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Chairman of board.

Salary.

Bond and oath.

Duty of chairman.

consist of three members residents of such city, to be appointed by the mayor by and with the consent of the council before the first Monday of July, 1882, for the term of one, two, and three years respectively, the term of office of each to be designated by the mayor, and annually thereafter there shall be appointed as hereinbefore provided, one member whose term of office shall be three years.

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The mayor by and with the consent of the council shall designate one of the members of such board to be the chairman thereof.

The salary of the members of such Board of Public Works shall be fixed by ordinance, and the salary of the chairman shall not exceed twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, and the salary of each of the other members shall not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars per

annum.

Each of the members of such board shall before entering upon the discharge of his duties, take an oath to faithfully discharge the duties of his office, and enter into a bond to such city with two or more good and sufficient sureties to be approved by the mayor and council, the bond of the chairman to be in the sum of fifteen ($15,000) and of the other two in the sum of ten thousand ($10,000) each, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties as such member of such Board of Public Works.

The chairman of such board shall devote his entire time to the performance of his official duty, and no member of such board shall ever

be directly or indirectly interested in any contract entered into by them on behalf of such city, nor shall they be interested either directly or indirectly in the purchase of any material to be used or applied in and about the uses and purposes contemplated by this act.

It shall be the duty of such Board of Public Duty of board. Works, and it shall have power to make contracts on behalf of the city, for the performance of all such work, and the erection of all such improvements as may be ordered by the mayor and council, but only with the approval of the mayor and council; to superintend the performance of all such work and the erection of such improvements; to approve the estimates of the city engineer which may be made from time to time of the value of work as the same may progress; to accept any work done or improvement made, when the same shall be fully completed according to contract, subject, however, to the approval of the mayor and council, and to perform such other duties as may be devolved upon them by ordinance.

member.

Any member of such board may at any time Removal of be removed from office by a vote of two-thirds of the members elected to the council, with the approval of the mayor, for sufficient cause, and the proceedings in that behalf shall be entered in the journal of the council.

Provided, That the council shall previously cause a copy of the charges preferred against such member sought to be removed, and notice of the time and place of hearing the same to be served on him ten days at least previous to

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the time so assigned, and opportunity to be given him to make his defense.

45th. To create a board to be known as adjustment., "Commissioners of Adjustment," to be composed of the city engineer and two competent surveyors or civil engineers, who shall as soon as practicable, proceed to survey all lots, blocks, streets, alleys and public grounds within any city of the first class, not surveyed and platted with fixed monuments and recorded, and such additions within the incorporate limits of such city where discrepancies or uncertainties may exist as to the lines of the streets, alleys, lots or blocks in such addition, and to make maps of their surveys, showing thereon the width of every street and alley, and the extent of all squares, parks and public grounds, and to fix such monuments as may be necessary for the preservation of all lines so established.

Board of appraisers.

Appeal from award.

Said commissioners shall also constitute a board of appraisers, who shall appraise all damages sustained by the adoption of such lines, and plats, and shall submit a list of such damages to the mayor and city council, for their · approval or modification, and who shall tender the amount of damages so approved to the party or parties entitled to the .same, before the final passage of any ordinance effecting the same, and attach a record of such action to the documents filed with the county clerk.

And any person feeling aggrieved by the award of damages may appeal therefrom to the district court within sixty days after approval or modification by the mayor and council.

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Said commissioners having completed their Report of survey, maps and profiles, shall deliver the same with a written report, to the clerk of the city, who shall thereupon publish a notice for three weeks, in the official paper of the city, stating that such report has been made, and that the same with maps is open to public inspection in the office of the city engineer, where the same shall be kept during the publication of said notice.

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Any property owner or other person interested, Objection to who shall be dissatisfied with such survey and plats. plats thereof, may at any time within three months after publication of said notice, file with the clerk of the city, objections thereto in writing, stating specifically the grounds and reasons of such objections.

After the expiration of such time, in case such objections are so filed, said clerk shall cause said maps, with the written objections. thereto, to be returned to said commissioners, who may, after duly considering such objections, modify their report, if they deem proper.

In case no written objections are so filed or being filed, such being considered by said commissioners, the said maps and reports shall be submitted to the common council, who shall fix a time and publish a notice thereof in the official paper, and they may hear at such time any objections to said maps and reports, and change the same as they may deem just and proper.

county clerk.

And when the same shall have been made Filing with satisfactory to the council, such reports as modified shall be adopted by ordinance in due form,

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report.

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and the council shall cause a copy thereof, with such maps and reports, to be filed with the county clerk of the county in which said city is located, and he shall record the same as instruments of real estate are required to be recorded.

And afterwards said maps and surveys shall stand as the legal and valid plat of said city, to determine all lines of lots, blocks, streets, alleys, and public grounds in the parts of said city so surveyed.

The report of said board, as herein referred to, shall be construed to mean a report of a majority of said commissioners.

The said commissioners shall be appointed by commissioners the mayor, subject to the approval of the city council, and in cases of a vacancy happening in said board, by death, resignation, or otherwise, the vacancy shall be filled in like manner. And, the mayor and council may by ordinance provide for the preservation and protection of said monuments, and the punishment of any person or persons removing the same, or interfering therewith.

SEC. 4. That section twenty-two (22) of said original act, approved March 1st, 1881, amended by section two (2) of said amendatory act, approved May 23, A. D. 1882, and as again amended by section one (1) of said amendatory act, approved March 1st, A. D. 1883, be amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 22. The mayor and city council are hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds of the city, with interest coupons annexed there

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