chSi?Si5. § 11. City meetings, how called. The mayor, or, in
case of his absence or disability, the acting president of the board
of aldermen, or in the absence of the mayor and of said presi-
dent, the senior alderman present in the city may, at any time,
and when thereunto instructed by order of the court of com-
mon council, shall call a city meeting; and may, at any time,
and upon the request in writing of any two members of the
board of aldermen, and four members of the conmion council
board, shall, without unreasonable delay, call a meeting of the
court of common council, by issuing a warrant to the marshal
or any deputy marshal of the cily, requiring him to notify the
electors of the city, or the members of the court of common
council, as the case may be, that such meeting will be holden
at the time and place in such warrant designated, which war-
rant, in the case of a city meeting, shall specify the objects
thereof, and shall be issued and served at least two days before
the day when such meeting is to be holden. Service of said
warrant shall be made by causing a true and attested copy
thereof to be published in one and only one of the daily mom-
october«8,ifloomg newspapers published in said city, and in one and only
one of the daily evening papers published in said city in accord-
ance with the ordinance relating to city advertising, and by
fixing a true and attested copy thereof on the public sign-post
in said city. The court of common coimcil, whenever, in
its judgment, an emergency requires a city meeting to be
called on shorter notice, may, by a suitable vote, prescribe the
manner of warning the same. Warrants for city meetings shall
be returned before the meeting to the city clerk, with a suitable
endorsement of service. All warrants for meetings of the court
of common council shall be served by leaving a copy thereof
with each member of said court, or at his usual place of abode,
and shall be returned with a proper endorsement of service, be-
fore said meeting, to the clerk of the board of aldermen ; and a
certified copy thereof, and of said endorsement, shall, before said
meeting, be left with the clerk of the common council board.
