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to amend the Charter of said City and County by amending subdivision 14, of Section 1, of Chapter II, of Article II thereof, relating to the regulation of telephone charges."

Charter Amendment No. 18, entitled "Describing and setting forth an amendment to the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, by amending Section 1 of Article XIV thereof, and by adding thereto a new article, to be known and numbered as Article XIV-A, relating to children's playgrounds and public recreation centers outside of Golden Gate Park, and creating a Playground Commission."

Charter Amendment No. 19, entitled "Describing and setting forth a proposal to the qualified electors of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, to amend the Charter of said City and County by amending Sections 1 and 2 of Article X thereof, relating to the Department of Public Health."

Charter Amendment No. 20, entitled "Describing and setting forth a proposal to the qualified electors of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, to amend the Charter of said City and County by amending Section 1 of Chapter V of Article VIII, and Section 1 of Chapter VI of Article VIII, thereof, relative to the salaries of members of the Police Department."

Charter Amendment No. 21, entitled "Describing and setting forth a proposal to the qualified electors of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, to amend Sections 2 and 3 of Chapter IX, Article IX of the Charter of said City and County, relative to the salaries of the Chief and of the employés of the Department of Electricity." And

WHEREAS, Said twenty-one proposals aforementioned containing said proposed amendments to said Charter were, in accordance with the provisions of Section Eight of Article Eleven of the Constitution of the State of California, published for twenty days after their passage, in "The Evening Post," a daily newspaper of general circulation in the City and County of San Francisco, and the official newspaper of said City and County; and

WHEREAS, The said legislative authority of said City and County, did by Resolution No. 1308 (New Series) of the Board of Supervisors, passed September 16, 1907, instruct the Board of Election Commissioners of said City and County to place upon the ballot at a general municipal election to be held in said City and County of San Francisco on the Fifth day of November, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seven, the said twenty-one several proposals to amend the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco; and

WHEREAS, Said general municipal election was held in said City and County of San Francisco on the Fifth day of November One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seven, which. day was more than forty days after said proposed amendments had been published for Twenty days in "The Evening Post" newspaper; and

WHEREAS, On the Eleventh day of November One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seven and thereafter, at meetings duly convened in accordance with law, and the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco, the Board of Election Commissioners of the said City and County duly and regularly canvassed the returns of said general municipal election, and duly declared the results thereof, said Board being by law and the Charter authorized to conduct, manage and control the holding of elections and all matters pertaining to elections in said City and County; and WHEREAS, At said general municipal election so held on the Fifth day of November One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seven, twenty of said proposed amendments were ratified by a majority of the electors voting thereon, and one of said proposed amendments received less than a majority of the votes of said electors; and

WHEREAS, Thereafter, to wit, on the Fifteenth day of November One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seven, the said Board of Election Commissioners duly filed with the Board of Supervisors the "Official Statement of Votes polled at the General Municipal Election held in the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, on Tuesday, the Fifth day of November, A. D. 1907, for Charter Amendments * * * " and also filed a duplicate thereof in the Office of the Secretary of State of California; and

WHEREAS, The Governor of the State of California by virtue of the power and authority vested in him by Section Nine, Article Five of the Constitution of the State of California has convened the Legislature to meet and assemble in extraordinary session on Tuesday, the Nineteenth day of November, A. D. 1907, for the purpose among other things, of taking legislative action upon the four amendments to the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco hereinafter set forth; and WHEREAS, The said four amendments so ratified by the Electors of the City and County of San Francisco at said General Municipal Election are now submitted to the Legislature of the State of California for approval or rejection as a whole without power of alteration or amendment, in accordance with Section Eight of Article Eleven of the Constitution of the State of California, and are in words and figures as follows, to wit:

That Section 10 of Article XII of the Charter be amended to read as follows: SECTION 10. The bonds issued under the provisions of this article shall be of such form as the Supervisors in the ordinance calling the election therefor shall determine; but such bonds shall be payable, interest and principal, in gold coin of the United States. The interest on such bonds shall not exceed 5 per cent per annum, and they shall be redeemed at such times and in such amounts as the

Supervisors shall determine, as set forth in the ordinance calling the special election; provided, that redemption of such bonds shall begin in not more than eighteen years and shall be completed in not more than seventy-five years from the date of the issue. The bonds so issued shall be exempt from all taxation for municipal purposes and shall be issued in denominations of not less than ten dollars and not more than one thousand dollars, and preference in the sale and allotment thereof shall be given to subscribers for the smallest amounts and the lowest denominations.

