Arizona republican., 1913-12-02
CHARTERSIGNED
 NOW PRIMARIES
Common Council Receives Document With Approval of Governor and Starts Movement for the Neces- saly Elections.


 you herewith, the proposed charter of the city of Phoenix which was re- ccntly ratified by the city's electorate and which l have this day approved and signed
 Very respectfully yours. GEO. W. r. HUNT.
 "Coyernor of Arizona.' Board of Freeholders and
 City Council.
 rPhoeuiN, Arizona"
 This letter read before the city council at the regular monthly meet ing last evening constituted the of- fciaI notification to that body that the city charter. ratified on October Ii giving to Phoenix the commission form of government is now the or -luic law of thfs city The letter Was handed to Mayor Christy yester- day afternoon and was accompanied hy the official copy of the charter. tearing on the last page the single uotation Approved on December |, 1913. Geo W. r. Hunt. Governor of htizona'
 AS soon IS two authenticated cop i,- can be made ot the lengthy docu- msnt, one win be field w.th the secretary Of state, and the other alter being recorded in the office of the county recorder shall be filed by the city recorder in the archives ol the city,
 Following the reception of the news that the charter had been approved by the governor and that the official gouy was even then in the council chamber. i resolution was adopted
 
 council on "Wednesday evening and directing that tho ciU attorney have prepared for passage alt that meetinl tile necessary resolutions calling for the primary election under the new charte-. Before that meeting it is Tkoly that the form Of having the document recorded in the county rel .order'z office Wiu have been gone through with.
 It Naz not a lonG meeting the common council held last evening. Bills for tho past month were ap- proved. aui the reports uf the var .eua heeGs oi departments read and ordered filed.
 The tax roll aS p1cpared bH Ctu Assessor and TaN Collector C. WI Barnett was accepted. and the mayor and city recorder were ordered to sign same after Whicn Collector Bar hett Will proceed with the collection ar the taxes As aunounccd previous l tho tax rate has been fixed att cieLty-eieht cents on each S100 a-- sessei valuation.
 The lid of the Pmnel Asphalt Paw ing companr for tho raNing of Cae- tne Way was accepted and the Worl. ordered done by that concern
 communication was read from tbe board ot trade asking for an in rrectioE of the sanitary condition of the city with particular reference t9 unsa1rt1rN garbage cans. II was the sense ot council that President John )enrett or tha board or trade. See re.arE Welch and representative of the Civic League m sile this fnsucc- ton and report to the council
 Incidental to this action the report of Sanitary Officer Bert q. Brown was read. Among other items the report shows that 28+ garbage cans were inspected by him in the paet month; l12 unsanit3ry cans were or- oercd abated. siXty-cight wards and lots were inspected anC sixty uneanf- tarE wards and lots ordered abatef twenty-five uu<anitary vaults and ecSSpo"lS were ordered abatcd. fiftv Tn@anitary private stables were 2bated. Besides this. sixtv-seven in Spocti"Hs of restaurants were made ll'rtN-nine .nsuectiOns of livery sta- b'es and host of others inc1udine r@arly 300 miscellaneous insuections recorded This covered the period If one month. There is but one sani- tarT Inspector