INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. ((1) per cent of the assessed valuation of all taxable property in whole or in part by the City Council, except the salary or CHAPTER VII. in the City, which shall be made by the City Council at the wages of an employee or officer of the city, until five days POWERS AND DUTIES OF CITY COUNCIL time of levying taxes for other purposes. after the allowance thereof, within which time any five taxpayers Legislative Power Vested in City Council.—Section 1 The There shall also be placed in such fund any and all amounts of the city may appeal from such allowance to the District legislative power and authority of the City shall be vested in of taxes collected to pay the interest on the bonds of the City Court of the County. DO the City Council, composed of the Aldermen of such Citv as in excess of the amount of such interest, if any there be. To effect such appeal they shall pay to the Clerk a fee of herein provided. There may also be placed in said fund moneys set aside in fifty cents, and serve upon him a notice setting forth the fact Organization—Section 2. The City Council shall, on the accordance with the fifth and final provision of Section 18, of the appeal, the claim referred to, and the amount and date nrst Monday of the month next following the first election Chapter 7 of this Charter. of its allowance, and thereafter no order shall issue until the under this charter, and thereafter, biennially, on the second Sinking Fund Commissioners.—3rd. The Mayor, Clerk and appeal is determined. luesday after the first Monday in April next succeeding the Treasurer shall constitute a board of Sinking Fund Commissioners, The Clerk shall forthwith file the copy of notice served, regular municipal election, organize and proceed to elect from and the City Council shall define such of their duties and transmit to the Clerk of said Court the original affidavit their own number a Vice-President for the ensuing two years, as are not herein enumerated. and claim, with a certified copy of the minutes of all Council and such other officers as may be necessary for the transaction Such commissioners shall have charge of such sinking fund, proceedings relating thereto. of its business. Such election shall be by ballot, and and by and with the consent of the City Council may invest rma^^ve vo*-e majority of all the members elect Upon proof being filed with said Clerk of the service of said the same in the bonds and certificates of the City and such shall be necessary to elect. O notice, the Court shall have jurisdiction of said claim, and of other bonds as are permitted for the investment of the permanent Duties of President.—Section 3. The President, and in the parties thereto. Such appeal shall be tried and determined school fund of the State of Minnesota, and in the bonds of case oi the absence of the President, the Vice-President, shall in the same manner as appeals from a decision of the any City in the State of Minnesota, and in such County, school preside over the meetings of the City Council, and shall sign 3 County Board. and village bonds in the State of Minnesota as may be approved all ordinances passed by the City Council, and during the by the Citv Council, and not otherwise. Provided, That whenever the City Council of the City shall absence of the Mayor from the city, or his inability for anv 4th. In case of investment in the bonds or certificates of refuse to pay the claim of any person against the City for v# (A reason to discharge the duties of his office, shall have and the city such bonds or certificates shall not be cancelled before anything except the salary or wages of an employee or officer e^e?iC\Se Powers and duties of Mavor, under the stvle the maturity thereof, but shall be held by said commissioners, thereof, such person may appeal from such decision to the of Acting Mayor." The acts of such Acting Mayor shall and the interest thereon paid over and applied to the increase District Court of Koochiching County, Minnesota, by causing TC *orce and effect as if performed by the Mayor same of such sinking fund. a written notice of such appeal to be filed in the office of the Rules and Special Meetings.—Section 4. The Citv Councii 5th. Whenever the principal of any bonds or certificates of Clerk of said Court, after having served such notice upon the shall prescribe rules for its own guidance and the time for its the city shall become due such commissioners shall, by and City Attorney of said City such service and filing to be made regular meetings, and provide for the calling of special meetings. with the consent of the city council, dispose of such of the within fifteen days after the City Council has rejected or refused No business shall be transacted at a special meeting bonds or certificates belonging to such funds as, with the to pay such claim, and like proceedings shall be had ft) unless the same shall have been specified in the call therefor'. money on hand belonging to the same, shall be necessary to therein as are herein provided for in case of an appeal from Quorum. Section 5. A majority of the members shall constitute pay such bonds or certificates. the allowance of a bill by the City Council, except that in this a quorum, but less than a majority may adjourn from 6th. Whenever the amount of such sinking fund shall, with instance the person aggrieved and not the taxpayers mentioned time to time, and a minority as well as a majority may compel "D the interest or revenue thereof computed to the time of the in this section shall take the initial steps and cause said notice the attendance of absent members. maturity of the bonds of the city, be sufficient to pay all of of appeal to be served upon the City Attorney. Canvassing Votes.