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thereof the original petition or duplicate statement thereof, and when bound together and offered for filing, such separate papers shall be deemed to constitute one petition with respect to the election of the successor of the officer or officers named therein. One of the si~aers of such petition shall make oath before a proper oz~ficial 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 sigJaa- ture of the person whose name it purports to be, and that it was signed in bis presence. (2) If it appears that the petition is signed by the ~reguisite percentage of electors, the same shall be accepted as prima fasie regular ~nd sufficient, but it shsdd be subject to su~mmry review in the same manner as provided in section one of this chapter. (3) If the petition shall be sufficient, and if the officer or officers whose removal is sought shall not resign within five days after the sufficiency of the petition has been determined by the judge of the court of hustings, the Ju~- thereof shall t~reupon order and fix a day for holding an election for the selection of a successor to each officer named in ssid petition, which election shall be held not less than thirty nor more thai 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 and all arrangements to be rode for holding such election~ and the same shall be conducted and the result thereof returned and declared in all respects as in other special elections so far as possible. (4) A nomination of a candidate to succeed each officer sought to be removed shall be made T~thout the intervention of a primary eleotion, by filing vrith the clerk of the court of hustinge at least ten days prior to such special election, a petition proposing a person for such office, si~aed by the electors equal in number to twenty-five per centum of the entire vote cast in the city for governor in the last preceding election. (5) The ballots a5 such election.shall conform ~o the following requirements: With respect ~o each officer whose removal is sought the question shall be submitted: Shall (name of officer) be removed from the office (na~ of office) by recall? Under the san~ question may be placed, at the request of the elector, whose signature appears first on the petition~ a statement, not over two hundred wo~ds in length, of the grounds upon which the removal is sought. Follo~ing such statement the incumbent officer m~ cause to be placed a statement not over two hundred words in length of reasorm why he should not be removed from office. Beneath the aforesaid statements shall be placed the names of candidates to fill the vaeancy~ The n~ne of the officer whose removal is sought shall rdcceed himself.