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540 Section 3. The Presiding Judge of the respective voting boxes shall designate and appoint at least two (2) and not more than four (4) competent and qualified clerks for such respective polling places and voting boxes as may be required for the efficient conduct of said election. Section 4. That absentee voting for the election described in Section 1 above shall be conducted under the direction of the City Clerk by herself and her deputies as ordered in separate order herefrom, beginning on the 16th day of March, 1987, through the 31st day of March, 1987, Monday through Friday, between the hours of 8:00 o'clock A.M. and 5:00 o'clock P.M. Section 5. That the polling place and election officials for absentee voting of said election shall be as follows: ABSENTEE VOTING: Polling Place: City Clerk's Office City Hall 135 - 1st S.E. Street Officials: Reinhardt Hollje, Presiding Judge Greg Hollje, Alternate Presiding Judge Section 6. There is hereby created an absentee ballot board which consists of the presiding judge, the alternate presiding judge, appointed in Section 5 above, and at least two other members to be appointed by said presiding judge. The absentee ballot board shall carry out. the duties enumerated in Chapter 87 of the Election Code of the State of Texas. Section 7. Such election shall be held in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas governing general and municipal elections, insofar as the same may be applicable, and with the provisions of the City Charter and Ordinances of the City of Paris, wherein such laws and ordinances do not conflict with the above described Order. Section 8. The Chief.of Police of the City of Paris is hereby directed and instructed to post a properly executed Notice of Election pursuant to this order of election, signed by the Mayor of the City of Paris and attested by the City Clerk, on the bulletin board in the City Clerk's Office, on the board provided for notice at the City Hall Door, at each of the polling places designated above, which are within each ward in which the election is to be held, at least twenty (20) days before the election; further, a properly executed copy of such Notice of Election shall be published at least one time not more than twenty -five (25) days nor less than ten (10) days before the election in at least one daily newspaper published in the City of Paris, and a copy of the notice shall be filed with the City Clerk of the City of Paris, together with the posting officer's return and the newspaper certificate of publication. Section 9. The pay of the judges and clerks of said election is hereby authorized and established as follows: $5.00 per hour for each judge and clerk; the election judge who delivers the returns of said election immediately after the votes have been counted to the proper office shall be paid an additional sum of $25.00 for that service, provided also, he shall make return of all election supplies not used when he makes returns of such election.