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T. Twenty-Five per centum of all fines collected in money for violation of any ordinance.
 S. All rewards to members of the Po- lice Department, except such as snail be excepted by the Commissioners
 9. The Treasurer shall retain from the pay of each member of the Police Force two dollars a month, which shall be forthwith paid into the Police Relief and Pension Fund. No other or further retention or reduction shall be made from such pay for any other fund or purpose unless the same is herein au- tkorized.
 Sec. 12. When request Is made for regular policemen to be detailed at any place of amusement or entertainment. ball. party or picnic, the party or per son making such request shall first de- poSit two dollars and fifty cents Tor each man so detailed with the Property Clerk of the Department, who shall give him a receipt for the same, and such sum shall be at once paid into the treasury to the credit of the Police Re lief and Pension Fund.
 Sec. 13. On the last day of June Of each year., or as soon thereafter as practicable, the Auditor shall make report to the Supervisors of all moneys paid out of such Fund during the pre- viouS year, and of the amount then to the credit of such Fund. The surplus then remaining in such Fund exceeding the average annual amount paid out of such Fund during the three years next preceding shall be transferred to and become a part of the Surplus Fund and shall be no longer under the control of the Board, or subject to its order. Pay ments provided for in this Chapter shall be made quarterly upon proper vouchers. When in any one year de- f1ciency shall exist in such Fund, such deficiency shall be provided for and made good by the Supervisors in their next ensuing tax levy.
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eanize within ten days after their ap- Sentiment by choosing one of their purober President. In case or failure to agree. he shall be selected by lot. He shall hold office for one year and until his successor is chosen. The Board shall appoint Reglstrar Of Voters who shall receive an annual ea1arv of twenty-four hundred dollars. The Registrar shall be the Secretary of tbe Board. and shall keep a record of tts nroceedings, and shall execute all orders and enforce all rules and regula- tions adopted by the Board. The term of office of the Registrar snail De four years.
 Sec. 4. The Board may appoint such other clerical assistants as may be ne cessarv at a salary not to exceed one hundred dollars a month eacn TOT the time actually employed. Ine boaro shall by resolution adopted by a. ma iority vote of all its members ana en- tered upon it's minutes, deslgndte tne service to be rendered oy sucn as sistants and the time for which they shall he employed. The time of em- ployment of such assistants snail not be extended except by like resolution or the Board, and when a salary snail have been once fixed 1t shall not De in- creased. This section is subject 10 the provisions of Article XIII or this Charter.
 Sec. 5. All provisions of the general laws of this State respecting elections shall be applicable to all elections held in the City and County of San Fran- cisco All provisions of the general laws of this State respecting the registration of voters shall be applicable to such registration In the City and County. The Board of Election Commissioners must provide for precinct reg1stratlon so far as 1t can do so under the con stitution and laws of the State.
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CHAPTER II.
Duties of the Commissioners.

SECTION 1. The Board of Fire Com missioners shall immediately after their appointment and qualification proceed to reorganiZe the Fire Department in conformity with the provisions of this Charter In so doing the Board shall make its appointments of officers and members from the persons constituting the force in the service of the Fire De- partment at the time this Charter goes into effect Such officers and members shall not be required to pass any Civil Service examination. All future ap- pointments and promotions shall be made subject to the provisions of Arti- cle XIII of this Charter If any reduc- tion Is made in the force of the Depart ment, the Commissioners may tempo rarily discharge those persons, whose discharge shall be most conducive to the efficient reorganization of the De- partment, but in case of a subsequent increase of the force, those temporarily discharged shall be reappointed without Civil Service examination and assigned to the same rank in which they were at the time of their discharge.
 Sec. ?. No officer, member or en- ployee of the Department shall be dis missed or transferred except for cause nor until after a trial. The accused shall be furnished with written copy of the charges against him at least three days previous to the day of trial He shall have the right to appear in person and by counsel and examine witnesses in his behalf All witnesses shall be examined under oath, and all trials shall be public.
 Sec. 8. When any officer, member or employee of the Department shall be- come temporarily disabled by reason of injuries received while in the actual performance of his duty therein so as
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CHAPTER TX.
Department of Electricity.

