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Show NEW FORM OF G3VERN- ' MENT FOR CITIES Governor Spry signed the Des Moines bills Monday, and as a result the city governments of Salt Lake, Ogden, Provo, Logan and Murray, will be changed from the present form to one patterned after that obtaining in Oakland, Des Moines; Galveston and a number of smaller cities of the country. The bills provide for the government of the cities of the fiivtand second class by a non-partisan municipal commission. In Salt Lake this commission will consist con-sist of the mavor and four commissioners, commission-ers, and in other cities affected, of a mayor and two commissioners. The only other elective officer will be the auditor. The terms of all the present elective officers are terminated on January 1, 1912, jby the bills, and the commission will succeed all of the officers. Each commissioner will be a head of some department de-partment of municipal government, and all the other officers of the city are to be appointed by the commission. The mayor, the four commissioners a; id the auditor in Salt Lake are to be chosen at the time of th3 regular municipal mun-icipal election next November. Two weeks prior to the election the candidates candi-dates for these positions are to be nominated nomi-nated at a direct primary. The two candidates for each position receiving the highest number of votes are declared to be the nominees, and the voters will choose between them at the general election. No candidate shall be a candidate candi-date under any party designation or emblem. Four meetings a week are to be held by the commission, and monthly statements state-ments of the expenditures of the city are to be made. The mayor is to be the presiding officer at the meetings of the commission. The commission has the power to enact ordinances and to enforce them. The terms of the commissioners com-missioners expire alternately, so that there will nevr be an entire board named at any election except the first. |