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 CHARTER 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CITY OF ST. PAUL 
 
 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE COMMON COUNCIL 
 
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 ST. PAUI.. MINN.
 
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 CHARTER 
 
 CITY OF ST. PAUL 
 
 AS ADOPTED IN 1900 
 AND AMENDED IN 1904-1906-1908-1910-1912. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 Nam 2 and City and Ward Boundaries. 
 
 '^ 1. Corporate name — Powers — Limitations. — Section 1. All the district 
 
 ^ of country in the County of Ramsey and State of -Minnesota contained within 
 
 <>j the limits and boundaries hereinafter described shall be, a city by the name of 
 
 I Saint Paul and the people now inhabiting, and those who shall hereafter in- 
 
 xs habit, within the district of country herein described shall be a municipal 
 
 corporation by the name of the "City of Saint Paul," and by that name shall 
 sue and be sued; complain and defend in any court; make and use a common 
 I j^ seal and alter it at pleasure; and take, hold and purchase, lease and convey 
 .Vp' such real and personal or mixed estate as the purposes of the corporation 
 xS may require, within or without the limits aforesaid; shall be capable of con- 
 
 tracting and being contracted with; and in addition to the powers hereinbe- 
 fore enumerated shall also possess the powers hereinafter specifically grant- 
 ed; and in addition thereto shall have such powers possessed by municipal 
 corporations at common law as are not in conflict therewith or with the 
 general statutes of the State of ^Minnesota, and the authorities thereof shall 
 liavc perpetual succession. 
 
 2. City boundaries. — Sec. 2. Tlie district of countr}- aforesaid, constitut- 
 ing the "City of Saint Paul "' and the said limits and hmnidaries thereof shall 
 be as follows: 
 
 Beginning at the northeast corner of section twenty-three, township 
 twenty-nine north, range twenty-two west (Sec. 23, T. 2!) X.. R. 22 VV.) of the 
 Fourth Principal Meridian, thence west seven and cnie-half ("><) miles to 
 the northwest corner of the northeast quarter of section twenty-two. town- 
 ship twenty-nine north, range twenty-three west (N. E. 'A Sec. 22, T. 29 N., 
 R. 2.3 W.) : thence soutli one-quarter (]4) mile to the northeast corner of the 
 southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section twenty-two (S. E. 54 
 N. W. yi Sec. 22); thence west one-half (J4) mile to the northwest corner of 
 the southwest quarter of the northwest ciuarter of said section twenty-two (S. 
 W. yi N. W. 14 Sec. 22); thence south three-quarters (}i) mUe to the north- 
 west corner of section twenty-seven (27); thence west one (1) mile to the 
 northeast corner of section twenty-nine (20); thence north three-quarters 
 
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 (•34) mile to the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of the northeast 
 quarter of section twenty (S. E. 54 N. E. 34 Sec. 20); thence west one (1) 
 mile to the northwest corner of the southwest quarter of the northwest quar- 
 ter of said section twenty (S. W. ^ N. W. 14 Sec. 20); thense south about 
 two and one-half (2^) miles along the township line to the center of the 
 westerly channel of the Mississippi river; thence southerly along said chan- 
 nel to the west of all islands on this course, about three (3) miles, to the " 
 mouth of Minnehaha creek; thence easterly along the center of said river 
 channel and south of Pike's island to the easterly end thereof; thence north- 
 easterly along- the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi river about 
 two (2) miles to the north line of section fourteen, township twenty-eight 
 north, range twenty-three west (Sec. 14, T. 28, N., R. 23 W.); thence east 
 about one and five-eighths (iH) miles to the southeast corner of the south- 
 west quarter of section seven, township twenty-eight north, range twenty- 
 two west (S'. W. H Sec. 7, T. 28, N., R. 22 W.); thence north one-quarter (%) 
 mile to the southeast corner of the northeast quarter of the southwest quar- 
 ter of section seven (N. E. ^4 S. W. ]4 Sec. 7); thence east one-quarter (%) 
 mile to the southwest corner of the northeast quarter of the southeast quar- 
 ter of said section seven (N. E. ^ S. E. ^ Sec. 7); thence south one-quarter 
 (%) mile to the southwest corner of the southeast quarter of the southeast 
 quarter of said section seven (S. E. }i S. E. % Sec. 7); thence east about two 
 (2) miles to the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi river thence 
 southeasterly about two and one-half (2]/i) miles along the middle of said 
 channel to the south line of said section twenty-three, township twenty- 
 eight north, range twenty-two west (Sec. 23. T. 28 N., R. 22 W.); thence east 
 about three-quarters (^) mile to the southeast corner of said section twenty- 
 three (23) thence north seven (7) miles to the point of beginning.
 
 ClIAR'ri'.K OI" CI'l'Y OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 ADOPTED MAY, 1912. 
 
 To Amend the Charter of the City of ^^^ Paul as Adopted in A. D. 
 iJOO, and Amended in 1904, 1906, 1908 and 1910. 
 
 The charter of the City of St. Paul as certified by the Board of Free- 
 holders to Honorable .Viidrew R. Kiefer, Mayor of the City of St. Paul, on 
 the Uth day of April, A. D. I'JOO and as adopted in said year I'JOO and as 
 amended in the years 1904, i'JOC, 1<J08 and 1910, is hereby amended by striking 
 out all that portion of said charter following, succeeding or subsequent to 
 the last line of section 2 of said charter, and by striking out all amendments 
 heretofore adopted and substituting for the stricken pcMtion of said charter 
 and amendments the following, to-\vit: 
 
 Ward Boundaries — Council carmot change. — Sec. 3. The said City of 
 Saint Paul shall be and is hereby divided into twelve (12) wards, to be called 
 ihe First (Ist), Second (,2nd), Third (3rdj, Fourth (4th), Fifth (5th), Sixth 
 (fith), Seventh (7th), Eighth (,8th), Ninth (9th), Tenth (lOth), Eleventh 
 (,11th), ami Twelfth (,12th) wards, respectively, limited and bounded as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 Al! that portion of said city lying to the eastward of the St. Paul & 
 Duluth railroad track, from the northern boundary of the city to the inter- 
 section of said track with Brook street, and east of the center line of Brook 
 street and Brook street extended from such point of intersection to the 
 Mississippi river and east of the Mississippi river from said Brook street 
 produced to the south boundary line of the city, shall be the Second (2nd) 
 ward. 
 
 All that portion of said city lying south of the center line of the Alis- 
 sissippi river shall be the Sixth (6th) ward. 
 
 The Twelfth (,12) ward shall be bounded as follows: Commencing at 
 the northeast corner of Section numbered twenty-two (22) in Township 
 numbered twenty-nine (29), Range twenty-three (23); thence running south 
 to the center line of Carroll street; thence east on the center line of Carroll 
 street to the center line of Dale .street; thence north on the center line of 
 Dale street to the northerly boundary line of said city; thence west on the 
 northern boundary line of the city to the place of beginning. 
 
 The Eighth (8th) ward shall be bounded as follows: Commencing where 
 the center line of Dale street intersects the north boundary line of the city; 
 thence southerly along the center line of Dale street to the center line of 
 Carroll street, thence east along the center line of Carroll street to the center 
 line of Farrington avenue; thence south on the center line of Farrington 
 avenue to the center line of Marshall avenue; thence east on the center line 
 of Marshall avenue to the center line of Louis street; thence south on the 
 center line of Louis street to the center line of Nelson avenue; thence east 
 on the center line of Nelson avenue to the center line of Summit avenue; 
 thence northeasterly on the center line of Summit avenue to the center line 
 of Rice street; thence northerly along the center line of Rice street to the 
 northern boundary of the city; thence west along the northern boundary line 
 of the city to the place of beginning. 
 
 The Seventh (7th) ward shall be bounded as follows: Commencing at 
 a point of intersection of center line of West Third street with center line 
 of College avenue; thence southwesterly through the center^of Blocks nurri- 
 bered respectively sixty-four (64) and seventy (70) of Dayton & Irvine'.s Addi- 
 tion, to the center line of Irvine avenue at its point of intersection with center 
 line of Walnut street; thence southwesterly along center line of Irvine ave- 
 nue to the center line of Western avenue; thence south along the center line 
 of Western avenue to center line of Pleasant avenue; thence southwesterly 
 along center line of Pleasant avenue to the center line of St. Clair street; 
 thence west along the center line of St. Clair street and St. Clair street 
 extended, in a straight line to the southwest corner of the Southwest quarter
 
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 (14) of Section three (3), in Township numbered twenty-eight (28), Range 
 twenty-three (23); thence north in a straight line to the center line of Mar- 
 shall avenue; thence easterly along center line of Marshall avenue to center 
 line of Lexington avenue; thence north along center line of Lexington ave- 
 nue to center line of Carroll street; thence easterly along southern boundaries 
 of the Twelfth (12th) ward and of the Eighth (8th) ward, as herein described, 
 to center line of Summit avenue, thence southwesterly along center line of 
 Summit avenue to center line of West Third street; thence southeasterly 
 aiong center line of West Third street to place of beginning. 
 
 The Fifth (5th) ward .shall be bounded on the east by the following line: 
 Commencing at the intersection of the center line of West Third street with 
 the center line of College avenue; thence southeasterlj^ along center line of 
 West Third street to center line of Eagle street; thence southeasterly along 
 center line of Eagle street to the Mississippi river; on the north by the 
 Seventh (7th) ward; on the south by the Mis^sissippi river; and on the west 
 by a line commencing at the southwest corner of Seventh (7th) ward, as 
 herein described, and running thence south to the Mississippi river. 
 
 The Ninth (9th) ward shall be bounded a.s follows: On the north by the 
 northern boundary of the city; on the east by the center line of Mississippi 
 street and Mississippi street extended in a straight line to the northern 
 boundary of the city. On the west by the center line of Rice street, and on 
 the south by a line which commences at a point of intersection of center 
 line of Rice street with center line of Summit avenue, and runs thence 
 northeast erljf along .said center line of Summit avenue to the center line of 
 Wabasha street; thence northeasterly along center line of Wabasha street to 
 center line of East Summit avenue; thence northeasterly along said center line 
 of East Summit avenue to center line of Robert street; thence northeasterly 
 along said center line* of Robert street to center line of Thirteenth (13th) 
 street; thence northeasterly aiong said center line of Thirteenth streei: to 
 center line of Jackson street; thence southeasterly along said center line of 
 Jackson street to center line of Grove street; thence easterly along said cen- 
 ter line of Grove street to its point of intersection with the center lines of 
 Broadway and ]\Iississippi streets. 
 
 The Fourth (4th) ward shall be bounded as follows: On the east by the 
 center line of Jackson street; on the north by the Eighth (Sth) and Ninth 
 (9th) wards; on the west by Seventh (7th) and Fifth (Sth) wards, and on the 
 south by the Mississippi river. 
 
 The First (1st) ward shall be bounded as follows: On the north by the 
 northern boundary of the city; on the east by the Second (2nd) ward; on the 
 west by the Ninth (9th) ward, and on the south by the center line of Grove 
 street. 
 
 The Third (3rd) ward shall be bounded as follows: On the north by the 
 First (1st) ward and Ninth (9th) ward; on the east by the Second (2nd) 
 ward; on the south by the Mississippi river, and on the west bj' the center 
 line of Jackson street. 
 
 The Tenth (10th) ward shall be all that portion of the City of St. Paul 
 lining west of the Twelfth ward, as herein described, and north of the center 
 hne of University avenue. 
 
 The Eleventh (11th) ward shall be all that portion of the City of St. 
 Paul lying west of the Fifth (5th), Seventh (7th) and Twelfth (12th) wards, 
 as herein described, and south of the center line of University avenue. 
 
 The Common Council shall not liave authority to change the boundary 
 lines of said wards, but may prescribe election districts therein.
 
 LMIARTl'.R OI' crrV ()]■ ST. I'AUL. 'J 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 Municipal Elections. 
 
 When held. — Sec. 4. A general municipal election shall be held in the 
 City of St. Paul in the year 1914 on the first Tuesday in May and biennially 
 thereafter. 
 
 Officers elected — Term. — Sec. 5. At each general municipal election there 
 ;hall be elected a mayor, a comptroller, and six councilmen, and the term 
 of office of each of such officers shall be two years beginning with the first 
 Tuesday in June next following their election, and until their respective •suc- 
 cessors sliall have been elected and qualified. 
 
 Special law officers. — Sec. fi. All other officers whose office is or may be 
 created by special law, and whose election is therein provided for to be held 
 at general municipal elections shall be nominated and elected in such manner 
 and at such time as is by this charter provided, but no other provisions of 
 this charter shall apply to such office or officer. 
 
 Election districts. — Sec. 7. Election districts shall be formed within the 
 respective wards by the common council pursuant to and in conformity with 
 the laws of the state. 
 
 General laws applicable. — ^Sec. 8. Except as hereinafter otherwise pro- 
 vided, all general law.s of the State of Minnesota relating to elections and the 
 preliminaries thereto, shall, insofar as practicable, apply to and govern all 
 general and special elections under this charter, the same as if herein specific- 
 ally re-enacted. 
 
 Canvass. — Sec. 9. On the Thursday next succeeding any election under 
 this charter, the common council shall meet and proceed to canvass the 
 returns thereof and declare the result as it appears from such returns, and 
 the city clerk shall forthwith give notice to the officers elected of their re- 
 spective elections. 
 
 Nominations. — Sec. 10. The mode of nominating all elective officers of 
 the City of St. Paul to be voted for at any city election shall be as follows 
 and not otherwise: 
 
 Condition of candidacy. — Sec. 11. The name of the candidate shall be 
 printed upon the primary ballot when a petition of presentation shall have 
 been filed in his behalf in the manner and form and under the conditions here- 
 inafter set forth. 
 
 Form of presentation petition. — Sec. 12. The petition of presentation for 
 any office shall consist of not less than fifty individual certificates, the blank 
 forms of which certificates the city clerk shall provide, and which shall read 
 
 substantially as follows: 
 
 PETITION OF PRESENTATION. 
 
 STATE OF MINNESOT.\, 1 
 
 County of Ramsev, r^^- " 
 
 City of St. Paul, ) 
 
 Individual Certificate. 
 
 Voting District No. , Ward No. 
 
 I the undersigned, being first duly sworn, depose 
 
 and say that I do hereby join in a Petition of Presentation of 
 
 whose residence' is , St. Paul, for the office of
 
 10 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 to be voted for at the city election to be held in the City of St. Paul on the 
 
 day of , 19..., and I further certify that I am a 
 
 qualified elector of such city and that I have not signed any other petition 
 presenting any other candidate for the above named office, e?;cept where there 
 is more than one office to be filled, and that in such case I have not signed 
 more petitions than there are offices or places to be filled in the above named 
 office; that my residence is at No , St. Paul, and that my occupa- 
 tion is and my place of business is at 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of , 
 
 19 . . 
 
 City Clerk (or deputy.) 
 
 The petition of presentation of which this certificate forms a part if 
 
 found insufficient, shall be returned to , No , 
 
 St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 Requirement of certificate. — Sec. 13. Each certificate shall be a separate 
 I-aper, of uniform size, contain the name of but one signer, the name of but 
 one candidate and no more, shall in no way disclose the political party 
 affiliations of either the candidate or signer, and shall contain the name and 
 nddres-s of the person to whom the same shall be returned in the event of 
 the petition having been found insufficient. Each signer shall be a qualified 
 elector of such city, resident therein for a period of thirty- (30) days prior to 
 ihe signing of such certificate, shall not have signed any other certificate for 
 iiny other candidate for the same office, except where there are several places 
 or offices of the same nature to be filled and shall not have signed more cer- 
 tificates for such offices than there are placets or offices to be filled, and shall 
 verify his certificate before the city clerk or his deputy. 
 
 Presentation and examination of petition. — Sec. 14. A petition of pre- 
 sentation shall be presented to the cit\- clerk not less than thirty (30) days 
 before any primary election, and the clerk shall endorse thereon the time ot 
 presentation. Thereafter, he shall forthwith examine the same and ascertain 
 whether it conforms to the provisions of this charter. If found not so to 
 conform, he shall then and there in writing which he shall attach to said 
 petition fully designate the defect or reason why such petition cannot be filed, 
 and shall forthwith return such petition to the person therein named to re- 
 ceive the same. The petition may then be amended and again presented to 
 the city clerk as in the first instance The clerk shall thereupon forthwith 
 proceed to examine the amended petition as hereinbefore provided. 
 
 Withdrawal of signature. — Sec. 15. Any signer to a certificate of pre- 
 •sentation maj' withdraw his name from the same by filing with the city clerk 
 a verified revocation of his signature not later than three days before the last 
 day for filing said petition, and thereafter he may sign a petition for another 
 candidate for the same office, provided that no signer of a presentation petition 
 may be permitted to withdraw his name after the candidate named therein 
 has filed his acceptance. 
 
 Acceptance or withdrawal of candidacy. — Sec. 16. Any person presented 
 as a candidate shall, not later than twent^'-one (21) days before the primary 
 election for which he is presented, file with the city clerk, in writing, his 
 acceptance of such presentation, otherwise he shall be deemed to have with- 
 drawn such candidacy. Said acceptance must designate the office for which 
 he is a candidate, refer to the petition by the names of some of the signers 
 thereof, the date of the presentation of such petition and shall be signed by 
 the candidate and have his address added thereto. It may contain a state- 
 ment not to exceed fifty words of his principles or policies for the office for 
 which he i'S a candidate, but shall in no way disclose his political partj' affilia- 
 tions. 
 
 Filing of petition. — Sec. IT. When either the original or the amended 
 petition of presentation is found sufficient and the candidate presented has
 
 CHARTER Ol- CITY OF ST. I> AUL. 11 
 
 filed his acceptance as hereinbefore provided, the city clerk shall file such 
 petition not later than twenty (20) days before such primary election. No 
 petition of presentation, after the filing thereof, shall be withdrawn, added to, 
 nor any signature thereon be revoked. Defective petitions, or petitions where 
 no acceptance has been filed, remaining in the hands of the clerk after the 
 time for filing has expired, shall be marked by him, "rejected." 
 
 Preservation of petition. — Sec. IS. The city clerk shall preserve, for a 
 period of two years, ail petitions of presentation and all certificates belonging 
 thereto, and after the general election, he shall record, in a special book there- 
 for, all acceptances of persons elected to oflfice. 
 
 Election proclamation. — Sec. 10. Not later than twenty (20) days before 
 such election, the c'ty clerk shall enter the names of the candidates in a list, 
 certify- the same to the common council and the said council shall forthwith 
 cause said certified list and the offices to be filled, designating whether for 
 a full or unexpired term, to be published together with a proclamation calling 
 such election, at least twice in the official paper of said city. 
 
 Form of ballot. — Sec. 20. The city clerk shall cause the ballots for all 
 elections to be prepared and printed as by law and this charter provided, but 
 no such ballot, or sample ballot whether for use in primary, general or special 
 municipal election, shall contain any party designation or marks. 
 
 General election candidates. — Sec. 21. The two candidate.s for mayor, and 
 the two candidates for comptroller receiving the highest and the next highest 
 number of votes in said primary election for the respective offices for which 
 they are candidates: and the twelve candidates for the council receiving the 
 highest twelve numbers of votes for nominations thereto, shall be declared the 
 nominees and the only nominees for their respective offices at the next en- 
 suing city election, and their names and only their names shall be printed 
 as such candidates on the official ballots at said election. 
 
 Election informalities. — Sec. 22. No informalities in conducting any mu- 
 nicipal election shall invalidate the same, provided it has been conducted' fairly 
 and in substantial compliance with law and the provisions of this charter. 
 
 Election regulations.— Sec. 23. The city clerk, at least fifteen (15) days 
 before the holding of any municipal election, shall give public notice of the 
 time and p)ace of the holding of .such election and the hours during which the 
 polls will be open by posting in three public places in every election district 
 a notice, each notice containing a list of the offices to be filled at such elec- 
 tion. One of such notices shall be posted at the place of holding the election. 
 No failure of the city clerk to give or post such notice shall invalidate an 
 election. 
 
 Special elections. — Sec. 24. The council may, by resolution adopted by 
 an affirmative vote of all the members thereof, order a special election and 
 provide for the holding the same. The purpose of such .special election shall 
 be clearly stated in such resolution, and no other matter shall be submitted 
 thereat except as in this charter otherwise provided. 
 
 Plurality vote— Tie vote. — Sec. 25. In all municipal elections a plurality 
 of votes shall constitute an election When in any election two or more per- 
 sons shall receive an equal number of votes for the same office, the election 
 shall be 'determined by the ca.sting of lots in the presence of the council at 
 such time and in such manner as it shall direct. 
 
 New election.— Sec. 2G. Should there be a failure to elect any officer 
 elected by the people on the day designated, the council shall order a special 
 election to be held in accordance with the provisions of this charter. 
 
 Vacancies. — Sec. 27. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of any 
 officer elected by the people such vacancy shall be filled by election by the
 
 33 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 council, and the officer thus elected .shall hold office until the next general 
 municipal election. 
 
 Any officer removing from the city, or any officer who shall neglect or 
 refuse for ten days after the beginning of his term, or notice of his appoint- 
 ment, if appointed, to qualify and to enter upon the discharge of the duties 
 of his office, shall be deemed to have vacated his office, and the council shall 
 proceed to fill the vacancy as herein prescribed. 
 
 Removal from office. — Sec. 28. Every person appointed to any office by 
 the mayor, or the council or elected to office by the people, may be removed 
 from such office by the council by a five-sevenths affirmative vote of all the 
 members elected. But no officer elected by the people shall be removed 
 except for cause nor until such person shall have had a reasonable oppor- 
 tunity to be heard in his defense. The council shall have the power to fix 
 the time and place of the trial of such officer, of which not less than ten 
 (10) days notice shall be given, and to compel the attendance of witnesses 
 and the production of papers at such trial, and to hear testimony and oath to 
 determine the case If such officer shall neglect to appear and answer such 
 charges the council, by the vote aforesaid, may declare the office vacant. In 
 such cases, the council shall act by written resolution only, and said re^solution 
 shall contain a summary of the charges against said officer and the reasons 
 for his removal. 
 
 Sec. 28-a. There shall also be elected at the general city election to be 
 held on the first Tuesday in May in the year 1914, and at the general city 
 election held each four years thereafter two judges of the municipal court of 
 said city. The term of office of said judges shall be four years from and 
 after the first Tuesday of June next succeeding their election, and until their 
 respective successors shall have been elected and qualified. They shall be 
 nominated and elected according to the provisions of law applying thereto. 
 There shall also be nominated and elected according to the provisions of law 
 such justices of the peace and such constables as are by law provided, and 
 from districts and in such manner as the laws direct. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 Recall Elections. 
 
 Officers recallable. — Sec. 28- [b]. Any person holding an elective municipal 
 office, except those created by special .law, may be removed therefrom by re- 
 call, as hereinafter provided. 
 
 Per cent for recall. — Sec. 29. An election for the recall of any officer 
 elected by the people shall be held whenever a petition, signed by qualified 
 electors of the city equal in number not less than twenty-five (25) per cent 
 of the total vote cast for the office of mayor at the last preceding general 
 municipal election, demanding the removal of the officer therein named shall 
 be filed with the city clerk. 
 
 Petition, its form. — Sec. 30. Every recall petition shall state the name 
 of the officer sought to be recalled, the office which he holds, and briefly the 
 grounds for his recall. It shall be addressed to the council and may consist 
 of one or several papers, but each paper shall repeat the words of the petition 
 at the head thereof. 
 
 Signatures. — Sec. ?>^. Each signer to such petition shall have been a 
 qualified voter at the last general election, municipal or otherwise, and shall 
 write thereon, in ink, his name, the street and number of his residence at the 
 said election, the ward and precinct in which he voted at such time, and the 
 street and number of his present residence. 
 
 Each separate page of the said petition shall have appended thereto a 
 certificate verified by oath, that each signature was signed by the person so pur-
 
 CIIAR'J'ER Ol'" C\'V\ C)l' ST. I'AUL. 13 
 
 porting to have signed the same in tlic presence of the person niakng such cer- 
 tificate. 
 
 Any name appearing on the petition not complying with the foregoing 
 requirements shall be stricken therefrom bj^ the city clerk by marking opposite 
 the same, '\Stricken by the City Clerk," and no names shall be counted which 
 "have not been verified as hereinbefore provided. 
 
 Presentation and filing petition. — Sec. 32. Whenever any recall petition 
 shall be presented to the city clerk for filing, he shall note on each page 
 thereof the date of presentation, and shall consecutively number each page, 
 snd 'Shall thereafter forthwith examine the same as to its sufficiency, and 
 if so found he shall forthwith file the same in his office, notify the officer 
 sought to be recalled of such fact, and present the same to the council at 
 its next regular or special meeting. 
 
 Amending petition. — Sec 33. Whenever any recall petition shall be found 
 insufficient or defective by the city clerk, he shall return the same to the 
 person or persons therein named to receive the same together with a state- 
 ment in writing of such defects, and the said petition may be amended and 
 presented as often as necessary until the same be found sufficient and be filed. 
 
 Officer's resignation. — Sec. 34. Any officer recalled may resign from such 
 office within five daj^s after the recall petition shall have been filed by the 
 city clerk, and if he shall not so resign within the time aforesaid he shall be 
 deemed a candidate at the recall election hereinafter provided, and his name 
 •shall be placed on the ballot without any further act on his part. 
 
 Recall elections. — Sec. 35. Within ten days after the city clerk shall have 
 presented the recall petition by him duly filed to the council, the said body 
 shall order a special election to be held within sixty days to determine whether 
 the officer sought to be recalled shall be removed and his successor elected 
 at the same time, provided, however, that in case any general election shall 
 occur within ninety days and not les.s than twenty-one days after the pre- 
 sentation of such petition to it, the council shall postpone such recall election 
 to such time, and provide that the question of such removal be determined 
 at such general election. 
 
 Election call. — Sec. 36. In the published call for such election, there shall 
 be printed in not to exceed two hundred (200) words the grounds for such 
 recall, and in not to exceed the same number of words, the officer sought 
 to be recalled may justify his course in office. 
 
 Other candidates. — Sec. 37. Other candidates for such office may be nom- 
 inated for such office in the same manner as is by this charter provided for 
 presentations for the primary election, except, however, that there shall be 
 not less than one hundred individual certificates to a petition of nomination, 
 and that the same shall be presented to the city clerk not later than twenty- 
 one (21) days prior to such election, and shall be filed by 'Said clerk not later 
 than twenty (20) days prior to such election. 
 
 Incumbent removed. — Sec. 38. The officer sought to be recalled, shall 
 continue in office until the canvass of the returns of such recall election by 
 the council, and if he fail at such election to receive the highest number of 
 votes, he shall be deemed removed from office and the candidate at such 
 election receiving the highest number of votes shall be deemed his successor 
 in office for the unexpired term thereof. Such successful caiulidate, except 
 the recalled officer, shall qualify within ten days thereafter or the said office 
 shall be deemed vacant. Said recalled officer shall yield said office on de- 
 mand to his successor. 
 
 Registration. — Sec. 39. All polling places shall be open from six (6) 
 o'clock in the morning until nine (9) o'clock in the evening on the day of 
 the recall election. Voting lists at each recall election not held in connection 
 with another election shall be those prepared for the last preceding election
 
 \i CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 ill the City of St. Paul, provided that on the day of the recall election other- 
 wise qualified voters not already registered on these voting lists, so as to 
 entitle them to vote at said election, shall be permitted to register as at a 
 primar}' election and to vote, and it i'S hereby made the duty of all election 
 officers to provide for such supplementary registration. But for purposes of 
 such registration no elector shall be questioned as to party affiliations. 
 
 General laws apply. — Sec. 40. Insofar as practicable all laws and provis- 
 ions shall apply to such recall election and the preliminaries thereto, and 
 where inapplicable or impracticable the council shall by ordinance provide 
 such other and further regulation consistent herewith as maj^ be necessary 
 to carry out the provisions of this chapter. 
 
 Recall limitations. — Sec. 41. No recall petition shall be filed against any 
 ofTicer until he has been in office for six months, and none within six months 
 of the end of his term. 
 
 Penalty for removal. — Sec. 42. No person who has been removed from 
 office by recall, or has resigned from office after the filing of a recall petition, 
 shall be appointed to any office under this charter wnthin one year after such 
 removal or resi.gnation. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 Boards Abolished. Charter in Effect ; Salaries, Bonds, Terms cf Of- 
 fice, Oath of Office, Notice, Failure to Qualify, Incapaci- 
 tated PoUce and Firemen. Hours cf Labor. 
 
 Sec. 4:>-[aJ. The Board of School Inspectors, the Board of Police, the 
 Public Workhouse Board, the Board of Park Commissioners, the Board of 
 I,-ibrary Directors, the Board of Fire Commissioners, the Board of Public 
 Works, the Conference Committee, and the Auditorium Board are hereby 
 abolished to date from the time when the city officers elected under this char- 
 ter to perform the respective functions of these boards are elected and have 
 qualified, and said abolished boards and the members thereof shall turn over 
 to said city officers forthwith on demand, all books, records, property and all 
 other articles and things in their possC'Ssion or under their direction, custody 
 or control, belonging to the City of St. Paul, or any of its departments or 
 officers. Failure to comply with this section by anj^ person shall constitute 
 a misdemeanor punishable by fine or imprisonment, on conviction in the 
 Municipal Court or other court of record in Ramsey county. 
 
 Sec. 43. In so far as may be practicable this amendment shall go into 
 effect January 1, 1914, and all city elections taking place subsequent to that 
 date shall be held under this charter. For all purposes it shall take full effect 
 upon the first ^londay in June, A. D. 1914, and all officers elected under this 
 charter shall take office on that day. 
 
 Sec. 4o-a. All contracts and obligations of whatsoever kind or nature 
 entered into by the City of St. Paul, or by any person or persons whatever 
 in its behalf, and valid and binding upon said city under the charter in force 
 at that time, shall be equally valid and binding under this charter as amended. 
 .■^11 provisions of the charter to which this amendment applies necessary to 
 supplement the amended charter until officers are elected, have qualified ana 
 been assigned their duties under this atnendment, shall have full force and 
 effect until superceded in practice by the city government provided for in 
 this amendment. 
 
 Terms of office shall terminate. — Sec. 44. The terms of office of all offi- 
 cers of the City of St. Paul in office prior to the first Monday in June, A. D. 
 .1914, unless otherwise provided in this charter shall terminate upon said first 
 Monday in June, at 13 o'clock noon, but all of said officers shall remain in
 
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 olTace until their successors liavc l)een elected or appointed under the terms 
 of this charter and shall have (lualirted. Any person violating this .section 
 shall be guilty of a misdeameanor. 
 
 Salaries. — Sec 45. The salaries of elective officers of the City of St. Paul 
 shall be paid in equal monthly installments out of a "City Officer's' Salary 
 Fund." which is hereby established, and shall be as follows: 
 
 Mayor, $5,000 per annum; Comptroller, $5,000 per annum; Commissioner 
 of Finance, $4,500 per annum: Commissioner of Public Works, $4,500 per an- 
 num; Commissioner of Public Safety. $4,500 per annum; Commissioner of 
 Education, $4,500 per annum; Commissioner of Parks, Playgrounds and Public 
 Buildings, $4,500 per annum; Commissioner of Public Utilities. $4,500; pro- 
 vided that the salaries named in this section shall be full remuneration for 
 all ■services of said officers to the City of St. Paul of whatever kind and char- 
 acter, and provided further that all of said officers shall devote their entire 
 time and energies to the service of said city The Corporation Counsel shall 
 receive an annual salary of $5,000; the City Clerk, $.3,000; the Chief of Police, 
 $4,000; the Chief of the Fire Department. $4,000; the Chief Health Officer, 
 $4,000; the Superintendent of Schools. $5,000; salaries or remuneration of all 
 ether officers and employees, not fixed in this charter, shall be fixed by the 
 council, but no officer employed for a fixed term, or serving continuously for 
 more than a vear shall be paid a salarv in excess of $5,000 a year. 
 
 Compensation of officers and employes not fixed by charter. — Sec. 46. 
 The compensation of all officers and eniploj'cs not fixed by this charter or 
 by state law shall be fixed by ordinance by the council, passed by a four- 
 sevenths affirmative vote of all members elected to the council.- The council 
 shall have no power to change the compensation of any officer for the term 
 for which he was elected or appointed, nor within sixty dav.s of a municipal 
 election. Such compensation shall be first fixed by the council, first elected 
 u.nder this charter and shall take effect at such time as the ordinance so 
 l^xing it shall provide. 
 
 No extra compensation. — Sec. 47. No officer or emploj'C shall receive 
 from the City of St. Paul, or the County of Ramsey, any other or greater sum 
 than the salary provided for in or pursuant to this charter in anv manner 
 for -services performed; and such salaries shall be taken as including com- 
 pensation for all services rendered by any of said officers or employes in 
 any other office or employment for said city or while acting in any other 
 capacity, or upon any board or committee, and if by the provisions of any 
 law or ordinance any such officer .shall be or shall become entitled to receive 
 any other compensation or fees such compensation or fees shall be turned 
 into the city treasury and credited to the general fund. 
 
 Oath of oflEce. — Sec. 48. Every person appointed to office under this 
 charter except employes paid by the day or hour, shall before he enters upon 
 the duties of his office take and subscribe an oath of office, in the form pre- 
 scribed by the general statutes of this state, and fde the same with the comp- 
 troller. 
 
 Notice by City Clerk. — Sec. 49. Every person elected or appointed to 
 office' shall as soon after his election or appointment as may be. be notified 
 by the City Clerk of his election or appointment, and as to the requirements 
 of this charter respecting oaths of office and official bonds pertaimng to such 
 office 
 
 Failure to qualify. — v^ec. 50. Any person elected or appointed to office 
 under this charter, who shall refu.se. fail or neglect to qualify for said office 
 within ten days of this time provided for in this charter, or if no specific 
 time provided, shall fail to qualify within ten days, of said notification, shall 
 forfeit his office by said failure and said office shall be vacant from the time 
 of said failure and shall he filled in the manner of filling vacancies due to 
 other causes.
 
 J 6 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 Official Bonds. — Sec. 51. Each of the following named officers shall fur- 
 nish and I'lle as hereinafter provided, a bond to the City of St. Paul, for the 
 following amounts: 
 
 Commissioner of Finance, $200,000; Comptroller, $50,000; Purchasing 
 .Agent, $50,000; City Clerk, $5,000; Mayor's Secretary, $5,000; Superintendent 
 of the Auditorium, $5,000; Secretary of the Water Board, $10,000; Commis- 
 sioner of Public Safety, $10,000; Commissioner of Education, $10,000; Com- 
 misione'- of Public Works, $10,000; Commissioner of Parks, Playgrounds and 
 Public Buildings, $10,000; Commissioner of Public Utilities, $10,000; Super- 
 intendent of Parks, $5,000; Clerk of the Alunicipal Court, $3,000; First As- 
 sistant Clerk of the Municipal Court, $1,000; Justices of the Peace, $1,000 
 each; Constables, $1,000 each. 
 
 Such bonds shall be drawn or approved as to form by the corporation 
 counsel, so as to bind said officers for the faithful performance of their re- 
 spective duties . The council shall have power to add any conditions it may 
 bee fit or to increase any of said bonds where thought necessary, not exceeding 
 fifty per cent, or to require reasonable bonds of other officers or employes. 
 Said bonds shall be approved by the council and filed with the comptroller, 
 except that the comptroller's bond shall be filed with the Commissioner of 
 Finance. 
 
 Any person who refuses or neglects to furnish a bond as herein pro- 
 vided shall thereby forfeit his office. 
 
 The bond of every officer shall be deemed to cover the acts of his deputies 
 and subordinates unless the council shall provide that said deputies or sub- 
 ordinates be bonded directly to the City of St. Paul. The council may pro- 
 vide that the ctiy shall pay the premium on all .surety bonds of officers or 
 employes running to the City of St. Paul. Officers may require for their own 
 protection reasonable bonds from deputies or subordinates. 
 
 All official bonds to the City of St. Paul not written by surety companies 
 qualified under the laws of the state to do business in Minnesota shall be 
 executed by two sureties, each of whom must qualify under oath that he is 
 the owner of unencumbered real estate of value at least equal to the amount 
 of said bond. All official bonds shall be executed by the principal therein. 
 
 Incapacitated firemen or police officers. — Sec. 52. All firemen or police 
 officers injured in actual service and thereby rendered incpable of performing 
 his duty, shall receive full pay during the period of incapacity not exceeding 
 six months, and if incapacitated for a further period, one-half pay, not exceed- 
 ing an addition [al] period of six months. Such injured fireman or police officer 
 shall be entitled to reinstatement at any time within eighteen months from 
 the date of injury or in capacity, if physically capable of resuming his duties. 
 In case of disability through injury or sickness other than as hereinbefore 
 mentioned, in case of firemen, such firemen shall, notwithstanding such 
 sickness or injury, receive his salary, less the amount paid a .substitute, if 
 any substitute is employed, for a period not exceeding twelve months, and 
 he shall likewise be reinstated within any time within eighteen months from 
 the date of such sickness or injury provided he is physically capable of resum- 
 ing his duties. Any temporary advancement caused by sickness or injury 
 shall not work an increase in salary of the person so advanced, during the 
 time of disability of the person on account of whose disability such advance- 
 ment was made. Before any payment shall be made as aforesaid, said dis- 
 ability shall be certified to by the city physician and the police surgeon and 
 the person injured or disabled shall execute a release discharging the City 
 of St. Paul from all claim for damages on account of said injury or di'Sability. 
 
 Terms of office — Hours of labor. — Sec. 53. The terms of office of all 
 officers elected under this charter shall be two years and until their successors 
 are elected and shall have qualified, to date from the first Monday in June, 
 A. D. 1914, and from the first Monday in June of each even numbered year 
 thereafter, provided that all said officers shall hold office .subject to removal 
 in the manner provided for in this charter. 
 
 All persons in the service of St. Paul, paid salaries in monthly install- 
 ments, and whose terms of office have not been specifically fixed, shall hold
 
 CHARTHR OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 17 
 
 their places from month to month after appointment until removed under the 
 terms of this charter. Their titles and general duties shall be fixed by the 
 council from time to time. Renumeration of persons in the employ of the 
 City of St. Paul shall be uniform for like services in all departments. In 
 all city employment, eight hours shall constitute a working day, and except 
 in cases of emergency, of which the executive head of the department declar- 
 ing the emergency shall be sole judge, no officer or employe of the city, 
 except police officers and hremen, shall be required to work more than eight 
 hours a day. No officer or employe of the city .shall receive extra pay for 
 extra labor or work done in an emergency, except by unanimous action of 
 all persons elected to the city council, approved by the mayor and comp- 
 troller. Whenever anj' department head shall declare an emergency, he shall 
 report at the next succeeding meeting of the council, giving in detail the cir- 
 cumstances creating the emergency, and liis report sliall become a public 
 record. Bj^ two-thirds vote the council may direct that the work of the de- 
 partment proceed on a normal basis. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 Mayor, qualificaticns, duties. — Sec. 54. The mayor of the City of St. Paul 
 shall be a qualilied elector of said city. He .shall take care that the ordinances 
 of said city and the laws of the State of ^Minnesota are duly observed and 
 enforced and that all other executive and administrative officers of the city 
 discharge their respective duties. He shall, from time to time, give to the 
 council such information and shall recommend such mea'Sures as he may deem 
 advantageous to the city. 
 
 To preside at council meetings. — Sec. 55. The mayor .shall preside at the 
 meetings of the council and shall vote on all business before that body, just 
 as shall councilmen, provided that when the question before the council is 
 sustaining the mayor's veto, or passing any ordinance or resolution notwith- 
 standing the mayor's veto, or upon the removal from office of any persons 
 on charges preferred by the mayor, then the mayor shall have no vote thereon. 
 
 Acting mayor. — Sec. 56. During the absence of the mayor from the city 
 and in case of his inability or failure to act as mayor for any cause whatever, 
 the vice-president of the city council shall be acting mayor. 
 
 Mayor to assign department heads. — Sec. 57'. Immediately upon taking 
 the oath of office, it shall be the duty of the mayor to assign one member 
 of the newly elected council as commissioner of public safety, one member 
 of said council as commissioner of education, one member of said council as 
 commissioner of public works, one member of said council as commissioner 
 of parks, playgrounds and public buildings, one member of said council as 
 commissioner of public utilities and one member of said council as commis- 
 sioner of finance. 
 
 Mayor may re-assign — Sec. 58. On the first Monday in December next 
 after taking the oath of office the mayor may re-assign at his discretion anj- 
 member of the council, removing him from the head of one administrative 
 department and placing him at the head of any other, if, in the judgment 
 of the mayor the interests of said city may be served thereby. Each council- 
 man shall, until the end of the term for which he has been elected, continue 
 to occupy the position as commissioner which he occupies the first Tuesday 
 of said December. 
 
 Mayor to file charges — Removal. — Sec. 59. When in his judgment any 
 councilman, as councilman, nr as the head of any administrative department, 
 has not conducted the business of the city honestly, faithfully and with rea- 
 sonable skill, it shall be the duty of the mayor to file with the city clerk 
 charges against said officer, and on the filing of said charges with reasonable 
 specifications as to the concrete instances of dishonesty, unfaithfulness or
 
 18 ■ CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 incompetency charged, it shall be the duty of the council to try publicly 
 the truth or falsity of such charges, and if they be found true and of sufficient 
 gravity to indicate dishonesty, unfaithfulness or incompetency on the part of 
 the accused, the council shall remove said accused from office. At the trial 
 of said charges the mayor shall not sit as presiding officer or as a member of 
 the council, nor shall the accused sit as a member, nor shall either be per- 
 mitted to vote on the question of removal. Provided, that an affirmative vote, 
 of two-thirds of all the members elected to the council shall be required to 
 remove any elective officer from office. All charges and proceedings in 
 connection with such removal .shall be entered in the journal of the council 
 and become a permanent public record. 
 
 Removing non-elective officers and employes. — Sec. 60. When in the 
 judgment of the mayor, any officer or employe appointed under the pro- 
 visions of this charter is not performing his duties, honestly, faithfully and 
 efficiently, the mayor shall so notify the officer or the body having the power 
 of appointing said officer or employe, stating the facts as specifically as may 
 be and shall ask said appointing officer or body to remove .said officer or 
 employe. If said officer so requested, refuses or neglects to act, then the 
 ma3''or may in his discretion remove said offending appointive officer or 
 employe by an order in writing addressed to the appointing officer or body, 
 and containing specific reasons for the removal. Said officer, or employe so 
 removed may, if he wishes it, have power to reply to the mayor'.s charges 
 and may before so replying, demand a bill of particulars which the mayor 
 shall furnish as fully as practicable, and such charges, such letters of removal, 
 such statement of particulars and such reply shall be filed with the city 
 clerk as a permanent public record of the city. Provided, however, that 
 the mayor shall not have power to remove any officer or employe appointed 
 by the comptroller. 
 
 To examine securities. — Sec. Rl. It shall be the duty of the mayor and 
 comptroller at least once in each three months, to examine all the securities 
 in the city treasury, belonging to the city, including those securities held 
 for the sinking fund, and upon finding all such securities properly on hand, 
 to make out and file in the office of the comptroller their joint certificates 
 to that effect, which certificate shall specify such securities in detail. 
 
 Committee on sinking fund. — Sec. 62. The mayor, comptroller and com- 
 missioner of finance shall be a committee on sinking fund, having control 
 thereof in the manner in this charter provided. 
 
 Mayor a member of the Board of Equalization. — Sec. 63. The mayor 
 shall be a member of the Board of Equalization. 
 
 Mayor to sign instruments. — Sec. 64. The mayor's signature shall be re- 
 quired on all deeds, leases and other instruments executed by the City of 
 St. Paul, for the conveyance of real estate or any interest therein. 
 
 Papers served on mayor. — Sec. 65. Whenever any suit, action or pro- 
 ceeding shall be brought against the Citj' of St. Paul, the summons or pro- 
 cess shall be served on the mayor, and it shall be the duty of the mayor 
 forthwith to give written notice thereof to the corporation attorney, attach- 
 ing thereto the summons or process so served. 
 
 The mayor's salaiy. — Sec. 66. The mayor of the City of St. Paul shall 
 for his services as mayor, draw from the city treasury the sum of $5,000 
 each year of his term, payable in equal monthly installments. He shall have 
 power to employ a secretary who shall be paid by said city, $2,000 a year, 
 payable in equal monthly installments, and shall employ such other clerical 
 assistants as the council shall by ordinance designate at his request, provided 
 that the salaries of all persons regularly employed by said mayor as such 
 clerical assistants shall not exceed $5,000 in any one calendar year, including 
 the salary of this secretary.
 
 CMAK'l'l-.R Ol'" CITY ()!• S'l\ I'AL'L. r.i 
 
 Other duties of the mayor. — Sec. 67. The mayor shall exercise such other 
 lioucrs and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by state law, by 
 this charter, or by any ordinance not in conflict with the provisions [of tliisj 
 charter. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 City Comptroller. 
 
 Shall keep controlling accounts. — Sec. G8. The comptroller shall be head 
 of the accounting department of the City of St. Paul. He shall keep con- 
 trolling accounts with every department and bureau of the city government, 
 jnd with all activities whatever owned or controlled by the City of St Pan! 
 ■or in which the City of St. Paul has anj' pecuniary interests. 
 
 To prepare forms. — Sec. 61). From time to time the comptroller shall pre- 
 pare form.s of accounts, vouchers, reports, bills, orders, receipts, checks and 
 other necessary forms, to be used by the several city departments, bureaus 
 ■or activities with which the comptroller keeps accounts, in the transaction 
 of all such parts of the public business as concerns the public finances. He 
 shall incorporate 'Said forms into ordinances which shall be considered and 
 passed by the council. The comptroller shall from time to time issue the 
 forms herein named to the city departments, bureaus and activities herein 
 named to be used in the parts of the public business which concern public 
 hnances. The willful failure or refusal by any city officer or employe to use 
 r.ny such form in the transaction of the business for which the same was 
 ■designed to be used, shall be deemed willful misconduct in office on the part 
 of such officer, and sufficient ground for his removal from office. Said comp- 
 troller shall issue all financial forms which shall be numbered consecutively 
 for each department for each year so as to be capable of identification, and 
 all city officers to which they are issued must account for each form delivered 
 to him at such times as the comptroller may direct. All city licenses shall 
 be considered financial forms within the meaning of this section. 
 
 Fiscal year. — Sec 70. The fiscal year in all departments of the citj^ shall 
 begin January 1. 
 
 System of accounts. — Sec. 71. The comptroller shall keep regular books 
 of account in which shall be entered all indebtedness of the city, and which 
 3.1 all times show the precise financial condition of the city; the amount of 
 bonds, orders or other evidences of indebtedness lawfully issued; the amount 
 of the same which has been paid and the amount of each thereof remaining 
 outstanding. He shall countersign all bonds and other evidences of the city's 
 indebtedness and keep an extract account and record of each instrument, 
 stating to whom and for what purpose the same has been issued; he shall 
 keep accounts with all the receiving and disbursing officers of the city, and 
 .all departments, bureaus and activities mentioned in the second .section of 
 this chapter. These accounts shall show the amount received by them from 
 each of the various sources of revenue and the amount which they have 
 ■disbursed under resolution or ordinance of the council, or other legal man- 
 date. The comptroller shall at all times have access to all reports, books, 
 vouchers and accounts in each and all of the departments, bureaus or activities 
 herein above mentioned, and it shall be his duty frequently to inspect the 
 same in order to insure the keeping of the same properly and efficiently, and 
 in the mode contemplated by the law by this charter. The comptroller shall 
 prescribe and issue with the approval by ordinance of the council such a 
 system of controlling accounts, documents and reports for his own office, 
 and each department bureau or activity of the city government as shall most 
 €flfectively keep a correct record of the business of the city. It shall be the 
 duty of the comptroller to see that the accounts of his own and other officers 
 of the city and its departments, bureaus and activities are so kept that they
 
 20 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 will confirm to the best system of accounting adopted in other cities of the- 
 country and readily admit of the comparison of St. Paul's city government 
 and finances with those of such other cities. 
 
 Shall appoint assistants. — Sec. 72. The comptroller shall appoint at a 
 salary not exceeding $2,500 a year to be fixed by the comptroller, an exammer 
 who shall be a skilled accountant; a qualified civil engineer of five years 
 municipal engineering practice, at a .salary not to exceed $2,500 a year to be 
 fixed by the comptroller; a deputy comptroller at a salary not exceeding $2,000 
 a year to be fixed by the comptroller; an auditor at a salary of $1,500 a year 
 and a bookkeeper at a salary of $1,200 a year, together with such other 
 clerical assistants as the council may authorize at the suggestion of the comp- 
 troller, and at salaries to be fixed by the council. It is the intent of this 
 charter that the comptroller shall have sufficient help to carry out the duties 
 prescribed under this charter and it is the duty of" the council to carry out 
 this intent. 
 
 Examination of the departments. — Sec. 73. It shall be the duty of the 
 comptroller to make an exhaustive examination at least once a year, into 
 the accounts and methods of each department or office with which he keeps 
 controlling accounts and to report the result of such .examinations to the 
 city council, in such form as to be understood by the average layman. He 
 shall from time to time compile statistics showing in summary or detailed 
 form as his judgment may dictate, the state of the city business. Annually 
 as soon as practicable after January 1 of each year, and in any event not 
 later than ]\Iarch 1, said comptroller shall make a complete report upon all 
 the business of the city for the last previous fiscal 3^ear. and .shall present 
 it carefully collated and indexed to the council, and said council shall cause 
 It to be printed forthwith in an edition of at least 1,000 copies which shall be 
 distributed to the public free of charge upon application to the comptroller. 
 
 Monthly statement. — Sec. 74 Within ten days after the end of each 
 calendar month the comptroller shall present to the city clerk and the city 
 clerk shall cause to be printed in the ofificial paper of the city a condensed 
 •statement of all receipts and disbursements of the city during such preceeding 
 month, which statement shall be classified under the various budget funds, 
 and shall show the payments from said funds for the month just closed, the 
 total payments from such funds from the first of the fiscal year to the end 
 of said month, the budget allowance for said fund and the balance at the end 
 of the month. 
 
 To furnish information. — Sec. 73. It shall be the duty of the ccmptroller 
 upon application of the council to prepare and submit to the council in proper 
 form any information dealing with the financial problems of the city, which 
 said council may desire in the transaction of the city's business, and it shall 
 be the duty of all city officers upon request to make any reports to the comp- 
 troller which he may desire in this connection and to aid him in all other 
 ways to comply with the request of the council. The comptroller and his 
 duly authorized agents shall have access at all times to any and all work 
 of the citj'- whether completed or in progress and to all property of the city 
 tor the purpose of inspection. 
 
 Ex-officio civil service commissioner. — Sec. 76. The comptroller shall be 
 ex-oflficio civil service commissioner and shall enforce the provisions of this 
 charter with relation thereto. 
 
 Aud t claims or demands. — Sec. 77. Every claim against the city or any 
 department bureau or activity thereof .shall before "allowance by the council 
 for payment be audited by the comptroller who shall designate in his reporr 
 thereon the particular fund out of which the same is payable. All orders 
 drawn and payments made for service rendered to the city or any of its 
 departments, bureaus or activities shall be made to the person who has the 
 actually rendered the service. Before any order on the city treasurj^ shall be 
 signed by the comptroller or countersigned by the mayor and the cit}' cleric
 
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 for payment to any person whatsoever for any service or anything rendered 
 or furnished the City of St. Paul, such order shall designate upon its lace 
 the legislative act, the section thereof or the chapter, title or section of this 
 charter, or the resolution or ordinance of the council, giving the date of the 
 passage thereof, under authority of which such order is drawn. 
 
 Payments by check — Receipts. — Sec. 78. All payments from the city 
 treasury shall be by check upon city depositories, under such system of war- 
 rants and vouchers as the council may on the recommendation of the comp- 
 troller adopt. For all money.s paid into the city treasury, the city treasury 
 shall issue duplicate receipts under such a system that these receipts must 
 be countersigned in the comptroller's office before they are valid, and one 
 must be retained there as a permanent record. The duplicate receipt shall 
 be handed over by the comptroller to the person who makes the payments. 
 
 Comptroller to check treasury each day. — Sec. 79. On each business da\ 
 after the close of receipts and payments in the city treasury, the comptroller 
 shall check all the receipts and disbursements of such day; and the treasury 
 shall deliver to the comptroller all evidences ot the payment of moneys that 
 have come to its possession during the day; the same after adequate can- 
 cellation of all instruments in the form of commercial paper, to be retained 
 as part of the records of the comptroller's office until destruction of the same 
 shall have been authorized by the council; provided, that the stubs of receipts 
 issued for moneys paid into the treasury may be retained by the treasury 
 where duplicate receipts have been placed in the hand^s of the comptroller. 
 
 Treasurer to report. — Sec. 80. At the close of each day's business the 
 treasury shall make to the comptroller a statement showing with respect to 
 each city fund the amount of the annual appropriation for such fund, the 
 amount of money on hand to its credit at the beginning of business on that 
 day, the amount of receipts to its credit on that day, the amount of pajmients 
 made from it on that day. 
 
 To act in harmony. — Sec. 81. The busine^ss hours of the comptroller's 
 office and the city treasury shall be so fixed and the offices shall be so 
 arranged as to permit the convenient transaction of the business therein, in 
 the mode prescribed in accordance with the provisions of this charter. In 
 the event of the comptroller and treasurer failing to agree upon such arrange- 
 ment, the mayor shall make an order arranging proper conditions. 
 
 Custodian of documents. — Sec. 82. The comptroller shall be custodian of 
 all official and other surety bonds relating to the city's business, of all deeds, 
 insurance policies and other contracts and agreements except as may other- 
 wise be provided in this charter. 
 
 To take up evidence of indebtedness. — Sec. 83. Upon payment to the 
 treasury of any note, order, bond or coupon, it shall require the surrender 
 thereof and shall take the .same into its possession as evidence of such pa}'- 
 ment. The comptroller may require the taking by the 'treasury of such other 
 evidences of payment, in any case, as he may deem necessary for the due 
 protection of the city and the safe or convenient transaction of its financial 
 business. 
 
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 whatever coming into the hands of the commissioner of finance, showing th 
 disposition, if any, thereof. 
 
 Shall be member of the sinking fund committee, — Sec. 85. The comp- 
 troller 'shall be a member of the sinking fund committee. With the mayor 
 he shall from time to time examine the securities in the hands of the cit\- 
 treasurer and see that they are properh' and safely kept.
 
 2.-' CHARTER Ol- CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 Responsible for legality of contracts. — Sec. 86. The comptroller shall 
 refuse to countersign an}- contract to which the City of St. Paul is a party, 
 unless all the requirements of this charter and the laws of the state and the 
 ordinances of the City of St. Paul have been complid with, but advice of the 
 city's law officer that the contract is in due form and that these requirements 
 have been complied with will justify the comptroller in countersigning. 
 
 Countersign instruments. — Sec. 87. The comptroller shall countersign all 
 deeds, leases and other instruments of this class to which the City of St. Paul 
 is a party or is in any way interested, and such instruments if not so counter- 
 •signed shall not be valid. 
 
 Comptroller of all departments. — Sec. 88. The comptroller shall be 
 comptroller of the City of St. Paul and of all the departments, bureaus, or 
 activities under the control of said city or in which the city is in any way 
 interested. 
 
 Fees to be turned in daily. — Sec. 89. Whenever in pursuance of law or 
 of this charter anj^ officer or employe of the City of St. Paul or of any of its 
 departments, bureaus or activities, shall be charged with the duty of collecting 
 or receiving any fees or other moneys for the use of said city or department, 
 bureau or activity, he shall under the direction of the comptroller, keep full 
 and accurate accounts and records of all such fees and moneys by him re- 
 ceived, and at the close of each day's business pay all of the same then in 
 his hands into the city treasury at the same time making due report thereof 
 to the comptroller in such form as the comptroller may prescribe. 
 
