the unexpired term of his predecessor. Any person sought to be removed may be a candidate to succeed himself; and unless he requests otherwise in writing, the Board of Election Commissioners shall place his name on the official ballot without nomination. In any such removal election, the candidate receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected. At such election, if some other person than the incumbent receive the highest number of votes, the incumbent shall thereupon be deemed removed from the office, upon qualification of his successor. In case the party who receives the highest number of votes should fail to qualify within ten days after receiving notification of his election, the office shall be deemed vacant. If the incumbent receives the highest number of votes, he shall continue in office. That Section 12 of Chapter I of Article III of said Charter be amended to read as follows:

SECTION 12. In making the apportionment the Supervisors shall take into account and apportion to the several funds the income and revenue estimated to arise during the fiscal year from licenses, fees, and other sources, but the income to pay the interest on the bonded indebtedness and to provide for the sinking funds shall always be provided for out of the tax on property, provided, that whenever any bonded indebtedness shall have been incurred for the acquisition of any of the public utilities named in Article XII of this Charter, the surplus earnings of any such utility for the fiscal year may be applied upon the interest and sinking fund of the bonded indebtedness of such utility for the succeeding fiscal year.

That Section 21 of Chapter I, of Article VI, of said Charter be amended to read as follows:

SECTION 21. All contracts shall be drawn under the supervision of the City Attorney, and shall contain detailed specifications of the work to be done, the manner in which it shall be executed, and the quality of the material to be used.

Every contract entered into by the board shall be signed by all the members thereof, and by the other contracting party. All contracts shall be signed in triplicate, one of which, with the specifications and drawings, if any, of the work to be done, and materials to be furnished, shall be filed with the Clerk of the Supervisors; one thereof, with said specifications and drawings, shall be kept in the office of the board, and the other, with said specifications and drawings, shall be delivered to the contractor.

At the same time with the execution of the contract, the contractor shall execute to the City and County and deliver to the secretary of the board a bond in the sum named in the notice for proposals, with two or more sufficient sureties to be approved by the board, or shall deposit with the secretary a certified check upon some solvent bank for said amount, for the faithful performance of the contract. No surety on any bond other than lawfully authorized surety companies shall be taken unless he shall be a payer of taxes on real property, not exempt from execution or subject to homestead claim, the assessed value of which, over and above all incumbrances, is equal in amount to his liabilities on all bonds on which he may be surety to the City and County, and each surety shall justify and make an affidavit (for which a form shall be printed upon said bond) signed by him, that he is assessed upon the last assessment book of the City and County in his own name, for real property, in an amount greater than his liability on all bonds on which he is surety to the City and County, and that the taxes on such property so assessed are not delinquent.

The contract shall specify the time within which the work shall be commenced, and when to be completed, as was specified in the notice inviting proposals therefor. Upon the recommendation of the Board, the Supervisors may extend said time, but in no event shall the time for the performance of said contract be extended by the Supervisors more than 90 days beyond the time originally fixed for its completion; but, on the unanimous recommendation of the Board of Public Works, a further extension may be granted by vote of fourteen members of the Board of Supervisors. In case of failure on the part of the contractor to complete his contract within the time fixed in the contract, or within such extension of said time as is herein provided, his contract shall be void, and the Supervisors shall not thereafter pay or allow to him any further compensation for any work done by him under said contract; and in the case of the improvement of streets, where the work is to be paid for by assessment levied upon real property, no assessment shall be made for the work done under said contract.

Any contract may provide for progressive payments if in the ordinance authorizing or ordering the work permission is given for such a contract. But no progressive payments can be provided for or made at any time which, with prior payments, if there have been such, shall exceed in amount at that time 75 per cent of the value of the labor done and materials furnished and used up to that time, and no contract shall provide for or authorize or permit the payment of more than 75 per cent of the contract price before the completion and acceptance by the proper officer or board of the work under said contract.

