veto. with secretary been approved by the Governor of the State, and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the board of supervisors to cause all of such laws, regulations, ordinances and acts to be suitably engrossed, and they shall be signed by the chairman of the board of supervisors and certified to by the clerk thereof, and by the clerk immediately transmitted to the Governor for his approval. If he approve the same he shall sign it, if he do not approve it, he shall retransmit the same with his objections to the clerk of the board of supervisors from which. the same was received within ten days from receipt thereof. The ordinance or other act with the reasons of the Governor for not signing the same shall be submitted by the clerk to the board of supervisors at its next regular or special session, and the objections of the Governor shall be entered at large on the journal of the board. The act of the board shall there Passage over upon be reconsidered, and if two-thirds of the members elected governor's to such board shall approve the act previously passed, notwithstanding the objections of the Governor thereto, it shall become a law, except as herein otherwise provided. If the Act deposited Governor approve such act, he shall cause the same to be de- of state. posited with the Secretary of State. If he do not approve such act and the board of supervisors pass the same upon reconsideration, notwithstanding the objections of the Governor as hereinbefore provided, the clerk of the board of supervisors shall cause the same to be deposited with the Secretary of State after such ordinance or act has been certified as above required. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of Secretary of State to index and publish all such acts annually in a suit- state to index, ably bound volume for distribution in the same manner as public acts are at present distributed, and the expense of such publication shall be paid in the same manner as is now provided by law for the payment of the expense of the publication of the public acts: Provided, That no law, regula Proviso. tion, ordinance or act enacted by the board of supervisors shall take effect until sixty days after the adjournment of said board: Provided further, That if within fifty days after the Further said board of supervisors shall adjourn, a petition signed by proviso. not less than twenty per cent of the electors residing in the territory to be affected by such law, regulation, ordinance or act shall be filed with the county clerk asking that such law, regulation, ordinance or act shall be submitted to the electors of the district to be affected thereby for their approval or rejection, then said law, regulation, ordinance or act shall not take effect until the same shall have been approved by a majority of the electors of the district affected voting thereon at any regular election or special election called for that pur pose: Provided further, That the board of supervisors shall Further provide the manner of submitting such law, regulation, ordinance or act to the electors for their approval, and determining the result thereof; etc., acts. proviso. Certain officers to give bonds. Proviso. May borrow, etc., money. Rules and regulations. Proviso, allowance of claims. Fourteenth, To require any county officer whose salary or compensation is paid by the county, to make a report under oath to them on any subject or matters connected with the duties of his office, and to require such officers to give bonds or further or additional bonds, as shall be reasonable or necessary, for the faithful performance of their respective duties; and any such officer who shall neglect or refuse to make any such report, or to give such bond within a reasonable time after being so required, may be removed from office by such board by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elect, and the office declared vacant, and such board may fill such vacancy for the unexpired portion of the time for which such officer was elected or appointed: Provided, That if the spring or fall election shall occur before the expiration of the said unexpired term, if the office be an elective one, the vacancy shall be filled at such election, and it shall be the duty of such board to give reasonable notice of such election to fill the vacancy; Fifteenth, To authorize any township or townships in their respective counties, by a vote of the electors of said township or townships, to borrow or raise by tax upon such township any sum of money not exceeding ten thousand dollars in any township in any one year, to build or repair any roads or bridges in such township or townships, or in the use of which such township or townships may be interested, and to prescribe the time for the payment of any such loan, which shall be within fifteen years, and for assessing the principal and interest thereof upon such township or townships; and if any road or bridge is situated partly in one township and partly in another, or on the line between townships, or in case any township has any particular local interest in the construction or repair of any bridge, such boards of supervisors may de termine, under such regulations as they may establish, the relative proportion which each township shall contribute in the building and repairing thereof, and the amount so apportioned to the several townships shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as other township taxes are now assessed and collected by law; Sixteenth, To represent their respective counties, and to have the care and management of the property and business of the county in all cases where no other provision shall be made; Seventeenth, To establish such rules and regulations in reference to the management of the interest and business concerns of such county, and in reference to the mode of proceeding before such board, as they shall deem necessary and proper in all matters not especially provided for in this act or in some law of this State: Provided, however, That the board of supervisors shall in no case audit or allow any bill, claim or charge against the people or the county which shall not have been filed with the county clerk of such county on proviso. or before the third day of any regular meeting of said board, or on or before the first day of the adjourned or other meet ing, as the case may be, except bills or claims which shall have been contracted by said board during the session thereof, and for mileage and per diem of the members of said board; and the county clerk shall keep a book in which he shall enter all claims in the order in which they are presented, giving the name of the claimant, the amount of the claim and the date when presented, which book shall, after the time prescribed for the presentation of claims, be placed in the hands of the chairman for the use of the board: Provided further, That Further at the October session the board may, by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected, receive and allow accounts which have wholly accrued during the session: Provided further, Further proThat the board of supervisors shall have authority to remove of officers. any officer or agent heretofore or hereafter to be appointed by said board when in its opinion he is incompetent to execute properly the duties of his office, or when on charges and evidence it shall be satisfied that he has been guilty of official misconduct, or habitual or wilful neglect of duty, if in its opinion such misconduct or neglect shall be a sufficient cause for such removal; but no such officer or agent shall be re Charges. moved for such misconduct or neglect, unless charges thereof shall have been preferred to said board of supervisors or the chairman thereof, and notice of the hearing, with a copy of the charges, delivered to such officer or agent, and a full opportunity given him to be heard in his defense, either in person or by counsel. Approved June 2, 1909. viso, removal |