The Supervisors shall fix the times and places at which the payment of interest or principal may be made.

Such bonds when issued may be sold by the Supervisors from time to time, as required, and in such quantities as they may determine. When such bonds are offered for sale they shall be advertised in the official paper and otherwise if so ordered by the Supervisors and sealed proposals for the purchase of the whole or any part thereof offered shall be opened at the time specified in such advertisements. All proposals for the purchase of such bonds shall be accompanied by a deposit of 5 per cent of the amount bid in lawful money of the United States or by a deposit of a certified check payable to the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of the City and County for a like sum, provided that no deposit need exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars, and that no deposit need be given by the State of California, which money or check shall be forfeited by the bidder in case he fails to accept and pay for the bonds bid for by him if his bid is accepted. Bonds shall be sold to the highest bidder for not less than par, but the Supervisors shall have the right to reject any or all bids made for the purchase thereof. If less than the amount of bonds offered shall be sold, the Supervisors may, with the concurrence of fourteen members and the Mayor, place such unsold bonds on sale at the City Treasury, or at branches thereof established by the Treasurer for public convenience; and such bonds may be sold to any applicant at such prices as may be fixed by the Supervisors, provided that such prices shall not be less than par and accrued interest.

The proceeds of any sale of bonds shall be placed in the treasury to the credit of the proper fund, and shall be applied exclusively to the purposes and objects mentioned in the ordinance authorizing their issue until such objects are fully accomplished; after which, if any surplus remains, such surplus may be transferred to the general fund, except that if such surplus exceeds the sum of two thousand dollars, then such surplus and the whole thereof shall be transferred to the appropriate fund or funds to pay the interest and maintain the sinking fund or provide for the retirement of the bonded indebtedness in connection with which such surplus remains.

If the bonds or any of them offered for sale shall remain unsold the Supervisors may so declare, and may, with the concurrence of fourteen members and the Mayor, cancel such unsold bonds, provided that no bonds shall be canceled as aforesaid unless the same have been offered for sale by advertisement, as above provided, at least three separate times at intervals of not less than thirty days, and provided that no such bonds shall be canceled by the Supervisors as aforesaid for which par or above has been bid by any bona fide responsible bidder or bidders. The provisions of this section, regarding the cancellation of unsold bonds, shall apply to any bonds that have been heretofore issued or to any bonds that have been heretofore authorized by a vote of the electors of the City and County under this section or under Section 29 of Article XVI of this Charter, and that remain unsold after efforts to sell the same shall have been made as above provided.

Whenever the owner of any coupon bond, or of any bond payable to bearer, already issued or hereafter issued by the City and County shall present any such bond to the Treasurer with a request for the conversion of such bond into a registered bond, such Treasurer shall cut off and cancel the coupons of any such coupon bond so presented, and shall stamp, print or write upon such coupon bond or such other bond payable to bearer, so presented, either upon the back or upon the face thereof, as may be convenient, a statement to the effect that the said bond is registered in the name of the owner, and that thereafter the interest and principal of said bond are payable to the registered owner. Thereafter, and from time to time, any such bond may be transferred by such registered owner in person, or by attorney duly authorized on presentation of such bond to Treasurer, and the bond be again registered as before, a similar statement being stamped, printed or written thereon. Such statement stamped, printed or written upon any such bond may be in substantially the following form:

(Date-giving month, year and day.)

This bond is registered pursuant to Charter of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, in the name of (here insert name of owner),

and the interest and principal thereof are hereafter payable to such owner.

Treasurer.

After any bond shall have been registered as aforesaid, the principal and interest of such bond shall be payable to the registered owner. Such Treasurer shall keep in his office a book or books which shall, at all times, show what bonds are registered and in whose names, respectively.

That Section 12 of Article XII of the Charter be amended to read as follows:

to amend the Charter of said City and County by amending subdivision 14, of Section 1, of Chapter II, of Article II thereof, relating to the regulation of telephone charges."

