of such office, if
otherwise qualified, shall continue and be entitled to all the rights
and privileges of said office, and exercise the same until his successor
shall be duly elected or appointed and qualified.
All ordinances and resolutions passed by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the town of Davenport, shall remain in force until the same shall
have been repealed by the City Council of Davenport. The boundaries
of the wards of the City shall (until otherwise changed by the City
Council of the City of Davenport) be the same as those heretofore
of the town of Davenport; all actions, fines, penalties, and forfeitures
which have accrued to the Mayor and Aldermen of the town of Davenport,
shall be vested in and prosecuted by the corporation hereby created.
All property, real, personal and mixed, heretofore belonging to the
Mayor and Aldermen of the town of Davenport, shall be, and the same
is hereby declared to be vested in the corporation hereby created.
This chapter shall not invalidate any act done by the Mayor or Aldermen
of the town of Davenport, nor divest them of any right which may have
accrued to them prior to the passage of this act; but the same shall
inure to and be enjoyed by the corporation hereby created.
The Mayor and Aldermen of the town of Davenport shall cause
this act to be published in each of the papers of said town or they
may provide for the publication and distribution of 100 copies among
the inhabitants of said town; and 10 days after the publication or
the distribution of the copies herein provided for, for an election
for or against the adoption of this charter; such election shall be
holden in some public place therein, where all the voters may attend
during the day, between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., and
vote by ballot "for new charter," or "against new charter;" and if
"for new charter," shall have a majority of the votes cast "for" and
"against," this charter, shall immediately take effect as a law; but
if a majority of the votes given be against the adoption of this charter,
then this act to be of no effect.
(The following section five is from the amended charter of January
22, 1855):
All the powers provided in the Code for the organization of
cities are hereby conferred on the City of Davenport.
This act is hereby declared to be a public act, and may be read
in evidence in all the courts of law and equity in this state without
further proof. All acts, or parts of acts coming within the provisions
or purview of this act, or contrary to, or inconsistent with its provisions,
on the taking effect of this charter, are hereby repealed.