 No division of moneys. — Sec. 90. Save as may be otherwise provided in 
 this charter no moneys levied, collected or received -on account of any fund 
 shall be diverted by the council or by any other person to the use of any 
 other fund, nor shall it be transferred or loaned. 
 
 Clerks to be certified. — Sec. 91. Any officer of the city or any depart- 
 ment, bureau or activity thereof who under the laws or under the provisions 
 of this charter is entitled to any sum or allowance for clerk hire, or who is 
 entitled to any clerk or assistant in the performance of his official duty, shall 
 in writing certify to the comptroller and to the mayor the name of such 
 clerk or assistant, the date of his appointment and the amount of compensa- 
 tion he is to receive; and whenever such clerk or assistant named in such 
 certificate ceases to act as such, said officer shall forthwith certify such fact 
 to the comptroller and to the mayor. 
 
 Requests for appropriations itemized. — Sec. 92. Every request made of 
 the council for authority to make any purchase for -said city, or for any de- 
 partment bureau or activity thereof, or otherwise to create any liability 
 against said citj' shall save as otherwise expressly provided in this charter, 
 be itemized. 
 
 Shall keep inventories. — Sec. 93. Said comptroller shall keep inventories 
 of the property belonging to the Cit^^ of St. Paul or any of its departments, 
 bureaus or activities, or in which said city has directly or indirectly any 
 interest, and he may require any officer of «aid city, bureau or department to 
 keep like inventories of the property vmder his control and report copies 
 thereof on demand to said comptroller. Said comptroller shall keep an ac- 
 count showing in complete, comprehensive, yet clear and simple form the 
 assets and liabilities of the city from j'ear to year. 
 
 Method of aud ting claims against the city. — Sec. 94. On recommendation 
 of said comptroller the council shall by ordinance establish a system for the 
 auditing of claims against said city which shall eflfectively protect said city 
 from loss. 
 
 Limitations. — Sec. 95. No claim for services shall be allowed unless the 
 person rendering such service has his name enrolled with the civil service 
 commission as in the emploj'ment of the city and the class, grade, rate of
 
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 conipcn.-^ation and dcpartiiK'in in which cinplijyed are specified on .said roll, 
 except as in this charter utherwise provided. All claims fur services by the 
 day or hour must be supported by an adequate time report showing services 
 rendered. Claims for supplies for emergency repairs must be certified to by 
 the purchasing agent setting forth facts constituting the emergency. No 
 requisition shall be certified or honored by any city officer or employe unless 
 it shows on its face that the comptroller has certified that there are available 
 funds to pay for the thing requisitioned. No claim for general supplies in 
 bulk in anticipation of requisitions therefor shall be allowed unless such sup- 
 plied have been duly delivered to the city and duly inspected. Whenever 
 supplied are bouglit in bulk by the purchasing agent in anticipation of requisi- 
 tions therefor, said purchasing agent shall make such report as the comp- 
 troller may prescribe, giving all details as to prices, amounts, cost, evidences 
 of delivery, and all other details necessary for the protection of the city. 
 When satisfied as to all details the comptroller shall draw a proper warrant 
 covering such claims as have been satisfactorily proved, and shall apportion 
 the payments to the several departments so that each .shall pay for the sup- 
 plies actually purchased for and to be used by that department. Each item 
 shall be charged to the appropriate fund. 
 
 Except for supplies so bought in bulk, no claim for supplies shall be 
 allowed unless supported by a requisition approved by the comptroller; ana 
 unless prices thereof are certified by the purchasing agent as correct; ana 
 unless properly inspected. Where purchases are made under contract, claims 
 for payment thereof shall not be allowed unless the contract has in all re- 
 spects been complied with. All contract work must be properly inspected 
 and reported upon as done in accordance with the terms of the contract, 
 and all materials as complying with specifications; must be approved by the 
 department for which it has been performed; must have been covered by 
 the bond required under this charter; and the contractor must make affidavit 
 that all claims for services and material used in connection therewith have 
 been paid in full to date, before any claim shall be allowed or paid by the 
 city. No final claim or estimate on any contract work shall be paid until the 
 contract is fully completed and properly accepted by the proper city officers 
 as provided for in this charter. 
 
 No claim for extra labor or material shall be allowed unless the cost 
 thereof ha-s been fully agreed upon by the department for which the labor 
 or material is furnished and the contractor, and a memorandum of said 
 agreement has been filed with the comptroller and countersigned by him 
 prior to the furnishing of such extra labor or material. 
 
 All disbursements expressly required by the laws of the state, or to main- 
 tain the credit of the city shall be allowed subject to the ruling of the 
 corporation counsel as to their legality. All disburseemnts authorized by the 
 council from moneys under the direct control of the council, may be allowed 
 by the comptroller on receipt of such authorization and subject to the terms 
 thereof. 
 
 Board of Control and City Hall and Court House Committee. — Sec. 0(). 
 The limitations in the last preceding sections shall not appl}^ to claims 
 against the Board of Control and the City Hall and Court House Committee. 
 On recommendation of the comptroller the council may provide by ordinance 
 for such arrangement as said comptroller may be able to make, and which 
 he and said council may deem desirable, with the County of Ramsey for 
 monthly or semi-monthly settlements of all claims against the city for the 
 city's share of the expenses of the Board of Control and the City Hall and 
 Court House Committee; provided, that before payment all such claims shall 
 he audited by the comptroller and shall be supported by proper'evidence of 
 payment on the part of the county. 
 
 Council may audit. — Sec .97. On recommendation of the mayor the coun- 
 cil maj- order an audit of the accounts of any department by a competent 
 certified accountant not otherwise in^ the employ of the ctiy. 
 
 May keep cost accounts. — ^Sec. 97. On recommendation of the comp- 
 troller and in such form as he may recommend, the council shall have power
 
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 to establi'Sh a system of cost accounting for all departments, bureaus and 
 activities of the City of St. Paul. 
 
 CHAPTEK VII. 
 
 The Civil Service. 
 
 Bureau. — Sec. 98. There is hereby created a Bureau of Civil Service of 
 which the comptroller ex-officio shall be the Civil Service Commissioner. 
 
 Commissioner's powers. — Sec. 99. The Commissioner shall appoint a 
 chief examiner who shall be in the classified service, and such clerks and 
 subordinates, if any, a.s may be authorized by the council which shall also 
 fix and determine the compensation of the chief examiner, clerks and subor- 
 dinates. 
 
 Classification. — Sec. 100. The civil service of the City of St. Paul is 
 hereby divided into two classes, namely; The Classified Service and the 
 Unclassified Service. The Unclassified Service shall comprise: 
 
 A. All ofificer.s elected by the people. 
 
 B. All heads of executive departments. 
 
 C. A secretary for the mayor and one deputy for the head of each 
 executive department. 
 
 D. The superintendent and all teachers, instructors and principals of the 
 public schools. 
 
 The Classified Service shall include all other offices now existing, and all 
 officers and employes holding places not excepted from said service. It 
 shall also include all other offices which may hereafter be created, unless 
 expressly excepted therefrom. 
 
 Promulgation of Rules. — Sec. 101. The Commissioner is hereby author- 
 ized and empowered to frame and submit to the council for its approval, 
 rules and regulations for the Classified Service, and -such approval shall be 
 given by an ordinance which shall set out in full such rules. Such ordinance 
 need not be published in the official paper, but may be printed in pamphlet 
 form. When so approved .such rules shall have the force and effect of law. 
 Such rules and regulations may be amended or repealed with the consent of 
 tile council in the same mnaner as provided for original adoption. 
 
 The Commissioner shall keep a record of all orders and of all examma- 
 tions held pursuant to the provisions hereof, and shall make suitable and 
 proper investigations concerning the enforcement and effect of this charter 
 <and of the rules provided for h-erein. He shall report to the mayor at least 
 once each year, and as much oftener as he may require. 
 
 The rules herein provided for shall provide amongst other things: 
 
 A. For the proper classification of all offices in the Classified Service. 
 
 B. For open competitive examination to test the relative fitness of all 
 applicants for such positions. 
 
 C. That public notice be given of all such examinations at least ten days 
 in advance thereof, in at least one newspaper of general circulation, and also 
 by posting such notice in the Court House and City Hall. 
 
 D. For the creation of eligible lists upon which shall be entered the 
 names of successful candidates in the order of their rating in the examinations. 
 Such lists shall, however, not remain in force more than two years. 
 
 E. For the rejection of otherwise eligible candidates who fail to comply 
 with the reasonable requirements of the Commissioner in regard to age, resi- 
 dence, sex, physical condition, or who have been guilty of crime or of infamous 
 or disgraceful conduct, or who have attempted any deception or fraud in con- 
 nection with an examination. 
 
 F. For the appointment, to fill a vancancy, of one of three persons who 
 are rated highest on the appropriate list.
 
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 G. For a period of probation not to exceed six months after any ap- 
 pointment or promotion is made, during which period such probationer may 
 be discharged or reduced with the consent of the Commi'Ssioner. 
 
 H. For temporary employment without examination with the consent 
 of the Commissioner in cases of emergency and pending appointment from 
 an eligible list. But no such temporary employment shall continue longer 
 than sixty days nor shall successive temporary emploj^ments of the same 
 person be allowed. 
 
 I. For transfers from any po-sition to a similar position in the same class 
 and grade and also for reinstatement within one year of persons who without 
 fault or delinquency on their part are separated from the service or reduced. 
 
 J. For promotion based on competitive examination and upon a record 
 of efficiency, character, conduct and seniority. Lists shall be prepared and 
 kept and promotions made therefrom in the same manner as provided herein 
 for original appointments. Any advancement in rank or any increase in 
 salary beyond the limit fixed by the rules shall conistitute a promotion. 
 Whenever practicable vacancies shall be filled by promotion. 
 
 K. For suspensions for not longer than thirty da3^s and for leaves of 
 absence. 
 
 L. For discharge or reduction either in rank or compensation alter ap- 
 pointment or promotion only when the person to be discharged or reduced 
 has been presented .with the reasons for such discharge or reduction, specific- 
 ally stated in writing and has been allowed a reasonable time to reply thereto 
 in writing. The reasons and the reply must be filed as a public record with 
 the Commissioner. 
 
 ]M. For the appointment of the unskilled laborers in the order of priority 
 of application after such tests of fitness as the Commissioner may prescribe. 
 
 Except.ons to rules. — Sec. 102. In case of a vacancy in any office which 
 requires peculiar or exceptional qualifications of a scientific, professional or 
 expert character, and upon satisfactory evidence that competition is imprac- 
 ticable and that the office can best be filled by the selection of some desig- 
 nated person of recognized attainments, the Commissioner may, with the 
 written consent of the mayor, suspend competition, but no ^sucli suspension 
 shall be general in its application to such office and all such cases of sus- 
 pension shall be reported, together with the reasons therefor, in the annual 
 reports of the Commissioner. 
 
 Examinations. — Sec. 103. All examinations shall be impartial and shall 
 have reference to the duties and requirements of the office or position to be 
 filled. When oral tests are employed, a complete record of questions and 
 answers shall be made. Examinations shall be in charge of the chief examiner, 
 except when the Commissioner shall act as examiner. The Commissioner 
 may call on other persons to conduct, or mark examinations and when such 
 persons are connected with the city s-^rvice it shall be deemed a part of their 
 official duty to act as such examiners svithout extra compensation. 
 
 Present incumbents. — Sec. 104. All persons holding positions in the 
 Classified Service of the city as established by this charter, at the time it 
 lakes efifect, shall retain their positions until discharged, reduced, promoted 
 or transferred in accordance therewith. The Commissioner shall keep as a 
 public record a civil list of all persons in the service of the city which shall 
 show the name of every officer or employe, the office or service, position 
 held, the date and character of every appointment and of every subsequent 
 promotion,, and reduction, and every change in salary or othe'rwise. Each 
 ;^ppointing officer shall promptly transmit to the Commissioner all informa- 
 tion required for the establishment of said civil list. 
 
 Prohibitions. — Sec. 105. No treasurer or other public disbursing officer 
 of the city shall pay any salary or compen-sation for service to any person 
 holding a position in the Classified Service unless the payroll or account for 
 such salary or compensation shall bear the certificate of the Commissioner 
 that the persons named therein have been appointed or employed and are
 
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 performing service in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and of 
 the rules establi.shed thereunder. Any taxpayer of the city may institute and 
 maintain an action in the District Court to recover for the use of the city 
 any sum or sums paid or disbursed contrary to the provisions of this section 
 from the person or persons authorizing such payment, and may likewise 
 institute and maintain an action to enjoin the Commissioner from attaching 
 hi.s certificate to a payroll or account for services rendered in violation of 
 the provisions of this chapter or of the rules established thereunder. 
 
 Investigations. — Sec. 106. In any investigation conducted by the Com- 
 missioner he shall have the power to compel the attendance of witnesses and 
 the production of books and papers pertinent to the investigation and shall 
 likewise have power to administer oatbs to such witnesses. 
 
 Political Beliefs. — Sec. 107. No person in the classified service, or seeking 
 admission thereto, shall be appointed, reduced or removed or in any way 
 favored or discriminated against because of his political opinions or afifilia- 
 tions. 
 
 Political activity. — Sec. 108. No officer or employe of the city shall, di- 
 rectly or indirectly, solicit or receive or be in any manner concerned in 
 soliciting or receiving assessment, subsciption or contribution for anj- 
 political party or political purpose whatsoever. No person shall, orally or 
 by letter, solicit or be in any manner concerned in soliciting anv assessment, 
 .".ubscription or contribution from any person holding a position in the Clas- 
 sified Service for any political party or purpose whatever. 
 
 Violations. — Sec. 109. Any person violating any of the foregoing pro- 
 visions or the rules established thereunder shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 Officers to be voters. — Sec. 109-a. All elective officers of the City of St. 
 Paul shall be qualified voters of said city at the time of their election and 
 oualification for ofiice. All male appointive officers shall be qualified voters 
 at the City of St. Paul at the time of their election, appointment and qualifica- 
 tion, except that by unanimous action of the council to fill a position requir- 
 ing especially skill this requirement may be waived. All employes of the 
 City of St. Paul shall be bona fide residents of the city at the time of their 
 employment. 
 
 THAPTEE VIII. 
 
 The Council — Its General Powers and Duties. 
 
 Council. — Sec. 110. The legislative authority of the City of St. Paul shall 
 be vested in the council, which shall be composed of the six councilmen and 
 the ma5^or, who ex-oi^cio shall be the presiding officer or president thereof. 
 
 Meetings — Regular and Special. — Sec. 111. The council shall meet at the 
 city hall of said city on the first Tuesday of June of each year at ten o'clock 
 in the morning and daily thereafter at ten o'clock in the morning, and at 
 such other times as it may determine, except Sundays and legal holidays. 
 The mayor may call special meetings of the council and the city clerk shall 
 do so upon the written request of four councilmen at such time as may 
 therein be specified. Notice in writing of special meetings shall be served 
 upon each member of the council personally or be left at his usual place of 
 abode at least six hours in advance of such meeting, except with the unani- 
 mous consent or waiver of such notice by the entire council, which consent or 
 waiver shall be in writing. 
 
 Quorum — Rules. — Sec. 112. A majority of the council shall constitute a 
 quorum to transact business, but a smaller number may adjourn from time to 
 lime and compel the attendance of absent members under such terms and
 
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 tfcnalties as it ma}- prescribe. il nuii' adcipt rules and regulations fur its 
 government not inconsistent with law and this charter, sit upon its own 
 adjournment and punish its members for disorderly conduct. 
 
 Officers, (a) Vice-Presidents. — Sec. 113. On the first Tuesday of June 
 oi each even numbered year, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the council, 
 by ballot, shall elect from its members a vice-president and a second vice- 
 president, each of whom shall hold ofBce for a term of two years beginning 
 with the said first Tuesdaj^ and until their successors are elected. 
 
 (b) City Clerk. At the same time and for the same period or term and 
 in the same manner ,the council shall elect a city clerk, who shall hold office 
 until his successor is elected and has qualified. 
 
 Journal — Votes. — Sec. 114. The council shall keep a journal of its pro- 
 ceedings, and the yeas and nays when taken on any question shall be entered 
 therein. Any member present wdio fails to vote shall be counted in the 
 negative. The presiding officer at each regular session shall sign, during the 
 'session, the city clerk's record of the proceedings of the last meeting, after 
 the same has been corrected and approved by the council. 
 
 Acting Mayor. — Sec. 115. During the absence of the mayor from the 
 city, or in case of his death, inability, or incapacity for any reason to discharge 
 the duties of his office, the vice-president of the council shall exercise all 
 the powers and discharge all the duties of the mayor and he .shall be styled. 
 "Acting Mayor of St. Paul," and the second vice-president of the council shall 
 perform the duties and exercise the powers of acting mayor in case of the 
 inability of the vice-president to act as acting mayor. 
 
 Legislation, mode of. — (a) Ordinances. — Sec. 116. Every act or bill of 
 the council which shall define, license, regulate, suppress, prevent or prohibit 
 any act, busineS'S or person, or be in any way an exercise of the legislative 
 powers, grant any right, franchise or privilege or a modification thereof, o! 
 appropriate any money or create any liability against the city shall be ex 
 pressed in, done by and created by an ordinance. And, likewise any amend 
 ment, modification or repeal of an existing ordinance of a similar character. 
 
 (b) Administrative ordinances. Every act or bill which shall define, reg- 
 ulate or create any office, or prescribe the powers and duties of any officer 
 or department, or the procedure for the performance of any administrative 
 act, or promulgate any rule or regulation for the better government and con- 
 duct of the city government shall be created by, expressed and done under an 
 administrative ordinance. 
 
 (c) Resolutions. Every other act, deed, expression, order or direction, 
 not hereinbefore defined or limited, or the approA'al of any administrative act 
 or the appointment of any officer shall be performed bj' means of and done 
 under a resolution of the council and not otherwise. 
 
 Ordinances — Form and procedure. — Sec. 117. \\'henever any proposed 
 
 ordinance shall be presented to the council, it shall be read in full at the 
 meeting at which it shall be presented and read again by the title thereof at 
 two separate meetings not less than a week after the meeting at which the 
 sam.e i-s presented. After such ordinance shall be complete in the form in 
 which it is finally passed, it shall remain on file in the office of the city clerk 
 for public inspection at least one week before the final passage or adoption 
 thereof. " 
 
 No ordinance, except that creating the annual budget, shall embrace more 
 than one subject, which shall be expressed in its title. 
 
 Ordinances making appropriations shall be confined entirelj' to appropria- 
 tions, and nothing otherwise. 
 
 The enacting clause of all of the above ordinances shall be: "The Coun- 
 cil of the City of St. Paul does ordain." 
 
 Administrative ord'nances. — Sec. 118. Shall be adopted by the same pro- 
 cedure as hereinabove prescribed for other ordinances. The enacting clause
 
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 shall be the same as for other ordinances. Administrative ordinances shall 
 be designated by the word "Administrative," preceding the title. No action 
 ct the council shall be invalid because an ordinance is U'Sed where an admin- 
 istrative ordinance is indicated in this charter or an administrative ordinance 
 is used when an ordinance is indicated. The term "Ordinance" shall embrace 
 ordinances and administrative ordinances. 
 
 Resolutions. — Sec. 119. Any resolution may be presented and adopted 
 £t the meeting at which it is presented. 
 
 Votes necessary. — Sec. 120. No ordinances, administrative ordinance or 
 resolution shall be finally adopted or passed, or operative and binding unless 
 the same shall be passed and adopted by an affirmative vote of a majority 
 of all of the members elect of the council including the mayor. All such 
 votes shall be taken bj^ ayes and nays and shall be entered upon the record 
 of the proceedings of the council. 
 
 Mayor's veto. — Sec. 121. Every ordinance or resolution not making an 
 appropriation which .shall pass the city council shall be presented to the 
 mayor, as soon as practicable for approval or rejection, and in any event not 
 later than five days after its passage. If he approves thereof, he shall sign 
 it within five days of its presentation to him, and shall deposit the same in 
 the office of the city clerk where it shall be permanently preserved as a public 
 record. If he does not approve it, he shall return it within five days to the 
 city council with a communication in writing setting forth the fact of his 
 disapproval and the reasons therefor, and his communication shall be entered 
 at large in the journal of the city council. Said body shall then proceed to 
 reconsider said measure. If after such reconsideration, a majority of all 
 the members elected to the' city council vote affirmatively, in favor of passing 
 said measure, notwithstanding the veto of the mayor, it shall become oper- 
 ative notwithstanding said veto; but in all such cases the vote of said council 
 shall be taken by yeas, and nays, and the names of all persons voting for or 
 against said measure shall be recorded in the journal of the council. Should 
 the mayor fail or refuse to return to the council within five days any measure 
 presented to him for approval or veto, it shall become operative at the 
 end of said five days just as though approved and signed by the mayor. 
 Any order, resolution or ordinance of the council, requiring more than a 
 majority of votes of said council to pass in the first instance shall require 
 as great an affirmative vote to pass over the veto of the mayor. 
 
 Mayor's approval of appropriation ordinances — Veto. — Sec. 122. Every 
 ordinance, making an appropriation or authorizing any liability, shall before 
 it be binding and operative, be presented to the mayor for his approval or 
 rejection. He may approve or reject the whole thereof, in which event the 
 procedure shall be the same as in the preceding section. Or, he may approve 
 part thereof and disapprove or reject any item or items thereof, and in 
 such cases he shall note on the margin thereof and opposite such item or 
 items the word "Rejected" and shall also in writing state what item or items, 
 by reference thereto, he has disapproved or rejected together with the reason 
 therefor. The city clerk shall forthwith strike out of such ordinance any 
 such rejected item and proceed in all other respects as if such rejected item 
 or item.s were not therein contained. At the next regular meeting of the 
 council he shall present to such body for its reconsideration a verbatim copy 
 of all such rejected items, together with the title of such ordinance and other 
 necessary references thereto to clearly identify the same, and the statement 
 of the mayor disapproving and rejecting such items. If after reconsideration, 
 the council shall again pass such rejected and disapproved item or items or 
 any one of them, by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the five members 
 elect except the mayor, then the city clerk shall forthwith publish such item 
 or items repa.ssed or readopted, together with the title of such ordinance from 
 which the same were taken preceded by a supplemental statement to the 
 effect that such items were repassed or readopted by the council notwithstand- 
 ing the disapproval thereof by the mayor. In all other respects the pro- 
 visions of the preceding section shall apply to appropriation ordinances.
 
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 Publication in newspaper. — Sec. 123. Except as herein otherwise provided 
 every ordinance, adniinistraiive ordinance and resolution shall, before it 
 becomes operative, be published in full in the oflicial newspaper, and each 
 shall be recorded by the city clerk in separate books for each class. These 
 shall be admitted as evidence in any court without further proof. Resolutions 
 may be published with the dates of their approval without appending thereto 
 the signatures. 
 
 The council niaj-, by an administrative ordinance, provide for the pub- 
 lication in the official newspaper of the title and abstracts of the contents of all 
 ordinances, (except appropriation ordinances), administrative ordinances and 
 resolution instead of and in place of such publication in full as hereinbefore 
 provided. In the event of the publication of such abstracts, it is hereby made 
 the duty of the corporation counsel to prepare the same for the city clerk. 
 
 Proof of the publication of any ordinance, administrative ordinance or 
 resolution shall be made by an affidavit of the publisher, printer, his foreman 
 or his clerk, of such newspaper with a printed copy of such publication thereto 
 annexed, or other competent proof of publication, and the same shall be 
 prima facie evidence in any court of the legal passage, enactment, approval, 
 publication and promulgation thereof. 
 
 Publication in volume. — Sec. 124. As .soon as practicable after the first 
 day of Januarj- of each year the city clerk shall cause to be published in full 
 and in a separate book with inde.x thereto every ordinance adopted during 
 the preceding year, and likewise in a separate book every administrative ordi- 
 nance, but such separate books may be bound in one volume or under the 
 same covers, and shall constitute part of and be known respectively as the 
 "Legislative Code" and the "Administrative Code." 
 
 Revisions. — Sec. 125. The council, at any time, may make a complete and 
 thorough revision of all the ordinances of the city, except franchise ordinances, 
 and omit from such revision all appropriation and all other ordinances not 
 then in effect and adopt such revision as a single ordinance and publish the 
 same as a separate book to be known as the "Legislative Code." And like- 
 wise revise, adopt and publish all administrative ordinances under the title of 
 ■'Administrative Code." Such books may be published and issued in separate 
 volumes or in one volume. 
 
 General Powers of the Council. — Sec. 126. The council shall have the full 
 management and full control of the property and finances of the city subject 
 to the provisions of this charter; to appropriate money for city purposes 
 only, except as herein otherwise provided, and .shall have full power and 
 authority to make, enact, ordain, establish, enforce, alter, modify, amend and 
 repeal any and all such ordinances, rules and by-laws for the good govern- 
 ment of the city, the protection of its property; the preservation of peace and 
 good order, the suppression of vice and intemperance, the prevention of 
 crime, the benefit of trade and commerce, the preservation of health, the 
 prevention and extinguishment of fires, and to promote the general welfare, 
 education, comfort, and well-being of the city and its inhabitants. The enact- 
 ment of any ordinance, rule or by-laws hereunder shall be held and con- 
 strued to be a reasonable and lawful exercise of the powers herein granted. 
 
 . Specific powers of council. — Sec. 127. For a more specific enumeration 
 and definition of some of the powers granted hereinbefore, a fuller exposition 
 thereof and as an additional grant thereto, the council shall have the power 
 and authority: " 
 
 A. The common council shall have power: 
 
 1. Eminent domain — To e.xercise the right of eminent domain. 
 
 2. Purchase — To accjuire property by purchase and private sale as by 
 
 this charter provided. 
 
 3. To acquire property — To acquire and take real and personal property 
 
 by gift, devise or bequest and hold and employ the same for public 
 purposes.
 
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 B. The council shall have power by ordinance: 
 
 1 To define, license, regulate and restrain: 
 
 a. Theaters, halls, exhibitions and shows and entretainments of all kinds, 
 
 b. Dances and dance halls. 
 
 c. Billiard and pool rooms, bowling alleys and other similar places and 
 
 the proprietors and keepers thereof. 
 
 d. Hotels, boarding houses and restaurants. 
 
 e. Auctioneers and public auctions. 
 
 f. Pawn brokers. 
 
 g. Intelligence and employment offices and agents. 
 
 h. Second-hand stores and junk shops and the owners and managers 
 
 thereof, 
 i. Hawkers, peddlers, porters, runners, agents and solicitors for common 
 
 carriers, express companies, hotels or other establishments, 
 j. Ticket agents and brokers and immigration and steamship agents, 
 k. Draymen, cartmen, cabmen, hackmen, omnibus drivers and chaufifeurs. 
 
 1. Vehicles of all kinds whatsoever, and the use of the streets, public 
 
 thoroughfares, highways and places by such vehicles; and also the 
 carrying and hauling of persons and property for hire. All monies 
 realized from any license or license shereunder shall be appropriated 
 and used solely for the purpose of repairing and keeping in good 
 condition for travel such streets, thoroughfares, highways and public 
 places in addition to such other monies as ma)- be appropriated 
 therefor. 
 
 m. Vendors or dealers in inflammable oils or substances, firearms, fire 
 works or explosives of any kind. 
 
 n. Vendors of meats, vegetables and other food products. 
 
 2. To regulate the size and weight of bread sold or prepared for sale, and 
 
 the manner of weighing and selling hay. 
 
 3. Liquor licenses. — To license and regulate except as herein otherwise 
 
 provided, all persons, vending, dealing in or disposing of spirituous, 
 vinous, malt or fermented liquors and all places in which the same 
 are dealt in, vended or disposed of. 
 
 b. To prevent or prohibit any person from giving or dealing in spirituous, 
 
 fermented, malt or vinous liquors unless duly licensed b)^ the com- 
 mon council. 
 
 c. Patrol limits — To establish, alter, enlarge and contract patrol limits 
 
 within said city and to prevent, suppress and prohibit the sale or 
 other disposal of any spirituous, fermented, malt, vinous or other in- 
 toxicating liquor within such limits, except by duly licensed drug- 
 gists for medical, mechanical or chemical purposes to be used else- 
 where than upon said druggist's premises. Provided, how^ever, that 
 •said council shall never grant any license to sell or otherwise dis- 
 pose of any such spirituous, fermented, malt, vinous or other in- 
 toxicating liquor except to such druggists for the purpose aforesaid 
 within the limits of the following territory, viz: Sections twenty- 
 eight (28) and twenty-nine (29), the east half (^) of the east half 
 (%) of section thirty-two (32). and all of section thirty-three (33) 
 in township twenty-nine (29), range twenty-three (23) and the east 
 half (^) of the east half (yi) of section five (5) and all of section 
 four (4) in township twenty-eight (28) of range twenty-three (23), 
 all in Ramsey county, Minnesota, and also within any territory within 
 two hundred (200) feet of any of the boundarj' limits thereof, nor 
 W'ithin a distance of one-half ('^) mile of any college, university or 
 reformatory institution within the limits of the new territory added 
 to said city by Chapter 281 of S. L. 1885, validated by Chapter 574, 
 S. L. 1889. 
 
 4. To define, prevent, prohibit and suppress: 
 
 a. Gambling and fraudulent practices and devices. 
 
 b. Drunkenness and obscenity.
 
 ClIAirri'.K ();•■ C\'\'\ Ol'" ST. I'AUL. :!1 
 
 c. Vagrancy, mendicancy and prostitution. 
 
 d. Disorderly houses, hou.ses of ill famq. and groggeries. 
 
 e. Riots, noise and disorderly assemblages. 
 
 f. Disorderly or mischievous conduct, or conduct annoying or dangerous 
 
 to others, or detrimental to the rights of person or property. 
 
 g. Vice and crime. 
 
 h. All practices and acts whatsoever inconsistent with the preservation of 
 peace and good order and the just rights and comfort of iIk- in- 
 habitants of the cit)-. 
 
 5. To regulate and control, prevent and prohibit: 
 
 a. The use, sale or offering for sale of firearms, explosives, or fireworks 
 
 or the use or exhibition of any firearms, fireworks or explosives in 
 any place which may be considered by the common council danger- 
 ous or annoying to any citizen. 
 
 b. The receipts, storage, transportation and traffic in anj- inflammable 
 
 oil or substance or any explosives within said city, or within one 
 mile of the corporate limits thereof. 
 ^. The carrying of concealed weapons. 
 
 d. The running at large of any animals. 
 
 e. The encroachment upon or obstructing or incumbering of any high- 
 
 ways, sidewalks, public grounds or levee. 
 
 f. The cutting of ice within the city limits and the sale thereof. 
 
 g. The burial of the dead within the city limits or within one mile beyond 
 
 such limits, and to regulate the location and conduct of cemeteries 
 and crematories. 
 
 h. Places of bathing and 'Swimming in the waters within the cit}' limits. 
 
 i. The landing and conveyance of paupers and persons in destitute con- 
 dition into said city not having a legal residence or settlement therein 
 by any railroad train, boat, vessel or other means of conveyance, 
 and to require that such persons .shall be taken back to the place 
 from whence they maj^ have been brought by the person or persons 
 conveying or leaving them in said city. 
 
 j. The penning, herding and treatment of all animals within the city. 
 
 k. The emission of dense smoke. 
 
 6. To define, regulate, prohibit and abate nuisances. 
 
 7. To compel owners, agents or occupants to keep all buildings and prem- 
 
 ises and the streets, sidewalks and alleys adjacent thereto in a 
 cleanly, wholesome, safe and passable condition and to regulate the 
 disposal and collection of all refuse whatsoever. 
 
 8. To compel the registration of births and deaths and the collection of 
 
 other vital statistics. 
 
 9. To impose a tax on dogs and regulate the keeping thereof and to 
 
 authorize the destruction of the same in a summarj^ manner when 
 at large contrary to the ordinance and to provide for the killing of 
 dangerous or vicious dogs and to punish by fine or imprisonment the 
 owner or keeper of any such dog who refusers to deliver up the same 
 to be killed or to pay the tax imposed thereon. 
 
 10. Building regulation and fire protection. 
 
 a. To regulate the construction, alteration, removal and jcpair of all 
 
 structures and the permanent equipment thereof, and to provide for 
 the safety of the occupants of all structures and all property in the 
 vicinity thereof against danger from fire or panic or from methods 
 of construction or installation detrimental to life, health or propcrt}\ 
 and to prohibit the use of buildings or i)arts of buildings when 
 dangerous to life from collapse, fire or apnic. 
 
 b. Fire limits — prescribe. To prescribe, contract or extend the limits 
 
 within which wooden buildings or buildings of other materials that 
 shall not be considered as fire proof shall not be erected, placed or 
 repaired: to direct that all and any buildings within the limits pre-
 
 32 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 scribed shall be made and constructed of tire proof materials; to 
 prohibit the rebuilding of wooden buildings within the fire limits 
 when the same shall have been damaged to the extent of fifty per 
 cent of the value thereof, and to prescribe the manner of ascertain- 
 ing such damage.s. 
 
 c. To prescribe limits wtihin which all roofs shall be covered by non- 
 
 combustible material. 
 
 d. Compel the installation in all structures of devices, appliances and 
 
 arrangements for the preservation of life, health and property. 
 
 e. To regulate the storage and handling of all combustible or other sub- 
 
 ■ stances, articles, equipment or devices affecting the fire hazard. 
 
 f. To license, regulate, prohibit and .suppress the erection and maintenance 
 
 of signs, signboards, billboards and fences. 
 
 g. To establish and enforce building lines and to regulate the height of 
 
 buildings, 
 h. To regulate the measurement and inspection of building materials and 
 of fuel of all kinds. 
 
 11. To regulate the location of stock yards, slaughter houses, rendering 
 
 plants, .soap factories, tonneries, stables, privies and other unwhole- 
 some or nauseous houses or places. 
 
 12. To designate and set apart certain thoroughfares as parkways or boule- 
 
 vards and regulate the use of the same and prohibit hauling heavy 
 loads thereon. 
 
 C. The council shall have power: 
 
 1. To pass all ordinances necessary or expedient for the preservation of 
 
 health and the suppression of disease, to prevent the introduction of 
 infectious or contagious diseases into the city, and to make and 
 enforce quarantine laws. The jurisdiction of said city shall extend 
 to and be enforced over any lands within the County of Ramsey 
 purchased or used by said city for the purpose of a quarantine, for 
 police and sanitary regulation; and for the preservation of the health 
 of said city, and the suppression of disease and abatement of public 
 nuisances, and the suppression of any business contrary to the 
 sanitary regulation fo the common council or the commissioner of 
 health, the jurisdiction of said city shall extend for a circuit of one 
 mile beyond the present or any future limits of said city. 
 
 2. Pass any other ordinances and resolutions necessary to carry out the 
 
 intent and provisions of this charter. 
 
 D. Penalties and enforcement of ordinances — The council shall have full 
 
 power and authority: 
 
 1. To revoke for misconduct of a licensee any license granted under thi« 
 
 charter. 
 
 2. To declare and impose fines and penalties and to enforce the same 
 
 against any person who may violate any of the provisions of any 
 ordinance or resolution and all such ordinances and resolutions are 
 hereby declared to be and have the force of law; such fines and 
 penalties may extend to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, 
 or imprisonment in the workhou.se not exceeding ninety (90) days 
 or both; and offenders against any ordinance or resolution as afore- 
 said may be required to give security and to keep the peace not 
 exceeding six months and in a sum not exceeding five hundred dol- 
 lars. 
 
 3. To provide by ordinance that anyone convicted of an offense before 
 
 the Municipal Court subjecting such ofifender to an imprisonment 
 under the charter and ordinances of said city may be kept at hard 
 labor in the workhouse established for that purpose.
 
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 4. To establish by ordinance all needful regnlation.s for the security and 
 discipline of such persons, provided that the Municipal Court shall 
 not have the power to commit for vagrancy any persons to the city 
 prison, city workhouse or county jail for a longer period than thirty 
 days. 
 
 E. County prisoners — Power to contract as to. — The provisions of Chapter 
 76 of the Special Laws of Minnesota 1883 so far as the .same relate 
 • to the contracts for the confinement and board of county prisoners 
 is hereby in all respects continued in full force and effect. 
 
 E. Munic pai undertakings. — The council shall have power by ordinance: 
 
 1. Markets. — To erect and maintain market houses and to estbalish mar- 
 
 kets and market places. 
 
 2. Wharves and levees. — To control, regulate and cause to be constructed, 
 
 altered and maintained, wharves and levees and grading and paving 
 along the banks of the Mississippi river within the city limits. To 
 prescribe and control the prices to be charged for wharfage thereon; 
 to prevent or remove all obstructions in the water of said river and 
 to regulate the landings, levees, wharves and piers within the city 
 limits and the boats and vessels landing and mooring at the same, 
 and the charges therefor; to have and exercise the same power and 
 control over the said river within the limits of said city that it may 
 possess over its streets, highways and alleys so far as such power 
 and control may not be inconsistent with the laws of the United 
 States or of this state. 
 
 3. Garage. — To establish and maintain a garage for the housing, care and 
 
 repair of ail automobiles owned by the city. When so established 
 such garage shall be under the management and control of the Com- 
 missioner of Public Safety and shall be subject in all respects to the 
 provisions of this charter. The Commissioner of Public Safety with 
 the approval of the council may contract with the County of Ramsey 
 for the housing, care and repair of any automobiles belonging to 
 such county. 
 
 4. Pounds. — To estabish and regulate public pounds and to provide for 
 
 the empounding of animals running at large and the sale of un- 
 claimed animals. 
 
 5. Lighting. 
 
 a. To provide for lighting the city and lighting and heating all public 
 
 buildings and furnishing power thereto. 
 
 b. To establish, erect, maintain and cause to be operated gas works, elec- 
 
 tric lighting and power plants or other works for lighting the streets 
 and public grounds, and lighting and heating public buildings and 
 furnishing power thereto and to sell and furnish light, heat and 
 power to the citizens of said city and to occupy and use the public 
 streets and conduits therein in connection therewith. 
 
 6. To purchase, erect, establish and maintain conduits, subways and 
 
 appliances for lighting purposes, the u-se of which conduits, subways 
 and appliances said common council may let to any person, firm or 
 corporation contracting to light said city or part thereof for a term 
 not exceeding said contract. 
 
 Provided, however, that the Commissioner of Pjjblic Utilities 
 stall have exclusive power and jurisdiction within the limitations of 
 this charter as to the location of all lamps. 
 
 6. Municipal paving plants. — To provide, maintain .ind cause to be operat- 
 ed under the supervision of the Commissioner of Public Works, mu- 
 nicipal quarries, apparatus and other facilities for the manufacture, 
 construction and laying of all kinds of streets pavements and side- 
 walks.
 
 34 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 7. Sprinkling plants, etc. — To provide, equip and maintain apparatus and 
 facilities for the cleaning, repairing and sprinkling of streets, alleys, 
 sidewalks, sidelawns, public ground.s, and levees and for the collec- 
 tion and disposal of grabage and all other waste material. 
 
 Control of public highways, etc. — City not liable for railroad accidents. — 
 
 Sec. 128. The counci Ishall have the care, supervision and control of all 
 public highways, bridges, streets, alleys, public squares and grounds, .sewers 
 and other public improvements and public property within the limits of said 
 city, except as in this charter otherwise provided, and shall cause all streets 
 which may have been opened and graded under the authority of said city 
 or with its assent to be kept open and in repair and free from nuisances. 
 The city corporation shall be exempt from all liability caused by railroads 
 either to persons or property when said railroads' engines or cars are passing 
 along, across, under, over or upon any street, lane, alley or other public way 
 within the limits of the City of St. Paul. 
 
 Vacation of streets, etc. — Sec. 129. The council of said city shall have 
 the .sole and exclusive power to vacate or discontinue public grounds, streets, 
 i'.ileys and highways within said city, also all county, territorial and state 
 roads, whether actually traveled or used at the date of the petition for vaca- 
 tion or not. No such vacation or discontinuance shall be granted or ordered 
 by the coimcil except upon the petition of the majority of the owners of the 
 property on the line of such public grounds, streets, alleys or highways, resi- 
 dent within said citj', save that a corporation whether domestic or foreign, 
 may when interested join in and verify such petition by an officer thereof 
 and be counted as a resident for the purposes of this section. Each petition 
 provided for in this section shall bring forth the facts and reasons for such 
 vacation accompanied by a plat of such public ground.s, streets, alleys, or 
 highways, county, territorial or state roads, proposed to be vacated and shall 
 be verified by the oath of one of the petitioners. 
 
 The council shall thereupon, if it deem it expedient that the matter shall 
 be proceeded with, order the petition to be filed of record with the city 
 clerk who shall give notice by publication in the official paper of the city 
 for four weeks for at least once a week to the effect that such petition has 
 been filed as aforesaid and stating in brief its object and that said petition 
 will be heard and considered by the said body on a certain day and place 
 therein .specified not less than ten days from the expiration of said publication. 
 Said body, at the time and place appointed, shall investigate and consider the 
 matter and shall hear the testimony and evidence on the part of the parties 
 interested. Said body thereupon after hearing the same may by resolution 
 passed by four-sevenths (4/7) affirmative vote of all the members elect declare 
 such public grounds, streets, alleys or highways, county, territorial or state 
 roads vacated. Before the same shall go into effect such resolution shall be 
 published as in the case of ordinances and thereupon a transcript of such 
 resolution and of said plat duly certified by the city clerk, shall, before the 
 same is valid, be filed for record and duly recorded in the office of the Regis- 
 ter of Deeds in the County of Ramsey. No vacation of any street, alley or 
 public grounds in said city shall hereafter be allovved except upon such terms 
 and conditions as to the compensation, if any, to be paid by the persons seek- 
 ing such vacation or otherwise as shall be specified in the resolution ordering 
 such vacation, nor shall said council order any vacation without adequate 
 compensation to said ctiy. 
 
 Provided in case the Plat Commission shall have approved the plat 
 embracing the premises proposed to be vacated which plat dedicates to the 
 public use in the opinion of .said council land equivalent in area and value to 
 the premises sought to be vacated, then said council may by a four-sevenths 
 (4/7) affirmative vote of all the members-elect accept said plat and pass a 
 resolution of vacation and after said plat and said resolution have been re- 
 corded in said Register's office, said vacation shall be valid without the pay- 
 ment of money into the said city trea.sury. Provided, further, however, that 
 vacations and discontinuances of such county, territorial and state roads may 
 be granted upon a petition of a majority of the owners of property through
 
 CllARTKR Ol' CITY Ol'" ST. I'AL'L. . 35 
 
 vv-hich the same or the portions thereof sought to be vacated exist, when such 
 owners have platted the same and shall have provided in lieu of such roads 
 sufficient streets in the opinion of the Commi.ssioncr of Public Works and the 
 council, of which fact the approval of said commissioner and the acceptance 
 of said plat and the resolutoins of vacation shall, when recorded be conclusive 
 evidence. 
 
 Lease of levee. — Sec. 130. The council are hereby authorized by ordi- 
 nance to lease to any person, company or corporation any part or portion of 
 the levee known as the West Side Levee in the Sixth (6th) ward of the City 
 of St. Paul, ^Minnesota, as the same is designated and .shown on the maps 
 on file in the ofiice of the Commissioner of Public Works of the City of St. 
 Paul, the said leases to be for such purposes and upon such terms and for 
 such a length of time as the council shall prescribe; provided, however, that 
 such leases not be for a longer term than live years. 
 
 Workhouse authorized.— Sec. i:Jl. The council of the City of St. Paul is 
 hereby authorized and empowered to establish, erect and maintain a work- 
 house for the confinement and punishment of prisoners sentenced thereto by 
 the Municipal Court of the City of St. Paul, or the District Court of the 
 Second Judicial District of Ramsey county (S. L. 1S81, Chapter 190, Sec. 1). 
 
 Nuisances. — Sec. 132. The powers conferred upon the council to provide 
 for the abatement and removal of nuisances shall not bar or hinder suits, 
 prosecutions or preceedings in the courts according to law. 
 
 Miscellaneous restrictions.— Sec. 133. The council shall have no power 
 to: 
 
 1. New or salaried offices.— Create any new or salaried office not specified 
 
 in this charter or in any manner to increase the salary or compensa- 
 tion of any officer who.se salary is fixed in this charter, or to employ 
 any assistant whereby said city might be liable for any .services 
 rendered or attempted to be rendered in performing the duties im- 
 posed by law upon any salaried officer of said city; but nothing in 
 this charter shall prevent said city and its officers from employing 
 such servants from day to day and from month to month as are 
 authorized by this charter. 
 
 2. Disputed demands on contracts. — Authorize any compromise of any 
 
 disputed demand arising out of contracts or any allowance therefor 
 or therein except as provided in the contract therefor. 
 
 3. Damages for injuries. — Authorize the compromise or payment of any 
 
 damages claimed for alleged injuries to persons or property except 
 by ordinance adopted by a majority of the members-elect thereof. 
 
 4. The council cannot relieve or exempt. — Relieve any person or corpora- 
 
 tion from the payment of any lawful tax, assessment, fine or license, 
 or from any burden impo.sed by law or order; nor shall it cause to 
 be paid any demand not lawfully authorized and duly audited. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 Initiative and Referendum. 
 
 Initiative. — Sec. 134. Any ordinance may be proposed by petition by the 
 qualified electors of the City of St. Paul equal in numbers to ten per cent of 
 the electors who voted for mayor at the last preceding city election. 
 
 Petition. — 'Sec. 13.5. Such petition shall completely set out in exact lan- 
 guage the terms of such proposed ordinance. It shall be addressed to the 
 council and shall be presented to and filed by the city clerk. In all other 
 respects said petition shall conform so far as practicable, to the requirements
 
 36 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 for recall petitions as set forth in the sections of this charter relating to the 
 recall. 
 
 If council fails to pass. — Sec. 136. Should the council fail to pass with- 
 out change within sixty days of its presentation by petition a.s aforesaid, any 
 ordinance, said ordinance shall be submitted by the city clerk at the next 
 flection in the City of St. Paul whether general or special, city or state, to 
 the qualified electors of said city for approval or rejection as herein after 
 provided, provided that said election must take place not less than ninety 
 days after said petition was originally presented to said council. If the peti- 
 tion .submitting said ordinance to the council shall be signed by twenty-five 
 per cent of the number of qualified voters who voted for mayor at the last 
 preceding city election, and shall so request, then the council shall within 120 
 days of the filing of said petition, in case the council fails to pass said 
 ordinance as aforesaid, call a special election at which said ordinance shall 
 be submitted to the voters of the City of St. Paul for approval or rejection. 
 But no special election .shall be called when any general or special city or 
 state election occurs within one year subsequent to the filing of said petition. 
 
 Referendum. — Sec. 137. No ordinance passed by the council shall go into 
 effect until the expiration of thirty days after it has been passed, approved 
 and published unless it shall be necessary for the preservation of the public 
 peace, health or safety, and the council .shall by a three-fourths vote or all 
 the members elected declare that it shall go into effect immediately upon its 
 publication. The necessity for such action shall be stated in the title and 
 in a section of such ordinance. If within thirty days after the passing, ap- 
 proval and publication of any ordinance, a number of the qualified electors 
 of the City of St. Paul equal to eight per cent of all the electors who voted 
 at the last city election for mayor, shall file a petition with the city clerk 
 addressed to the city council asking that .said ordinance shall be submitted to 
 the voters of said city for approval or rejection, it shall be so submitted 
 as hereinafter provided, and shall not go into effect (except in cases of 
 emergency as herein provided) until approved by a majority of all the electors 
 voting thereon at a general or special city election within the City of St. 
 Paul. Should a majority of said electors vote against the approval of said 
 ordinance it shall not go into effect, but shall be boid and of no effect. If 
 by action of the council as aforesaid any ordinance shall be declared neces- 
 sary for the preservation of the public peace, health or safety, and it shall 
 be provided that it shall go into effect immediately upon publication thereof, 
 and if within ninety days of its publication and taking effect a petition shall 
 be filed as aforesaid asking that such ordinance be submitted to the voters 
 of the City of St. Paul for approval or rejection, said ordinance shall be so 
 submitted and if a majority of said electors voting thereon vote to reject 
 .such ordinance, .said vote shall effect a repeal of said ordinance from and after 
 the announcement of said result. In like manner any ordinance not an 
 emergency ordinance may be repealed on referendum vote asked for by peti- 
 tion filed as aforesaid within ninety days after the publication of said or- 
 dinance. 
 
 Referendum petition. — Sec. 138. Any petition demanding a reference of 
 any ordinance shall refer to such ordinance by the number thereof, its title, 
 the date of its approval, and the date of its publication, and shall also briefly 
 st;.te the subject-matter of said ordinance, and it may give the reasons for 
 c^emanding such reference. It .shall be addressed to the council and shall 
 conform so far as practicable to the requirements specified for recall peti- 
 tions in the sections of this charter providing for recall. 
 
 Shall be published. — Sec. 139. The council shall provide for the publica- 
 tion in full at least once in at least three daily papers published within the 
 City of St. Paul of the full text of any ordinance submitted under this chapter 
 to the voters of the city for approval or rejection. Such publication shall 
 take place not less than ten days or more than fifteen days before the date 
 of said election When any such ordinance is to be so submitted at any
 
 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 37 
 
 special or general election, the notices of said election shall so state and 
 shall designate said ordinances 'by number and title, and shall set forth syllabi 
 of said ordinances prepared by the corporation counsel of St. Paul. 
 
 Budget ordinance. — Sec. 140. The budget ordinance of the ordinance pro- 
 viding annually for the support of the government of the City of St. Paul 
 shall go into effect immediately upon publication. Said ordinance shall not 
 be submitted to the voters of St. Paul for approval or rejection on petition 
 or otherwise, provided that any item in said budget making appropriation 
 for new outlay shall be subject to referendum in the same manner as though 
 it were not part of said budget ordinance. 
 
 Voluntary reference. — Sec. The council may by a majority vote submit 
 to the voters of St. Paul any ordinance without petition in the same manner 
 as said ordinance might have been submitted on petition. 
 
 Repeal of ordinance approved by voters. — Sec. 141. No ordinance adopted 
 by the coters of St. Paul on tlieir initiative or approved by said voters on 
 referendum shall be repealed by the council within one year after its ap- 
 proval nor shall it be repealed at all except upon the unanimous vote of all 
 the members elected to the council and vsrith the approval of the mayor ex- 
 pressed in writing or by a majority vote of all the electors voting thereon 
 at a referendum election at which the repeal of said ordinance is submitted 
 imder the provisions of this chapter. 
 
 Ballots. — Sec. 142. The ballots used in voting upon any measure as 
 provided for in this chapter shall «et forth in full the title thereof and state 
 briefly the general nature thereof, and thereafter in larger type contain the 
 words, "For the ordinance," (or resolution as the case may be) and "Against 
 the ordinance," (or resolution as the case may be) and shall contain a square 
 opposite each of the aforesaid phrases in quotations so that the elector Dy a 
 mark in the square may indicate whether he is for or against the ordinance. 
 
 Number submitted. — Sec. 143. Any number of ordinances may be sub- 
 mitted at the same election. 
 
 Vote necessary. — Sec. 144. Any ordinance receiving an affirmative vote 
 in its favor of a majority of all the electors voting thereon shall be declared 
 passed, and shall be in force from and after such declaration. If it shall 
 not receive such majority, it shall be void and of no effect from and after 
 the announcement of said vote. Where two or more conflicting ordinances 
 receive a majority those receiving the largest affirmative vote shall be in 
 force and effect as to conflicting provisions. 
 
 Terms defined. — Sec. 145. For the purposes of this chapter the term 
 'ordinance" shall embrace all legislative acts of the council, whether they be 
 the passing of new measures or the amendment or repeal of measures there- 
 tofore in force. 
 
 Duties of the corporation counsel. — Sec. 146. On request of the city clerk 
 the corporation counsel shall prepare forthwith or cause to be prepared sum- 
 maries, or syllabi of all ordinances or resolitions where summaries are re- 
 quired in carrying out the provisions of this chapter. 
 
 Enacting clause. — Sec. 147. The enacting clause of all ordinances in- 
 itiated under the provisions of this chapter shall be: "The people of :he 
 City of St. Paul do ordain." " 
 
 Items voted upon separably. — Sec. 148. Anj- item or section of items or 
 sections of an ordinance or resolution which may be separated without de- 
 stroying said resolution as a whole, may be made the subject of a referendum 
 the same as an entire ordinance or resolution, and may on adverse vote be 
 disapproved or repealed as may an entire ordinance or resolution. 
 
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 38 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 ( HAPTER X. 
 
 Franchises, and Modificaticns Thereof. 
 
 No exclusive franchise. — Sec. 149. No exclusive or irrevocable franchise, 
 nor any franchise for a period of more than twenty years, shall ever be 
 granted by the City of St. Paul. 
 
 Referendum thereon. — Sec. 150. Nr. fvanchise shall be granted by the 
 City of St. Paul except by ordinance c- me council approved at a general or 
 special election by an affirmative majority of the qualified electors of caid 
 city voting thereon. The council may i,y ordinance pressed by an affirmative 
 vote of four-sevenths of all the members elect grant a temporary license to 
 xise the streets and other public places of said city for public service purposes 
 for a period not exceeding one year. Any license or franchise which may 
 hereafter be granted by the City of St. Paul is hereby declared to be subject 
 to all provisions of this charter and all amendments thereto which may be 
 hereafter adopted, and to all laws and ordinances in force within the limits 
 of the City of St. Paul. Nothing in this section shall be so construed as to 
 relieve the holder of any franchise from any restriction which may be in 
 force at the time of the adoption of this charter. When the total income 
 of any such license or franchise holder named in this section, his lessee or 
 assign, from business within the City of St. Paul for which such license or 
 franchise was granted shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars for 
 any one calendar year, then .said temporary lessee may by a five-sevenths 
 ■affirmative vote of all the members-elect of the council be renewed indefinitely 
 for one year from year to year in the discretion of the council, but where 
 such total income exceeds in any one year the sum of ten thousand dollars, 
 said council shall have power to give but two renewals, so that the entire 
 term of such temporary licenses in such cases shall not exceed three years. 
 
 Time for renewal. — Sec. 151. No franchise granted by the City of St. 
 Paul shall be renewed or enlarged until within one year before its expiration. 
 Any amendment to a franchise amounting to an elargement or extending of 
 privileges held under any franchise now in force, or hereafter granted, shall 
 he construed as the granting of a new franchise; 
 
 Franchise no part of capital. — Sec. 152. No person or corporation granted 
 a franchise by the City of 'St. Paul shall base anj^ capitalization or collect 
 .any profits upon the value of said franchise, it being the intent of this charter 
 .to restrict all franchise-holders of the City of St. Paul to a reasonable return 
 upon the tangible property of said franchise-holder in use within the City of 
 St. Paul. It is hereby declared that all franchise granted by the City of St. 
 Paul are granted for the sole purpose of providing the people of St. Paul 
 v.'ith needed public services, and that the value of said franchise and all ben- 
 efits to be derived therefrom shall 'remain forever inalienably the property of 
 said city in trust for said people. No charges or profits of any public service 
 corporation doing business in the City of St. Paul shall be founded upon 
 unearned increment of land. All franchises granted by the City of St. Paul 
 shall define clearly and fully the specific rights granted, and the specific 
 .streets, alleys and other . laces in which said franchises shall be exercised, 
 and no grant made in genL-al '■erms shall be valid, and no privilege shall be 
 granted by implication. 
 
 Publication — Franchise ordinances. — Sec. 153. All proposed ordinances 
 for the granting of franchises shall be published in full at least once in the 
 official publication of the city a week before its first reading in the council. 
 No proposed ordinances granting a franchise shall be placed upon its final 
 passage within thirty days after it has been put into the form in which it 
 shall be. passed and adopted. 
 
