Charter of the City of Dallas Page: 86
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a general election in said City of Dallas, and the elections held to elect
members of the Board of Commissioners and the Board of Education shall
be the only elections in said city which shall be denomlinated general
elections.
49. The City of Dallas shall have the same'right of appeal as is allowed
the defendant from the judgment of the Corporation Court in all criminal
cases involving the constitutionality or validity of any statute of the
State of Texas or any ordinance of the City of Dallas.
50. There shall be printed upon the ollicial ballot to be used at the
first election to be held under this act, above the names of the candidates
upon said ballot the following words:
"For the recall."
"Against the recall."
Every qualified voter voting at said election shall be entitled to vote
upon said subject. In the event of a majority of the voters who shall
vote thereon shall vote in favor of the recall, the provisions of article
9 of this act relating to said subject, including all of the provisions
of said article, shall become operative and shall have full force and effect
as all other provisions of this act. If, however, a majority of the voters
voting upon said subject shall vote against such recall provisions, the same
including all the provisions of said article 9, shall not take effect and shall
not have the force of law; provided, however, that if it shall be held that
this subdivision of this act is unconstituti-nal or invalid for any reason,
such holding or decision shall not in any way effect or impair any other
article, section, subdivision or provision of this act. And provided further,
that in the event this subdivision cf this act shall be held unconstitutional
or invalid for any reason, such holding shall only affect this subdivision
and shall not be construed to invalidate the provisions of article 9
cf this act relating to such subject.
51. The fact that the people of Dallas have voted to request the Legis-
lature to pass a bill creating a new charter for said city under which
it will have a commission form of government, the near approach of the
end of the session, and the crowded conditi n cf the calendar, creates an
emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring that the Con-
stitutional rule requiring bills to be read on threo several days be suspended
and said rule is hereby suspended, that this act shall take effect and
be in force fromn and after its passage, and it is so enacted.
A. B. 1)AVIDSON,
President of Senate.
1110S. B. LOVE,
Speaker of house of Representatives.
Approved April 13, 1907.
T. -M. CA1PELL, Governor.
I hereby certify that the within S. B. No. 316 passed the Senate April
3, 1907, by two-thirds vote, ayes 27, nays 0. House amendments con-
curred in April S, 1907, by two-thirds vote, ayes 25, nays 0.
CLYDE I). S .71,
Secretarv of Senate.6
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Texas. Legislature. Charter of the City of Dallas, legislative document, 1907; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth610709/m1/92/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dallas Municipal Archives.