The San Francisco call., 1898-04-09

Supervisors. Such body is also desig- mated in this Charter, the Supervisors.
 Sec. g. The Board of Supervisors shall consist of eighteen members. all of whom shall hold office for two years, and shall be elected from the City and County at large. Each one must be at the time of his election an elector of the City and County, and must have been such for at least five years next preceding his election. Each Supervis- or shall receive an annual salary of twelv, hundred dollc-s.
 Every person who has served as Mayor of the City and County, so long as he remains a resident thereof, shall be entitled to seat in the Board of Supervisors and to participate in it's debates, but shall not be entitled to a vote nor to any compensation.
 Sec. 3. A majority of all the members of the Board shall constitute a quorum, but a less number may adjourn from day to day and compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as the Board may prescribe.
 Sec. A. The Board shall:
 l.. Appoint clerk, sergeant-at-arms and, when authorized to do so by ordi- nance, such additional clerks and other assistants as may be deemed necessary.
 Z. Establish rules for its proceedings.
 5. Keep a journal of its proceedings. and allow the same to be published. The ayes and noes shall on demand of any member be taken and entered therein.
 4. Have authority to punish it's mem bers for disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its presence.
 Sec. 5. The Mayor shall be the pre- siding officer of the Board of Superyis ors. In the absence of the Mayor the Board shall appoint presiding officer pro tempore from its own members. who shall have the same right to vote as other members.
 Sec. 6. The Beard shall meet on Monday of each week, or if that day be a legal holiday, then on the next day. The Board shall not adjourn to any other place than to its r. lar place of meeting, except in case of great neces- sity or emergency. The meetings of the Board shall be public.
 Sec. z. The clerk of the Board. when requested to do so, shall admin ister paths and afYirmations, without charge, in all matters pertaining to the affairs of his office, and shall per form such services as may be pre- scribed by the Board. He shall have the custody of the seal, and of all leases, grants and other documents. records and papers of the City and County. His signature shall be neces- sary to all leases, grants and convey ances of the City and County
 Sec. 8. Every legislative act of the City and County shall be by ordinance. The enacting clause of every ordinance shall be in these words: Be it or daincd by the People of the City and County of San Francisco as follows. |" No ordinance shall be passed except by bill, and no bill shall be so amended as to change its original purpose
 Sec. g. No bill shall become an ordi- nance, nor resolution be adopted. un- less finally passed by a majority of all the members of the Board and the vote be taken by ayes and noes and the names of the members voting for and against the same be entered in the Journal.
 Sec. 10. No ordinance shall be re- yised, re-enacted or amended by refer ence to it's title: but the ordinance to be revised or re-enacted, or the section thereof amended, shall be re-enacted at length as revised and amended.
 Sec. Il. An ordinance shall embrace but one subject, which subject shall be expressed in it's title. If any subject be embraced in an ordinance and not expressed in it's title. such ordinance shall be void only as to so much there- of as is not expressed in its title.
 Sec. F. When a bill is put upon its