 Fixing charges — Gross earnings statement. — Sec 154. In the granting of 
 any and all franchises the City of St. Paul hereby reserves the right either
 
 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 3'J 
 
 tliroLigh the council, or otherwise as provided by law, to regulate the rates 
 to be collected for the service to be rendered under said franchise. If it be 
 found by the council impracticable or undesirable to prescribe such rates as 
 will prevent franchise-holders from securing any benefit from the value of 
 said franchise, then -said city through its council or otherwise may impose 
 such tax upon gross earnings as may secure for said city the full benefit 
 of the value of said franchise. The City of St. Paul is hereby granted the 
 right to fix rates for all public services within the city. 
 
 All franchise-holders exercising any franchise in the City of St. Paul shall 
 file annually on or before the first Monday of February, in the office of the 
 City Comptroller, a .statement subscribed and sworn to by at least two officers 
 ot such corporation, or by the individual in control, in case such franchise 
 is exercised by an individual or co-partnership, setting forth in detail for 
 the preceding calendar year the then actual cost of the plant or business 
 operated by said corporation or persons, the actual incumbrances, debts and 
 obligations thereon, if any, the names and residences of the stockholders, 
 and the amount of stock held by each, and the consideration paid therefor 
 to the corporation; the names and residences of the individuals or co-partner- 
 ships; in case such franchise is exercised by individual or a co-partnership; 
 an itemized statement of the assets and liabilities of any such corporation; 
 the gross earnings, the expenses and nature thereof, and the net income for 
 such calendar year of any such corporation, and in case of an individual or 
 co-partnership, of the business done under such franchise. Such statement 
 shall conform to such forms as may be prepared from time to time by the 
 city comptroller. Every such statement shall be preserved by the comptroller 
 in suitable manner for public inspection, and shall be open to public inspection 
 during the business hours of the comptroller's office. Every such corporation, 
 individual or co-partnership shall also file in the office of the comptroller 
 from time to time such further and additional reports and statements as may 
 be required by the council relative to the rates charged and received for 
 public service, relative to the character and frequency of such service, and 
 relative to the number of persons using such service. The books, records, 
 bills and vouchers of every such corporation, individual or co-partnership 
 shall be open to inspection and examination in the City of St. Paul by such, 
 officer of said city, person or persons as the council may direct Every cor- 
 poration, individual or co-partnership who fails to comply with the provisions 
 of this section shall be liable to the City of St. Paul in the sum of one hundred 
 ($100) dollars for each day of such failure, to be recovered in a civil action in 
 any court of competent jurisdiction, and in case of default for sixty days 
 an}^ such franchise shall without further proceedings become forfeited, and 
 all rights granted by the ordinance granting the same shall cease and ter- 
 minate. 
 
 Gross earnings. — Sec. 155. Every corporation or person exercising any 
 franchise or privilege, in, over, under, or upon any of the streets or public 
 places or elsewhere in the City of St. Paul, shall pay into the treasury of 
 said city annually on or before the first Monday in March a license fee in 
 ". sum equal to at least five per cent of the gross earnings derived or accru- 
 ing from the ercises or enjoyment within said cit}^ or any franchise or 
 privilege during the previous calendar year. This section shall apply to all 
 franchises granted prior to the adoption of this charter and to all other fran- 
 chises unless the ordinance granting said franchises shall exempt the grantees 
 and others holding through or under them from said tax. 
 
 Grantee's agreement. — Sec. 156. No extension, modification- nor change 
 of any franchise or privilege heretofore granted, or of any condition or 
 limitation affecting -such franchise or privilege, shall be valid or effectual un- 
 less the person or corporation holding such franchise or privilege shall, in 
 writing, agree that such franchise or privilege together with any sucli exten- 
 sion, modification or change, shall be held and used subject to all the condi- 
 tions and limitations in this charter prescribed, including the payment of a 
 license fee of at least five per cent of the gross earnings, unless said franchise- 
 holder is specifically, relieved of said payment as herein above provided.
 
 40 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 Grantee's acceptance of charter provisions.^Sec. 157. No franchise or 
 privilege shall be granted to any person or corporation now holding or here- 
 after acquiring any franchise or privilege heretofore or hereafter granted by 
 said city, unless such person or corporation shall in writing agree that -said 
 franchise or privilege so held or acquired, as well as said new franchise or 
 privilege, shall both be held and exercised subject to all the conditions and 
 limitations in this charter prescribed, including the payment of said license 
 fee of at lea.st five per cent of the gross earnings, unless excused as above 
 provided. 
 
 Forfeitures. — Sec. 158. Every ordinance granting anj' franchise or privil- 
 ege as aforesaid, shall provide for the termination and forfeiture of said fran- 
 chise or privilege aforesaid for any breach or failure to comply with any of 
 the terms, limitations or conditions thereof; and in all such cases the council 
 shall have power to declare the termination and forfeiture of any such fran- 
 chise or privilege the same as though in each instance such power was 
 expressly reserved. 
 
 Limitations. — Sec. 159. No person or corporation shall occupy or have 
 any special rights or privileges, in, over, upon or under any street, highway, 
 alley, public ground, levee, or other propert}^ of said city unless said right 
 is duly granted in the manner hereinabove provided. 
 
 Elevated roads. — Sec. 160. No franchise shall be granted to construct or 
 operate any steam, or elevated railway of any description, or on anj^ street, 
 public grounds or levees of said city except upon petition of the owners of 
 more than one-half the property fronting on the line of such proposed road. 
 
 Street maintenance duties. — Sec. 161. Every grant of any right, privilege 
 or' franchise, in, over, under or upon any of the streets, alleys or public 
 grounds of said city for street railway purposes, shall be .subject to the con- 
 ditions that the person or corporation exercising or enjoying the same shall 
 sprinkle, clean, keep in repair and free from snow, and pave and repave so 
 much of the streets or other public places herein mentioned which may be 
 occupied by such street railways, as lies between the rails of each railway 
 track, and between the lines of double track, and for a space of two feet out- 
 side of such track. 
 
 Additional restrictions. — Sec. 162. Said City of St. Paul shall have the 
 power through the council or other proper manner, to impose other terms, 
 conditions and restrictions additional to those prescribed by this charter, 
 upon the grant of any such right, privilege or franchise aforesaid, including 
 suitable provisions that the whole or any part of the propertj^ used in the 
 exercise or enjoyment of any right, privilege or franchise, shall, upon the 
 expiration thereof, become the property of said city with or without further 
 compensation. 
 
 Abandonment of franchises. — Sec. 163. All rights, privileges, and fran- 
 chises heretofore granted by any lawful authority in, over, under or upon any 
 of the streets, highways, alleys, public grounds or other property of said city, 
 which have never been exercised, or which have been abandoned or have 
 been disused for more than three years before the time when this charter 
 becomes effective, are hereby declared to be forfeited and invalid. Nothing 
 in this paragraph shall be construed as restoring any rights forfeited under 
 any former law, ordinance or charter. 
 
 Cost of bridges. — Sec. 164. All franchises for street or interurban rail- 
 v/ays hereafter granted shall provide that any such railroad shall pay to the 
 city a sum not less than five per cent per annum so long as such franchise 
 shall exist or be used on one-third of the cost of any city bridge over which 
 such franchise shall extend. In the event any application is made for a 
 franchise over a bridge not yet built or completed, the council shall cause 
 an estimate to be made of the true cost of such bridge, and 6uch estimate, 
 corrected by actual figures of cost when the same is available, shall be the
 
 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 41 
 
 basis or computation for fixing the amount to be paid for the franchise over 
 said bridge. 
 
 Carrying of firemen, etc. — Sec. 165. Every street railway franchise shall 
 contain a provision that policemen, firemen, city health officers, and United 
 States mail carriers, when in uniform and in the discharge of their duties a-s 
 such, 'Shall be carried free and with all the rights of passengers. 
 
 Poles — Erection of. — Sec. IGG. All franchises granted to any person of 
 corporation for the erection of poles or masts on or along the streets or 
 other public places of the city for the conduct of electricity or for telegraph 
 or telephone purposes, shall contain a condition and stipulation that the upper 
 arm of all such poles or masts, now erected or to be erected under any exist- 
 ing franchise in the city, shall be reserved for the exclusive use of the city; 
 and that aii}^ franchise granting the right to construct conduits in or under 
 such places for said purposes, or any other purpose, .shall contain a provision 
 that a reasonable portion, to be definitely stated in the ordinance granting the 
 franchise, shall be reserved for the exclusive use of the city. 
 
 Regulations of service. — Sec. 167. The grant of every franchise shall be 
 made especially subject to the condition that the council shall have the right 
 with rC'Spect to any such franchise so granted: 
 
 (1) To require the elevation or depression of the tracks of a railway or 
 street railway, or the placing underground of wires, whenever such action is 
 deemed by said council necessary in the interest of public safety or con- 
 venience. 
 
 (2) To require reasonable extensions of any public service system. 
 
 (3) To make such rules and regulations a.s may be required to secure 
 adequate and proper service, and to proAnde sufficient accommodations for the 
 public. 
 
 Council powers — Present franchises. — Sec. 168. The powers hereinabove 
 enumerated as express provisions of future franchises, are hereby granted 
 the council with respect to public service and franchises now existing or 
 heretofore granted. 
 
 Limits of franchises grant. — Sec. 169. The granting of a franchise shall 
 not be deemed to confer any right to include in the charge for any service 
 any return upon the value of the franchise or grant. 
 
 Condemnation provisions. — Sec. 170. All franchises granted by the City 
 of St. Paul shall be granted subject to the condition that the grantee shall 
 have no right to receive upon a condemnation proceeding brought by the 
 city to acquire for the city the public utility using such franchise, any return 
 on account of the franchise or its value, or any return for good-will, or for 
 any other things whatsoever except the tangible property used in connection 
 v/ith the service for which the franchise was granted. Franchise values shall 
 not be capitalized by any franchise grantee or any successor of such grantee, 
 and the measure of value of the real estate used for said service shall be its 
 value when first used in said service. 
 
 Loans on franchises. — Sec. 171. No loan made to a grantee of a fran- 
 chise received from the City of St. Paul, or to the successor of such grantee, 
 shall be a lien upon said franchise. If any loan be a lien upon 'the property 
 used in the public service given in connection with said franchise, then it 
 shall not be made for a term of years in excess of the term of the franchise, 
 and said entire loan shall fall due before the expiration of the term of said 
 franchise. Said grantee and the successors of said grantee shall provide that 
 said loan shall be paid and wholly liquidated during the term of said fran- 
 chise, so that at the expiration of said term, all of the propertj^ Ursed in con- 
 nection with said franchise shall be entirely free from all liens and obligations 
 whatsoever.
 
 42 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 Sale of franchise. — Sec. 172. No sale or lease for any franchise granted 
 by the City of St. Paul shall be effective until approved by the council 
 by five-sevenths affirmative vote of all the members elect. The assignee, or 
 lessee shall prior to such approval file in the office of the city clerk an in- 
 strument duly executed, reciting the fact of the sale or lease, accepting the 
 terms of the franchise affected, and agreeing to perform all the conditions 
 required of the grantee thereunder. The assignee or lessee shall also file a 
 bond with such conditions as the council may require with securities satis- 
 factory to the council, which ^shall run to the city and which shall be con- 
 ditioned to discharge the obligations and liabilities imposed upon the grantee 
 by the franchise. Thereafter the council shall consider and amy approve or 
 forbid such sale as the interests of the City of St. Paul may demand. 
 
 Relative rights of franchise. — Sec. 173. Every franchise shall provide that 
 the franchise and all things constructed thereunder or used in connection 
 therewith, other than rolling stock and power, shall be subject to common 
 use by any other grantee or assignee of any other franchise, whenever there 
 shall be necessity therefore upon payment or tender of compensation for 
 such use. The question of necessity, compensation and all other questions 
 relating thereto shall be judicial questions, but no judicial proceeding shall 
 •suspend or postpone such use if the person or corporation desiring such use 
 shall deposit in the court such sum as the court in a preliminary hearing may 
 determine. 
 
 Objections to regulations. — Sec. 174. Any holder of a franchise granted 
 by the City of St. Paul who shall question any order, ordinance, or provision 
 prescribing conditions or regulations in connection with the enjoyment of 
 such franchise, must raise such question or issue in a proceeding in court 
 within sixty days of the time such order, ordinance, prevision or regulation 
 goes into effect. 
 
 Powers of council not specified. — Sec. 175. The enumeration and spe- 
 cification of particular conditions or restrictions upon the granting of fran- 
 chises by the City of St. Paul, and their enjoyment, shall not be construed to 
 impair the right of the city to impose upon the holders of such franchise such 
 other and further conditions as the council may deem proper to protect the 
 interests of the city. 
 
 ("FI AFTER XI. 
 
 Legal Department and Legal Procedure. 
 
 Corporation counsel — Election — Term. — Sec. 176. The corporation coun- 
 sel shall be elected by the council on the second Tuesday in July of each 
 and every even numbered year, beginning with the year 1914. His term of 
 office shall begin on the second Tuesday in August following his election, 
 and it shall be for two years and until his successor shall be elected and 
 qualified. The term of the corporation attorney in office when this charter 
 takes effect shall terminate on the second Tuesday in August, 1914, or as 
 soon thereafter as his successor, the corporation counsel, shall be elected and 
 qualified. Coincident with the qualifying of said corporation counsel said 
 office of corporation attorney shall be abolished. 
 
 Assistants and clerks. — Sec. 177. The corporation counsel may appoint 
 such assistants as the council, by an administrative ordinance shall provide 
 and at such compensation as it shall fix, and for acts of such assistants he 
 shall be responsible, and each of them shall hold office during the pleasure 
 of corporation counsel and shall perform such duties as the corporation 
 counsel shall designate. It shall be the duty of the corporation counsel and 
 his assistants to give their whole time and attention to the discharge of their 
 official duties.
 
 CMARTKR Ol" CITY OK ST. PAUL. 43 
 
 Duties of corporation counsel — Special counsel. — Sec. 178. The corpora- 
 tion counsel shall attend to all the legal business of the city. He shall be 
 the adviser of the mayor, the council, and all city officers, and when requested 
 by any thereof shall furnish opinions upon such legal questions of the busi- 
 ness of the city as may be submitted to him. He shall also render and per- 
 form such other legal duties as may be prescribed but the council. All officers 
 of said city are prohibited from retaining, feeing or employiug any other 
 attorney; provided, that in any case in which, by reason of interest, the 
 corporation counsel cannot act, or in any case of special or unusual circum- 
 stances, neceS'Sitating the employmentof special counsel, and upon the written 
 request of the corporation counsel, the council, by a five-sevenths vote of all 
 the members thereof, may, by resolution, authorize the employment of an 
 attorney to act as special counsel for the city in such cases. Said resolution 
 shall fix the maximum compensation to be paid for such service, and the 
 person .so employed shall not under any circumstances, be entitled to receive, 
 and shall not be paid as compensation for his services, any sum in excess of 
 the amount so fixed. 
 
 Actions on behalf of city. — Sec. 179. All actions brought to recover any 
 penalty, or forfeiture under this charter, or the ordinances, by-laws, or police, 
 or health regulations made in pursuance thereof, shall be broueht in the 
 corporate name of the city. 
 
 Fines, imprisonment, etc. — Sec. ISO. In all ca.ses of the imposition of any 
 fine or penalty, or of the rendering of any judgment by the judge of the 
 Municipal Court, pursuant to any ordinance or by-laws of the said City of 
 St. Paul, or pursuant to any provision of the charter of said city as a punish- 
 ment for any ofifense. or for the violation of any by-laws or ordinances as 
 aforesaid, the ofifender shall be forthwith committeed to the "workhouse of 
 said citjr" and be there imprisoned for a term not exceeding three (.3) months, 
 in the discretion of the Judge of the Municipal Court, unless the fine or 
 penalty aforesaid be sooner paid or satisfied, and in all cases where the pun- 
 ishment of such offender shall be by imprisonment, such imprisonment shall 
 be in the said "workhouse," and from and after the time of arrest of any 
 person or person for any offense whatsoever until the time of the trial or 
 hearing, the person or persons so arrested may be imprisoned in the com- 
 mon jail of Ramsey county, or in the city prison, and in all cases w^here the 
 said judge of the Municipal Court is or maj^ be authorized to commit any 
 person or persons for any cause by virtue of the provision.s of the charter of 
 said city, he may commit such person or persons to the said "workhouse." 
 
 Appeals by City. — Sec. 181. The city may prosecute an appeal in all cases 
 to the District Court, or to the Supreme Court of the state. The mayor, in 
 case of such appeals, or in any action or proceeding to which the city is a 
 party, and in which a bond may be necessary, shall execute a bond, signed 
 by him and the city clerk, who shall affix the corporate seal thereto, condi- 
 tioned as may be necessary in such action, proceeding or appeal, but no sure- 
 ties or justification shall be required for .said bond. Nor shall the city be 
 required in any case to file a bond or give other security for costs. 
 
 Not incompetent. — Sec. 182. No person shall be an incompetent judge, 
 justice, witness or juror, by reason of his being, an inhabitant of said city, in 
 any proceeding or action in which the city shall be a party in interest. 
 
 Process in suits against city. — Sec. 18?.. Whenever any suit, action or 
 proceeding shall be brought against the City of St. Paul, the summons or 
 process shall be served on the mayor, and it shall be the duty of the mayor 
 to forthwith inform the corporation counsel thereof, who shall take such 
 other proceedings as may be needful to defend the interests of the city, pro- 
 A'ided that the court in which any complaint may be filed, or any judge thereof, 
 may in his di.scretion direct such other or further notice of the pendency of 
 such action, to be given by publication or otherwise, as to the court or any 
 judge thereof may seem meet and proper.
 
 44 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 Notice of damage claims. — ^Sec. 184. Before the City of St. Paul shall 
 be liable to any person for damages for, or on account of any injury or 
 loss alleged to have been received or suffered by reason of any defect in any 
 bridge, street, road, sidewalk, park, public ground, ferry boat, or public vv^orks 
 of any kind in said city, or by reason of any alleged negligence of any officer, 
 agent, servant or employe of said city, the person so alleged to be injured, 
 cr some one in his behalf, shall give to the council of said city, within thirty 
 days after the alleged injury, notice thereof; and shall present his or their 
 claims to compensation to the council in writing, stating the time when, the 
 place where and the circumstances under which such alleged loss or injury 
 occurred, and the amount of compensation or the nature of the relief de- 
 manded from the city, and such body .shall have ten days' time within which 
 to decide upon the course it will pursue with relation to such claim; and no 
 action shall be maintained until the expiration of such time on account of 
 such claim nor unless the same shall be commenced within one year after 
 the happening of such alleged injur}^ or loss. 
 
 Records, printed compilations, etc., as evidence. — Sec. 185. Section 
 twenty-two (22) of sub-chapter twelve (12) of Chapter one (l) of the Special 
 Laws of the State of Minnesota for the year 1874, in the following words 
 shall remain in full force, to-wit: 
 
 "The files, papers and records in the office of the City Clerk, City En- 
 gineer, Commissioner of Public Works, or any other officer of said city, or 
 copies thereof duly certified by the officer having the same in charge, proofs 
 of publication of all notices, resolutions, orders or proceedings of the common 
 council or commissioner of public works, required to be published under this 
 act, on file in the proper office, or copies thereof certified by the officer having 
 the same in charge, shall be received and read in evidence in all courts and 
 places without further proof. All printed compilations of the laws and ordi- 
 nances of the city, and all printed publications of the proceedings of the 
 common council or of the commissioner of public works or any of the officers 
 cf said city, if published or purporting to be published, compiled or revised 
 by or under the authority of the said city, or any of its officers, shall be' 
 admissible in all courts of law and on all other occasions in this state as 
 evidence of such laws, ordinances and proceedings." 
 
 Record of deeds where city is a party. — Sec. 186. Section 6 of Chapter 
 02 of the Special Laws of the State of Minnesota for the year 1881, in the 
 following words, shall remain in full force, to-wit: "That it is hereby made 
 the duty of the register of deeds of Ramsey county to record any deed or 
 any other instrument in which the grantor or grantee is the City of St. Paul, 
 without requiring the same to be certified, 'taxes paid and transfer entered 
 or paid by sale of land described within,' any general laws of the state to 
 the contrary notwithstanding." 
 
 ("HAPTER XII 
 
 Commissioner of Finance. 
 
 Custody of public moneys and securities. — Sec. 187. The commissioner 
 of finance shall be custodian of all moneys, and also of all promissory notes, 
 checks and other commercial instruments for the payment of moneys belong- 
 ing to the city, or to the government thereof or any department bureau or 
 activity, and all other commercial instruments for the payment of moneys 
 belonging to the city or to said departments, bureaus or activities; and he 
 shall retain the same until they shall have been disposed of by law. No 
 moneys or securities in this section mentioned shall ever be loaned in any 
 manner, save as the deposit of said money in banks, or the temporary invest- 
 ment of the same in the modes provided in this charter, may have the legal 
 effect of a loan thereof. Said commissioner shall have the custody and 
 controls of the city treasury and shall be responsible for its administration.
 
 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. i'AUL. 45 
 
 May appoint deputy. — Sec. 188. Said commissioner of finance shall ap- 
 point a deputy commissitMier of finance at a salary of not to exceed $2,000 
 a year, and may place in his hands any responsibility or function in connec- 
 tion with the discharge of ofilicial duties which may be placed by law upon said 
 Lommissioner, but he shall be responsible to the City of St. Paul for all 
 official acts whatever of said deputy or anj^ other acts which may affect the 
 interests of said city. 
 
 City depositories — Regulations — Bonds. — Sec. lS8-a. The commissioner 
 of finance shall deposit daily to the credit of the city, subject to payment on 
 demand, all moneys or funds belonging to said city or any department, bureau 
 or activity thereof, then in his hand-s, in such incorporated banks in the City 
 of St. Paul, national and state, as shall be determined upon and designated 
 by the sinking fund committee, which is hereby charged with the duty of 
 designating such banks, with regard to their financial strength and safety; 
 and no bank shall be designated which has been reorganized on the basis of 
 an extension of time for the payments of its deporsits or any other of its 
 obligations until after such deposits or other obligations have been paid in 
 full. Said committee shall fix the maximum amount to be so deposited in 
 any one bank which shall not exceed one-third of the amount of its full paid and 
 unimpaired capital stock and surplus. Provided, however, that if the funds 
 or moneys on hand belonging to the city at any time shall exceed the total 
 amount which pursuant to the foregoing limitations can be deposited in all 
 the banks designated by the committee, the commissioner of finance shall 
 under the direction of said committee deposit such excess in such bank or 
 banks as may then have given bonds with personal sureties, up to the full 
 amount of such bonds in each case. The said committee may direct the com- 
 missioner of finance from time to time in what bank or banks to make de- 
 posit and to what amount, or amounts within the limits aforesaid, and from 
 what bank to withdraw moneys required to meet the obligations of the city. 
 All checks for such withdrawal shall be signed by the commissioner of finance. 
 
 Before any moneys are deposited in any bank by the commis-sioner of- 
 finance said banks shall execute to the City of St. Paul proper bonds fully 
 securing the City of St. Paul in double the amount of the deposit authorized 
 by the sinking fund committee. The council shall, by ordinance, provide in 
 detail as to the form, amount and the sufficiency of sureties upon said bonds; 
 provided, that the security shall be at all times ample and provided that the 
 bond'S are conditioned for the re-payment to the city by any and all deposit- 
 ories on demand of any and all moneys deposited in said depositories by the 
 commissioner of finance or any other officer of the city as such. Said bonds 
 shall be always subject to the approval of the sinking fund committee and 
 of the council. No stockholder in a bank shall be accepted as surety upon- 
 the depository bonds of said banks unless investigation has shown that his 
 financial responsibility could not be. senousl> affected by the failure of said 
 bank. All said bonds shall run for one year; and shall be renewed whenever 
 required by the sinking fund committee: said committee may demand new* 
 or additional bonds whenever it may see fit. 
 
 Sec. 189. On default by any such bond in the condition of any bond 
 required in the preceding section, it shall be the duty of the comptroller 
 and of the commissioner of finance, forthwith to notify the corporation council 
 and mayor, and -said corporation council shall at once take steps to enforce 
 liability upon said bond and save the City of St. Paul harmless from loss 
 or expense. No bond given by any city depository under the provisions of 
 the preceding section shall lapse no matter what the limitation may be con- 
 tained therein, until it is superseded by a good and sufficient bond to take its 
 place. 
 
 May deposit securities. — Sec. 190. In lieu of the bonds from city de- 
 positories provided for in this chapter, said depositories are hereby authorized 
 to deposit in the office of the comptroller, with such assignments or powers 
 of attorney as maj^ make them available at any time said sinking fund com- 
 mittee may wish to realize upon them for the protection of the city, as 
 security for city funds to be deposited bonds or tax levy certificates of the
 
 46 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 City of St. Paul, of face value ten per cent in excess of the maximum amount 
 of city funds to be placed in said depositories. Until said bonds are con- 
 A'erted to the use and for the benefit of the city to meet the failure to turn 
 over on demand any deposit of city funds which they may have been pledged 
 to secure, they shall continue to bear interest for the bank pledging them, 
 just as though they had remained in the custody of said bank. The corpora- 
 tion council shall prepare and the council shall pa.ss an ordinance giving full 
 effect to the provisions of this section. 
 
 Withdrawals of deposits. — Sec. 191. Said committee shall, whenever in 
 its judgment, the greater security of the city's money requires it, direct the 
 commissioner of finance to withdraw money from any city depository bank 
 and deposit it in another bank, subject to the limitations aforesaid, and the 
 commissioner of finance shall comply at once with all directions and instruc- 
 tions of the committee given in pursuance hereof. Whenever the commis- 
 sioner of finance shall make a deposit in any one of such banks the latter 
 shall forthwith transmit to the comptroller a duplicate deposit slip thereof 
 signed by an officer of the bank and one of its tellers; and the commissioner 
 of finance shall forthwith deliver to the comptroller an itemized statement 
 of the sources from which the moneys so deposited were received; and it 
 shall be the duty of the comptroller so to keep the accounts of his office as 
 to show the amount belonging to each fund on deposit, and the bank or 
 banks holding the money of the city or any department, bureau or activity 
 thereof. 
 
 Interest on daily balances. — Sec. 192. The sinking fund committee shall 
 make such agreement with banks receiving city deposits as to collect for the 
 benefit of the city the maximum amount of interest on daily balances con- 
 .sistent with the safe keeping of city funds. The commissioner of finance 
 shall not be responsible to the city for losses sustained while following 
 strictly and in good faith the directions of the sinking fund committee and 
 the procedure laid down in this chapter. 
 
 Interest on deposits. — Sec. 193. All interest or other form of gain or 
 advantage accruing from the deposit in banks of public moneys, shall accrue 
 to the city for the benefit of the general fund; and the acceptance or receipt 
 by any officer of the city, or bj^ any employe of the city or any of its depart- 
 ments or bureaus, of any interest or advantage from any such deposit shall 
 be malfeasance in office by such recipient. 
 
 Recdrds by commissioner of finance. — Sec. 194. Said commissioner of 
 finance shall keep a full and complete record of all securities, of all kinds 
 coming into his hands, showing the disposition, of any, thereof. Whenever 
 any instrument of any kind shall be delivered to him, he shall issue duplicate 
 receipt therefor, one to go to the comptroller and the other to be counter- 
 signed by said comptroller and delivered to the person surrendering the 
 instrument, just as in the case of the paying of funds into the city treasury. 
 
 Appointment of subordinates. — Sec. 195. Said commissioner of finance 
 shall appoint in accordance with the provisions of this charter such assistants, 
 officers and employes as may be necessary for the performing of the duties 
 imposed upon him by this charter, by any valid law and by any valid ordi- 
 nance of the council. On his recommendation the council shall determine 
 the duties, titled, compensation and number of said officers, assistangs and 
 employes. They shall be under the direction and control of said commissioner 
 of finance and he shall have the power of removal and promotion under the 
 restrictions imposed by the chapter in this charter relating to the civil service. 
 
 Powers; additional duties. — Sec. 196. Said commissioner of finance shall 
 perform such other duties and exercise such other powers, not inconsistent 
 v^rith the provisions of this charter, as the council may by ordinance direct, 
 or this charter may provide for. Wherever in any law of the state, or in 
 any ordinance of the city of St. Paul, or in any provision of this or any other 
 charter of the City of St. Paul, the city treasurer of the City of St. Paul
 
 CHAR'I'I-'.R Ol' CI'I'V Ol' ST, I'AL'L. 47 
 
 has any duty imposed upon him which may continue under this charter, or 
 i'3 vested with any power, that duty shall be performed or that power exer- 
 cised by the commissioner of finance, provided for in this charter. Said 
 office of city treasurer of St. Paul is hereby abolished, to date from the time 
 when the commissioner of finance first selected under this charter shall 
 qualify and take over the duties of the office of said treasurer. Wherever 
 in this charter the term "city treasury" ot "treasurer" is used in such a 
 context sense as to imply, impose or create any official duty or responsibility 
 in connection with any money, property, or other things belonging to the 
 City of St. Paul, or in which said city is in any manner interested, said term 
 or terms shall mean and signify "commissioner of finance," and he shall be 
 cnarged personally and officially with the implied, created or imposed duty 
 or responsibility. 
 
 Commissioner of finance shall receive moneys. — Sec. 197. Except as 
 otherwise provided for in this charter or by the state laws, all moneys pay- 
 able to the city or to any department, bureau, or activity of its government, 
 shall be payable only to the commissioner of finance; and all moneys pay- 
 able by the city or by said departments, bureaus or activities, shall be payable 
 only by him. 
 
 Tax settlements — Payments to the city by the county treasurer. — Sec. 198. 
 Section twelve (12) of chapter ninety-three (93) Special Laws of the State 
 01 Minnesota, for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one (1881), 
 as amended by Section seventeen (17), chapter seven (7), Special Laws of 
 the State of Minnesota for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty- 
 five (1885) is in the words following, to-wit: 
 
 "Section 12. That i-s is hereby made the duty of the treasurer of the 
 County of Ramsey, in the collection of taxes to keep a set of books so as 
 to show at all times the exact amount of money received for the City of 
 St. Paul, and for the board of education of the City of St. Paul, and that 
 all taxes received by said county treasurer for the City of St. Paul, and 
 for the board of education of the City of St. Paul, shall be distributed as 
 collected on the books of said county treasurer to the credit of said City of 
 St. Paul, and the board of education of the City of St. Paul, and fifty (50) 
 per cent of the penalties received by the county treasurer for delinquent taxes 
 •shall belong to and shall be paid to the treasurer of the City of St. Paul, for 
 the use of said city, by said county treasurer, and the said county treasurer 
 shall on the first of each and every month, or as soon thereafter as the 
 same may be demanded, pay over to the city treasurer of the City of St. 
 Paul all mone}^s and penalties collected the previous month for said city, 
 as well as all moneys collected for the board of education of said city, a-s 
 shown by the county treasurer's book or books." 
 
 "And it is hereby made the duty of the county auditor on the first week 
 day of each and every month, or as soon thereafter as the same mey be 
 demanded, to draw his warrant upon the county treasurer in favor of the 
 city treasurer for all moneys in the county treasury belonging to the City 
 of St. Paul, and the board of education of the City of St. Paul, as near as 
 the -same can be ascertained from the books of the county treasurer." 
 
 Sec 199. Said section twelve (12) as set forth herein above shall remain 
 in full force and effect, provided that the words "city treasurer," or "treas- 
 urer' of the City of St. Paul," or "city treasurer of the City of St. Paul," 
 wherever these or any of them shall appear, shall mean commissioner of 
 finance of the City of St. Paul, and the funds directed to be ^aid for the 
 benefit of the board of education of the Citj'- of St. Paul shall be paid to 
 said city for the use of its free public schools. And provided further that all 
 penalties and interest collected on assessments for local improvements by 
 the county treasurer shall belong to the cit}^ and be paid over to the com- 
 missioner of finance.
 
 48 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 CHArTEE XIII. 
 
 Budget — Public expenditures. — Sec. 200. It shall be the duty of the 
 comptroller not later than August 15 of each year to transmit to the city 
 council detailed estimates in writing of the expenses of the city for the next 
 succeeding fiscal year, and of the revenue necessary to meet said expenses. 
 Said comptroller shall have full power and authority to require from each 
 head of an administrative department of the City of St. Pa-ul or other person 
 in control of expenditures, specific estimates, in such form as said comp- 
 troller may prescribe, of the expenses of his department for the next suc- 
 ceeding fiscal year, the expenditures of the department for the six months 
 immediately preceding June 30 next preceding, and for the last preceding 
 fiscal year. Said estimates shall be placed in the hand.s of the comptroller 
 prior to August 1 of each year. Said estimates shall be so itemized as to 
 show clearly the amounts to be raised for each purpose necessary to carry 
 on the business of the city. At the .same time as presenting said estimates 
 of expenditures, the comptroller shall also submit estimates of probable 
 revenue from taxation, probable rate of direct property taxes necessary, and 
 probable amount of revenue to be received by the city from sources other 
 than direct taxation for the next succeeding fiscal year. 
 
 In said report of budget estimates the comptroller -shall divide said esti- 
 mates into the following funds; 
 
 1. "The city officers' salary fund" from which shall be paid the salaries 
 of all officers of the City of St. Paul elected by the electors of St. Paul. 
 
 2. "Fund for salaries and expenses of the mayor's office." 
 
 3. "Fund for salaries and expenditures of the corporation counsel's 
 office." 
 
 4. "Fund for salaries and expenditures of the city clerk's office." 
 
 5. "Contingent fund," which shall be limited to $10,000 in any fiscal year. 
 
 6. "Finance commissioner's fund," from which shall be paid all salaries 
 and expenditures of that department. 
 
 7. "Police fund" to meet all police expenditures. 
 
 8. "Fire fund" to meet all fire bureau expenditures. 
 
 9. "Health fund" to meet all health bureau expenditures. 
 
 The commis'sioner of public safetj^ shall apportion to these three funds in 
 submitting estimates to the comptroller, such expenses of his office as are 
 not properly chargeable exclusively to either the police fund, the fire fund or 
 the health fund. 
 
 10. "Commissioner of public works fund" from which shall be paid all 
 the salaries and expenditures of all except persons working by the day or 
 hour, who are employed . under the control of said commis-sioner; also all 
 expenditures in connection wath his office. 
 
 11. "A street construction and repair fund" to meet all expenditures for 
 street construction and repair charged to city revenues under this charter. 
 
 12. "A sewer construction and repair fund" to meet all expenditures for 
 sewer construction and repair charged to city revenues under this charter. 
 
 13. "A street and sewer cleaning fund" to meet all expenditures for 
 6treet and sewer cleaning. 
 
 14. "A bridge building and repair fund" to meet all expenditi:re for the 
 construction and repair of bridges charged to city revenues under this charter. 
 
 15. "A public school fund" to meet all school expenditures. 
 
 16. "A public library fund" to meet all public library expenditures, and 
 all expenditures for art galleries and museums. 
 
 17. "An Aitditorium fund" to meet all expenditures in connection with 
 the Auditorium. 
 
 18. "A public parks fund" to meet all expenditures for public parks and 
 squares charged to city revenue under this charter. 
 
 19. "A public playground fund" to meet all expendituures for public 
 playgrounds other than school playgrounds charged to city revenue under 
 this charter.
 
 CliARTKR Oi- CITY OF ST. PAUL. 49 
 
 20. "A public building fund" to meet all expenditures in connection with 
 the office of inspector of buildings. 
 
 21. ''Commissioner of public utilities fund" to meet all expenditures in 
 connection with the citj^ business under the direction or the control of said 
 commissioner, unless provided for by more specific funds. 
 
 22. "Public lighting fund" to meet all expenditures for public lighting 
 not chargeable to a more specific fund. 
 
 23. "Water department fund" to meet all expenditures of said water de- 
 partment charged to city revenue or the revenue of said department. 
 
 24. "Board of control fund" to meet the city's portion of board of control 
 expenditures. 
 
 25. "A city hall and court house fund" to meet the city's share of city 
 hall and court house maintenance. 
 
 26. "An interest fund" to meet all current interest payments due by said 
 city within the fiscal year. 
 
 27. "A sinking fund" to provide additions to the sinking fund for the 
 payment of bonds a,t maturity. The city is hereby authorized to place such 
 sums in thi.s fund from year to year as will be sufficient to pay off all bonds 
 at maturity. 
 
 28. "A redemption of bonds fund" to provide for paying the principal of 
 any certificates of indebtedness, whether against current, general or special 
 assessments to mature within the year and which are not otherwise provided 
 for, and also for paying the principal of any bonds to mature within the 
 year which cannot be paid out of the sinking fund and which are not to be 
 refunded or otherwise renewed. 
 
 29. "A judgment and compromise fund" to provide a fund for the pay- 
 ment of any docketed and unpaid final judgments again.st the city, and all 
 disputed claims which are compromised and settled before judgment. 
 
 30. "A comptroller's fund" to meet all expenditures in connection with 
 the comptroller's office. 
 
 31. "A general fund" which shall provide for all necessary expenditures 
 in connection with the government of the City of St. Paul or any of its de- 
 partments, bureaus or activities, charged to city revenue, and not provided 
 for in the funds hereinabove named. Said fund shall be subdivided in said 
 report and estimates of said comptroller and specific amounts therein shall 
 be provided for specific purposes, so far as practicable. Said fund may con- 
 tain an item of $15,000 to be used at the discretion of the council to meet 
 emergencies due to disaster or catastrophe of extraordinar}- charter within 
 the City of St. Paul or in any other community. It may provide for paying 
 the expenses of delegates to represent St. Paul at important conventions and 
 gatherings outside the city, but the appropriation for said purpose .shall not 
 exceed $3,000 in any fiscal year. 
 
 Limitations. — Sec. 201. The total cost of the goverment of the Citj' of 
 St. Paul in any one calendar or fiscal year, with the exception of the amount 
 necessary to meet maturing bonds or levy certificates or similar obligations 
 as they come due, shall not exceed $24 per capita for each inhabitant of said 
 city, provided that the cost of operating public utilities where this corst is 
 met by revenues collected from patrons for the service, or from other like 
 revenues, shall not be considered part of the cost of said goverment. And 
 the council shall have no authority to make appropriations in excess of the 
 limitation named herein. 
 
 To determine the population upon which this per capita limitation shall 
 be based, the comptroller and the city council shall take the United States 
 cen.sus figures of population for St. Paul last announced previourto the com- 
 pletion of any annual budget, and shall add thereto for each year that has 
 elapsed since said United States census a number equal to one-tenth of the 
 increase in the population of the City of St. Paul during the period between 
 said census and the last previous United States census. It is the intent of 
 this section that this limitation shall cover all govcrmentaj outlay as well 
 as maintenance of government whether the funds are supplied by taxation 
 or by borrowing, except in the case of public utilities, as above excepted, and 
 in the case of local improvements paid for by special assessments.
 
 50 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 Publication of report and public hearing. — Sec. 202. Upon the receipt 
 ot the comptroller's report the council shall cause the same to be publi'Shed 
 once in the official paper of the city. Ten days after such publication said 
 council shall hold public hearings from day to day for not less than twenty 
 days at such times and in such manner as the council may prescribe, at which 
 ail residents of the City of St. Paul desiring to be heard may be heard in 
 reference to any of said estimates or nay item thereof. In this connection 
 the council is given full authority to establish under the direction of the city 
 clerk an exhibit of diagrams, models or other devices useful in explaining 
 budget items to the public. 
 
 Shall fix expenditures. — Sec. 203. Upon the completion of said hearings, 
 and not later than December 15 of each year, the council shall by ordinance 
 to be adopted by a four-seventh vote of all members elected to said council, 
 fix the amount of expenditures in dollar that may be made by several de- 
 partments, bureaus or activities of the city goverment of the City of St. 
 Paul during the next following fiscal year. In fixing said expenditures, said 
 council shall specify as to the expenditure from each of the funds in this 
 chapter provided, and shall make appropriations in fullest practicable detail 
 designating the purpose of each expenditure as specifically as may be. In so 
 fixing expenditures the council shall follow closely as to items the estimates 
 of the city comptroller. In deternining said expenditures said council shall 
 not increase by more than ten per cent any fund beyond the estimates of 
 said comptroller, and it shall not increase the aggregate of all appropriations 
 more than three per cent above the estimates of said comptroller. Said 
 council may reduce any item or the aggregate of all items as much as it may 
 deem consistent with public interests. If the council shall fail to fix before 
 December 31 of any year the amount of expenditures for the next succeeding 
 hear, then the amount of said expenditures for the succeeding year shall be 
 the same as the expenditures for the year in which such failure shall occur. 
 
 May veto items. — Sec. 204. The mayor shall have power to veto any 
 item or items in said ordinance without affecting the validity of any other 
 item or items, and it shall erquire an afifirmative vore of five councilmen to 
 pass said item over said veto. 
 
 Limitation — Temporary loan. — Sec. 205. No department, bureau, activity, 
 board or ofBcer of said city shall have power or authority to expend any of 
 the public moneys, or to incur any liability on behalf of the city in any fiscal 
 year in excess of any fund or of any item of any fund as fixed by the council 
 except as hereinafter provided. Violation of this section shall be deemed 
 malfeasance in ofifice on the part of the person or perosns violating it, and 
 shall make such person personally liable to the other contracting parties for 
 the excess for which said person has attempted to bind said city. Provided 
 that in the year 1914 when this amendment goes into effect, if there is any 
 officer, bureau, department, or activity created by this amendment which 
 is> not provided for in the budget for that year, then the council may by 
 temporary loan provide money for the expenditures of said ofBcer, bureau, 
 department or activity and said council shall provide for the payment of 
 said loan in the budget for 1915. Said loan shall not bear interest in ex- 
 cess of six per cent per annum. No limitation herein contained as to the 
 total expenditures or the cost of city government shall apply to the levy 
 of taxes to pay such loan. Should any part (party) of the general fund herein 
 be available for the temporary support of said officer, bureau, department 
 or activity for the year 1914, the council may so apply it. 
 
 Emergency appropriations.— Sec. 206. In the event of destruction of 
 or injury to public buildings or structures, by fire, flood, tornadoes or other 
 elemental causes, or of the invasion or threatened invasion of the city by 
 epidemic or contagious diseases, or of any other sudden and unexpected 
 emergency wherein the funds aporopriated for any of the purposes above 
 and in this charter provided for become inadequate properly to protect the 
 public interests, the council bv unanimous vote of all members thereof shall
 
 CHARTER OI' Cl'l'V Ol' ST. I'AL'L. 51 
 
 have power to authorize the mayor and comptroller, to borrow temporarily 
 and upon such terms as the council may prescribe, such sum or sums of 
 money as the council may by unanimous vote of all the members determine 
 to be necessary to meet such emergencjs and to execute and deliver to the 
 part}-- or parties making .such loan, such notes, bonds, or other evidences 
 >oi, indebtedness as the council may prescribe. The payment of such 
 temporary loans shall be provided for either by issuing bonds therefor or by 
 tax levy within one year from the date of such loan. The limitations of 
 section of this amendment shall not apply to such loan. All acts of the 
 council under this section must be approved by the mayor and the comp- 
 troller by .signing and countersigning the ordinance or ordinances, resolution 
 or resolutions by which such action is taken, and if such ordinances or ordi- 
 nances, resolution or resolutions are not .so signed and countersigned, they 
 shall be void and of no effect. 
 
 Unexpended balances — Council may provide for retention. — Sec. 207. 
 The council may by ordinance provide for retaining for specific purposes by 
 the various departments, bureaus or activities of the government of the City 
 of St. Paul, of balances in the various funds at the end of the year after 
 all obligations and purposes for which the funds were appropriated have 
 been provided for. Said provisions for using said balances shall be uniform 
 for all departments, bureaus and activities of the city government. 
 
 Transfer of funds. — Sec. 208. By unanimous action of the council, by 
 resolution approved by the mayor and countersigned by the comptroller, 
 balances remaining in budget funds may be transferred from item to item 
 in any of said funds when by doing so an unavoidable deficiency in one 
 item majr be met by said transfer without hampering the work provided for 
 by the money in the item from which the transfer is made. 
 
 Unexpended balances disposed of. — Sec. 209. All unexpended balances 
 
 in any funds in the treasury at the end of any year shall be deducted from- 
 the budget appropriatons for the next year for the funds in which said bal- 
 ances appear, before these funds are provided for by tax levy or other source 
 of city revenue. All other unexpended balances shall revert to the gen- 
 eral fund. "Unexpended balance" as used in this chapter means money 
 in the city treasury at the close of any fiscal year to the credit of any fund 
 in exces.s of the requirements for meeting the expenditures lawfully charge- 
 able to that fund in the same and prior years, including the interest and 
 principal of all tax levy certificates that may have been issued to provide 
 moneys therefor. 
 
 Miscellaneous receipts. — Sec. 210. The comptroller shall include in his 
 report of estimates of city expenditures to the council, as heretofore pro- 
 vided for, estimates of the probable receipts within the next succeeding year 
 from sources other than general city taxation and special assessments, or 
 where money is. received into the city treasury for some specific use, and 
 shall detail in such report how said estimate.s may be apportioned to the 
 funds in this chapter above provided for. In January of each year, after 
 the annual appropriations for the city government, and all the departments, 
 bureaus and activities thereof have been fixed for said year as hereinabove 
 provided, the council shall by ordinance apportion as jt may see fit, said 
 miscellaneous receipts to the various funds. In making such apportion- 
 ment, specific sums shall be assigned to each fund participating herein other 
 than the general fund, and to the general fund, the residue of the miscel- 
 laneous receipts shall be assigned, after the amounts specificallj^ apportioned 
 to said funds .shall be paid. 
 
 From time to time as receipts from miscellaneous sources come into 
 the treasury, the comptroller shall distribute the same among different funds 
 to which the same have been apporpriated by the council, so that each fund 
 authorized by the council to share in the receipts _ shall have during each 
 fiscal year credited to it, the full proportion designated by the council. 
 Provided, however that all receipts from taxes levied by chapter 285 of the 
 laws of 1911, shall be apportioned as therein provided.
 
 52 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 Property subject to taxation. — Sec. 211. All property, real and personal, 
 within the city, except such as may be generally exempt from taxation by 
 the laws of the state, and also except property taxed by the provisions of 
 chapter 285 of the laws of 1911, shall be subject to taxation for the sup- 
 port of the city government of the City of St. Paul and all departments, 
 bureaus or activities of said government supported or provided for in whole 
 or in part by taxation, and said property shall be assessed as provided by 
 law. 
 
 Tax levy. — Sec. 212. After the council shall have made the apportion- 
 ment . of revenue from miscellaneous sources among the several funds, as 
 provided in thi.s charter, it shall not later than the month of January in each 
 year proceed to make a tax levy upon all taxable property within the city, 
 as nearly as may be equal to the aggregate amount of the previously made 
 appropriations for each of the funds specified in this chapter, after de- 
 ducting therefrom miscellaneous receipts assigned to it, and any unex- 
 pended balance of the "^corresponding fund of the previous year, available for 
 said fund, and also such further sum or sum^s of money as the council may 
 have reason to believe will be received for the credit of said fund from 
 any other source. All such tax levies shall be itemized and the amount 
 levied for each fund be separately stated therein. 
 
 Copy to county auditor. — Sec. 213. After making of such tax levy, a 
 duly authenticated copy thereof shall be forthwith transmitted by the city 
 clerk to the county auditor of Ramsey count}'-, who shall cause the eaine 
 to be entered upon the tax duplicate of said county, and to be collected 
 at the times and in the manner prescribed by the general laws of this 
 state relating to the levy and collection of taxes. 
 
 Water department revenues kept separate. — Sec. 214. All receipts and 
 revenues of the water department shall be kept separate and distinct from 
 the other revenues and income of the city, and shall be exclusively applied 
 to the payment of the expense of conducting the business of th"at department, 
 the repairs and maintenance of the plant and property constituting the 
 public water works, the payment of the interest and principal of all the bonds 
 heretofore or hereafter issued by the city for the acquisition, extension, 
 renewal or improvement of said works, and the payment for such future 
 extensions and improvements of the same as may be made by the city. 
 
 School, library and Auditorium revenues. — Sec. 215. The revenues, if 
 any, derived respectively from the public .schools of the said school district, 
 the auditorium or the public library, shall belong to the respectiatve funds 
 provided for the maintenance of said schools, auditorium and library. 
 
 The public funded debt — Bonded indebtedness — Interest — Sinking fund. 
 
 Sec. 216. Save as provided otherwise in this charter the present bonded or 
 permanent debt of the city shall not be increased; nor shall any new bonds 
 of the city be issued except as provided by law. 
 
 The council is fully authorized and empowered to provide by taxation 
 for the prompt payment of interest and for a sinking fund sufficient to meet 
 such bonds of the city at maturity whether heretofore issued or hereafter to 
 be issued. 
 
 Issue of bonds. — Sec. 217. The council shall have power by a five- 
 sevenths vote to authorize the issue of bonds for the purpose of refunding 
 bonds previously issued as the same become due if the funds in the sink- 
 ing fund properly applicable to such maturing bonds are not sufficient to 
 pay and discharge the same; and also for the purpose of creating or preserv- 
 ing a permanent improvement revolving fund, or funds as provided for in 
 this charter. All refunding bonds so issued shall be negotiated by the sink- 
 ing fund committee, hereinafter provided for, and no part of any issue of 
 bond'S either for refunding other bonds or creating or preserving a per- 
 manent improvement revolving fund or funds shall be sold or used in ex- 
 change for bonds of a previous issue, at a less price than the full face
 
 CHARTER Ol'" C\'V\ OK ST. PAUL. 53 
 
 value thereof with accrued interest, nor shall any bond or any proceeds of 
 any bonds issued for refunding or renewing bonds of a previous issue, be 
 used for any other purpose than of retiring or renewing such prior bonds. 
 And no bond or any part of the proceeds, of any bond issued for the pur- 
 pose of creating or preserving a permanent improvement revolving fund, 
 or funds, shall be used for any other purpose than the specific purpose for 
 which the same may be issued. No other bonds shall be issued unless the 
 council by a five-sevenths affirmative vote of all the meinbers elect shall vote 
 to issue the same and unless the question whether such bonds shall be is- 
 sued shall be submitted to and approved by a majority of the electors voting 
 upon the question at a general or a special election. 
 
 Provided that the council may by a five-sevenths affirmative vote of all 
 the members elect, upon request of the water board, and without submitting 
 the question first to the voters of the city, issue and sell bonds of the city 
 for the purpose of extending, enlarging and improving the public water 
 works plant, and the water works system owned and operated by the said 
 city, but no more than $100,000 par value of said bonds shall be issued in 
 any one calendar year and not more than $300,000 in the aggregate shall be 
 authorized under this clause. 
 
 When such water bonds tor any of them are issued or sold, it shall 
 be the duty of the water board to make suitable provision from the revenues 
 of said water plant for the prompt payment of all current interest on said 
 bonds as the same accrues, and for the redemption of said bonds at their 
 maturity. Provided further that all bonds authorized to be issued by 
 chapter 163 and 164 of the laws of 1911. may be issued by a five-sevenths 
 vote of the council and without 'Submitting the same to a vote of the 
 electors of the city, and said chapters 163 and 164 are each continued in 
 full force and efifect notwithstanding any of the provisions of this charter. 
 
 No bonds shall be issued except for the purpose of refunding maturing 
 bonds as heretofore provided, when thereby the aggregate bonded indebt- 
 edness of the city ov.er and above any bonded indebtedness held in the sink- 
 ing fund and bonds issued for the construction, maintenance, extension, 
 enlargement and improvement of the water works, or of the lighting plants 
 or other public utility owned and operated by the city, or for the acquisition 
 of property needed in connection therewith, or for the creation or mainten- 
 ance of a permanent improvement revolving fund, or bonds or certificates 
 of indebtedness issued for the purpose of anticipating the collection of general 
 taxes for the year in which issued, shall exceed ten per cent of the taxable 
 or assessed valuation of the property taxable in the city; but this limitation 
 •shall not apply to the amount issuable of any of the bonds above enumerated, 
 which are excepted from the class of bonds making up such ten per cent 
 aggregate bonded indebtedness. 
 
 Faith and credit of the city pledged. — Sec. 218. The faith and credit 
 of the city is hereby pledged irrevocably for the prompt and faithful pay- 
 ment of the bonded indebtedness of said city, and the interest thereon, as in 
 the bonds provided. 
 
 Sinking fund. — Sec. 219. A sinking fund to be used for the payment 
 and retirement of bonded indebtedness of the city shall be and is hereby 
 created out of moneys derived from the following sources: 
 
 1. Such taxes as the council may from time to time lawfully levj- for 
 that purpose. 
 
 2. Proceeds of the sale of any city property not appropriated within a 
 year for the purchase of other property for public use. ^ 
 
 3. Taxes levied for any department which may cease to exist without 
 expending the funds derived from said taxes, and which is not succeeded by 
 another department covering the same general work. 
 
 4. The surplus from any special assessment after all legal demands 
 upon said assessment have been met. 
 
 5. Surplus revenues of the water department not required in improving 
 or extending the water works or in paying principal or interest of the 
 specific debt incurred on account of said department. Provided that before
 
 .->4 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 any portion of said water department surplus is added to the general city 
 sinking- fund the council and the water board must so direct by unanimous 
 action of all members elect, and the mayor and comptroller must approve. 
 
 6. Any other moneys coming into the city treasury not otherwise ap- 
 propriated by law or by this charter. 
 
 Sinking fund committee. — Sec. 220. The sinking fund shall be under the 
 management of a committee to be known as the sinking fund committee 
 composed of the mayor, comptroller and the commissioner of finance, of 
 which the mayor shall be ex-officio president and the comptroller ex-officio 
 secretary. All moneys and securities belonging to this fund shall be kept 
 entirely separate and distinct from all other funds belonging to the city, 
 and records and accounts of the same shall at all times be kept showing tlie 
 exact amount and condition of said funds and containing a complete de- 
 scription of all securities belonging to the same. And the comptroller shall 
 keep full and accurate minutes of all the proceedings of .said committee in 
 a book to be provided and kept by him for that purpose. Said committee 
 shall have such further powers and duties as are conferred and imposed 
 upon it by this charter. 
 
 Investments from sinking fund. — Sec. 221. As fast as the moneys accumu- 
 late in the sinking fund, the sinking fund committee shall cause them to 
 be invested in securities of the description following and not otherwise, that 
 is to say: 
 
 1. The bonds of the City of St. Paul. 
 
 2. The interest bearing certificates of the City of St. Paul. 
 
 :>. Interest bearing bonds of the county of Ramsey in this state. 
 
 4. Interest bearing bonds of the state of Minnesota, or of the United 
 States, or of any other state which shall not at any time previously have 
 defaulted in the interest and the principal of its bonded debt. 
 
 5. Interest bearing bonds of any county of the state of Minnesota, 
 lawfully issued for any purpose other than to aid in the construction of a 
 railway, or to refund railway aid bonds previously issued. 
 
 The several classes of investment for the sinking fund shall be given 
 preference so far as practicable in the order named above. 
 
 All bonds purchased by the sinking fund committee shall be .stamped 
 "Property of the City of St. Paul transferable only on endorsement of the 
 sinking fund committee." 
 
 Sinking fund income. — ^Sec. 222. The gain or income arising from any 
 monej's nr securities held for the sinking fund shall belong to the said fund 
 and used for the same purpose as the moneys or securities from which 
 said .gain arises. p' ^'^'"1 
 
 Purchase and sales. — Sec. 223. Members of the sinking fund committee 
 shall make all purchases for the sinking fund with a view to serving the 
 best interests of the city. Funds in the sinking fund applicable to the 
 purpose shall be used for the purpose of paying maturing bonds, and all bonds 
 so paid shall forthwith be canceled and filed. 
 
 Attest to bonds — Coupons — Forms. — Sec. 224. All bonds issued by the 
 city shall be signed bv the mayor and countersigned by the comptroller, and 
 have thereto attached the corporate seal of the City of St. Paul attested 
 to by the City Clerk. Coupons issued Avith any such bond may be authen- 
 ticated by the engraved signature of the mayor, and the counter-signature 
 of the comptroller. Except as otherwise provided by law the form of bonds 
 issued by the city shall be determined by the sinking fund committee with 
 the advice of the corporation counsel. 
 
