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The removal petition shall be in substantially
the following form.
All petition pages must have the following:
REMOVAL PETITION
(WARNING. - It is a misdemeanor,
punishable by fine and imprisonment, for any person to sign any removal petition
with any name other than his own, or knowingly to sign his name more than once
to such petition, or knowingly to sign such petition when he is not a qualified
elector.)
Date: ________
TO THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
We, the undersigned qualified electors of ________ County, State of
Mississippi, respectfully demand that ________, holding the office of ________
in said county, be removed from office by the governor for the following
reasons, to wit: (Setting out the reasons for removal in not more than two
hundred words); that a special election, after lawful notice, be called to
permit the qualified electors of said county to vote on the question of whether
or not the said officer shall be removed;
That we each for himself say that: I am a qualified elector of said county,
and my voting precinct is correctly written after my name, and that it was
stated to me prior to the signing of said petition that after signing the same I
would not be permitted to remove my name from said petition.
NAME
VOTING PRECINCT
1. ______________ ______________
2. ______________ ______________
3. ______________ ______________
4. ______________ ______________
The last page of every copy of the petition must have the following:
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
County of ________
I, ________, a qualified elector of said county do now state under oath that
every person who signed the foregoing petition signed his or her name thereto in
my presence, and that before the signing of said petition the signator was told
that after signing the same his or her name could not be removed from said
petition; that I believe that each has stated his or her name and precinct
correctly, and that so far as I know each signer is a qualified elector of this
county, and I further certify that the date appearing on the foregoing petition
is the correct date on which the first signature was affixed to said petition or
any section thereof.
(Signature) ______________
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this ________ day of ________, 20____.
______________
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