In all matters where this Charter is silent the constitution and general laws of the State of Oklahoma shall prevail. (Amended General Election, April 7, 2009).
CERTIFICATE OF FREEHOLDERS
| State of Oklahoma | ) |
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| Oklahoma County | ) |
BE IT KNOWN, That the City of Edmond, Oklahoma County, State of Oklahoma, containing a population of more than two thousand inhabitants, at an election held on the seventeenth day of March, 1925, under the provisions of Section 3a of Article 18 of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, did pursuant to law, elect a board of freeholders, two being elected from each of four wards of said City, to frame a Charter for the City of Edmond, to be executed in duplicate and filed within ninety days from the date of said election, one copy of which is to be filed with the chief executive officer of said City, and the other to be filed with the county clerk (register of deeds) of said County.
We, the undersigned members of said board of freeholders, do hereby certify that in pursuance of the Constitution and laws of the State of Oklahoma, we did meet and organize and in perfecting said organization, did unanimously elect C. E. Tool to act and preside as Chairman of said board, and did at the same time unanimously elect R. C. Gosset to act as Secretary of said Board, and from time to time have held meetings, and have proposed, formulated and filed a proposed Charter within ninety days from the date of our election, consisting of the various Articles and Sections embraced and contained within and upon the foregoing and preceding twenty-nine pages, as the Charter of the City, which we and each of us, do hereby sign in duplicate as and for the Charter of the City of Edmond, Oklahoma.
In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands in duplicate this 25th day of March, 1925.
WARD ONE: E. M. Castleberry, W. C. Jamieson.
WARD TWO: C. E. Tool, P. M. Holmes.
WARD THREE: R. C. Gossett, Geo. E. Paas.
WARD FOUR: W. A. Chitwood, G. B. Walters.
CERTIFICATE OF CHAIRMAN
I, C. E. Tool, Chairman of the Board of Freeholders, elected on Tuesday, March 17, 1925, to serve as a Board of Freeholders to prepare and propose a Charter for the City of Edmond, Oklahoma County, State of Oklahoma, do hereby certify that the within and foregoing is the original of the said proposed Charter executed in duplicate, and the several articles and sections thereof, and the propositions to be submitted to the qualified electors of said City, as regularly and properly adopted by the said Board of Freeholders of said City, to be submitted to the electors of the City of Edmond for ratification or rejection, and within the time and in the manner prescribed by the constitutional provisions applicable thereto, and do hereby certify that the same and all parts thereof were written, enacted and proposed within ninety days after and from the date of the election of said Board of Freeholders, as provided for by law, and that all the interlineations therein contained and all the erasures and words stricken out were made and done before the same were signed by the said freeholders or either of them, and that same is a true, correct and exact Charter as proposed and adopted by the said Board of Freeholders.
Given under my hand this 25th day of May, 1925, at Edmond, Oklahoma.
| C. E. Tool Chairman of the Board of Freeholders of the City of Edmond, Oklahoma. |
ATTEST:
R. C. Gossett, Secretary