§ 36. Proceedings thereunder.

The city clerk shall present the said petition to the council at its next regular meeting, and thereupon the council shall proceed to reconsider the ordinance. If, within thirty days after the filing of such petition, the ordinance be not repealed or amended as requested in such petition, the city clerk shall, if so requested by a writing signed by a majority of the said committee and presented to the said city clerk within twenty days after the expiration of said period of thirty days, present to the clerk of the corporation [circuit] court of said city, the said petition and all copies thereof as one instrument together with a copy of the ordinance the repeal of which is sought. Within ten days after the filing of said petition, the clerk of said court shall ascertain and certify whether the required number of qualified voters have signed the same. If it be found that the required number of qualified voters have signed the said petition, then within five days after the expiration of said ten days the said petition, with the certificate of the clerk thereon, shall be presented by the said committee to the corporation [circuit] court of said city, or to the judge thereof in vacation, and thereupon the said court, or the judge thereof in vacation, shall forthwith enter an order calling and fixing a date for holding an election for the purpose of submitting the said ordinance to the electors of said city. Thereupon the said ordinance shall ipso facto be further suspended from going into effect until such election shall have been held and shall then be deemed repealed unless approved by a majority of those voting thereon. Any such election shall be held not less than thirty nor more than sixty days after the date of the entering of such order. If any other election is to be held within the said period, said court or the judge thereof in vacation shall direct that the said ordinance shall be submitted to the vote of the electors at such election. At least ten days before any such election the clerk of said court shall cause the said ordinance to be published once in one or more newspapers of general circulation published in said city.