—Section 6. The City Council shall have 0) said bonds at the maturity thereof, the levy of the one (1) mill power to, and it shall, canvass the returns of votes cast at CHAPTER VI. above provided for shall be omitted, but in case, by reason of all city elections and declare the results thereof, and shall be decrease of interest or depreciation of investment or other the judge of the election and qualifications of its own members. CITY CLERK—DUTIES. cause, such fund shall become insufficient, said levy shall be resumed. Ordinances and Resolutions.—Section 7. Every legislative Election, Qualification and Duties.—Section 1. The City 7th. In case the sinking fund commissioners, or other city act of the City Council shall be by ordinance. The style of Clerk shall keep the corporate seal and all the papers and officers, shall violate or neglect to perform any of the provisions 3 all ordinances shall be: "1 he City Council of the City of records of the city, and keep a record of the proceedings of of this section, any taxpayer of the city or any owner Intel national Palls do ordain as follows. No ordinance, of any of its bonds shall have the right to maintain, in any the City Council, at whose meetings it shall be his duty to except for general appropriations, shall contain more than be present, and of all boards of which he is a member. The court of competent jurisdiction, any proper action to enforce one subject, which shall be expressed in its title, nor shall any City Clerk shall have power to take acknowledgments, administer compliance therewith. ordinance be amended after its introduction so as to change oaths and affirmations, and copies of all papers filed in The substantial maintenance of the provisions of this and its original purpose. the preceding section for the payment of the principal and his office and transcripts of any records in his office certified Readings of an Ordinance.—Section 8. No ordinance shall interest of the bonds cxf the city is hereby declared to be part to by him under the corporate seal shall be evidence in all be introduced except at a regular meeting, at which meeting of the contract with the holder of any bonds or certificates of courts in like manner as if the originals were produced by it shall have its first reading. Its second reading shall be indebtedness of the cityr that may "hereafter be issued, and the Clerk at the trial. He shall perform all other services by 3 had at subsequent regular or adjourned regular meetings shall be kept inviolate. law required of clerks of cities and townships in this state, and occurring not less than one (1) week after its first reading, and 8th. Whenever such sinking fund shall be insufficient to when services are required of him by public law for which such ordinance shall not be amended after the meeting at compensation is provided, such services shall not be regarded pay all the bonds of the city that may at any time become which it receives its second reading. It shall receive its third due, or when it shall by the city council be deemed advisable as services for the city, and he may retain such compensation leading and be passed only at a regular or adjourned regular and for the interest of the city to take up any outstanding in addition to the salary paid to him by the City. meeting occurring' at least one (1) week subsequent to the bonds of the city not due, which may be offered for sale by c/ Warrant Accounts.—Section 2. Pie shall keep accounts of time at which the second reading was had. the holders thereof, the city council may issue the bonds of warrants drawn on the Treasurer in separate books, and shall Passage of Ordinances and Resolutions.—Section 9. Every the city, to run not to exceed thirty (30) years, on such terms note thereon the cancellation thereof whenever the same ordinance, except as in this charter otherwise provided, shall as to place of payment and rate of interest as may be deemed shall be cancelled, and shall keep such other books and records be passed by a majority vote of the members of the City advisable, to such an amount as may be necessary to meet as shall be necessary for the preservation of the accounts of Council, taken by yeas and nays, which shall be entered upon such deficiency, or to take up and refund such bonds not due: the transactions and business of the city, and all books, lists its journal. It shall then forthwith, before it takes effect, Provided, That the refunding bonds shall in no case draw a and records heretofore kept, or which shall be kept in the be presented to the Mayor for his approval as herein provided. higher rate of interest than the bonds so taken up. City Clerk's office, and copies thereof by him certified shall Every ordinance shall be published once in the official Board of Tax Levy.—Section 9. There shall be a ISoard of be competent evidence of all matters shown by them. newspaper of the City before it takes effect. No vote of Tax Levy in and for the City of International Falls which shall the City Council shall be reconsidered or rescinded at a subsequent -S Keep Accounts.—Section 3. He shall keep accounts with consist of the Mayor, Clerk and President of the City Council. meeting unless at a such a meeting there are present the City Treasurer and all other receiving or disbursing officers Should any of said board be absent or for any reason unable as laige a numbei of its members as were present when said ft) of said city in such accounts he shall charge such officers to act the City Council shall name from among their members vote was taken. with all amounts received by them from all sources of revenue a member to act on such board during such absence or disability. The proof of such publication of ordinances by the affidavit and with all City property in their hands or control, as of the foreman of or one of the publishers of such newspaper, such officers, and credit them with all amounts disbursed, or Said Board of Tax Levy shall meet at the office of the with the printed copy of the ordinances annexed thereto, or property disposed of on proper authority, and with all money Mayor on the second Tuesday of September of each year, and any other competent proof of such publication, shall be prima or property turned over to the City or to their successors in may adjourn from time to time as may be necessary, but not facie evidence of the legal passage, enactment, publication and office. later than the first Tuesday in October. A majority vote of promulgation of such ordinance, in any court in this state. said board shall decide all questions coming before said board. Countersigned Bonds, Etc.