The San Francisco call., 1896-12-19

ing investigation, and on conviction of q
felony in the Superior Court shall abso-
Iutely remove him from Office. The
Board of Supervisors shall consist of as
many members as there are Assembly
Der shall be assigned by lot to an Assem-
bly, district as the special representative OF
its interests before the board. 1t may act
as court of impeachment for charges
against any elective officer.
No ordinance shall be in force until
sixty days after its passage, and if within
that time 20 per cent of the taxpayers on
abe taxroll shall in writing petition the
board therefor, such ordinance shall be
suspended and shall thereafter at the next
municipal election be submitted to pop
nlar vote for approval or rejection. If a
majority of the voters shall be in favor
the ordinance shall GO in force within ten
days after the declaration of the official
count thereon. Otherwise it shall be null.
All public work shall be done under the
superintendent of Board of Public
Works, consisting of seven Commissioners.
All work must be done by the day and not
by contract, and all material shall be
bought in the open market.
Before any work. the estimated cost of
which as a whole exceeds, $4,000,
shall be finally ordered, brief state
ment of the work, the material proposed
and the estimated cost shall be published
in the official paper for period of thirty
days.
Any ten taxpayers within that period
shall be entitled to file written objections
to such work and shall have the right to
appear before such board at time named
for the consideration of the objections so
offered. Ii, in the boards opinion. such
objections are untenable, the WORK may
thereupon be prosecuted to completion.
Meetings must be held three days in each
week, and each Com missioner shall devote
the whole of his time exclusively to the
business of the municipality.
Tho executive department shall consist
OF the following twelve divisions:
Street, Law, Election, Treasury, Civil Ser
vice, Parks, Public Utilities, over which
of each division there shall be an elected
Superintendent, who shall appoint all
subordinate officers from candidates certi-
fled as having passed the examination re-
quired for the service. Each Superintend-
ent shall be an expert in the matters per-
tanning to his division; thus the Superin-
tendent OF Streets must be a civil engi-
practical teacher, and so on.
The duties of the Superintendent of
Civil Service shall be to classify the
various employees of the City, conduct all
examinations of applicants, issue certifi-
Gates therefor and, on the requisition of
any division, certify successful candidates.
He shall in the open market purchase all
supplies (for current use and not used for
repairs or construction OF public build
ings) for each and every depar tment of
the City government and certify to the
bills therefor.
The Superintendent of Public Utilities
shall have charge of all electrical and
telephone and other appliances belonging
to the City and superintend all gas or
supervise any and all private companies
engaged in selling light or water 10 the
public. He shall collect all City taxes.
These Superntendents and the Mayor
shall constitute a Board of Adminlstra-
tion, VINO shall investigate all charges of
incompetency or dishonesty against civil
service officers; shall make estimates for
each years appropriations. fix the annual
charges for gas and water and for other
franchises. On recommendation of the
Board OF Public Works it may grant fran
chises for not more than twenty years and
for 10 per cent of The gross yearly receipts.
Elections for municipal officers shall be
by the cumulative plan. All officials, both
elective and appointive, shall be electors
and residents of the municipality for five
years preceding their incumbency and be
nominated and elected from the whole
body of electors. All voting shall be by
voting machine and the terms of office
shall be four years.
All appointed officers shall serve during
good behavior and competency. and all
subordinate officers immediately employed
in the Mayors office, the Board of Super
visors the Board of Public Works and
Board of Administrator shall be ap-
pointed under civil service rules and shall
hold under the same.
The annual salaries of the elective Off
GERS shall be: Mayor. $1,000; Superinten-
dents and Commissioners. $4,000 each;
Supervisors, $500 each. The salaries and
numbers of appointed officers shall be
fixed by the Supervisors in June of each
year.
The City shalt own and publish news
paper called "The Official, and shall daily
deliver the same free of cost to each tax
payer resident within the City. The Off,
cial shall contain the calendars of all the
courts and their proceedings, and the