The San Francisco call., 1898-04-12
SCHEDULE.

This Charter shall be published for twenty days in The San Francisco Call and in the Daily Report, daily news papers of go-eral c c.-cUl-tion 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 a ma JOrity or the qualified electors of said City and County voting al said election shall ratify the same it shall be sub- Uitte1 Co 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 or January in the year nineteen hum 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 sail election shall be as follows:
 FOR THE NEW CHARTER. Y-s FOR THE NEW CHARTER, NO. For the sole purposes of the election or the officers directed in this Charter to be elected by the pc 7ple, this Char ter shall take effect on and after its approval by the Legislature. and inc election of such officer shall be man aged, conducted and controlled by the Board of Election Commissioners in and for said City and County in office at the time of such election
 Ana Tor the sole other purpose of the Mayor elected under this Charter mak- ing the appointments provided in this Charter to be made by hi.A, 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-nine.
 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 ntnety-seven, and under and in ac- cordance with the provisions of Sec tton 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
 
 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-flfth 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 R. TAYLOR.
 A. W. THOMPSON.
 Attest: J. RICHD FREUD,
 Secretary.