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date for nomination before any political convention, or for or against any candidate for delegate to such convention at any primary election; nor shall either of them be a member of any committee, club, or organization the purpose of which is to nominate or indorse candidates for office at any election; nor in any way attempt to influence or control such committee, club, or organization, while nominating or indorsing said candidates; nor take any part in the control, management, or distribution of the political patronage of any public officer; nor shall any member of either of said boards, or any officer, subordinate or employé of either of said departments, directly or indirectly, attempt to control, or in any manner influence the action of any officer, subordinate or employé of either of said departments at any general, special, or primary election. And no officer, subordinate or employé of either of said departments shall levy, collect or pay any amount of money as an assessment or contribution for political purposes. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be removed forthwith from his office or employment. If the violation be Penalties. by a member of either of said boards, the mayor must remove such member; and if by an officer, employé, or subordinate of either of said departments, then the board whose officer, employé, or subordinate has been guilty of such violation, nust remove such officer, employé, or subordinate; and if such board fail or refuse to make such removal, then the mayor must remove all members of the board who have so failed or refused.

Political assess

ments prohibited.

Overtime.

Salaries, full compensation.

Additional clerical

SEC. 33. No deputy, clerk, or other employé of the city and county shall be paid for a greater time than that covered by his actual service.

SEC. 34. The salaries provided in this charter shall be in full compensation for all services rendered, and every officer shall pay all moneys coming into his hands as such officer, no matter from what source derived or received, into the treasury of the city and county within twenty-four hours after receipt of the same.

SEC. 35. When any officer, board or department shall reemployés. quire additional deputies, clerks or employés, application shall be made to the mayor therefor, and upon such application the mayor shall make investigation as to the necessity for such additional assistance; and if he find the same necessary he may recommend to the supervisors to authorize the appointment of such additional deputies, clerks or employés; and thereupon the supervisors, by an affirmative vote of not less than fourteen members, may authorize such appointments, and provide for the compensation of such appointees, subject to the limitations contained in this charter, and subject to the provisions of Article XIII thereof.

Appointments by mayor.

SEC. 36. At any time between the first day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and the first day of January, in the year nineteen hundred, the person who, at the election held under this charter in the month of November next preceding, has been elected the mayor of the

ration of

city and county, shall make all the appointments provided by this charter to be made by him, and all the persons so appointed shall thereupon qualify as in this charter provided, and shall Beginning take office at the hour of noon on the first Monday after the nex first day of January, in the year nineteen hundred, and all terms of boards, commissions, and officers of the city and county holding by appointment under existing laws shall hold office no longer than said last aforesaid time.

office.

Balances in the sev to be trans

eral funds

ferred.

SEC. 37. The balance remaining in the school fund at the time this charter takes effect shall forthwith be transferred to the common school fund created by this charter. The balance remaining in the library fund at the time this charter takes effect shall forthwith be transferred to the library fund created by this charter. The balance remaining in the park improvement fund at the time this charter takes effect shall forthwith be transferred to the park fund created by this charter. The balance remaining in the unapportioned fee fund at the time this charter takes effect shall forthwith be transferred to the unapportioned fee fund created by this charter. The balance remaining in the police relief and pension fund at the time this charter takes effect shall forthwith be transferred to the police relief and pension fund created by this charter. The balance remaining in the surplus fund at the time this charter takes effect shall forthwith be transferred to the surplus fund created by this charter. The balance remaining in the special deposit fund at the time this charter takes effect shall forthwith be transferred to the special deposit fund created by this charter. The balance remaining in the general fund at the time this charter takes effect, the balance remaining in the street light fund at the time this charter takes effect, the balance remaining in the street department fund at the time this charter takes effect, the balance remaining in the police contingent fund at the time this charter takes effect, the balance remaining in the pound fee fund at the time this charter takes effect, and the balance remaining in the special fee fund at the time this charter takes effect, shall each and every of them be forthwith transferred to the general fund created by this charter. Out of the General said general fund shall be paid, as in this section hereinafter pay provided, all the expenses of the various departments of the city from. and county, except such expenses as are by this charter to be paid out of the funds specifically provided for the payment of such expenses. For the six months ending on the thirtieth Payments day of June, in the year nineteen hundred, each and every funds. of said departments shall expend the moneys set apart to each of them by the board of supervisors of the existing municipality. So much of said moneys set apart by said board of supervisors to the superintendent of public streets, highways and squares for the fiscal year ending on said thirtieth day of June, in the year nineteen hundred, as shall remain unexpended at the time this charter takes effect, shall be expended during said six months by the board of public works in the operations of the department committed to its charge. All

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the expenses of the city and county which are not to be paid out of specific funds shall be paid during said six months out of the general fund. Should the moneys set apart by the board of supervisors of the existing municipality to any department of the city and county become or be exhausted at any time during said six months, or should any department created by this charter have no money specifically provided for it during said six months, then in each such case the expenses thereof shall be paid out of the general fund, notwithstanding anything contained in sections six and seven of Chapter I of Article III of this charter. Such pensions as may accrue to firemen under Article IX of this charter during said six months shall be paid out of the general fund. The existing "Existing municipality mentioned in this section is the existing municiity" de- pality of the city and county of San Francisco, and the several funds which are to be transferred as in this section provided are funds of said existing municipality. All the funds of said existing municipality not mentioned in this section, and which are authorized by law, shall be continued in the treasury until the necessity for their continuance ceases. SEC. 38. When the necessity for maintaining any fund of to be abol the city and county in existence at the time this charter takes effect has ceased to exist, and a balance remains in such fund, the supervisors shall so declare by ordinance, and upon such declaration such balance shall be forthwith transferred to the general fund.

municipal

fined.

