The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-10-30
TWELFTH PROPOSITION
REFERENDUM ORDERED BY THE
PETITION OF THE pEOPLE

House hill No. d, enacted by Forty
seventh General Assembly. Abolish
ing the present board of police com
missioners as appointed by the gov
ernor in cities having three hundred
thousand inhabitants or more and pro-
viding for appointment by the mayor
of such cities, in lieu of such board,
of bipartisan board of police COM
missioners. and prescribing the num-
Der, qualifications, duties andsalaries
of the members thereof; and provid-
ing for the municipal assembly or
common council Of such cities to fix
the salaries of the officers and police
men of said cities.
HOUSE BILL NO. &.
An act to amend sections 9SO3 and
1884 Of chapter 81 of article Xxx of
the Revised Statutes of Missourin
Of 1909, relating to municipal cor
porations, laws applicable to cities
having three hundred thousand in
habitantS or over and to repeal
sections 9S0S and inact new sec
ton in lieu thereof to be known rs
section 9S0S.
BE it enacted by the General Assem-
bly, Of the State of Missouri, as fol-
lows:
Section /. Section 1903 of chap
ter 81 of articl Xxx of the eRvised
Statutes of Missouri of 1909, relating
to municipal corporations, laws APP
plicable to cities having three hundred
thousand inhabitants or over, is here
by repealed and the following new
section enacted, to read as follows:
Section 1903. In all cities of this
state that now have or may hereafter
attain n population of three hundred
thousand inhabitants, or over, there
shall be and is hereby established
within and for said cities a board OF
| police, to consist of two commission.
ers, that one of the commissioners
| so appointed shall be a member of the
leading political party opposed to that
to which the mayor belongs as here
matter provided, together with the
mayor Of said cities for the time be
ing, or whosoever may be officially
acting in that capacity and sale
board shall appoint one Of its mem
bcrS as president and one member
who shall act as vice president dur
ing the absence Of the president; ant
such president or vice president shal
be the executive officer of the board
and shall act for it when the board i,
not in session. The said commits
sioners shall be citizens of the state OF
| Missouri and shall have been resi-
dents of the cities for a period Of
-four years next preceding their ap.
pointment; they shall, except as here
matter specified, hold their Offices fol-
n term expiring with the then officia
term of the mayor making the ap
pointments, and until their success
sors shall be duly appointed and quail
flied; they shall each receive a salar,
of five thousand dollars per annum
payable monthly. Before enterin,
upon the duties of the said Offices, tn,
said commissioners and the said may
or shall take and subscribe, befor,
some judge of the circuit court of tn,
judicial district in which said cite
shall be located, or the clerk thereof
the oath or affirmation prescribed b,
the Constitution of the state of Mis-
souri,, and shall also take and sub
scribe before the same judge or clerk
the further oath or affidavit that il
any and every appointment or re
moval, to be made by them to or iron
the police force, created and to be or
ganized by them under this article
they will, in no case, and under no pre-
text, appoint or remove any policeman
or officer Of police or other person un