There shall be the following administrative
officers, who shall be appointed by the Mayor and who shall perform
the duties by law and hereinafter prescribed for them respectively,
and such further duties, not inconsistent with the nature of their
respective offices, as the City Council may from time to time prescribe.
A City Solicitor; a Chief of Police; a Superintendent of Streets;
a City Engineer; an Inspector of Wires; a Board of Public Welfare,
to consist of three persons; a Board of Public Welfare under the Whiting
Street Will, to consist of three persons; a Board of Commissioners
of Fairview Cemetery, to consist of three persons. The City Solicitor
and Chief of Police shall be appointed annually in the month of January,
and each shall hold his office for the term of one year beginning
with the first Monday in January in the year of his appointment, unless
sooner removed, and until his successor is appointed and qualified.
The Superintendent of Streets, the City Engineer and the Inspector
of Wires shall be appointed annually in the month of January, and
each shall hold office for the term of one year beginning with the
first Monday in February in the year of his appointment, unless sooner
removed, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. Each
of the present members of the Board of Public Welfare, and of the
Public Welfare under the Whiting Street Will, and of the Commissioners
of Fairview Cemetery, shall continue to hold office for the term for
which he was elected or appointed, unless sooner removed, and until
his successor is appointed and qualified. In the month of January
in each year one member of each of said Boards shall be appointed,
who shall hold office for the term of three years beginning with the
first Monday in February in the year of such appointment, unless sooner
removed, and until his successor is appointed and qualified.