Municipal election.

Notice of election.

ment of mu

shall be conducted, and returns thereof made to the county or town clerk, as provided by the law regulating state, county and town elections. And whenever at any election it shall appear that there have been more than six hundred votes polled in any election precinct, it is hereby made the duty of the common council, at least two months before the recurrence of another election, to divide such precinct into two or more districts, and appoint places for holding elections therein.

SEC. 3. The municipal election in said city shall be held on the third Tuesday of April in each year, at which time there shall be elected by the qualified voters of said city, all officers to be elected at the general municipal election. Six days' previous public notice of said election shall be given by the city clerk, by publication in one or more newspapers published in said city, and no special election shall be hereafter held in said city, for the election of city officers, except as in this act provided.

Commence- SEC. 4. The municipal officers to be chosen at the nicipal year. annual election, shall enter upon the duties of their respective offices on the first Monday of May succeeding their election.

Officers

elected by

SEC. 5. The mayor, city attorney, treasurer, collector, the people. clerk of the police court, and chief and first and second

Officers elected by wards.

Aldermen elected for

assistant engineers of the fire department, shall be elected by the people, and shall hold their respective offices for the term of two years, and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. The person having the highest number of votes cast in the whole city for either of such offices, shall be declared elected.

(Provision for election of engineers superseded, Sec. 35, post, 199.)

SEC. 6. At the annual municipal election, the electors in their respective wards shall vote for one alderman and one constable, and the persons receiving the highest number of votes cast in the ward for such offices respectively, shall be declared elected.

SEC. 7. The several wards of the city shall be respectwo years. tively represented in the common council by two aldermen, who shall be residents thereof, and who shall, except as

into classes.

herein otherwise provided, hold their offices respectively for two years from and after the first Monday in May next succeeding their election. They shall be divided into two Divided classes, each class consisting of one alderman from each ward. The seats of the first class shall be vacated at the end of the first year, and of the second class at the expiration of the second year, so that one alderman from each ward may be annually elected. In all cases where two aldermen are to be chosen from the same ward at any annual election, the alderman having the highest number of votes shall be declared elected for two years, and the candidate having the next highest number of votes, for one year; and in case of the two successful candidates having an equal number of votes, the term of service to which they shall be respectively entitled, shall be determined by the casting of lots in the presence of the common council, and the result shall be entered upon their proceedings. If any alderman Vacancies, remove from the ward represented by him, or shall engage and filled. or continue in any service, business or employment causing a continuous absence from the city for more than four months, his office shall thereby become vacant; and whenever any vacancy shall occur in the office of any alderman, the common council shall, within ten days after the happening of such vacancy, order a new election, provided that more than six months of the term shall then remain unexpired.

how created

decided.

SEC. 8. Whenever there shall fail to be an election of A tie, how any officer voted for by the people, in consequence of two or more candidates receiving the highest and an equal number of votes for the same office, the election shall be determined by the casting of lots in the presence of the common council, and the result shall be entered upon their proceedings.

public

board of

constituted.

SEC. 9. The board of public works and the board of Board of police shall each consist of three commissioners, in addition works and to the mayor, who shall be chosen by the people, one from police, how the north, one from the south, and one from the west divisions of said city. The person having the highest number of votes in the whole city for either of such offices shall be declared elected. Said commissioners, when elected, shall

Term of office.

hold their office, the commissioners of the board of public works for the term of six years, and the police commissioners for the term of three years, and until the election and qualification of their successors. The term of office of one commissioner of each board shall expire every year and every second year respectively, so that one commissioner shall be elected to the board of police every year and to the board of public works every second year from the division of the city in which the commissioner resides whose Vacancies, term of office expires. Should a vacancy occur, it shall be filled by appointment by the mayor, with the advice and consent of the common council of said city, until the next regular city election, when the qualified voters of said city may, as in other cases, fill such vacancy by an election of a successor, who shall hold his office for the unexpired term; said commissioners shall be elected in the same manner as is provided for the election of general city officers, by general Qualifica- ticket, by the qualified voters of the whole city; and no missioners. person shall be elected a commissioner of either of said

how filled.

tion of com

Removal of commissioners.

Mode of procedure.

boards, unless he has been a resident of said city at least three years, and a resident freeholder in the division of said city for which he is elected at least one year immediately preceding his election.”

