The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-03-17
AT WORK ON NEW CHARTER
CITY COMMITTEE OF TEN FURTH ER
 REYISE THE INSTR UIIENT.

in a New Section-Fire and Police Sec
 tions Only Lmmaterially Altered Pro-
 posed Salary of the Directors of Public
 Works Keduced-Other Changes.
 The charter committee of ten met last evening and labored through several sections of the proposed charter. In the absence of Mayor Farnsworth, Cor poration Counsel Ely presided.
 When the committee quit work at 12 o'clock there still remained to be con- sidered the clauses relating to salaries, civil service board, department of the public library and several miscellane- ous clauses of the charter
 The committee adjourned till 7:3O Thursday evening, when the work of the committee will be completed.
 The changes made by the committee last evening consisted in great part of alterations in phraseology in the inter- est of clearness.
 The important section relating to the board of finance was stricken out and the following provision substituted in it's place:
 Section 47-In the month of November in each year the board of finance shall make estimates of the monies necessary to be appropriated for the expenses of said city, including all expenses for schools in the New Haven city school district for the year next ensuing, and of the rate of taxation required to meet the same; and shall classify the said expenses under appropriate heads and departments On the preparation of said estimates, said estimates shall give notice to each board or depart ment of definite time and place where they will meet to consider the needs of such board or department. Said esti- mates shall be submitted to the court of common counc,l during the first week of the month of December next succeed ing, and within five days after such submission shall be published once in each of the daily newspapers in said city; and after such publication and be- fore the 20th day of said month of De- cember said court shall proceed to con- sider and act upon said estimates, and shall, during such month of Decemebr make such appropriations upon the basis of such estimates as may seem to be necessary and proper to meet the expenses of said city for the year next ensuing. The appropriation made by said board of finance shall be final un- less changed by a two-thirds vote of each branch of the court of common council But the total amount of such annual appropriations for any one year shall not exceed the estimated income for that year, nor shall any city or de- partment officer or board of commis- sioners of said city make any expen- ditures except for the objects and pur- poses specified by said court of common council. Nor shall any city or depart ment officer or board of commissioners of said city incur any liability or ex- pense by contract or otherwise for which said city shall be responsible in excess of the appropria tions so made by said court of common council.
 The sections relating to the police and fire departments were in the main ap- proved
 There was considerable discussion as to whether the board of fire comn1is- sioners should consist of six commis- siners OF three, as the proposed charter provides
 A tie vote on the amendment was decided by Chairman Ely in the mega 1.-Two missioners still stands.
 Amendments were made to the clauses providing for the suspension from the police and fire department forces making it incumbent upon the superintendents in case of suspension for more than ten days to reduce the reason of such suspension to writing and give forty-eight hours notice to the one to be suspended.
 The salary of the directors of public works was reduced from $3 900 to $2, 300.
 The section relating to the appoint ment of park commissioners was struck out, and another substituted in place of it, which is understood to meet the ap- proval of Judge Simeon E. Baldwon and Henry T. Blake and other citizens
 The change made places the commits sion on much the same footing as at present. The commission is to consist of three citizen members and one member each from the board of alder men and board of councilmen. The commission is to be appointed by the mayor.
 The clause relating to the making of all expenditures in times of epdemics by the department of public health was stricken out.
 Another section was also substituted in the place of the one relating to tfe powers of the superintendent Of schools The principal change made consists in the requirement. of notice in writing to be given to a teacher when suspended, weight hours before the suspension, and also that five members of the board can revoke such dismissal.
 It is thought that the new section adopted does away with all objection to the section as reported by the com mittee of fifty.
 On request the sections relating 10 the public library were tabled till the next meeting.
 JESSE q. M'TNTTRE ARRESTED. He is Charged With MansIaughter Under
 Criminal Negligence.