SECTION 1. There is hereby created Department of Electricity, which shall have charge of the construction and maintenance of the Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph and Telephone Sys- tems, and shall be under the control of joint Commission composed of the Board of Fire Commissioners and the Board of Police Commissioners.
 Sec. 2. There shall be appointed by the Board of Fire Commissioners and Board of Police Commissioners, acting in joint session, a practical and skilled electrician, who shall be called the Chief of the Department of Electricity. and who shall have general supervision of the Department of Electricity He shall receive an annual salary of twen- ty-four hundred dollars.
 Sec. 3. The Joint Commission may appoint such assistants as may be nec- essary to keep the electric and tele- phone systems in working order; but of those assistants appointed, no opera tor or inspector shall receive more than twelve hundred dollars a year, and no repairer, lineman, batteryman or in strument-maker shall receive a salary of more than ten hundred and eighty dollars a year.
 Sec. 4. The Fire Department and the Police Department shall each have sole control over its own systems and wires
 Sec. 5. Any citizen, firm or corpora tion may, for the purpose of police or fire protection, be connected with the Police or Fire Signal System, or Tele- phone or Telegraph System. upon mak- ing fair payment for the connection and use of the same. Such rates of payment shall be fixed by ordinance of the Supervisors; but no connection shall be made so as to interfere with the use of the main line.
 Sec. 6. The Department of Electri- city is also charged with the duty of en- forcing all the rules, regulations, or-
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CHAPTER ".
Fire Companies.

SECTION 1. Each Steam Fire En- zine Company shall be composed of not more than one Captain, one Lieutenant. one Engineer, one Driver. one Stoker and five Hosemen.
 Each Hook and Ladder Company shall be composed of not more than one Captain, one Lieutenant, one Driver, one Tillerman and eight Truckmen
 Each Chemical Engine Company shah De composed of not more than one Cap tam, one Lieutenant, one Driver and one Hoseman,
 Each Water Tower Company shall be composed e not more than one Cap tain, one Driver and one Hoseman.
 Each Fire Boat Company shall be composed of not more than one Cap tain. one Lieutenant, one Engineer, one Assistant Engineer, two Bremen, one Pilot and twelve Hosemen.
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CHAPTER VI.
Police Officers.

SECTION 1. The Police Force of the City and County shall not exceed one Police Officer for each five hundred in- habitants thereof. Police Officers shall receive an annual salary of twelve hun dred and twenty-four dollars.
 Sec. 2. Every Police Officer shall, upon the arrest of any person charged with the commission of crime, search the person of such offender, and take from him all property and weapons, and forthwith deliver the same to the prison keeper, who must deliver the same to the Property Clerk, to be kept by him until other disposition be made thereof according to law.
 Sec. 8. Police Officers shall be health officers by virtue of their office.
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to incapacitate him from performing his duty, the Commissioners shall allow his salary during the continuance Of such temporary disability.
 Sec. 4. The Commissioners shall see that all contracts awarded and work done for the Department are faithfully performed, and shall, upon the award ing of any such contract, exact an ade- quate bond for the prompt and faithful performance of the same.
 The provisions of Article II, Chapter III, of this Charter, in regard to the ad- Vertls1ng for proposals, the aff1davit and security com panying the same, the presentation and opening of pro- posals, the av ,ding c- contracts and the security for the performance thereof, shall, so far as the same can be made applicable, apply to all pro posals and contracts made, awarded or entered into for furnishing supplies to the Fire Department. Any contract made in violation of any of the provi- s1ons of this Chapter shall be void.
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CHAPTER IT.
Municipal Elections.

