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city council, and shall not, unless directed so to do by the city council oppose any legislation petitioned for by the preceding city council.

10. A committee on Ordinances, to consist of all the members of the council, to whom shall be referred all ordinances or orders concerning ordinances.

11. A committee on Parkman Fund, to consist of five members of the council, to whom shall be referred all matters concerning the Parkman property or the expenditure of the income from the Parkman Fund.

12. A committee on Printing, to consist of five members of the council, who shall have the charge of all printing, advertising or publishing ordered by the city council, as one of its contingent or incidental expenses, and the supply of all stationery or binding for the same purpose. The committee shall fix the number of copies to be printed of any document printed as above, the minimum, however, to be four hundred; and they shall have the right to make rules and regulations for the care, custody, and distribution of all documents, books, pamphlets and maps by the city messenger.

13. A committee on Public Lands, to consist of five members of the council, to whom shall be referred all matters relating to public lands.

14. A committee on Soldiers' Relief, to consist of five members of the council, who shall determine the amount of aid to be allowed to soldiers and sailors and their families and submit a schedule of the same to the city council monthly.

ORDER OF BUSINESS.

RULE 25. At every regular meeting of the council the order of business shall be as follows:

1. Communications from his Honor the Mayor.

2. Presentation of petitions, memorials and remonstrances.

3. Reports of city officers, etc.

4. Unfinished business of preceding meetings.

5. Reports of committees.

6. Motions, orders and resolutions.

SPECTATORS.

RULE 26. No person, except a member of the council, shall be permitted to occupy the seat of any member while the council is in session.

RULE 27. No person, excepting heads of departments, officials connected with the city council and reporters, shall be allowed in the anteroom or upon the floor of the council chamber while the council is in session. Spectators will be allowed in the gallery of the council chamber when the council is in session, and no one will be admitted to said gallery after the seats are occupied. The city messenger shall enforce this rule.

BURIAL GROUNDS.

RULE 28. No permission for the use of land for the purpose of burial shall be granted until a public hearing shall have been given by the city council, after due notice has been served upon abutters, on the application for such permission.

SMOKING IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER.

RULE 29. No smoking shall be allowed in the council chamber when the council is in session.

MEETINGS.

RULE 30. No meeting of any committee shall, without the consent of all the members thereof, be called upon less notice than twenty-four hours from the time the clerk shall have mailed the notices or despatched them by special messenger. No committee, unless authorized by an order of the city council, shall incur any expense. No committee meeting shall be called later than one hour immediately preceding the time set for any regular meeting of the city council, nor shall any committee remain in session later than the hour named for any such regular meeting.

FORM OF VOTES.

RULE 31. In all votes the form of expression shall be "Ordered' for everything by way of command, and the form shall be "Resolved" for everything expressing opinions, principles, facts, or purposes.

TRANSFERS.

RULE 32. Every application for an appropriation to be provided for by transfer shall be referred to the executive committee unless otherwise ordered, and no such appropriation shall be made until the said committee have reported thereon.

CONSIDERATION OF PETITIONS.

RULE 33. No petition, remonstrance, resolution or other communication submitted by any improvement association, civic society, club or other unincorporated organization, or its officers, shall be considered by the city council or printed in its proceedings unless such organization shall have filed with the city clerk a statement, sworn to by one of its officers, specifying the number of members in good standing, the time and place of meeting and a list of the officers for the current year.

AMENDMENT AND SUSPENSION.

RULE 34. The foregoing rules shall not be altered, amended, suspended or repealed at any time, except by the votes of two-thirds of the members of the city council present and voting thereon.

AMENDED CITY CHARTER OF 1909.

[With footnotes as to Amendments in 1910, 1912, 1914, 1918, 1919, 1921 and 1922.]

THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL.

SECTION 1. The terms of office of the mayor and the members of both branches of the present city council of the city of Boston and of the street commissioner whose term would expire on the first Monday of January, nineteen hundred and ten, are hereby extended to ten o'clock A.M. on the first Monday of February, nineteen hundred and ten, and at that time the said city council and both branches thereof and the positions of city messenger, clerk of the common council, clerk of committees, assistant clerk of committees, and their subordinates shall be abolished. The officials whose terms of office are hereby extended shall, for the extended term, receive a compensation equal to one-twelfth of the annual salaries now paid to them respectively. The mayor and city council elected in accordance with the provisions of this act, and their successors, shall thereafter have all the powers and privileges conferred, and be subject to all the duties and obligations imposed by law upon the city council or the board of aldermen, acting as such or as county commissioners or in any capacity, except as herein otherwise provided. Wherever in this act the phrase "mayor and city council" appears, it shall be understood as meaning the mayor and city council acting on and after the first Monday of February, nineteen hundred and ten, under the provisions of this and the three following sections. The city council may, subject to the approval of the mayor, from time to time establish such offices, other than that of city clerk, as it may deem necessary for the conduct of its affairs and at such salaries as it may determine, and abolish such offices or alter such salaries; and without such approval may fill the offices thus established and remove the incumbents at pleasure.