 Tax levy certificates — Certificates of indebtedness — Counsel may author- 
 ize 80 per cent of tax levy. — Sec. 22."). As soon as the tax levy for anv year 
 lias been transmitted to the county auditor, the council may by ordinance 
 to be adopted by a four-sevenths vote of all the members elect, cause to be 
 issued and sold by the sinking fund committee certificates of indebtedness
 
 CiiAR'IM-'.R ()!•■ CrrV ()!•■ S'l'. PAUL. 55 
 
 in anticipation of the collection of taxes for any of the funds named in 
 the tax levy; but tlie total amount of the principal of all such certificate-s 
 issued in any one year for any fund, shall not exceed eighty per cent of the 
 amount included in the tax levy of the same year for such fund. 
 
 Maturity — Interest rate — Denominations. — Sec. 226. No such certificates 
 shall be made to mature at a later date than the fifteenth day of November 
 of the year following that in which the same shall be issued and the rate 
 of interest shall not exceed six per cent per year, payable semi-annually. 
 The certificates issued for each fund shall constitute a separate series, which 
 shall be consecutively numbered and state upon the face thereof, the fund 
 for which the same are issued and the total amount of the tax levy for such 
 fund for the year. Such certificates may be issued in denominations of 
 $100 or any multiple thereof up to $5,000. as the committee may from time 
 to time find necessary or convenient in the sale of such certificates. Such 
 certificates may have interest coupon* attached, and may be made payable at 
 such place, to be fixed by the council as shall seem best calculated to pro- 
 mote their sale. 
 
 Principal and interest first charge upon tax receipts. — Sec. 227. The 
 principal of said certificates shall be payable solely out of the taxes levied 
 for the fund on whose account such certificates were sold, and for the cor- 
 responding fund in prior years, and the liability of the city of any such 
 series of certificates of the coupon issued therewith, shall be limited to the 
 faithful and ratable application to payment thereof of the amounts of such 
 taxes which shall be collected and paid into the city treasury, and as the 
 same are received by the treasury; but interest at the rate named in anj"^ 
 such certificates shall run upon any unpaid principal thereof, after maturity, 
 until such principal and the interest accruing thereon shall have been fully 
 paid as herein provided unless the holder of such certificates fail to present 
 the same for payment. The principal of the series of certificates sold in any 
 one year on account of any fund, shall be a first charge on the moneys re- 
 ceived by the city treasury from the taxes levied for such fund in the year 
 in which such certificates were sold: and no part of such moneys shall be 
 used for any other purpose until the principal and the interest of such series 
 of certificates shall have been paid or the moneys for the payment thereof 
 have been .set apart in the city treasury. All interest on said certificates shall 
 be paid out of the interest fund. 
 
 Proceeds of sale. — Sec. 228. No part of the moneys arising from the 
 sale of an}?- such certificates shall be used for any other purpose than that 
 of the fund on account of which such certificates were sold, except as other- 
 wise provided in this charter. 
 
 Sale of certificates. — Sec. 229. In the sale of such certificates the sinking 
 fund committee shall .so act as to get the maximum returns for the city. No 
 certificates shall be delivered until the price in full has been first paid into 
 the city treasury. Complete records of all sales and payments shall be kept 
 b}^ the comptroller and the commissioner of finance. 
 
 Form of certificates. — Sec. 230. Such certificates shall be signed by the 
 mayor and countersigned by the comptroller and shall bear the corporate 
 seal of the city attested by the city clerk, and .shall bear date on the day 
 of issuance thereof. Said certificates shall be in such form as approved by 
 the sinking fund committee with the advice of the c ornnrate counsel. 
 Interest coupon for interest accruing before maturity, and signed by the 
 mayor and countersigned by the comptroller, may be attached to such 
 certificates. Such signatures may be engraved on said coupons. 
 
 Minimum price — Time of sale. — Sec 231. No .such certificates shall be 
 sold for less than par and accrued interest or issued after the close of the 
 year in which the tax levy against which the same was issued was made. 
 Such certificates shall, be sold at such time or times on or after the fifteenth 
 of June in the year in which they are issued, and in such amounts as the
 
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 sinking fund committee may deem most expedient and calculated to secure 
 the best results and provide for the needs of the city. 
 
 Surplus moneys may be invested. — Sec. 232. — The council may by reso- 
 lution passed by five-sevenths vote of all the members temporarily invest 
 the surplus of any moneys in the treasury belonging to any fund in the 
 purchase of certificates of the kind aforesaid issued on account of another 
 fund; and any such certificates so purchased shall be held, collected and 
 paid for the sole use and benefit of the fund to which the purchase monej^ 
 thereof belonged. 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 Local Improvements and Assessments Therefor. 
 
 General Powers. — Sec. 233. The municipal corporation of the City of 
 St. Paul, bj' and through its council, is hereby vested with and authorized and 
 empowered to exercise the following powers: 
 
 (1) From time to time, to acquire for present or future public use by 
 purchase, gift, devise or condemnation any and all lands or easements there- 
 in for the following public uses and purposes: 
 
 (a) For parks, public playgrounds, parkways and boulevards; for pub- 
 lic markets, public buildings, school buildings, hospitals, museums, art 
 galleries, libraries, and grounds for each of the aforesaid buildings; for 
 opening, widening, extending, straightening and- altering any street, lane, 
 alley; boulevard, parkway or other public thoroughfare or highway; for 
 harbors, levees, boat landings ana approaches thereto; for garbage, reduc- 
 tion and rendering plants, for gas, electric lighting and power plants, and 
 for any other public purpose or use. 
 
 (b) For easements in, over, under and across the property of persons 
 and corporations, for streets, bridges, approaches, culverts, viaducts, ditches, 
 
 .sewers, wires, mains and conduits and other public purposes and uses. 
 
 (c) For easements for the construction of slopes, retaining walls, for 
 cuts and fills upon real property on any .street, boulevard, parkway or other 
 public street, thoroughfare or highway, or for any other public use or pur- 
 pose. 
 
 (2) To change the grade, to grade, to pave, with any kind of material 
 or pavement, to curb, to boulevard, to wall, to bridge, any street, alley, 
 lane, parkway, boulevard or other public thoroughfare or highway; and to 
 construct and lay sidewalks and crosswalks of any material, to construct and 
 lay sewers wherever necessary; to construct conduits and areaways for gas, 
 telephone, electric and other wires, and other instrumentalities to be placed 
 underground in any street, alley, lane, parkway, boulevard or other public 
 thoroughfare or highway, and to repair and replace any of the aforesaid im- 
 provements, now or hereafter existing. 
 
 (3) To drain marshes, ponds and swamps and fill the same; to abate 
 nuisances; to grade, fill, improve, protect and ornament any public park, 
 public square or grounds; to plant and protect ornamental shade trees in 
 any street, parkway or boulevard; and to erect and install ornamental light, 
 and sign posts, and drinking fountains in any square, park or public grounds, 
 or on and along any street, parkway or boulevard: and to repair and re- 
 place any of the aforesaid improvements. 
 
 Gradual Condemnations — Building lines. — Sec. 234. In the opening, 
 widening, extension, straightening, or alteration of any street, alley, lane, 
 boulevard, parkway or other public thoroughfare or highway, the council 
 may, in its discretion, and by a four-sevenths vote of all its members elect, 
 adopt and carry out the following procedure: 
 
 (1) Determine, fix, and establish certain boundarv or building lines, on. 
 over and along any street, alley, lane, parkway, boulevard, or other public
 
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 thoroughfare or highway. When such boundary or building lines shall have 
 been determined, fixed and established, the council shall thereupon take and 
 condemn or order the taking and condemnation of anj^ and all land or lands 
 being and lying within and between said boundary or building lines separate 
 and distinct from any building or structure situated on said land or lands. 
 
 ('2) When such land or lands shall have been so taken or condemned, 
 the council shall thereupon forbid and prohibit the erection or construction 
 between such boundary or building Hne.s, or any new building or structure 
 except such temporary buildings or structures, not to exceed one-story or 
 twenty-five (25) feet in height, as such council shall permit or allow, for 
 such time and upon such terms and conditions as it may impose or provide, 
 provided however, that such terms and conditions shall at all times be con- 
 strued to be a licen.se only, revocable by said council upon thirty days notice 
 thereof to such licensee. 
 
 (3) When the council, b5'- ordinance, shall determine that any street, 
 alley, lane, parkway, boulevard or other public thoroughfare or highway, 
 containing such boundary or building lines, shall be opened, widened, ex- 
 tended, straightened or altered for actual public use and enjoyment to its full 
 width and extent or to the limits of said boundary or building-lines, the 
 council shall thereupon take and condemn or order the taking and con- 
 demnation of any and all permanent buildings or structures or so much 
 as may be nece^ssary, remaining or standing on any and all lands being 
 within and lying between such boundary or building lines, and at the same 
 time, remove or cause the removal of any and all temporary buildings or 
 structures aforesaid. 
 
 Cost of improvements — How paid. — Sec. 235. The cost of any one or 
 more of the improvements aforesaid shall be borne, met, and paid for by 
 the levy of an assessment or assessments therefor upon the property deemed 
 benefited thereby. And any two or more of the improvements aforesaid may 
 be made at the same time and part of the same proceeding, and the assess- 
 ments therefor likewise levied and collected. 
 
 Provided however, that nothing herein shall prevent the council from 
 appropriating sufiicient money from the general funds of said citv to pay 
 the cost of anv improvement of street intersections and crosswalks there- 
 for. 
 
 Drainage districts. — Sec. 236. As soon as practicable the commissioner 
 of public works shall prepare maps and charts showing the natural drainage 
 areas within the city of St. Paul and report the same to the council. And, 
 thereupon the council, by ordinance, shall carve out and divide the city into 
 certain drainage districts or areas, as nearly as practicable co-terminus with 
 the natural drainage areas of said city, which districts shall be known as 
 "drainage districts." Thereafter the cost of any main or trunk sewer drain- 
 ing any one or more of such drainage districts shall be assessed equally 
 on each lot, part or parcel of land within said drainage district or districts in 
 such proportion as the number of square feet contained in said lot, part or 
 parcel of land bears to the total number of square feet contained in such 
 district or districts so drained, provided however that each and every lot. 
 part or parcel of land abutting or fronting on the line of .such main or 
 trunk sewer shall have been first assessed the approximate cost of a lateral 
 sewer necessary to drain such abutting property in accordance with the 
 benefits conferred thereon, and the remainder of the cost of said main or 
 trunk sewer only after said front foot assessment has been deducted shall 
 be assessed upon said drainage district as above provided. " 
 
 Park districts. — ^Sec. 237. As soon as practicable, the commissioner of 
 public works .shall prepare maps showing the n,atural topographical areas 
 and divisions of the city, and report the same to the council. Thereupon 
 the council, by ordinance, shall carve out and divide the city into certain areas 
 or districts, not less than three, which districts shall be known as "park 
 districts." and the cost of acquiring any land or lands for or the making of 
 any improvement in any park, play-ground or public square within any one
 
 58 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 or more of said districts shall be assessed against the property within said 
 district or districts in accordance to the benefits conferred thereon. 
 
 Lateral sewer, water and gas connections. — Sec 238. The council is 
 hereby authorized and empowered, whenever a sewer is ordered built, to 
 include in such order the construction as far as the property lines of all 
 lateral connections and private drains that may be deemed expedient or 
 necessary, or whenever a 'Street or other public highway is paved, to include 
 in such order the construction as far as the property lines of all sewer, 
 water and gas connections that may be deemed expedient or necessary and 
 the same, except gas connections, to be assessed upon the property speciallj'' 
 benefited thereby. 
 
 Inauguration of Public Improvements. 
 
 Procedure. — Sec. 239. Whenever any one or more of the aforesaid im- 
 provements is contemplated or desired, it shall be inaugurated and carried out 
 in the following manner, except as may be hereinafter modified: 
 
 Preliminary order. — Sec. 240. Upon the written application of three or 
 more interested owners of property which may be subject to an assessment 
 for benefits for an improvement or iinprovements set out in such applica- 
 tion, or upon the written proposal therefor by any councilman, the council, 
 by a resolution to be known as a "preliminary order," mav order and direct 
 the commissioner of public works to investigate the necessity for or de- 
 sirability of any such improvement or improvements set out in such pre- 
 liminary order, the nature, extent and estimated cost of each such improve- 
 inents and the total thereof, a plan, profile or sketch of each thereof, to- 
 gether with such other data or information as the council may desire or re- 
 quire, and report the same to the commissioner of finance. The said com- 
 missioner of finance shall thereupon forthwith investigate and determine what 
 lots, parts or parcels of land or real property may be assessed benefits to 
 defray the cost of such improvement or each of said improvements, the total 
 estimated amount of such assessment for each improvement and the total 
 of all improvements, together with a statement of the assessed valuation on 
 each lot, part or parcel of land or real property as last reported by the 
 county assessor, and report the same to the council together with the report 
 made to him by the said commissioner of publ'c works. 
 
 Intermediary order. — Sec. 241. Upon the reception of such report from 
 the commissioner of finance, the council shall consider the same, modify or 
 refer the same for further information, or approve the same. When a report 
 shall be approved or adopted the council, by resolution to be known as an 
 "intermediary order," shall determine to proceed with the same, or to dis- 
 continue the same. In case such intermediary order 'Shall discontinue such 
 improvement or improvements, then thereupon all action and proceedings 
 shall fall and cease, and no such improvement or improvements named in 
 the preliminary order therefor shall be again inaugurated or made except 
 upon a new preliminary order, and no such preliminary order shall be intro- 
 duced or passed for a period of six (6) months after the adoption of such 
 intermediary order. In any intermediary order which shall provide for 
 proceeding with such improvement or improvements, the council 'Shall state 
 the nature of the improvement or improvements which it recommends and 
 any and all alternatives therefor, which it may deem advisable together with 
 the cost of each, and it shall also fix a time and place, not less than twenty 
 ('20) days atfer the passage of such order, for a public hearing on such im- 
 provement or improvements. 
 
 Not less than ten (10) days prior to the time set for such hearing, the 
 commissioner of finance shall mail to every known owner at his last known 
 address, or to the agent, of property subiect to an assessment therefor, a post- 
 card stating the time and place for such hearing, the nature of the improve- 
 ment or improvements proposed, and such other information as the council 
 may direct.
 
 CIIARTF.R OK CITY C)I< ST. I'AUL. .V.) 
 
 Hearing — Final order. — Sec. 242. At the time and place fixed in such in- 
 termediary order, the council shall hear all persons and all objections and 
 recommendations relative to the improvement or improvements named in 
 such intermediary order. Thereafter, the council may reconsider such in- 
 termediary order, and determine to discontinue such improvement or im- 
 provements, or it may proceed to adopt a resolution, to be known as a "final 
 order," wherein shall be stated the precise nature, extent and kind of im- 
 provement or improvements which shall be made, and instruct and direct 
 the commissioner of public works to prepare plans and specifications there- 
 for, and proceed with the making of such improvement or improvements. 
 
 Petition of remonstrance. — Sec. 24.'i. No public improvement, the cost, 
 or any part of which, shall be paid by an assessment on the property deemed 
 benefited, shall be made if a petition of remonstrance as hereinafter pro- 
 vided is filed with the council at any time prior to the passage and adoption 
 of the final order therefor. And no further action shall be taken therein 
 and all proceedings had theretofore shall be of no force and effect and no 
 other or new preliminary order for such improvement or improvements 
 so petitioned against shall be introduced for a period of six (6) months 
 from and after the filing of such petition. 
 
 Such petition shall describe the improvement or improvements and shall 
 be signed by not less than sixty (60) per cent of the resident owners, or 
 their agents, of such property aforesaid representing not less than fiftj^ (50) 
 per cent of the lineal frontage on the line of such improvement, or when 
 such basis .shall be impracticable then sixty (60) per cent aforesaid represent- 
 ing not less than fifty (50) per cent of the parcels of land so assessed. 
 
 Each signer shall write his name and place of residence, or where "an 
 agent shall sign, the name of such owner by his agent and the place of, 
 residence of such owner, give a description of the property owned or repre- 
 sented, and the lineal feet frontage of the same when required as aforesaid. 
 
 Such petition may consist of several papers, but the names on each 
 separate paper or portion thereof shall be certified to under oath by one of 
 the signers thereof. 
 
 Provided however, that no such , petition of remonstrance sliall have 
 any force or effect whenever the council, by a resolution adopted by a five- 
 sevenths A'ote of all its members elect including the mayor, and adopted 
 within twenty (20) days from and after the filing of such petition, shall de- 
 clare .such improvement or improvements to be a public necessity. 
 
 Assessments For Local Improvements. 
 
 Preliminary assessment. — Sec. 244. After the cost of the construction 
 of any improvement or improvements for which an assessment maj- be 
 levied, has been determined either by the letting of a contract or contracts 
 therefor, or as otherwise provided for in this charter, the commissioner of 
 finance shall ascertain the amount of all expenditures for published notices, 
 post-cards theretofore and thereafter to be incurred, the cost of all con- 
 struction work including an estimated amount, not to exceed two per cent 
 of the cost of such construction, for inspection, all court fees for confirma- 
 tion of such asses.sment, and other disbursements, and thereupon proceed to 
 assess and levy the total amount so ascertained upon each and ever\- lot. 
 part, and parcel of land or lands deemed benefited by such improvement 
 or improvements, and in the case of each lot, part, or parcel of land, in 
 accordance with the benefits deemed conferred thereon. Upon the comple- 
 tion of such assessment the .said commissioner shall report the .same to the 
 council. 
 
 Final assessment- — Sec. 245. When such assessment hereinbefore pro- 
 vided for has been reported by said commissioner, the council shall pro- 
 ceed to consider the same, revise, modif}^ or refer same to said commissioner 
 for revision or modification. After such assessment is satisfactory to the 
 council, it shall by resolution approve the same, and thereupon fix a time and 
 place for a public hearing on the same, which .shall not be less than twenty 
 (20) days after the adoption of such resolution. The commissioner of
 
 60 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 finance shall forthwith give notice of such hearing in the same manner as 
 hereinbefore in section 241. 
 
 At such hearing or any time thereafter the council may modify, revise 
 amend such assessment, and when such assessment is satisfactory to the 
 council, it shall thereupon by resolution ratify such assesment and order the 
 same to be submitted to the District Court for confirmation as hereafter 
 provided. 
 
 Judicial Confirmation. — Sec. 246. Upon the ratification of such assess- 
 ment as hereinbefore provided, the commissioner of finance shall file a 
 certified copy of such assessment with the Clerk of the District Court in and 
 for Ramsey County, and such assessment roll shall contain a description 
 of such improvement or improvements as shown by the Final Order for 
 which such assessment was levied, the names of the persons whose names 
 each lot, part or parcel of land stands assessed as shown by the last assessed 
 valuation thereof by the County Assessor, a description of each parcel and 
 the amount of the assessment against the same set opposite thereto. The 
 filing of such assessment roll shall have the same effect as the filing of a 
 complaint. 
 
 Thereafter the said commissioner of finance shall cause to be pub- 
 lished at least once in the official paper of said city, a notice in the following 
 rorm and manner: 
 
 "STATE OF MINNESOTA, ) DISTRICT COURT. 
 
 > ss. 
 County of Ramsey. ) Second Judicial District, 
 
 THE STATE OF MINNESOTA, to all persons, companies, or cor- 
 porations who have or claim any estate, right, title, or interest in, claim to 
 or lien upon, any nf the following parcels of land described in the list hereto 
 attached: — • 
 
 The list of assessments on real property for the local improvements or 
 improvemients made in the City of Saint Paul known and described as, 
 follows: — (Here insert the nature of the improvement or improvements as 
 shown by the Final Order,) has been filed in the office of the clerk of the 
 district court of said county, of which that hereto attached is a copy. There- 
 fore, you, and each of you, are hereby required to file in the office of the) 
 said clerk, on or before the twentieth (20th") day after the publication of this 
 notice and list, j^our answer, in writing, setting forth any objection or defense 
 you may have to the confirmation of such assessment, or any part thereof, 
 upon any parcel of land described in said list, and in default thereof, said 
 assessment will be confirmed and judgment will be rendered, but not 
 docketed, for assessment on said list appearing against it. 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 Clerk of the District Court of Ramsey County. 
 (Here insert list). 
 
 As to platted property, the form of heading shall conform to circum- 
 stances and be substantially in the following form: 
 
 City of Saint Paul 
 
 (Brown's Addition or Subdivision.) 
 
 Name of owner. Lot. Block. Total Assessment. 
 
 $ cts. 
 (John Smith) (1) (22) ($5 09.) 
 
 Unplatted property shall be placed under a separate column and be 
 substantially in the following form: 
 
 Citv of Saint Paul 
 
 UNPLATTED PROPERTY. 
 
 Township (Forty) Range (Thirty-two) 
 
 Subdivision of Section. 
 
 Name of Owner. Section. Total Assessment 
 
 $ cts. 
 (James Brown) (S. E. 14) (5) (9.87.) 
 
 The names, descriptions and figures employed in paranthcses in the 
 above forms are merely for the purposes of illustration.
 
 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 61 
 
 The name of the township, range, city, and addition or subdivision, as the 
 case may be, shall be repeated at the head of each column of the printed 
 lists as brought forward from the preceding column. 
 
 Hearing — Jurisdictional defects. — Sec. 247. Upon due publication of such 
 notice, and of which the filing of an affidavit of publication as by law in 
 such cases made and provided shall be due proof, the court 'Shall be deemed 
 to have acquired full and complete jurisdiction to hear and determine such 
 proceeding at the next special term thereof following the expiration of the 
 time aforesaid, or during the months of July, August and September, three 
 days thereafter, or in both cases, as soon thereafter as practicable. 
 
 The only defenses and objections to the said a^ssessment shall be: 
 
 1. That there is no valid Final Order for such improvement or improve- 
 ments. 
 
 2. That the assessment is fraudulent, or made upon a demonstrable 
 mistake of fact, or upon an illegal or erroneous principal of law. 
 
 The jurisdiction of the Court shall not be affected by any error, act or 
 omission, except as heretofore provided, prior to the filing of .such assess- 
 ment list with the clerk, nor by any mistake in copying the list for publica- 
 tion, or in publishing the same, nor by reason of the assessment having' 
 been charged in any other name than that of the person to whom the 
 same is assessed as heretofore provided, nor by any mistake in the amount 
 of the assessment in such published list appearing against any parcel of 
 land therein described, nor any other mistake or error not affecting the sub- 
 stantial right of any person. 
 
 At such hearing, the court may modify, alter, amend, revise the whole or 
 any part of such assessment, or strike out any parcel of land therefrom upon 
 the ground that no benefits inured thereto, or it may direct the commissioner 
 of finance so to do in accordance with the terms of its order, and there- 
 after without notice submit the same to the court for its approval. 
 
 Whenever any assessment .shall be approved by the court, it shall make 
 an order confirming such assessment and render judgment against each lot, 
 part or parcel of land for the amount of the assessment set opposite thereto. 
 
 Certified copy. — Sec. 248. After confirmation and judgment as herein- 
 before provided, the clerk of the district court aforesaid shall deliver to 
 the commissioner of finance a certified copy of such assessment roll as con- 
 firmed by the said court. 
 
 Comptroller's audit. — Sec. 240. The commissioner of finance, before filing 
 with the .clerk of the district court aforesaid any assessment-roll shall de- 
 liver the same to the comptroller for his audit thereof nnd any objections 
 thereto made by said comptroller shall forthwith be reported to the council 
 for its action thereon. 
 
 Before the commissioner of finance shall publisli any notice for the 
 collection of any assessment, or before he shall deliver to the county auditor, 
 as hereinafter provided, any certified copy of any installment of any assess- 
 ment, or a list of delinquent in.stallments or assessments, he shall first 
 submit such assessment roll, or certified copy of installments, or list of de- 
 linquents, as the case may be, to the comptroller for his audit and approval 
 thereof. 
 
 In none of the cases aforesaid shall the comptroller retain such docu- 
 ment in his possession for more than ten days 
 
 Effect of confirmation and judgment. — Sec 250. When such" assessment 
 shall be confirmed and judgment rendered, as hereinbefore provided, against 
 each lot, part or parcel of land, the same shall be final and conclusive upon 
 all persons and parcels of property, except that the .same may be subject to 
 review by the Supreme Court as in other civil actions, provided however, 
 that an appeal be taken therefrom within twenty (20) days from and after 
 such confirmation and a notice of such appeal be served upon the commis- 
 sioner of finance and proof of such service filed with the clerk of said court 
 and provided furthel", that such person or persons appealing shall also file
 
 62 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 ivith said clerk within thef time aforesaid a bond with such sureties and in 
 such an amount to be approved by the court or a judge thereof, conditioned 
 for the payment of the amount for which judgment shall be rendered and 
 the penalties and costs allowed by law, if the decision nf the district court 
 shall be affirmed. 
 
 And provided further, that such appeal and any judgment thereunder shall 
 affect only such lots, parts and parcels of land named in such notice of ap- 
 peal, and that the assessment as to all other parcels shall be the same as if 
 no appeal had been taken. 
 
 Re-assessment or new assessment. — Sec. 251. In all cases where an 
 assessment is not confirmed and judgment is denied again.st any lot, part or 
 parcel of land, and where such assessment is not determined by the court 
 or under its direction, then the commissioner of finance and the council 
 without any order, resolution or other act shall proceed to make a re-assess- 
 ment or new assessment in the same manner as hereinbefore provided in 
 sections 244 to 250, inclusive, of this charter, and the same shall be 
 collected and enforced in the same manner as other assessments, and such 
 parcels may be assessed and re-assessed for any cause as often as may be 
 necessary until each separate lot, part or parcel of land has paid its propor- 
 tionate share of the cost of such improvement or improvements, as nearly 
 as may be. In case the amount of such re-assessment or new assessment 
 shall be less than the first assessment upon such lot, part or parcel of land 
 re-assessed, then the deficit shall be paid out of the general revenues of said 
 city. 
 
 Inadequate assessments. — Sec. 352. If in any case the first assessment 
 levied shall prove insufficient to pay fully the cost of any improvement or 
 improvements, the commissioner of finance and the council shall forthwith 
 proceed to assess and re-assess the necessary amount upon the property 
 deemed benefited b}^ such improvement or improvements to pay the cost 
 thereof. 
 
 Improvements on private property. — Sec. 253. Property owners may be 
 allowed to construct any improvement upon or through their own property 
 at their own expense, in such cases and upon such terms, and under such 
 regulations as the council, by ordinance, may prescribe from time to time. 
 
 Unforseen obstacles. — Sec. 254. If the council, in carrying out the pro- 
 visions of this charter should find an-sr unforseen obstacles, not provided for, 
 in the making of any improvement or improvements, the council, may, by 
 resolution, order such changes or modifications in such improvement or 
 improvements to meet such unforseen obstacles as the said council may deem 
 equitable, just and necessary, either before or after the confirmation of any 
 assessment, or at any time while the work of such improvement or improve- 
 ments is in progress, and the additional expense occasioned by such change 
 or modification may be included in the original assessment <"ir raised by an 
 additional assessment upon the property deemed benefited tliereby to the 
 extent of such benefits. 
 
 Rule for assessments. — Sec. 255. It shall be the duty of the commis- 
 sioner of finance and the council, in estimating the benefits to any par- 
 ticular lot, part or parcel of land, to take into con.sideration the nature of the 
 owner's interest therein, the form and position of their several parcels of 
 land, the qualified rights of the owners in reference to its employment and 
 any other circumstances which render the proposed improvements more or 
 less beneficial tn him or them, and the determinaton and assessment or 
 estimate of benefits deemed accruing to said property by .said commissioner 
 of finance and council shall be final, except as otherwise herein provided. 
 
 Adverse possession. — Sec. 256. No right, title, estate or easement of the 
 City of Saint Paul in or to any property shall be prejudiced or lost by an 
 adverse possession or occupancy.
 
 CHARTER OF CITY OI' ST. PAUL. 63 
 
 Non-assessable improvements. — Sec. 257. Where the cost and expense of 
 any of the fi)ll<)\ving improvements, viz: — A change of grade, condemnation 
 of any land or an easement therein does not exceed the sum of two hundred 
 ($200) dollarSj the same shall be paid out of the general funds of the city. 
 
 Collection of Improvement Assessments. 
 
 Assessments — How payable. — Sec. 258. At the .same time that the council, 
 as hereinbefore provided, shall ratify any assessment, it shall in such resolu- 
 tion determine and provide in what number of installments not to exceed 
 ten (.10) installments, the assessment against any lot, part parcel of land 
 shall, or may be, paid. Provided, however that any assessment upon any 
 lot, part or parcel of land amounting to ten dollars ($10) or less for said 
 lot, part or parcel shall be paid in but one payment. 
 
 Lien of assessment. — Sec. 259. The cost of any improvement and the 
 assessment levied and assessed and against any real property under the 
 provisions of this charter shall be a perpetual, paramount and continuing 
 lien upon the real estate upon which the same may be imposed from and 
 after the confirmation of such assessment as hereinbefore provided and until 
 the (Same is paid, provided however, that as between grantor and grantee, 
 vendor and vendee and mortgagor and mortgagee, the lien of such assess- 
 ment shall attach as follows — 
 
 (1) Where such assessment is payable in one installment, then 'on and 
 from the day of the publication by the commissioner of finance of a notice 
 as hereinafter provided, for its payment. 
 
 (2) When such asse.ssment may be paid in two or more installments, 
 then the lien of the first installment shall attach on and from the day of the 
 publication by the commissioner of finance of a notice, as hereinafter pro- 
 vided, for its payment, and the lien of each subsequent installment shall 
 attach on the first ]\I6nday of January of the year for which such installment 
 is certified for collection to the County Auditor of Ramsey County by the 
 commissioner of finance. 
 
 The lien of such assessment or of any installment of such assessment 
 shall be of equal rank with the lien of the state for taxes which have or 
 may be levied upon said property under the general laws of the state, and 
 the general rules of law as to priority of tax liens shall apply equally to the 
 lien of such assessment or installments thereof. And to such liens for gen- 
 eral taxes with the same force and effect as though all of the liens aforesaid 
 and all the taxes and the assessments and installments aforesaid were of the 
 same general character and imposed for the same purpose and by the same 
 authority without regard to the priority in point of time of the attaching 
 of either of said liens, and a sale or perfecing of title under either shall not 
 bar or extinguish the other. The enforcement of the liens of any installment 
 shall not operate to give the same superiority over subsequent unpaid in- 
 stallments. No assessment or sale made pursuant to this charter shall ex- 
 tinguish or affect the lien of the city under an assessment previous to the 
 adoption of this charter. 
 
 Notice for payment — Delinquency. — Sec. 260. Whenever, after confirma- 
 tion and audit thereof, any assessment roll is delivered by the comptroller 
 to the commissioner of finance, the said commissioner shall forthwith pro- 
 ceed to collect the same, or the first iiistallment, as the case may be and 
 shall forthwith cause to be published in the official paper a notice that the 
 payment of such assessment, or the first installment, as the ca^e may be, 
 is thereby demanded, and that unless the same be paid within the time here- 
 inafter provided, the same will be declared del'nquent and the penalties here- 
 inafter provided will attach. 
 
 At the same time of such publication, the said commissioner shall also 
 mail to the owner, or his agent, at the last known address, of any property 
 so assessed, a post-card to the .same effect, but the failure so to do shall in 
 no way efifect or prejudice the collection of such assessment or installment, 
 nor the attaching of- any penalty.
 
 64 CFIARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 Any assessment, or first installment, as the case may be. which shall 
 not be paid within thirty (30) days from and after the publication of the 
 notice aforesaid shall be and become delinquent, and the said commissioner 
 shall forthwith add to the amount of any assessment, or first installment, as 
 the case may be, assessed against any lot, part or parcel of land, so delin- 
 quent, a sum equal to ten (10) per cent of such assessment or installment, 
 delinquent, and in addition thereto, the said commissioner shall collect in- 
 terest on such assessment, or first installment, delinquent at the rate of six 
 per cent per annum from the day of .such delinquency until the day of 
 pa3'ment, provided the same be paid before the first day of November fol- 
 lowing such delinquency. 
 
 Delinquent assessments collectible by county. — Sec. 261. Not later than 
 the first day of November of each and every year, the said commissioneii 
 shall certify to the county auditor of Ramsej^ County a list of each and) 
 every lot, part or parcel of land against which there is a delinquent assess- 
 ment, or first installment, not theretofore certfied, the amount of such assess- 
 ment, or first installment, and the amount of the penalty against each lot, 
 part or parcel, together wih the interest on such assessment, or installment, 
 at the rate of six (6) per cent, against each lot, part or parcel, computed 
 from the day of such delinquency to the first day of January following such 
 delinquency. 
 
 It is hereby made the duty of the countv auditor aforesaid to spread 
 and ;place on the tax lists or roll of real property to be delivered to the) 
 county treasurer the January following, the amount of such assessment, or 
 first installment, delinquent, the amount of such penalt3^ and the amount of 
 such interest against each and every lot, part or parcel of land shown on 
 said list. 
 
 Interim payments. — Sec. 262. Whenever, after the delivery of the afore- 
 said list to the county auditor, and before the first Alonday of January there- 
 after, the commissioner shall collect any assessment, or first installment, 
 delinquent as shown on said list, and the penalty against the same together 
 with interest as aforesaid from the day of delinquency until the day of pay- 
 ment, then and thereupon, the said commisioner shall forthwith at the close 
 of each da}^ certify to the county auditor aforesaid a list of all such pay- 
 ments, and the county auditor shall forthwith strike the assessments, penal- 
 ties and interest against such lots, parts or parcels of land from such tax 
 lists or tax-rolls aforesaid. 
 
 Subsequent installments — How collected. — Sec. 263. AVhen an assessment 
 against an^^ lot, part or parcel shall be payable in two or more installments, 
 the first installment shall be collected as hereinbefore prov ded, and each 
 subsequent installment shall be and become due and payable annually there- 
 after, in -sequence until such number of installments be exhausted, on the 
 first -Monday of January of the year for which such installment is certified 
 for collection as herein?-fter provided. 
 
 Where assessments are payable in two or more installments, each in- 
 stallment subsequent to the first installment •'^hall bear Interest at the rate 
 of six (6) per cent per annum from the day of the publication of the notice 
 for payment of the first installment of such assessment and until the first 
 Monday of January of the year for which such installment is, or is to be, 
 certified by the commissioner of finance to the county auditor of Ramsey 
 County for collection, provided however, that the interest on each and every 
 installment unpaid shall be due and payable on the first Monday of January 
 o^ each and every year until certified as heretofore provided, and such inter- 
 est on all unpaid installments shall, in all respects, be and constitute part 
 of such installment certified, except as may be otherwise herein provided. 
 
 Not later than the fifteenth (15) day of October of each and every 
 year, the commissioner of finance shall certify tn the countv auditor aforesaid 
 a list of each and every lot. part or parcel of land asrainst which there is 
 asrsessed a second or other installment, unpaid not theretofore certified to 
 the said county auditor, and the total amount of the installment against
 
 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 65 
 
 each parcel, being the original amount of such installment plus the interest 
 thereon, and the interest then due on all other unpaid and uncertified in- 
 stallments, as heretofore provided. 
 
 The said county auditor shall forthwith place and spread such total 
 amounts aforesaid, as shown by said list, against each lot, part or parcel 
 of land respectively on the tax-lists or tax-rolls which are to be delivered to 
 the county treasurer for collection the following January. 
 
 Alterations in lots. — Sec. 264. Whenever the county auditor shall dis- 
 cover that the description of any parcel of land shown on said list certified 
 differs from that shown on the tax-lists, or where any lot Oi parcel is, 
 altered or divided, he shall report the same to a committee composed of the 
 comptroller, the commissioner of finance and county auditor, who shall 
 examine into the matter and who may thereafter alter or modify the de- 
 scription of said premises on such certified list and the original assessment 
 roll, and where alteration or divisions occur pro rata such assessment or 
 installment among such altered or divided parcels and do anything else in 
 the premises equitably and justly necessary. 
 
 Advance payments. — Sec. 265. Where an assessment is payable in two 
 or more installments, the entire amount of such assessment against any 
 lot, part or parcel of land may be paid without interest within the time 
 limited for the payment of the first installment thereof. And, any number 
 of installments, not then due and payable, may be paid at any time upon 
 the payment of the original amounts thereof and interest thereon as here- 
 inbefore provided up to the time of such payment. 
 
 Collection by county officers. — Sec. 266. Any and all delinquent assess- 
 ment, delinquent first installments, and other installments, or any other 
 assessment for local improvement or other municipal purposes, certified to 
 the county auditor of Ramsey County by the commissioner of finances or 
 any other municipal officer or body of the City of St. Paul authorized so to 
 certify, shall be collected and the collection thereof enforced in the same 
 manner, in all respects, as county and state taxes, and shall be added to the 
 said taxes and all of the foregoing assessments or installments, of whatever 
 nature shall be subject to the like penalties, costs, interest charges, whether 
 or not interest charges or penalties have been theretofore added thereto by 
 said city or not. and shall in all resoects be treated and enforced as if the 
 same were state and county taxes. 
 
 And, it is hereby made the duty of the county auditcir and the county 
 treasurer, and all county officers necessary therefor, to carry out the fore- 
 going provisions. 
 
 Forfeited sale of present certificate.— Sec. 267. .Ml certificates of sale 
 for local improvements or other imorovements now held by the city in an}'' 
 manner and upon which the time for redemption has expired, and all cer- 
 tificates aforesaid now held by said city upon which the time for redemption 
 has not yet expired, upon the expiration of the time aforesaid, may be sold 
 by said city by public sale or sales, by and through such officer or officers, 
 at such times, upon such public notice, and upon such terms and conditions 
 as the council, by ordinance, may prescribe and provide. 
 
 Pending acts. — Sec. 268. Assessments now being collected, all assess- 
 ments made and confirmed but not collected, all other acts and proceedings 
 had for any public improvement under the existing charter are hereby rati- 
 fied and confirmed, but all other acts and proceedings to be tlone or had 
 relative to the completion of the aforesaid, shall be done and had under 
 the terms and provisions of this charter, wherever in the opinion of the 
 council, by resolution, the same is practicable, and wherever the same be 
 impracticable, in the opinion of said council, the same shall be continued 
 under the terms and provisions of the existing charter, and the terms of _ the 
 ex'sting charter are herebv continued in force until such acts and proceedings 
 are completed. Tlie opinion of the council in the foregoing matters shall be 
 construed to be judicial and final and conclusive in all matters and upon all
 
 r.(i CHARTER OF CITY OF. ST. PAUL. 
 
 persons. Wherever it 'Shall be impossible for any officer under the existing 
 charter to perform any act therein, required by reason of the discontinuance 
 of the office, the council shall, by said resolution, designate the officer or 
 officers under this charter to perform the duties of such office or officer 
 abolished required to complete such acts or proceedings aforesaid. 
 
 Condemnations. 
 
 Inaugurations — Awards. — Sec. 269. Whenever after the council has adopt- 
 ed an intermediary order for any public improvement for which an assess- 
 ment may be levied and which shall require the taking or condemnation of 
 any land or an easement therein, or in any other case where the council 
 has determined that it shall be necessary for the city to acquire any land or 
 an easement therein, and such land or such easement cannot be acquired 
 except by condemnation or where the council has ordered the condemnation 
 and taking of any land, lands or easement for public purposes, the com- 
 missioner of public works shall make and deliver a sketch, plan or profile 
 and such other necessary data showing the exact amount of such land or the 
 easement therein necessary so to be taken or condemned and report the 
 same to the council. The council thereupon shall by resolution fix the exact 
 amount of such land or the exact extent of isuch easement to be taken or 
 condemned, and thereafter the commisisoner of finance shall view the said 
 premises, fix and determine the value of such land, lands or easement afore- 
 said, and the amount of damages that shall be awarded to each and every 
 person known or shown by the records of ihe Register of Deeds in and for 
 Ram^sej' County to have an}^ right, title, estate, lien or interest therein. When 
 the said commissioner of finance shall deem it advisable, he may subpoena 
 and examine under oath any person or persons relative to the value of such 
 land, lands, or easement therein and the value of any right, title, estate, lien 
 or interest therein. When the said commissioner of finance aforesaid shall 
 have fixed and determined the value of such land, lands or easement therein, 
 and the amount of the awards aforesaid and to whom payable, he shall report 
 the same to the council. 
 
 Confirmation of awards. — Sec. 270. The council, upon the delivery of 
 such report aforesaid, shall fix a time and place for a public hearing upon 
 the same, and for the confirmation of the award or awards aforesaid. The 
 commissioner of finance shall thereupon give ten days notice thereof by one 
 (1) publication in the official paper and such publication shall be conclusive 
 notice upon all per-sons or parties having or claiming any right, title, estate, 
 lien or interest in any land, lands or easement therein, of the taking or 
 condemnation thereof, and of the award or awards of damages for such right, 
 title, estate, lien or interest in said land, lands or easement therein. And, each 
 and every person, having or claiming any right, title, estate, lien or interest 
 in any land, lands or easement aforesaid, or in the award of such damages 
 shall be forever barred and estopped to question in any manner or in any 
 respect, such taking or condemnation or the award of damages therefor, 
 unless such person or persons shall, at the time of such hearing, file in writing 
 with the said council, or the city clerk, if filed prior to such hearing, objections 
 to the taking or condemnation! of such land, lands or easement therein, or 
 the award of damages therefor, or both, as the case may be. 
 
 At least five (5) days prior to such hearing, the said commissioner of 
 finance shall serve or cause to be served, in tlie same manner as by law 
 provided for the service of a summons, a notice of such hearing upon all 
 j.crsons. or their known agents, having or claiming to have any right, title. 
 e.state, lien or interest in the said premises so taken or condemned, who can 
 be found in the City of St. Paul, and the affidavit of the commissioner that 
 any person, or their known agents, do not reside or cannot be found in said 
 city, shall be final and conclusive upon all persons as to such facts. At least 
 five (5) days prior to such hearing, the said commissioner shall cause to be 
 mailed, by regi.stered letter, a notice of such hearing to all persons, or their 
 known agents, who cannot be found in said city or who do not reside therein.
 
 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 67 
 
 directed to their last known address or residence, firovided however that 
 where such parties are unknown, or their place or residence or last address 
 is unknown no such notice need be mailed, and of such fact the aflfidavit of 
 the said commissioner shall be final and conclusive. 
 
 Provided however, that the failure of the 'Said commissioner to cause 
 the service of such notice or mail the same shall in no way prejudice such 
 condemnation or the award of damages therefor, but the willful neglect or 
 failure so to do shall constitute malfeasance in office, be a misdemeanor 
 punishable by fine not less than one hundred ($100.00) or imprisonment in 
 the workhouse for not less than ninety days, or both and shall in addition 
 render the said commissioner personally liable to any person damaged 
 thereby. 
 
 At the tinie and place fixed in said notice, the council shall hear all 
 persons desiring to be heard relative to the matter, and thereafter may 
 modify, alter or revise such report aforesaid, and when the same shall be 
 satisfactory to the said council, it shall, by resolution, ratify and confirm such 
 taking or condemnation and the award of damages to the persons or parties 
 aforesaid, and when so ratified and confirmed the same shall be final and 
 conclusive upon all persons, except as hereinafter provided. 
 
 Appeals — Notice pleadings — Jurisdiction of Court. — Sec. 271. Any person 
 whose propert\- has been appropriated or taken, and who has filed objections 
 thereto or the award therefor, shall have the right at any time within ten 
 days from the ratification and confirmation aforesaid to appeal to the district 
 court of Ramsey County, from such ratification and confirmation. Said ap- 
 peal shall be made by filing a written notice of such appeal with the com- 
 missioner of finance, specifying the name of the appellant, a description of 
 the property in which he has or claims an interest, and such interest therein, 
 and the objections to such taking or condemnation or award, or both, and 
 b}' filing with the ;clerk of the said court within twenty (20) days after 
 such ratification and confirmation a copy of said notice of appeal and objec- 
 tions, together with a bond to the City of St. Paul conditioned to pay all 
 costs which may be awarded against appellant, in such sum and with such 
 surety as .shall be approved by a judge of said court. In case of an appeal, 
 a copy of all the awards as confirmed by said council, at the expense of the 
 appellant, which shall not exceed the sum of three ($3.00) dollars and which 
 shall be, paid into the city treasury, shall be made and certified to by the 
 said commissioner of finance, and shall be filed in the office of the clerk 
 of the said court, and the said cause shall be docketed in the name of .such 
 appellant against the City of St. Paul as an appeal from such confirmation. 
 Said cause may. be brought on for hearing by either party and shall have 
 preference over all other civil cases. Such appeal shall be tried as other 
 civil causes, except that no pleading shall be necessary, and on such trial 
 the only question to be passed upon shall be whether the said council had 
 jurisdiction in the case, and whether the valuation of the property specified 
 in said objections is a fair valuation, and the award to such objector is 
 fair and impartial. The judgment of the court shall be either to confirm such 
 award or to annul the same as far as the same effects the propert}" of the 
 objector, and no more, and an appeal may be taken therefrom by either party 
 in the same manner as in the case of other civil actions. .Any judgm.ent 
 against the city for costs and disbursements shall be a separate judgment and 
 shall be payable out of the general funds of said city. 
 
 Consummation of condemnation. — Sec. 272. In nil rn-rs wlierc tlic cost 
 of any improvement shall be assessed against property deemed benefited, and 
 which improvement shall require the taking and condemnation of any land 
 nr interest therein, and after the determination of damage and awards there- 
 for as hereinbefore provided has been ratified by said council, the land, lands, 
 or easement therein shall be and become the property of the City of St. 
 Paul upon the adoption and passage by said council of a final order fon 
 such improvement, and such adoption of a final order shall be and con- 
 stitute a complete consummation of such proceedings, and a lawful and 
 sufficient condemnation thereof of evcr%^ right, title, estate, lien or interest
 
 68 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 therein. In all other cases, such taking and appropriation and condemnation 
 shall be deemed completed and consummated, and a sufficient and lawful 
 condemnation, upon the ratification by the 'Said council of the awards afore- 
 said. 
 
 The City of St. Paul shall have the right to enter upon and take pos- 
 session of all lands and property, or easements so condemned, and to ap- 
 propriate such lands, property and easements of the purposes for which 
 the same were condemned at such time as hereinbefore provided, and no 
 appeal therefrom shall delay the right of the city so to do. 
 
 Ninety (90) days from and after the consummation of any condemna- 
 tion proceedings, the sums 'SO awarded as damages shall bear interest at the 
 rate of six per cent per annum until paid. 
 
 Record of lands condemned. — Sec. 273. It shall be the duty of the com- 
 missioner of finance wherever possible to secure deeds to lands, or easements 
 therein, and record the same, and in addition thereto cause to be filed in 
 the office of the Register of Deeds a copy of any plat, sketch, profile, to- 
 gether with a description of all premises or easements condemned. The said 
 register shall receive no fees therefor, and shall file and record the same 
 without any certification as to taxes or assessments. 
 
 Buildings — Appraisal — Removal. — Sec. 274. If there should be any build- 
 ing standing, in whole or in part, upon the land to be taken, the said com- 
 imissioner and council, shall add to their estimate of damages for the land, 
 the damages also for the building or part thereof necessary to be taken, if 
 it be the property of the owner, or when separately owned the same shall 
 be assessed separately, and at the same time fix the value of such building 
 or part thereof to be taken, if such owner shall elect to remove the same. 
 Such owner in writing and at the hearing for the confirmation of such award 
 shall elect to remove such building at the value fixed or allow the same to 
 remain on the premises' and if he fail so to elect, he shall be deemed to have 
 elected to permit such building to remain, and upon the consummation of 
 such condemnation as hereinbefore provided, the commissioner of finance shall 
 proceed to sell at public auction for cash and upon ten (10) days' notice 
 by one publication in the official paper, and cause said building to be re- 
 moved, and deposit said proceeds of such sale in the treasury to the credit 
 of the assessment fund for such improvement and where feasible deduct the 
 same from the assessment against each lot pro rata, and if not feasible then 
 such money shall be placed in the general funds of said city. 
 
 Street Sprinkling. 
 
 Appropriations therefor. — Sec. 275. The commissioner of public-works 
 shall in August of each year determine the amount of street sprinkling that 
 in his judgment should be done during the next fiscal year and report the 
 •same with the probable cost thereof to the council, which may modify or 
 approve such report, and if it appears that moneys in the sprinkling fund, or 
 accruable thereto shall prove insufficient to defray the cost of such sprinkling 
 during the ensuing year, and equipment for such purposes, the council may 
 provide sufficient funds by appropriation and tax levy therefor. 
 
 The levy and collection of such taxes shall in no way prevent the 
 making and collection of assessments for such sprinkling and cost of any 
 equipment, and all sums realizable from anj' source shall be used to pay 
 lor such equipment and the cost of such sprinkling in advance of the collec- 
 tion of the annual assessment therefor 
 
 Order for sprinkling. — Sec. 275 a. No street, thoroughfare or public high- 
 way or other public or private place shall be sprinkled by the commissioner 
 of public works except upon the order of the council by resolution therefor. 
 
 Cost of sprinkling. — Sec. 275 b. The commissioner of public works shall 
 keep' accurate account of the cost, including inspection, of all sprinkling as 
 nearly as the same can be ascertained in front of the lots or parcels of
 
 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 60 
 
 land fronting on said improvement. The proportion of the cost charge- 
 able to any street railway or other occupant of the public highways shall 
 be deducted from the charge against abutting property. Not later than the 
 tirst day of October of each year the said commis«ioner of public works 
 shall report and deliver to the commissioner of finance, a statement showing 
 the total cost of such sprinkling, the total cost of inspection, the total amount 
 expended during the year for new equipment, repairs and general maintenance, 
 the amount payable b}^ each occupant of a public highway, and the amount 
 of the cO'St of such sprinkling, inspection in front of 'each parcel, and the 
 pro rata amount of the cost of equipment, repairs and maintenance in front 
 of each parcel, less the pro rata amount of such sprinkling to be paid by 
 such occupant of any highway from such lots abutting on tlic higliway so 
 occupied. 
 
 Assessment for sprinkling, etc. and collection thereof. — Sec. 27G. The 
 commissioner of finance, not later than the 16th day of October of each year 
 shall thereafter assesrs the cost of such sprinkling, inspection, pro rata share 
 of cost or equipment and maintenance, less such deductions as heretofore 
 provided, and the cost of making and collecting such assessment upon each 
 lot, part or parcel of land fronting on such improvement upon the basis of 
 t3he lineal frontage of such parcels, all in accordance with the report of 
 the >said commissioner of public works and the amount of sprinkling done 
 in front of said premises, and deliver the same to the comptroller for audit. 
 Not later than the 20th of the said month, the said comptroller shall report 
 same to the council for its approval, by resolution and not later than the 
 first day of November of each year the commissioner of finance shall certify 
 to the county auditor of Ramsey County a list of each parcel of land and 
 the assessment against the .same for such sprinkling and other costs thereof, 
 as approved by the council. The county auditor and the county treasurer shall 
 proceed to collect and enforce the collection of the same in the same manner 
 as provided herein for the collection and enforcement of the collection of 
 assessment for other local improvements, and render due account thereof in 
 the same manner and at the same time. All moneys so collected and all 
 interest, penalti&s and other moneys accruing, thereto, shall be kept in a 
 ,separate fund and shall not otherwise be used than to pay from time to 
 time the cost of such sprinkling and other expenses connected therewith in 
 advance of the collection of an assessment therefor. 
 
 Municipal sprinkling plant. — Sec. 277. The council shall have the power 
 to establish and maintain, under the direction of the commissioner of public 
 works, a plant or outfit, including necessary horses, wagons, and other ma- 
 terial and equipment for the sprinkling of streets and oublic places. The 
 cost of maintaining, establishing, and enlarging such plant, outfit, apparatus, 
 material and equipment shall be deemed part of the cost of such sprinkling 
 for which assessment maj^ be made 
 
 Fund of Local Improvements. 
 
 Deferred installments. — Sec. 27S. Whenever an assessment for an im- 
 provement or improvements is • payable in two or more installments, and 
 after the time for the payment of the first installment has expired, the coun- 
 cil, b.y resolution, may authorize the issuance and sale, in such manner and 
 form as it may deem wise, of "Local Improvement Certificates of Indebt- 
 edness," against all installments, except the first installment, not yet due and 
 rem/aining unpaid, and to the amount of such installments. .-^1 proceeds 
 from the sale of such certificates shall be credited to a "Permanent Improve- 
 ment Revolving Fund," and all collections of all assessments, installments, 
 interest, penalties and other charges shall likewise be credited thereto, and 
 all payments in the liquidation of the cost of any improvement for which 
 an assessment is levied shall be ^id therefrom. Nothing herein shall pre- 
 vent the issuance and sale of certificates to cover several assessments, with- 
 out the enumeration therein of such assessments. Such certificates shall, in
 
 70 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 the order of their priority, be a first lien upon all the moneys in said 
 Permanent Improvement Revolving Fund, and the general faith and credit 
 of the city is pledged to pay all and any deficiency or deficiencies, in case 
 such moneys shall prove insufficient to pay such certificates in full, and that 
 it shall at all times maintain the said Revolving Fund so that it shall be 
 sufificient to meet all demands on the same at maturity. The council, by rcrso- 
 lution, is empowered and authorized to issue and sell additional certificates 
 or bonds, or make appropriations to maintain such revolving fund in a con- 
 dition to meet all demands upon it for the payment of certificates at ma- 
 turity. Such bonds shall not be issued to exceed a term of twenty (20) years, 
 nor shall exceed four per cent per annum for interest, and ■shall not be sold 
 for less than par and accrued interest. Such certificates shall be in the same 
 form as other certificates hereinbefore provided. 
 
 No such certificates shall be made to mature at a date to exceed three 
 (3) years from the day of its issuance, and the rate of interest shall not! 
 exceed six (6) per cent per annum, payable rsemi-annually, and no certificate 
 herein provided shall be sold at less than par and accrued interest. Such 
 certificates may be issued in such denominations as the council shall pro- 
 vide. 
 
 Provided however that the total amount of all such certificates and 
 bonds shall not at any time exceed five (5) per cent of the total assessed 
 valuation of real property in said city liable to taxation. 
 
 No improvement, for which an assessment may be levied and which will 
 require the issuance of such certificates in excess of such limitation, shall 
 be undertaken. Nothing herein shall prevent the making of any improvement 
 where the assessment shall be payable in one installment. 
 
 Delinquent assessments or installments. — Sec. 279. All the proceeds of 
 the forfeited sale of local improvement certificates now held by said city 
 as ^provided for in Section 267 shall be used and employed to fund and- 
 carry all assessments or installments delinquent, and shall be known as the 
 ■'Delinquent Assessment Fund." When such fund shall prove insufficient to 
 carry such delinquent assessments and installments, the council shall from 
 time to time provide sufificient funds therefor, by appropriation. Any surplus 
 in such fund shall be invested in local improvement certificates of indebted- 
 ness. 
 
 Sidewalks. 
 
 Proposals — Orders. — ^Sec. 280 It shall be the duty of the commissioner 
 ■of public works annually to cause proposals to be published in the official 
 paper in the same manner and for the same time as for other public improve- 
 ments, for the construction, relaying and repair of such sidewalks as may 
 be ordered built, relaid or repaired by the council prior to the first day of 
 ^November of each year. 
 
 Such proposals may provide for a separate contract for the construction, 
 repair and relaying wood sidewalks, and also for one or more contracts 
 Tor the construction, repair and relaying of sidewalks of brick, stone, cement 
 and any other material or materials. The work shall be let and placed 
 under contract as other improvements for which an assessment shall be 
 levied. 
 
 Whenever the cotmcil shall pass a final order for the construction, Tepair 
 'or relaying of any sidewalk, the commissioner of finance shall transmit a 
 coov of such order to the contractor who shall proceed to comply therewith 
 without necessary delav within thirty (?.0) davs after the delivery of such 
 fin?l order, except as hereinafter orovided. The final order of the councH 
 shall describe definitely the propet-ty in front of which such sidewalk shall 
 he constructed, relaid or repaired as the case may be. 
 
