The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-10-23
TWELFTH PROPOSITION
REFERENDUM ORDERED BY THE
PETITION OF THE PEOPLE

House bill No. 6, 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. 6.
An act to amend sections 9SO3 and
1904 Of chapter "a 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 9S08 and inact new sec
ton in lieu thereof to be known as
section 9S08.
BE it enacted by the General Assem-
bly, of the State Of Missouri, as fol-
lows:
Section /. Section 1903 of chap
ter 50 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by repealed and the following new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 9S03. In all cities of this
state that now have or may hereafter
attain a 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 said
board shall appoint one of its men,
bers as president and one member
who shall act as vice-president dur
ing the absence Of the president; and
such president or vice-president shall
be the executive officer of the board,
and shall act for it when the board is
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 period Of
four years next preceding their ap-
pointment; they shall, except as here
matter specified, hold their Offices for
a term expiring with the then official
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 salary
OF five thousand dollars per annum,
payable monthly. Before entering
upon the duties Of the said Offices, the
said commissioners and the said may
or shall take and subscribe. before
some judge Of the circuit court Of the
judicial district in which said cities
shall be located, or the clerk thereof,
the oath or affirmation prescribed by
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 in
any and every appointment or re-
moval, to be made by them to or from
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-