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. e -2- '.' permit anyone to vote absentee by personal appearance on any day which is not a, ~egular working day for the Clerk's office, or at any time when the Clerk's office is not open to the pub- lic. The City Clerk of the City of La Porte is hereby authorized and directed to appoint deputy absentee balloting clerks, as necessary. Section 5. Immediately after the close of the polls on the 26th day of April, 1966, the election officials shall make due return thereof to the City Commission of the City of La Porte, , , and the City Commission shall canvass said returns at the earliest 4It practicable time, and shall, immediately after canvassing the returns, declare the results of the election. The Mayor shall immediately thereafter deliver to the candidate for whom the greatest number of votes has been polled for each respective office, a certificate of election. Such elected officials shall assume their duties within ten (10) days thereafter, Sundays excluded, upon their taking the oath of office. Section 6. Notice of said election shall be given by publication in the LaPorte-Bayshore Sun, not less than thirty (30) days prior to the date of the said election, of the following notice: :- "NOTICE OF ELECTION" I, H. P. Pfeiffer, M~yor of the City of La Porte, Texas, by virtue of the power vested in me by law, do hereby order that an. election be held in the City of La Porte, T~xas; on the 26th day of April, 1966, for the purpose of electing a Mayor; a Commissioner for Position 2; and a Commissioner for Position 4; and that said election shall be held at the City Hall in said City between seven o'clock (7:00) A.M. and seven o'clock (7:00) P.M. on said date, and the following named persons are the appointed officials ,of said election , to-wit: ..a. Presiding Judge Alternate '.Presiding Judge Absentee votin~ by personal appearance shall begin on the 20th day and shall continue through the 4th day preceding the day of the. election and shall be conduc,ted at the City Hall of the City of .La Porte, between the hours of nine o'clock (9:00) A.M. and five o'clock (5:00) P.M., except on Saturdays, and legal holidays. . ...... H. P. PFEIFFER, Mayor of the City of La Porte, Texas