The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-20
PROPOSED AMENDMENT No; "A PEopo-

DRoPosED AMENDMENT NO "A PRoPo-
L sition to amend sections two (2l, three (3), five
10 and seven 90 of article w of the freeholders
charter, adopted October l, A. d. 1880.
Resolved, That section 2 Of article ~, be
amended SO as 10 read as follows:
Sec. 2 The board of aldermen and the house of
delegates shall each consis: of as many members
each house TO be elected from each ward.
Resolved. That section of article ~. of the free
holders charter be amended SO as TO read as fol-
lows:
SECTION 3. At the general election in 1892
there shall be elected nine members OF the board
of aldermen. and there shall be elected in each
ward one member of the house of delegates; pro
viI-d, that in case of the adoption of this pro-
posed amendment, the person receiving the high
est number of votes for delegate at said general
qualify as said delegate. At the general election
in 1892 the five members Of the board OF aldermen
receiving the greatest number OF votss snst. mold
years. and in the OF tie vote the length of the
term shall at the first session. and before transact
ing any other business, be determined by lot. At
each subsequent general municipal election one
delegate shall be elected from each ward and
enough aldermen shall be elected from the respec-
tive wards to succeed those whose terms are
about to expire, and the aldermen SO elected shall
each hold Office fer four years
The members elected to the house of delegates
shall each hold office two years. Each member OF
either house shall further hold Office until his sue
cessor is elected and qualified. Each member OF
the city council shall have an annual salary Of
three hundred dollars 10 be paid monthly; pro-
yided that after tine population Of the city shall
have reached the number of 900 as determined
BY any official census, such salary shall be
the sum OF si1 hundred dollars per
Annum, payable monthly. A deduction OF
five collars shall he made from each raeIn-
ber'S salary who shall he absent from any
meeting Of his respective house. unless said MEM
was caused BY illness unavoidable absence from
the city al the time of TIE meeting.
Resolved That section ct article W. OF the free-
holders charter, be amended so as 10 reac IS iol
lows:
sec 5. No member Of either house shall hold
ary federal state or other municipal office, or be
einploys OF the city or either Of sad houses or
be Interested any contract with the city or with
or for any department, institution. board, ohlcer,
agent smplnye thereof
Each memter upon taxing ONCE shab make snd
file in the ofcs ofthe city clerk oath that he viii
faithfully comply with And abide by all the require
ments of this section and the violation of any of
the provisions of this section shall work forfeiture
of his slem bership and warrant his expulsion nom
the house &c which he belongs
Resolved That section OF articel ~, OF the free-
holders CHARTER be amended SO as TO read as fol-
sec. T. The house shall meet in separate cham
her a majority Of either house shall constf-
tute n quorum, but a less number may adjourn
from day to day till the time OF the next rega-
lar meeting and may compel the attendance of alb
sent members in scch manner ara under such
peuAIties as each house shall prescribe for itseit
A quorum Of each of the two houses OF the cl'y
council, assembled in Joint convention shall be
quorum of joint convention Of the CITY council
Passed house OF delegates this z6th dag OF jan
- iea1 H. W. JONES,
President House OF Delegates
ua,. 1872 \. :. MILLER.
'' President Board OF Aldermen
Approyed by me This 30tn day Of January,
1sq5 GEORGE w. HALL Mayor
Filed by me this goth day OF January 1884.
II w MILLER, City Clerk.
Date of first publication. February 2. lss2