The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-11


 successor is appointed and has duly qualified. During the month of June. 1897. and biennially thereafter. the mayor may appoint a sealer of weights and measures to serve for two years from the first day of July following his appointment. It shall be his duty at least once in each year to compare all scales. weights and measures with the United States standard weights and measures belonging to the city of New Haven. Said sealer of weights and measures may appoint. with the ap- proval of the mayor. such number of assistants as he may think necessary acts shall have equal authority with his own. He may remove any Of said assistants for cause, with the approval of the mayor. He shall perform all other duties required of him by the au- dinances of the city. Ills compensa- tion shall be si.2o0 per annum. He shall be allowed $500 per annum for horse hire, payments to assistants and for all other expenses whatsoever. All fees collected by him and his assistants shall be paid into the treasury of said city and said sealer of weights and measures shall file with the controller on or before the tenth of each month a sworn statement of all fees collected by him and his assistants during the month last ended"
 Amend section 30 so as to provide s1,SO0 as salary of city clerk and $1 ,000 as salary for assistant city clerk. Strike out the provision for salary of sealer of weights and measures (pro- vided for in amendment to section 35.)
 'The affirmative vote of three com missioners shall be necessary to rein state any official removed by the super intendent."
 "A bureau of engineering, the head of which shall be called the city engineer, which shall make all surveys, maps, plans, drawings, specifications and es- inmates relating to the work of said department, and shall make and fur nish to the board of assessors all maps which the assessors may deem neces- sary in carrying on their work, shall superintend the construction and repair of sewers, bridges and new pave ments, and do any other engineering work which the director may require, and shall care for and preserve all maps, papers and books of said bureau. The salary of said engineer shall not exceed $2,50O per annum."
 "There shall be court of common | council in said city, consisting of a board of aldermen, which shall include all of the aldermen, and board of councilmen, which shall include all of | the councilmen, which boards shall | meet separately, and said court shall with the approval of the mayor, or over his veto, as hereinbefore provided | exercise all of the powers conferred upon said city, except as otherwise pro- vided."
 "At the beginning of each municipal year each of said boards of the court of common council shall elect, from among its own members, a president, who shall preside at the meetings of nation, removal, absence or disability l of it's president either board may elect a president pro tempore."
 1 "No officer or employe of said city shall furnish any materials to said city, or be employed to do any work (except his official duty) for said city. All officers of said city shall serve without pay, except as otherwise expressly pro- vided."
 No person shall be chosen by the electors of said city to fill any office of the city or town, who is not nominated for said office at least fifteen days be- l fore the day of the election at which he is to be voted for; provided, how ever, that if any person who shall have been nominated for any such office shall die before the election at which he was to have been voted for, new nomina- tion may be made at any time before of any nomination shall be the written statement, or a duly certified copy thereof, filed with the city clerk, signed by the authorized representatives of 1 the party or persons by whom such nomination is made. No person elect ed to any office in violation of the pro- visions of this section shall be deemed l legally entitled thereto"
 1 The following are among the amend ments to the city court bill:
 1 "The judge and an assistant judge of said court shall be appointed by the general assembly, upon the nomina- tion of the governor, and shall severally hold office for the term of two years from and after the first day of July following their appointment and until their respective successors shall have duly qualified. The terms of office of the judge and assistant judge of said court holding office at the time when this act takes effect, are respectively extended to the first day of July suc- ceeding the expiration of the term for which they were appointed" | There is the following amendment to the pavement bill:
 Provided further that provision be made for the, payment of such bonds within the estimated average life of the pavements ordered. Said commission is also authorized, should it be deemed advisable, to adopt a plan making as- easements for street improvements pay able by installments extending over 8 period of years" The following were the amendments to the town consolidation bill:-
 "All expenses of said elections shall ha y,aid hv the cftv and warning of