1915_private laws_64_16
CHAPTER 63 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF BENSON, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That in case of a failure to elect municipal officers, towit, a mayor and four commissioners, at the election hereinbefore provided for, or either of them, on the first Tuesday in May, the electors residing within the town may, after two weeks notice signed by ten qualified voters and posted at the postoffice door in said town and four other public places therein, and advertised in a newspaper published in said town, if there be one published therein, proceed to hold an election for such mayor, or commissioners, or either of them, in the manner provided in the Revisal of North Carolina, one thousand nine hundred and eight, chapter seventy-three, which mayor and commissioners, or either of them, shall immediately qualify and hold their offices till their successors are elected and have qualified.