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deemed to constitute one petition with respect to the election of the successor of the officer or officers named therein. One of the signers of such petition shall make oath before a proper official that the statements made therein are true, as he believes~ and.upon such separate paper, the circulator of the petition to which signatures are appended shall make oath that each signature to such paper is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be, and that it was signed in his presence. -(c) If it appears that the petition is signed by the requisite percentage of electors, the same shall be ac- cepted as prima facie reguZar and sufficient, but it shall be subject to summary review in the same manner as provided in ~ 10.08 of this article~ (d) If the petition shall be sufficient, and if the offieer or officers ~whos~e removal is seught shall not resign within five days after the sufficiency of the petition has been determined by the Judge of the court of hustings, the judge thereof shall thereupon order and fix a day for holding an elec- tion for the selection of a successor ~o each officer named in said ~etition, which electio~ shall be held not less than thirty nor more th~n forty days from the presentation of the petition, or from the making of any court order, thereon. The judge of the court of hustings shall cause publication of notice ~nd all arrangements to be made for holding such election, and the same shall be conducte~ an~ the result thereof returned and declared in all respects as in other special elections so far as possible. (e) A nomina~.ion-~ of a candidate to succeed each offi- cer sought to be removed shall be made without the intervention of a primary election, by filing with the clerk of the court of hustings at least ten days prior to such special election~ a pe- tion proposing a person for such office~ signed by the electors equal in number to at least t~irty per centum of the electors of the city eligible to vote in the last preceding general election. (f) The ballots at such election shall conform to the following requirements: With respect to each officer whose re- moval is sought the question shall be submitted: Shall (name of officer) be removed from the office (name of office) by recall? Beneath the aforesaid question shall be placed the names-of the candidates to fill the vacancy. The name of the officer whose removal is sought shall not appear on the ballot as a candidate to.succeed himself. (g) In any such election, if a majority of the votes cast on the question of removal be affirmative, the candidate receiving the highest number of the votes cast shall be declared elected, and if more than one councilman is removed at such elec- tion the candidates receiving the highest number of votes, equal in number to the number of councilmen removed, shall be declared elected. The officer whose removal is sought shall thereupon be deemed removed from office upon the announcement of the official