SECTION 1. There shall be held in the City and County Of San FranclSco on the first Tuesday after the hrst Monday of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety nine, and in every second year there after, an election to be known as the municipal election.
 At said elections there shall be elected by the electors of the City and county the following officers: The Mayor, eighteen Supervisors, an Auditor, Treasurer, Assessor, Tax Collector, torney, Public Administrator, County Clerk. Sheriff, Coroner and four Police Judges. Each of the above officers shall be elected for two years, except the Police Judges and the Assessor. each of whom shall be elected for four years. The Superintendent Of Public Schools shall be elected for four years, and the Justices of the Peace for two years, at the same time that members of the Legislature are elected.
 Sec. g. All of the officers of the City and County of San Francisco who shall be elected in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight. under existing laws, except the SupeTln- tendent of Public Schools and the Jus tices of the Peace, shall hold office only until the hour of noon on the first Mon- day after the first day of January in the year nineteen hundred.
 Sec. 8. The officers first elected as aforesaid under this Charter shall take office at noon on the first Monday after the first day of January following
 Sec. 4. The Mayor shall issue his proclamation and publish the same in the official newspaper for at least twenty days previous to the day in each year on which the municipal election IS to be held under this Charter, calling upon the electors of the City and County to meet for the purpose of electing such officers as are provided for In this Charter, reciting in such proclamation the different officers to I1a aIao+ad ot c11oh oIaption
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ARTICLE XI.
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTIONS.
 CHAPTER I.
Board of Election Commissio

SOum1SSlOQ6rS.
 SECTION 1. The conduct. manage ment and control of the registration of voters. and of the holding of elections. and of all matters pertaining to cleo tions in the City and County, shall be vested exclusively in and exercised by a Board of Election Commissioners. consisting of five members, who shall be appointed by the Mayor. and shall hold office for four years. Each of the Commissioners shall receive an annual salary of one thousand dollars Each member of the Beard must be an cleo tor of the City and County at the time of his appointment and must have been such for five years next preceding such time. Those first appointed must immediately after their appointment SD classify themselves by lot, that one shall go out of office at the end of one year, one at the end of two years. one at the end Of three years, and two at the end of four years
 The Mayor shall not make any an- pointment upon the Board at any time before thirty days prior to the time when such appointee is to take office Two of the five members first appoint ed shall be chosen from each of the two political parties casting in the City and County the highest vote for Governor or Electors of President and Vice ieoiuciil- SiS llle case may be. at the last preceding general election. The fifth member shall be chosen from the political party casting the third highest such vote at such election, if there be such third party, and if not, then at the discretion of the Mayor Upon the expira tion of the term of office of any Commissioner. the appointee must be chosen from the same political party as the retiring Commissioner. consistently with the foregoing provisions as to equal representation at ell times of the two political parties casting the high est vote at the general election last pre- ceding the appointment in question as prescribed In this section.
 Sec. 2. No member of the Board nor Registrar. nor Deputy Registrar shall. during his term of office. be a member of any convention the purpose of which is to nominate candidates for office: nor be eligible to any other municipal office during the term for which he shall have heen appointed, or for one year thereafter; nor act as officer of any election or primary election: nor take part In any election except to vote and when acting as Election Com missioner, at which time he shall per form only such official duties as may be required of him by law and by this Charter.
 Sec. 8. The Commissioners shah or
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CHAPTER VIII.
Unclaimed and Stolen Property.