 Assessments therefor. — Sec. 281. The' said commissioner of finance shall 
 as soon as practicable after the construction, reuair or relaying of such 
 sidewalks reoort to the comm.issioner of finance, the cost thereof including 
 inspection thereof, as nearly as he can ascertain the same, and the sa^d'
 
 CHARTER Ol- CITY OF ST. PAUL. 71 
 
 commissioner of finance shall proceed to assess .such cost and inspection and 
 the necessary cost of collecting such assessment upon lots and parcels of 
 land benefited by -said improvement upon the basis of the lineal frontage of 
 -such lot or parcel of land, and thereafter the procedure for perfecting such 
 assessment and the collection and the enforcement thereof shall be the same 
 as in the case of other assessments. 
 
 Pijivate laying of sidewalks. — Sec. 282. When the council shall have 
 passed a final order aforesaid, the owner of property where such .sidewalk 
 is to be constructed, relaid or repaired under such order may, at his own 
 expense construct, relay or repair, as the case may be, such sidewalk in con- 
 formity with such order upon the following conditions: Such property 
 owner electing so to do shall file with the commissioner of public works 
 a written notice of such election within ten (10) days after the publica- 
 tion of such final order, and it shall be the duty of the said commissioner 
 of public works to grant written permission so to do within thirty (30) days 
 from and after a time specified in such permit. The said commiS'Sioner shall 
 ^thereupon give prompt notice thereof to the contractor of the permit so 
 granted. The said work of laying, repairing or constructing such sidewalk 
 shall be done under the supervision and direction of the said commis'Sioner 
 of public works, and the said commisioner of public works shall charge a 
 uniform fee, to be fixed by the council, by resolution, to cover the cost of 
 such supervision and direction, which fee shall be paid into the city treasury 
 iat the time of the issuance of such permit. Such owner, having complied 
 the foregoing requirements within the time aforesaid, shall be exempt from 
 any assessment on account of such improvement aforesaid. In case the said 
 owner shall fail so to comply with the aforesaid requirements and within 
 the time aforesaid, the said commissioner of public works, shall give written 
 notice to the contractor aforesaid to proceed with such work as directed by 
 said final order, and the property of such owner shall be assessed therefor to 
 the extent of such benefits, and such owner shall also forfeit 'such fee afore- 
 said. 
 
 (Tf AFTER XV. 
 
 The Purchasing Department. 
 
 Purchasing department. — Sec. 283. There is hereby created a Purchasing 
 Department to be under the management and control of the Purchasing 
 Agent, appointed by the mayor with the approval of the council. 
 
 Emyloyes — Appointment of. — Sec. 284. Subject to the provisions of this 
 charter, the Purchasing Agent may appoint a Deputy-Purchasing Agent, who 
 shall not be subject to the civil service rules, and such other assistants and 
 employes as the council shall authorize and at such compensation as it shall 
 fix. 
 
 Powers — General. — Sec. 285. The Purchasing Agent .shall purchase, pro- 
 cure and contract for all articles, supplies and other nortable goods, includ- 
 ing printed matter not otherwise provided for in this charter, for the use of 
 the council, and each and every ofificer and department of the city, subject 
 to the provisions of this charter and the ordinances enacted in pursuance 
 thereof. 
 
 Appropriation limits. — Sec. 286. But no purchase shall be made, liability 
 incurred or contract let under the preceding section except upon the writ- 
 ten certification by the comptroller that an appropriation or appropriations 
 have been made therefor by the council and .sufficient thereof remains unex- 
 pended to pay for the same. 
 
 Requisitions. — Sec. 287. Except as herein otherwise provided, all pur- 
 chases shall be made or contract let only upon the written requistion there- 
 for by the officer or department demanding same.
 
 72 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 Compulsory requistions. — Sec. 288. With the consent of the council, the 
 Purchasing Agent may himself requisition the entire appropriation, or so 
 much thereof as may be advisable, at 'Such time and in such manner as the 
 council shall prescribe, of each and every officer and department remaining 
 at any time unexpended. 
 
 Bulk-buying. — Sec. 289. The council shall, by an administrative ordi- 
 nance, authorize contracts for and purchases of such supplies as it may deem 
 advisable, in bulk, for the use of any and all officers and departments, for 
 the entire year or part thereof, and at such times and in such quantities as 
 it may deem advantageous and shall prescribe the mode of delivery, inspec- 
 tion, storage and distribution of the same. 
 
 Patented articles. — Sec. 290. The purchasing agent with the consent of 
 the council and the comptroller, may purchase or contract for, without ad- 
 vertisement and competitive bids, such articles which by reason of a patent 
 or copyright are sold only at a uniform price and where in .such cases no 
 advantage can be secured by competitive bids. 
 
 Emergencies. — Sec. 291. In case of an emergency, where failure to act 
 promptly will work an injury to the city, the purchasing agent, with written 
 consent of the comptroller and mayor, and the consent of the council may 
 purchase .supplies to any amount without advertisement and competitive 
 bids. 
 
 Annual statement of supiplies. — Sec. 292. Not later than the first day in 
 January of each year, each officer and department of the city shall transmit 
 to the purchasing agent a full and complete statement of all the kinds of sup- 
 plies and articles and the quantity thereof needed by the said officer or de- 
 partment during the ensuing year as nearly accurate as the same can be esti- 
 mated, together with a statement of the approximate time when such shall be 
 needed. Such statement shall nxerelj- be for the guidance of the purchasing 
 agent and shall not take place of any requisition therefor. 
 
 Duties of Purchasing Agent. 
 
 Purchase standard articles. — Sec 293. The purchasing agent shall make 
 all purchases and let all contracts in accordance with the provisions of the 
 charter and ordinances enacted in pursuance thereof, for standard articles and 
 upon standard specifications, unless patented articles are demanded or the 
 same is impracticable, to which fact the comptroller shall certify. 
 
 Price records. — Sec. 294. He shall maintain a price record both from 
 purchases made and of current quotations in such manner as may be pre- 
 scribed by the comptroller with the approval of the council by administrative 
 ordinance. 
 
 Accounting methods. — Sec. 293. He .shall perform such duties relative to 
 the approval of claims, the keeping of accounts, stock records, and other 
 accounting procedure as the comptroller with the approval of the council bj^ 
 an administrative ordinance may prescribe, and also perform such other 
 duties as by thi.s charter, and administrative ordinances enacted in pursuance 
 thereof, may be imposed upon him. 
 
 Standardization of Supplies, Specifications and Contracts. 
 
 Commission — Powers. — Sec. 296. There is hereby created a commission, 
 composed of the mayor, the comptroller and the purchasing agent, which 
 shall have the power to establish from time to time standards 'for each and 
 every article for the use of any and all officers and departments; to maTce 
 or cause to be made any test, examination or analvsis necessary therefor; 
 to require the assistance of any and all officers and departments therefor; to 
 frame or cause to be framed full, proper and imiform specifications therefor
 
 CllARTKR Ol' CITY OF ST. PAUL. 73 
 
 and standard and uniform forms of contracts, and to provide penalties for 
 the failure of any officer or department to use the same. All of the fore- 
 going shall be done with the consent and aproval of the council by and 
 through an administrative ordinance. All standards or samples thereof .shall 
 be in the custody of the purchasing agent. 
 
 Contracts — Advertisements — Bids and awards. — Sec. 297. All contracts 
 and purchases of supplies are hereby divided into the following classes: 
 
 (a) Informal Purchases. All purchases or contracts under the sum 
 of one hundred ($100.00) dollars shall ibe made in such manner and from 
 such persons as the purchasing agent may determine. 
 
 (b) Informal Bids. All contracts and purchases of one hundred 
 ($100.00) dollars and not to exceed five hundred ($500.00) dollars shall be 
 made upon such informal bids or proposals, not les.s than two, as the 
 purchasing agent may procure or may be filed with him, and shall be awarded 
 to the lowest responsible bidder b}' the purchasing agent. Notice of such 
 proposed purchases shall be posted in the office of the purchasing agent for 
 not less than one day. 
 
 (c) Formal Bids. All purchases or contracts in excess of the sum of 
 five hundred ($500.00) dollars shall be made only upon competitive sealed bids 
 and after advertisement therefor in the official newspaper for at least once 
 a week for two successive weeks. Such advertisement shall state the kind 
 and quantity of articles desired, and the quality thereof either in full or 
 by reference to the standard specifications, the tim.c and place for the filing 
 and opening of bids. All formal bids shall be made on forms provided by 
 the purchasing agent, shall state the price, the quantity and quality of each 
 article bid on. \and shall be sealed, but mav be as to one or all of the, 
 articles named in the advertisement and shall also be filed at the time and 
 place therein designated. All bids shall be publicly onened by the purchasing 
 agent at the time and place named in the advertisement in the presence of 
 the mayor and the comptroller or their representatives and such other persons 
 as may be present. 
 
 Rejection of bids. — Sec. 298. The purchasing agent may reject all bids 
 and that of any person, with the consent of the mavor. who has failed to 
 perform a previous contract with the city, and shall reject all bids contain- 
 ing anj' alteration or erasures. In case of the rejection of all bids, the council 
 mav authorize the purchasing agent either to re-advertise or purchase such 
 article or articles in such other manner, subject to this charter, as it may 
 prescribe. "" .^w:'^ f 
 
 Awards. — Sec. 299. All awards of contracts upon formal bids shall be 
 made to the lowest responsible bidder, but no award shall be made until all 
 bids have been tabulated and submitted to the departments interested therein 
 for their advice. 
 
 Inspection of goods. — Sec. 300. No goods, supplies or other articles shall 
 be used or consumed by any officer or department until the same shall have 
 been duly inspected as to quantity and quality by the comptroller and sub- 
 ject to such other rules and regulations as the council, by an administrative 
 ordinance, may prescribe. 
 
 Sales of materials. — Sec. 301. The purchasing agent shall sell all ma- 
 terial, supplies and other personal property belonging to the city which is 
 not available for use or which is condemned, when so condemned by any 
 officer or department and upon certification by the comptroller "concurring 
 therein, in siich manner as the council, by an administrative ordinance, shall 
 pre.scribe. All monies realized from such sales shall forthwith be deposited 
 with the treasurer to the account of the department for which such sale was 
 made. 
 
 Permanent improvements and reoairs. — Sec. 302. Whenever any officer 
 or department shall require the purchase of any real estate, the erection of 
 any building nr buildings or other public improvement, except as otherwise
 
 74 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 herein proviided, such officer or department shall report to the council an 
 estimate of the cost of such improvement together with sketch plans and .such 
 other data as to give in full detail the nature thereof, the amount and esti- 
 mated value of the land needed, if any, and a statement, certified by the comp- 
 troller, of the funds available, or the manner in which such funds may be 
 provided. If the council approve such project, it shall, by ordinance, order 
 the same to be made and provide funds therefor in accordance with the pro- 
 visions of this charter. 
 
 Purchase of lands. — Sec. 303. All lands required hereunder may be ac- 
 quired leither iby condemnation or by purchase at a private sale. When 
 feasible the same shall be secured by private sale by a committee on lands, 
 composed of the mayor, the purchasing agent and the head of the department 
 requiring the same, which committee shall secure options directly or through 
 agents on any suitable land or lands, and report the total cost of .securing 
 such land and all other facts to the council. The council shall .promptlj^ 
 authorize the purchase of such land or lands as it deems suitable or cancel 
 said options. The cost of securing said options .shall not exceed one per 
 cent of the value, of the land to be purchased. In case that suitable lajid 
 cannot be secured at a reasonable price by purchase, the council shall direct 
 that condemnation proceedings be instituted, under the provisions of this 
 charter, to secure the land necessary. 
 
 Erection of buildings. — Sec. 304. (a) Sketch plans. Whenever the 
 erection of any building is contemplated either by the council or any com- 
 missioner, then the commissioner of parks, play-grounds and public build- 
 ings upon written request, shall prepare, as soon as practicable, any and 
 all sketch plans and other data therefor. 
 
 (b) Complete plans and .specifications. When any such improvement 
 has been authorized, the council shall direct the commissioner of parks, 
 play-grounds and public buildings to prepare or cause to be prepared com- 
 plete plans, estimates of cost and specifications therefor. Under the direction 
 of the commissioner aforesaid, the city architect shall frame plaas and 
 specifications and make estimates of cost for all public buildings and superin- 
 tend the construction thereof. The council may, however, authorize the said 
 commissioner to employ a consulting or designing architect to aid in such 
 work' at such compensation as it shall fix. All plans and specifications shall 
 be prepared .and approved in the manner provided for in the chapter on' 
 parks, play-grounds and public buildings in this charter, as modified by this 
 section. 
 
 (c) Construction of buildings. (l) By contract. The committee on 
 public buildings shall direct the purchasing agent to advertise for proposals 
 in accordance with the provisions of this charter for alternative proposals: 
 •d) upon the basis for the construction of said building at a fixed price to be 
 named by the bidder, and (2) upon the basis for the construction of the said 
 building by the said bidder upon force or cost account, w^hich latter bid 
 shall contain the cost thereof as estimated by the bidder and the per cent 
 of the cost demanded by the bidder for construction and superintendence. It 
 is hereby made the duty of the commissioner of parks, plaj^-grounds and 
 public buildings to submit an estimate for such construction work. 
 
 Subject to the approval of the council, the committee authorized by this 
 charter to open said bids shall award the contract for such improvement to 
 the lowest responsible bidder either upon the basis of a fixed price or upon 
 the basis of force or cost account and percentage, or it may reject all bids 
 and re-advertise, or it may recommend that the commissioner of parks, play- 
 grounds and public buildings to perform such work. 
 
 (2) Construction of buildings. By city department. Whenever in the 
 'judgment of the council, the construction of any building can be more 
 economically done by the city, either before or after the submission of pro- 
 pO'Sals therefor, it shall direct the commissioner of parks, play-grounds and 
 public buildings to do such work for the department reauiring the same upon 
 the basis of force or cost account, but no percentage for construction shall 
 be allowed.
 
 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 75 
 
 Repairs to buildings. — Sec. 305. Any and al! repairs, replacements or 
 alterations to any building or buildings, the cost of which shall exceed the 
 sum of five hundred ($500.00) dollars or the work of which shall not be done 
 and performed by the employes and under the direction of any oft'icer or 
 department shall be made in the manner hereinbefore prescribed for new 
 construction work. 
 
 Gratuities. — Sec. 30G. Neither the purchasing agent nor any person in 
 the purchasing department shall accept any commission, gift, or present 
 from any vendor or his agent with whom the city may have any dealings. 
 Violations hereof shall constitute a misdemeanor, and forfeiture of such office 
 or employment. 
 
 Council regulations. — Sec. 307. The council may, by an administrative 
 ordinance or ordinances, provide other and further rules and regulations for 
 the conduct and government of the purchasing department. 
 
 CHAPTER XYI. 
 
 CONTRACTS AND CONTRACTORvS' BONDS. 
 
 Contracts let to the lowest bidder. — Sec. 308. Except as otherwise pro- 
 vided in this charter, all contracts for work to be done for the City of St. 
 Paul or any department thereof, or for the purchase of supplies or property 
 of any Ikind, shall be let to the lowest reliable and reasonable bidder, re- 
 -serving the right to reject all bids. 
 
 Not otherwise specified. — Sec. 309. All contracts not otherwise provided 
 for in, this charter shall be let by the council. 
 
 Plans and specifications. — Sec. 310. Unless otherwise herein provided 
 plans and specifications for buildings to be erected for the City of St. Paul 
 or any department, bureau or activity thereof shall be prepared under the 
 direction of the comrnissioner of parks, play-grounds and public buildings; 
 all plans and specifications for engineering work shall be prepared under the 
 direction of the commissioner of public works. All other plans and specifi- 
 cations shall be prepared as in this charter otherwise provided, or where not 
 provided for shall be prepared as the council .shall direct. 
 
 Advertisement for bids. — Sec. 311. Advertisements for bids shall be pre- 
 pared by the purchasing agent under such regulations as the council by 
 ordinance may prescribe. 
 
 Bonds or checks with bids. — Sec. 312. Bonds or certified checks shall 
 accompany all bids, in .such form as the council may by ordinance prescribe. 
 
 Opening bids. — Sec. 312a. All bids shall be opened in the presence of 
 the comptroller or his representative, the purchasing agent and the head of 
 the department most directly concerned in the contract. 
 
 Bids filed.— Sec. 312b. All bids shall be properly filed bv the purchasing 
 agent. 
 
 Award of contracts. — Sec 313. Unless otherwise provided for in thLs 
 charter, all contracts involving les.s than $5,000 shall be awarded by the per- 
 sons charged with the opening of the bids, and such contracts "shall not re- 
 quire confirmation by the council. Where more than $5,000 is involved, the 
 award shall be made in the same manner and by the same persons, but it 
 shall not be complete, and it shall be of no efifect to bind the city unless ap- 
 proved by the council by resolution. 
 
 Form — Drafting. — Sec. 314. The council shall by ordinance provide the 
 rnanner in which contracts shall be drafted and submitted for approval, pro- 
 vided that all such contracts be in triplicate, one copy to go to the department
 
 76 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 most interested, one to the comptroller and one to the party contracting with 
 the city. 
 
 Comptroller not to sign until money is provided. — Sec. 315. No contract 
 -shall be signed by the comptroller until provision shall have been made for 
 safficient money in the appropriate fund to meet the indebtedness incurred 
 b}' such contract, except leases and contracts for public lighting and heating, 
 where such contracts and leases are herein authorized for longer periods than 
 one year, and excepting also contracts for public improvements, the cost of 
 which is to be paid by assessment against the property benefited. 
 
 Execution of contracts. — Sec. 316. All contracts and leases shall be exec- 
 uted on behalf of the City of St. Paul by the mayor, comptroller and city 
 clerk. The head of the department to which the contract or lease pertains 
 shall also execute the same and the corporate seal shall be attached thereto. 
 
 Delivery to contractor. — Sec. 317. Until a certified copy of a fully exec- 
 uted contract is delivered to the contractor it shall not bind the citj-, nor 
 shall any claim thereunder be approved or paid by the city. 
 
 Readvertising. — Sec. 318. Bids may be readvertised for under such con- 
 ditions and restrictions as the council may bj' ordinance provide. 
 
 Contractor's liability. — Sec. 319. Any contractor who accepts a contract 
 under said city shall take the same under the that he shall be 
 
 personally and directly responsible for any and all loss, damage or injury to 
 person or property by reason of the neglect or failure of himself or any one 
 of his employes 'SO to perform said work as to guard against all loss, damage 
 or injury to person or property, and shall guard such work by suitable guards 
 by day and by lights at night, so as to prevent any such loss, damage or acci- 
 dent. 
 
 Contractor's bond. — Sec. 320. Except as otherwise provided in this char- 
 ter .no contract shall be valid for any purpose until the contractor who is a 
 party thereto shall file a bond with .sufficient sureties and in proper form to 
 protect the city fully and protect all persons who shall furnish said contractor 
 with work, service or material in the carrying out of said contract. The coun- 
 cil shall by proper ordinance give efifect to this provision. Provided that 
 neither the council nor any officer shall by any act release any bondsman from 
 liability upon such bond until the contract which it is intended to guarantee, 
 shall be completed and fully carried out and all obligations thereunder or in 
 any way appertaining thereto shall be met. All persons connected in any 
 way with the carrying out of .said contract whether as employe, laborer, mate- 
 rial man. or in any other manner whatsoever shall be considered a party in 
 interest for the purpose of invoking the protection of such bond. 
 
 Additional bond. — Sec. 321 An additional bond may be required when- 
 ever the council on recommendation of the city officer immediately interested 
 on behalf of the citj- in the work, may see fit, or where such additional bond 
 may be recommended by the comptroller. 
 
 Affidavit of payment of claims. — Sec. 322. No estimate under any con- 
 tract shall be paid by the City of St. Paul until the contractor files with the 
 comptroller an affidavit that all claims for all work and labor to date have 
 been paid. 
 
 Assignment of contract. — Sec. 323. Any assignment of anj^ contractiin 
 which the city is interested or to which the city is a party -shall make it null 
 and void and the city may at once take control of the work and relet it as 
 it may see fit, or may proceed to complete the same at the expense of the 
 contractor and his bondsmen.
 
 CHARTER OF CITY OK ST. PAUL. 77 
 
 ( IIAPTEK XVIT. 
 
 Department of Public Works. 
 
 Composition. — Sec. 324. There is hereby created a Department of Public 
 Works which shall l)e composed of the bureaus of Engineers. Sanitation, Con- 
 struction and Repairs, Bridges, Corrections and General .\dministratio,n and 
 subject to the charter and enactments in pursuance thereof, the same shall be 
 under the full and complete control, direction and management of the com- 
 missioner of public works. 
 
 Bureau of Engineers. 
 
 Composition. — Sec. 325. The said commissioner of public works shall be 
 the chief engineering officer of the city and subject to the charter and the 
 enactments in pursuance thereof, shall name and appoint the following officers 
 and employes who shall be and constitute the bureau of engineers: 
 
 A chief engineer for a term of two years from and after his appointment 
 and until hi^s successor is appointed and at an annual salary not to exceed five 
 thousand ($5,000) dollars. 
 
 Such engineers, surve3^ors, draughtsmen and other employes as the coun- 
 cil, by an administrative ordinance, shall provide and at such compensation as 
 it shall fix. 
 
 Duties. — Sec. 326. The said bureau shall draught all plans, sketches, pro- 
 files for all public improvements, not otherwise provided for, make all surveys, 
 do all the engineering work of the city, including the water board, furnish all 
 technical skill and ability therefor, and exercise a general supervision and 
 direction over all construction, and repair work of the department or done 
 under its direction, and also perform such other duties as may be imposed 
 upon it by this charter and any enactment in pursuance thereof. 
 
 Bureau of Construction and Repairs. 
 
 Sec. 327. The said commissioner of public works .shall be the head of the 
 bureau of construction and repairs which shall be composed of the following 
 persons, all of whom shall be appointed or employed b}^ the said commissioner 
 as the case may be: 
 
 A superintendent of construction and repairs, chief foremen, foremen, in- 
 spectors, laborers and other employes as the council, by an administrative 
 ordinance, shall prescribe and at such compensation as it shall fix. 
 
 Duties. — Sec. 328. The said bureau shall do and perform all the work, 
 grading, paving, construction and repair work of all sewers, streets, alleys, 
 levees, lands, boulevards, parkways and other public places, the construction 
 of all sewers, side.walks, reservoirs, and the repair of each of the aforesaid, 
 the laying, relaying and removal of all water pipes and other conduits of said 
 city, and all other work, including that for the water board, which may be 
 imposed on it for the benefit of the city or any of its departments or bureaus. 
 
 Provided, however, that nothing hereinbefore shall preven.t any of the 
 aforesaid work to be performed under contract as may be by- this charter 
 provided. Provided, also that any work performed by the aforesaid bureau 
 for any other department or bureau, the cost of such work shall be paid by 
 said department or bureau out of the funds and moneys of such department 
 or bureau for which such work may be performed. 
 
 The said bureau shall inspect and report the progress of all work per- 
 formed under contract in the construction and repair of public improvements, 
 nnless otherwise herein provided, in such manner and at such times as in this 
 charter and enactments in pursuance thereof may be provided for.
 
 78 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 Bureau of Bridges. 
 
 Composition. — Sec. 329. The bureau of bridges shall be composed of the 
 said commissioner, and 'SUch other persons, as the council, by an administrative 
 ordinance, shall provide and at such compensation as it -shall fix. 
 
 Duties. — Sec. 330. The said bureau shall have charge of the construction, 
 care and repair of the bridges of such city, and shall perform such other duties 
 as may be imposed upon it by this charter or enactments in pursuance thereof. 
 
 Bureau of Sanitation. 
 
 Composition. — Sec. 331. The commissioner of public \vork.s shall be the 
 head of the bureau of sanitation,, which shall be composed of the following 
 persons: 
 
 A superintendent, who shall be a sanitary engineer, and such other em- 
 ployes as the council, by an administrative ordinance may provide and at such 
 compensation as it shall fix; all of whom shall be appointed or employed, as 
 the case may be, by said commissioner. 
 
 Duties. — Sfec. 332. The said bureau of sanitation shall have charge of the 
 cleaning of all streets, alleys, lanes, parkways, boulevards, sewers and other 
 public places, except parks, sidewalks, bridges; the sprinkling of streets, park- 
 ways, boulevard* and other public places except parks; the collection and dis- 
 position of garbage, refuse, and other deleterious substances; and the collection, 
 removal and disposal of all such material, refuse or substance for which the 
 council may provide. It shall have charge of the public dumps; the operation 
 and maintenance of any reduction plants and other plants or places for the 
 disposition of any material, refuse or -substance for which the council shall 
 provide. Likewise, it shall perform and do such other services and duties as 
 the council may impose on it. 
 
 Bureau of General Administration. 
 
 Composition. — Sec. 333. The bureau of general administration, shall be 
 under the direction of the said commissioner and shall be composed of the 
 following person-s: 
 
 A chief clerk and such other employes as the council shall, by an admin- 
 istrative ordinance, provide and at such compensation as it shall fix. 
 
 Duties. — Sec. 334. Such bureau shall have charge of all the accounting 
 and fiscal operations of the said department and shall have such other powers 
 and duties as the council shall, bj^ an administrative ordinance, grant and im- 
 pose. 
 
 Bureau of Corrections. 
 
 Workhouse. 
 
 Administration. — Sec. 335. In the management and administration of the 
 bureau of corrections or workhouse, the commissioner of public works shall 
 adopt such rules with the approval of the council, by an. administrative ordi- 
 nance, for the regulation and discipline thereof, and likewise such by-laws, 
 rules and regulations for the management and government thereof, and for 
 the prisoners therein confined, as he may deem necessary. Such commissioner 
 shall, in the manner provided by this charter, make requisition for such ma- 
 chinery, tools and raw materials for use therein as may be necessary and 
 proper, and shall sell through the purchasing agent all goods and products 
 made or manufactured by the prisoners in said workhouse. All mouey.^ re- 
 ceived by said agent from such sale and all moneys received for board of 
 prisoners shall be deposited with the commissioner of finance to the credit of 
 the workhouse fund. 
 
 Employes. — Sec. 336. Said commissioner shall appoint, subject to the 
 provisions of this charter, a superintendent and such subordinate officers.
 
 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 79 
 
 guards and emploj'es as the council, by an administrative ordinance, shall pro- 
 vide for the proper management and discipline of said workhouse, and at such 
 salaries and wages as it 'Shall fix. Said employes shall be commissioned as 
 special police officers. 
 
 Superintendent. — Sec. 337. The superintendent of said workhouse shall be 
 the executive ofiicer thereof and .shall be responsible to the commissioner of 
 public works for the discipline thereof and for the enforcement of all laws, 
 ordinances, rules and regulations relating thereto. He shall reside at said 
 workhouse, devote his entire time to the business thereof, examine into the 
 condition and management of every department thereof and of each prisoner 
 therein confined, daily. 
 
 Diminution of sentences. — Sec. 338. It shall be tlie duty of the commis- 
 sioner of public works to provide and keep a book in which -shall be entered 
 a record of all infractions of the published rules and discipline of the said 
 workhouse, with the name of the convict ofifending, and the date and char- 
 acter of each ofifense, and every convict who shall have been sentenced for a 
 term of one (l) or more years, who shall, at the end of the first (1st) month 
 of his imprisonment, have no infraction of the discipline of the prison recorded 
 against him, shall, for the finst (1st) month be entitled to a diminution of two 
 (2) days from the term of his sentence; and if at the end of the second month, 
 no infraction of the rules is recorded against him, four (4) additional days 
 of diminution from the sentence; and if he shall continue to have no such 
 record against him for the third (3rd) month, his time of sentence shall be 
 shortened six (6) additional days; and if he shall .so continue for the subse- 
 quent months, he shall be entitled to six (6) days' diminution of time from 
 his sentence for each month he shall so continue his good behavior; and if 
 any convict shall so pass the whole term of his service, or the remainder of 
 his sentence after the adoption of this charter (providing he shall have the 
 term of one (1) year yet to serve), he shall be entitled to a certificate thereof 
 from such commissioner, and shall be entitled to a restoration of his rights 
 of citizenship, which may have been forfeited by his conviction; and it shall 
 be the duty of the commissioner of public works to discharge such convict 
 from the workhouse when he shall have served out the time of his sentence, 
 less the number of day.s he may have been entitled to have deducted therefrom, 
 in the same manner as if no deduction had been made; provided, that if such 
 convict shall be guilty of a violation of any of the printed and published rules 
 of the workhouse, after he shall, as provided in this chapter, have become en- 
 titled to a diminution of his time of service to which he has been sentenced, 
 the commissioner .shall have the power to deprive, at his discretion, such con- 
 vict of a portion or all (according to the flagrance of the violation of dis- 
 cipline), of the diminution of the term of sentence to which he had been 
 previously entitled by this chapter. 
 
 It shall be the duty of the commissioner of public works to keep a record 
 containing the name of each prisoner confined in the workhouse, the nature of 
 the ofifense for which he was committed, the date when he was committed, 
 the penalty imposed by the Court at the time of his commitment, the date 
 of his discharge and the reason therefor, which record shall be a public record. 
 
 Sentence to workhouse. — Sec. 339. It shall be the duty of any court, judge 
 or justice of the peace in the County of Ramsey, in the sentence of any per- 
 son, convicted of an ofifense, punishable by imprisonment in the common jail 
 of Ramsey county, to sentence such person to be confined in the said work- 
 house, there to be received, kept and employed, according to law, under the 
 rules and regulations of said workhouse; and it shall be the duty'of all officers 
 having the execution of the final process of any court Or justice of the peace 
 sentencing convicted persons to said workhouse, to cause such criminals to be 
 conveyed forthwith to said workhouse. 
 
 Escapes. — ^Sec. 340. Any person lawfully committed to said workhouse, 
 who shall escape therefrom, or break the same with intent to escape there- 
 from, or who .shall attempt bv force or violence or in any other way, to 
 escape from said workhouse, whether such escape be effected or not, shall.
 
 80 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 upon conviction thereof before the municipal court of said city be punished 
 by confinement in said workhouse, for a term not exceeding double the term 
 for which such person was so sentenced, to commence from and after the 
 expiration of his or her former sentence. 
 
 Agreements with county board. — Sec. 341. The county commissioners of 
 any organized county of the .state of Minnesota shall have full power and 
 authority to enter into an agreement with the council of the City of St. Paul, 
 or with any authorized agent or officer in behalf of said city, to receive and 
 keep in the St. Paul workhouse any person or persons over sixteen years ot 
 age, who may be sentenced to confinement by any court or justice of the peace 
 in any of said counties, for any term not less than sixty days. Whenever such 
 agreement shall have been made, to give public notice thereof in some news- 
 paper published within said county, if there be one, and in ca«e no newspaper 
 is published within said county, then such notice shall be published in some 
 newspaper published in the City of St. Paul for a period of four weeks, and 
 such notice, shall state the period of time for which such agreement shall 
 remain in force. 
 
 Effect of such agreement. — Sec. 342. In every county having such agree- 
 liient with the said City of St. Paul, it shall be the duty of every court, police 
 justice, justice of the peace or other magistrate, by whom any person over 
 sixteen years of age, for any crime or misdemeanor not punishable by im- 
 prisonment in the state prison, may be sentenced for any term not less than 
 sixty days, to sentence such person, if over sixteen years of age to the work- 
 house in the City of St. Paul, there to be received, kept and employed in the 
 manner prescribed by law, and the rules and discipline of the .said workhouse; 
 and it shall be the duty of any such court, police justice, justice of the peace 
 or other magistrate, by a warrant of commitment duly issued by the court, 
 justice or magistrate declaring such sentence, to cause such person so sen- 
 tenced, to be forthwith conveyed by some proper officer, to said workhou.se. 
 
 Duty of sheriff, etc. — Sec. 343. It shall be the duty of the sheriff, con- 
 stable or other officer in and for any county having such agreement with said 
 City of St. Paul to whom any warrant or commitment for that purpose may 
 be directed, by any court or magistrate in such countv, to convey such person, 
 so sentenced to the said workhouse in the City of St. Paul, and there deliver 
 such person to the keeper or other proper officer of said workhouse, who.se 
 duty it shall be to receive such person so sentenced, and safely to keep and 
 employ such person for the term mentioned in the warrant or commitment, 
 according to the laws of said workhouse; and the officer thus conveying and 
 so delivering the person or persons so .sentenced, shall be allowed such fees 
 or compensation therefor as shall be prescribed or allowed by the board of 
 commissioners for the county in which such prisoners shall have been con- 
 victed. 
 
 Compensation for care of prisoners. — Sec. 344. That for the board, con- 
 finement and maintenance of all prisoners received in the St. Paul workhouse 
 from any county, with which the City of St. Paul has a contract to receive 
 such prisoners, and from the County of Ramsey, such compensation may be 
 charged and received by the commissioner of public works, from the counties 
 in which said prisoners were convicted as may be agreed; but in- no event 
 shall the price or sum for the board or maintenance of any prisoner exceed 
 $1.50 per week. 
 
 Compensation of sheriff for board of prisoners. — Sec. 345. That after the 
 adoption of this charter no greater or other sum than $1.50 per week shall be 
 paid by the City of St. Paul to the sheriff of Ramsey county for the board 
 of any prisoner sentenced by or held under any process or warrant issued out 
 of the municipal court of said City of St. Paul, which sum shall be in full for 
 all charges and expenses for the commitment as well as the board of such 
 pri.soners.
 
 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 81 
 
 Powers and Duties of Commissioner — General Provisions. 
 
 Appointments of commissioners. Sec. 34(5. The said commissioner shall 
 appoint only such persons to be chief engineer and such other engineers, sur- 
 veyors, and other skilled employes in the bureau of engineers; and such per- 
 sons as superintendent of construction and repairs, and other skilled employes 
 of said bureau of construction and repairs, and such persons as superintendent 
 of sanitation and other skilled employes in the said bureau of .sanitation, and 
 other skilled employes of said department who shall possess and have the 
 qualifications prescribed by the council, by an administrative ordinance. And 
 the said chief engineer, superintendent of construction and repairs, and the 
 superintendent of sanitation .shall be appointed only with the consent and 
 approval of the council, bj' resolution. 
 
 General powers and duties. — Sec. 347. The said commissioner of public 
 works shall be ex-otticio a member of the water board and shall be responsible 
 for all construction work and repairs, except buildings, in connection with 
 said water board. He shall have charge of all engineering and survejnng work 
 of the city or any of its departments. He .shall keep or cause to be kept a 
 complete official and public record of all work of his department and in his 
 office, and shall record notes, maps, plats, and other data made, prepared or 
 secured by said department or its employes shall be the property of said 
 city. He may transfer any employe temporarily from one bureau to another, 
 or reqtiire anj^ employe of one bureau to perform duties for another. 
 
 He shall have charge and direction of all municipal quarries, works, and 
 ether facilities for the construction and laying of macadam, asphalt and other 
 kinds of paving material: cement works, gravel pits and other works for the 
 making of cement stone or blocks, tile or other artificial stone for sidewalks 
 or any other material used in the construction of repair work to be done by 
 said commissioner, or the water board, or any other department or bureau 
 of said city; an}^ and all apparatus, works or facilities for the cleaning, repair- 
 ing, constructing, .sprinkling, any sewer, street, alley, or other public highway, 
 or bridge, and the collection of and disposal of any garbage, or other waste 
 material. 
 
 He shall grant such permits or privileges in the streets, alleys and other 
 public places as the cotincil by ordinance, shall authorize him to grant and upon 
 such conditions as it mav prescribe, and supervise the exercise thereof. 
 
 He .shall perform such other duties and exercise such other powers as the 
 council may grant and prescribe. 
 
 Sec. 348. No employe or officer of said department shall, during such 
 hours of his employment, perform any service or do any work, except for the 
 said department or the city. No engineer, surveyor or other skilled officer 
 or employe, shall at any time perform any service for compensation or grattiity 
 or reward for any other person or persons, but shall give and devote all his 
 cft"orts and time to said department and the city. 
 
 Rules and regulations. — Sec. 349. The said commissioner shall have the 
 power, subject to the approval by the council, by an administrative ordinance 
 to make such rules and regulations for the government of the said department 
 or any of the bureaus thereof as the said commissioner may deem necessary 
 and wise. 
 
 . Sec. 349-a. Said commissioner of public works shall prepare plans, specif- 
 ications and estimates for all work provided for in this chapter and the chap- 
 ter of this charter on local improvements (Chapter XIV) and said plans shall 
 be approved by the council before any work shall be done undeT them. After 
 any such improvement has been ordered, said council shall cause bids to be 
 received therefor on the basis of said contractor furnishing all labor and mate- 
 rial for said work for a specified sum; also on the basis of a force account, 
 said contractor to receive a certain nercentage of cost price for carrying on 
 the work. Said council may let said contract as it may see fit or it may 
 reject all bids and order said commissioner of public works to secure the nec- 
 essary material through the ourchasinsr agent nrovided for in this charter, 
 and perform said work by day labor. In cither ca.se said work shall be paid
 
 82 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 for as this charter provided and said commissioner shall have general charge 
 thereof. The council shall by proper ordinance give effect to this section. 
 
 ( HAPTER XVIII. 
 
 Department of Public Safety. 
 
 Composition. — Sec. 350. There is hereby created a department of public 
 safety which shall be composed of the bureaus of police, of fire protection, 
 of health, of police and fire alarm telegraph, and of general administration, 
 and subject to the charter and enactments in pursuance thereof, the same .shall 
 be under the full and complete control, direction and management of the com- 
 missioner of public safety. 
 
 Commissioner's powers and duties. — Sec. 351. Upon recommendation of 
 the said commissioner the council shall pass an administrative ordinance de- 
 fining and creating in detail the organization and arrangement of the depart- 
 ment and each and every bureau thereof, covering the transaction of the 
 busin&ss thereof and of each bureau, and rules and regulations for the man- 
 agement and government of the department and each and every bureau 
 thereof, defining the powers and duties of all officers and employes of said 
 department and its bureaus subordinate to the said commissioner, provided 
 that the same shall be subject to the provisions of this charter and any ordi- 
 nance enacted in pursuance thereof, and provided further that nothing therein 
 shall prevent the said commissioner from using the officers and employes of 
 one bureau temporarily for work in another, or the performance of work con- 
 nected with the city business which the said commissioner may direct them 
 to perform. It is hereby declared to be the intent of this charter that all 
 administrative details remain and be in the hands of the said commissioner, 
 so that he may secure the best results from his subordinates. 
 
 Appointments, etc. — Sec. 352. Subject to the charter and enactments in 
 pursuance thereof, the said commissioner shall have the power to appoint, 
 promote, suspend, reprimand, dismiss and otherwise punish any officer or em- 
 ploye of said department or its bureaus, and also to require a bond therefrom 
 and prescribe the conditions thereof. 
 
 Hearings. — Sec. 352-a. The said commissioner mav conduct any inquiry 
 relating to the business of his department or the conduct of any officer or 
 employe of his department relative to the performance of his duty and shall 
 have the power to summon and compel the attendance of witnesses, the pro- 
 duction of books, papers or other documentary evidence; to examine the same 
 under oath, and to administer oaths. 
 
 Police and fire districts. — Sec. 353. The said commissioner shall recom- 
 rnend and the council by an administrative ordinance may establish and pro- 
 vide for the erection, equipment and maintenance of such police and fire dis- 
 tricts, precincts, stations and sub-stations, as may be necessary for the proper 
 conduct of the department, and shall provide for equipment and maintenance 
 of a police ambulance. 
 
 Custody of property. — Sec. 354. All property of even description what- 
 ever belonging to and under the control of the said department or its bureaus 
 shall be in the custody of and under the control of the said commissioner, 
 who shall be responisble for its safe-keeping. Subject to the charter and 
 ordinances pursuant thereto, the council, upon recommendation of the said 
 commissioner, shall by an administrative ordinance, provide and prescribe rules 
 and regulations for the care, custody, preservation, acquisition, control, man- 
 agement and alienation of all property belonging to the said department or 
 its bureaus.
 
 CHARTER OI" CITY OF ST. PAUL. 83 
 
 Injuries and death in service. — Sec. 355. On the recommendation of the 
 ■said commissioner, the council may provide for and allow to any fireman, 
 policeman, or other employe of the bureaus of police, fire protection, and 
 police and fire alarm telegraph injured in actual service and in the perform- 
 ance of his duty, such compensation or pay and for such period as it may 
 deem proper. And, in all cases where any of the aforesaid persons, while in 
 the performance of his duty shall be killed or so injured that death shall 
 result therefrom within one year from the time of such injury, then the council 
 may provide for the payment to the widow% minor children or any next of 
 kin wholly dependent on such deceased for support a 'Sum not to exceed $40 
 per month for the widow and minor children until the youngest of said minor 
 children shall reach the age of sixteen years, then $30 per month to the widow 
 while she shall remain a resident of Minnesota and remain unmarried. If there 
 be no widow surviving, then each minor child, if any, shall receive $15 per 
 month until said child reaches the age of eighteen years, w^hen said payments 
 shall cease; provided, however, that in all causes of injury or death the parties 
 affected thereby and to whom money shall be paid, shall, before the same is 
 paid, execute a good and sufficient release discharging the city from any and 
 all liability. 
 
 Bureau of Police. 
 
 Composition. — Sec. 356. The said commissioner shall ex-officio be the 
 chief of police and peace officer of the city, and subject to the charter and 
 enactments in pursuance thereof, shall appoint the oiificers and employes here- 
 inafter named, who shall constitute and be the bureau of police: 
 
 A chief of police, at a salary not to exceed $4,000.00 per annum and for 
 a term of two years from and after his appointment and until his successor is 
 appointed. 
 
 A license inspector, at a salary to be fixed by the council, and for a term 
 of two years from and after his appointment and until his successor is ap- 
 pointed, provided, however, that the two appointments above shall be made 
 with the approval of the council. 
 
 Such captains, lieutenants, detectives, patrolmen and such other employes 
 as the council, by an administrative ordinance, shall provide including one or 
 more women to be detailed for special work as police officers, and at such 
 compensation as it shall fix, provided, however, that there shall be no more 
 than one lieutenant and two sergeants for each police station. 
 
 Such surgeons and other employes and at such compensation as the coun- 
 cil shall likewise provide and prescribe for the maintenance and operation of 
 a police ambulance. 
 
 Such special policemen and watchmen, who shall serve without paj' and 
 who shall have all the authority conferred upon policemen in the regular ser- 
 vice and who shall be subject to all the rules and regulations prescribed for 
 such special policemen and watchmen and who shall not be subject to the civil 
 service provisions of this charter. 
 
 Powers of police. — Sec. 357. The chief of police and all members of 
 bureau of police ■shall possess the Dower of constables at common law and 
 such powers conferred bv statutes of this state, and shall have power to pursue 
 and arrest any person fleeing from justice in anv part of the state; provided, 
 how-ever, that no members of the said bureau of police shall go outside the 
 limits of the city in pursuit of any offender or to execute anj^ warrant or pro- 
 cess except in cases where an offense is committed within the said city. 
 
 All councilmen, the mayor, and all members of the bureau ai police shall 
 be officers of the peace and may command peace, suppress in 'a summary 
 manner all rioting and disorderly conduct within the limits of the city, and 
 for such purpose may command the assistance of all bystanders, and if neces- 
 sary of all citizens and all companies of the National Guard of Minnesota: 
 and if any citizen, bystander, militarv officer or private of said Guard shall 
 refuse when so required to maintain the peace, such person shall forfeit and 
 pay a fine of fifty ($50.00) dollars. In cases where the military power may be 
 required to suppress riot or disorderly conduct, or preserve the peace, the
 
 84 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 mayor, counciinieii, a lieutenant or superior officer of the police force, if pres- 
 ent, shall direct all proceeding's, and if none such is present, then the superior 
 military officer present shall direct all proceedings. 
 
 Municipal Court Officers. — Sec. 358. All powers conferred upon the mayor 
 and the police force by general or special law relating to the Municipal Court, 
 are hereby conferred upon and imposed upon the commissioner of public 
 safety and the bureau of police. 
 
 License inspector. — Sec. 359. Except as otherwise provided by law and 
 this charter the license inspector, under the direction and control, of the 
 said commis-sioner, shall enforce all payments of all licenses, moneys payal)le 
 to said city and report all violations of license laws. 
 
 Eligibility. — Sec. 360. No person shall be appointed a police officer who 
 is not an elector of the city under thirty-five years of age, able to read and 
 write and speak English, and who is not in good health and physique as 
 established by a physical examination, but this condition shall not apply to 
 the chief of police, detectives, special policemen and watchmen, women officers 
 as above authorized, matrons and license inspector or bailiffs of JNlunicipal 
 Court. 
 
 General duties. — Sec. 361. It shall be the duty of the said commissioner 
 and the bureau of police: — • 
 
 A. To enforce all the laws of the State of Minnesota and the ordinances 
 of the city and arrest violators thereof. 
 
 B. Report the condition of all public lights and sidewalks and any viola- 
 tion of the health and sanitary laws and ordinances as well as of the rules 
 and regulations of the bureau of health. 
 
 C. Report all injuries to persons and property occurring through acci- 
 dent or otherwise upon the streets, alleys and public places vv^ithin the city, 
 and all facts relating thereto. 
 
 D. Report all materials or debris carelessly or wilfully left in the public 
 streets, alleys and public places which will in any way impede public travel 
 or caU'Se any expense to the city for the removal thereof. 
 
 Disposition of weapons. — Sec. 362. The commissioner aforesaid, subject 
 to the provisions of this charter, may provide for the sale, destruction or other 
 disposition of all weapons, apparatus, implements, and other articles used in 
 the commission of crime or commg into the custody of said bureau; provided, 
 however, that where such may be used as evidence in either a civil or criminal 
 proceeding, the same shall in no way be disposed of except upon a written 
 order of a court of record. 
 
 Lost or stolen property. — Sec. 363. Where lost or stolen property shall 
 come into the hands of said bureau, and be not claimed, identified, or the true 
 owner be not found, then the said .commissioner shall cause the .same to be 
 sold by the purchasing agent after ten (10) days' notice of such sale in the 
 official paper, and the proceeds therefrom shall be deposited in the treasury 
 of said city to the credit of said bureau. 
 
 Sec. 364. Said commissioner shall detail at the request of the county 
 attorney of Ramsey county one or more membens of said police bureau to 
 work under the direction of said county attorney, and while so engaged they 
 fhall be paid by the county. 
 
 Gratuities. — Sec. 365. Any member of the bureau of police who shall 
 accept from any person, while in custody or after he shall have been dis- 
 charged, or from any of said person's friends or from any person any gratuity, 
 rewardor description of drink; or who shall receive from any person without 
 the written consent of the said commis.sioner any reward for the arrest of 
 any person or the recovery of any goods, or money compensation for injuries 
 sustained, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be removed from such 
 service and otherwise punished. Such permission shall be and constitute a 
 permanent public record.
 
 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 85 
 
 Park police. — Sec. 366. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to give 
 the coniniissioner of public safety or the bureau of police any jurisdiction over 
 the police organized and maintained by the department of parks, playgrounds 
 and public buildings. 
 
 Bureau of fire protection. — Sec. 367. The said commissioner of public 
 tafety shall be ex-officio lire marshall and head of the bureau of fire protection, 
 and subject to the charter and enactments in pursuance thereof, shall name 
 and appoint the officers and employes hereinafter named, who shall be and 
 constitute the bureau of fire protection: 
 
 A fire chief for a term of two years from and after his appointment and 
 until his successor is appointed and at an annual salary not to exceed four 
 thousand ($4,000.00) dollars; the appointment of said chief shall be subject to 
 confirmation by the city council. 
 
 An assistant chief for a term of two years from and after his appointment 
 and until his successor is appointed, and at an annual salary not to exceed 
 two thousand ($2,000.00) dollars a year. 
 
 Such battalion chiefs, captain*, lieutenants, engineers, and other employes 
 as the council, by an administrative ordinance, shall provide and at such com- 
 pensation as it shall fix. 
 
 Police powers. — Sec. 368. When acting under the direction of the said 
 commissioner, or any officer of the bureau of fire protection, or when en- 
 gaged in any duty imposed by this charter or enactments in pursuance thereof, 
 or in actual service of fire prevention and fire extinguishment, all firemen and 
 employes of said bureau shall have the power of policemen, provided, however, 
 that all officers of the bureau shall at all times have such powers. 
 
 Fire chief — Powers. — Sec. 369. The fire chief or the superior officer of the 
 bureau present shall have full control of all persons present at fires and shall 
 have power, if need be, to summon any and all persons present to aid in 
 extingui'Shing anj' fire, to remove personal property from any burning struc- 
 ture and in guarding the same, and any person refusing so to do shall be 
 guilty of a misdemeanor. Such person shall also have power to order or 
 cause the removal or destruction of any building, structure or obstruction for 
 the purpose of checking or extinguishing any fire. 
 
 Eligibility. — Sec. 370. No person shall be appointed a fireman unless he 
 po&sess the same qualifications as herein required for policemen; provided, 
 however, that this shall not apply to the chief, assistant chief or other posi- 
 tions requiring a technical knowledge. 
 
 Additional duties. — Sec. 371. The council by ordinance may imoose fur- 
 ther powers and duties on the bureau of fire protection, any of its officers and 
 employes. 
 
 Bureau of Health. 
 
 Composition. — Sec. 372. The commissioner of public safety shall ex- 
 officio be the chief health officer of the city, and -subject to the charter and 
 enactments in pursuance thereof, shall appoint the officers and employes 
 hereinafter named, who shall be and constitute the bureau of health. 
 
 A health officer, who shall be a duly licensed physician of not less than 
 five years' practice, and at a salary not to exceed four thousand ($4,000.00) 
 dollars per annum. 
 
 A deputy health officer, who shall be a duly licensed physician of not les« 
 than three years' practice, and at a salary not to exceed two thousand five 
 hundred ($2,500.00) dollars per annum. 
 
 Both of the above officers shall be appointed with the consent of the 
 council, and each shall hold office for a term of two years from and after 
 their appointment and until their successors are appointed. 
 
 Such other officers, physicians, in.spectors, assistants and other employes 
 as the council, by an administrative ordinance, may provide and at such com- 
 pensation as it shall, fix.
 
 86 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 General health powers. — Sec. 373. The council on recommendation of the 
 said commissioner shall, b}' ordinance, give the said commissioner and said 
 health officer such powers and impose upon them such duties as will enable 
 them fully to protect the public health and the sanitary condition of the city. 
 Such health officer shall also be the sanitary adviser of ail city officers. Said 
 commissioner, by and through the bureau of health shall have the power of 
 abating any nuisance upon such notice and by such methods as the council, 
 by ordinance shall prescribe; shall have the pow-er of controlling or taking 
 measures to control all contagious infectious diseases within said city; to 
 placard ail infected houses and buildings; shall have full charge of such small- 
 pox or detention hospitals as said city may establish or has established; and 
 in case of pestilence or epidemic, actual or impending, take such measure as 
 he may in good faith deem necessary to insure the public health or safety. 
 Said commissioner shall take such measures as in the opinion of the health 
 officer may be necessarv to prevent the spread of smallpox or other con- 
 tagious and infectious disease; he shall have the power to quarantine, placard 
 and disinfect any house or building or order it to be done; close the same 
 until so disinfected; and subject to the approval of the council, he may order 
 all boats, trains, and other conveyances bringing persons or goods to the city 
 to be quarantined and compel persons or corporations operating the same to 
 take such steps as may be necessary to protect the public health. It shall be 
 the duty of said commissioner to see to it that all persons so quarantined 
 shall receive proper medical attendance, nursing, food, and quarters; shall 
 decide upon the advice of the health officer when persons so quarantined shall 
 be discharged therefrom and what precautions shall be taken before their dis- 
 charge for the protection of the public health; and shall keep at such quaran- 
 tine such police force necessary to enforce the orders of said commissioner 
 and the health officer. Said commissioner with the approval of the council 
 shall have power to establish, equip and maintain such quarantine stations, 
 hospitals and other buildings as may be necessary for the preservation of the 
 public health. He shall provide proper blanks and forms for all returns and 
 data for vital statistics, and shall secure a proper registry of births, deaths 
 and other necessary statistics within said city. He shall cause to be vaccin- 
 ated free of charge and give certificates thereof to all persons applying there- 
 for. Said commissioner shall have the power of abating and correcting any 
 condition considered by said health officer to be detrimental to the public 
 health and the sanitary condition of the city. He shall enforce all state 
 laws relating to the public health and shall have full sanitary control of all 
 places and institutions within the city and mav require from all persons in 
 administrative control of hospitals, asylums, dispensaries, prisons, schools, 
 theaters and other places of amusement or recreation to make such reports 
 as may aid in making safer the public health. It is hereby made the duty 
 ■of every physician and midwife within said city to report, in such manner as 
 the commissioner may direct, all births and with such other facts deemed 
 pertinent by said commissioner, and all physicians shall register and report 
 in such form as may be prescribed by said commissioners, all deaths of which 
 he has knowledge, within twenty-four hours after he has learned of said 
 deaths. The coroner shall report to the said commissioner within forty-eight 
 hours after it is completed the result of any inauest. All physicians shall 
 report in such manner as the said commissioner shall direct all cases of con- 
 tagious diseases. Said commissioner with the approval of the council shall 
 make such regulations and rules as may be necessarv for the interment and 
 removal of all dead bodies. Said commissioner shall have jurisdiction over 
 all lakes and water courses in Ramsey county to the same extent as though 
 located within the city. 
 
 The council by proper ordinances shall make effective and define in detail 
 all powers and duties hereinbefore imposed and granted, and such other powers 
 and duties as may be necessary to conserve the public health. 
 
 All persons whatever violating the provisions of the charter or ordinances 
 enacted in pursuance thereof, all rules and regulations of the bureau of health 
 concerning the public health and sanitation, or who shall interfere with any 
 health officer in the performance of his duties shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
 
 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 87 
 
 and shall be subject to a fine not to exceed one hundred ($100.00) dollars or 
 imprisonment not to exceed ninety (90) days, or both. 
 
 Removing nuisances. — Sec. 374. The council, by ordinance, may empower 
 the said commissioner to remove and abate or cause the same to be removed 
 or abated, any nuisance, any substance, matter, omission or thing, which said 
 commissioner may regard as dangerous to the health or as impairing the 
 sanitary condition or good order of the city, being or lying in any street, alley, 
 water, excavation, building, erection, place, lot or grounds and may designate 
 a place to which the same may be removed. He shall serve a notice on the 
 owner, occupant or agent of any lot, building or premises aforesaid ordering 
 the things aforesaid to be removed therefrom within such time as the council 
 shall by ordinance prescribe, and that in case of non-compliance the same 
 will be done by the said commissioner at the expense of the owner of said 
 premises. The said commissioner shall after such time ha-s expired proceed 
 to remove such things aforesaid, determine the cost thereof, charge the owner 
 and the premises therewith and not later than the 1st day of October of each 
 year certify to the County Auditor the amounts so charged against such 
 premises, lots and places together with a description of the premises and the 
 supposed owner thereof as nearly as practicable, and such charge shall be 
 collected and collection enforced in the same manner as taxes against the 
 said premises. Such charges shall be a perpetual lien on said premises until 
 paid. Provided, however, that where no owner, occupant or agent can be 
 found or the same is unknown, then said commissioner may proceed without 
 such notice. 
 
 Employes — Policemen. — Sec. 375. Every officer and employe of the bureau 
 of health, in the performance of any duty imposed by law, this charter, ordi- 
 nances in pursuance thereof, or any order or direction of the commissioner 
 or the health officer shall have and be vested with all the powers of a police- 
 man. 
 
 Public Baths. 
 
 In charge. — Sec. 376. The commissioner of public safety, as chief health 
 officer of the city, shall manage, control and supervise the public baths on 
 Harriet Island and the grounds, buildings and institutions connected therewith 
 and adjacent thereto. 
 
