additional bond, whenever, in the opinion of such Board, such bonds or any surety thereto becomes insufficient; and such additional bond shall also be so required whenever a surety to a bond so given shall die or cease to be a resident of such city and county.

SEC. 7. Every officer shall be liable on his official bond for the acts and omissions of the deputies, assistants, clerks and employees appointed by him and of any and each of them.

SEC. 8. All officers, deputies, clerks, assistants and other employees of the city and county and of the several departments during their respective terms of office or employment, except teachers, must be citizens and residents of such city and county, and must have been for at least one year preceding their appointment. They and each of them shall perform such duties as may be required of them respectively, by law, this Charter or ordinance, and shall only receive such compensation asmay be provided by law, which compensation shall not be increased during the term of their respective offices or employment; nor shall the term of any officer be extended beyond the period for which he was elected. No person shall at the same time hold a state and city and county office, nor hold two city and county offices.

SEC. 9. No officer of such city and county, or any department thereof, shall receive to, or for his own use, any fees, charges or money for the performance of any official duty; but such officer, immediately or within twenty-four hours after collecting or receiving the same, shall pay such fees and charges, and each of them, into the City and County Treasury, and he shall render to the Auditor, monthly statements of all such fees, charges and moneys, specifying therein, from whom received, for what service, or on what account, the amount and date of each item, and the amount with the date thereof of any portion which has been paid into the Treasury. Such statement must be accompanied with the affidavit of the officer, to the effect that it is a full, true and complete statement, and that he has not directly or indirectly received or collected any fees, charges or money for the performance of official duty, up to the time of making such statement, for which he has not fully accounted. The statement and affidavit_must remain of record in the office of the Auditor, and the Treasurer shall have access thereto.

SEC. 10. An office becomes vacant whenever the incumbent dies, resigns, or is adjudged to be insane, or otherwise incompetent to transact business, or is convicted of felony, or is removed from office, or whenever he shall absent himself from the State for more than sixty consecutive days. The Supervisors shall have no power to grant leave of ab

sence to any officer. A vacancy in an office shall be filled by appointment and the person so appointed shall hold the office only for the unexpired term.

SEC. 11. All public offices, except that of the Treasurer, shall be kept open for business every day, except legal holidays, between the hours of half-past eight o'clock in the forenoon and five o'clock in the afternoon; provided, that in addition thereto from the first day of October until the thirty-first day of December in each year, the office of the Tax Collector shall be kept open until nine o'clock in the evening.

SEC. 12. No office shall be created, nor shall any person be employed in any capacity in any department; nor shall any officer, clerk or employee receive any salary or compensation for any service of any kind, unless specially provided for in this Charter.

SEC. 13. No person shall be eligible to or shall hold any office or be official clerk or deputy in any office or Department who, at the time of his election or appointment, is not twentyone years of age, a citizen of this State, and a resident and qualified voter of said city and county; or who has been guilty of malfeasance in office, bribery, or other infamous crime; or who in any capacity has embezzled public

funds.

SEC. 14. The newspaper to which shall be awarded the contracts for doing the official printing, shall, during such contract, be deemed and known as the official newspaper of said city and county.

SEC. 15. The several officers and heads of Departments on or before the first day of August of each year shall report to the Supervisors the condition of their respective offices and departments during the last preceding fiscal year, embracing all their operations and expenditures. Immediately thereafter the Supervisors shall prepare and publish an abstract from these several reports, and other sources, of the operations, expenditures and conditions of all offices and departments.

SEC. 16. The Supervisors, by ordinance passed by a two-third vote, may consolidate the House of Correction and the Industrial School into one institution under the same management; or, when it shall be for the public interest in like manner, may abolish one or both of said institutions.

SEC. 17. Property belonging to the city and county or dedicated to public use, shall be exempt from sale under judgment, execution or order of any Court; and private property shall not be taken or sold for the payment of any corporate debt or liability of such city and county.

SEC. 18. All moneys, assessments and taxes belonging to or collected for the use of the city and county coming into the hands of any officer thereof, shall immediately be deposited with the Treasurer, or other legal depository, to the credit of such city and county, for the benefit of the funds to which they belong. If such officer for twenty-four consecutive hours shall delay or neglect to make such deposit as in this section required, he shall be deemed guilty of malfeasance in office.

SEC. 19. The making of profit out of city and county or other public money, or the money of any department, or using the same for any purpose not authorized by law, by any officer having possession or control thereof, is prohibited. Anv officer violating this section shall be deemed guilty of felony, and in addition to the punishment prescribed by law may be removed from office for violation of official duty.

