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 ment at the rate of two per centum per annum. payable monthly or fund may determine"
 Sec. IS. Section 6s Of the charter of aid city is hereby amended to read as blows:
 "The Police Commissioner shall be the trustee of3the Policemen's Relief Fund, and the Board of Com missioners Of the Fire Department shall be the board of trustees of the Firemen's Relief Fund, and may in- vest and reinyest the same as the laws relating to trust funds may permit. The Mayor shall be the president of said board of trustees, the City Treasurer shall be the treasurer, and the clerk of the de- pertinent the clerk Of said trustee or board of trustees. All orders on said funds shall be signed by the clerk and countersigned by the Mayor"
 Sec. 1s. Section G9 of the charter of said city is hereby amended to read as follows:
 'The Police Commissioner, with the Mayors approval, and the Board of Fire Commissioners, with the affirmative vote of three com missioners and with the Mayors approval, may permanently retire any member of the. department who, while in the actual perform ance of duty, and by reason of the performance of such duty, and without Fault ana mlseonduet on his part, shall have become pernta- nently disabled physically or mem tally, so as to be entirely unfit to perform such duties, and said Po- lice Commissioner or said Board of Fire Commissioners may cause to be paid from the fund of said de- partment' to said member during his lifetime, and in monthly in- StallmentS, unless the order of said Police Commissioner is revoked by him or said vote is annulled by three of said fire commissioners, as the case may be, a sum not greater than one-half nor less than one- fourth of his previous compensa- tion; provided, however, that in the cases mentioned in this section such medical exmainers as said Po- lice Commissioner or said Board ing, that such disability exists, and, in their opinion, from such cause"
 Sec. 20. Section 70 of the charter of said city is hereby amended to read as follows:
 aThe Police Commissioner, with the Mayors approval, and the Board of Fire Commissioners. with the affirmative vote of three com missioners, and with the Mayors approval, may cause d sum not ex- ceeding two thousand dollars to be paid from the fund of such depart ment to the widow of, or other person or persons dependent upon any member of such department who shall have been killed while in the actual performance of duty, or shall have died from the effects of any injury received while in the actual discharge of said duty, and may apportion such sum between z such persons as they may Ieem best"
 Sec. 21 Section II of the charter o5 said city is hereby amended to read ai follows:
 All members on the retired list. in either department shall be sub ject to orders of the Police Coin- missioner or the Board Df Eirc Commissioners as the case may be, who may at any time require my member to be re-examined, and in
 
 performing duty may, by the order of said Police Commissioner, with the Mayors approval, or by the af- firmative vote of three of said fire commissioners, as the case may oe, and with the Mayors approval, re- store him to service Tn said depart 5 ment.
 Sec. 22. Section 72 of the charter 0 said city is hereby amended to read a follows:
 .sThe clerk in each department shall record all the orders of the trustee and doings of the board ot
 trustees, as the case may be, and all the orders of the Police Com missioner, or of all of the doings Qt
 the Board of Fire Commissioners, as the case may be, in relation to the fund of his or their department
 and shall record the vote of each member on each question connected
 herewith. An itemized report of the condition of each fund and Of all receipts and disbursements shall be submitted to the Mayor on or
 before the 18th day of February, 1900, and annually thereafter for
 the preceding fiscal year"
 Sec. 23. Section IT Of the charter 0 said city, as amended by an act approy ed April g, 1901, is hereby amended D, striking out the words Chiefs of Pc lice and Fire Department" whereYe these words may occur, and substitut ing in lieu thereof the words the To lice Commissioner and the Chief of th Fire Department.
 ai, act approved April 5, -so1, Is hereb! amended by. striking out the word "Chief of Police" wherever these word occur, and substituting in lieu thereo the words Police Commissioner"
 Sec. 25. This act shall be publi act, and all acts or parts of acts, publi or private, inconsistent herewith ar hereby repealed so far as the effect up on this act is concerned; but no act hitherto repealed shall be revived D such repeal.
 All lawful city ordinances and an regulations or by-laWs of said city i force and not inconsistent herewith ar hereby continued in effect until tn same shall be duly amended by compe tent authority; provided, that all sue ordinances, regulations and by-law shall be deemed to be and hereby ar amended so as to confer upon the proI er officers and boards the power an authority and duties that are hereb conferred or imposed upon them. Sec. 2s. This act shall take effeC upon its passage.
 Respectfully submitted. JOSEPH PORTER. JOHN T. MANSON, 5ITT2 NLZ PTCxET iflVVa