—Section 4. He shall countersign All ordinances shall be recorded, by the City Clerk, in books The said board shall consider, determine and fix a maximum all bonds, warrants or other evidences of indebtedness of We are Exclusive to be provided for that purpose. rate of taxation for the various purposes for which the city the City and no such bond, order, certificate or other evidence Agents for the In all actions, prosecutions and proceedings of every kind council of said city is authorized to levy taxes for such year, of indebtedness shall be valid until so countersigned. following lines: before the Municipal Court in this City, such Court shall take and it shall be the duty of said board to reduce the maximum STEIN BLOCK To Examine Accounts of Other Officers.—Section 5. He judicial notice of all ordinances of the City, and it shall not rate of taxation for the various purposes to the lowest practical and shall examine the reports, books, papers and vouchers of the be necessary to plead or prove such ordinances in such Court. limit. KUl'PENil EIMER, Treasurer and of other receiving and disbursing officers, and The City Clerk shall, on or before the first Tuesday in October Contracts Awarded—Warrants Drawn.—Section 10. In all Clothes perform such other duties pertaining to his office as the City in each year certify and transmit to the City Council the matters, except those provided for in Section 27 of this chapter The clothes that Council may prescribe, and it shall be the duty of the City maximum rate of taxation for the various purposes for which and any other cases mentioned in this Charter in which action built our Clerk to make a report of the financial conditions of the City said council is authorized to levy taxes, as fixed and determined is required to be by ordinance, the City Council may act bv REPUTATION to the City Council at any time the same may be required by by said board of tax levy, and no taxes shall be levied resolution in writing, or in cases in which it is not otherwise the City Council. for said year by said council in excess of the maximum rate so provided in this Charter the City Council may act by mere To Report Financial Condition to the City Council.—Section fixed and determined by said board. motion to be entered on the minutes: provided, however, that WALK-OVER 6. He shall, within two weeks before the close of each fiscal Report of Estimates.—Section 10. The City Clerk shall, at every appropriation to the amount of five hundred ($500.00) and year, report to the City Council the financial condition of the the time of the certifying of the report of the board of tax levy, dollars or more to be paid to any one person, firm or corporation SHAROOD City, and shall at the end of each fiscal year, or within two as above provided, report to the City Council an estimate of (exclusive of salaries and compensation of officers and shoes are weeks thereafter, make out and cause to be published in the the current expenses of the city for the fiscal year commencing employees of said city, and bond interest and other fixed Honest Made official paper of the city, a summary and detailed statement on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of April next charges, or sums heretofore authorized or contracted to be Shoes showing the financial condition of the City, the amount of ensuing, together with a statement of the amount of all revenues paid, which sums, including the pay-roll of City officers or moneys received for the year, and from what sources, and received by the city for the then current year. employees whose salaries or compensation have been fixed Inlaw Annual Tax Levy.—Section 11. The City Council shall, on also the amount disbursed and for what purpose. or resolution, may be passed and warrants ordered hereunder, To Countersign All Contracts.—Section 7. He shall countersign or before the 10th day of October of each year, upon the coming R. E. Z. Shoes by motion as provided in section fourteen (14) of chapter in of the said reports of the board of tax levy, and the City all contracts made in behalf of said City, and no such E. Z. to Walk in five (5) of this charter), and the letting of any job of work, Clerk, levy an annual tax upon all property in such city, taxable contract shall be valid for any purpose until so countersigned, for solid comfort or the authorizing of any contract or purchase, involving an under the laws of this state, for the purpose of defraying and he shall be the custodian of all such contracts. He shall expenditure from the City Treasurer of five hundred ($500.00) any styles and paying all the expenses, obligations and liabilities existing keep a book in which he shall record all contracts, which shall dollars or more, and any provision for the sale of any real be open to the inspection of all parties interested. or authorized by this charter, and the levy so made as estate of the City, or of any of its personal property of the aforesaid, shall be reported by the City Clerk forthwith to the Auditing and Adjusting Claims.