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ganiZe within ten days after their ap- pointment by choosing one of their number President. In case of 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 @ Registrar of Voters who shall receive an annual salary of twenty-four hundred dollars. The Registrar shall be the Secretary of the Board, and shall keep a record of its proceedings, and shall execute all orders and enforce all rules and regula- tions adopted by the Board. The term of office of the Registrar shall be four years.
 Sec. 4. The Board may appoint such other clerical assistants as may be ne- cessary at salary not to exceed one hundred dollars a month each for the time actually employed. The Board shall, by resolution adopted by ma jority vote of all it's members and en- tered upon it's minutes, designate the service to be rendered by such as- sistants and the time for which they shall be employed. The time of em- ployment of such assistants shall not be extended except by like resolution of the Board, and when a salary shall have been once fixed it shall not be in- creased. This section is subject to the provisions of Article XIII of 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 registration so far as 1t can do so under the Con- stitution and laws of the State.
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CHAPTER VIII.
Salaries.

SECTION 1. The officers and mem- ceive annual salaries as follows:
 Chief Engineer, four thousand dollars; First Assistant Chief Engineer. three thousand dollars Second Assistant En- gineer twenty-four hundred dollars; Battalion Chiefs, each tWenty-one hum dred dollars; Superintendent of En- zines, eighteen hundred dollars; the Clerk and Commissary of the Corpora tion Yards, fifteen hundred dollars; Captains, each fourteen hundred and forty dollars; Lieutenants each twelve hundred dollars; Engineers, each thirteen hundred and fifty dollars; Drivers, Stokers. Tillermen, Truckmen, Hosemen, and Stewards, for the first year of service, each nine hundred and sixty dollars; for the second year of service, each ten hundred and eighty dollars; and for the third year of ser vice and thereafter each twelve hun dred dollars; Hydrantmen, each ten hundred and eighty dollars; Superin- tendent of horses, twelve hundred d6l- lars; Draymen, each nine hundred dol lars; Hostlers, each seven hundred and twenty dollars; Watchmen, each nine hundred dollars; Pilots of Fire Boats, each twelve hundred dollars; Engineers of Fire Boats, each fifteen hundred dol lars; Assistant Engineers of Fire Boats, each fourteen hundred and forty dol lars; Bremen of Fire Boats, each nine hundred dollars.
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CHAPTER VI.
Police Officers.

SECTION l. 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. 3. Police Officers shall be health officers by virtue of their office.
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he Police Department shall consist of Captains, who shall each receive an annual salary of twenty-four hundred % dollars; LieutenantS, who shall each receive an annual salary Of sixteen hundred and eighty dollars; Sergeants, who shall each receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars; and Corpor- sls who shall each receive an annual salary of fourteen hundred ana Tour Sec. g. There shall be one Captain fer each one hundred police officers. The duties of Captains shall De denned by the rules and regulations of the Commissioners and by the oroers or the Chief of Police.
 Sec. 8. There shall be one Lieutenant for every fifty police officers. The du- ties of the Lieutenants shall be defined by the rules and regulations of the Commissioners, by the orders of the Chief of Police, and by the orders of their respective Captains.
 Sec 4 There shall be as many Ser geants as in the judgment of the Con- missioners may be advisable, not to ex- ceed one Sergeant for every ten police officers The duties of Sergeants 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.
 
 porals as in the judgment of the Com missioners may be advisable. The du- ties of Corporals shall be 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, Lieutenants 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 desig- 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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2. Twenty-Five per centum of all fines collected in money for violation of any

collected in money for violation of any ordinance.
 8. All rewards to members of the Po- lice Department, except such as shall be excepted by the Commissioners. g. The Treasurer shall retain from the pay of each member of the Police Force two dollars 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- thoriZed.
 Sec. 12 When a 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 for 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 a 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 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 a de- ficiency 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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CHAPTER W.
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 shall be composed of not more than one Cap tain, one Lieutenant, one Driver and one Hoseman.
 Each Water Tower Company shall be composed of 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 IT.
Duties of the Commissioners.

SECTION l. 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- pertinent, but in case of a subseuuent 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. 2 No officer, member or er ployee of the Department shall be dis missed or transferred except for cause nor until after trial. The accused shall be furnished with a 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 witnessas shall be examined under oath, and all trials shall be public.
 Sec. 3. 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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to incapacitate him from performing his duty, the Commissioners shall allow his salary during the continuance of such temporary disability.
 Sec f. 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- vertising for proposals. the affidavit and security accompanying the same, the presentation and opening of pro- posals, the aw--rding of 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 contrac ct made in violation of any of the provl- sions of this Chapter shall be void.
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ARTICLE XI.
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTIONS.
CHAPTER I.
Board of Election Commissioners

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 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 elec- 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, so classify themselves by lot, that one shall go out of office at the end of one year. enc 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 ap- 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 President. as the 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 expiration 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 all 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 been 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 Con- 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. 3. The Commissioners shall or
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CHAPTER VIII.
Unclaimed and Stolen Prone,