That Section 2 of Article V of said Charter be amended to read as follows: SECTION 2. The following officers shall respectively execute official bonds to the City and County, with sureties, in the following sums:

Mayor, twenty-five thousand dollars; Auditor, fifty thousand dollars; Treasurer, two hundred thousand dollars; Tax Collector, one hundred thousand dollars;

Assessor, fifty thousand dollars; County Clerk, fifty thousand dollars; Recorder, ten thousand dollars; Sheriff, fifty thousand dollars; Coroner, ten thousand dollars; City Attorney, ten thousand dollars; District Attorney, ten thousand dollars; Public Administrator, fifty thousand dollars; Superintendent of Public Schools, five thousand dollars; each Commissioner of Public Works, twenty-five thousand dollars; Clerk of the Supervisors, ten thousand dollars; each Supervisor, five thousand dollars; each School Director, five thousand dollars; each Fire Commissioner, ten thousand dollars; each Police Commissioner, five thousand dollars; each Election Commissioner, ten thousand dollars; Property Clerk of Police Department, ten thousand dollars; the Warrant and Bond Clerk, ten thousand dollars.

In all cases of elective officers, officers appointed by the Mayor, and officers whose bonds are fixed by the Charter, the premium or charge for such bonds shall be paid by the City and County; provided, however, that no premium or charge shall exceed one half of one per cent per annum on the amount of such bond.

That Section 8 of Chapter I of Article III, of said Charter be amended to read as follows:

SECTION 8. The Supervisors may appropriate $100,000 a year for urgent necessities not otherwise provided for by law. No money shall be paid out of this appropriation unless authorized by a five-sixths vote of all the members of the Board of Supervisors, and approved by the Mayor.

That three new sections be added to said Charter, to be known as Sections 14, 15 and 16 of Article XII thereof, to read as follows:

SECTION 14. The City and County shall have power to acquire, construct or complete any public utility from funds derived from taxes levied for that purpose, or from funds derived from the sale of bonds issued for that purpose, as is provided in this Charter, and may operate, maintain, sell or lease the same, subject to the other provisions and limitations of this Charter.

SECTION 15. The Supervisors shall have power, in the name and for the benefit of the City and County, to acquire by purchase or condemnation, subject to the conditions and limitations in this Charter and the general laws of the State prescribed, any lands situated within the State of California necessary for constructing or maintaining canals, aqueducts, reservoirs, tunnels, flumes, ditches, or pipes for conducting or storing water for the use of the City and County, or the inhabitants thereof.

SECTION 16. 1. Whenever any public utility shall be operated by the City and County, the receipts from such utility shall be paid daily into the city treasury and maintained in a special fund set aside for such utility. The Supervisors may, from time to time, make appropriations from such funds for the following purposes: (a) For the payment of the operating expenses of such utility;

(b) For repairs and reconstruction;

(c) For payment of interest and sinking fund on the bonds issued for the acquisition or construction of such utility; (d) For extensions and improvements; (e) For a reserve fund.

2. Whenever the reserve fund shall exceed one-half of the payment for operating expenses in the preceding fiscal year, the Supervisors shall have the power to appropriate such excess to the general fund.

3. The City and County, when owning any public utility, shall keep the books of account for such public utility distinct from other City and County accounts and in such manner as to show the true and complete financial results of such municipal ownership, or ownership and operation, as the case may be. Such accounts shall be so kept as to show the actual cost to the City and County of the public utility owned; all costs of maintenance, extension and improvement; all operating expenses of every description, and in case of such municipal operation the amounts set aside for sinking fund purposes. If any service shall be furnished for the use of such public utility without charge, the accounts shall show as nearly as possible the value of such service, and also the value of such similar service rendered by the public utility to any other municipal department without charge; such accounts shall also show reasonable allowances for interest, depreciation and insurance, and also estimates of the amount of taxes that would be chargeable against such property if owned by a private corporation. The Supervisors shall cause to be printed annually for public distribution a report showing the financial results, in form as aforesaid, of such municipal ownership and operation. The accounts of such public utility, kept as aforesaid, shall be examined at least once a year by an expert accountant, who shall report to the Supervisors the result of his examination. Such expert accountant shall be selected in such manner as the Supervisors may direct, and he shall receive for his services such compensation, to be paid out of the income or revenues from such public utility, as the Supervisors may prescribe.

That Chapter 2, Article II of said Charter be amended by adding thereto a new section to be known and numbered as "Section 9," and to read as follows:

SECTION 9. The City and County of San Francisco shall have power to sell all lands owned by the City and County between Ninth street and Eighteenth street lying in what was formerly Mission Creek, and any and all lands that may be hereafter acquired, excepting lands for parks, squares and children's playgrounds, and

the Board of Supervisors of said City and County may by ordinance determine that the public interest or necessity demands the sale of such lands, so owned or held by the City and County.