SECT. 2. The mayor from time to time may make to the city council in the form of an ordinance or loan order filed with the city clerk such recommendations other than for school purposes as he may deem to be for the welfare of the city. The city council shall consider each ordinance or loan order presented by the mayor and shall either adopt or reject the same within sixty days after the date when it is filed as aforesaid. If the said ordinance or loan order is not rejected within said sixty days it shall

NOTE.- The Amended City Charter is contained in Chap. 486, Acts of 1909, consisting of 63 sections. Secs. 35 to 44, inclusive, are omitted, as these concern the alternative amendments which became inoperative on the adoption of Plan 2 by the voters in the State election, November 2, 1909.

be in force as if adopted by the city council unless previously withdrawn by the mayor. Nothing herein shall prevent the mayor from again presenting an ordinance or loan order which has been rejected or withdrawn. The city council may originate an ordinance or loan order and may reduce or reject any item in any loan and, subject to the approval of the mayor, may amend an ordinance. All sales of land other than school lands, all appropriations for the purchase of land other than for school purposes, and all loans voted by the city council shall require a vote of two thirds of all the members of the city council; and shall be passed only after two separate readings and by two separate votes, the second of said readings and votes to be had not less than fourteen days after the first. No amendment increasing the amount of land to be sold or the amount to be paid for the purchase of land, or the amount of loans, or altering the disposition of purchase money or of the proceeds of loans shall be made at the time of the second reading and vote.

SECT. 3. All appropriations, other than for school purposes, to be met from taxes, revenue, or any source other than loans shall originate with the mayor, who within thirty days after the beginning of the fiscal year shall submit to the city council the annual budget of the current expenses of the city and county, and may submit thereafter supplementary budgets until such time as the tax rate for the year shall have been fixed. The city council may reduce or reject any item, but without the approval of the mayor shall not increase any item in, nor the total of a budget, nor add any item thereto, nor shall it originate a budget. It shall be the duty of the city and county officials, when requested by the mayor, to submit forthwith in such detail as he may require estimates for the next fiscal year of the expenditures of the department or office under their charge, which estimates shall be transmitted to the city council. The city auditor may, with the approval in each instance of the mayor, at any time make transfers from the appropriation for current expenses of one division of a department to the appropriation for current expenses of any other division of the same department, and from the reserve fund to any appropriation for the current expenses of a department; and may also, with the approval of the mayor, at any time between December first and February first, make transfers from any appropriation to any other appropriation: provided, however, that no money raised by loan shall be transferred to any appropriation from income or taxes. He may also with such approval apply any of the income and taxes not disposed of in closing the accounts for the financial year in such manner as he may determine.

SECT. 4. Every appropriation, ordinance, order, resolution and vote of the city council, except votes relating to its own internal affairs, shall be presented to the mayor, who shall make or cause to be made a written record of the time and place of presentation, and it shall be in force if he approves the same within fifteen days after it shall have been presented to him, or if the same is not returned by him with his objections thereto

in writing within said period of fifteen days. If within said period said appropriation, ordinance, order, resolution, or vote is returned by the mayor to the city council by filing the same with the city clerk with his objections thereto the same shall be void. If the same involves the expenditure of money, the mayor may approve some of the items in whole or in part and disapprove other of the items in whole or in part; and such items or parts of items as he approves shall be in force, and such items or parts of items as he disapproves shall be void.

SECT. 5. Except as otherwise provided in this act, the organization, powers, and duties of the executive departments of the city shall remain as constituted at the time when this section takes effect; but the mayor and city council at any time may by ordinance reorganize, consolidate, or abolish departments in whole or in part; transfer the duties, powers, and appropriations of one department to another in whole or in part; and establish new departments; and may increase, reduce, establish or abolish salaries of heads of departments, or members of boards. Nothing in this act shall authorize the abolition or the taking away of any of the powers or duties as established by law of the assessing department, building department, board of appeal, children's institutions department, election department, fire department, Franklin Foundation, hospital department, library department, overseers of the poor, schoolhouse department, school committee, or any department in charge of an official or officials appointed by the governor, nor the abolition of the health department.

SECT. 6. No contract for lighting the public streets, parks, or alleys, or for the collection, removal, or disposal of refuse, extending over a period of more than one year from the date thereof, shall be valid without the approval of the mayor and the city council after a public hearing held by the city council, of which at least seven days' notice shall have been given in the City Record.

SECT. 7. The city council at any time may request from the mayor specific information on any municipal matter within its jurisdiction, and may request his presence to answer written questions relating thereto at a meeting to be held not earlier than one week from the date of the receipt of said questions, in which case the mayor shall personally, or through a head of a department or a member of a board, attend such meeting and publicly answer all such questions. The person so attending shall not be obliged to answer questions relating to any other matter. The mayor at any time may attend and address the city council in person or through the head of a department, or a member of a board, upon such subject as he may desire.

SECT. 8. Neither the city council, nor any member or committee, officer, or employee thereof shall, except as otherwise provided in this act, directly or indirectly on behalf of the city or of the county of Suffolk take part in the employment of labor, the making of contracts, the purchase of materials, supplies or real estate; nor in the construc

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