 Appoint employes. — Sec. 377. He shall appoint and remove, subject to the 
 charter and ordinance in pursuance thereof, all such assistants and employes 
 and at such compensation a^s the council by an administrative ordinance shall 
 provide and prescribe. 
 
 Rules. — Sec. 378. With the consent of the council, by administrative ordi- 
 nance, he shall make and enforce rules and regulations to govern the use of 
 such baths and the buildings and grounds appertaining thereto. 
 
 Food Inspection — Hotels and Restaurants. 
 
 Sec. 379. The commissioner of public -safety shall administer and enforce 
 all laws and ordinances relating to the inspection of milk, meats and other 
 food substances, and also all laws and ordinances relating to the inspection 
 of hotels and restaurants, tenements and lodging houses. The council shall 
 have power by ordinance to make efifective the dutie-s in this section prescribed, 
 and to compel by proper penalties all dealers to conform to such-regulations 
 as shall fully protect the public health. 
 
 Public Comfort Stations. 
 
 Sec. 380. The commissioner of public safety shall supervise and control 
 the maintenance and operation of all public comfort stations; appoint and 
 remove all such attendants and employes therefor as the council by an admin- 
 istrative ordinance may provide and at -such compensations as it may prescribe,
 
 88 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 and with the consent of the council make, prescribe and enforce all rules and 
 regulations for the orderly public use thereof. 
 
 Bureau of Police and Fire Alarm Telegraph. 
 
 Composition. — Sec. 381. The said commissioner of public safety shall be 
 the head and in full charge and control of the bureau of police and fire alarm 
 telegraph, and which shall be composed as follows: 
 
 A superintendent of the said bureau, who shall possess such qualifications 
 as the council shall prescribe, and at such compensation as it shall fix, and 
 such other employes, operators, linemen as the council shall provide and at 
 such compensation as it shall determine; all of whom are to be appointed in 
 accordance with the provisions of the charter and enactments in pursuance 
 thereof. 
 
 Powers and duties. — Sec. 382. The said bureau shall have full charge, 
 management and control of the construction, maintenance and operation of 
 the telegraph, telephone and alarm systems of the deoartment of public safety, 
 and shall have such powers and duties as the council by administrative ordi- 
 nance shall provide and prescribe. 
 
 Bureau of General Administration. 
 
 Composition. — Sec. 383. The said commissioner of public safety shall be 
 
 the head of the bureau of general administration, which shall be composed as 
 follows: 
 
 A chief clerk, and such accountants, clerks, and other employe;s as the 
 
 council by an administrative ordinance may provide, of such qualifications as 
 
 it shall prescribe and at such compen.sation as it shall fix, and all of whom 
 
 shall be appointed by the commissioner aforesaid in accordance with the 
 charter. 
 
 Powrers and duties. — Sec. 384. Such bureau shall have charge of all the 
 accounting and fiscal operations of the aforesaid department and shall have 
 such other powers and duties as the council by an administrative ordinance 
 shall grant and prescribe. 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 Commissioner of Education, 
 
 To establish and maintain schools. — Sec. 385. Under the direction and 
 control of the council, the commissioner of education shall establish, control, 
 maintain and provide for the public schools, the public school system and the 
 general educational interests of the City of St. Paul as a special school dis- 
 trict, and shall manage and control the propert3^ real and personal, belonging 
 to said city which is used for the purposes of education, subject only to the 
 provisions and limitations provided for in this charter. 
 
 Powers of commissioner. — Sec. 386. Under the direction and control of 
 the council the commissioner of education shall have power to establish, con- 
 trol and maintain kindergartens, grade schools, high schools, manual training 
 schools,' evening schools, a training school for the teachers, truant schools 
 and such other schools as may from time to time be necessary to establi-sh. 
 
 Under the direction and control of said council, said commissioner shall 
 appoint supervisors, principals, teachers, one or more medical inspectors and 
 nurses, one or more truant officers, janitors, engineers, firemen, and such other 
 employes as may be necessary for the proper conduct and maintenance of 
 .=aid schools and of said real and personal property of said district. 
 
 Under the direction and control of said council, said commissioner shall 
 prescribe text books and courses of study, purchase or arrange for the pur- 
 chase of text books and provide for the loan thereof to needy pupils or for
 
 CHARTER OF CITY OK ST. PAUL. 89 
 
 the sale thereof at cost, and may change text books whenever deemed neces- 
 sary for the best interests of the school, subject to the limitations and pro- 
 visions of this charter. 
 
 Shall make rules and fix duties and salaries. — Sec. 387. It shalj be tlie 
 duty of said commissioner to prepare in the form of an ordinance rules and 
 regulations for the proper transaction of the business of the schools, defining 
 the duties of its officers and employes and fixing the number, titles and coni- 
 })ensation of said employes, and for the proper execution of all powers vested 
 in and duties imposed upon said commissioner by this charter. As soon as 
 he shall have prepared said ordinance he shall present it to the council, and 
 said council shall pass said ordinance after having amended it as it may see fit. 
 
 Inspectors shall turn over school to commissioner. — Sec. 388. As soon as 
 the first commissioner of education provided for in this charter is selected and 
 qualified the board of school inspectors of the City of St. Paul shall turn over 
 to said commissioner all the property, books, records and documents in their 
 hands, and thereupon said commissioner shall succeed to all rights, powers 
 and duties of said board of school inspectors .subject to the provisions of this 
 ^ charter, and all lawful contracts and agreements entered into and all obliga- 
 tions legally incurred by said board of school inspectors, shall be in all re- 
 spects the contracts, agreements and obligations of the said commissioner of 
 education .subject to the provisions of this charter. The terms "special school 
 district" or "school district" whenever used in this charter shall be constructed 
 to be identical with the terms "independent school district'' and "school dis- 
 trict of the City of St Paul," whenever said terms are used in any previous 
 charter or law. 
 
 Shall appoint a superintendent. — Sec. 3S9. Subject to the approval of the 
 council said commissioner shall appoint a superintendent of schools who shall 
 be a graduate in good standing of a university or college of educational stand- 
 ard equal to the University of Minnesota, and who shall have devoted the five 
 years immediately preceding his appointment to teaching or to the manage- 
 ment of public schools. He shall receive a salarv of $5,000 a year payable out 
 of the school funds of the city in equal monthly installments. His term of 
 office shall be two years and until his successor is appointed and has qualified. 
 
 Apoointment of assistants, office employes and teachers. — Sec. 300. On 
 nomination by said superintendent, said commissioner of education shall ap- 
 point all assistants to said superintendents, all office assistants to said super- 
 intendents, all principals and all teachers in the public schools, all of whom 
 shall be subject to removal by said commissioner on his own motion or on 
 the complaint of .said superintendent, bj'- the mayor or by a two-thirds vote 
 ot the members elected to the council. Provided that, however removed, the 
 officer making the removal shall state specific reasons therefor in writing and 
 the person removed shall have an opportunity to replv in writing, and both 
 reasons and reply shall become permanent public records of the office of the 
 commissioner of education. All teachers and supervisors and assistants to 
 the superintendent, other than office assistants doing clerical work, shall meet 
 the qualifications required by the State of Minnesota for teachers of like 
 grades in other public schools. It i.s the intent of this charter that unless 
 removed for cause as above such teachers and assistants once appointed shall 
 serve during efficiency and good behavior. The council mav provide for pro- 
 bationary appointment previous to rearular appointment, during which time 
 the teacher or suoervisor or assistant shall be subject to removal St the plea-s- 
 ure of the commissioner of education. 
 
 Superintendent of school buildings. — Sec. 301. Said commissioner of edu- 
 cation shall appoint a superintendent of school buildings who shall have a 
 pract'cal knowledge of architecture, building, lis/hting, heating, ventilation, 
 plumbing, and the machinerv used for said purposes. He shall receive an 
 annual salary of $2,500 payable from the school funds of said cit\' in equal 
 monthly installments.
 
 90 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 To appoint other employes. — Sec. 392. Said commissioner of education 
 shall appoint all janitors, assistant janitors, engineers, caretakers, laborers, 
 mechanics and artisans of all description, necessarily employed in the care of 
 school buildings and grounds. In fixing the compensation of said employes 
 the council shall see that it is not in excess of the union scale of wages paid 
 by private employers for like services. The working day for each and all of 
 said employes shall be eight hours, and except in cases of emergency, of which 
 said commissioner of education shall be 'Sole judge, none of said employes shall 
 be required to work overtime, or shall receive any additional compensation 
 for extra work. 
 
 Rules for teachers. — Sec. 393. Said commissioner shall cause to be pre- 
 pared a complete code of specific rules governing the appointment of all 
 teachers and principals in the schools, their examinations and other tests of 
 fitn&ss, their promotions, their work of teaching and administration of the 
 schools. He shall submit said code in the form of an ordinance to the council, 
 and said council shall examine and if necessary revise and amend said code, 
 and when in suitable form shall adopt said ordinance. After its adoption said 
 code shall be strictly followed in all business of 'Said school to which it 
 applies. Said ordinance shall be amended only in the manner in which it was 
 original]}' adopted. Provided that the standard of education and practice re- 
 quired for teachers in said schools shall not fall below the standards set by 
 the state department of education for similar schools elsewhere in Minnesota, 
 nor below the best standards of other cities of the first class in Minnesota. 
 
 School revenue; limitation of cost of schools. — Sec. 394. Subject to the 
 provisions of this charter and the laws of the state the council shall have 
 power to levy and collect general property taxes or other revenues and to 
 appropriate money for the support of said schools, provided that the whole 
 amount appropriated by said council for all purposed whatsoever connected 
 with the public schools shall not in anv one year amount to a greater sum 
 than $6 for each inhabitant of the City of St. Paul. In determining the number 
 of said inhabitant the figures of the last United States census of population 
 of the City of St. Paul shall be taken as a ba.sis, and for every year which 
 has elapsed since the last United States census have been taken to the year 
 in which said appropriations are made by said council, there shall be added to 
 the census figures one-tenth of the difiference between the United States census 
 figures for the last census year and the United Stats census figures taken next 
 previous to that census. Provided further that the qualified voters of St. Paul 
 by a three-fifths affirmative majority of all the votes cast upon the proposition 
 may at any time appropriate any amount in addition to said limitation to be 
 used for permanent buildings for said schools. 
 
 Shall keep records. — Sec. 395. It shall be the duty of the commissioner 
 of education to keep or cause to be kept complete record-s of all attendance 
 in the public schools with the names, ages, sex, places of residence, grade, etc., 
 of all pupils attending said public schools, and a complete record of all teach- 
 ers and principals in said school with all essential facts as to qualifications, 
 term.s of service, assignments, efficiency, salaries, promotions, and such other 
 facts as the council mav prescribe, and to report within thirty days of the 
 end of each school semester a summary in writing of all these facts to the 
 comptroller and to the mayor. He shall also keep or cause to be kept a 
 complete and comprehensive record of all business transacted in connection 
 with the public schools of said city, and the moneys received and disbursed 
 in connection therewith, and all other essential facts, and shall report within 
 thirty days after the close of each semester a summary of these facts for the 
 semester just closed, to the comptroller and to the mayor. Said reports shall 
 be made in such form a* the comptroller may prescribe, and said commis- 
 sioner shall attach to said report for the closing semester of each school year 
 estimates in such form as the comptroller may prescribe, of necessary ex- 
 penses for the next succeeding year with definite recommendations in detail 
 as to the objects for which the money .shall be spent.
 
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 To secure supplies and other property. — Sec. 396. Said commissioner 
 shall procure supplies and equipment for said schools, and acquire sites for 
 school buildings, and cause repairs to be made in such manner as thi.s charter 
 may provide, on the council under the authority of this charter may designate. 
 
 For care of truants. — Sec. .397. The council shall by ordinance on recom- 
 mendation of said commissioner, make such rules and provisions concerning 
 children previously enrolled upon the registers of the public schools of the 
 Cit}' of St. Paul and who have become habitual truants, and who are between 
 the ages of eight and sixteen years as will reasonably tend to compel their 
 attendance at said schools and said council mav require, and it shall be the 
 duty of all the police officers of the City of St. Paul to aid in the enforcement 
 and carrying out of such rules and regulations. 
 
 Advisory school board. — Sec. 398. Said commissioner of education shall 
 appoint a resident of each ward of the City of St. Paul, more than 21 years of 
 age, an advisory school inspector. Said inspectors shall have the power at 
 all times to attend any and all sessions of the public schools of St P.aul, 
 to observe the work in said schools, and to report to the commissioner of 
 education the needs of the public schools in the ward for which said resident 
 inspector may be appointed. Said advisory inspectors shall be appointed in 
 the June immediatelj^ following each regular soring election, and shall serve 
 for two years and without pay. It shall be the duty of said commissioner to 
 call together in advisory session at least once a month in the offices of said 
 commissioner, the whole body of school inspectors so appointed and to advise 
 with them as to the needs of the schools and what mav be done for their 
 improvement, and to listen to any complaints, reoorts or recommendations 
 which they may have to make. Said meetings shall be public. Minutes of said 
 meetings shall be kept by a clerk assigned bv said commissioner for said 
 purpose and shall become permanent public records in the office of said com- 
 missioner. The powers of said inspectors shall be advisory merely and in 
 visiting the schools they shall not interfere with the work of teachers or pupils 
 therein 
 
 Board of teachers. — Sec. 399. It shall be the dutv of the council to pro- 
 vide, by ordinance for the election of a board of teachers of the public schools 
 to con.sist of not more than twelve, nor less than eight members, elected bj' 
 secret ballot by the teachers and principals of the public schools. This board 
 of teachers shall be called together by the superintendent of schools from time 
 to time, not less than once a month, to advise with said superintendent and 
 said commissioner upon problems relating to the designation of oroper text 
 books, the adootion of course of study and the methods of teaching in the 
 schools of St. Paul. Said meetings shall be oublic and records thereof kept 
 as public records. Said board of teachers shall have oower to pass resolutions 
 and make recommendations upon subiects designated in this paragraph, but 
 it is hereby declared that the adoption of such recommendations shall lie in 
 the discretion of the superintendent of schools and the commissioner of educa- 
 tion subject to the action of the council. 
 
 Public libraries, museums and galleries of art. — Sec. 400. The commis- 
 sioner of education =hall have the mpnasrement and control, subject to the 
 miction of the council, of all pubb'c libraries, read^'np- rooms, museums and 
 galleries of art, now belonging or hereafter acnuired by the Citv of St. Paul, 
 and of all property set anart for the use or maintenance thereof, and the con- 
 trol and expenditure, subiect to the action of the citv council. th,e Drov's'ons 
 of this charter and the laws of the state of all mnncvs levied, collected or 
 received for such purposes. 
 
 To appoint librarian. — Sec. 401. Subiect to the nnoroval of the council, 
 ■said commissioner of education shall aonoint a lilM-nr'an at a salarv not to 
 exceed $2,500 a year, who shall be a srraduate of a univers"tv of educational 
 standards equal to those of the Universitv of Minnesota and who shall when 
 appointed be familiar with library administration and oractice. Said librarian 
 shall be the administrative officer of the commissioner of education in con-
 
 93 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 ducting public libraries, reading rooms, museums and galleries of art, under 
 the jurisdiction of said commissioner. Said commissioner shall emply all 
 assistants and employes necessary for the administration of said libraries, 
 museums and galleries of art. The number, general duties and compensation 
 of said emploes or assistants shall be fixed by ordinance passed by the council 
 on recommendation of said commissioner. Said commissioner shall also ap- 
 point such janitors, caretakers and other employes as may be necessary for 
 the are and maintenance of the buildings in which said libraries, museums 
 and galleries of art are housed, but the number and charter of said employes 
 and their salaries shall be fixed by ordinance passed by the council on recom- 
 mendation of said commissioner. 
 
 Shall adopt rules. — Sec. 402. Said commissioner shall prepare and present 
 to the council in the form of an ordinance .such rules and regulations as may 
 be necessary or advisable for the administration of said libraries, museums and 
 art galleries, and the properties thereto belonging. The council shall con- 
 eider, and may amend said ordinaince and after putting it into proper form 
 shall pass said ordinance, which shall not be inconsistent with this charter. 
 
 May establish branch libraries. — Sec. 403. On recommendation of said 
 commissioner, the council may by ordinance establish and maintain branch 
 libraries, and may by lease purchase or otherwise provide proper rooms or 
 buildings for said branches. 
 
 Control of expenditures. — Sec. 404. Subject to the action of the council, 
 said commissioner shall have exclusive control over the expenditure of all 
 moneys provided for the use of said libraries, museums or galleries of art, 
 except as otherwise directed in this charter. He shall have the supervision, 
 (.ustody and care of all grounds and buildings, constructed, set apart, leased or 
 in any other manner secured for the use of said libraries, museums and galleries 
 of art. 
 
 Library fund. — Sec. 405. All moneys appropriated, received or collected 
 for the construction, repair of maintenance of public libraries, museums or 
 galleries of art shall be deposited in the treasury of said city in a fund to be 
 known as the "library fund" which is hereby established, and shall be kept 
 -separate and apart from all other moneys of said citv. and shall be paid out 
 only upon proper vouchers approved and countersigned by said commissioner 
 of education, and for purposes for which such moneys have been appropriated 
 or received. All unexpended balances in said library fund at the end of any 
 year shall remain in said fund and be available in the year followi7ig for the 
 purposes for which said fund is intended. On recommendation of said com- 
 missioner and under the provisions of this charter the council shall have full 
 power to authorize the purchase in the name of the City of St. Paul of ground, 
 and to cause to be erected thereon a suitable building or buildings, for the use 
 of said library, museum and galleries of art. On recommendation of said com- 
 missioner said council shall have power to accept, or in its discretion, decline 
 donations tendered under the provisions of this charter. On recommendation 
 of said commissioner said council shall have power to improve, lease or let 
 any and all property set apart for the use of said library, or otherwise ac- 
 quired for the purposes herein referred to, upon such terms and conditions as 
 it may deem best, and may authorize said commissioner to deliver leases 
 therefore. Tt may receive and support subscriptions for the benefit of said 
 library fund. 
 
 May finance building. — Sec. 406. For the purpose of providing suitable 
 library building, said council shall have power to authorize a bond for any 
 sum not exceeding one million dollars, provided that before any such issue 
 shall be valid it must be approved by an affirmative vote of the qualified 
 electors of St. Paul voting upon such proposition at a general or a .special 
 election. Said bonds mav be issued upon the credit of the City of St. Paul or 
 they may be secured by property belonging to said city set apart for library 
 purposes, and said council and said voters may authorize the pledging of said
 
 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 'J3, 
 
 property for .said purpose. The bonds shall be limited to twenty years, shall 
 bear interest at not more than four per cent and shall not be sold below par. 
 
 Shall be forever free. — Sec. 407. Every library, reading room, museum 
 .ind gallery of art established or maintained under this charter shall be forever 
 free to the use of the inhabitants of said city subject to such reasonable rules 
 and regulations as may be prescribed under the authority granted in this char- 
 ter or by law, and said commissioner of education may exclude from the use 
 of any such places any and all persons who shall violate such rules and regula- 
 tions. Non-residents may be admitted to the privileges of said libraries upon 
 such conditions as said commissioner may prescribe, subject to approval by 
 the council. 
 
 Shall report to council. — Sec. 408. Said commissioner shall suljmit an- 
 nually to the council and to the comptroller duplicate reports of the businC'SS 
 of said libraries, museum, reading room and galleries of art, as such times 
 and in such form and scope as the council may direct. 
 
 Punishment for defacing property. — Sec. 409. The council shall have 
 power to pass ordinance imposing suitable penalties for the punishment of 
 persons committing injury upon such library and other property under the 
 management of said commissioner, and for injury of failure to return any book 
 belonging to said library, or in any manner connected with the use herein 
 provided for. 
 
 Council to fix conditions. — Sec. 410. The council by two-thirds vote shall 
 define conditions upon which the city may accept donations of money or other 
 property for the use of said library, museum, or galleries of art, provided that 
 £uch regulations shall be subject to repeal or amendment in the same manner 
 and provided that all monev or pronertv so donated .shall remain at all times 
 in the control for the use of and under the direction of the public through its 
 proper officers as designated in this charter. 
 
 Advisory board. — Sec 411. It shall be the duty of said commissioner of 
 education to appoint twelve residents of St. Paul properly qualified for the 
 place, one from each ward of the city, to serve a term of two years from 
 August 1 of each vear in which shall be elected a mayor and council, and such 
 persons so appointed in association with the superintendent of the St. Paul 
 schools, the principals of the high schools in the citv. and a teacher elected 
 by the whole body of teachers in the St. Paul schools in such a manner as the 
 council may direct, shall act as an advisory library board. The members of 
 said board shall meet at said library with said commissioner of education at 
 leat once a month and make such recommendations as they may consider will 
 promote the best interests of said library. Said library, its branches, the art 
 galleries, museum.s, etc., belonging to the citv shall be open at all times to 
 the members of said advisory board for their inspection in such manner as 
 not to interfere with the legitimate work being carried on in these places. 
 The members of said board shall especiallv be exoected to recommend new 
 books, papers and periodicals for said library, and how to make the resources 
 of said library most profitably available to the tniblic. Said recommendations 
 when made by the board as a whole shall be in writing and be a permanent 
 public record in the office of the commissioner of education. Whether said 
 recommendations are acted upon or accepted .shall remain in the discretion of 
 said commissioner of education. 
 
 May levy taxes for support, — Sec. 412. The council is hereby authorized 
 to levy and collect taxes and appropriate funds necessary for the proper 
 maintenance and support of said library, or libraries, museums, and art gal- 
 leries. 
 
 The auditorium; commissioner of education in charge. — Sec. 41.".. Under 
 the direction of the council the commissioner of education .shall have control, 
 management, and administration of the public auditorium and all property' ap- 
 pertaining thereto. With the approval of said council he shall appoint a super- 
 intendent to administer said building and property under the direction of said
 
 94 CHARIER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 commissioner. Said commissioner shall prepare an ordinance fixing the duties 
 and compensation of said superintendent and of other necessary employes for 
 thi'S administration of said building and property, and shall present it to the 
 council. Said council after such amendments as it may see ht shall pass 
 ordinance. In the same way an ordinance shall be passed providing rules and 
 regulations for the use of said building. 
 
 Auditorium fund. — Sec. 414. There is hereby created an auditorium fund 
 to which shall be credited all moneys heretofore or hereafter appropriated, 
 donated or delivered from the operation of said auditorium, for the use of said 
 auditorium, and to which .shall be charged all disbursements on account of said 
 building, and the administration and maintenance thereof and the property 
 appertaining thereto. Said commissioner shall keep account of said fund in 
 such manner as the comptroller may direct. Said fund shall be kept separate 
 and distinct from all other funds of said city. All surplus in said fund at the 
 end of any year after the expenses of operation, maintenance, repair and 
 betterment for the year have been paid, shall be applied to the payment of the 
 principal and interest of any indebtedness outstanding against said auditorium 
 building. 
 
 To be self-supporting. — Sec. 415. It shall be the duty of the commissioner 
 oi education and of the council so to manage said auditorium building as to 
 make it self-supporting or as nearly so as practicable. Keep this end in 
 view said council shall by ordinance on recommendation of said commissioner 
 fix scales of prices for the use of said auditorium and determine to what uses 
 it shall be devoted, provided that such uses shall always be for the benefit of 
 the public of St. Paul. It is the intention of this charter that distinction shall 
 be made in determining -scales of prices between persons who hire the use 
 of the auditorium for gain and those who engage it for gatherings or enter- 
 tainments for which no admittance fee is charged. In no case shall the amount 
 charged for the use of said building be less than the actual cost of heating, 
 lighting and attendance occasioned by such use. The council may, however, 
 where the use is strictly for the public purpose of benefit to all the people of 
 St. Paul, and where no admittance fee is charged, reimburse from the con- 
 tingent fund, the Auditorium fund for such expenses, and provide at the time 
 of making such appropriation for reimbursement, that the use of said building 
 shall be free. 
 
 May receive subscriptions. — Sec. 416. The council is hereby authorized 
 to receive bequests and donations and to receive and enforce subscriptions for 
 property to be installed in or used in connection with the Auditorium build- 
 ing, or for the establishment or endowment of free lectures, free concerts, or 
 for any other purpose of an educational nature free from sectarianism or 
 political partisanship. It may act as soecial trustee for and on behalf of the 
 City of St. Paul, may accept and administer any public trust consistent with 
 the purposes of the Auditorium and not involving relinauishment of full control 
 of said property whether in said trust or theretofore belonging to .said city, 
 and may maintain separate funds theretofore in the city treasury, subject to 
 the supervision and audit of the comptroller. 
 
 Must report annually. — Sec. 417. Said commissioner must each year be- 
 fore March 1 report to the council and to the comptroller, fully upon the 
 business and administration of said auditorium for the next previous year 
 ending December 31. Said reoort shall be made in such form a.s the comp- 
 troller with the approval of the council may direct, and must contain such 
 matter as said comptroller shall call for. 
 
 CHAPTER XX. 
 
 Commissioner of Parks, Playgrounds and Public Buildings. 
 
 Duties of the commissioner. — Sec. 418. The commissioner of parks, play- 
 grounds and public buildings shall have the management and control under
 
 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 95 
 
 the limitatioiirs of this charter of all lands which have been or may be acquired 
 for parks, parkways or playg;rounds other than school playgrounds, within 
 this city. He shall direct all expenditures from the park and playgrounds 
 funds for the maintenance and improvement of parks and parkways and shall 
 have power to provide, either directly or by lease of privileges approved by 
 the council, such conveniences, accommodations and entertainments as he may 
 deem proper for the use, enjoyment or recreation of all persons visiting said 
 parks or parkways or playgrounds. 
 
 May acquire lands. — Sec. 419. Said commissioner through the council may 
 from time to time acc|uire lands in the manner set forth in this charter for the 
 city for the use as parks, parkways or playgrounds. Said commissioner, with 
 the approval of the council may accept or receive donations of money or other 
 property for the use of said city for purposes connected with such parks, 
 parkways or playgrounds, on conditions determined by said council, provided 
 that in the acceptance of such gifts said city shall not relinquish full control 
 for any purpose whatsoever of said property. 
 
 May set apart streets. — Sec. 420. The council shall have power to set 
 apart as a parkway any .street or avenue or thoroughfare and any section 
 thereof and to place the same under the supervision of said commissioner for 
 purposes consistent with the use of said street, avenue or thoroughfare as a 
 highway, such as said council may direct. 
 
 Expenditures from the park fund. — Sec. 421. All expenditures under the 
 direction of said commissioner payment of which is not herein otherwise pro- 
 vided for shall be paid from the park fund not otherwise appropriated, and 
 all moneys received by said commissioner from any source, where not herein 
 otherwise directed, shall be paid into the city treasury to the credit of said 
 fund. Assessments collected for park or oarkway purposes shall be set apart 
 and U'Sed only for the specific purposes for which thev have been collected. 
 All assessments on property owned by the City of St. Paul shall be paid 
 out of the general fund of the City of St. Paul. Moneys of the park fund 
 when set apart for the purposes of paying damages awarded, shall be and 
 remain in the city treasurv until the assessments for the same purpose are 
 collected by sale or otherwise, and shall then be applied with said assessments 
 in payment of said damages, unless in this charter otherwise provided. 
 
 To regulate shores. — Sec. 422. Whenever the title shall have been acquired 
 by said city for park purposes to land constituting the shores of any stream, 
 lake or pond, said commi.ssio.ner may with the approval of the council, regulate 
 and control the use of such shore and the water contiguous thereto, and in 
 case such ownership shall embrace the entire shore of any such lake or pond, 
 said commissioner, subject to the council, is vested with exclusive charge and 
 control of the waters of such lake or pond and mav in all things, under .said 
 direction, govern the use of the said waters. It shall be the dut)^ of said com- 
 missioner to prepare such rules as may be necessary for the regulation and 
 control of such shores, and the council shall give such rules efifectiveness by 
 ordinance after making such amendments as the council mav see fit. 
 
 May not alienate lands. — Sec. 42.1. Lands which mav have been hereto- 
 fore acquired or which hereafter mav be acqtr'red for park nurposes, shall not 
 be alienated or diverted to other uses and shall remain forever parks and park- 
 ways for the use of all the inhabitants of said city. ^ 
 
 Commissioner shall prepare rules. — Sec. 424. Said commissioner shall pre- 
 I'are suitable rules to secure the quiet, orderly and proper use and enjoyment 
 of parks, parkways and playgrounds by the neoole, and the council shall, after 
 amendment if thought desirable, pass ordinances embodying these rules and 
 providing for their enforcement. It shall fix proper nenalties for their viola- 
 tion. Said ordinances shall be enforced bv the proner citv authorities, and 
 fines collected for their violation shall be paid into the city treasury for the 
 benefit of the park fund.
 
 96 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 To appoint superintendent. — Sec. 425. Said commissioner shall with the 
 approval of the council appoint a suitable superintendent of city parks who 
 shall be a skilled landscape architect or engineer, at a salary not to exceed 
 $4,000 a year, payable in equal monthly installments. Said superintendent 
 shall perform such duties as may be prescribed by said commissioner. Said 
 commissioner may also appoint a secretary at a salary not to exceed $2,000 a 
 3'ear, who shall also be accounting officer of said department and -shall per- 
 form such other duties as said commissioner may prescribe. Said commis- 
 sioner may cause to be kept in such form as may be directed bv the comp- 
 tioiler with the approval of the council, a full and complete public record of 
 all the business of said department, and a complete account of its funds. He 
 •shall make a complete report of said business in detail in such form as said 
 comptroller may direct, to said comptroller and to the council through the 
 mayor not later than March 1 of each year of the business of the next preced- 
 ing year. 
 
 May appoint police officers and other nark employes. — Sec. 426. Upon the 
 recommendations of said commissioner the council shall provide for the ap- 
 pointment by said commissioner of such park police officers as may be neces- 
 sary to preserve public order and care for public property in city parks and 
 playgrounds, and also such other employes as may be needed, and said council 
 shall fix the number and compensation thereof, provided that no employe of 
 this department shall receive greater compensation for the same or similar 
 work than is paid in other citv departments. All salaries and wages, unless 
 otherwise herein directed, shall be paid out of said park or playground funds. 
 All policemen appointed as provided for in this section .shall possess all the 
 common law and statutory power of constables, and any warrants for search 
 or arrest issued by any magistrate or court of record in Ramsey county, may 
 be executed by such policeman in any part of said county. 
 
 Laying of sewer, etc. — Sec. 427. The council shall have the same jurisdic- 
 tion and power with respect to the laying of water mains and .sewers along 
 the parkways and parks and plavgrounds in said city as it has in respect to 
 laying the same in and along the public streets and the same proceedings for 
 levying and collecting special assessments for sewers along such streets shall 
 apply to the levying and collecting of the same for sewers laid along the 
 parks, parkways or playgrounds. 
 
 Acquire without the city limits. — Sec. 428. Said city may acquire by gift 
 without the corporate city limits, for park, playground or parkway purposes 
 any land or lands, and shall possess the same powers and jurisdiction over said 
 parks, parkways or playgrounds as if they were located within the city limits. 
 
 Care of grass plots. — Sec. 429. Under conditions which may be fixed by 
 the council by ordinance, said commissioner may, on petition of property own- 
 ers assume charge of grass plots maintained along any street, and the cost 
 of caring for said plots may be assessed upon the abutting property. Said 
 council may certify such assessment to the auditor of Ramsey countv in such 
 manner as the council may designate, and on such certification .said auditor 
 shall collect such assessment in the same manner that state and county taxes 
 are collected in said countv and state, and when collected the amount thereof 
 shall be paid monthly by the treasurer of Ramsey county into the St. Paul 
 city treasury and shall be set aside to be used for the purpose for which it 
 vv'as intended. Any error or irregularity in making said assessment shall be 
 overlooked unless it works substantial injury to the city or to some person 
 asseS'Sed, and it may be corrected by reassessment by the council. 
 
 Care of trees. — Sec. 430. Upon petition of property owners asking that 
 it be done, the council may direct said commissioner to cause trees to be 
 planted along or upon any street or allev upon which the property of said 
 petitioners abuts, and the cost of the same may be assessed, collected and 
 applied in all respects as in the case of the care of grass plots as provided in 
 the last preceding section. Said council may authorize said commissioner to 
 appoint a city forester, and maj^ by proper ordinance provide that said forester
 
 CHARTER OI" CITY OF ST. PAUL. 'JT 
 
 shall have, under the direction of said commissioner, charge, direction and 
 control over all trees bordering public highways, their planting, care, removal, 
 trimming and treatment when diseased. Said council may provide for the 
 assessing of the cost of .such supervision to the abutting i)roperty as in the 
 case of the care of grass plots as provided in the last preceding section. 
 
 Commissioner ex-officio building inspector. — Sec. 431. Said commissioner 
 shall be ex-olificio building inspector of the City of St. Paul. With the ap- 
 proval of the council he shall appoint a competent architect of not les-s than 
 hve years practical experience in his profession next preceding his appointment, 
 to work under the direction of said commissioner. Said architect shall re- 
 ceive a salary not exceeding $4,000 a year. 
 
 Duties of said commissioner. — Sec. 432. It shall be the duty of said com- 
 missioner to enforce all laws of the .state and all ordinances of the City of 
 St. Paul applying to buildings within said city, whether relating to their plan- 
 ning, construction, maintenance, repair, fire protection, or any other matter. 
 For the purposes of enforcing said laws or ordinances he shall have power to 
 employ such inspectors and other assistance and employes as may be neces- 
 .sary, provided, the council shall by ordinance on recommendation of said com- 
 missioner, fix the number, title, salaries, qualifications and terms of service 
 of said employes, not inconsistent with the provisions of this charter. 
 
 Council has power over regulations. — Sec. 433. By ordinance not incon- 
 sistent with the laws of the state or the terms of thi-s charter the council may 
 adopt, repeal or amend any and all regulations, rules, resolutions or ordinances, 
 relating to buildings within the City of St. Paul. In the preparation of said 
 ordinances and their repeal and amendment, said architect shall be adviser of 
 said council. 
 
 - Duties of architect. — Sec. 434. Besides performing such duties as the coun- 
 cil or the commissioner of parks, playgrounds and public buildings may pre- 
 scribe, said architect, shall prepare plans, specifications and estimates, under 
 the direction of said commissioner, for all public buildings of any and every 
 character whatever by the City of St. Paul or by anv department, bureau or 
 officer thereof. Through said commissioner said architect shall submit said 
 plans to the officer or department responsible for the expenditure of the funds 
 with which said building is to be erected. If said plans meet the approval of 
 said officer, he shall submit them to the council, and after their approval by 
 resolution of the council, they shall be the official plans for the building in 
 question. If they do not meet with the approval of the officer responsible for 
 the expenditure of said funds, he shall point out in detail to said commi'Ssioner 
 of parks, playgrounds and public buildings and to said architect, his objections 
 to said plans, and said commissioner shall cause said architect to meet such 
 objections. If in the opinion of the commissioner of parks, playgrounds and 
 public buildings, such objections are well taken, he shall require said architect 
 so to modify said plans as to remove said objections. If on the other hand 
 said architect and said commissioner of parks, playgrounds and public build- 
 ings consider «aid plans proper, he shall have said architect report upon said 
 plans in detail and said commissioners shall lay said plans with the objections 
 to them and the report of the architect before the council which shall approve 
 said plans or shall order said commissioner to have new plans prepared. Plans 
 shall in thi.s manner be prepared and submitted to said council until they prove 
 satisfactory to the council and are approved by it. 
 
 Architect as superintendent. — Sec. 435. After the contract for the erection 
 of any building shall be made, as provided in this charter, said commissioner 
 shall "cause said architect to superintend the construction of said_ building. 
 In this work said commissioner shall employ to assist said architect such 
 inspectors as may be necessary. Provided that the council shall fix the num- 
 ber of said inspectors and their compensations. 
 
 Permits for buildings. — Sec. 436. All persons who shall wish to construct, 
 alter or repair any building within the City of St. Paul shall before beginning
 
 98 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 work thereon, submit plans for the same to said commissioner and shall re- 
 ceive from said commissioner a permit for said construction, alteration or 
 repair. Immediately upon the submitting of said plans, said commissioner shall 
 cause them to be examined and approved or rejected. If approved, said 
 commissioner shall cause a permit to be issued for said work, on such terms 
 as the council may by ordinance prescribe. If rejected the objections thereto 
 shall be pointed out in detail to the person or persons who have submitted 
 -said plans and no permit shall be granted until said plans shall be so changed 
 as to remove said objections. 
 
 To inspect buildings. — Sec. 437. Under such conditions as the council 
 may prescribe, said commissioner shall cause to be inspected all buildings con- 
 structed within the City of St. Paul and see that they conform to the laws 
 of the State and the ordinances of the City of St. Paul. For the purpose.s of 
 this chapter the term buildings shall include every structure of any character 
 erected by private persons within the City of St. Paul. In relation to public 
 structures, the term building shall have its usual significance. The council 
 shall have power to pass ordinances regulating building not inconsistent with 
 this charter and shall have power to fix penalties for their enforcement, and 
 in general for the enforcement of all ordinances relating to buildings within 
 the city, their planning, construction, maintenance, fire protection and all 
 other matters relating thereto. 
 
 To control playgrounds. — Sec. 438. Subject to the council, said commis- 
 sioner shall have full charge of and responsibility for all playgrounds belong- 
 ing to the City of St. Paul, except playgrounds attached to public schools, 
 and it shall be his duty to see that they are used to the best advantage for 
 the purposes for which they are intended. On recommendation of said com- 
 missioner the council shall by ordinance make proper rules for the use and 
 enjoyment of said playgrounds and shall provide for their enforcement. The 
 council shall have full authority to provide penalties for the violation of said 
 ordinances. 
 
 To select an advisory board. — Sec. 439. Subject to the approval of the 
 council said commissioner shall select an advisory board composed of five 
 residents of said city, one of whom shall be a woman to act without pay as 
 adviser of said commissioner as to the development and use of said parks 
 and playgrounds. Said commissioner shall meet with said board not less 
 than once each month to receive suggestions of its members as to the admin- 
 istration of said parks and playgrounds and discuss any business relating to 
 them, but he shall use his own discretion in carrying out such suggestions and 
 shall be solely responsible for said administration. Said advisory board shall 
 I'old office for two years and until their successors are appointed and qualified. 
 Each commissioner shall appoint such a board within sixty days of his assum- 
 ing his duties as commissioner. Members of said board shall have the right 
 to the floor in the council to be heard on park and playground business. 
 
 OH AFTER XXI. 
 
 Commissioner of public utilities. — Sec. 440. The commissioner of public 
 utlities shall be ex-ofiicio a member of the water board of the City of St. 
 Paul and shall be in general charge of the administration of the water depart- 
 ment of said city under the direction of said board, except as otherwise pro- 
 %ided for in this charter. 
 
 City lighting. — Sec. 441. Said commissioner shall have full charge and 
 control under the direction of the council, of the lighting of all streets, alleys, 
 parks, levees, squares, playgrounds, public buildings and all other public places 
 in said city or belonging to the City of St. Paul except as otherwise provided 
 for in this charter. 
 
 Equipment. — Sec. 442. The council shall have power at any time and it 
 shall be the duty of said council to furnish proper street lamps, posts, wires,
 
 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 99 
 
 and all other equipment necessary or desirable for the proper lighting men- 
 tioned in the last preceding section. 
 
 Commission to bid on lighting. — Sec. 443. When any lighting in this 
 chapter provided for is about to be let by contract, said commissioner shall 
 bid upon said lighting in accordance with the specifications therefor, and if 
 said commissioner be the lowest bidder, said commissioner shall be designated 
 to perform said lighting under said contract. The amount of said bid shall 
 be set apart by the council for -said lighting contemplated in said contract 
 and said commissioner shall be as strictly confined to the expenditure of said 
 amount as would any contractor who had secured said contract, in the carrying 
 out of said contract. 
 
 Commission to control public utilities. — Sec. 444. Subject to the council, 
 said commissioner shall have full control of the regulation within said city 
 of all telephone, telegraph, lighting, heating, power, street railway and other 
 municipal transportation and all other public utilities services whatsoever 
 which are subject to the control of said city government. He shall exercise 
 such powers in accordance with ordinances passed by the council upon his 
 recommendation. All licenses, permits, and all other privileges granted by 
 said city to public utility owners or operators, their lessees or representative's 
 shall be first approved by said commissioner. Said commissioner shall have 
 access at all reasonable times to the books, papers, machinery and equipment 
 of all public utility owners, operators, lessees and their representatives doing 
 business within the City of St. Paul and over which said city ha.s any control 
 or regulative power, for the purpose of making any inspection or ascertaining 
 any facts in relation to said utilities or their operation, cost, prices, capitaliza- 
 tion, profits, or any other fact relating to their business within the City of 
 St. Paul. 
 
 Commissioner to make report. — Sec. 445. Not later than March 1st of 
 each year said commissioner shall make to the mayor and council a complete 
 report upon the business of said titilities for the last preceding year ending 
 the next previous December 31. 
 
 Commissioner in charge of city services. — Sec. 446. Said commissioner 
 shall have full administrative control under the direction of the council, and 
 .shall be responsible for the operation of any public utility which the City of 
 St. Paul may now own or may hereafter acquire, except as otherwise pro- 
 vided in thi'S charter. 
 
 In accordance with the terms of this charter said commissioner shall ap- 
 point such assistants and employes as may be necessary to carry out the 
 duties placed upon him by this charter or the ordinances of said city in har- 
 mony herewith. Said council shall fix by ordinance the numbers, titles and 
 compensation of said employes. Said commissioner and his employes shall 
 be advisers of the council upon all technical questions relating to said public 
 utilities. 
 
 City testing laboratories. — Sec. 447. The council shall provide for the 
 establishing of municipal testing laboratories under the direction and manage- 
 ment of the commissioner of public utilities. Said commissioner shall pre- 
 pare an ordinance for the establishing of said laboratories, fixing the numbers, 
 titles and salaries of the necessary employes thereof, and defining their duties 
 and powers. Said council shall consider said ordinance and after amending 
 it as said council may deem proper, shall pass said ordinance. Said ordinance 
 shall provide for a skilled chemist and such other skilled tectinical officers 
 and employes as may be necessary to carry out the intent of this section. 
 If thought necessary said council may, upon the recommendation of said com- 
 missioner, provide in connection with said laboratories for a force of inspectors 
 to look after and inspect all work performed or supplies or material purchased 
 by or under the direction of this or the other department for which inspectors 
 are not otherwise provided in this charter. Provided that the cost of inspec- 
 tion shall not in any case exceed one per centum of the construction cost of 
 the work or service inspected, or one-half of one per cent of the cost of sup-
 
 100 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 plies or materials purchased. Until said laboratories are established the city 
 chemist, gas inspector and city scales of weights and measures shall perform 
 said services. Whenever said council shall establish said testing laboratories 
 it shall at the same time abolish the offices the work of which said laboratories 
 take over. 
 
 City markets. — Sec. 448. Such public markets as may be established by 
 the council shall be under the general direction and control of the commis- 
 sioner of public utilities. On the recommendation of said commissioner, the 
 council may establish, construct, purchase, acquire and maintain such public 
 markets a.s may be deemed of advantage to the people of St. Paul. On the 
 recommendation of said commissioner said council shall by ordinance fix the 
 number, titles, salaries and duties of the employes of said markets, and all 
 rules for the governing, and the administration of said markets. Said council 
 shall have power to authorize said commissioner to cau-se to be bought and 
 sold through said markets upon commission or otherwise, all articles and 
 things which in the opinion of said council shall be to the advantage of the 
 people of St. Paul. Said commissioner shall appoint, subject to the pro- 
 visions of this charter, all nece-ssary employes of said markets. 
 
 Levees and harbors. — Sec. 449. The council may by ordinance create the 
 office of harbor wastes for the control and regulation of levees, wharves, 
 piers and harbors in said city and fix his compensation, and the number and 
 compensation of such other employes as may be necessary to carry out the 
 powers mentioned in this section. Such harbor wastes and other employes 
 .shall be appointed by said commissioner of public utilities and shall be under 
 his direction and control. 
 
 Sec. 450. Said commissioiner of public utilities shall have power, subject 
 to the direction and control of the council to take efifective steps for the abate- 
 ment of the smoke nuisance. 
 
 CHAPTER XXII 
 
 Water Department. 
 
 Board — Term — Officers. — Sec. 451. There is hereby created a board of 
 water commissioners composed of the commissioner of public utilities, who 
 shall be president thereof, the commissioner of finance and the commissioner 
 of public works. The city clerk .shall be the secretary of such board. Each 
 of the aforesaid shall be ex-officio members and officers of the said board so 
 long as they shall hold their respective offices. 
 
 A city department. — Sec. 452. Except as herein modified or otherwise 
 provided, the said board shall be, in all respects, a department of the city and 
 shall likewise in all respects be subject and subordinate to all the provisions 
 ot this charter and the ordinances, administrative ordinance and resolutions 
 enacted in pursuance thereof. 
 
 May sue and be sued, etc. — Sec. 453. Said board of water commissioners 
 may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, 
 appear and prosecute unto final judgment in any court or elsewhere in the 
 name of «aid board of water commissioners; have a common seal and alter 
 the same at pleasure. They may prosecute any action in the name of said 
 board of water commissioners against any person or persons for money due 
 for the use of water, for the breach of any contract, expressed or implied, 
 touching the execution or management of the works or distribution of the 
 water, or of any promise or contract made to or for them; and also for any 
 injury or trespass or nuisance done or caused or procured to be done to the 
 water courses, pipes, machinery, or any other apparatus belonging to or con- 
 nected with any part of the works or for any improper use, or waste of the 
 water.
 
 CHARTER OF CITY Ol- ST. PAUL. lOi 
 
 Extensions — New sources of supply — General powers. — Sec. 454. With 
 the approval bj- resolution of the council, the said board of water commis- 
 sioners may from time to time for the purpo.se of furnishing a full supply 
 of water to the inhabitants of the City of St. Paul, extend said water works, 
 or make new lines of works, it may draw water from any lake or creek by 
 means of pipes, ditches, drains, conduits, aciueducts, or other means of con- 
 ducting water so as to connect said lakes or creeks with said works, and may 
 erect and construct dams, bulkheads, gates and other needed structures and 
 means for controlling water and its protection, and in general to do any other 
 act necessary or convenient for accomplishing the purpose contemplated by 
 this charter. 
 
 Special laws. — Sec. 455. The following sections and provisions of Chap- 
 ter 110, Special Laws 1885 are hereby continued in full force; adopted herein 
 and made part of this charter, as if specitically reacted, to-wit: 
 
 (Method of procedure of extending works.) — "Sec. 7. Whenever at any 
 time said board shall propose to extend its •said works so as to connect with 
 any of said lakes or creeks, or to divert the water of any stream, creek or body 
 of water, it shall proceed as follows: Said board shall cause to be made a 
 survey of the line along which it shall so propose to extend its said works 
 and of all lands or other property to be affected bj' flowage, drainage or other- 
 wise, and for that purpose it may, by its otificers and agents, enter upon any 
 lands doing no unnecessary damage thereto. After such survey shall have 
 been made and such line located, it shall cause to be made a map showing 
 the location of said line and the lands necessary to be taken for such exten- 
 sion, and of lands or other property to be affected by flowage, drainage or 
 otherwise. Said map shall be acknowledged by the surveyor making the same, 
 and by the president of the board of water commissioners, and shall be filed 
 as a record in the office of the register of deeds of the proper county. And 
 after making compensation as hereinafter provided to the owners of or per- 
 sons interested in the lands so to be taken, and for damages by reason of 
 diverting the water of any stream, creek or body of water, said city shall 
 have an easement in said land designated on said map for all the purposes 
 contemplated in this act, which said easement shall include the right of 
 passage without doing unreasonable damage from any public highway to and 
 from the land included or covered by said easement. The damage for said 
 right of passage shall be estimated in apportioning the amount of damage to 
 be paid for such easement." 
 
 (Commissioners to assess damages — Meetings — Report — Payment of dam- 
 ages — Appeal — Costs.) — "Sec. 8. Said board shall make application to the 
 judge of the District Court of the county wherein the lands are situate, at 
 chambers, for the appointment of three commissioners to assess the damage 
 which the owners of, or persons interested in, the lands to be taken, or any 
 other persons, may sustain bv reason of the taking of such lands, or of the 
 constructing, use and operating of such work. Notice of such application 
 shall be given by publishing the same in a newspaper printed in the county 
 wherein the lands are situated for at least twenty (20) days before the day 
 of making such application, which notice shall specify the time and place 
 where such application shall be made, the points between which it is proposed 
 to extend .said works, and state the date of filing the said map. At the time 
 and- place specified in said notice said judge shall, upon proof to his satisfac- 
 tion by affidavit of the due publication of said notice appoint, by an instru- 
 ment under his hand, three commissioners to assess said damages. Such 
 commissioners shall take and subscribe an oath for affirmation that they will 
 faithfully and fully examine the matter in question and make a true report 
 thereon, according to the best of their skill and understanding. They shall 
 appoint a time and place of meeting for the purpose of making such exam- 
 ination, and give notice thereof by publishing such notice in a newspaper 
 printed in the county wherein the lands are situate, at least ten (10) days 
 before the day so appointed. On the day so appointed they shall proceed 
 to view the lands so to be taken, and hear any evidence as to the damages
 
 102 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 which any person may sivstain by the taking of the same or by the construc- 
 tion, use and operating of the works of the city and shall continue their 
 examination until the same shall be completed. They shall make a just and 
 equitable estimate of such damages and shall make and file in the office of 
 the clerk of said court a report in writing signed by them, or any two (2) 
 of them, in which they shall .state the amount which said board should pay 
 to such persons or corporations who may sustain any damage by reason of 
 Uie taking of such lands or by reason of the construction, use or operating 
 of such works. Upon said report being filed said board may pay in to the 
 clerk of said court, for the use of the persons, entitled thereto, the several 
 amounts so awarded by said report, and thereupon said city shall have and 
 hold said lands and rights for the purposes aforesaid and said board may 
 proceed to construct, use and operate thereon said works an extension thereof. 
 Said report and finding of said commissioners shall be final and conclusive 
 as against all persons or corporations who shall not appeal therefrom within 
 thirty (.30) days after the filing of said report. Any person or corporation 
 interested may appeal from said report and findings of said commissioners 
 u-ithin the time aforesaid to the said district court by filing with the clerk 
 of said court a notice of appeal specifying the nature of his or its claims 
 and the amount thereof, and also by filing a bond in the sum of five hundred 
 ($500) dollars, with at least two (2) sureties, to be approved by the Court 
 conditioned for the payment of the judgment and of any costs that may be 
 awarded against said appellant. Said board may likewise appeal within the 
 time aforesaid upon the findings of said commissioners in favor of any person 
 or corporation by filing with said clerk a notice of such appeal. The appeal 
 shall be entered on the calendar for the succeeding term of said court and 
 shall be tried and judgment therein given and the like costs allowed as in 
 actions brought in said court. If the said board appeals and the same or 
 greater damages be recovered than shall have been awarded by the commis- 
 sioners it shall be liable for costs. If any other person or corporation be 
 the appellant and do not recover greater damages than shall have been 
 awarded by the commissioners, such appellant shall be liable for costs; but 
 no appeal taken shall prevent said cit}^ having and holding said lands as afore- 
 said or said board from entering upon and proceeding to construct, use and 
 operate said works or any part thereof." 
 
 (Duties of clerk of court.) — "Sec. 9. The clerk of said court shall attach 
 together, and keep on file in his office, the said notice of application, with 
 the affidavits of publication thereof, the appointment of said commissioners, 
 their oath or afifirmation, the notice given by them, with an affidavit of ^he 
 publication thereof; their report, the notice of appeal and bond, a certified 
 copy of any final judgment or appeal and his certificate or certificates of the 
 payment to him by said board or any monies awarded to any person or cor- 
 poration. A copy, certified by said clerk, of such papers may be recorded 
 in the office of the register of deeds of said county, and the papers so filed; 
 said record or a certified copy of either shall in all cases be received as evi- 
 dence of the facts therein stated. 
 
 (Possession and right-of-way — Injunctions.) — "Sec. 10. That whenever 
 the board of water commissioners file their maps as required by section seven 
 (,7) of this act, the Board shall be deemed to be in possession of the lands 
 and right-of-way as represented on their map or maps or of any other lands 
 they may occupy or have damaged in the construction of their works for the 
 purpose of introducing and supplying the City of St. Paul with pure water, 
 either by flowage, drainage or otherwise, either by the consent of the owner 
 or owners, or not of the land used or occupied, that is not shown on their 
 map or maps, that the owner or owners have not been settled with nor the 
 lands paid for as required by .section eight (8) of this act. No injunction 
 shall be maintained against the board of water commissioners, restraining 
 (hem from the use of the lands, (nor any action to recover) possession, or 
 for damage to said lands shall be maintained, except as provided in the follow- 
 ing section."
 
 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 103 
 
 Suits for recovery. — "Sec. 11. The owner or owners of any .such land or 
 lands may maintain a suit for the recovery of the possession of lands used 
 by the board of water commissioners, for the value thereof, and the damages 
 thereto by reason of the taking thereof as aforesaid, either by flowage, drain- 
 age or otherwise or damage of any kind." 
 
 Answer. — "Sec. 12. The defendant, the board of water commissioners, 
 may by answer admit and allege the taking of the plaintiff's land for the use 
 f)f the board of water commissioners, for the purposes of introducing water 
 into the City of St. Paul, and that no compensation has been paid therefor, 
 and that the defendant is ready and willing to pay such compensation, upon 
 having the same assessed b}^ the jury trying the action, provided the plain- 
 tiff on the trial .shall establish his right to recover the land in question." 
 
 Verdict for damages. — "Sec. 13. In all such actions where the defendant 
 by answer admits and pleads, as hereinabove specified, the jury shall try, 
 and by their verdict find whenever the plaintiff is entitled to recover for the 
 kind in controversy, and if so entitled, the amount of compensation to which 
 the plaintiff is entitled for the taking and perpetual use of this land for the 
 purpose herein specified; Provided, that when it appears that the land was 
 so taken or appropriated, by and with the con.sent and acquiescence of the 
 owner, such ow^ner shall not be entitled to recover any rents or profits which 
 accrued prior to demand for compensation for such land, and he shall be 
 limited to recover in such case the compensation for the land taken and 
 damages." 
 
 Judgment for damages. — "Sec. 14. Upon a verdict finding that the plain- 
 tiff is entitled to recover the land in suit and the compensation due him for the 
 taking and perpetual use of such land, judgment shall be entered in substance 
 as follows: That the plaintiff have and recover from the defendant the land 
 m suit or, in lieu thereof, the compensation fixed by the jury, with costs and 
 disbursements, and reasonable attorney's fees, to be fixed by the court; on 
 the expiration of ninety (90) days after the entry of the judgment aforesaid, 
 if the compensation, costs, disbursements and attorney's fee specified in the 
 judgment are not paid then a writ of execution shall issue for the delivery 
 of the possession of the land described in the judgment to the plaintiff, and 
 to satisfy the judgment as to costs, disbursements and attorney's fee out of 
 any property of the defendant." 
 
