Tombstone epitaph., 1891-03-22
AN ACT
To Reduce Expenses fin Certain Cities in the Territory
 of Arizona.

Be tt enacted by the Legislative Assem
 bly cf the Territory cf Arizona: SECTION l. That in all cities o
 Arizona Territory, in which the tota
 vote cast at the general election hel,
 therein on the 4th day of Novembe
 1890, was less than 600, the only loffi- ces shall be one Mayor, one Council- man from each ward therein; on, Marshall or Chief of Police.
 The chief of police or marshall shal be ex'ofiicio city assessor, city tax col lector, city license tax collector, pound master, street commissioner and fire warden.
 Said chief of police, shall perform all duties hereintofere required ol said last named officers, and he shall receive in full compensation for all services required of him, g sum not exceeding one hundred and twenty. five dollars per month.
 Said marshall or chief of police now holding office in any such city shall continue to hold the same until the expiration of the term for which he was elected or appointed, and the additional duties herein imposed shall devolve upon him.
 Said marshall or chief of police shall be the only salaried officer of said city, except as hereinafter pro vided, and on the 31st day of March 1891 after the passage of this act, the term of office of city assessor, city tax collector, city license tax collector, pound master, street commissioner, fire warden, city recorder, or police judge or peace justice or city attorney city auditor, city treasurer shall cease.
 SECTION II. The justice of the peace in the township in which such city is situated shall perform the duties of city recorder or police jus. tice and shall have and exercise juris- dfction over all offenses against the ordinances of such city, and the Dis trict Attorney of the county shall prosecute the same and they shall re- ceive the fees to be collected only from the defendant in cases of conviction of misdemeanors, viz: the justice of the peace the sum of five dollars, and the District Attorney ten dollars.
 SECTION III. The mayor and com- mon council shall appoint g clerk to keep the minutes of their proceedings and also the accounts of the city fin- ances, in the same manner as the city auditor has done heretofore, whose compensation is hereby fixed at fif- teen dollars per month.
 The said mayor and common council shall appoint one of their number as city treasurer, to perform all the duties of said office and he shall receive therefore the sum of ten dollars per month in full for all ser vices and the compensation herein named for 50 performing such duties, and to said chief of police or marshall shall be in full o! all services rendered both by them and their deputies should they appoint any.
 SECTION ". The mayor and com- mon council shall receive no com pensation for any duties imposed upon them neither as mem mbers1of the coLr. cil nor as city equalizers or fire com- missioners.
 It shall be their duty to take inn mediate possession of all books and papers belonging to the city and now in the hands of officers whose term of office are hereby terminated, and it shall be the duty of the officers, whose term of office is hereby declared ter minated, to turn the same over to those upon whom the duty of those offices are hereby imposed, all books, papers and property which may be in their hands at the time the demand is made.
 Any officer whose term is hereby declared terminated and who shall refuse after demand made upon him by any member of said council to turn over the said books, papers and pre- perty to sad mayor and common council at it's first general or special meeting held after such demand is made, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished