Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-03-09
City Ordinance.
CHAPTER XLyIII.


An ordinance fixing the salaries of city
officers and making annual appropria-
tions for the next fiscal year.
Be it ordained by the city council of
the city of Santa Fee:
Section l. That the salaries and fees
of all the officers of the city of Santa Fe
for the period of one year next ensuing
the election and qualification of the Of
f1cers elected at the next annual election
be and the same are hereby fixed as fol-
lows:
hundred dollars.
The salary of the city clerk at three
hundred dollars, and such fees as are
prescribed by law.
The salary of the city attorney at two
hundred dollars, and such fees as are
prescribed by law.
The salary of the city physician at one
hundred dollars.
The salary of the city marshal at nine
hundred dollars, and such fees as are
prescribed by law.
The salary of each policeman at forty
dollars per calendar month.
The salary of the city scavenger at five
hundred and thirty-four dollars, which
amount is to cover all expenditures for
the removal of garbage.
The salary of the janitor in charge of
the council room at thirty dollars.
The city engineer shall receive five dol
lars per day when necessarily employed
by direction of the council. Bills for
such service and for the ex pense of assist
ants, chainmen and laborers to be sub
mitted for the action of the council the
same as other bills.
The police magistrate shall receive as
compensation such fees as are allowed by
Inv to justices of the peace. Provided,
however, that no fees of any kind in any
case shall be chargeable against the city.
Sec. 2. That there is hereby appro-
priated for the fiscal year beginning
April l, 1894, and ending March 81, 1895,
out of the moneys to be hereafter col
lected and paid into the city treasury
from taxes other than special levies, Ii
censes, fees, court fines and from any and
all other sources of city revenue during
said fiscal year, and out of any unex-
pended balances on hand April l, 1894,
and not required for the payment of
claims or accounts arising under former
appropriations, the sums herein below
stated tor the purposes specified.
Fer the salary of theFcity marshal, nine
hundred dollars.
For the salary of the city police, one
thousand nine hundred and twenty dol
lars.
For the salary of the city clerk, three
hundred dollars.
For the salary of the city treasurer, two
hundred dollars.
For the salary of the city attorney, two
hundred dollars.
For the salary of the city physician, one
hundred dollars.
For the salary of the city scavanger,
and for all expenditures connected with
the removal of garbage, five hundred and
thirty-four dollars.
For the pay of the city engineer, and
expenses connected with his work, two
hundred and fifty dollars and so much
thereof as may be necessary.
For establishing and cleaning streets
building bridges, culverts and crossings
fifteen hundred dollars.
For the maintenance and improvement
of the public plaza, five hundred and
ninety dollars.
For rent of water and hydrants, two
thousand dollars.
For furnishing the city with lights, two
thousand five hundred dollars.
For translating and publishing ordin.
ances, two hundred dollars.
For stationery and printing for city
officers, one hundred dollars.
For rental of offices and rooms for city
and Jail purposes and for feeding prison
era, one thousand dollars.
For defraylng contingent and current
expenses, not otherwise provided for, one
thousand dollars.
For sprinkling streets, six hundred dol
lars.
For the payment of outstanding claimf
and accounts in excess of former appro.
priations, five hundred dollars.
Sec. 5. The city treasurer shall dis.
tribute all moneys coming into his hands
available for the payment of the forego'
ing appropriations to the several funds
namely: The salary fund, the street fund
the plaza fund, the water fund, lighting
fund, publication fund, stationery fund
printing fund, rent fund, contingent fund
street sprinkling fund and deficit fund in
the proportion that each appropriation
bears to the total appropriation.
Sec. 4. The paid warrants filed by the
city treasurer with his monthly report to
the council shall be destroyed in the
presence of the mayor, the city clerk and
the chairman of the finance committee
annually at or before the last regular
meeting of the city council in each fiscal
year. The city clerk shall make record
in book to be kept for that purpose, of
the warrants so destroyed, giving the
dates, numbers and names of the payees
of said warrants, and the certificate of
destruction following such list, shall be
signed by the mayor, city clerk and the
chairman of the finance committee, and a
copy thereof furnished the city treasurer
for filing in his Office.
Passed March S, 1894.
| r. E. TwIToHELL, Mayor.
Attest: j. u. HUaEEs, City Clerk.
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