The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-02-06

be stenographer and typewriter as
we'll as secretary to the mayor.
The salary of each of the following
named officers shall be at the rates
herein provided:
Mayor, $4,000.
Mayors secretary, $1,000 per annum.
Corporation counsel, $500 per an
num-
Assistant corporation counsel, $1,000
per annum.
Controller, $4,000 per annum.
Treasurer $1,000 per annum.
Collector. So, 500 per annum.
City clerk, 1880 per annum.
Assistant city clerk, $1,000 per annun.
Sealer Of weights and measures, $500
per annum.
City sheriff, 1900 per annum.
An affirmative vote of two thirds of
the members of the court of common
council can increase or decrease the
salary Of any city official.
There shall be department OF fl
nance under control Of board consist
ing of the mayor, who shall preside, the
comptroller president of the board of
aldermen, the president of the board of
councilmen, and three citizens to be
appointed by the mayor. The members
of the board of finance holding office
when this act takes effect shall con-
tinue in office until the first day of July,
1897, when their terms shall expire by
limitation. During the month Of June,
1897 the mayor shall appoint three cit
liens members of the board, one for
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for three years; and In each June there
after the mayor shall appoint one menu
Der of said board for a term of three
years, provided, however. that not
more than two members shall be Of the
same party.
There shall be the following bureaus
in said departments, the heads of
which shall appoint and may remove
their own subordinates subject to the
approval Of their director:
A bureau of streets.
A bureau Of sewers, which shall be
under the care of superintendent of
sewers. The salary of said superinten-
dent shall not exceed $1,000 per year.
A bureau of engineering under the
care of city engineer. The salary of
said engineer shall not exceed $4,000
per year.
A bureau of Compensation, at the
head of which shall be board consist
ing of three commissioners to be APP
pointed by the mayor not more than
two Of whom shall belong to the same
political party. The members Of said
board shall receive for their services
such salaries as the board of finance
may determine, not exceeding the sum
of 5000 each year. The terms of the
members Of the board of compensation
in office when this act takes effect shall
end on the first day of July, 1897. In
June, 1897, and biennially thereafter,
| the mayor shall appoint three members
| Of the board of Compensation for a
| term of two years from July next sue
ceeding.
| The director of public works shall APP
point such clerical assistants as may be
necessary, with salary to be fixed by
the board of finance.
| The duties of the board of compen-
| sation are defined at length, and are
similar to those duties performed by
| the present board Of compensation.
There shall be department of parks
under the charge Of a board of park
commissioners, consisting of the may
or and six commissioners, who shall
serve without compensation and be
chosen as follows:
| The three permanent, or citizen,
| commissioners of the East Rock park
commission shall become commission
ers of said board; the three other COM
missioners shall be appointed by the
mayor.
A department of public health which
shall be under the control of the board
of health, the members to be appointed
| by the mayor
| There shall be q court of common
council in said city, consisting of a
board of aldermen and a board of
councilmen.
| The duties of the court of common
council are prescribed at great length
and are practically the same as those
now in vogue.
| An interesting paragraph is the fol-
lowing: "All taxes laid by the city or
town or by the New Haven city school
! district shall become due and paya-
bic on the first day of July next after
| they are laid and if any of said taxes
remain unpaid on the first day of Sep
TENDER next after they become due,
interest thereon from the day when
they became due until they are paid
at the rate of per cent per annum
shall be collected.
"All liens which are now recorded
against property in said city shall bear
| interest in trust from the date when
this act takes effect at the rate of {
per cent. per annum from the day
when the certificate of liens is filed