Act No. 56 — An Act Providing for the Retention in Office of Municipal Councilors, Elected Under General Order of the Military Governor Number Forty, Series of Nineteen Hundred, Until a New Municipal Law Shall Have Been Enacted and Put in Operation.
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SECTION 1. All councilors in municipalities which have been organized under General Order of the Military Governor Number Forty, series of nineteen hundred, shall continue to hold office until a new municipal law shall have been enacted by the Commission and their successors shall have been elected and shall have qualified in accordance with its provisions.
SEC. 2. That portion of article three of said general order which provides that the seats of councilors of the first class shall be vacated on the first Monday of January, nineteen hundred and one, and that portion of article eight of said order which provides that general municipal elections shall be held on the first Tuesday in December of each year, are hereby repealed: Provided, That nothing herein shall be held to invalidate any elections which may have taken place before the passage of this Act.
SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, December 12, 1900.
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