Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1912-10-25

the corporate limits, or. expiration
of term of Office, shall be filled by
appointment in the same manner as
the original board was created, and
said board shall always contain it's
full complement of members.
Any such charter or any amend
ment or revision thereof may pro-
vide for the commission form or
government having legislative and
administrative powers or 1t may
provide for mayor or chief mag1s.
trate, and a. legislative body OF
either one or two houses and, II
Of two houses. at least one Of them hem
of the electors, or 1t may provide
for any other plan or system or
municipal government; provided
that the plan or form of govern
ment so adopted shall not violate
the constitution of the state as
hereby amended.
In submitting any such charter
or amendment thereto, or revision
thereof to the qualified voters. OF
section or article may be presented
FOR the choice of the voters and may
De voted on separately without
prejudice to other articles or sec
lions of the charter, or any amenu"
mSnts thereto or revision Thereon.
The legislature may provide gen.
eral laws relative to analrs OF
cities, the application Of which may
thousand inhabitants, or to cities or
fifty thousand and not less than
twenty thousand inhabitants, or 70
cities of twenty thousand ana not
or to cities of ten thousand IN
habitants or less, which shall APP
ply equally to all cities Of either
class, or If so specified in the law,
to all cities in either such class not
having charters adopted pursuanS
to this amendment, but no genera
law limited to one or more or Salo
classes of cities shall apply to any
under this section of the constiI;
tuition unless such general law Shall
be made applicable to such city by
a declaration, therein, naming the
city. Such laws shall be paramount
while in force to the provisions re.
lattng to the same matter included
in the local charter herein provided
The legislature shall enact any
and all laws necessary or proper
to carry into effect the PROVISIONS
Of this amendment, and shall pre-
scribe by law the general limits
within which such charter shall De
framed. No local charter, provision
or ordinance passed thereunder
shall supersede any general law OF
the state defining or pun1sning
crimes or misdemeanors."
PURPOSE AND EFFECT. The pun
pose and object of this amendment l
TO permit cities already incorporate
and villages desiring to be incorporate
as CRIES to include in their charter
or by amendment or revision thereO
a commission form of government haV
Ing legislative and administrative pow
ers. The amendment sought enlarge
the power of such municipalities 4
framing their own charters, reeervin
to the legislature, however, the author
ity to prescribe the general limit
within which the said charters shall b
framed.
A commission form Of city govern
ment is generally understood to incIud
the following characteristic features
I. A small governing board; 2. Th
exercise of both legislative and admin
istrative duties by this board; 5. TIL
division among the members of til
board of the administrative work of til
city by departments over which a singl
of the governing board Of th
city has control; 4. The election of til
members of the governing board by a
of the voters of the city and not b
wards, precincts or districts. 5. TIL
adoption of methods of direct pOPuls
control over the action and the coz
tinuance I'm Office of the members of til
board.