Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-16
The Amended City Charter.

The Text of Some of the rrincipaI New
 Provisions.
 As to the city boards the charter says !:
 There shall be in said city Board of Pub
 lie Works composed of six members, Board
 of Police Commissioners composed of six
 members, 0 Board of Fire Commissioners
 composed of six members, all of whom shall
 be electors residing in said city, and shall
 serve without pay, but none of the said Pc
 lice Commissioners shall ,as principals, agents,
 or employees, be engaged in the manufacture
 or sale of intoxicating liquors.
 The Mayor of said city shall be ex-oficio
 chairman of each of said boards and may
 vote in case of tie, except upon the selection of voting places in said city and town by said Board of Police Commissioners, and the election or appointment by ballot or vote of any officer or employe elected or appointed by either of said boards, or for the dismissal of any such officer or employe. No person shall be member of more than one of said boards at the same time, nor shall any mem- Der of the city government be member of either of said boards except as hereinbefore provided, or be appointed to any office or employment by either of said boards, except that each of said boards may elect one of their number to preside in the absence of the Mayor, and the said several presiding officers shall be ex-oficio members of the Boards of Aldermen and Councilmen and entitled to all the privileges of said Boards of Aldermen and Councilman except the right to vote rThe remainder of the section provides for the mode and time of the election of the members of the boards, the time being the first Monday in May, and | the members to be chosen two to serve till February, 1882, two to February, 1883, two | to February, 1884.
 POLICE.
 There shall be police department for pre- serving the peace and good order and securi- | ty of said city, which shall consist of one chief of police, not more than two captains, not more than two lieutenants not more than three sergeants, one of whom shall act as in spector of licensed public vehicles, not more | than three doormen, and such number of or dinary policemen as the Board of Police Con- | missioners may from time to time designate and prescribe, and not more than fifty super numerary policemen who may be called into service by the Chief whenever in the opinion | of the Mayor of the city their services may | be needed.
 All members of the police force hereafter appointed shall be appointed from the super numerary force but no shall be per manently appointed until he has performed active police service for at least one year. Said Board of Police Commissioners shall
 
 supernumerary force for such period of ac- | tive service as they may see fit. All officers and members of said police department shall | be elected by said Board of Police Commis- l sioners by ballot, and all officers and mem | bers of said department now in office, inclu- ding supernumerary policemen, and all who | may be hereafter elected to serve in said de- pertinent, may be removed from office by l said Board of Commissioners at pleasure, with or without trial
 The said Board of Police Commissioners shall have full power, and it is hereby made | their duty, to hear and decide upon all we'll founded complaints, made in writing and presented to said Board against any member of said department, to prescribe and define the duties of the various members of said de- partment, to make all needful rules and reg ulations for the government thereof, to de- termlne the number of officers, ordinary and supernumerary policemen of said department not otherwise determined, and to fix the pay of all members of said department. And said Board shall have power to suspend from duty at pleasure any member of said department, not exceeding ten days. All elections and appointments to, and all removals from, said department shall require majority report of all the members of said Board.
 TERMS OF OFFICE.
 The charter also provides that The terms of office of all members of the Boards of Road Commissioners, Police Commission CTS and Fire Commissioners who shall be in office on the first Monday of May, A. D. 1881,
 shall expire and terminate on said first Mon day of May, A. D. 1881.
 Sad Case.
 The funeral of James l.. Capron, of New Milford, took place yesterday. He died at
 Bergen Point, N. J., Wednesday morning. after less than weeks illness. severe cold settled in the head and erysipelas super vened, causing death. He was an unusually promising young man of about 23. He had been for several years in hls fathers jewelry store, New Milford, and went to New York to fit himself for all branches of the business.