The sun., 1901-01-05
NEW CITY CHARTER
HAS BEEN PREPARED
Board of Trade Committee Again Takes Up
Consideration.
sWILL HAVE FIVE DEPARTMENT HEADS
with restrictions and punishraents.

he Council shall bt elected by the quail
flied voters Of said city. Their terms oil
Office shall begin on the first day of July
succeeding their election. At the first
city e'ect.on to be held under the provis.
loDs OF this act two persons shall be
chosen as members of the Council by the
qualified voters in each Of the five wards
described and defined in Saction 9 oi
TINS act, and five persons by the qualified
voters throughout the city. One oi
those 80 chosen by the voters OF each
ward and Two of those so chosen by the
voters Trough out the city shall serve fof
two years; and onesof those ch0s, n by tn
vo els oi each warl aud three of those
chosen by the voters throughout the
CITY shall serve for four yyars.
Before. the organization of the
Council 50 chosen as aforesaid the
members elected by the voters in each
ward and those elected by the voters
throughout the city shall determine by
lot VINO shall serve for two years and
who for four years. Biennialy there
after there shall be elections for mem.
uers OF the Council for terms of four
years; and at such elections the qualified
voters in each of the several wards shall
e ect one person, and the qualified voters
throughout tn. city shall elect either
Two or three persons, as may be neces.
sary, to I'LL vacancies caused by the ex.
plraSion Of terms.
In the month OF January, In the year
nineteen hundred and eleven, or as soon
az prac icable thereafter, and at inter
vais OF ten years from that time, the
Council SHAH by ordinance, subject as in
other cases to the approval OF the mayor,
teadJust the boundary lines of the sew.
eral wards, 30 that, as nearly as may be
feasible, each of said wards shall con
tain an equal number Of inhabitants
Section lS states that the Council shall
De he Judge OF the elections, returns and
qualifications Of its members and OF
oGher elective officers. 1t directs thet in
case OF tie votes decision shall be made
oy lot, and says; Jf member of the
y uncil shall fail to qualify, or shall die,
resign, or be removed from ofli:e, the
Council shall, by a majority vote OF the
other members, elect suitable person to
serve for the term for which said mem
7 Der shall have be9n elected. In such
7ections members shall consider the
qualifications OF the person for whom
shey vote without reference to his affil liza
lions with National or State political
parties.
Sections 10 to 26 define the duties
choosing OF officers, Salaries aud regula,
lions respecting the passage OF ordinan
tes. Section y refers to the purchase oi
Jaik lands. Sections 28 to 30 state Co n
Gil power over subj4cis before the bod,,
MAYORS DUTIES.
Sections 81 to SO state that the mayor
shall receive salary of $1,000 with a
term OF four years, and in case of absence
iuJles shall be admin stored by the CITY
Controller. The Mayor will not be elig
inle to reelection for the next term.
Section "a provides that in case Of tho
mayors deabh the city controller shall
-eivA untIl-the next city election. Sec.
tions 30 to AZ set forth that the mayor
may be removed for violation Of duties
uuy To administer oath to citv officers
nave custody OF the seal Of the corpora.
ton; power to solemnze marriage (; call
special council meetings.; send message
once year TO unc'l; has veto power
authority to appoint secretary.
Section 43 is: The mayor shall nomi.
nate, and when two.thirds of all the
members OF Council by vote assent, he
shall appoint the heads OF the several
executly9 departments and the mem.
ners OF the several boards ia said depart
ments hereinafter established. The heads
oi the several departments, when not re-
moved as hereinafter provided. shall
nold their offices until the expiration OF
the term OF the mayor by Nnom they
we're appointed, and thereafter until leIr
iccessors shall be duly appointed and
quailhed The appointment OF membe
0 the ID several boards except the
6oard UI Park Commissioners, snail pe
| ma ada Gnr far hnt q,
member OF each board shall expire each
ear on the first day of January, aud the
appointments of the members of the said
Board OF Park Commissioners shall BE-
made for such terms that the terms OF
Two members OF said board shall expire
each year on the first day OF Janua y.
The mayor shall not in such appoint
ments select more than two OF the said
neads OF dep rtments, or more than hall
the members oil any of the said boards,
from among the members OF the political
partyto which he belongs; and he shall
not appoint the director of public works
anf the director OF public safety from
the same political party. No appoint
nents OF heads OF departments, or Of
members OF said boards, shall be made
At any time by the mayor that will have
lie effect OF increasing the number OF
said heads OF dep ,rtments to more than
6yo from among the members of thespo.
litical party to which the mayor belongs,
or that will have the effect of making the
director of public works and the director
II public safety, or more than half the
members of any OF the said boards, mem
oers of the same political party Vacan-
cies among the heads of departments, oil
IN the said boards, shall be- filled by ap
pointments in like manner for the un.
expired terms. III the Council shall re
fuse to assent 70 the appointment of d
pers IN nominated by the mayor as the
mead OF an executive department or the
member OF any board, the mayor shall
,iaine another person for such office; I'D
Il the Council shall refuse to assent after
J three different nominations for such of.
, dc9 sha have been made by the mayor,
or shall fail t) take action on any nomi,
nation within fifteen days OF receiving
. notification thereof, the mayor shal
rave poNe" to make an appointment tr
the Office without the assent Of the Ccun.
~. and such appointment shall be al
effective as ii it had been assented to by
5ne Council.
5 5 'ctions Al to so provide duties for the
mayor that he may for reasonable C use
remove from Office any person appointed
oy him; be member of executive boare
with heads Of five departments and ex
'tfico member of all boards established
, by the act; specifies powers of commib
ees appointed by the mayor; must set
+ 5nat all agreements are kept; must be