The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-11-01

the corporate limits, or expiration
of term of ONCE, 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 OF
administrative powers, or 1t may
provide for mayor or chief magis.
trate, and a legislative body OF
either one or two houses and. II
shall be elected by a general vote
OF the electors, or it may provide
for any other plan or system OF
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
thereof to the qualified voters of
such city or village, any alternative
section or article, may be presented
for the choice of the voters and may
prejudice to other articles or sec
tons of the charter, or any amend
ments thereto or revision thereof
The legislature may provide gen.
eral laws relative to affairs OF
cities, the application of which may
be limited to cities Of over fifty
thousand inhabitants. or to cities of
fifty thousand and not less than
cities of twenty thousand and not
less than ten thousand inhabitants,
or to cities Of ten thousand in
hab1tants or less, which shall APP
class, or if so specified in the law,
to all cities in either such class not
having charters adopted pursuant
to this amendment, but no general
law limited to one or more of said
classes, of cities shall apply to any
city existing under a charter framed
under this section Of the conSti-
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-
tating to the same matter included
IN the local charter herein provided
for. rs,
!. 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
framed. No local charter. provision
or ordinance passed hereunder
shall supersede any general law or
crimes or misdemeanors."
PURPOSE AND EFFECT. The pur
pose ana ODJect OF this uHenushcns
10 permit cities already Incorporate
md villages desiring to be Incorporate
~ cities to include I'm their charters
,r by amendment or revision thereof
cOmmissiOn form OF government hav
ng legislative and administrative pow
rs. The amendment sought enlarge
he power of such municipalities Fl
their own charters, reservini
10 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
nent Is generally understood to fnclud
he following characteristic features
|. A small governing board, 2. TIL
exercise of both legislative and admin
strative duties by this board; q. Tn
division among the members of tn
BOARD of the administrative work of tn
,ity by departments over which a sinKl
member Of the governing board of tn
.ity has control; 4. The election of tn
of the governing board by al
IF the voters of the city and not b,
precincts or districts. 5. Tn
,doption of methods of direct popula
over the action and the con
inuance In Office of the members Of tn
governing board.