Such ordinance must describe the lands to be sold, and the terms of sale, which must be for cash in United States gold coin. The land may be sold in one parcel or in subdivisions, as the Supervisors may, in such ordinance, determine, and sales shall be made by the Mayor, as hereinafter provided.

Every such sale must be at public auction, unless the Supervisors shall, in and by such ordinance, determine that all or a portion of such lands shall be sold at private sale.

When a sale at public auction is to be had, the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors must give notice thereof by publishing the same in the official newspaper, and one other daily newspaper published in the City and County, at least three weeks successively next before the sale, which said notice shall describe the lands to be sold, with common certainty.

Such sales at public auction must be made in the City and County, and must be between the hours of 9 o'clock in the morning and 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and must be made on the day named in the notice of sale, unless the same is postponed. When it shall have been determined by the Supervisors, as hereinbefore provided, that the sale of such lands shall be at private sale, a notice shall be published in the official newspaper, and one other daily newspaper published in the City and County, for two weeks successively next before the day on or after which the sale is to be made, and the land and tenements to be sold must be described therein with common certainty. The notice must state a day on or after which the sale will be made, and must state that all bids or offers will be received by the Mayor of the City and County, at his office. The day last referred to must be at least fifteen days from the first publication of notice; and the sale must not be made before that day, but must be made within six months thereafter. The bids or offers must be in writing, and must be filed with the Mayor, at his office.

No sale of real estate at private sale shall be confirmed by the Supervisors as hereinafter provided, unless the sum offered shall be at least 90 per cent of the appraised value thereof, to be fixed and determined as next hereinafter provided.

An appraisement of such lands shall be made and filed with the Supervisors, within three weeks after the final passage of the ordinance herein before mentioned, by the Mayor, the Assessor, and the chairman of the Finance Committee of the Supervisors, who are hereby constituted a board of appraisement for such purpose. When a sale shall have been made by the Mayor, at public auction or at private sale, as herein before provided, he shall require from the person to whom the property is sold a deposit amounting to 10 per cent of the sum bid. He shall immediately thereafter, at the next meeting of the Supervisors, report the fact of such sale to the Supervisors, with a statement of the sum bid, and the name of the bidder, with a request that the Board confirm such sale.

The Clerk of the Supervisors shall immediately thereupon give notice by publication in the official newspaper, and one other daily newspaper published in the City and County, that at a meeting of the Supervisors, to be held not less than twenty, nor more than thirty days, from the first publication of such notice, that such sale has been made, the amount for which the property has been sold, and the name of the purchaser. Such notice shall also contain a statement that at such meeting, if an offer of 10 per cent more in amount than that named in said notice shall be made to the Supervisors, in writing, by a responsible person, the Supervisors will confirm such sale to such person, or order a new sale, as hereinafter provided.

At such meeting, if it appears to the Supervisors that the sum bid is not disproportionate to the value of the property sold, and that a greater sum cannot be obtained, or if an increased bid, as hereinbefore mentioned, be made and accepted the Board of Supervisors may, by an ordinance, passed by an affirmative vote, of at least fifteen of its members, confirm such sale, and direct conveyances to be executed by the Mayor. A certified copy of such ordinance shall be recorded in the County Recorder's office in the County in which the property is situated.

The Board of Supervisors may, in its discretion, confirm or refuse to confirm any sale.

In the event of the refusal of the Board of Supervisors to confirm the sale, all proceedings taken as hereinbefore provided, for the sale of the lands shall be void and of no effect.

If the sale is confirmed by the Board of Supervisors, conveyances must thereupon be made by the Mayor to the person to whom the sale shall have been so confirmed, and shall be delivered to him upon payment of the balance of the purchase price. Such conveyances shall be in the name of the City and County, and shall be effective to convey all the right, title and interest of the City and County in and to the lands therein described, to the grantee therein named.

That Section 20 of Chapter III of Article VI of said Charter, providing for the change or modification of street grades, be repealed.

That a new Chapter be added to Article VI of said Charter, to be known and designated as Chapter VI of said article, said Chapter to read as follows:

CHAPTER VI.

