The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-03

PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO ia PROP
i osition to amend section 3, section D and sec
ton 8. of article XIX of the freeholders charter
adopted October L, A. ID. 1890
Resolved, That section of article XIX. Of the
freenolderS Charter be amended SO as TO read as
follows:
SECTION g. Unless otherwise expressly provided
In this charter the term OF every eppontive officer
shall expire on December 81 of each year.
Resolved, That section of article XIX of the
freeholders charter be amended to read
follows
SECTION 6. II any appointive Office become va
cant. the same shall be filed in the same manner
If at the beginning of the term. and the person
appointed TO FIJI the vacanLy shall hold for the
OF member of the city council become vacant the
city council shall within twenty days thereafter,
proceed in joint convention to elect by ballot per-
son to fill such vacancy.
If the office OF q member of the city council shall
become vacant that mouse or Dranch OF me city
council 10 which such member belonged shall,
within twenty days thereafter, proceed TO elect by
ballot person 10 fill such vacancy from the same
WARD IN whcn the vacancy may nave occurred;
provided, that If any such Office shall not he filed
within the time above limited, such body or
bodies, whose duty il may be 10 fill such vacancy
shall meet and ballot at least once each day until
such vacancy shall have been filed.
Persons elected to fill vacancies in elective offices
shall hold the Office until the next regular city
election, and at such election q person shall be
elected TO hold the office for the remainder of the
term. Persons elected to dll vacancies shall
qualify within the same time after their election
and in the same manner Is prescribed for persons
Resolved that section of article nineteen
tXlS-) OF the freeholders charter be amended so
Sec. .. Whenever the mayor shall suspend any
elective officer he shall Immediately notify the
city council Of such suspension and the cause
thereof. and shall forthwith call Joint convention
OF the members of said council, at which he shall
present charges against such suspended officer
He shall furnish copy of the charges 10 said Of
fcer who shall have right to appear with counsel
and make his defense. The city council, ia JOINT
convention Aforesaid, shall speedily try such
officer on such charge, and for that purpose shall
have power TO adjourn from time TO time until the
trial Shall be completed, 10 summon and compel
the attendance of witnesses. TO hear their testi-
mony, TO receive other evidence, and to hear the
arguments of counsel. At such trial the president
of the board of aldermen shall preside. and in his
absence disability the president of the house of
delegates. If twothirds of all the members of the
city council shall by resolution sancfy the action
OF the mayor, then the suspended officer shall
thereby be removed from Office
Passed board of aldermen this 27th day OF jan
uary, 1892. A. s. MILLER,
President Board of Aldermen.
Passed house Of delegates this 10Th day Of Janu-
AIRY, 1892 r. w. JONES,
President House of Delegates
Approved by this Both day of January,
1892. GEORGE W. HALL, Mayor.
Filed by me this 30th day of January. 1892.
II. ". MILLER, City Clerk
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