 Infant heirs, lands belonging to. — "Sec. 15. Whenever the Board of 
 water commissioners has located the line of its works or au)^ of its appur- 
 tenaces, upon a crop, or over, across or contiguous to any land or lots be- 
 longing to infant heirs or other wards having any interest therein, it shall 
 be lawful for the guardian of such heirs or wards to sell and convey to the 
 City of St. Paul, upon such terms as may be agreed upon between said guard- 
 ian and -said board of water commissioners, such portion of said land or lots 
 as may be deemed necessary or required by said board and the right-of-way 
 upon and across the same, together with all such grounds and rights as may 
 be deemed necessary or required for any purpose by said board in the dis- 
 charge of their duties as herein provided, subject only to the approval and 
 confirmation of the probate court of the county having jurisdiction of the 
 matter of the guardianship of .such heirs or wards, such approval and con- 
 firmation shall be indorsed upon or annexed to the deed or other instru- 
 ment between the parties and shall be recorded with and as a part of such 
 deed or instrument, in the office of the register of deeds in the proper county, 
 and shall be notice to all parties interested of the facts therein stated; Pro- 
 vided, that before granting such approval and confirmation the judge of pro- 
 bate shall require a petition, subscribed and verified by such guardian and 
 •signed by the president of the board of water commissioners, or by its attor- 
 ney, to be filed in such probate court, setting forth the names of such heirs 
 or wards, the name of the board of water commissioners, a description of 
 the lands or lots to be conveyed, the terms of sale, and that the price to be 
 paid is the just and full value of the lands or lots intended to be conveyed 
 to said board and upon the filing of such petition the judge of the probate
 
 104 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 court shall determine the matter, without any further formalit3\ notice, order 
 or delay whatever." 
 
 Re-surveys and re-locations. — "Sec. 16. Said board is hereby authorized 
 to re-survej' the line of its works heretofore and hereafter to be located, and 
 to re-locate said line or any portion thereof, the same as though said line 
 had not heretofore been located. In case of making such new survey and 
 re-location, said board shall proceed in the same manner as is provided in 
 sections seven (7), eight (8), and nine (9) of this act, and all the provisions 
 of said sections in all respects be applicable to the proceedings for such re- 
 survey and re-location and the effect thereof, and of constructing, using, and 
 operating its works over said re-located line. It may join its proceedings 
 for such re-survey and re-location with any proceedings for extending its said 
 works: Provided, that if said board shall, in the proceedings heretofore or 
 hereafter to be had for locating its said line, have paid unto the said clerk 
 the amount awarded to any person by the commissioners in said proceedings, 
 the amount so paid in shall be deemed a payment to such person upon the 
 amount which may be awarded in the proceedings hereby authorized." 
 
 Willful damage, penalty for. — "Sec. 17. Any person who shall wilfully 
 and without authority from said board break, remove or damage any dam, 
 bulkhead, gate, gate house, conduit, air vent, air box, air box cover, main pipe 
 or culvert, or fill up, or partially fill up, an excavation or raise or open any 
 gate, break down or force open any doors of said works executed, constructed 
 and maintained for the purposes specified in this act shall, on conviction 
 thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a term of not 
 more than ten (10) years nor less than one (1) year." 
 
 Willful acts to divert or corrupt water, etc. — Penalty. — "Sec. 19. If any 
 person or persons shall maliciously or wilfully divert the water, or any por- 
 tion thereof, from the said works, or shall corrupt or render the same impure, 
 or shall destroy any canal, aqueduct, pipe, conduit, machinery, or other prop- 
 erty used or required for procuring or distributing the water, such person 
 or person* and their aiders and abettors shall forfeit to said board, to be 
 recovered in a civil action, treble the amount of damages (besides costs of 
 suit), which shall appear on file to have been sustained; and all such acts 
 are hereby declared to be misdemeanors, and the parties found guilty thereof 
 may be further punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand ($1,000) dol- 
 lars or by imprisonment not exceeding one (1) year or both, at the discretion 
 of the court." 
 
 Board may use ground under streets, roads, railroads, etc. — "Sec. 20 
 That the said board, in behalf of the City of St. Paul and all persons acting 
 under their authority, shall have the right to use the grounds or soil under 
 any road, railroad, highway, street, lane, alley or court for the purpose of 
 constructing, enlarging, improving or repairing the works contemplated by 
 this act, on condition that they shall cause the surface of such road, railroad, 
 highway, street, lane, alley or court to be restored to its original state, and 
 all damages done thereto to be repaired." 
 
 Rights-of-way and easements paramount. — "Sec. 33. In all cases where 
 rights-of-way and easements have been 'or may be hereafter acquired, either 
 by purchase of title or by condemnation, for the laying of any conduits, supply 
 mains, or other appliances or works for supplying water as contemplated in 
 this act, such rights-of-way and easements .shall be paramount, and neither 
 said City of St. Paul nor said County of Ramsey nor other county or munic- 
 itp body or corporation, or other corporation or person shall thereon, use or 
 occupy the same for any purpose other than said purpose for which said 
 right-of-way or easement was or may be acquired as aforesaid, except with 
 the consent of .said board, and upon such terms and in such manner as may 
 be agreed upon with said board of water commissioners and said board of 
 water commissioners is hereby authorized to make and enter into any agree- 
 ment in that behalf which it may deem necessarv and expedient."
 
 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 105 
 
 Actions and judgments against board. — "Sec. 34. And all causes of ac- 
 tit)n, cither at law or in e(|uity, whicli may now exist, or which may hereafter 
 occur b}^ reason of any act or omission by or on the part of the board of 
 water commissioners, or of any of its servants, agents, employes or other- 
 wise, shall be brought and maintained by such claimant or claimants against 
 the said board of water commissioners, anything in the statutes of the State of 
 Minnesota to the contrary notwithstanding. And any and all judgments re- 
 covered against said board of water commissio.ners shall be paid out of any 
 monies in the hand.s of the citv treasurer of the City of St. Paul belonging to 
 said board, as other indebtedness are paid." 
 
 Notice of actions, filing and contents, limitation. — "Sec. 35. Before any 
 ciCtion shall hereafter be maintained in any court of this state having jurisdic- 
 tion thereof, against said' board of water commissioners, for any cause what- 
 ever, the subject matter thereof, together with the evidence in support of the 
 same, must have first been presented and submitted to said board for its in- 
 vestigation and approval, and that, too. within sixty (60) days after said cause 
 of action accrues. If, upon and after such investigation by said board, the 
 same shall by it be rejected, then and in that case action thereon must be 
 commenced within one (1) year thereafter, or forever be barred from main- 
 taining an action thereon, or recovering a judgment against said board upon 
 said claim or cause of action." 
 
 Real estate defined. — "Sec. ?,6. The term 'real estate' as used in this 
 chapter, shall be construed to signifj- and embrace all uplands, lands- under 
 water, the waters of any lake, pond or stream, all and every estate, interest 
 and right, legal and equitable, in the land.s or water, including term for years, 
 and liens thereon by way of judgment, mortgage or otherwise, and also all 
 claims tor damages to such real estate." 
 
 Meetings — General powers — Executive officer. — Sec. 450. Such board 
 shall meet at least O'Uce a month and at such other times as it may deter- 
 mine and shall keep complete public records of all its proceedings. Special 
 meetings maj^ be called by the president or by the other two members by 
 jointly signing call. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for 
 the transaction of business. 
 
 Subject to the charter and any enactment in pursuance thereof, the board 
 shall have full control and management of the said department. 
 
 The president shall be the executive of^cer of said board and subject to 
 the charter and with the approval of the board may appoint and employ all 
 ofificers and employes of the said department. 
 
 Officers and employes — Terms and compensation. — Sec. 457. The board, 
 with the approval of the council, by administrative ordinance, shall fix the 
 compensation of all officers and emploves, their titles, terms of service, and 
 general conditions of employment, subject, however to this charter, and 
 also may likewise make and provide rules and regulations for their govern- 
 ment. 
 
 Contracts — Finances. — Sec. 458. All contracts and agreements shall be 
 made in the name and for the benefit of said board, and all formal contracts 
 shall be signed and executed by the pres'dent and secretary tliereof, and ap- 
 proved and countersigned by the comptroller. 
 
 All money collected or expended by the said board shall be kept in a 
 separate fund, which may be divided into such accounts as desirable, and shall 
 be used only for the purposes and uses of .said board and not -otherwise. 
 
 Rules for use and water rates. — Sec. 450. The council, by ordinance, shall 
 provide rules and regulations relative to the u'^c and di-^tribution of water, 
 the fixing of the price at which it shall be furnished for any purpose whatso- 
 ever. Water rates must be uniform, as nearlv a'^ nracticablc. a"'' ^haU be 
 adequate for the maintenance of said department the pavment of all interest 
 and repair charges, and the amortization of all indebtedness when (]uq, and 
 any officer violating this provision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. .Vnj'
 
 lOG CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 and all charges to the furnishing by the said board, of water to any person 
 or propertj' shall be a continuing lien upon such property until the same are 
 paid. 
 
 The council may provide for the payment of water rates in advance and 
 may also provide for the deposit of a stated sum for the installation of a 
 meter or other water connection, which deposit shall be returned to the per- 
 son making the same with interest not to exceed four (4) per cent per annum 
 when such connection shall terminate, provided all charges shall have been 
 paid. It may also prescribe a minimum rate and shall prescribe penalties for 
 failure to pay promptly for water furnished, and also for non-payment. 
 
 All water rates and charges shall be collected at least once in every three 
 months. 
 
 City must pay for water. — Sec. 460. The said board shall keep separate 
 accounts with each officer and department of the city and other governmental 
 agencies for water furnished and shall collect therefrom in the same manner 
 and subject to the same rules and regulations, as if the same were private 
 persons, provided, however, that the council shall annually appropriate funds 
 for the payment to such board for all w-ater supplied for the extinguishment 
 of fires, for public tountanis, public watering places, public batbs, the clean- 
 ing of streets and for all other public purposes where it is impracticable to 
 measure the amount thereof. The council also shall annually determine the 
 cost or value of water to be used in street sprinkling or other like purpose 
 and shall direct the proper officer or d epartment to include such sum or sums 
 in the cO'St of sprinkling or other like purpose and proceed to collect the 
 same for the benefit and use of the said water department. 
 
 Failure on the part of anv public officer to carry out the provisions of 
 this section shall constitute malfeasance in office. 
 
 Frontage tax — Collection. — Sec. 461. The said board shall assess against 
 each and every lot. piece or parcel of land in front of which water pipes are 
 laid an annual tax or assessment of ten (10) cents per lineal foot of the 
 frontage thereof, which assessment shall be a lien thereon and shall be col- 
 lected by and through the county auditor and county treasurer in such man- 
 ner as the council by an administrative ordinance shall prescribe; but no 
 property shall be subjected to more than ten such annual assessments, and 
 all sums so collected shall be for the benefit and use of the said board. 
 
 Mains — Grades. — Sec. 462. The council by ordinance shall prescribe the 
 manner of and provide for the laying of water mains, the re-adjustment there- 
 of, and the relaying and readjustment thereof on the change of anj^ street 
 grade. 
 
 Council powers. — Sec. 463. The council shall have full power and au- 
 thority, subject to the provisions of the charter, to prescribe and provide for 
 the better conduct and regulation of the water department and all other mat- 
 ters connected therewith not herein provided for. 
 
 Bonds. — Sec. 464. All bonds heretofore issued by the city for the pur- 
 chase or improvement of the water system of the city are hereby declared to 
 be legal and valid obligations of the City of St. Paul. 
 
 Upon request of the said board, the council shall have power by five- 
 sevenths affirmative vote of all members elect, to issue and sell not to exceed 
 three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00) par value of the bonds of said 
 city for the purpose of and the proceeds thereof shall be used solely for 
 extending, enlarging and improving the water plant and system of said city, 
 provided, however, that no more than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,- 
 000.00) par value of said bonds shall be issued and .sold in any one calendar 
 year. 
 
 Said bonds shall be in the form prescribed by the council, shall bear in- 
 terest at a rate not to exceed four (4) per cent per annum, and shall be pay- 
 able in not to exceed thirty years after their date. 'It is the duty of said 
 board to make annually suitable provision for the prompt payment of the
 
 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 107 
 
 interest on any said bonds and for the redemption of said bonds at their 
 maturity from the revenues of said board. 
 
 Said bonds may be issued and sold notwithstanding any other provisions 
 of this charter nor any provision of law fixing the bonded indebtedness of 
 said city, but they shall not be additional to the bonds authorized in the 
 provisions of this charter relative to city finances. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIII. 
 
 Court house and city hall joint committee. — Sec. 465. That the follow- 
 ing portion of Section 1, Chapter 64 of the special laws of the State of Min- 
 nesota for the year 1889 in the following words shall remain in full force, 
 to-wit: 
 
 "The said building (Court house and City hall) when completed shall be 
 in charge of a joint committee of seven to be appointed as follows: The 
 mayor of the City of St. Paul .shall be ex-ot¥icio a member and chairman of 
 said committee. Three (3) of said committee shall be appointed annually by 
 the president of the common council of said city from the members of said 
 council, and three (3) shall be appointed annually by the chairman of the 
 board of county commissioners from the members of said board. Said com- 
 mittee shall have entire charge of said building, and shall have power to ap- 
 point such janitors, custodian and other employes as they shall deem neces- 
 sary for the proper care and management of said building and at such com- 
 pensation as said committee shall determine. The expense of keeping .said 
 building in repair and the necessary expense of heating and maintaining the 
 same shall be paid equally by said city and county, that is to say. one-half 
 thereof out of the treasury of said city and one-half out of the treasury of 
 said county." 
 
 Provided that the foregoing the term "common council" shall moan 
 "council" under this charter and the phrase, "president of the common coun- 
 cil," shall mean mayor of the City of St. Paul under this charter. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIV. 
 
 Municipal court. — Sec. 466. All provisions of law relating to the munic- 
 ipal court of the City of St .Paul, or any of the officers or employes thereof, 
 or imposing powers or duties on any of the officers or employes of said 
 city of St. Paul in connection with said municipal court, are continued in 
 force and made part of this charter. 
 
 CHAPTER XXV. 
 
 Almshouse and city hospital. — Sec. 467. All provisions of law relating to 
 the almshouse and city hospital, and to the city and county physician as they 
 row exist, are continued in force and made part of this charter. 
 
 CHAPTER XXVI. 
 
 Plat commission. — Sec. 468. All the provisions of that certain act of the 
 legislature of the State of Minnesota entitled, "An act to amend and con- 
 solidate an act to provide for a plat commission of Ramsey county, approved 
 March 7, 1881, and the several acts amendatory thereof," approved February 
 22, 1887, being chapter 108 of the special laws of 1887, so far as applicable 
 to the City of St. Paul, are hereby continued in force and made part of this 
 charter, except insofar as such provisions are inconsistent with the express 
 provisions of this charter; provided that the mayor of the City of St. Paul 
 shall have the appointive power given the "president of the common council" 
 under said act, and the commissioner of public work.s shall take the place of 
 the "city engineer."
 
 108 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 CHAPTER XXVII. 
 
 Assessment of property for general taxation. — Sec. 469. The provisions of 
 law relating to tlie assessment of property for general taxation as they now 
 exist are continued in force and made part of this charter, except insofar as 
 such provisions of law are inconsistent with the express provisions of this 
 charter. Provided that the board of appointment as therein provided shall be 
 composed of the chairman of the board of county commissioners of Ramsey 
 county, the auditor of the County of Ramsey and the vice-president of the 
 council of the City of St. Paul. 
 
 OHAPTER X;XVIII. 
 
 Official publications. — Sec. 470. In November of each and every year the 
 
 council shall have authority to receive competitive bids and to make a con- 
 tract or contracts for the printing and publishing during the year beginning 
 January 1 next following in a dailj' or weekly newspaper specified in the bid, 
 and printed in the English language in the City of St. Paul qualified under 
 the laws of ^Minnesota to publish legal advertisements, all ordinances, resolu- 
 tions, and other proceedings and matters required under this charter or by 
 resolutions or ordinances of the council to be published in a public news- 
 paper. Said council shall by ordinance determine the manner in which such 
 bids may be received, and such contracts awarded, provided that said con- 
 tracts shall be awarded in each case to the lowest qualified bidder and in 
 such manner as to serve and protect the interests of the City of St. Paul. 
 
 May establish weekly paper. — Sec. 471. Instead of advertising for bids 
 for printing and publication as provided in the preceding section, and desig- 
 nating an established daily or weeklj' paper as the official paper of the city, 
 the council shall have power and authorit}^ to require the city clerk to have 
 printed and to issue each week an official paper of the City of St. Paul in 
 v.diich all matters above designated shall be published. Said paper shall, pub- 
 lish only matters relating to the city's business. Copies of each issue of said 
 paper shall be kept on file in the office of the city clerk and of the comp- 
 troller, and shall be sent free to all. public libraries in the Twin Cities and 
 to all other public libraries which may apply therefor. Such copies shall be 
 furnished free to all persons applying therefor personally for each issue at 
 the city hall, one copy of each issue to each person so applying, or they shall 
 be mailed to the address of any person paying in advance a subscription of 
 fifty cents per year to said city clerk. Said subscription shall become part 
 of the printing fund of the City of St. Paul. The time specified for the pub- 
 lication of any notice required to be published in the official paper of said 
 city under this charter sjiall commence with its first publication. 
 
 OHAPTER XXIX. 
 
 Miscellaneous and Supplementary. 
 
 Sec. 472. All meetings of the council, of all boards, committees and offi- 
 cers whatever, elected, appointed or employed, shall be public meetings open 
 to the public under proper regulations to be fixed by ordinance by the council. 
 All proceedings and records of all such bodies or officers, and all documents 
 Ijelonging to the City of St. Paul shall be public records and documents 
 accessible to the public under proper restrictions to be fixed by the council 
 by ordinance. All such records shall be prima facie evidence of the facts 
 therein stated and copies thereof when certified by the person entitled to 
 the official custody thereof to have been compared by him with the original, 
 and to be a correct transcript therefrom, shall be received in evidence in all 
 cases with the same force and effect given to .such original. 
 
 Officials and employes not to do business with city. — Sec. 47."]. No officer 
 or emploj^e of the City of St. Paul, or any department, bureau or activity
 
 CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 109 
 
 whatever in which the City of St. Paul or its government is in any way in- 
 terested, shall have a personal interest direct or indirect in any contract or 
 job, with said city, or shall be interested directly or indirectly in the sale to 
 said city of any supplies, material, .service, or any other things whatsoever, 
 except on behalf of said city as such officer or employe. This prohibition 
 shall apply to the leasing or selling of lands to said city for any purpose 
 whatever. The receiving of a fixed salary for performing official duties shall 
 not come within the above prohibition. Any violation of this section shall 
 constitute malfeasance in office, and anv money.s reserved in violation of said 
 section may be recovered by said cittj' in the courts. 
 
 Curative. — Sec. 474. The adoption of this amendment shall not be con- 
 strued as the repeal of any ordinance or resolution of the City of St. Paul 
 now in force, and not in conflict with this charter. So far as the provisions 
 of this amendment are the same as the provisions of the prior existing charter 
 the same shall be construed as continuations thereof. 
 
 All contracts entered into by or with the city, prior to the adoption of 
 this amendment shall be continued in force and with the same effect as 
 though all the procedure entered into by any of the authorities of the city 
 for making local improvements or any other public work shall be continued 
 and perfected under this charter with the same effect as though the same 
 had been commenced hereunder, except that where the completion of the 
 same is impracticable within the terms of this charter, the same shall be 
 completed under the terms of the laws in force prior to the adoption thereof. 
 
 The repeal by this amendment of any prior charter or any part thereof, 
 whether the same be revised or re-enacted herein or not, shall not revive 
 any law heretofore or hereby repealed or any office abolished: neither shall 
 it affect an}^ act done, ratified or confirmed, nor any right accrued or estab- 
 lished, nor any action or proceeding had or commenced, but future proceed- 
 ings save as herein specifically provided, shall conform as far as practicable 
 to the provisions of this amendment. 
 
 Other appointments. — Sec. 475. The appointment of all officers not 
 otherwise provided for in this charter may be made in .such manner and by 
 such persons subject to the chapter on civil service in this charter, as the 
 council may by ordinance prescribe. 
 
 Additional powers of the council. — Sec. 476. In addition to all specific 
 powers given the council or any officer of the Citj'^ of St. Paul, the council 
 shall have all such powers as may be necessary to supplement and supply by 
 ordinance adopted b}- unanimous vote, subject to the limitations of this char- 
 ter and the laws of the state, any and all things necessary to make effective 
 the government of the City of St. Paul, and guard and preserve the interests 
 of its inhabitants. 
 
 May remove officers. — Sec. 477. All heads of departments having the 
 power of appointing assistants, subordinates or employes shall have power to 
 remove said officers under the resolutions and by the methods provided in 
 the chapter on civil service. 
 
 Sec. 478. The council shall have power by ordinance to provide for in- 
 spection and regulation of all construction work, whatever, within the City 
 of .St. Paul, whether buildings, plumbing, heating, ventilating or any other 
 construction whatsoever, and shall do .so for the protection of the people of 
 St. Paul. 
 
 Sec. 470. The council sliall provide for city representaticm-to the board 
 of equalization and all other boards upon which the city is entitled to repre- 
 sentation. 
 
 Sec. 480. The council mav provide for a municipal reference lilirary and 
 the selection of employes thereof. 
 
 Council to perform duties and exercise powers of "common council." — 
 
 Sec. 481. Any duty or novver eiven the ''commmi council" in this or any 
 previous charter of- the City of St. Paul or any amendment thereto, or in any
 
 no CHARTER OF CITY OF ST. PAUL. 
 
 statute, shall be performed or exercised by the council created under this 
 charter, if not otherwise provided for herein. 
 
 Sec. 482. All playgrounds attached to public schools or purchased with 
 school funds, shall be under the exclusive direction and control of the com- 
 missioner of education for all purposes whatever.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 ABANDONMENT, franchises 163 
 
 ABATEMENT, nuisances 373 374 
 
 Smoke nuisance 450 
 
 ACCEPTANCE, of candidacy 16 
 
 ACCIDENTS, duties of police officers 361 
 
 ACCOUNTANT, appointment by comptroller, salary 72 
 
 Auditing accounts of departments . 97 
 
 ACCOUNTS, of departments, auditing 97 
 
 ACTIONS— 
 
 Appeals by city iSr 
 
 To be brought in corporate name of city 179 
 
 Effect of amendment of charter 474 
 
 Inhabitants of city competent as judges, jurors, etc 182 
 
 Process served on mayor 65 
 
 Security for costs 181 
 
 ADVERSE POSSESSION, against Citv 256 
 
 ADVERTISEMENTS— 
 
 Bids 311 
 
 Bids for construction of buildings 304 
 
 Contract for supplies 297 
 
 Official publications 470 
 
 AFFIDAVITS, contractors, as to payment of claim 322 
 
 Publication of ordinances 123 
 
 ALIENATION, lands acquired for park purposes 423 
 
 ALMS' HOUSE, laws continued in force 466 
 
 ALTERATIONS, in lots, changing assessments 264 
 
 AMBULANCE, police ambulance 353 
 
 AMENDMENT, time of taking efifect 43 
 
 Amendment of Charter, efifect of adoption 43a 474 
 
 APPEALS— 
 
 Condemnation proceedings 271 
 
 By city 181 
 
 From confirmation of assessments 250 
 
 APPORTIONMENT, miscellaneous receipts 210 
 
 APPROPRIATIONS— 
 
 Emergency 206 
 
 Limitation of amount 201 
 
 Local improvements 278, 279 
 
 Ordinances 117 
 
 Request for, itemized 92 
 
 ■ Schools 394 
 
 Street intersections and crosswalks 235 
 
 Street sprinkling ' -^ 275 
 
 Transfer of funds 208 
 
 Unexpended balance 20Q 
 
 ARCHITECTS— 
 
 Appointment by building inspector 431 
 
 Duties as to buildings, etc 434 
 
 Plans, specifications, and estimates for buildings 304 
 
 Salary 431 
 
 As superintendent of buildings 435
 
 112 INDEX. 
 
 ARREST— Section. 
 
 .Authority of policemen 357 
 
 Powers of park police l-f' 
 
 Rewards for 365 
 
 Duties of police officers 361 
 
 ART GALLERIES— 
 
 Accinisition of lands for 233 
 
 Assistants and employes 4CI 
 
 r.uildings 405 
 
 Control of expenditures » 404 
 
 Control of property 404 
 
 Donations, conditions 410 
 
 Free use 407 
 
 Library fund 405 
 
 Powers of Commissioner of Education 400 
 
 Reports to council 408 
 
 Rules and regulations 402 
 
 Tax levy 412 
 
 ASSESSMENTS— 
 
 .Additional 254 
 
 Advance payments 265 
 
 Alterations in lots 264 
 
 Care of grass plots 429 
 
 Change or modification of improvements 254 
 
 Collection by county officers 266 
 
 Collection of subsequent installments 263 
 
 Comptroller to audit 249 
 
 Confirmation, appeals 250 
 
 Defenses and objections 247 
 
 Hearing : 247 
 
 Jurisdictional defects 247 
 
 Deferred installments 278 
 
 Delinquent assessments or installments 279 
 
 Collection by county 261 
 
 Payment 262 
 
 Penalty 260 
 
 When delinquent 260 
 
 Effect of confirmation and judgment 250 
 
 Final assessments 245 
 
 Inadequate 252 
 
 Imterest 260 
 
 Interest on installments 263 
 
 Judicial confirmation 246 
 
 Certified copy to commissioner of finance 248 
 
 Judicial revision 247 
 
 Lateral sewer, water and gas connections 238 
 
 Lien 259 
 
 Municipal sprinkling plant ; . . . . 277 
 
 Non-assessible improvements 2.s8 
 
 Notice of payment . ■ 260 
 
 Parks, boulevards, etc 237 
 
 Parks or park ways 421 
 
 Payment in installments 258 
 
 Pending acts and proceedings , 268 
 
 Planting and care of trees 43° 
 
 Preliminary assessment 244 
 
 Re-assessment or new assessment 251 
 
 Rules governing 255 
 
 Sale of local improvement certificates 267 
 
 Sidewalks 281 
 
 Street sprinkling 275, 276 
 
 Trunk sewers 236
 
 INDEX. 113 
 
 Section. 
 
 ASSIGNMENT, contracts 323 
 
 ASYLUMS, reports to bureau of health 373 
 
 ATTORNEYS, special counsel 178 
 
 AUDIT— 
 
 Claims against city -j-j^ 94 97 
 
 Assessment roll 249 
 
 Street sprinkling assessments 276 
 
 AUDITOR, deputy, appointment, salary 72 
 
 AUDITORIUM— 
 
 Annual reports to council 417 
 
 Auditorium fund 414 
 
 Reimbursement from contingent fund 415 
 
 Bequests and donations 416 
 
 Charges for use 415 
 
 Commissioner of education to have control 413 
 
 Revenues 215 
 
 To be self-supporting 415 
 
 Subscriptions 416 
 
 Superintendent, appointment 413 
 
 AWARDS, of contracts 299 
 
 BANKS, city depositories tSSa 193 
 
 Stockholders as sureties on bonds of depositories i88a 
 
 BEQUESTS, for auditorium 416 
 
 BIDS— 
 
 Advertisement for 311 
 
 Bonds or checks to accompany 312 
 
 For city lighting 443 
 
 For construction of buildings 304 
 
 Filing 312b 
 
 For official publications 470 
 
 Opening 312a 
 
 For public works 349a 
 
 Readvertising 318 
 
 For supplies 297, 298 
 
 BILL OF PARTICULARS— 
 
 Charges against non-elective officers and employes 60 
 
 BIRTHS AND DEATHS, reports 2>12, 
 
 BOARD OF CONTROL, claims 96 
 
 BOARDS, (See Water Department.) 
 
 Abolition 42a 
 
 BONDS— 
 
 Appeal by city 181 
 
 Appeal from confirmation of assessment 250 
 
 Assignee or lessee of franchise 172 
 
 Bidders 312 
 
 City depositories i88a 
 
 Deposit of securities in lieu of 190 
 
 Lapse 189 
 
 Proceedings on 189 
 
 Contractors 320 
 
 Additional bond 321 
 
 Of employes in department of public safety 352 
 
 Cancellation on payment :- 223 
 
 Cancellation by comptroller 224 
 
 Coupons, authentication 224 
 
 Emergency loans 206 
 
 Increase of permanent debt 216 
 
 Investment of sinking funds 221 
 
 Issuance, submission to voters 217 
 
 Library building 406
 
 114 INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 BONDS— Cont. 
 
 Limitation of amount -^7 
 
 Local improvement fund 270 
 
 Mayor to sign ^^4 
 
 New bonds, 
 
 216 
 
 Payment, surrender "3 
 
 Refunding • 217 
 
 Sale, amount 217 
 
 Seal 224 
 
 Security of city pledged for payment 218 
 
 Sining fund 219 
 
 Use for other purposes 217 
 
 Water supply 464 
 
 Ofificial 51 
 
 BOOKKEEPER, Deputy appointment, salary 72 
 
 BOOKS AND PAPERS— 
 
 Franchise holders, inspection 154 
 
 Injury to or failure to return to library books 409 
 
 Production before civil service commissioner 106 
 
 Production before commissioner of public safety 352a 
 
 BOULEVARDS— 
 
 Acquisition of lands for 233 
 
 Bureau of construction and repairs 327, 328 
 
 Bureau of sanitation 332 
 
 Powers of council 233 
 
 BOUNDARIES, wards, change 3 
 
 BRIDGES— 
 
 Bureau of bridges 329, - 330 
 
 Injuries from defects, notice of claim for damages 184 
 
 Powers of council 128 
 
 BUDGET— 
 
 Estimates 200 
 
 Hearings on 202 
 
 Limitations 201 
 
 Ordinance, referendum 140 
 
 Publication 202 
 
 BUILDING INSPECTOR, appointment of architect '431 
 
 Commissioner of parks, playgrounds and public buildings ex ofificio. 431 
 BUILDINGS (See Public Buildings.) 
 
 Building lines 234 
 
 Commissioner of parks, playgrounds and public buildings 418, 439 
 
 Destruction for purpose of extinguishing or checking fires 369 
 
 Duties of commissioner of parks, playgrounds and public buildings.. 432 
 
 Inspection 437 
 
 Inspection and regulation of construction work 478 
 
 Inspectors 432, 435 
 
 On lands condemned, appraisal, removal 274 
 
 Permits 436 
 
 Regulations, powers of council , 127, 433 
 
 BUREAUS— 
 
 (See Civil Service. Fire Protection. Bureau of Health, Police, Public 
 Safety. Public Works.) 
 
 BYSTANDERS, Summoning by police ofificers 357 
 
 Summoning to extinguish fires 369 
 
 CARRIERS, Quarantine 373 
 
 Transportation of policemen, firemen, etc., by street railroads 165 
 
 CENSUS, Per capita limitation of expenditures 201 
 
 Schools 394 
 
 CERTIFICATES, of preservation 12, 14 
 
 Of vaccination 373
 
 INDEX. 115 
 
 Section. 
 
 CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS— 
 
 Amount 225, 278 
 
 Application of proceeds of sale 228 
 
 City Clerk to attest 230 
 
 Comptroller to countersign 230 
 
 Corporate seal 230 
 
 Denomination 226, 278 
 
 Form 230, 278 
 
 Interest 226, 278 
 
 Local improvement certificates 278 
 
 Proceeds of sale 279 
 
 Maturit}^ 226 
 
 Mayor to sign 230 
 
 Sale 225 
 
 Minimum price 231, 278 
 
 Pajnnent 229 
 
 Records of 229 
 
 Time of 231 
 
 Surplus moneys invested in 232 
 
 CERTIFIED CHECKS, to accompanv bids 312 
 
 CHARTER— 
 
 Contract and obligations under former charter 43a, 474 
 
 ■ Efifect of adoption of amendment 43a, 474 
 
 Time of taking efifect 43 
 
 CHECKS', to accompany bids 312 
 
 On depositories i88a 
 
 CHEMIST, city testino; laboratories 447 
 
 CHIEF OF FIRE DEPARTMENT (See Fire Chief.) 
 
 CHIEF OF POLICE (See Police.) 
 
 CHILDREN, compensation to minor children of policemen, killed in 
 
 service 355 
 
 CITY CLERK— 
 
 Attesting bonds 224 
 
 Bond , 51 
 
 Calling special council meetings in 
 
 Certification of candidates to common council 19 
 
 Duties as to recall elections 29, 3s 
 
 Duty as to ballots 20 
 
 Election, term 113 
 
 Execution of bond on appeal i8t 
 
 Execution of contracts and leases 316 
 
 Filing petition of presentation \y 
 
 Indorsement of petition of presentation 14 
 
 Notice of elections 23 
 
 Notice to oflficers elected 9, 49 
 
 Preservation of petition of presentation 18 
 
 Printing monthly statement of comptroller 74 
 
 To provide certificates of presentation 12 
 
 Record of ordinances and resolutions 121 
 
 Records as evidence 185 
 
 Salary 45 
 
 Secretary of board of water commissioners 451 
 
 Striking names from petition for recall .-. 31 
 
 Transmission to county auditor of copy of tax levy 213 
 
 CITY ENGINEER, records as evidence . . " 185 
 
 CITY FORESTER, appointment, duties 430 
 
 CITY HALL (See Court House and Citv Hall.) 
 
 CITY HOSPITAL, laws continued in force 466 
 
 CITY LIGHTING, (See Lighting.) 
 
 CITY MARKETS, (See Markets.l
 
 ii6 INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 CITY PHYSICIAN— 
 
 Certificate of disability of firemen or police officers 52 
 
 Laws continued in force 466 
 
 CITY TREASURER, office abolished 196 
 
 CIVIL ENGINEER, appointment, salarj- 12 
 
 CIVIL SERVICE— 
 
 Bureau established 9^ 
 
 Chief examiner, appointment, compensation 99 
 
 Classification lOO 
 
 13eputy purchasing agent exempt 284 
 
 Examtinations ." 103 
 
 Officers to be voters 109a 
 
 Political activity 108 
 
 Political affiliations 107 
 
 Present incumbents 104 
 
 Prohibitions 105 
 
 Special policemen and watchmen exempt 35^ 
 
 Violation of rules 109 
 
 CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONER— 
 
 Civil list 104 
 
 Comptroller as commissioner ex officio "](> 98 
 
 Enrollment of names of employes 95 
 
 Investigations 106 
 
 Powers 99 
 
 Records loi 
 
 Reports to mayor lOl 
 
 Rules loi 
 
 Exceptions 102 
 
 CLAIMS— \ 
 
 Against Board of Control and City Hall and Court House committee 96 
 
 Auditing 17, 94, 97 
 
 For injuries to firemen or police officers, release 52 
 
 Limitations 95 
 
 Notice of 184 
 
 Powers of council 97, 133 
 
 Presentation and allowance 95 
 
 CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT— 
 
 Certified copy of confirmed assessment roll to commissioner of 
 
 finance 248 
 
 Copy of assessment filed with 246 
 
 CLERK OF MUNICIPAL COURT. Bond 51 
 
 Bond of first assistant clerk 51 
 
 CLERKS— 
 
 Bureau of general administration, department of public safety 383 
 
 Chief clerk of bureau of general administration, department of 
 
 public safety 383 
 
 Department of Public Works 2)'h2> 
 
 Names certified to mayor and comptroller 91 
 
 COMFORT STATIONS, Supervision and control 380 
 
 COMMISSION. To standardize supplies, specifications and contracts.. 296 
 
 COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION— 
 
 Account of auditorium fund 414 
 
 Annual reports to council as to administration of auditorium 417 
 
 Appointments, advisory library board 411 
 
 Advisory school board '. 398 
 
 Assistants to superintendent of schools 390 
 
 Employes for libraries, etc 401 
 
 Janitors, engineers, etc 392 
 
 Librarian 401 
 
 Principals and teachers, etc 390
 
 INDEX. 117 
 
 Section. 
 COMMISSIOXER OF EDUCATION— Cmt. 
 
 Superintendent of auditorium 413 
 
 Superintendent of school buildings 391 
 
 Superintendent of schools 3^9 
 
 Bond 51 
 
 Branch library, establishment 403 
 
 Control and management of public libraries, museums, etc 400 
 
 Control of auditorium 4^3 
 
 Control of expenditures for libraries, museums, etc 402 
 
 Control of school playgrounds 482 
 
 Duty to make auditorium self-supporting 415 
 
 Employment of supervisors, principals, teachers, etc 386 
 
 Establishment, control and maintenance of public schools 385, 386 
 
 Exclusion of persons from use of libraries, etc 407 
 
 Financial records 395 
 
 To fix duties and salaries of employes 387 
 
 General powers 386 
 
 Library fund 405 
 
 To prescribe text-books, and courses of study 386 
 
 Procuring supplies and other property 396 
 
 To provide for purchase or loan of text-books 386 
 
 Records 395 
 
 Removal of principals and 'teachers 390 
 
 Report to- council as to libraries, etc 408 
 
 Rules and regulations 387 
 
 Libraries, etc 402 
 
 Teachers 393 
 
 Truants 397 
 
 Salary 45 
 
 School inspectors to turn over the property to commissioner 388 
 
 COMMISSIONER OF FINANCE (See Treasury.) 
 
 Additional powers and duties 96 
 
 Assessment of cost of street sprinkling 276 
 
 Assistants, appointment, compensation 195 
 
 Certificates of delinquent assessments 261, 263 
 
 Certificates of payment of delinquent assessments 262 
 
 Certificates of notice of appeal from confirmation of assessment.... 250 
 
 Checks on depositories i88a 
 
 Comptroller's record of securities 84 
 
 Condemnation proceedings 269- 274 
 
 Custody of public moneys and securities 187 
 
 Deposits in city depositories l88a 
 
 Deputy, appointment, salary 188 
 
 Duties as to local improvements 240 
 
 Liability for deposits 192 
 
 Member of board of water commissioners 451 
 
 Member of sinking fund committee 62, 220 
 
 Moneys payable by 197 
 
 Moneys payable to 197 
 
 Notice for payment of assessments 260 
 
 Notice to property owners of hearing on order for local improve- 
 ments 241 
 
 Preliminary assessments ^ 244 
 
 Re-assessment 251, 252 
 
 Receipts for instruments 194 
 
 Record of land condemned 273 
 
 Record of sale of certificates nf indebtedness 229 
 
 Records 194 
 
 Report to (if cost of street sprinkling 275b
 
 nS INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 COM^IISSrOXER OF FINANCE— Cont. 
 
 Sale of buildings on lands condemned 274 
 
 Sidewalk 'assdssments 281 
 
 Statement to comptroller of deposits 191 
 
 Tax settlements, payments to cit}' by cmmty treasurer 19S. 199 
 
 Bonds 51 
 
 Salary 45 
 
 COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH. Salary 45. 372 
 
 COM^IISSIONER OF PARKS, PLAY GROUNDS AND PUBLIC BUILD- 
 TNGS— 
 
 Acquisition of lands without city limits 428 
 
 Advisory Board 439 
 
 Alienation of lands prohibited 423 
 
 Appointments, architect 431 
 
 City forestci" 430 
 
 Police officers and park employes 426 
 
 Secretary 425 
 
 Superintendent 425 
 
 Architect as superintendent 435 
 
 Assessments, disposition 421 
 
 Bond 51 
 
 Care of grass plots 429 
 
 Care of streets 430 
 
 Construction of buildings 304 
 
 Control of playgrounds 43^^ 
 
 Council may olace streets under supervision of 420 
 
 Duties of architect 434 
 
 Duties relating to buildings 432 
 
 As ex officio building inspector 431 
 
 Expenditures from park fund 421 
 
 Inspection of buildings 437 
 
 Laying of sewers, etc 427 
 
 May acquire lands 419 
 
 Permits for buildings 436 
 
 Plans and specifications 304, 310 
 
 Powers and duties , 418 
 
 Powers of council over regulations 433 
 
 Records 425 
 
 To regulate shores of streams, lakes or ponds 422 
 
 Reports 425 
 
 Rules and rcgulatiions 424 
 
 Salarv 45 
 
 COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC SAFETY— 
 
 Apoointments. suspensions, etc 352 
 
 Chief of police 356 
 
 Clerks, etc.. bureau of general administration 383 
 
 Employes for public baths 377 
 
 Fire chief, assistants, etc Z^7 
 
 Health oflficers 372 
 
 License inspector 356 
 
 Policemen, detectives, etc 356 
 
 Police surgeon 356 
 
 Soecial policemen and watchmen 356 
 
 Bond 5T 
 
 \s chief police and ]ieace officer 356 
 
 Cbntrol of department 350 
 
 Control of public baths 376 
 
 Custody of property 354 
 
 Details for work under direction of county attorney 364 
 
 Disposition of lost or stolen property 363
 
 INDEX. 119 
 
 Section. 
 COMMTSSIOXER OI- PUBLIC SAFICTY— Cont. 
 
 Disposition of weapons, etc 362 
 
 Duties and powers as to municipal court officers 358 
 
 Food inspection, hotels and restaurants 379 
 
 Forms for vital statistics 373 
 
 General duties 361 
 
 General health ofificer 372 
 
 General health powers 373 
 
 Head of bureau of general administration 383 
 
 Head of bureau of police and fire alarm telegraph 381 
 
 Inquiries, witnesses, evidence 352a 
 
 Jurisdiction over lakes and water courses 373 
 
 Powers and duties 351 
 
 Public comfort stations 3S0 
 
 Removal of nuisances 374 
 
 Rules and regulations governing public baths 37S 
 
 Salary 45 
 
 Transfer of employes 351 
 
 COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC UTILITIES— 
 
 Abatement of smoke nuisance 450 
 
 Appointmenits, assistants and employes 446 
 
 Harbor officers 449 
 
 Approval of licenses, permits, etc 444 
 
 Bond 51 
 
 Charge of water department 440 
 
 City lighting 441 
 
 Commissiincr to bid on 443 
 
 Equipment 442 
 
 City markets .' 448 
 
 City testing laboratories 447 
 
 Control of municipal utilities 446 
 
 Control of public utilities 444 
 
 Ex officio member of water board 440 
 
 Levees and harbors 449 
 
 President of board of water commissioners 451 
 
 Report 445 
 
 Salary 45 
 
 COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS'— 
 
 Administration of work-house 335 
 
 Appointments by 346 
 
 Engineers, surveyors, etc 325 
 
 Superintendent of construction and repairs, foremen, laborers, etc.. ;^2'/ 
 
 Superintendent of work-house, guards, etc 336 
 
 Bond 51 
 
 Chief engineering officer 325 
 
 Control of department 324 
 
 Duties as to sidewalks 280 2R7 
 
 Duties as to street sprinkling ' 275, 275b 
 
 Duties in condemnation proceedings 2fig 
 
 Estimates 349a 
 
 General powers and duties 347 
 
 Head of bureau of construction and repairs .". 327 
 
 Head of bureau of general administration t;;^;^ 
 
 Head of bureau of sanitation 331 
 
 Maps of drainage areas '236 
 
 Maps of park districts 237 
 
 Member of board of water commissioners ac,x 
 
 Performance of work by commissioner 349a 
 
 Plans and specifications 310. 349a
 
 120 INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS— Cont. 
 
 Plat commission 468 
 
 Record of prisoners 338 
 
 Records as evidence 185 
 
 Report to commissioner of finance as to local improvements 240 
 
 Rules and regulations 349 
 
 Salary 45 
 
 Transfer of employes 347 
 
 COMMISSIONERS (See Water Department.) 
 
 Assignment as heads of departments 57 
 
 Re-assignment 58 
 
 COMPENSATION (See Salaries.) 
 
 For vacation of streets, etc 129 
 
 COMPROMISE AND SETTLEMENT, Powers of council 133 
 
 COMPTROLLER— 
 
 Account of city assets and liabilities 93 
 
 Accounts of deposits 191 
 
 Annual reports , 73 
 
 Approval of emergency loans 206 
 
 Assistants, appointment, salaries 72 
 
 Auditing assessment roll 249 
 
 Auditing claims TJ, 94 
 
 Auditing street sprinkling assessments 276 
 
 Bond SI 
 
 Business hours 8 
 
 Cancelling bonds 224 
 
 Candidates for election 21 
 
 To check treasury daily 79 
 
 Civil service 98, loga 
 
 Clerical assistants, appointment, salaries 72 
 
 Comptroller and treasurer to act in harmony 71 
 
 As comptroller of departments 88 
 
 Contracts delivered to 314 
 
 Contracts, duties as to legality 86 
 
 Cost accounts 97a 
 
 Council may audit claims 97 
 
 Countersigning certificates of indebtedness 230 
 
 Countersigning contracts of board of water commissioners 458 
 
 Countersigning deeds, leases, etc 87 
 
 Custodian of documents 82 
 
 Daily report to by treasurer 80 
 
 Daily reports to of fees paid into treasury 89 
 
 Deputy, appointment, salary 72 
 
 Disbursement of miscellaneous receipts 210 
 
 Diversion of moneys prohibited 90 
 
 Duties as to claims 95 
 
 Election, term 5 
 
 Estimates of expenditures 200 
 
 Estimates of miscellaneous receipts 210 
 
 Examination of departments TZ 
 
 Examination of securities 61 
 
 Examination of securities in hands of treasurer 85 
 
 Execution of contracts and leases 315, 316 
 
 Ex officio, civil service commissioner 76, 98 
 
 Fiscal year 70 
 
 Forms for reports as to administration of auditorium 417 
 
 Forms for statements by franchise holders 154 
 
 Head of accounting department 68 
 
 Informat'on to council 75
 
 INDEX. 121 
 
 Section. 
 COMPTROLLER— Cr.nt. 
 
 Inspection of purchases 300 
 
 Inventories of property 93 
 
 To keep comptrolling accounts for departments 68 
 
 Member of Commission to standardize supplies 296 
 
 Member of sinking fund committe 62, 85 220 
 
 Minutes of proceedings of sinking fund committee 220 
 
 Monthly statement 74 
 
 Names of clerks certified to 91 
 
 Payment by check 78 
 
 Forms 69 
 
 Forms for school records 395 
 
 Receipts for payments 78 
 
 Records of documents and securities 84 
 
 Record of sale of certificates of indebtedness 229 
 
 Reports to of school records 395 
 
 Requests for appropriations itemized 92 
 
 Salary 45 
 
 Securities deposited with city depositories 190 
 
 Statement to of deposits 191 
 
 System of accounts 71 
 
 To take up evidences of indebtedness 83 
 
 CONDUITS, powers of council 233 
 
 CONSTABLES— 
 
 Bond 51 
 
 Convej^ance of prisoners to work-house 343 
 
 Election 28a 
 
 CONTAGIOUS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES— 
 
 Powers of health officers 373 
 
 Reports by physicians 373 
 
 CONTRACTS— 
 
 Construction of buildings 304 
 
 Contractor's bond, additional bond 321 
 
 Advertisements for bids 311 
 
 Affidavit of contractors as to pajanent of claim 322 
 
 Assignment 323 
 
 Award 313 
 
 Bids, filing 312b 
 
 Of board of school inspectors 388 
 
 Bonds or checks with bids 312 
 
 Claims under contracts 95 
 
 Comptroller as custodian 82 
 
 Construction of sidewalks 280 
 
 Contractor's bond 320 
 
 Contractors' liabilit}^ for injuries 319 
 
 Delivery to contractor 317 
 
 Duties of bureau of construction and repairs 328 
 
 ■ Duties of comptroller as to legality 86 
 
 Effect of amendment of charter 43a, 474 
 
 Estimates 349a 
 
 Execution 1 - . . .315, " 316 
 
 For city lighting ! . 443 
 
 For official publications 470 
 
 For public works 349a 
 
 For supplies 296, 299 
 
 Form, drafting 314 
 
 Interest of officers and employes 473 
 
 Let to lowest bidder 308 
 
 Letting by council 309
 
 122 IXDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 CONTRACTS -Con. 
 
 Opening bids 312a 
 
 Plans and specifications '. 310. 349a 
 
 Powers of council as to disputed demands I33 
 
 Readvertising 3^8 
 
 Seal 316 
 
 Signing by comptroller 315 
 
 Standard forms 296 
 
 With board of water commissioners 458 
 
 CONTINGENT FUND, Reimbursement of auditorium fund 415 
 
 CONVENTIONS, municipal delegates, funds for 200 
 
 CORONER, reports of inquests 373 
 
 CORPORATION COUNSEI^— 
 
 Actions on behalf of city I79 
 
 Approval of form of official bonds 51 
 
 Assistants : I77 
 
 To devote entire time to discharge of official duties I77 
 
 Duties 178 
 
 Duties as to certificates of indebtedness .-30 
 
 Duties as to form of city bonds 224 
 
 Duties as to initiative and referendum ordinances 146 
 
 Election 176 
 
 Notice of damage claims 184 
 
 Proceedings on bonds of depositories 189 
 
 Salary ;5 
 
 Special counsel 178 
 
 Term I7^ 
 
 CORPORATIONS. Petition to vacate streets, etc 129 
 
 CORRECTIONS, Bureau of corrections 335 345 
 
 COSTS, Security, city exempt fom giving 181 
 
 COUNCIL (See Ordinances, Resolutions.) 
 
 Administration of public trust 416 
 
 Approval of appointments, architect 43 1 
 
 Fire chief 367 
 
 Health Officers 37^ 
 
 Librarian 40T 
 
 Purchasing agent 283 
 
 Superintendent of Parks 425 
 
 Superintendent of sanitation 346 
 
 Approval of award of contracts 313 
 
 Auditing claims 97 
 
 Change of ward boundaries 3 
 
 Comptroller to furnish information '. . 75 
 
 Cc uncilmen, assignment as heads of departments . . ^7 
 
 Candidates for election - 21 
 
 i'jei.tion. term 3 
 
 Failure to vote 114 
 
 Mayor to file charges 59 
 
 Peace officers 357 
 
 Punishment 1 12 
 
 Reassignment 58 
 
 Removal 59 
 
 Elections by city clerk 113 
 
 Corporation counsel 176 
 
 Employment of special counsel 178 
 
 Establishment of drainage districts 236 
 
 Establishment of park districts 237 
 
 To exercise duties or powers given to common council 48: 
 
 Final order for local improvements 242
 
 INDEX. 123 
 
 Section. 
 COUNCIL— Ct)nt. 
 
 To fix salaries of officers and employes 45 
 
 To form election districts " 
 
 Grant of temporary license 1 30 
 
 How constituted 110 
 
 Intermediary order for local improvements J41 
 
 Journal 114 
 
 Letting contracts 309 
 
 May establish weekly paper 471 
 
 May prescribe election districts ■. . . 3 
 
 May provide for municipal reference library 480 
 
 Mayor, presiding ofificer 55, no 
 
 Right to vote 55 
 
 Meetings in 
 
 Meetings to be public 472 
 
 Mode of action . ., 116 
 
 Notice to of damage claims 184 
 
 Not to change compensation of officer during lerm 46 
 
 Order for special election 24 
 
 Recall election 35 
 
 Orders for street s])rinkling 275?! 
 
 Powers 126- 133 
 
 Additional 476 
 
 Franchises i^g- 77- 
 
 Local improvements . , j^i^. 243 
 
 Official bonds " ' -"j 
 
 Water department ,5:, 
 
 Restrictions on joo 
 
 Specific {2J 
 
 Preliminary order for local imiM-ovemcnts 240 
 
 Presiding office" .. 
 
 Signature of clerk s record • j j. 
 
 Proclamation calling election jn 
 
 To provide for representative to board of equalization 479 
 
 Provisions for inspection and regulation of construction work 478 
 
 Purchasing department regulations 307 
 
 Quorum ij2 
 
 Reassessment or new assessment 251. 252 
 
 Records \ . 472 
 
 Removals by officers , 28 
 
 Teachers and principals :^go 
 
 Reports to. by commissioner of finance as to local imi)rovements . . . 240 
 
 B}^ commissioner of public utilities 44; 
 
 Comptroller 73 
 
 As to parks, etc 423 
 
 As to i)ublic libraries, etc 40S 
 
 As to street sprinkling 2~^ 
 
 Of street sprinkling assessments 276 
 
 Right of members of advisory board to be heard on ])ark and play- 
 
 ground busine? 
 
 4.sy 
 
 Rules 112 
 
 Vice president, acting mayor .^...36. 113 
 
 Election, term 113 
 
 Votes necessary to vacate streets, etc 129 
 
 COUNSEL (See Corporation Counsel.) 
 
 COUNTY ATTORNEY. Details of members of police ])ureau lor u-,,rk 
 
 under direction of 364 
 
 COUNTY BONDS, investment of sinking funds o-n 
 
 COUNTY COMxMISSIONERS. Chairman, appointment of numbers ,,f 
 
 court house and ciity hall joint committee 45-
 
 124 INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 COUNTY OFFICERS, Collection of delinquent assessments 261, 267 
 
 Collection of street sprinkling assessments 276 
 
 Collection of water frontage tax 461 
 
 Duties as to city taxes 213 
 
 COUNTY PRISONERS', agreements for confinement in workhouse. 341, 342 
 
 Powers of council 127 
 
 COUNTY ROADS, vacation 129 
 
 COUPONS— 
 
 Certificates of indebtedness 230 
 
 City bonds 224 
 
 Payment, surrender 83 
 
 COURT HOUSE AND CITY HALL— 
 
 Expense of maintenance 465 
 
 Joint committee, appointment, powers 465 
 
 Claims 96 
 
 CRIMES— 
 
 Acceptance of gratuities by members of bureau of police 365 
 
 Commitments to work house or jail 180 
 
 Disposition of weapons, etc., used in commission of 362 
 
 Escape from workhouse 340 
 
 Failure of boards and members to turn over books etc., to successors 42a 
 
 Failure of bystanders to aid in extinguishing fires, etc 369 
 
 Failure to give notice in condemnation proceedings 270 
 
 Gratuities to purchasing agents 306 
 
 Powers of council 127 
 
 Violation of civil service laws or rules 109 
 
 Violation of health regulations 373 
 
 Violation of provisions as to terms of oflfice 44 
 
 Violation of regulations for water supply 459 
 
 Work-house 335-345 
 
 CROSS-WALKS, Appropriations for construction 235 
 
 DAMAGES, for injuries, powers of council 133 
 
 DEAD BODIES, regulation for interment and removal Z73 
 
 DEATH, of employes in department of public safety 355 
 
 DEEDS- 
 
 Comptroller as custodian 82 
 
 Duties of comptroller 87 
 
 Mayor to sign 64 
 
 Record of deeds whcrt" cit}' is partv 186 
 
 DEPARTMENT— 
 
 Annual statements to purchasing agent 292 
 
 Board of water commissioners 452 
 
 Cost accounts 97a 
 
 Estimates of expenditures 200 
 
 Examination by comptroller 72 
 
 Heads, execution of contracts and leases 316 
 
 ^lembers of committee on lands 303 
 
 Removal of officers and employes 477 
 
 Limitation of expenditures 205 
 
 Public safety 350- 384 
 
 Public Works 324, 349 
 
 Purchasing department 283-307 
 
 DEPOSITORIES— 
 
 Amount of deposits i88a 
 
 Bonds i88a 
 
 Deposit of securities in lieu of 190 
 
 Lapse 189 
 
 Proceedings on 189 
 
 Checks for withdrawals i88a
 
 INDEX. 125 
 
 Section. 
 DEPOSITORIES— Cont. 
 
 Daily deposits i88a 
 
 Designation i88a 
 
 Duplicate deposit slips to comptroller igi 
 
 Intefest 192, 193 
 
 Regulation of deposits i88a 
 
 Withdrawal of deposits i88a, 191 
 
 DEPOSITS, for installation of water meters 459 
 
 DETECTIVES, appointment, compensation 356 
 
 DETENTION HOSPITALS, powers of health officers 7,73 
 
 DISORDERLY CONDUCT, powers of police 357 
 
 DISPENSARIES, reports to bureau of health 373 
 
 DISTRICT COURT, appeals to in condemnation proceedings 271 
 
 Confirmation and revision of assessments 246- 250 
 
 DISTRICTS— 
 
 Drainage 236 
 
 Election 3. 7 
 
 Park 237 
 
 Police and fire 353 
 
 DOCUMENTS, Comptroller as custodian 82 
 
 DRAFTSMEN, bureau of engineers 32S 
 
 DRAINAGE, powers of council 233 
 
 DRAINAGE DISTRICTS, establishment 236 
 
 DRINKING FOUNTAINS, powers of council ' . . 233 
 
 EASEMENTS— 
 
 Acquisition of lands 233 
 
 Adverse possession against city 256 
 
 Condemnation 209, 274 
 
 EDUCATION (See Schools.) 
 