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 SECTION 1. 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 or 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 pur- pose, full and explicit description of the same, together with the name of the person or persons from whom re- CelNed' the names of any claimants thereto, the time of the seizure. and the final disposition thereof
 Sec. /. When property or money taken rom any person arrested, or otherwise under suspicion of having been feloni- ously obtained or of being the proceeds 'or crime, is brought with the claimant thereof and the person arrested. before a court Tor examination and adjudica- tlon, and the Court shall adiudge that the person arrested Is innocent of tbe o11ense alleged, and that the propertv or money belongs to him. if shall or, der such property or money returned to the accused, and the Property Clerk shall thereupon deliver such pronertv or money to him personally, but net to his attorney or agent. If upon such hearing the accused shall be held for trial or examination, such property or money shall remain In the custody of the Property Clerk until the discharge or conviction of the person accused.
 Sec. g. All unclaimed property 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 shall be paid into the treasury to the credit of the Police Relief and Pen sion Fund. In no case shall such prop erfy be sold or disposed of until the ne- cessity for the use thereof as evidence has ceased. The proceeds of property 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.
 I. Sec. i. If any property or money in tie custody of the Property Clerk be re- ouired as evidence in any Court, it 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 er*y or money to the Property Clerk. =: Sec. 5. All valuables 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 as. may be prescribed by the Board. :.
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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. 8. 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 year.
 Sec. 4. The Fire Department and the Police Department shall each have sole control over it's own systems and wires.
 Sec B. 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. G. The Department of Electri- city is also charged with the duty of en- forcing all the rules, regulations, or
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ders and requirements made by ordi- nance of the Supervisors in regard to the inspection and supervision of cleo currents for furnishing light, heat or power in and upon streets and build ings in the City and County.
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CHAPTER VI.
Fire Wardens.

SECTION l. The Chief Engineer. As- sistant Chief Engineers, Battalion Chiefs and the Fire Marshall 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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CHAPTER TX.
Present Police Force.

j.. :: SECTION l. All members of the
 present Police Force in good standing In; the Department at the time this . Gharter goes into effect, and the Park :. Police, shall continue therein without
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LABOR DAY CELEBRATION.
President of the Miners Union Will Be
 the Grand Marshal.

Ats meeting of the committee in charge of the Labor Day celebration held last night. Frank Fornier, president of Miners union No. 664, of Pratt City, was selected as grand marshal for the occasion. MT. Fornier is one of the best known and popu- lar miners in the district, and has held every office in the gift of the miners or ganization.
 It was decided to extend official invi- tation to the Birmingham Bicycle club and the Dairymen's association to participate in the parade, and it is thought that both organizations will accept the invitation.
 The finance committee reported that 1t was making progress and was meeting with success.
 The progra amme committee reported that details were being perfected and on motion it was urged to spare no pains or expense to make the fireworks display a grand suc- cess Fred Montebaro will be in charge of the fireworks which will be the most magnificent display every seen in this sec tion.
 James H. Leath, of the committee, is vis- iting the different locals to ascertain how many of them will participate. Over 1OOoo posters are being distributed throughout the district and it is expected that fully 2OtOO people will be attracted to the city.
 Nothing has yet been heard from General Wheeler who was invited to deliver an ad- dress upon the occasion and Chairman J. A. Rountree, of the press committee, was instructed to wire him again today and urge him to come. General Wheeler has recently assumed command of Camp Wcykoff at Montauk Point and his duties have no doubt prevented his answering the invitation, but it is thought that he will accept.
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The military drama, "The Paymaster," will be the opening bill at O'Brien's next Monday night. It will be put on by the Woodward Warren company, one of the best popular price amusement organizations touring the south this season. This com pany comes to Birmingham from Atlanta, where it had two weeks run of big busi- ness. Besides having repertoire of new plays and special scenery for all, eight specially artists are carried, who amuse the audience between acts. making con- tinuous performance. The company includes such well-known artists as H. B. Siggins, Charles McGrath, Charles Middleton, John Sullivan, Bert Walter, Bert Gilderoy, Holt and Denicke, Willie Eddenger, w. N. Smith, Nat Solomon, Jeanette Lewis, Little Corr1e Cordella. Ethel Tucker, Bonaire Price, Mad am Cordelia, Bessie Warren and H. Guy Woodward.
 Eleven performances will be given at CBrien's. six night performances and five matinees. Ladies will be admitted free Monday night.
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TO RECOVER THE MONEY.
Bob Taylor Taken to the Scene of the
 Thompson Murder.

Bob Taylor, one of the men charged with intimidating and murdering w. A. Thomp- son, a government witness, in Taladega county, on March IA, last, and who in the preliminary examination before United States Commissioner Wilson took the stand and confessed to the crime, duplicating his fellow prisoners, was taken to the scene of the murder Tuesday afternoon to search for some money that he says was taken from the murdered man and hid in a hol- low stump
 Since tte preliminary hearing Taylor has been separated from his fellow prisoners in the county jail and talks freely of the heinous deed In the course of his conver- sation he mention that nine s2 bills and a few cents in change were taken from Thompson's pocket and hid in a hollow stump near by. The authorities at once made an effort to find the money, but failed to do so, and decided to take Taylor to the place to recover the money, which will be used as evidence against the other prisoners.
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company at Church street in Woodlawn and the passengers are compelled to trans fer at this point, which made it rather in- convenient and disagreeable.
 Several methods were proposed at the meeting but it was finally agreed to ap- point two committees of five each to con- sist of three citizens from Woodlawn and two from Gate City to confer with the two companies looking to an adjustment or the differences.
 The committee to call upon the Birming- ham Railway and Electric company have made an engagement with President Jemi- son to meet him this afternoon at o'clock