(Mayor no longer member of either of said boards, Sec. 19, post, 196. Mode of election and term of office of police commissioners changed, Secs. 11, 12, post, 193. Mode of filling vacancy changed, Sec. 17, post, 196.)

SEC. 10. Any commissioner of the board of public works or of the board of police, may at any time be removed from office for any misdemeanor, malfeasance or delinquency in office, by the judge of the circuit court of Cook county, on charges in writing, to be presented against him by the mayor or the common council. On the hearing before said judge, witnesses may be produced and sworn, both in support of the allegations and against them. Five days' notice shall be given to such member, by service of a copy of such charges. The judge may proceed to hear such allegations, either in term time or in vacation, and may adjourn such hearing from time to time. No member of either of said

boards shall perform any duties as such member, while such allegations are pending against him.

constituted.

SEC. 11. The board of education shall consist of fifteen Board of education, school inspectors, to be elected by the common council, on how or before the first Monday of June next. The said board shall be divided into three classes, of five members each; those of the first class shall vacate their seats at the expiration of the first year, those of the second class at the expiration of the second, and those of the third class at the expiration of the third year; and the common council shall, Their annually, on or before the first Monday of June, elect five term of inspectors to succeed those whose term of office expires. The inspectors so elected shall hold their offices for three years from the said first Monday of June.

(Repealed, and new section enacted, Sec. 8, post, 192, and Sec. 4, post, 191.)

election, and

office.

of reform school.

SEC. 12. The board of guardians of the reform school Guardians shall consist of the comptroller and six guardians, to be appointed by the mayor, by and with the advice and consent of the common council. Said board shall be divided into three classes, of two members each; those of the first class shall vacate their seats at the expiration of the first year, those of the second class at the expiration of the second, and those of the third class at the expiration of the third year. There shall be appointed, annually, on or before the Their apfirst Monday of June, two guardians to succeed those whose and term of term of office expires. The guardians so appointed shall hold their offices for three years from the said first Monday of June, and until the appointment and qualification of their successors.

pointment,

office.

SEC. 13. The board of assessors shall consist of three Assessors, their qualiassessors, who shall be freeholders in said city, one from fication and each of the three divisions of the city, who shall be ap- ment. pointed on the second Monday of May in each year, or as soon thereafter as may be, and continue in office one year. The common council may increase the number of assessors so that said board shall consist of two members from each division of the city, if they think proper.

(Mode of appointment of assessors changed, Sec. 28, post, 188, and Sec. 1, post, 191.)

Inspectors of election.

Bridge

tenders and bridewell keeper.

Other officers,

of appoint

ment and term of office.

SEC. 14. The inspectors of election shall be appointed annually, by the common council, at least ten days before the annual municipal election.

SEC. 15. All bridge-tenders, keepers and assistants of work-houses, bridewell or house of correction, and bellmen, shall be appointed annually, by the mayor, and shall be removable at the pleasure of the mayor or common council.

(Mode of appointment of bridge-tenders changed, Sec. 27, post, 187, and of bridewell keeper, Sec. 1, post, 191.)

SEC. 16. All other officers mentioned in this act, and not their mode otherwise specially provided for, shall be appointed by the mayor, by and with the advice and consent of the common council, biennially, on or before the second Monday of May, or as soon thereafter as may be, and shall respectively continue in office two years from the said second Monday of May, and until the appointment and qualification of their successors. Officers elected or appointed to fill vacancies, vacancies. shall respectively hold for the unexpired term only, and until the election or appointnient and qualification of their

Officers to

fill

Removals from office.

be preferred.

successors.

(Mode of appointment of harbor master changed, Sec. 27, post, 187; and of clerk, city physician, fish inspector, sealer of weights and measures, inspectors, gaugers, and weighers, Sec. 1, post, 191; and of school agent, Sec. 9, post, 192.)

SEC. 17. Every person appointed to any office by the common council, or by the mayor with the advice and consent of the common council, and every person elected to any office by the people, for whose removal from office no other provision has been specially provided by this act, may be removed from such office by a vote of two-thirds of all the Charges to aldermen authorized by law to be elected. But no officer shall be removed except for cause, nor unless furnished with the charges and heard in his defense, and the common council shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers when necessary for the purposes of such trial, and shall proceed, within ten days, to hear and determine upon the merits of the case, and if such officer neglect to appear and answer to such charges, then the common council may declare the office vacant; and any

Trial.