One Clerk and Storekeeper to Fire Department Corporation Yard, fifteen hundred dollars.

One Corporation Yard Drayman, one thousand and eighty dollars.

One Janitor and Messenger, nine hundred dollars.

One Superintendent Steam Fire Engines, eighteen hundred dollars.

One Assistant Superintendent Steam Fire Engines, sixteen hun

dred and eighty dollars.

One Substitute Engineer and Machinist, sixteen hundred and eighty dollars.

One Night Watchman Corporation Yard, nine hundred dollars. Two Hydrantmen, each, one thousand and eighty dollars.

One Veterinary Surgeon, twelve hundred dollars.

One Carpenter, twelve hundred dollars.

One Secretary to Board of Reformatory Commissioners, nine hundred dollars.

One Superintendent of House of Correction, twelve hundred

dollars.

One Superintendent of Industrial School, twelve hundred dollars.

One Superintendent Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph, twentyfour hundred dollars.

Three Interpreters for the Courts, each, twelve hundred dollars. Three Operators of the Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph, each,

fifteen hundred dollars.

One Chief Repairer of the Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph, twelve hundred dollars.

Two Assistant Repairers of the Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph, each, one thousand and eighty dollars.

Special Temporary Clerks and Employees, during employment, at the rate of $40 per month.

One Property Clerk for the Police Office, eighteen hundred dollars.

SEC. 2. The officers mentioned in Section 1, of this Chapter, shall be paid only at the rates per annum therein specified, for the time during which they may actually perform the duties of their offices respectively.

ARTICLE XIV.

Of the Civil Service.

SECTION 1. The Mayor shall appoint four persons, not more than two of whom shall be adherents of the same political party, who shall constitute the Civil Service Commission of the City and County, who shall continue in office for the period of four years, and until their successors are appointed and qualified, and who shall serve without compensation.

SEC. 2. No person appointed to any position in any of the offices or departments shall be removed from office, unless by order of said Commission, after an examination in public and an adjudication upon written charges by some person who shall subscribe his or her name and address to such charges. And for the purposes of such examination and adjudication, the said four members of said Commission shall act in conjunction with the head or presiding officer of the particular office or department in which the person charged is employed.

Such adjudication as they, or the majority of them, shall make shall be final, and the same, with the reasons therefor, shall be entered at large upon the minutes of said Commission, and shall be open to public inspection.

If the said adjudication is that the person so charged shall be dismissed from his position, then and in that event such adjudidation of dismissal shall operate as dismissal from the position held by the person charged, from its date. If the said adjudication is that the charges are not sustained, and that the complaint shall be dismissed, then and in that event the person charged shall remain undisturbed in his official position; provided, however, that in the event of any charge of misconduct made against any person liable to be tried by said Civil Service Commission, the officer or head of the department to whom the person so charged is subordinate may at his option suspend such person so charged from duty and pay until such charges are adjudicated.

And provided further, that the proceedings upon the trial of such charges of misconduct shall be in all respects in conformity with such general rules as may be prescribed by said Commission.

SEC. 3. All appointments and promotions in the Service of the city and county shall be on the basis of merit, and the practical aptitude, fitness, and experience of the appointee; and no

person in the public service shall be removed or otherwise prejudiced for refusing to contribute to any political fund, or to render any political service; and no person in said service shall use his official authority or influence to coerce the political action of any person or body.

SEC. 4. The provisions of Section 2 of this Chapter shall not apply to the Chief Deputy of any Board, Department or office, nor to any of the places in the office of the Treasurer. Any Board or Officer having the collection and custody of money may require of his clerks or employees bonds of indemnity with sufficient sureties, the amount to be regulated by general rule, to be applied to all in such office.

SEC. 5. The Supervisors may, from time to time, pass such ordinances as they may deem necessary to more fully carry out and enforce the purposes of this Chapter, and should the public interests require, they may at any time by ordinance amend, alter, modify or repeal the whole or any part thereof.

ARTICLE XV.

Miscellaneous Provisions.

SECTION 1. City and County officers whose election or appointment is not otherwise provided for, either by law or this Charter, shall be appointed and vacancies therein filled by the Mayor by and with the advice and consent of the Board of Aldermen. An officer so appointed shall hold the office until the expiration of the term, and until a successor is elected or appointed and qualified, and where no other period therefor is prescribed, the term of such officer shall not exceed four years.