—Section 8. It shall be the value of five hundred ($500.00) dollars or more, and everv DOROTHY duty of the City Clerk to draw all warrants on the City Treasurer County Auditor of Koochiching county, and shall be entered determination to make any improvement the expense whereoi DODD for all claims and accounts against the City audited and upon the tax duplicate of said County and collected annually is to be assessed upon abutting property or property found to ana in like manner as County and State taxes are collected. allowed by the City Council, and to designate and specify be benefited, or to take private property for public use, and SOROSIS Limit of Debt or Liability.—Section 12. Neither the City upon each claim and account so audited and adjusted the every determination to issue bonds of the City or in any wav for particular fund out of which the same shall be paid. Council nor any officer thereof shall, except as in this charter to contract indebtedness exceeding five hundred ($500.00) dollars LADIES provided, have authority to issue any bonds or create any debt Supervision of Official Publications.—Section 9. The City (except as herein otherwise provided) shall be by ordinance. Clerk shall have the supervision of all printing and official or liability against said city in excess of the amount of revenue publications ordered by the City Council. He shall cause to actually levied and applicable to the payment of such Every ordinance whatever, such as is mentioned in the proviso You will be happy liability. be published in the official paper the minutes of all proceedings of this section, which may be passed by the Council, shall of the City Council as soon after each meeting as practicable. if you ask for the Money—How Paid Out—City Orders.—Section 13. All be signed by the President of the Council and attested by the BURTON moneys belonging to the city, except as otherwise provided in Clerk. SPECIAL this Charter, shall be under the control of the City Council and Assistants.—Section 10. The City Clerk shall have power Majority Vote Required.—Section 11. Every ordinance Hat. That's it. shall be paid out only upon order of the Mayor, countersigned to appoint a Deputy City Clerk, who shall hold his office appropriating money or creating any liability (or for the by the Clerk, duly authorized by virtue of a resolution of the during the pleasure of the City Clerk, and shall have authority issuance of certificates of indebtedness in anticipation of tax City Council, by an affirmative vote of a majority of the whole under the direction of the City Clerk to perform all the duties or assessment levies), awarding or approving any contract for of the City Clerk. The City Clerk shall be responsible for number of the City Council. The Lion Brand the payment of money, except as provided in Section 14, the acts of his deputy and shall compensate such deputy for Provided, That all sums of money due or to become due of $1.00 Shirts for Chapter 5, hereof, ordering any condemnation of private property, his services and the City Clerk is hereby authorized to require upon monthly payrolls, or as salaries for compensation of city Rich and Poor or the making of any local improvements, shall require his said deputy to give a bond to the said City Clerk conditioned officers and employees regularly elected or appointed and a majority vote of all the members of the City Council. for the faithful performance of the duties of his office. receiving a fixed salary or compensation, and all sums due or Issuance of Bonds, Etc.—Section 12. Any ordinance Additional Services.—Section 11. It shall be the duty of to become due for interest on bonds and other fixed charges, The best ever in authorizing the issuance of any bonds of the City shall require the City Clerk to perform such services, additional to those may be allowed and ordered paid on mere motion duly carried Collars, such as the affirmative vote of a majority of all the members of the above prescribed, as may be incidental to his office, or required by an affirmative vote of a majority of all the members will keep you cool City Council. elsewhere in this charter, or by city ordinance, or by direction present. and comfortable, of the City Council, and to discharge such other duties in Provided, however, that before such bonds shall be issued Every order drawn upon the Treasurer shall designate the the well known connection with the finances of the City as are, or may be, the question shall be submitted for ratification to the electors specific purpose for which it is drawn, and the fund upon Corliss & Coon required of him by this charter, by the City Council, or by of the City at the next regular City election, or at a special which drawn, and shall be payable only out of such fund belonging collar, 2 for 25c. the general laws of the State applicable to this City. election called for that purpose, the form of ballot to be used to the city as is named in the resolution providing for at -which shall be prescribed by the City Council. If twothirds Bond.—Section 12. The City Clerk, before entering upon its payment, if same is authorized by resolution. of all the electors voting upon such question shall vote the duties of his office, shall execute a surety company bond Each order shall be payable to the order of the person in in favor of the issuance of such bonds, then said ordinance LOOK FOR to the City in an amount to be determined by the City Council, whose favor it is drawn and may be transferred by endorsement. not less than five hundred ($f00.00) dollars, conditioned for shall take effect and be in force, otherwise the same shall become BURTON'S null and void. the faithful performance of the duties of his office. Such bond Taxpayers and Claimant's Appeal.—Section 14. No order shall be subject to the approval of the City Council, and the Provided, however, that upon the petition of twenty-five shall be issued or signed for the payment of any claim allowed premium on said bond shall be paid out of the City Treasury. per-cent of all the electors voting at the last preceding elec-