RELATING TO THE MODIFICATION OR CHANGE OF STREET GRADES AND THE PERFORMANCE OF STREET WORK IN CONNECTION THEREWITH.

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors is hereby empowered, on the written recommendation of the Board of Public Works, to change or modify the grade of any public street, avenue, lane, alley, place or court to the grade set out in such recommendation, and to regrade, repave, sewer, sidewalk, curb or otherwise improve the same, so as to conform to such change or modified grade in the manner as hereinafter provided. Before any change of grade is attempted, the Board of Supervisors shall pass a resolution of intention to make such change or modification of grade, and it shall in the same resolution, when regrading, repaving, sidewalking, sewering, curbing or other improvement on such street or streets is contemplated in connection therewith, define and establish the district benefited and to be assessed for the payment of damages and for the expense of regrading, repaving, sewering, sidewalking, curbing, or otherwise improving such street or streets so as to conform with such change or modified grade; and it shall have power at the same time and in the same resolution to provide for the actual cost of performing the work of regrading, repaving, sewering, sidewalking, curbing or otherwise improving such street or streets or portion or portions thereof with the same or other material with which it was formerly graded, paved, sewered, sidewalked, curbed or otherwise improved, briefly describing the work to be done and providing that the cost of the same shall also be assessed upon the same district which is declared to be benefited by such change or modified grade. When a change or modification of grade or grades is proposed to be made upon a street, avenue, alley, lane, court or place, which has already been sewered, paved, curbed or graded, no such change or modification of such grade or grades shall be made unless provision shall also be made for the resewering, repaving, recurbing or regrading of such street, avenue, alley, lane, court or place. One or more streets or blocks of streets may be embraced in the same resolution. Such resolution shall be published in the official newspaper. Such publication shall be made for ten days, and shall describe the proposed change or modification of grade, and when such resolution contemplates such work it shall describe the regrading, repaving, sewering, sidewalking, curbing or other improvement so contemplated, and shall set forth and describe the district to be benefited by such change or modification of grade or regrading, repaving, sewering, sidewalking, curbing or other improvement, and to be assessed for the damages and cost of making the same. Within ten days after the first publication of the resolution of intention the Board of Public Works shall cause to be conspicuously posted along all streets within the district defined in the resolution, or, when no such district is defined, along the street or streets upon which such change or modification of grade or grades is contemplated, notice of the passage of said resolution. Said notices shall be posted, not more than one hundred feet apart and shall be headed "Notice of Grade Change" or "Notice of Grade Change and Street Work," as the case may be, in letters not less than two inches in length, and shall, in legible characters, state the fact of the passage of the resolution, its date, the fact of the proposed grade change, and, if any, briefly the work or improvement proposed, and refer to the resolution for further particulars. When no improvements are provided for in connection with the said change or changes of grade or grades, if no protest of the owners of two-thirds of the property fronting on the street or streets, the grade or grades of which is to be changed or modified, shall be filed with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors within forty days from the first publication of the resolution of intention hereinbefore mentioned, the Board of Supervisors shall have power to declare such grade or grades to be changed or modified and established, in conformity with said resolution; and when such improvement or improvements are contemplated in connection with such change, or changes of grade or grades, if no protest of the owners of a majority of the superficial area of the property included within the assessment district defined in said resolution of intention shall be filed with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors within forty days from the first publication of said resolution herein before mentioned, the Board of Supervisors shall also have the power to order any of the work contemplated therein to be done, and such street or streets to be regraded, repaved, sewered, sidewalked, curbed or otherwise improved in conformity therewith.

SECTION 2. In case the resolution of intention provides for regrading, repaving, sewering, sidewalking, curbing or otherwise improving said street or streets, to said changed or modified grade, any person owning property fronting upon said portions of the street or streets where such street work is to be done, may file a petition with the Board of Public Works within sixty days after the first publication of said resolution of intention, showing the fact of such ownership, a description and situation of the property claimed to be damaged, its market value, and the estimated amount of damages over and above all benefits which the property would sustain by the proposed change if completed. Such petition shall be verified by the oath of the petitioner or his agent. A failure so to petition shall be deemed and treated as a waiver of any claim for such damage or damages, and said resolution of intention shall so declare.

SECTION 3. Whenever such petition or petitions have been filed, the Board of Public Works shall estimate and assess the benefits, damages and costs of the

proposed work or improvement upon each separate lot of land situated within such assessment district as said lot appears of record upon the last City and County assessment roll.