Charter Amendment No. 18, entitled "Describing and setting forth an amendment to the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, by amending Section 1 of Article XIV thereof, and by adding thereto a new article, to be known and numbered as Article XIV-A, relating to children's playgrounds and public recreation centers outside of Golden Gate Park, and creating a Playground Commission."

Charter Amendment No. 19, entitled "Describing and setting forth a proposal to the qualified electors of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, to amend the Charter of said City and County by amending Sections 1 and 2 of Article X thereof, relating to the Department of Public Health."

Charter Amendment No. 20, entitled "Describing and setting forth a proposal to the qualified electors of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, to amend the Charter of said City and County by amending Section 1 of Chapter V of Article VIII, and Section 1 of Chapter VI of Article VIII, thereof, relative to the salaries of members of the Police Department."

Charter Amendment No. 21, entitled "Describing and setting forth a proposal to the qualified electors of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, to amend Sections 2 and 3 of Chapter IX, Article IX of the Charter of said City and County, relative to the salaries of the Chief and of the employés of the Department of Electricity." And

WHEREAS, Said twenty-one proposals aforementioned containing said proposed amendments to said Charter were, in accordance with the provisions of Section Eight of Article Eleven of the Constitution of the State of California, published for twenty days after their passage, in "The Evening Post," a daily newspaper of general circulation in the City and County of San Francisco, and the official newspaper of said City and County; and

WHEREAS, The said legislative authority of said City and County, did by Resolution No. 1308 (New Series) of the Board of Supervisors, passed September 16, 1907, instruct the Board of Election Commissioners of said City and County to place upon the ballot at a general municipal election to be held in said City and County of San Francisco on the Fifth day of November, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seven, the said twenty-one several proposals to amend the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco; and

WHEREAS, Said general municipal election was held in said City and County of San Francisco on the Fifth day of November One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seven, which. day was more than forty days after said proposed amendments had been published for Twenty days in "The Evening Post" newspaper; and

WHEREAS, On the Eleventh day of November One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seven and thereafter, at meetings duly convened in accordance with law, and the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco, the Board of Election Commissioners of the said City and County duly and regularly canvassed the returns of said general municipal election, and duly declared the results thereof, said Board being by law and the Charter authorized to conduct, manage and control the holding of elections and all matters pertaining to elections in said City and County; and WHEREAS, At said general municipal election so held on the Fifth day of November One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seven, twenty of said proposed amendments were ratified by a majority of the electors voting thereon, and one of said proposed amendments received less than a majority of the votes of said electors; and

WHEREAS, Thereafter, to wit, on the Fifteenth day of November One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seven, the said Board of Election Commissioners duly filed with the Board of Supervisors the "Official Statement of Votes polled at the General Municipal Election held in the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, on Tuesday, the Fifth day of November, A. D. 1907, for Charter Amendments * * * ," and also filed a duplicate thereof in the Office of the Secretary of State of California; and

WHEREAS, The Governor of the State of California by virtue of the power and authority vested in him by Section Nine, Article Five of the Constitution of the State of California has convened the Legislature to meet and assemble in extraordinary session on Tuesday, the Nineteenth day of November, A. D. 1907, for the purpose among other things, of taking legislative action upon the four amendments to the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco hereinafter set forth; and WHEREAS, The said four amendments so ratified by the Electors of the City and County of San Francisco at said General Municipal Election are now submitted to the Legislature of the State of California for approval or rejection as a whole without power of alteration or amendment, in accordance with Section Eight of Article Eleven of the Constitution of the State of California, and are in words and figures as follows, to wit:

That Section 10 of Article XII of the Charter be amended to read as follows: SECTION 10. The bonds issued under the provisions of this article shall be of such form as the Supervisors in the ordinance calling the election there for shall determine; but such bonds shall be payable, interest and principal, in gold coin of the United States. The interest on such bonds shall not exceed 5 per cent per annum, and they shall be redeemed at such times and in such amounts as the

Supervisors shall determine, as set forth in the ordinance calling the special election; provided, that redemption of such bonds shall begin in not more than eighteen years and shall be completed in not more than seventy-five years from the date of the issue. The bonds so issued shall be exempt from all taxation for municipal purposes and shall be issued in denominations of not less than ten dollars and not more than one thousand dollars, and preference in the sale and allotment thereof shall be given to subscribers for the smallest amounts and the lowest denominations.

