Arizona republican., 1915-03-31

nave power tO dQIIllIlSleT OdtHS TOT the purpose of ascertaining the facts relating to any charge or claim against the city, made or claimed by any person, partnership, association or corporation whatsoever. He shall inquire into and inform himself as to the legality of all claims paid out of the city treasury, or for which warrants thereon have been drawn, as well 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,? Shall subsection (a) of Section 2 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- nance of said city for violation there
 
 {, duty by any ordinance imposed and of every action for the collection of any license, tax or penalty due from any person to said city and required l to be paid or which is due and col lectible under the ordinance of said city,?
 Shall Section of Chapter VIII of | xl. 1 follows:
 l "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 force for the keeping and maintain ing of proper record of the transac- tionss Of the magistrates court and of the acts, judgments and orders of 1 the said magistrate, and the city Iiclerk may be assigned to that duty. All fines, penalties and fees collected l by the magistrate in the course and performance of his duties shall be l paid to the city treasurer on the first day of each and every month, and proper receipt taken therefor. | The moneys so paid by the city magistrate may, by ordinance of the Commission, be apportioned to any particular fund, and shall thereafter be used in accordance with such ordinance"
 Shall Sections and , of Chapter x of the Charter be amended by striking out said sections and by sub stituting for Section the following:
 "The salaries of the city manager, cers, except the city magistrate, whose compensation is or may be fixed by the Commission, may be changed, increased or modified by ordinance of the Commission as it may deem proper and necessary.
 Shall subsection f) of Section 1 of Chapter XII of the Charter be 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 iPhoenix, and must not at the time of having signed his or her name thereto, have signed any Iother 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 0! the Charter be amended to read as follows:
 "The petition or petitions for nom- ination, consisting of signatures o' qualified voters, aggregating not less than three per cent of the number of votes cast for mayor at the last preceding general municipal election at which a mayor was elected. may be presented to the city clerk mol earlier than sixty days nor later than twenty days before the date sci for election. The city clerk shal endorse on such petition or petitions the date when the same was received by him."
 Shall Section of Chapter XII oi the Charter be amended to read as follows:
 "The provisions of Chapter XVII o this Charter, so far as the same re- lates to the filing of petitions fol recall, the examination by the city clerk of such petitions, the verified. tion thereof by the said. city clers las to the number and qualifications l of the signers. the return thereof 1T case said petition or petitions arc defective Or do not fully comply with the provisions of this Charter rela- tive to the number and qualifications of such signers, the presentation thereof, in case they are found sui ficient to the Commission, so far as ltapplicable shall apply to petitions filed for the nomination of candi- dates for elective offices in the City of Phoenix: said petitions may als6 be amended, as provided herein for the amendment of recall petitions, al lany time prior to twenty days before such election"
 Shall Section 2 of Chapter XII of the Charter be amended to read as follows:
 Immediately after such petitions Iare filed, the city clerk shall enter the names of the candidates in a list with the offices to be filled, and shall, not later than fourteen days before the election, certify such list as being the list of candidates as