The San Francisco call., 1898-04-15
SCHEDULE.

This Charter shall be published for twenty days in The San Francisco Call and in the Daily Report, daily news papers of general circulation in the City and County of San Francisco, and after such publication, viz: on Thurs day, the twenty sixth day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, it shall be submitted to the qualified electors of said City and County of San Francisco, at a spe- cial election which shall be held on that day, for the sole purpose of voting upon the adoption of the same; and if ma jority of the qualified electors of said City and County voting at said election shall ratify the same it shall be sub- mitted to the Legislature of the State of California for its approval or rejec- ton. If the Legislature shall approve the same, it shall take effect and be in fOrce except as hereinafter otherwise provided, on and after the hour of noon on the first Monday after the first day of January in the year nineteen hun dred, and shall thereupon become the Charter and organic law of the City and County of San Francisco, and shall supersede the existing Charter of said City and County. and all amendments thereof, and all laws inconsistent with this Charter.
 The form of ballots at said election shall be as follows:
 FOR THE NEW CHARTER, YES. FOR THE NEW CHARTER, NO. For the sole purposes of the election of the officers directed in this Charter to be elected by the people, this Char ter shall take effect on and after its approval by the Legislature, and the election of such officers shall be man. aged, conducted and controlled by the ~d nf and for said City and County in office at the time of such election.
 And for the sole other purpose of the Mayor elected under this Charter mak- ing the appointments provided in this Charter to be made by him, and of the qualification of the persons so ap- pointed this Charter shall take effect on the first day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety mine.
 BE IT KNOWN, That the City and County of San Francisco, containing a population of more than two hundred thousand inhabitants, on the twenty seventh day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, and under and in &C., cordance with the provisions of Sec tion S. of Article XI, of the Constitu- tiOn of this State. did elect the under signed a Board of Fifteen Freeholders to prepare and propose a Charter for said City and County; and we, the members of said board. in pursuance of such provisions of the Constitution. and within a period of ninety days after such election, have prepared and do propose the foregoing, signed in duplicate, as and for the Charter for said City and County of San Fran cisco.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands in duplicate this twenty-fifth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.
 JOSEPH BRETON, President.
 JEROME A. ANDERSON,
 JAMES BUTLER,
 H. N. CLEMENT,
 A. COMTE, Jr.,
 ALFRED CRIDGE,
 L. R. ELLERT,
 ISIDOR CUTIE,
 P. H. MCCARTHY,
 JOHN NIGHTINGALE, Jr.,
 JOHN c. NOBMANN,
 JOSEPH O'CONNOR,
 ., LIPPMANN SACHS,
 EDWARD F. TAYLOR
 A. ". THOMPSON.
 Attest: J. RICHD FREUD,
 Secretary.