| Show THE GENERAL MUNI MUNICIPAL BILL tills THIS morning in the house the bill W which the committee on municipal corporations have been for a long ions time engaged in preparing came up on second reading the first reading having been by its title prior to its being printed it is a very long document and would occupy from fifteen to twenty columns of space apace in the NEWS some ome of its provisions are as follows A petition may be presented to the county court the desire to have a specified portion of oe b county inc incorporated orp orated as a city it if the petition bears one hundred signatures of the legal voters re siding in ia such district the county lebounty court shall cause an election to be held bild therein to determine the question of incorporating it if the majority mao rity vote in favor of the proposition on the filing of the returns of the election showing that result in the office of the secretary of the territory ilan an executive f reclamation will issue declaring that the district lie in incorporated provision is made for electing officers at the time of voting on the proposition to incorporate cities having a population of or over are ar of the first class those baiting and less IMS than are of the second class all others of the third class cities of the first and second classes are required to be divided into five municipal wards the c ty council of the former consists of fifteen councilmen three being chosen from each ward by the electors there thereof oft the city council of 0 a city of the second class consists of ten tea councilmen two f from rom each ward of a city of the third class of seven councilmen elected at large cities of all three classes elect a mayor at large provision is made for taking censuses and for the transfer of a city from one oe class to another also for a city to it the inhabitants no HO desire to be determined by an election held for that purpose in conferring power upon city councils the bill Is 18 very generous I 1 in a this rep respect act it carries the principle of local self government to as great an extent as all is likely to be desired by any considerable sid erable portion of the citizens of tile the territory cities now having a char ter may retain it or they may ancor borate under this bill as they may determine by bv an election held for the purpose existing rights liabilities ownership of corporate property etc are not Orld abridged ged I 1 congressional legislation has created in an imperative necessity tor for the passage of a bill of this cli character ameter and it is 8 thie therefore presumable that the pres present nt our one will become a law true it may be amended before Us its final passage but as far ar as members have examined it and about halt of it was wan read by sections to ia the house this forenoon they seemed satisfied with it ic its language throughout alms aims to be explicit and the document in this respect is a credit to the committee which prepared it while it is by no means perfect in this regard and while some verbal amend mints have been and others doubt liess leis will be made its mechanical con in the main is good this is a most important ono on if at it shall pass and be approved it will be the law aich will govern a great majority ot of the population of the terri tory more directly and in greater detail than any others it will give them a complete consistent and harmonious municipal system and will enable thi cities of t the e territory e tor to throw off their 0 old imperfect out of date and unsatisfactory tory charters and adopt deeds isto bet better r suited suite to existing needs As a whole the bills seems competent but bat close examination may reveal the advisability 0 of f more or less marked changes loit its ts importance demands the rigid scrutiny ny and deliberate consideration of t the b e assembly |