SECTION 4. The Board of Public Works shall have power to subpoena witnesses to appear before them to be examined under oath, which any member of the Board of Public Works is authorized to administer.

SECTION 5. The Board of Public Works having determined the damages which would be sustained by each petitioner, in excess of all benefits, shall proceed to assess the total amount thereof, together with the costs, charges and expenses of the proceedings, upon the several lots of land benefited within the district of assessment, so that each of the lots shall be assessed in accordance with its benefits caused by such work or improvements.

SECTION 6. The Board of Public Works shall make their report in writing, and shall subscribe to and file the same with the Board of Supervisors. In such report they shall describe separately each piece of property which will sustain damage and for which damages have not been waived, stating the name of the owner, if known, and the amount of damages each will sustain over and above all benefits. They shall also describe separately each lot benefited within said assessment district, the name of the owner, if known, and the amount of benefits in excess of the damages assessed against the same. In describing the lots to be assessed, reference may be had to a diagram of the property in such assessment district, such diagram to be attached to and made a part of the report of the Board of Public Works. If in any case the Board of Public Works shall find that conflicting claims of title exist, or shall be in ignorance or doubt of the ownership of any lot of land, or anv improvement thereon, or any interest therein, it shall be set down as belonging to unknown owners. Error in designation of the owner or owners of any land or improvement or particulars of their interest, shall not affect the validity of the assessment.

SECTION 7. On the filing of said report, the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors shall give notice of such filing by the publication of a notice for at least ten days in the official newspaper. Said notice shall require all persons interested to show cause, if any they have, before the Board of Supervisors, on a day to be fixed by the said Board and stated in said notice, which day shall not be less than twenty days from the first publication thereof, why such report should not be confirmed. SECTION 8. All objections filed in response to said notice to show cause shall be in writing and filed with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, who shall, at the next meeting after the date fixed in the notice to show cause, lay the said objections, if any, before the Board of Supervisors, which shall fix a time not less than fifteen days thereafter for hearing the same, of which time the Clerk shall notify the objectors by notice published in the official newspaper for a period of five days and by depositing a notice, postage prepaid, in the United States postoffice at San Francisco, addressed to each objector at his last known place of residence, at least ten days before the date of such hearing. At the time set, or at such other time to which the hearing may be adjourned, the Board of Supervisors shall hear such objections and pass upon them, and at such time shall proceed to pass upon such report and may confirm, correct or modify the same, or may order the Board of Public Works to make a new assessment, report and plat, which shall be filed, notice given and had, as in the case of the original report.

SECTION 9. After the report of the Board of Public Works as.to the_damages caused by such change of grade has been finally passed upon by the Board of Supervisors, such Board of Public Works shall prepare detailed plans and specifications subject to the approval of the Board of Supervisors, for regrading, `paving, sewering, sidewalking, curbing or otherwise improving such street or streets as set forth in said resolution of intention and shall then advertise for bids to perform the work of regrading, repaving, sewering, sidewalking, curbing or otherwise improving such street or streets, as the case may be, with the same or other material with which the same have been formerly graded, paved, sewered, sidewalked, curbed or otherwise improved; first causing a notice, with such specifications to be posted conspicuously for fifteen days in or near the office of the Board of Public Works, inviting sealed proposals or bids for doing such work, and shall also cause notice of said work, inviting said proposals and referring to the specifications posted and already on file, to be published five days in the official newspaper. All proposals or bids offered shall be accompanied by a check payable to the order of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, and certified by a responsible bank for an amount which shall not be less than ten per cent of the aggregate of the proposal, or by a bond for said amount, signed by the bidder and two sureties, who shall justify under oath in double said amount over and above all the statutory exemptions. Said proposals or bids shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Board of Public Works, and said Board of Public Works shall, in open session, examine and declare the same; provided, however, that no proposal or bid shall be received unless accompanied by a check or a bond satisfactory to the Board of Public Works. The Board of Public Works may reject any or all bids and may award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder, or may readvertise for proposals or bids for the performance of the work, as in the first instance, and thereafter proceed in the manner in this section provided; all checks accompanying bids shall be held by the Secretary of the Board of Public Works until the successful bidder has entered into a contract