St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-10
An Act

To amend the Charter of the City of st. Paul
in relation to the Fire Department. OF said
City.
Be it Enacted by the Legislature OF the
State of Minnesota:
SECTION ONE.
That section two (2) of an act to amend
the Charter of the City Of st. Paul in relation
to Fire Department of said city, approved
February twenyt-sixth (26), A. d. one tnou-
sand eight hundred and eighty-three (loS5),
is hereby amended so as TO read as follows,
viz.
Section two (2). That section eleven (lD
of said chapter ten (10) be and the same is
hereby amended by adding thereto as fol-
lows: Said Board may also whenever
they deem 1t advisable elect Sec
rotary to keep the minutes and books
of said Board and to perform such other
duties as may from time to time be required
of him by said Board, the Secretary shall
hold no other appointment or position
under said Board, and his salary be
fixed by the Board at salary not exceeding
one thousand Isl, O00) dollars per annum,
and he shall hold his Office during the pleas
ure of the Board.
SECTION TWO.
That chapter ten Q0) entitled Fire De-
partment, page one hundred and twenty
eight (12S) of the Municipal Code OF the
City Of st. Paul, is amended by adding the
following sections, viz,
Section eighteen QS). That said Board
Of Fire Commissioners shall annually on or
before the first Qst) day of Septem Der in
each year prepare and transmit to the Com
mon Council of said city an itemized state
ment OF the requirements and estimated cost
of same for operating said Fire Department
for the next YEAR
Section nineteen Q9). The said Board of
Fire Commissioners shall regulate and pre-
scribe the sum to be paid to the fremen and
other employees at the several engine houses
of said city. Provided, that the aggregate
sum so allowed and prescribed for
each fire company shall not exceed the
aggregate sum now paid to the members -
said companies, at the date of the approval
of this act.
Section twenty (20). The said Board of
ten Commissioners may allow to fire.
men injured in actual service and
thereby rendered incapable of performing
firemen's duty, full pay for period not ex-
ceeding three (3) months. and half pay for
further period of three 81 months, no
| allowance to be made to exceed six (6)
ment shall be made as aforesaid, the person
injured shall execute a release dischargiug
the City OF st. Paul from all claim for dam
ages on account of said injury, and the said
Commissioners may employ substitutes to
| fill the places of such injured firemen, and
allow such substitute so employed such sum
as said Board may prescribe, not exceeding
the full pay of said injured fremeu
Section tweDty-one (21.) The Board of Fire
| Commissioners may employ in the fire
alarm service, under the direction of the
Superintendent of Fire Alarm, two ca per-
! sons as linemen, whose pay shall not exceed
the sum of seventy-fve (S75) dollars per
| month for each man; and three(3 )persons as
Office or instrument men, whose pay shall
not exceed fifty $500 dollars per month for
each man, the sum to be paid to each of
such persons so employed to be prescribed by
the Board OF Fire Commissioners within the
limits herein prescribed.
Section twenty-five (22). The Board of
Fire Commissioners may employ mechanics
in the blacksmith and apparatus repair shops,
as the necessities of the service require, and
shall prescribe such just and reasonable
compensation for such services as said
Board may deem proper, placing such en-
ployes on the regular pay rolls of the Fire.
Department for payment.
Section twenty-three (23). 1t shall be the
duty of the said Fire Commissioners to
maintain to the highest state of eff
cheney for Fire Department purposes
all the property and equipments thereof as the
same may have been heretofore or may be
hereafter ordered by the Common Council,
and to that end shall cause all necessary re-
pairs to said property aud equipments to be
made promptly and without delay as in the
opinion of said Board such repairs shall be
required.
Section twenty-four CA. The Secretary
of said Board of Fire mssioners shall
furnish for publication in the official paper
of the city within one Q) week after any reg
ular meeting of said Board a correct copy of
the proceedings Of said Board at any meet
ing regular or special which may be held by
said Board.
SECTION THREE.
This act shall take effect from and after its
passage.
Approved this third day of March, A. D.
eighteen hundred and eighty-fye.