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relating to any charge or claim against the city, made or claimed by any person. partnership, association lor corporation whatsoever. He shall
 inquire into and inform himself as to the legality of all claims paid out tof the city treasury. or for which
 warrants thereon have been drawn, as we'll as the reasonableness of the prices charged or claimed for ma 'terial, supplies or labor, and the facts
 as to the delivery or rendition thereof to or for the use of the city,? I Shall sub- section (a) of Section ?
 of Chapter VIII of the Charter be
 amended to read as follows:
 Tt shall have and exercise exclus-
 i've original jurisdiction of all pro-
 ceedings of a criminal nature for the
 violation of any ordinance of said
 city. and of every action of a civil
 nature for the enforcement of penalty or the recovery of a penalty
 or forfeiture imposed by any ordi- finance of said city for violation there of, or for neglect to perform any duty by any ordinance imposed, and lci NNCiy oStiOI lOi 'tIle COilttllOD OI
 any license. tax or penalty due from any person to said city and required to be paid or which is due and col ilectible under the ordinance of said
 city,?
 Shall Section of Chapter VIII of 1 the Charter be amended to read as fellows:
 "The Commission shall provide each city magistrate with a proper
 court room, and with all necessary stationery, furniture and parapher-
 nalia. The Commission shall also provide proper and necessary clerical lforce for the keeping and maintain ling of proper record of the transac- ltiOns of the magistrates court, and of the acts, judgments and orders of the said magistrate, and the city clerk may be assigned to that duty. All fines, penalties and fees collected by the magistrate in the course and performance of his duties shall be paid to the city treasurer on the first day of each and every month, land proper receipt taken therefor. The moneys so paid by the city magistrate may, by ordinance of the Commission. be apportioned to any lparticular fund, and shall thereafter be used in accordance with such ordinance" ?
 Shall Sections and of Cha pter x of the Charter be amended by istrking out said sections and by sub stituting for Section 3 the following:
 "The salaries of the city manager, city auditor and all other city off cers, except the city magistrate, whose compensation is or may be
 fixed by the Commission. may be changed. increased or modified by oi dinance of the Commission as it may deem proper and necessary. ? Shall subsection 0) of Section amended to read as follows:
 Each of said petitions must be of uniform size as determined by the city clerk: it shall contain the name Of one candidate and no more: and each signer thereto shall be a qualified voter of the City of Phoenix, and must not at the time of having signed his or her lname thereto, have signed any lother petition for any other candi- date for the same office. nor in case there are several places to be filled in the same office. signed more pe- titions for candidates for that office
 than there gre places to be filled in such office."?
 Shall Section of Chapter XII of Ithe Charter be amended to read as
 fellows:
 "The petition or petitions for nom- ination. consisting of signatures Of iqualified voters, aggregating not less itban three per cent of the number lof votes cast for mayor at the last lpreceding general municipal election at which mayor was elected. may
 be presented to the city clerk not learlier than sixty days nor later than twenty days before the date set for election. The city clerk shall endorse on such petition or petitions 1.-the date when the same was received by him."
 Shall Section of Chapter XII of the Charter be amended to read as follows:
 "The provIsions of Chapter XVII of this Charter, so far as the same re- Hates to the filing of petitions for Irecall, the examination by the city clerk of such petitions, the verifica- tion thereof by the said city clerk las to the number and qualifications of the signers, the return thereof in lease said petition or petitions are defective or do not fully comply with the provisions of this Charter rela- ltive to the number and qualifications of such signers, the presentation thereof, in case they are found suf- ficient to the Commission, so far as tapplicable shall apply to petitions filled for the nomination of candi- dates for elective offices in the City
 of Phoenix: said petitions may also be amended. as provided herein for the amendment of recall petitions. at lany time prior to twenty days before such election"
 Shall Section ' of Chapter XII of !, the Charter be amended to read as follows:
 Il Immediately after such petitions are filed, the city clerk shall enter lthe names Cf the candidates in a Hist with the offices to be filled, and lshall, not later than fourteen days
 before the election, certify such list as being the list of candidates as trequired by the Charter of the City , shall cause said certified list of | 1-I