SEC. 2. An officer shall be deemed to have "qualified" when he has taken the oath of office and filed the same, together with his official bond, if a bond be required, in the office of the Auditor; provided, that the bond and oath of office of the Auditor shall be filed with the County Clerk.

SEC. 3. Officers before entering upon the discharge of their official duties, shall respectively give and execute such official bonds as may be required by law, or this Charter, or any ordinance. When the amount of any bond is not fixed by law or this Charter, it shall be fixed by an ordinance of the Supervisors. Such bonds, excepting those of the Mayor and Auditor, must be approved by the Mayor, Auditor, and President of the Board of Aldermen. The bond of the Mayor must be approved by the Auditor, the President of the Board of Aldermen and the President of the Board of Assistant Aldermen. The bond of the Auditor must be approved by the Mayor, the President of the Board of Aldermen, and the President of the Board of Assistant Aldermen. The approval of every official bond must be indorsed thereon, and signed by the officers approving the same after the examination of the sureties as hereinafter provided. Upon the approval of a bond it must be recorded at the expense of the party giving the same in the office of the County Recorder, in a book kept for that purpose, entitled "Record of Official Bonds." The bond of the Auditor shall be filed and kept in the office of the County Clerk. The bonds of all other officers shall be filed and kept in the office of the Auditor.

SEC. 4. The Officers named in this section shall respectively execute to the city and county of San Francisco official bonds, with sureties for the following amounts, viz:

The Mayor for the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars.

The Auditor for the amount of fifty thousand dollars. The Treasurer for the amount of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

The Tax Collector for the amount of one hundred thousand dollars.

The Collector of Licenses for the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars.

The Assessor for the amount of forty thousand dollars.

The County Clerk for the amount of fifty thousand dollars. The County Recorder for the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars.

The Sheriff for the amount of one hundred thousand dollars.

The Coroner for the amount of ten thousand dollars.

The City Attorney for the amount of forty thousand dollars.

The District Attorney for the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars.

The Public Administrator for the amount of forty thousand dollars.

The Superintendent of Public Schools for the amount of ten thousand dollars.

Each Commissioner of the Board of Public Works for the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars.

Each Alderman for the amount of twenty thousand dollars. Each Assistant Alderman for the amount of twenty thousand dollars.

Each School Director for the amount of five thousand dollars.

Each Justice of the Peace for the amount of five thousand dollars.

Each Fire Commissioner for the amount of five thousand dollars.

Each Park Commissioner for the amount of five thousand dollars.

Each Police and Election Commissioner for the amount of ten thousand dollars.

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City and County officers shall not be received surety for each other. Every official bond shall contain a condition that the principal will faithfully perform all official duties then or that may be thereafter imposed upon, or required of such principal by law, this Charter, or ordinance.

SEC. 5. Each official bond must be also executed by two or more sureties, who shall each justify in double the amount required for said bond; providet, that where the amount of the bond is more than five thousand dollars, the sureties may become severally liable for portions of not less than five thousand dollars thereof, and provided further, that when here are more than two sureties thereto, the sureties may justify in double the amount of such portions, and such portions must, in the aggregate, equal double the amount of said bond.

Each surety upon an official bond must make an affidavit which shall be indorsed upon such bond that he is a resident and freeholder in the City and County of San Francisco, and, worth in real property, situated in said city and county, exclusive of mortgages thereon, double the amount of his undertaking over and above all sums for which he is already liable or in any manner bound, whether as principal, indorser or surety, and whether such prior obligation or liability be conditional or absolute, liquidated or unliquidated, certain or contingent, due or to become due; and that he was assessed in his own name upon the last preceding assessment roll of such city and county in an amount greater than his dertaking, and that the taxes on said property are not delinquent. All persons offered as sureties on official bonds shall be personally examined on oath as to their qualifications, by the Officers whose duty it is to approve the bond.

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SEC. 6. When under any of the provisions of this Charter, or of any ordinance, an official bond shall be given by any officer, the Board of Aldermen may, by resolution, require an