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Show mum, 10ARD OF HEALTH 1 DUMPS MR JACKSON i j C.1L Jackson has received a backset jt '.Vs aspirations to be clerk to the tad of Health. Health Commissi Commis-si lKT Stewart has taken a hand In .id k mttcr and a merry war Is on. th Mayor named Jackson to aC uetti Horace H. Smith without con- sifcf the Board of Health or the v:Hih Commissioner, Dr. Stewart 1 ao irUo the legal status oC tnc ifl wtfon. The result Is that Jackson j tlred a jar yesterday when the ill SaJth Commissioner put W. G. Mar- ' foreman of the Sanitary depart-(- A In charge of the office to which tt tiror Morris had appointed Jackson. lj$ Clerk Margetts will discharge i'i b duties until the matter comes be- fci the Council for final disposition, -y itie meantime the Mayor's appointee Z around the Department of and !s wearing a worried look. .Ill Hiyor Morris says his act of noml- whg Jackson is fully authorized by 3' (-;ter si. Section 1 of the Session "i of m, which reads aa follows: M Mayor, by and with the con- w of the Council, may appoint all ,lv olficers and agents that iJ T be provided for by law or ordl- iu? ar'd ln llke manner fln a11 va among the same, except as provided by law." ifc i it 1(1 by othcrs' however, that the MOTJUon clause of the foregoing makes -SKu. 0r's posltlon untenable for the jgE 3 that tlio city ordinance pro- (vSnage 511011 cafies m ine followlnET Board of Health shall have the tjj"r to appoint a clerk, subject to the -3jTJniatlon of the Council." aWS Mayor Is not the Board of I'mul . ,s one of the our mem fpw that body and under the ordl- Swv to nave no special ex-, CLMtl His associates have equal .?HSv . hLn in tho matter. "Sli. aPPlntmeut has stirred JJEh 7? Jn cIty affairs that Mayor teXta. , ytesly did not look for, and ZMkTI cl?lmed yesterday that there 3r. p0Ktlble chance for tho Mayor to 'i!1 Wttflrmatlon of this appolnt- fT memDers of the Council p!ased themselves pointedly lijMrubiect and It la said that at least tuo others will not stand for Jackson. Jack-son. Tho Board of Health held a short meeting yesterday morning at which the power of the Mayor to make the appointment was discussed. On motion mo-tion of Mr. Fisher a resolution was passed providing that an opinion be secured from the City Attorney on the question. The board adjourned until next Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock, by which time City Attorney Dey will have looked the matter up. |