Unneces

sary funds,

ished.

Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

This charter shall be published for twenty days in the San Francisco Call and in the Daily Report, daily newspapers of general circulation in the city and county of San Francisco, and after such publication, viz.: on Thursday, the twenty-sixth day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, it shall be submitted to the qualified electors of said city and county of San Francisco, at a special election which shall be held on that day, for the sole purpose of voting upon the adoption of the same; and if a majority of the qualified electors of said city and county voting at said election shall ratify the same it shall be submitted to the legislature of the state of California for its approval or rejection. If the legislature shall approve the same, it shall take effect and be in Charter in force, except as hereinafter otherwise provided, on and after the hour of noon on the first Monday after the first day of January in the year nineteen hundred, and shall thereupon become the charter and organic law of the city and county of San Francisco, and shall supersede the existing charter of said city and county, and all amendments thereof, and all laws inconsistent with this charter.

The form of ballots at said election shall be as follows: "For the new charter, yes," "For the new charter, no."

For the sole purposes of the election of the officers directed in this charter to be elected by the people, this charter shall

take effect on and after its approval by the legislature, and the election of such officers shall be managed, conducted and controlled by the board of election commissioners in and for said city and county in office at the time of such election.

And for the sole other purpose of the mayor elected under this charter making the appointments provided in this charter to be made by him, and of the qualification of the persons so appointed, this charter shall take effect on the first day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninetynine.

free

BE IT KNOWN, That the city and county of San Francisco, Proclamacontaining a population of more than two hundred thousand tion of inhabitants, on the twenty-seventh day of December, in the holders. year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, and under and in accordance with the provisions of Section 8, of Article XI, of the constitution of this state, did elect the undersigned a board of fifteen freeholders, to prepare and propose a charter for said city and county; and we, the members of said board, in pursuance of such provisions of the constitution, and within a period of ninety days after such election, have prepared and do propose the foregoing, signed in duplicate, as and for the charter for said city and county of San Francisco.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands in duplicate, this twenty-fifth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

JOSEPH BRITTON, President.
JEROME A. ANDERSON.
JAMES BUTLER.

H. N. CLEMENT.

A. COMTE, JR.
ALFRED CRIDGE.
L. R. ELLERT.
ISIDOR GUTTE.

P. H. McCARTHY.

JOHN NIGHTINGALE, JR.

JOHN C. NOBMANN.

JOSEPH O'CONNOR.

LIPPMAN SACHS.

EDWARD R. TAYLOR.
A. W. THOMPSON.

Attest: J. RICH'D FREUD, Secretary.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA,

City and County of San Francisco.

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SS.

This is to certify that we, James D. Phelan, mayor of the city Certificate and county of San Francisco, and Thomas J. Glynn, county of may recorder of said city and county, have compared the foregoing corder. proposed and ratified charter with the duplicates mentioned therein, and find that the same is an exact copy thereof; and we further certify that the facts set forth in the preamble preceding said charter herein are true.

Legislative approval.

Dated, San Francisco, Cal., December thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

JAMES D. PHELAN,

Mayor of the city and county of San Francisco.
THOS. J. GLYNN,

County recorder of the city and county of San Francisco.

Now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the assembly of the state of California, the senate thereof concurring (a majority of all the members elected to each house voting for and concurring herein), that said charter of the city and county of San Francisco, as presented to, and adopted and ratified by, the qualified electors of said city and county, be and the same is hereby approved as a whole, for and as the charter of said city and county of San Francisco.

Improvement of Eureka channel,

Humboldt bay.

CHAPTER III.

Senate Joint Resolution No. 4, relative to the improvement of
Humboldt bay.

[Adopted January 26, 1899.]

WHEREAS, The United States government has expended a large sum of money in improving the bar at the entrance of Humboldt bay; and

WHEREAS, The result has been to greatly increase the depth of water on said bar sufficient to admit the largest vessels, and has, also, tended to shoal the water in Eureka channel, and particularly at a point where all of the shipping interests on said bay center; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the senate and the assembly jointly, That our senators in Washington be instructed, and our representatives be requested to use all of their efforts to interest the war department in taking immediate action toward dredging such channel, and in securing an appropriation sufficient to properly dredge the same; and be it further

Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be forwarded at once by the secretary to each of our senators and representatives.

CHAPTER IV.

Senate Joint Resolution No. 6, relative to the construction of navy yards and ship building.

[Adopted January 26, 1899.]

WHEREAS, The United States has expended for plants and sites for navy yards and stations, more than one hundred million dollars. The expenditure of this vast amount of

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