Arizona republican., 1915-03-27

lui Htuic oiu PdAoPhci nalia. The Commission shall also provide proper and necessary clerical force for the Keeping and maintain ing of proper record of the transac- tions 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, 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, 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 ordinance of the Commission as it may deem proper and necessary
 Shall subsection C) 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 Phoenix, and must not at the time of having signed his or her name thereto, have signed any other 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."?
 oudn EoeCtiOu OA SHdptCi <hAA O. the Charter be amended to read as 
 "The petition or petitions for nom- ination, consisting of signatures of qualified voters. aggregating not less tban 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 not earlier than sixty days nor later than twenty days before the date set for election. The city clerk shall endorse on such petition or petitions the date when the same was received by him"
 Shall Section 3 of Chapter XII of the Charter be amended to read as 
 "The provisions of Chapter XVII of this Charter, so far as the same re- lates to the filing of petitions for recall. the examination by the city clerk of such petitions. the verifica- tion thereof by the said city clerk as to the number and qualifications of the signers. the return thereof in case said petition or petitions are 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 suf- ficient to the Commission. so far as applicable shall apply to petitions filed 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. al any time prior to twenty days before such election"
 Shall Section of Chapter XII of the Charter be amended to read as follows:
 Immediately after such petition: are filed. the city clerk shall entel 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 a: required by the Charter of the City of Phoenix; and the Commission shall cause said certified list oi names and the offices to be filled designating whether for a full tern or for an unexpired term. to be pub lished in the proclamation calling thu election, for the period and in thu manner now or as may hereafter b' provided by law or by ordinance O said city for the publishing of sue; election proclamation"
 Shall Section II of Chapter XII O the Charter be amended to read a.
 follows:
 "The aforesaid primary election
 shall be held not less than thirt.
 days prior to the holding of the gen
 eral election herein provided for? ?
 Shall Section 16 of Chapter XII o
 the Charter be amended to read al follows:
 If at any election held as abov
 provided, there be any office or off
 ces to which no candidate thereto
 was elected, then, as to such office 0 offices, said election shall be consid
 cred to be primary election for tn
 nomination of candidates for sucl office or offices. and a second O general municipal election shall b held to vote for candidates to fil such office or offices. The candi dates not elected. at such first cleo tion. equal in number to twice tn number to be elected to any give office, or less if so there be. and wh received the highest number of vote for the respective offices at such frs election, shall be the only candidate at said second election; provided