The Supervisors shall fix the times and places at which the payment of interest or principal may be made.

Such bonds when issued may be sold by the Supervisors from time to time, as required, and in such quantities as they may determine. When such bonds are offered for sale they shall be advertised in the official paper and otherwise if so ordered by the Supervisors and sealed proposals for the purchase of the whole or any part thereof offered shall be opened at the time specified in such advertisements. All proposals for the purchase of such bonds shall be accompanied by a deposit of 5 per cent of the amount bid in lawful money of the United States or by a deposit of a certified check payable to the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of the City and County for a like sum, provided that no deposit need exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars, and that no deposit need be given by the State of California, which money or check shall be forfeited by the bidder in case he fails to accept and pay for the bonds bid for by him if his bid is accepted. Bonds shall be sold to the highest bidder for not less than par, but the Supervisors shall have the right to reject any or all bids made for the purchase thereof. If less than the amount of bonds offered shall be sold, the Supervisors may, with the concurrence of fourteen members and the Mayor, place such unsold bonds on sale at the City Treasury, or at branches thereof established by the Treasurer for public convenience; and such bonds may be sold to any applicant at such prices as may be fixed by the Supervisors, provided that such prices shall not be less than par and accrued interest.

The proceeds of any sale of bonds shall be placed in the treasury to the credit of the proper fund, and shall be applied exclusively to the purposes and objects mentioned in the ordinance authorizing their issue until such objects are fully accomplished; after which, if any surplus remains, such surplus may be transferred to the general fund, except that if such surplus exceeds the sum of two thousand dollars, then such surplus and the whole thereof shall be transferred to the appropriate fund or funds to pay the interest and maintain the sinking fund or provide for the retirement of the bonded indebtedness in connection with which such surplus remains.

If the bonds or any of them offered for sale shall remain unsold the Supervisors may so declare, and may, with the concurrence of fourteen members and the Mayor, cancel such unsold bonds, provided that no bonds shall be canceled as aforesaid unless the same have been offered for sale by advertisement, as above provided, at least three separate times at intervals of not less than thirty days, and provided that no such bonds shall be canceled by the Supervisors as aforesaid for which par or above has been bid by any bona fide responsible bidder or bidders. The provisions of this section, regarding the cancellation of unsold bonds, shall apply to any bonds that have been heretofore issued or to any bonds that have been heretofore authorized by a vote of the electors of the City and County under this section or under Section 29 of Article XVI of this Charter, and that remain unsold after efforts to sell the same shall have been made as above provided.

Whenever the owner of any coupon bond, or of any bond payable to bearer, already issued or hereafter issued by the City and County shall present any such bond to the Treasurer with a request for the conversion of such bond into a registered bond, such Treasurer shall cut off and cancel the coupons of any such coupon bond so presented, and shall stamp, print or write upon such coupon bond or such other bond payable to bearer, so presented, either upon the back or upon the face thereof, as may be convenient, a statement to the effect that the said bond is registered in the name of the owner, and that thereafter the interest and principal of said bond are payable to the registered owner. Thereafter, and from time to time, any such bond may be transferred by such registered owner in person, or by attorney duly authorized on presentation of such bond to Treasurer, and the bond be again registered as before, a similar statement being stamped, printed or written thereon. Such statement stamped, printed or written upon any such bond may be in substantially the following form:

(Date-giving month, year and day.)

This bond is registered pursuant to Charter of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, in the name of (here insert name of owner),

and the interest and principal thereof are hereafter payable to such owner.

Treasurer.

After any bond shall have been registered as aforesaid, the principal and interest of such bond shall be payable to the registered owner. Such Treasurer shall keep in his office a book or books which shall, at all times, show what bonds are registered and in whose names, respectively.