 Commissioner of education 385-417 
 
 ELECTION DISTRICTS, council may prescribe 3, 7 
 
 ELECTIONS— 
 
 Ballots, form 20 
 
 Party designation of marks prohibited 20 
 
 Canvass 9 
 
 Certificate of presentation, requirements 13 
 
 Failure to elect, new elections 26 
 
 General election candidates 21 
 
 General laws applicable 8 
 
 Informalities 22 
 
 Initiative and referendum 134-137 
 
 Judges of the municipal court 28a 
 
 Justices of the peace and constables 28a 
 
 Nominations 12-17 
 
 Notice 23 
 
 Notice to officers of election 9, 49 
 
 Petition of presentation, acceptance or withdrawal of candidacy.... 16 
 
 • Filing 17 
 
 Form 12 
 
 Necessity 11 
 
 Presentation and examination .". 14 
 
 Preservation 18 
 
 Withdrawal of signatures from certificate 14 
 
 Officers created by special laws 6 
 
 Officers elected, term 5 
 
 Plurality of votes to elect 25 
 
 Proclamation 19 
 
 Recall, call for election to contain grounds for recall ^6 
 
 Effect 42
 
 126 INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 ELECTIONS— Cont. 
 
 General laws applicable 4° 
 
 . Incumbent removed 3*^ 
 
 Officer recalled deemed candidate at recall election 34 
 
 Officers recallable 28b 
 
 Order for special election 35 
 
 Other candidates ^J 
 
 Petition, amendment 'ii 
 
 Form 30 
 
 Per cent of electors 29 
 
 Presentation and filing 32 
 
 Signatures 3i 
 
 Petition of nomination, number of individual certificates TH 
 
 Polling places, time of opening and closing 39 
 
 Qualification of successor 3'^ 
 
 Registration of voters 39 
 
 Resignation after recall petition filed ■ 34 
 
 Time for presenting petition 4i 
 
 Voting lists 39 
 
 Special elections 24 
 
 Recall 35 
 
 Submission of issuance of bonds 217 
 
 Tie votes 25 
 
 To be held under charter 43 
 
 To determine issuance of bonds for library building 406 
 
 Vacancies 27 
 
 When held 4 
 
 ELECTRICITY. Acquisition of lands for electric lighting and power 
 
 plant '2.ZZ 
 
 Conduits, powers of council 233 
 
 ELEVATED RAILROADS. Petition for construction 160 
 
 EMINENT DOMAIN— 
 
 Franchises ■ • 170 
 
 Lands for buildings 303 
 
 Local improvements 269-274 
 
 Powers of council 127. 233, 234 
 
 EMPLpYES— 
 
 Building inspectors 432 
 
 Bureau of construction and repairs 7>^7- 34^ 
 
 Bureau of engineers : 346 
 
 Bureau of general administration, department of public safet\' 383 
 
 Department of public works 'i2>'i 
 
 Bureau of health 372 
 
 Powers as policemen 375 
 
 Bureau of sanitation ^Z'^, 346 
 
 City markets 448 
 
 City testing laboratories 447 
 
 Civil service 98-i09a 
 
 Claims for service 95 
 
 Commissioner of finance I95 
 
 Of commissioner of public utilities 446 
 
 Department of public safety, injuries or death in service 35> 
 
 Transfer • • • 35^ 
 
 Enrollment of names with civil service commission 95 
 
 Extra compensation 47- 53 
 
 Hours of labor 53 
 
 Interest in contracts, etc 473 
 
 Levees and harbors 449 
 
 Public Baths Z17
 
 INDEX. 127 
 
 Section. 
 
 EMPLOYES— Coin. 
 
 Public comfort .stations 3^0 
 
 Public libraries, museums, etc 401 ' 
 
 Receiving interest un cit.v deposits 193 
 
 Removal 60, 477 
 
 Salaries, council to fix 45, 46 
 
 Schools, appointment 386, 392 
 
 Compensation 387. 392 
 
 Duties 387 
 
 Hours of labor 392 
 
 To be residents 109a 
 
 Transfer by commissioner of puljlic \v<n-ks 347 
 
 Work-house 336 
 
 ENGINEERS— 
 
 Appointment 346 
 
 Bureau of engineers 325, 326 
 
 To devote entire time to service of city 348 
 
 Sanitary engineer 331 
 
 For schools 386. 392 
 
 EPIDEMICS, powers of health officers ^37Z 
 
 ESCAPES, from work-house 340 
 
 ESTIMATES', of public expenditures 200 
 
 Of revenue 200 
 
 EVENING SCHOOLS, establishment 386 
 
 EVIDENCE— 
 
 Hearings b}- commissioner of pttblic safety 352a 
 
 Records of council, boards, etc 472 
 
 Records, printed compilations, etc 185 
 
 EXEMPTIONS, powers of council to exempt from taxes etc 133 
 
 FEES, conveyance of prisoners to workhouse 343 
 
 Payment to treasury daily 89 
 
 FINES AND PENALTIES— 
 
 Action in corporate name of city 179 
 
 Failure to give notice in condemnation proceedings 270 
 
 Failure to pay water rates 459 
 
 Imprisonment for non-payment 180 
 
 Offenses by franchise holders 154 
 
 Powers of council 127 
 
 Violation of health regulation 2i7?i 
 
 Violation of rules governing parks 424 
 
 FIRE CHIEF— 
 
 Appointment 367 
 
 Assistant, appointment, salary, term 367 
 
 Powers 369 
 
 Salary 45. 367 
 
 Term t,6~ 
 
 FIRE DISTRICTS, establishment y:,^, 
 
 FIRE LIMITS, powers of council 127 
 
 FIRE MARSHAL, commissioner of public safetv ,367 
 
 FIREMEN— 
 
 Additional duties 37 1 
 
 Appointment, compensatii )n t 367 
 
 Eligibility 3/0 
 
 Injuries or death in service 52. 355 
 
 Police powers 368 
 
 For schools ,l86 
 
 Transportation on street railroads 165 
 
 FIRE PROTECTION, BUREAU OF— 
 
 Additional duties 371 
 
 Captains, employes, etc :i6'/
 
 128 INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 FIRE PROTECTION, BUREAU OF— Cont. 
 
 Commissioner of pubic safety as iire marshal Z^7 
 
 Commissioner of public safety as head of bureau 3^7 
 
 Compensation 3^7 
 
 Eligibility ZlOf 
 
 Fire chief, appointment, salary 367 
 
 Assistant, appointment, salary 367 
 
 Powers 369 
 
 Police powers 368 
 
 FIRES— 
 
 Bureau of police and iire alarm telegraph 381, 382 
 
 Powers of fire chief, etc 3^9 
 
 Duties of commissioner of parks, playgrounds and' public buildings.. 432 
 
 Water supply 460 
 
 FISCAL YEAR, departments 70 
 
 FOOD, inspection 379 
 
 FORFEITURES— 
 
 Action in corporate name of city 179 
 
 Failure to obey summons of police officers 357 
 
 Franchises 154, 158 
 
 Office of purchasing agent 306 
 
 FORMS— 
 
 Certificates of indebtedness 230 
 
 City bonds 224 
 
 Comptroller to prepare 69 
 
 Reports as to administration of auditorium 417 
 
 Reports of school records 395 
 
 Vital statistics 373 
 
 FRANCHISES— 
 
 Abandonment 163 
 
 Acceptance of charter provisions 157 
 
 Additional restrictions 162 
 
 Amendment 151 
 
 Condemnation provisions 170 
 
 Conduits 166 
 
 Cost of bridges 164 
 
 Designation of streets, etc , 152 
 
 Duration 149, 150 
 
 Exclusive franchises prohibited 149 
 
 Extension, modificatioii or change 156 
 
 Forfeiture 154, 158 
 
 Grantee's agreement 156 
 
 Grants by implication prohibited , 152 
 
 Gross earnings, annual license fee ISS 
 
 Statement 154 
 
 Laws governing 150 
 
 Limit of grant 169 
 
 Loans on 171 
 
 Necessity of grant IS9 
 
 No part of capital 152, 170 
 
 Objections to regulations I74 
 
 Poles on streets, etc 166 
 
 Powers of council as to existing franchises 168 
 
 Powers of council not specified I75 
 
 Publication of ordinances 153 
 
 Referendum ISO 
 
 Regulation of charges 154 
 
 Regulation of service 167 
 
 Relative rights ^IZ
 
 INDEX. 129 
 
 Secticm. 
 FRANCHISES— Cont. 
 
 Sale 172 
 
 Steam and elevated railroads loo 
 
 Street maintenance duties ^61 
 
 Street railroads, transportation of firemen, etc 165 
 
 Terms of grants ^5-^ 
 
 Time for renewal ^5^ 
 
 GARAGES, powers of council 127 
 
 GARBAGE, bureau of sanitation 331. 332 
 
 GARBAGE PLANTS, Acquisition of lands for 233 
 
 GAS, lateral connections 238 
 
 GAS PLANTS, Acquisition of lands for ^^3 
 
 GIFTS— 
 
 For auditorium 4 ' '^ 
 
 Of lands boycnd city limits for parks, etc -I28 
 
 For parks, etc 4^9 
 
 To purchasing agent, etc 300 
 
 GRADE SCHOOLS, establishment 386 
 
 GRaT'JITIES, to members of bureau of police 3o5 
 
 To purchasing agent, etc 3^^ 
 
 GRC'SS IwXRNTNGS, tax on franchise 154, I55 
 
 GUARDS, contractors to guard work 3^9 
 
 Work- house 33° 
 
 HARBORS— 
 
 Couilro] of commissioner of public utilities 44° 
 
 Land? for -33 
 
 Officers 449 
 
 HEALTH— 
 
 Bureau of. composition 37^ 
 
 Bureau of sanitation 33'^- 33- 
 
 Duties of police oflficers 361 
 
 Employes, powers as policemen 375 
 
 Enforcement of sanitary laws 37^3 
 
 General health powers _• • 37^3 
 
 Nuisances., abatement 373. 374 
 
 Powers of council ^-7 
 
 Public Baths 376-378 
 
 Officers, appointment, terms, salaries 45- 372 
 
 General powers 372 
 
 Sanitary adviser of city officers 37- 
 
 Transportation on street railroads ^6$ 
 
 HEATING, control of commissioner of public utilities 444 
 
 HIGH SCHOOLS, establishment 386 
 
 HIGHWAYS— 
 
 Acquisition of lands for 233 
 
 Injuries from defects, notice of claim for damages 184 
 
 Powers of council 128 
 
 Vacation 129 
 
 HOSPITALS— 
 
 Acquisition of lands for 233 
 
 ' Detention hospitals 373 
 
 Laws continued in force 466 
 
 Reports to bureau of health ^ 373 
 
 HOTELS. Inspection 379 
 
 HOURS OF LABOR, officers and employes 53 
 
 School employes 392 
 
 IMPROVEMENTS (See Public Improvements.) 
 
 INDEX, volume of ordinances 124
 
 130 INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM— 
 
 Ballots ^4^ 
 
 Conflicting ordinances ^44 
 
 Duties of corporation attorney 146 
 
 Enacting clause of ordinanices I47 
 
 Initiative, number of petitioners I34 
 
 Petition I35 
 
 Submission to voters 130 
 
 Items or sections of ordinances 148 
 
 Number of ordinances submitted at same election I43 
 
 Number of votes required I44 
 
 Ordinances defined I45 
 
 Referendum, budget ordinance 140 
 
 Franchise ordinance 150 
 
 Number of petitioners I37 
 
 Petition 138 
 
 Publication of ordinances I39 
 
 Repeal of ordinance approved by voters 141 
 
 Voluntary reference 140H 
 
 INJUNCTION, against civil service commissioner 105 
 
 INSPECTION— 
 
 Of books and records of fanchise holders 154 
 
 Of buildings 437 
 
 of city work by comptroller 75 
 
 Construction work 47° 
 
 Hotels, restaurants, etc 380 
 
 Of purchases 300 
 
 INSPECTORS— 
 
 Advisory school inspectors 398 
 
 Building inspectors 43^, 43-. 435 
 
 City testing laboratories 447 
 
 Medical inspectors for schools 386 
 
 INSURANCE POLICIES, comptroller as custodian 82 
 
 INTEREST— 
 
 Bonds, 'library building 4o6 
 
 Local improvements 278 
 
 Water supply 464 
 
 Certificates of indebtedness 227, 228 
 
 Deposits 192. 193 
 
 Deposits on installation of water meters 459 
 
 Local assessments 260, 263 
 
 1 NTERURBAN RAILROADS, cost of bridges 164 
 
 INTOXICATING LIQUORS', powers of council 127 
 
 INVESTMENTS. Surplus moneys in certificates of indebtedness 232 
 
 Sinking fund 221 
 
 JAILS, commitments 180 
 
 Work-house • 335-345 
 
 JANITORS, public libraries, museums, etc 401 
 
 Schools 386, 392 
 
 JUDGES, competency of inhabitants 182 
 
 Municipal court, election, term 28a 
 
 JUDGMENT, against property for local improvements 247 
 
 On appeal in condemnation proceedings 271 
 
 JURY, competency of inhabitants 182 
 
 JUSTICES OF THE PEACE— 
 
 Bond 51 
 
 Competency of inhabitants 182 
 
 Election 28a 
 
 Sentences to work-house 339, 342 
 
 KINDERGARTENS', establishment 386
 
 INDEX. 131 
 
 Section. 
 
 Lx\BORATORIl':S, citv tcstiim laboratories 447 
 
 LAKES— 
 
 Jurisdiction over, of commissioner of public safety ,■.■■•• -^^-^ 
 
 Power.s of commissioner of parks, play grounds, and public l)uildings 422 
 
 Regulation of shores 422 
 
 LAND, purchase 302. 303 
 
 LEASES— 
 
 Duties of comptroller ^z 
 
 Franchise ^^~ 
 
 Interest of officers or em])hiyes 473 
 
 Levees '30 
 
 Library- property 405 
 
 Mayor to sign "4 
 
 Park privileges 41^^ 
 
 LEVEES— 
 
 Acquisition of lands for ^33 
 
 Bureau of construction and repairs 3-7, 3^8 
 
 Control of commissioner of public utilities 448 
 
 Lease ^30 
 
 Lighting 441-44-2 
 
 Powers of council '27 
 
 LIBRARIAN— 
 
 Appointment 40i 
 
 Duties 401 
 
 Eligibility 40i 
 
 Salary 40l 
 
 LIBRARIES— 
 
 Accpiisition of lands for 233 
 
 Advisory board 4i i 
 
 Assistants and employes 40i 
 
 Branch libraries 403 
 
 Control of expenditures , 404 
 
 Control of property 404 
 
 Defacing property, punishment 409 
 
 Donations, conditions 410 
 
 Free use 407 
 
 Librarian 40i 
 
 Librarv building 405 
 
 Bonds' 406 
 
 Library fund 405 
 
 Municipal reference library 480 
 
 Persons excluded , 407 
 
 Powers of commissioner of education 400 
 
 Report to council 40o 
 
 Revenues 215 
 
 Rules and regulations 402 
 
 Tax levy 412 
 
 Use by non-residents 407 
 
 LICENSES— 
 
 Exemptions, powers of council ^33 
 
 As financial forms 69 
 
 Laws governing ^50 
 
 Powers of council -^ ^-7 
 
 To public utility owners or operators 444 
 
 Renewal 150 
 
 LICENSE INSPECTOR, appointment, salary 356 
 
 Duties 359 
 
 LIENS— 
 
 Assessments 259
 
 132 INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 LIENS— Cont. 
 
 Cost of removing nuisances 374 
 
 Water frontage tax 461 
 
 Water rates 459 
 
 LIGHTING— 
 
 Bids by commissioner of public utilities 443 
 
 Control of commissioner of public utilities 444 
 
 Powers and duties of commissioner of public utilities 441-443 
 
 Powers of council 233 
 
 LIGHTING PLANTS, powers of council 127 
 
 LIGHTS, duties of police officers 361 
 
 Duty of contractors 3^9 
 
 LIMITATION— 
 
 Amount of certificate of indebtedness 278 
 
 Bonded indebtedness 217 
 
 Cost of schools 394 
 
 Expenditures 201 
 
 LOANS— 
 
 Emergenc)^ 206 
 
 On franchise I7i 
 
 Of public moneys or securities 187 
 
 Temporary loans for departments, ofificers, etc 205 
 
 Text-books 386 
 
 LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS (See Public Improvements.) 
 
 LODGING HOUSES, inspection 379 
 
 LOST PROPERTY, disposition of by commissioner of public safety 363 
 
 LOTS, alteration or division, assessments 264 
 
 MAIL CARRIER, transportation on street railroads 165 
 
 MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOLS, establishment 386 
 
 MAPS', of drainage areas 236 
 
 Of park districts 237 
 
 ^lARKETS— 
 
 Control of commissioner of public utilities 448 
 
 Employes 448 
 
 Lands for 2^3 
 
 Powers of council 127 
 
 MAYOR— 
 
 Acting mayor 56 
 
 Appointments by. members of court house and citj^ hall joint com- 
 
 tee 465 
 
 Plat commission 468 
 
 Purchasing agent 283 
 
 Approval of emergenc}^ loans 206 
 
 Approval or veto of ordinances or resolutions 121 
 
 Appropriation ordinance 122 
 
 Assignment of department heads 57 
 
 Reassignment 58 
 
 Calling special council meeting iii 
 
 Candidates for election 21 
 
 Clerical assistants 66 
 
 Consent to suspension of civil service rules 102 
 
 Duties 54 
 
 Election, term 5 
 
 Examination of securities 61 
 
 Execution of instruments, bond on appeal l8l 
 
 Bonds 224 
 
 Certificates of indebtedness 230 
 
 Contracts 316 
 
 Deeds, leases, etc 64. 316
 
 INDEX. 133 
 
 Section. 
 
 MAYOR— Cont. 
 
 Examination of securities in hands of treasurer 85 
 
 Membership on boards and committees, board of equalization 63 
 
 Coiirt House and city hall joint committee 465 
 
 Coinmission to standardize supplies 296 
 
 Committee on lands 303 
 
 Sinking- fund committee 62, 220 
 
 Names of clerks certified to 91 
 
 Notice to of default of depository 189 
 
 Other powers and duties 67 
 
 Peace officer 357 
 
 President of council 55, no 
 
 Proceedings for removal of non-elective officers 60 
 
 Process served on 65, 183 
 
 Qualifications 54 
 
 Removal of principals and teachers 390 
 
 Reports to, by civil service commissioner loi 
 
 By commissioner of public utilities 445 
 
 Of school records 395 
 
 Right to vote in council meetings 55 
 
 Salary 45, 66 
 
 Veto of terms of ordinances 204 
 
 Vice-president of council as acting mayor 115 
 
 MAYOR'S SECRETARY, bond 51 
 
 Employment, salary 66 
 
 MEDICAL INSPECTORS, for schools 386 
 
 MEETINGS, of council, boards, etc 472 
 
 MIDWIVES, reports of births 2,73 
 
 MUNICIPAL COURT— 
 
 Judges, electon, term 28a 
 
 Laws continued in force 466 
 
 Officers, powers of commissioners of public safety and bureau of 
 
 police 358 
 
 MUSEUMS— 
 
 Acquisition of lands for 233 
 
 Assistants and emplo3'es 401 
 
 Control of expenditures 404 
 
 Control of property 404 
 
 Donations, conditions 410 
 
 Free use 407 
 
 Library building 405 
 
 Library fund 405 
 
 Powers of commissioner of education 400 
 
 Reports to council 408 
 
 Rules and regulations 402 
 
 Tax levy 412 
 
 NATIONAL GUARD, summoning by police officers 357 
 
 NEGLIGENCE, notice of damage claims 184 
 
 NEWSPAPERS', council may establish weekly paper 471 
 
 Official publications 470 
 
 NOTES, emergency loans 206 
 
 Payment, surrender 83 
 
 NONRESIDENTS, use of public libraries ^ 407 
 
 NOTICE— 
 
 Abateinent of nuisance 374 
 
 Agreement for confinement of county prisoners in work-house 341 
 
 Appeal from confirmation of assessment 250 
 
 Appeal in condemnation proceedings 271 
 
 Confirmation of award in condemnation proceedings 270
 
 134 INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 NOTICE— Cent. 
 
 Condemnation proceedings 270 
 
 Damage claims 184 
 
 Elections 23 
 
 Referendum 139 
 
 Hearing on order for local improvements 241 
 
 To officers elected 9, 49 
 
 To ofificers sought to be recalled Z^ 
 
 For payment of assessments 260 
 
 Petition to vacate street, etc 129 
 
 Proceedings to confirm assessment 246 
 
 Proceedings for removal from office 28 
 
 Sale of buildings on lands condemned 274 
 
 Special council meetings Ill 
 
 NUISANCES, abatement 233. ^72^ 27 A 
 
 Powers of council 132, 233 
 
 NURSES, for schools 386 
 
 OATHS— 
 
 Authority to administer, civil service commissioner 106 
 
 Commissioner of public safety 3S2a 
 
 Officers 48 
 
 OFFICERS— 
 
 Annual statement to purchasing agent 292 
 
 Appointment 475 
 
 Bonds 51 
 
 Civil service 98 109a 
 
 Comptroller's accounts 71 
 
 Creation of new salaried officers prohibited 133 
 
 Deputies, bonds 51 
 
 Bonds to cover acts of 51 
 
 To devote entire tiriie to service of city 45 
 
 Elections 4-28 
 
 Estiimates of expenditures 200 
 
 Extra compensation 47, 53 
 
 Failure to qualify 50 
 
 Failure to use forms 69 
 
 Fees, payment into treasury 89 
 
 Forfeiture of ofifice, failure to furnish bond 51 
 
 General duties 53 
 
 Harbor ofificers , 449 
 
 Hours of labor 53 
 
 Incurring liability beyond appropriation 205 
 
 Interest in contracts, etc 473 
 
 Notice of election 9, 49 
 
 Oaths , . 48 
 
 Recall elections < 28b 42 
 
 Receiving interest on city deposits 193 
 
 Removal from office 28, 497 
 
 Reports to comptroller 75 
 
 Resignation after filing of recall petition 34 
 
 Salaries 45 
 
 Council to fix 45, 46 
 
 Limitatioui of amount 4=; 
 
 Uniformity in department 53 
 
 Termination of terms 44 
 
 Terms of ofifice 23 
 
 To be voters 109a 
 
 Vacancies 27 
 
 Failure to qualify 50
 
 INDEX. 135 
 
 Section. 
 
 OPTIONS— for purchase of lands 303 
 
 ORDERS-- 
 
 Confirming local assessments 247 
 
 For local improvements 240-242 
 
 Payment, surrender ^3 
 
 ORDINANCES— 
 
 Administrative 118 
 
 Appropriations 117 
 
 Approval or veto 122 
 
 Defined 118, 145 
 
 Enacting! clause 117 
 
 Enactment 117, 120 
 
 Effect of amendinent of charter 474 
 
 Fixing salaries of ofificers and employes 46 
 
 Initiative and referendum 134-148 
 
 Mode of action by council 116 
 
 Passage over veto 121, 122, 204 
 
 Printed compilations as evidence 185 
 
 Publication 123 
 
 Publication in volumes 124 
 
 Repeal of ordinances approved by voters 141 
 
 Repeal of referendum 137 
 
 Revisijon 125 
 
 Subject-matter and title 117 
 
 Time of taking effect 137 
 
 Veto 121 
 
 Veto of terms 204 
 
 Votes necessary 120 
 
 PARENT AND CHILD, compensation to minor children of policemen 
 
 killed in service 355 
 
 PARKS (See Commissioner of Parks, Playgrounds and Public Buildings.) 
 
 Acquisition of lands for 233, 419 
 
 Beyond city limits . ._ 428 
 
 Advisory Board 439 
 
 Alienation of lands prohibited 423 
 
 Bureau of construction and repairs 327. 328 
 
 Commissioner of parks, playgrounds and public buildings 4x8-439 
 
 Control of 418 
 
 Employes, appointment 426 
 
 Funds, accounts i- 425 
 
 Expenditures from 418, 421 
 
 Tniuries from defects, notice of claim for damages 184 
 
 Laying of sewers, etc 427 
 
 Lighting 441-443 
 
 Police ofificers 366. 426 
 
 Powers of council 23'^ 
 
 Privileges, lease 4x8 
 
 Regulation of shores of lakes, streams and ponds 422 
 
 Rules governing 424 
 
 PARK WAYS— 
 
 Acquisition of lands for ^ip 
 
 Beyond city limits _j28 
 
 Bureau of sanitation 7 332 
 
 Control' of I jg 
 
 Laying of sewers, etc 427 
 
 PATENTS'. Durchase of patented articles 200 
 
 PAVING PLANTS, powers of council 107 
 
 PAYMENT, water rates [ 459
 
 136 INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 PEACE OFFICERS— 
 
 Commissioner of public safety as chief officer 356 
 
 Councilmen 357 
 
 Mayor 357 
 
 PENALTIES (See Fines and Penalties.) 
 
 PERMITS— 
 
 For buildings 436 
 
 To public utility owners or operators 444 
 
 In streets, powers of commissioner of public works 347 
 
 PERSONAL INJURIES, employes in department of public safety 355 
 
 Reports by police officers 361 
 
 PETITION— 
 
 Initiative 13S 
 
 Presentation 12-18 
 
 Recall elections 29-33 
 
 Referendum ' 135 
 
 Remonstrance against local improvements 243 
 
 Vacation of streets, etc 129 
 
 PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS— 
 
 Appointment as health officers 372 
 
 Medical inspectors for schools 386 
 
 Police surgeon, appointment, compensation 356 
 
 Reports of births and deaths 373 
 
 Reports of contagious diseases 373 
 
 PLAT COMMISSION, appointments 468 
 
 Laws continued in force 466 
 
 PLAYGROUNDS' (See Commissioner of Parks, Playgrounds and Public 
 Buildings.) 
 
 Acquisition of lands for 233, 419 
 
 Beyond citj'- limits 428 
 
 Advisory Board 439 
 
 Commissioner of parks, play grounds and public buildings 418-439 
 
 Control of 418, 438 
 
 Funds, expenditures 418 
 
 Laying of sewers, etc 427 
 
 Lighting 441-443 
 
 Police and employes 426 
 
 School play grounds 482 
 
 PLEADINGS, on appeal in condemnation proceedings 271 
 
 POLICE— 
 
 Appointment, compensation 3S6 
 
 Appointment of women 356 
 
 Bureau, compensation 356 
 
 Detail of members for work under direction of county attorney. . . . 364 
 
 General duties 361 
 
 Gratuities to members 365 
 
 Members as peace officers 357 
 
 Bureau of police and fire alarm telegraph composition 381 
 
 Powers and duties 382 
 
 Chief, appointment 366 
 
 Powers 357 
 
 Salary _. _ 45, 356 
 
 Districts, precincts and stations 353 
 
 Eligibility 360 
 
 Enforcement of rules concerning truants 397 
 
 Gratuities 365 
 
 Injuries or death in service 355 
 
 Municipal court officers 35^ 
 
 Park police 366, 426
 
 INDEX. 137 
 
 Section. 
 POLICE— Cont. 
 
 Police powers of members of bureau of fire protection 368 
 
 Powers 357 
 
 Powers of health ofificers 375 
 
 Salaries of incapacitated police officers 52 
 
 Special policemen and watchmen 35° 
 
 Transportation on street railroads 1^5 
 
 Workhouse employes 33^ 
 
 POLICE AMBULANCE, equipment and maintenance 353 
 
 POLICE DISTRICTS, establishment 353 
 
 POLICE SURGEONS, appointment, compensation 356 
 
 Certificate of disability of firemen or police officers 52 
 
 POLITICAL ACTIVITY, civil service officers and employes 108 
 
 POLITICAL AFFILIATIONS— 
 
 Acceptance of candidacy not to disclose 16 
 
 Civil service 107 
 
 Voters ajt recall election not to be questioned as to 39 
 
 POLITICAL PARTIES, designation on ballots prohibited 20 
 
 POPULATION, per capita limitation of expenditures 201 
 
 For schools 394 
 
 POUNDS, powers of council ._ 127 
 
 POWER, control of commissioner of public utilities 444 
 
 PRECINCTS', police and fire precincts " 353 
 
 PREFERENCE, hearings on appeal in condemnation proceedings 271 
 
 PREMIUMS, on official bonds 51 
 
 PRINTING— 
 
 Annual report of comptroller 7Z 
 
 Monthly statement of comptroller 74 
 
 Orinances 123 
 
 PRIORITIES, liens for assessments and taxes 259 
 
 PRISONERS, work-house 335-345 
 
 PRISONS, reports to bureau of health 373 
 
 PRIVILEGES, to public utility owners or operators 444 
 
 In streets, powers of commissioner of public works 347 
 
 PROCESS, service on mayor 65, 183 
 
 PROCLAMATION, of elections 19 
 
 PROMOTIONS, in department of public safety 352 
 
 PUBLICATION— 
 
 Bids for supplies 297 
 
 Council may establish weekly paper 471 
 
 Franchise ordinances 153 
 
 Notice for payment of assessments 260 
 
 Notice of proceedings to confirm assessments 246 
 
 Official publications 470 
 
 Ordinances 123 
 
 Resolution vacating streets, etc 129 
 
 Sale of buildings on lands condemned 274 
 
 PUBLIC BATHS— 
 
 Commissioner of public safety to have control of 376 
 
 Employes, appointment, compensation Z77 
 
 Rules 378 
 
 PUBLIC BUILDINGS (Seie Auditorium, Commissioner of Parks^Playgrounds 
 and Public Buildings.) 
 
 Acquisition of land for 233 
 
 Architect, appointment 431 
 
 Consulting or designing architect 304 
 
 Duties 304, 434 
 
 As superintendent 434 
 
 Commissioner of parks, play grounds and public buildings 418-439 
 
 Construction 304
 
 138 INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 PUBLIC BUILDINGS— Cont. 
 
 Inspection 435. 437 
 
 Library building 405 
 
 Bonds 406 
 
 Lig-hting 441-443 
 
 Repairs 305 
 
 BY-LAWS, government of work-house 335 
 
 PUBLIC GROUNDS— 
 
 Injuries from defects, notice of claim for damages 184 
 
 Powers of council 127, 233 
 
 Vacation 129 
 
 PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS (See Assessments, Public Works.) 
 
 Assessments 244-257 
 
 Collection 258-268 
 
 Deferred installments 278 
 
 Delinquent assessments or installments 279 
 
 Building lines 234 
 
 Bureau of construction and repairs 327, 328 
 
 Certificates of indebtedness 278 
 
 Changes or modifications 254 
 
 Condemnation of property 223, 234 
 
 Appeal 271 
 
 Awards 269 
 
 Confirmation , 270 
 
 Consummation 272 
 
 Effect 272 
 
 Pleadings, appraisal, removal 274 
 
 Record of lands condemned 273 
 
 Report 269 
 
 Sketch, plan or profile 269 
 
 Witnesses 269 
 
 Contracts, signing .- 315 
 
 Cost of, how paid 236 
 
 Delinquent assessment fund 279 
 
 Drainage districts ' 236 
 
 Duties of commissioner of finance 240 
 
 Final order 242 
 
 Intermediary order 241 
 
 Hearing on 242 
 
 Joinder of several improvements 235 
 
 Lateral sewer, water and gas connections 236 
 
 Non-assessible improvements 257 
 
 Park districts 237 
 
 Pending proceedings 268 
 
 Permanent improvement revolving fund 278 
 
 Petition of remonstrance 243 
 
 Plans, specifications and estimates 349a 
 
 Powers of council 127, 2;is 
 
 Preliminary order 240 
 
 On private property 253 
 
 Proceeds of sales of certificates 279 
 
 Repairs 233 
 
 Sidewalks 280-282 
 
 PUBLIC LIGHTING (See Lighting.) 
 
 PUBLIC MONEYS AND SECURITIES (See Bonds, Certificates of In- 
 debtedness, Commissioner of Finance, Comptroller, Depositories.) 
 
 Auditori*um revenues 215 
 
 Bonds 216-224 
 
 Increase, payment 216 
 
 Limitation of indebtedness 217
 
 INDEX. I3Q 
 
 Section. 
 PUBLIC MONEYS AND SECURITIES— Cont. 
 
 Payment 83 
 
 Water supply 217, 464 
 
 Custody 187 
 
 Diversion of moneys prohibited 90 
 
 Eestimate of revenues 200 
 
 Expenditures, budget estimates 200 
 
 Comptroller's report of estimates 202 
 
 Council to fix amount 203 
 
 Emergency fund 200 
 
 Limitations 201. 205 
 
 Particular funds, assessments for 200 
 
 Per capita limitations 201 
 
 Temporary loans ' 205 
 
 Unexpended balance 207, 209 
 
 Veto of items of ordinance 204 
 
 Financial forms 6g 
 
 Fiscal year 70 
 
 Investment of surplus in purchase of tax levy certificates 232 
 
 Library revenues 215 
 
 Loans 187, 205 
 
 Miscellaneous receipts 210 
 
 Revenues of water department to be kept separate 214 
 
 School revenues 215 
 
 Tax levy certificates 225-232 
 
 Transfer of funds 20S 
 
 Unexpended balance ■. 207, 209 
 
 PUBLIC NOTICE (See Notice.) 
 
 PUBLIC PARKS (See Parks.) 
 
 PUBLIC PROPERTY— 
 
 Adverse possession against city 256 
 
 Custody, preservation, etc 354 
 
 Powers of council 127 
 
 PUBLIC SAFETY (See Commissioner of Public Safety.) 
 
 Bonds of ofificers and employes 352 
 
 Bureau of fire protection .367-371 
 
 Additional duities 371 
 
 Commissioner as ex-ofiicio fire marshal 367 
 
 Commissioner as head of bureau 367 
 
 Composition 367 
 
 Eligibility 370 
 
 Fire chief, assistants, etc 367 
 
 Fire chief, powers 369 
 
 Police powers 368 
 
 Bureau of general administration, composition 383 
 
 Powers and duties 384 
 
 Bureau of health ;^72-;i7S 
 
 Composition 372 
 
 Employes, police, powers 375 
 
 General powers ^j^ 
 
 Nuisances, removal 374 
 
 Bureau of police and fire alarm tlegraph. composition "T 381 
 
 Powers and duties ' 382 
 
 Bureau of police 356-371 
 
 Composition 356 
 
 Details of work under direction of county attorney 364 
 
 Disposition of weapons 362 
 
 Eligibility 360 
 
 General duties 361 
 
 Gratuities . . . . ; 365
 
 140 INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 PUBLIC SAFETY— Cont. 
 
 License inspector 359 
 
 Lost or stolen property 360 
 
 Municipal court officers 358 
 
 Park police •. 366, 426 
 
 Powers of police 357 
 
 Composition of department 350 
 
 Control of department 350 
 
 Department established 350 
 
 Emplo3'-es, temporary transfer 351 
 
 Food inspection 379 
 
 Hotels and restaurants 379 
 
 Injuries and death in service 355 
 
 Inquiries by commissioner 352a 
 
 Public baths 375-378 
 
 Public comforts station 380 
 
 PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATION, (See Franchise.) 
 
 Franchises 149-175 
 
 PUBLIC UTILITIES. (See Commissioner of Public Utilities.) 
 
 Access to books, etc. of holders, operators, etc 444 
 
 City lighting 441-443 
 
 Citj-- markets - 448 
 
 Cit}' testing laboratories 447 
 
 Commissioner 440-449 
 
 Commissioner to control ' 444 
 
 Levees and harbors 449 
 
 Report of commissioner 44S 
 
 PUBLIC WORKS, (See Commissioner of Public Works.) 
 
 Bureau of bridges, composition 329 
 
 Duties ^ 330 
 
 Bureau of construction and repairs, composition 327 
 
 Duties 328 
 
 Superinlcndent. ;ppointment 346 
 
 Bureau of corrections 335-345 
 
 Administration 335 
 
 Agreements of county board 341, 342 
 
 Compensation for care of prisoners 344 
 
 Compensation of sheriff for board of prisoners 345 
 
 Diminution of sentences 338 
 
 Duties of sheriff, etc 343 
 
 Employes 336 
 
 Escapes 340 
 
 Sentence to ■vvork-house 339 
 
 Superintendent S37 
 
 Work-house 335 
 
 Bureau of engineers 325, 326 
 
 Chief engineer, appointment 346 
 
 Composition 325 
 
 Duties' 326 
 
 vSurveyors. etc., appointment 346 
 
 Bureau of general administration, composition 333 
 
 Duties 333, 334 
 
 Bureau of sanitation, composition 331 
 
 Duties 332 
 
 Employes, appointment • 346 
 
 Superintendent, appointment 346 
 
 Bureaus 324 
 
 Appointments by commissioner 346 
 
 Department, bureaus 324 
 
 Commissioners to have control of 324
 
 INDEX. 141 
 
 Section. 
 
 PUBLIC WORKS— Con t. 
 
 Establishment, composition 324 
 
 Employes, duties 34^ 
 
 Transfer 347 
 
 General powers and duties of commissioner 347 
 
 Injuries from defects, notice of claim for damages 184 
 
 Plans, specifications and estimates 349^ 
 
 Rules and regulations 349 
 
 PURCHASING AGENT— 
 
 Accounts 295 
 
 Advertisements, bids and awards 297 
 
 Appointment 283 
 
 Assistants and employes 284 
 
 Bond 51 
 
 Claims for supplies 95 
 
 Custod}^ of standards or samples 296 
 
 Deputy, appointment, duties, compensation 284 
 
 Filing bids 312b 
 
 General powers 285 
 
 Gratuities .306 
 
 Member of Commission to standardize supplies 296 
 
 ^lember of committee on lands 303 
 
 Other duties 295 
 
 Priqe record 294 
 
 Purchase of niatena]'. for public work 349a 
 
 Purchase of standard articles 293 
 
 Rejection of bids 298 
 
 Sale of goods manufactured at work-house 335 
 
 S'ale of materials 301 
 
 PURCHASING DEPARTMENT— 
 
 Advertisements, bids and . awards 297 
 
 Annua) strtcnient < ^ supplies 292 
 
 Appropriation limits 286 
 
 Awards of contracts 299 
 
 Bulk, buying 289 
 
 Commission to standardize supplies 296 
 
 Compulsory requisites 288 
 
 Condemnation of lands 303 
 
 Contracts 297 
 
 Contracts let .to lowest bidder 308 
 
 Council regulations 307 
 
 Erection of buildings 304 
 
 Establishment 283 
 
 Inspection of goods 300 
 
 Permanent improvement and repairs 302 
 
 Purchase of lands 303 
 
 Purchase of patented articles 290 
 
 Purchases in emergencies 291 
 
 Repair of buildings ; 305 
 
 Requisitions 287 
 
 QUARANTINE, powers of health ofificers 373 
 
 QUARRIES, general powers and duties of commissioner of Public 
 
 Works 347 
 
 RAILROADS— 
 
 City exempt from liability from railroad accidents 128 
 
 Petition for construction 160 
 
 Quarantine of trains 273 
 
 READING ROOMvS^ 
 
 Free use 407 
 
 Powers of commissioner of education 400 
 
 Reports to council 408
 
 142 INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 RECALL, elections 28b-42 
 
 RECEIPTS, for payments into treasury 78 
 
 RECORDS— 
 
 Of deeds where city is party 186 
 
 Of commissioner of .finance ^94 
 
 Of council, boards, etc 472 
 
 As evidence i°5 
 
 School attendance, teachers 395 
 
 REFERENCE, municipal reference library 480 
 
 REGISTER OF DEEDS, record of lands condemned 273 
 
 Record of resolution vacating streets, etc 129 
 
 REGISTRATION, vital statistics 373 
 
 RELEASE, of claim for injuries to firemen or police officers 52, 355 
 
 Surety on bonds of contractors 320 
 
 REMONSTRANCE, against local improvements 243 
 
 REMOVAL— 
 
 Buildings on lands condemned 274 
 
 Cduncilimen 59 
 
 Non-elective officers and employes 60 
 
 Officers and employes by heads of departments 477 
 
 Officers, reappointment 42 
 
 REPORTS— 
 
 Annual report of comptroller TZ 
 
 Annual reports to council as to administration of auditorium 417 
 
 Of commissioner of public utilities 445 
 
 To comptroller as to fees 89 
 
 To comptroller as to parks, etc 425 
 
 To council as to public libraries, etc 408 
 
 To Mayor by civil service commissioner loi 
 
 Of officers to comptroller 75 
 
 Of police officers 361 
 
 Of school records to mayor and comptroller 395 
 
 RESERVOIRS, bureau of construction and repairs },2-/ . z^'^ 
 
 RLSKiNATlON. after filing of recall petition 34 
 
 Of Officers, reappointment 42 
 
 RESOLUTIONS— 
 
 Vacation of streets T29 
 
 Effect c-f amendment of charter 474 
 
 Enactment 119 
 
 Mode of action by council 116 
 
 Publication 123 
 
 Veto I2T 
 
 Votes necessary 120 
 
 RESTAURANTS, inspection 379 
 
 REWARDS, to members of bureau of police 365 
 
 RIOTS, powers of police 357 
 
 SALARIES— 
 
 Accountant 7- 
 
 Architect 43i 
 
 Assistant fire chief 367 
 
 Auditor I^ 
 
 Bookkeeper .' 72 
 
 Building inspectors .431, 432 
 
 Chief engineer 325 
 
 Chief of police 35^ 
 
 Civil engineer 72 
 
 Comptroiler^s \assistants 72 
 
 Deputy commissioner of finance 188 
 
 Deputy comptroller 72 
 
 Extra compensation 47
 
 INDEX. 143 
 
 Section. 
 
 S.\L.\R1ES— Cont, 
 
 Fire chief 307 
 
 Health officers 11- 
 
 Incapacitated rtremcii nr police officer.s 52 
 
 Increase by council prohibited I33 
 
 Librarian 401 
 
 License insinctor 350 
 
 Mayor 66 
 
 Mayor's clerical assistants 66 
 
 Maj'or's secretary 66 
 
 Officers 45 
 
 Officers not fixed by charter 46 
 
 School employes • • • 3°7 
 
 Secretary to commissioner of parks, play grounds and public build- 
 ings 425 
 
 Superintendent of parks 425 
 
 Superintendent (if school buildings 39i 
 
 Superintendent of schools 389 
 
 SALES— 
 
 Buildings on lands condemned 274 
 
 Certificates of indebtedness 225. 228, 229. 231, 278 
 
 City markets 448 
 
 To city, interest of officers and employes 473 
 
 Franchises 1/2 
 
 Goods manufactured at workhouse 335 
 
 Local improvement certificates 267 
 
 Lost or stolen property 363 
 
 Materials by purchasing agent 301 
 
 Purchasing department 283-307 
 
 Text-books 386 
 
 Weapons 362 
 
 SANITATION, bureau of sanitation 33i. '}^?^^ 
 
 SCHOOL PROPERTY, control of .385 
 
 SCHOOLS, (See Commissioner of Education.) 
 
 Advisory school inspectors 398 
 
 Board of school inspectors to turn over property to commissioner 
 
 of education 388 
 
 Board of teachers, election and powers 399 
 
 Buildings, acquisition of lands for 233 
 
 Repairs 396 
 
 Sites for 396 
 
 Superintendent 39^ 
 
 Commissioner of education 38S"4I7 
 
 Contracts of board of school inspectors 388 
 
 Courses of study 386 
 
 Employes, appointment 386 
 
 L'utic- :ini.l salaries 387 
 
 Establishment 386 
 
 Limitation of cost per capita 394 
 
 Officers and employes 386 
 
 Play grounds • 482 
 
 Principals and teachers, appointment, removal 39° 
 
 Records - 395 
 
 Rules governing 393 
 
 Probationary appointment 390 
 
 Records 395 
 
 Reports to bureau of health T^IZ 
 
 Revenues 215, 394 
 
 Superintendent, appointment, terms, salary 389 
 
 Assistants .390
 
 144 INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 SCHOOLS— Cont. 
 
 Eligibility 386 
 
 Superintendent of school buildings, appointment, salary 391 
 
 S'upiMvii^ors, appointment 390 
 
 Supplies 396 
 
 Text-books 386 
 
 Truants, rules affecting 397 
 
 SEALS— 
 
 Certificates of indebtedness 230 
 
 City bonds 224 
 
 Contracts and leases 3^6 
 
 SECURITIES, (See Public Money and Securities.) 
 
 Investment of sinking fund 221 
 
 Deposit by city depositories 190 
 
 Records of commissioner of finance 194 
 
 SEWERS, (See Public Improvements.) 
 
 Apportionment of cost 236 
 
 Bureau of construction and repairs 327. 328 
 
 Bureau of sanitation 33^ 
 
 Lateral connections 238 
 
 Laying through parks, etc 427 
 
 Powers of council 233 
 
 SH.A.DE TREES, powers of council 233 
 
 SHERIFFS, compensation for board of prisoners 345 
 
 Conveyances of prisoners to workhouse 343 
 
 SIDEWALKS, (See Public Improvements.) 
 
 Assessments 281 
 
 Bureau of construction and repairs ; .327, 328 
 
 Duties of police officers 361 
 
 Injuries from defects, notice of claim for damages 184 
 
 Orders 280 
 
 Powers of council 233 
 
 Private laying 282 
 
 Proposals j 280 
 
 SINKING FUND— 
 
 How constituted 219 
 
 Income 222 
 
 Investments 221 
 
 For payment of bonds 216 
 
 SINKING FUND COMMITTEE— 
 
 Approval of bonds of depositories i88a 
 
 Approval of form of certificates of indebtedness 230 
 
 Designation of depositories l88a 
 
 Form of bonds 224 
 
 Membership 62, 85 220 
 
 Negotiation of refunding bonds 217 
 
 Purchases and sales 223 
 
 Powers and duties 220 
 
 Sale of certificate of indebtedness 225, 229 
 
 Withdrawal of deposits 191 
 
 SMALLPOX, power of health officers 373 
 
 SMOKE, ab;:tement of smoke nuisance 450 
 
 SPECIAL COUNSEL, appointment, compensation 178 
 
 SPECIAL POLICEMEN, appointment, compensation 356 
 
 SPRINKLING PLANTS, assessment 277 
 
 Powers of council 127 
 
 STANDARDS, (supplies 296 
 
 STATE ROADS, vacation 129 
 
 STATIONS, police and fire stations 353 
 
 Public comfort stations 380
 
 INDEX. 145 
 
 Section. 
 
 STATUTES— 
 
 ■ Effect of amendment of charter 474 
 
 General laws applicable to elections 8 
 
 General laws applicable to recall elections 40 
 
 STOCKHOLDERS, of banks as sureties on bonds of depositories i88a 
 
 STOLEN PROPERTY, disposition bv commissioner of pubic safety. . 363 
 
 STREET RATROADS— 
 
 Control of commissioner of public utilities 444 
 
 Cost of bridges 164 
 
 Elevation or depression of tracks 167 
 
 Regulation of service 167 
 
 Street maintenance duties 161 
 
 Transportation of firemen, etc 165 
 
 STREETS, (See Franchises.) 
 
 Acquisition of lands for 233 
 
 Care of grass plots 429 
 
 Care of trees 430 
 
 Council may place under supervision of commissioner of parks, play 
 
 grounds and public buildings 420 
 
 Building lines 234 
 
 Bureau of construction and repairs 327, 328 
 
 Bureau of sanitation 332 
 
 Condemnation of lands for 233, 234 
 
 Cost of intersections and cross-walks 235 
 
 Franchise 149-175 
 
 Gcncr;:l powers and duties of commissioner of public works 347 
 
 Grades, charge 233 
 
 Injuries from defects, notice o fclaim for damages 184 
 
 Maintenance, sprinkling, etc., by street railroads 161 
 
 Paving 233 
 
 Powers and duties of commissioner of public works 347 
 
 Powers of council 128 
 
 Vacation 129 
 
 STREET SPRINKLING— 
 
 Appropriations 275 
 
 Assessmients 276 
 
 Municipal sprinkling plant 277 
 
 Cost, account of 275b 
 
 Municipal sprinkling plant 127, 277 
 
 By street railroads 161 
 
 Tax levy 275 
 
 Water supply 27:5a, 460 
 
 SUBSCRIPTIONS— 
 
 For auditorium 416 
 
 For library fund 405 
 
 For official newspaper 471 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT OF AUDITORIUM, appointment 413 
 
 Bond 51 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT OF BUREAU OF SANITATION, appoint'- 
 
 "^^t .331, 346 
 
 Compensation 331 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIRS." ap- '' 
 
 pointment 327 ^aS 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT OF PARKS— ^ 
 
 Appointment ."] 425 
 
 Bond 51 
 
 Duties 425 
 
 Eligibility 425 
 
 Salary _^2S
 
 146 INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 j:upkrintendent of police and fire alarm tele- 
 graph, appointment, compensation 381 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS', Appointment, 
 
 salary 39i 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS— 
 
 Appointment 389 
 
 Assistants, appointment 390 
 
 Eligibility 389 
 
 Salary 45, 389 
 
 Term of office 389 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT OF WORK HOUSE, appointment 33^^ 
 
 Duties 337 
 
 SUPPLIES, purchase, claims for 95 
 
 Purchasing department 283-307 
 
 SUPREME COURT, appeals to, from confirmation of assessment 250 
 
 SURETIES— 
 
 Bonds of contractors 320 
 
 Bonds of depositories i88a 
 
 Official bonds 5i 
 
 SURGEONS, appointment by commissioner of public safety 35^ 
 
 SURVEYORS— 
 
 Appointment 346 
 
 Bureau of engineers 325 
 
 To devote entire time to service of city 348 
 
 SURVEYS, powders and duties of commissioner of public works 347 
 
 SUSPENSIONS, department of public safety 352 
 
 TAXATION— 
 
 Assessment, laws continued in force 469 
 
 Board of Equalization, city representative 479 
 
 Mayor as a ijiember 63 
 
 Cost of removing nuisances 374 
 
 For emergency loans 206 
 
 Exemptions, powers of council '^33 
 
 Gross earnings, franchise taxes I54 
 
 For interest and sinking fund for bonds 216 
 
 Levy 212 
 
 Copy for county auditor 213 
 
 Liens, rank of tax and assessment liens 259 
 
 Payment to city by county treasurer 198, 199 
 
 Property subject 211 
 
 For public libraries ■ • • 412 
 
 School taxes 394 
 
 For street sprinkling , 275 
 
 Tax levy certificates 225-232 
 
 Water frontage tax _. 461 
 
 TAXPAYERS, action to recover compensation paid 105 
 
 TEACHERS— 
 
 Appointment 386, 390 
 
 Board of teachers, election and powers 399 
 
 Probationary appointment 390 
 
 Records 395 
 
 Rules governing 393 
 
 Training schools 386 
 
 TELEGRAPHS AND TELEPHONES— 
 
 Bureau of police and fire alarm, telegraph 381, 382 
 
 Conduits, powers of council 233 
 
 Control of commissioner of public utilities 444 
 
 Employes of police and fire alarm telegraph, injuries to or death of 
 
 in service 355 
 
 Poles and conduits 166
 
 INDEX. . 147 
 
 Section. 
 
 TEXEMEXT HOUS'ES. inspection 379 
 
 TERRITORIAL ROADS, vacation 129 
 
 TEXT BOOKS, duties of commissioner of education 380 
 
 THEATERS, reports to bureau of health 373 
 
 TITLE, ordinances ^H 
 
 TR\TXIXG SCHOOLS FOR TEACHERS, estabhshment 3^6 
 
 TREASURER— ^ 
 
 Business hours °/ 
 
 Comptroller and treasurer to act in harmony oi 
 
 Daily report to by comptroller ^o 
 
 Office of city treasurer abolished • ^9o 
 
 Securities in hands of, examination by mayor and comptroller o5 
 
 TREASURY. (See Commissioner of Finance. Comptroller.) 
 
 Commissioner of finance io have control of 187 
 
 Comptroller to check daily 79 
 
 Deposit of profits of sales 30i 
 
 Fees payable to. daily ^ 
 
 Payments from by check • 7° 
 
 Payments from, taking up evidence of indebtedness ©3 
 
 Receipts for payments into 7^ 
 
 TREES, planting and care of along streets 430 
 
 TRUANT OFFICERS, appointment 3f^ 
 
 TRUANT SCHOOLS, establishment 3^o 
 
 TRUSTS, administration of public trust 4io 
 
 UNIF0R:MITY, water rates 459 
 
 VACATION, of streets, public grounds, etc 129 
 
 V\CClNATION, powers of commissioner of public safety 373 
 
 VETO— 
 
 Appropriation ordinances ^-'- 
 
 Itf^ms of ordinances -"4 
 
 Ordinances ^-^ 
 
 VITAL STATISTICS, powers and duties of bureau of health 373 
 
 WAIVEK, notice of council meetings n^ 
 
 V/ARDS, boundaries, change 3 
 
 WARRANTS, p-wers of park police 426 
 
 WATCH MAX. appointment, com,p,ensation 35'J 
 
 WATER 1"^ EPA 1-: TIME NT- 
 Board of water commissioners, actions 453 
 
 City department 452 
 
 Composition 44°, 45i 
 
 Contracts 450 
 
 Fixing compensation of officers and employes 457 
 
 Funds and expenditures 45° 
 
 Laws governing 452 
 
 Seal 453 
 
 Bond 5T 
 
 Bonds 217. 404 
 
 Bureau of constructio^n and repairs 3^7' 328 
 
 Commissioner of public utilities to have chare of 44° 
 
 Creation 45^ 
 
 Employes, employment 45" 
 
 Frontage tax 461 
 
 Lateral connections 238 
 
 Officers and employes, terms and compensation 457 
 
 Powers of council -^ 403 
 
 Revenues keot separate 214 
 
 Rules for use and distribution of water 459 
 
 Supply to city 4^0 
 
 Water mains, change of street grades 462 
 
 Laying through parks, etc 42" 
 
 Water rates 459
 
 148 INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 WATER AND WATER COURSES— 
 
 Jurisdiction over, of commissioners of public safety 373 
 
 Powers of commissioners of parks, play grounds and public buildings 422 
 
 Regulation of shores 422 
 
 WEAPONS, disposition by commissioner of public safety 362 
 
 WHARVES', Control of commissioner of public utilities 449 
 
 Powers of council 127 
 
 WIDOWS, compensation to widows of policemen, etc., killed in service. 355 
 
 WITHDRAWAL, of candidacy _. 16 
 
 Of signatures from certificate of presentation 14 
 
 WITNESSES— 
 
 Compelling attendance, civil service commissioner 106 
 
 Commissioner of public safety 352a 
 
 Competency of inhabitants 182 
 
 Condemnation proceedings 269 
 
 Oaths 106 
 
 WOMEN, appointment as police officers 356 
 
 WOODS AND FORESTS, care of trees along streets 430 
 
 City forester 430 
 
 WORDS AND PHRASES— 
 
 Buildings 437 
 
 Independent school district 388 
 
 Ordinance 118, 145 
 
 School district of the city of St. Paul 388 
 
 Special school district 388 
 
 Unexpended balance 2og 
 
 WORKHOUSE— 
 
 Administration 335 
 
 Agreements with county boards for confinement of prisoners. . .341, 342 
 
 Commitments 180 
 
 Compensation for care of county prisoners 344 
 
 Compensation of sherifif for board of prisoners 345 
 
 County prisoners 341-344 
 
 Diminution of sentences 338 
 
 Duty of sherifif to convey prisoners to 343 
 
 Escapes 340 
 
 Establishment authorized 131 
 
 Forfeiture of good time allowances 338 
 
 Fund, proceeds of sale of goods manufactured 335 
 
 Officers, guards and employes, appointment 336 
 
 Prisoner's restoration to rights of citizenship 338 
 
 Requisition for machinery, materials, etc 335 
 
 Rules and regulations 335 
 
 Sale of goods manufactured at 335 
 
 Sentences to 339 
 
 Superintendent, appointment 336 
 
 Duties : 337 
 
 Executive officer 337 
 
 Residence 337
 
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