The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-03

port shall specify each bond with the sureties
and the amount for which each surety is bound,
and state whether or not they are deemed sum-
Gent and solvent Upon such report the mayor
shall act 50 as TO protect the city, and may re-
auire new bonds when necessary, and he may
suspend the officer until a sufficient bond is
filed and approved. In the exercise of its func-
{ ons a concurrence OF two members OF either
committee shall be deemed suffi Gent Each OF
said CON mirtees shall keep record OF its pro-
ceedings, with the names of the witnesses ex-
amined and substantial statement of the evil
dence taken. If from the examination ma e by
either Of such committees it shall appear that
misdemeanor IN Office or a detalcatioa has been
committed by any officer, said committee shall
Immediately report to the mayor who, IL he ap-
prove said report, shall forthwith suspend or re-
move sach officer Any police officer shall exc
cute the process and orders of said committees
or either of them.
Sec TO- committee of three members from
each house shall constitute the board of equali-
cation of said city, and snail meet al the time
prescribed by this charter aud organize by the
election of one of their number as chairman,
and shall have the powers and perform the du-
ties concerning the equalization OF taxes given
TO county boards OF equalization by tie general
revenue laws of the state. The city clerk shall
act as the clerk of the board of equalization and
the city council shall provide for the ompensa'
ton of the members of the board of equalization
the equalization of taxes.
Sec. Ii. Each house shall meet upon the first
Monday of each month"; or If that day be legal
holiday, then upon the next day not holiday
thereafter, and ali its sessions shall be public,
and neither house shall, without the consent of
the other, adjourn for more than seven days, or
to any other place than its regular place OF
meeting; but the mayor, or IN his absence or dis
ability, the sident of the board of aldermen,
or any three aldermen, may call special meet
ing of the board OF aldermen or each OF the two
houses.
Sec. II Every legislative act of said city shall
be oy ordinance. Every ordinsnce shall be
clearly entitled and shall contain bat one OBJ
Ject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title.
The enacting clause of every ordinance shall
be: BE II ordained by the city of Seattle as fol-
lows" Any ordinance may originate In either
house. and when il shall have passed one house
1t may be passed, amended or rejected in the
other
Sec. IL. No bill shall become an ordinance un-
less, on its final passage in each house. at least
msiority OF all the members vote in its favor,
and the vote be taken by yeas and nays and the
names of the members voting for and against
the same be entered in the journals.
Sec. IL No amendment to any bill by either
house shall be concurred In by the other except
by the affirmative vote of at least majority of
its members taken by yeas and nays and the
names OF those voting for and against the same
shall be entered in the journal of such house.
Reports of committees of conference shall be
adopted in either house only by the affirmative
vote OF at least a majority of its members, taken
by yeas and nays, and the names of those voting
for and against the same shall be recorded in the
journal.
Sec. Is. No ordinance shall be revised, reen-
acted or amended by reference to it's title; but
the ordinance to be revised re-enacted. or the
section thereof amended, shall be re-enacted at
length revised or amended.
Sec. 16. When bill is put upon its final pas
sage In either house and fails to pass, and a mo-
ton is made to reconsider, the vote upon such
motion shall not be acted on before the next
meeting of the said house. No bill for the
grant OF any franchise shall be finally passed
within thirty days after its Introduction.
Sec. IL. No ordinance shall take effect until
ten days after its passage, unless otherwise ex-
pressed in said ordinance.
Sec. Is. Every bill, after il has passed the two
houses. shall be signed by the president of each
house in open session in authorization of its
passage: in signing such bill the president shall
call the attention of the house to the bill, and
that he is about to sign IL. and il any member so
request the bill shall be read at length for in
formation as to its correctness Is enrolled If
any member objects that the bill is not the same
as when considered and passed by the house
such objection shall be passed upon, and If sus-
tanned the president shall withhold his sigma
ture and the bill shall be corrected and signed
before the house proceeds to any other business
Sec. 10. Every bill which shall have passed the
two houses, and been authenticated, as pro-
vlded In the last section, shall within five days
thereafter be presented to the mayor. The
mayor shall return such bill to the house in
which it originated within ten days after receiv-
ing II, and if he do not disapprove it shall be-
come an ordinance If he disapprove it he
shall, when he so returns it, specify his objec-
tons thereto in writing The objections of the
mavOr shall he entpred at lar ON tho ;our,aI
OF the house in which such bill originated ana
published In the city official newspapers. Said
house shall not less than five days after such
publication, and within thirty days after such
bill shall have been so returned, reconsider and
vote upon the same. and If the same shall upon
snch reconsideration be again passed By the af-
hrmative vote OF not less than twothirds of all
the members OF each house, the president OF the
respective houses shall certify the fact on the
bill, and when so certified the bill shall become
an ordinance with like effect as if it had net
been disapproved by the mayor; but if the bill
so returned shall fail 10 receive upon the first
vote thereon in either house an affirmative vote
OF two-thirds of the members, il shall be deemed
hnaiiy lost The vote on such reconsideration
shall be taken by ayes and nays, and the names
OF members of each house voting for or against
the same shall be entered in the journal
thereof.
Sec. 20. All ordinances and Joint resolutions
shall be deposited with the city clerk who shall
record the same at length in a suitable book
kept for that pnrpose. All ordinances OF a gem
eral public or permanent nature and those i'm
posing fine or forfeiture. shall be published at
least once in the city official newspapers within
three DAYS after the same shall have BECOME
law
Sec. q. The city council shall have power
by ordinance and not otherwise:
Flrst-To provide for general and special
elections Tor questions TO be voted upou and to
| provide for the appointment and election OF
/ ofheers- Any person who, by the provisions of
| this charter or any amendment thereto may be
| appointed or elected 20 any office or employment
/ created In pursuance hereof. shall be deemed
/ an officer within the meaning of this section
! second-To provide for levying, assessing and
! collecting taxes on real and personal property
| for the corporate uses and purposes OF the city;
ana TO Provide for the payment of the debts and
expenses OF the corporation. but no tax for gen.
/ eral municipal purposes shall exceed IL per
| oentum per annum upon all property both real
and personal within the corporate limits which
| is by law taxable for state and County purposes
ana all taxes ror spec al purposes exclusive of
assessments for Improvements, as provided In
| subdivisions . and 10 OF this section shall not
in any year exceed per centum on the prom
erty assessed.
( 1hird-To control the finances and property
of the city; provided, that the city council shsil
/ have no administrative as distinguished from
! the legislative power.
Fourth-To acquire by purchase or the exer-
! else of right of eminent domain or otherwise
and for the use and in the name of the civ
/ such lands and other property as may be deemed
/ necessary, proper or convenient for any of the
corporate uses provided for by this charter: and
10 acquire for the use of the city any proper,y
by gift, beGuest or devise and to dispose of ali
sacn property rs II shall have the interests of