That Section 12 of Article XII of the Charter be amended to read as follows:

SECTION 12. At the time of levying the municipal tax, and in the manner provided for such tax levy, the Supervisors shall levy and collect annually a tax sufficient to pay the annual interest on such bonds and also such part of the bonded municipal indebtedness as will fall due within the succeeding fiscal year, and as may be necessary to provide for the sinking fund payments of the next succeeding fiscal year; provided that when the interest and sinking fund payments for any fiscal year on the bonds issued for any public utility can be met out of the surplus earnings of such public utility for the preceding fiscal year, no tax shall be levied for such purpose. Such taxes shall be in addition to all other taxes levied for municipal purposes, and shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as other municipal taxes are collected.

That Section 29 of Article XVI of the Charter be amended to read as follows: SECTION 29. When the Supervisors shall determine that the public interest requires the acquisition of any land or lands or the construction or acquisition of any permanent building or buildings, improvement or improvements, the cost of which, in addition to the other expenses of the City and County, will exceed the income and revenue provided for the City and County for any one year, they must, by ordinance, submit a proposition or propositions to incur a bonded indebtedness for such purpose or purposes to the electors of the City and County at a special election to be held for that purpose only. All provisions of this Charter, as the same shall read at the. time of submitting such propositions to the electors, providing for the acquisition of public utilities, so far as the same are applicable, shall apply to the manner of submitting such proposition or propositions, to the issuance, character and registration of said bonds and to the time when, and the kind of money in which said bonded indebtedness shall be payable.

The proceeds of any sale of bonds shall be placed in the Treasury to the credit of the proper fund and shall be applied exclusively to the purposes and objects mentioned in the ordinance authorizing their issuance until such objects are fully accomplished, after which, if any surplus remains, such surplus may be transferred to the general fund, except that if such fund exceeds the sum of two thousand dollars then such surplus and the whole thereof shall be transferred to the appropriate fund or funds to pay the interest and maintain the sinking fund or provide for the retirement of the bonded indebtedness in connection with which such surplus remains. That Section 2 of Chapter III of Article IV of said. Charter be amended to read as follows:

SECTION 2. The Treasurer shall receive and safely keep all moneys which shall be paid into the treasury. Except as hereinafter provided, he shall not lend, exchange. use nor deposit the same, or any part thereof, to or with any bank, banker, or person; nor pay out any part of such moneys, nor allow the same to pass out of his personal custody, except upon demands authorized by law or this Charter, and after they shall have been approved by the Auditor. At the close of business each day, he shall take an account of and enter in the proper book the exact amount of money on hand. At the end of every month he shall make out and file with the Mayor and publish quarterly in the official newspaper a statement of the condition of the treasury, showing the amounts of receipts into and payments from the treasury, and on what account, and out of what fund. If he violate any of the provisions of this section, he shall be guilty of misconduct in office, and be liable to removal therefrom, and be proceeded against accordingly. He shall keep the accounts belonging to each fund separate and distinct, and shall in no case pay demands chargeable against one fund out of moneys belonging to another. He shall be in personal attendance at his office each day during office hours. No fees of any kind shall be retained by him, but the same, from whatever source received or derived, shall be paid by him into the treasury.

All moneys paid into the treasury of the City and County may be deposited by the Treasurer, upon the written consent of the Mayor, in any licensed national bank or banks, within this State, or in any bank, banks or corporations authorized and licensed to do a banking business, and organized under the laws of this State, provided that such bank or banks in which such moneys are deposited shall furnish as security for such deposits, bonds of the United States or of this State, or of any County, Municipality or School District within this State, approved by the Treasurer and the City Attorney. The market value of the bonds furnished as security, shall be at least 10 per cent in excess of the amount of the deposit secured thereby; but the amount of the deposit shall in no case exceed the face value of the bonds furnished as security therefor. And provided that such bank or banks shall pay a reasonable rate of interest, not less than 2 per cent per annum, on the daily balances therein deposited.

The rate of interest shall be fixed annually as herein provided in the month of January of each year on all deposits to be made for such year; provided, that the rate of interest for the year ending December 31st, 1907, may be fixed as herein provided within ten days after this section goes into effect. The rate of interest shall be fixed by the Treasurer, the Auditor and the Mayor, and the same reported in writing to the Board of Supervisors immediately. Said rate of interest shall be a reasonable rate and not less than 2 per cent per annum on the daily balances deposited; and the rate of interest so established for each year as herein provided,

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