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RESOLUTION ACCEPTING JUDGE FOSTER CLARKE’S RESIGNATION DUE TO HEALTH REASONS EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 3, 1959
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WHEREAS, the Honorable Foster Clarke, after serving more than ten years as Judge of the Municipal Court of Jonesboro, Arkansas, in a most creditable, efficient, dignified and honorable manner, has become ill and believes that his illness will continue during the remaining one year of his term of office to which he was elected in 1956, and for that reason has tendered his resignation as said Municipal Judge, to take effect at midnight November 3, 1959, so that the electors may replace him with an elected official for the remaining one year of his term:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Mayor and City Council of Jonesboro, Arkansas, that the resignation of the Honorable Foster Clarke as Judge of Municipal Court of Jonesboro, Arkansas, to take effect at midnight November 3, 1959 the date for holding the regular municipal elections in the state of Arkansas for the purpose of electing a Judge of the Municipal Court of Jonesboro, Arkansas, for the remaining one year of the term to which Judge Clarke was elected in 1956.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 8th day of September, 1959.