SECTION l. All property or money taken under suspicion of having been stolen or feloniously obtained, the re- suit Of crime or constituting the pro- ceeds of crime, and all property or money taken from intoxicated or in sane persons, or other persons incapa- ble of taking care of themselves. or property or money lost or abandoned that may in any way come into the possession or custody of any member of the Department, or of any Criminal Court or Judge of the City and County, shall be delivered to the Prop erty Clerk, who shall enter in a Record Book, to be kept by him for that nIr- pose, full and explicit description of the same, together with the name of the person or persons from whom re- ceived, the names of any claimants thereto, the time of the seizure. and the final disposition thereof
 Sec. Z. When property or money taken from any person arrested. or otherwise under suspicion of having been feloni- ously obtained, or of being the proceeds Of crime, is brought with the claimant thereof and the person arrested before a court for examination and adiudica don. and the Court shall adiudge that the person arrested is innocent of inc oftense alleged, and that the property or money belongs to him, it shall or
 
 to the accused, and the Property Clerk shall thereupon deliver such pronertv or money to him personally. but not to ms attorney or agent. If upon such nearing the accused shall be held for lrlal or examination, such property or money shall remain in the custody of the Property Clerk until the discha roa or conviction of the person accused
 Sec. 3. All unclaimed propertv and money that has been in the custody of the Property Clerk for one year shall be sold at public auction. after having been five times advertised in the official newspaper; and the proceeds of such sale shaL be paid into the treasury to the credit of the Police Relief and Pen sion Fund. In no case shall such nron- erty be sold or disposed of until the ne cessity for the use thereof as evidence has ceased. The proceeds of propertv taken from insane persons shall not become part of such Fund until after the expiration of three years from the time the same Is paid into the treasury: but the Commissioners and the Chief of Police shall, during such period. make diligent inquiry to ascertain the person or persons to whom the same should by right be payable.
 Sec. A. If any property or money in the custody of the Property Clerk be re- quired as evidence in any Court if shall be delivered to any officer who shall present an order in writing to that effect from such Court, and the Clerks of such Court shall be responsi- ble for the safe delivery of such prop- erty or money to the Property Clerk.
 Sec. 5. All valuabes and money in the custody of the Property Clerk shall be deposited by him for safe keeping with the Treasurer in such manner and subject to such rules and regulations IS may be prescribed by the Board.
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the Police Department shall consist Of Captains, who shall each receive an annual salary of twenty-four hunoreu dollars; Lieutenants, who shall eacn receive an annual salary Of sixteen hundred and eighty dollars; Sergeants. who shall each receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars; and Corpor als, who shall each receive an annual salary of fourteen hundred and four dollars.
 Sec. 2. There shall be one Captain for each one hundred police oIrlcers; The duties of Captains shall De oenneu ata by the rules and regulations or the Commissioners and by the orders or the Chief of Police.
 Sec. 3. There shall be one Lieutenant for every fifty police officers. The ou ties of the Lieutenants shall be oenneo by the rules and regulations or the Commissioners, by the orders Of the Chief of Police, and by the orders or their respective Captains.
 Sec. 4. There shall be as many Ser geants as in the judgment Of the Com nnissioners may be advisable. not to ex- ceed one Sergeant for every ten police officers The duties of SerSeants shall be defined by the rules and regulations of the Commissioners. the orders Of the Chief of Police. and the orders of their respective Captains and Lieutenants.
 Sec g. There shall be as many Cor porals as in the judgment of the Com nissioners may be advisable. The du- ties of Corporals shall Le defined b. the rules and regulations of the Commits sioners, the orders of the Chief of Po- lice. and the orders of their respective Captains, Leutenants and Sergeants.
 Sec 6. The Chief of Police may detail for detective duties such members Of the Department as he may select, not to exceed twenty-five. He shall destg- nate a Captain of Police to act as Cap tain over the officers so detailed who shall receive .an annual salary of three thousand dollars. Such Captain shall rank as Captain of Detectives, and his duties shall be defined by the Commits sioners and by the Chief of Police. The members so detailed shall be known and ranked as Detective Sergeants. Each of said Detective Sergeants shall receive an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars. They may be re- moved at any time from such detail by the Chief of Police. Their duties shall be defined by the rules and regulations of the Commissioners. by the orders of the Chief of Police, and by the orders of the Captain of Detectives.
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ders and requirements made by ordt- nance of the Supervisors in regard to the inspection and supervision Of cleo trical wires and appliances, and the currents for furnishing light, heat or power in and upon streets and build ings in the City and County.
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CHAPTER Tx.
Present Police Force.