SEC. 20. The Supervisors at any time in the month of July of each year, shall have power by ordinance to establish, and may reduce and fix, but not increase beyond the limit declared in this charter, the salaries and wages of all such officers, deputies, clerks, assistants and other employees of the city and county, and of the Boards and Departments thereof (excepting those of the Mayor and the teachers and employees of the School Department), as are provided with salaries or wages in this Charter, which salaries and wages, when so fixed, shall go into effect on the first Monday after the first day of January next thereafter, and shall remain and be in force until changed as herein authorized; and in the same month of July of each year, on the special recommendation of the Mayor in writing, giving the number and department, the Supervisors, if in their opinion the public service requires it, by a two-third vote of all the members of each Board, may authorize a temporary increase, for a period to be named in the ordinance not exceeding one year, of the clerks and employees in any department; but such temporary clerks and employees shall not in number be in excess of the number, or for any other department, than as recommended by the Mayor, and their respective salaries, unless otherwise *provided in this Charter, shall not exceed fifty dollars a month.

SEC. 21. Neither the city and county, nor any department thereof, nor the Board of Education, shall incur any indebtedness or liability in any manner, or for any purpose, exceeding in any year the income and revenue provided for them respectively for such year. Any indebtedness or liability incurred contrary to this provision shall be void. The Mayor, Supervisors and all officers and departments and each of them, are specially charged with the strict observance

of this section, and the Auditor for auditing, and the Treasurer for paying any liability in violation thereof, shall respectively be liable therefor personally, and on their official bonds, and shall be deemed guilty of malfeasance in office.

SEC. 22. Whenever the Supervisors shall determine that the public interest requires the construction or acquisition of any permanent municipal building, work, property or improvement, the cost of which is too great to be paid for out of the ordinary annual income and revenue of said city and county, they may by ordinance submit a proposition to incur a debt for such purpose, to the qualified voters at a special election, to be called for that purpose only, provided, such proposition shall specify the rate of interest and the amount of the proposed indebtedness and the specific purpose for which it is to be incurred, and shall make provision for the collection of an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such indebtedness, as it falls due, and also to constitute a Sinking Fund for the payment of the principal thereof, within twenty years from the time of contracting the same. Such election shall be conducted and proclamation thereof made, as in other municipal elections. The money so raised shall be paid into the Treasury and there kept as a "Special Election Fund," to be drawn and used only for the special purpose for which the indebtedness is incurred. Should such proposition be assented to by a two-thirds vote of the qualified electors voting at such election in order to provide the necessary funds for such purpose and no other, the Supervisors may incur an indebtedness by issuing the bonds of said city and county to an amount not to exceed the sum voted for at such election, and disposing of the same. Such bonds shall not bear over four per cent. interest per annum, and must be payable in not more than twenty years, and shall not be disposed of at less than their par value.

SEC. 23. When any public work or improvement of any description whatsoever, now or hereafter authorised by general or special laws, to be done or made in such City and County, in, upon or about the streets thereof, or otherwise, the costs and expense of which is made chargeable or may be assessed upon private property by special assessment, an estimate of such cost and expense shall be made and an assessment in proportion to benefits on all property to be affected or benefitted shall be levied, collected and paid into the Treasury before any such work or improvement shall be commenced, or any contract for letting or doing the same, authorized or performed.

The Supervisors, when no other provision is made by law therefor, shall have power and authority by general ordinance and through and by the Board of Public Works to enforce and

fully carry into effect this section and all requirements of Sec. 19, of Art. XI, of the Constitution of this State; and in like manner shall make all rules, regulations and provisions necessary for the making such estimate of cost and expense, and for the levying, collecting and enforcing the payment of such assessment, and letting such contract; all laws now in force for making, collecting and enforcing by, forced sale of the property or otherwise, the payment of assessments for work or improvement done or made upon, in, or about the streets of such City and County, and for letting contracts for such work and improvement, so far as they are, or may be made applicable, shall remain in full force, until changed or superseded.

SEC. 24. Any Officer, except the Mayor, may be removed by concurrent resolution of the Board of Alderman and the Board of Assistant Aldermen adopted by a two-thirds vote of each Board, for the following causes: Malfeasance or misdemeanor in office; embezzlement of public funds; a want of any qualification prescribed in this Charter; incompetency or a gross violation of official duty; but no removal shall be made by virtue of this section, unless the cause thereof be entered on the Journal, nor, unless the party complained of has been served with a written notice of the grounds of removal and shall have an opportunity of being heard in his defense. On the question of removal the ayes and noes shall be entered on the Journal.

SEC. 25. The Supervisors, by ordinance, may at intervals of not less than two years, propose amendments and alternative amendments to this Charter, and cause the same to be published in two daily papers of general circulation in said city and county at least twenty days, and in like manner cause the same to be submitted to the qualified voters thereof at a general or special election to be held at least sixty days after the expiration of such publication; and if any such proposed amendment shall be ratified by at least three-fifths of the qualified electors voting thereat, the same shall be submitted to the Legislature at its next session thereafter for its approval or rejection as a whole, without power of alteration or amendment, and if approved by a majority vote of the members elected to each House, it shall become a part of this Charter.

SEC. 26. All ordinances, orders and resolutions of the city and county in force at the time when this charter shall take effect, and not inconsistent therewith, shall continue in force until altered or repealed; provided that all franchises and privileges heretofore granted by the city and county, which are not in actual use or enjoyment, or which the grantees thereof have not in good