SECTION l. All members of the present Police Force in good standing in the Department at the time this Charter goes into effect, and the Park Police. shall continue therein without
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CHAPTER VI.
Fire Wardens.

SECTION 1. The Chief Engineer. As- sistant Chief Engineers, Battalion Chiefs and the Fire Marshal shall con- stitute a Board of Fire Wardens, with power to inspect and report to the Board of Public Works as to the safety of buildings and other structures within the City and County.
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Civil Service examination; but all new appointments and all promotions made after this Charter shall go into effect shall be subject to and governed by Article XIII of this Charter.
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Homestead Entries.

Notice is hereby given that the following
~ named settler has filed notice of his inten-
ton to make final proof in support of his
claim, and that said proof will be made before
the Clerk of the District Court at Benton La
on March II, 1898, viz Homestead Entry No.
542-George Washington-for the southwest
quarter of southeast quarter of section IL,
township 81 North, range II West Louisiana
Meridian. He names the following witnesses
to prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation of said land, viz: Jake McGlothin,
Jackson Smith, jackson Green and Joseph
Rivers, Of Rocky Mount, La.
Viz: No. 5Gi8-Joseph Rivers-for the south
east quarter Of the northeast quarter of Sec
ton l3, township 81 North, range 10 Vest
west half of northwest quarter of section 49,
and southwest quarter of southwest quarter
of section 7, township q North, range II West
Louisiana Meridian He names the following
witnesses to prove bis continuous residence
upon and cultivation of said land. viz: Jake
McGlOthlin. jackson Smith, jackson Green
and George Washington. of Rocky Mount, La.
Viz: Homestead Entry No. 6OO8-Martin
Lee-for the southwest quarter of northwest
quarter and northwest quarter of southwest
quarter of section II township 81 North, range
II West. He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and culti-
walton of said land, viz: William Broom, Jack
Mcdaniel, Henry johnson and Scott Carter,
Of Rocky Mount, La.
EDW'D PHILLIPS, Register.
January 81, 1898. march 10
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Election Proclamation.

NThereas, the Police Jury Of the Parish of
w Bossier, La, did a its session on the
1lth day of January, 1AA orlain that an
election should be held in Ward number Six,
of the Parish of Bossier La, on Wednesday.
February %, 1895, at the several polling places
at which places tho late preceding election
was held ROW, we, the Board of Supervisors
of Election in and for the Parish of Bossier,
said State, duly qualified, commissioned and
hereby give public notice that on the 23rd day
of February, 1885, an election will be held in
Ward No. G, Bossier parish, at the respective
places where the last preceding general cleo
ton was held, for the purpose of taking the
sense OF the voters of Ward upon the ques-
ton Of the sale or not Of Intoxicating liquors
within said ward, to take effect on and after
January l 1892 in pursuance of the general
election law and the ordinance of the Police
Jury. The election precincts and polling places
in Ward are as follows: Bellevue, precinct
l. and Haughton, precinct 2.
The following named commissioners and
election precincts and polling places ON the
23rd day Of February, 1893, to-wit: Bellevue
J. w. Onley J. NJ. Moore, Charles Berry, CON-
missioners; K. f. Wyche, clerk. Haughton-
II. Barnacastle, J. G.. Hodges A. H. Ratcliff,
commissioners; G. w. Smith, clerk
Commissioners are instructed to open said
election at o'clock a. M and close the same at
6p. H., in accordance with Section 8, of Act
No. 1877, Acts of 1896. and in all their acts con-
form to law, and the said ordinance of the
Police Jury.
w. ]. JOHNSTON,
Fl. j. LENOIR.
H. H. MONTGOMERY,
Board of Supervisors of Election of Bossier
Parish La.