tricts. Immediately succeeding the election in November 1876, and when the result thereof is officially determined as hereinafter provided, the Justices of the County Court shall meet at James C. Sutton's house, on the Manchester road, for the purpose of organizing the new government of the county, determining the bonds of the county officers, and making such appointments as may be authorized by law. Said Court may determine at what place in said county said Court shall meet and the county offices be located until the question of a permanent seat of justice may be determined. And for that purpose the following persons shall be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, to-wit: Robert G. Coleman, Wm. W. Henderson and Thomas J. Sappington, who shall, after the Scheme goes into effect, select a suitable place for the county seat of said county and report such selection to the County Court of said county, when it shall be the duty of said Court to submit to the qualified voters of said county, at a special election, to be ordered by said Court, within six months from the filing of said report, the question as to whether the place so selected, shall be the place for the permanent seat of justice of said county, and if a majority of the qualified voters of said county voting at said election, shall be in favor of said location, then the same shall be and remain the seat of justice or county seat of such county; but if a majority of the qualified voters, voting at such election shall be against such location, then the permanent seat of justice shall be established in the manner as at present provided by law in regard to new counties. There shall be elected at said election such Justices of the Peace and Constables for the county as said county may be entitled to under existing laws, who shall hold their offices according to the general provisions of law applying to other counties in this State.

SEC. 4. The present County Court of St. Louis County shall order and make all necessary arrangements for the general State election in November next, and shall order at the same time the election of the Justices and officers for St. Louis County, as specified in the preceding section, and the members of the present County Court thereof shall continue in authority and in the discharge of their present duties, except as herein otherwise provided, until the new County Government is or

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ganized, and the proper county officers, as provided herein, are commissioned and qualified, and thereupon their terms of office. and that of Clerk of said Court shall cease and the offices of Justices of the County Court and Clerk of the said County Court as now established shall be forever abolished: vided, That nothing in this section shall relieve said Court and its officers and employes from full responsibility for the management and custody of all interests and property of the County of St. Louis as constituted previous to the adoption of this Scheme, until a formal transfer of the same to the proper authority as herein provided has been effected.

SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the Mayor of the City of St. Louis to order an election on the same day as the general election in November, 1876, and every two years thereafter, for a Sheriff for the City of St. Louis, and Coroner for said city, who shall be elected by the qualified voters of said city, and shall hold their offices for two years and until their successors are duly elected and qualified, and they shall be commissioned by the Mayor. A Public Administrator for said city shall also be elected at the general election aforesaid, and every four years thereafter, whose term of office shall be four years, and whose duties shall be as provided by law. The official bond of said officers shall be fixed and determined by the Municipal Assembly, in conformity with the constitution and laws, and pending such action the Sheriff, Coroner and Public Administrator shall give bond in such amounts as now required of like officers for the present County of St. Louis, with not less than two securities, owners of unincumbered real estate in the City of St. Louis, to be approved by the Mayor; and said bonds, when so approved, shall be filed with the Register, and said officers shall respectively perform within the city limits such duties as are now provided by law in regard to the Sheriff, Coroner and Public Administrator of St. Louis County, and shall receive the same compensation allowed said officers of St. Louis County prior to the adoption of this Scheme, until otherwise provided by law. The Coroner shall discharge the duties of Sheriff in all cases in which Coroners are authorized to discharge those duties by law.

SEC. 6. The Marshal of the City of St. Louis, in addition to his other duties, shall assume and discharge all the duties

heretofore discharged by the Marshal of St. Louis County within the limits of the City of St. Louis, and the present County Marshal shall deliver to said City Marshal all books, documents and property of every kind in his possession by virtue of said office, except such property as may properly belong to the reorganized County Government, which shall be delivered to the Sheriff of St. Louis County, elected in November, 1876.

SEC. 7. The Sheriff of St. Louis County, elected as provided in Section 3, shall be ex-officio Collector of the Revenue of said county and the Clerk of said County Court shall be ex-officio Recorder of Deeds for said county, and the present Recorder of Deeds for St. Louis County shall hereafter be known as Recorder of Deeds and shall hold his office for his term as now prescribed by law, and until his successor shall be elected and qualified, and at the general election in November, 1878, and every four years thereafter, a City Recorder shall be elected by the qualified voters of the City of St. Louis.

SEC. 8. The office of the President of the Board of Assessors is hereby declared a city office, and is placed under the control of the city government, but the President of said Board shall cause the books and plats of said office to be divided, and such portions thereof as exclusively refer to St. Louis County shall be delivered to the proper officer, for the use of said county; but if this can not be done, or can be done only in part, then abstracts shall be made thereof, and the cost of same paid out of the City Treasury. The present State and County Collector shall continue in office until the expiration of his official term, and thereafter his duties shall be discharged by the City Collector, and upon this Scheme going into operation, the said State and County Collector shall pay over all collections for city and county taxes levied for general purposes, and for licenses collected, within the city limits, as herein extended, and all county taxes for interest and parks, to the Treasurer of the City of St. Louis; and all collections for county and school taxes on property and licenses, except all county taxes for interest and parks, in St. Louis County, he shall pay to the present County Treasurer, until the Treasurer of said county is elected, as provided for in Section 3; and when that officer has duly qualified, the present County Treasurer shall pay over

to him all such collections for the use of said county, and from and after the time the County Treasurer of St. Louis County, as constituted by this Scheme, is elected and qualified, and during the continuance in office of said County Collector, he shall in like manner pay over all revenue collections, above mentioned, to the City and County Treasurers respectively. At the close of his term of office he shall effect a settlement with the city and county authorities, and shall account for all tax-bills placed in his possession, and shall turn over all uncollected bills in his possession, as follows: To the Comptroller all tax-bills on property within the city limits as herein established, and to the Clerk of the St. Louis County Court all taxbills on property outside of city limits. The office of County Auditor as it at present exists is abolished, but that officer shall continue in office, and be responsible on his bond, until all books, documents, moneys, and other property in his hands, or under his charge by virtue of his office, have been properly accounted for and turned over to the parties authorized by law to receive them. The assessment of property for the taxes of the year 1877 in the city as constituted by this Scheme, shall be made by the President of the Board of Assessors, of the present County of St. Louis, in the manner provided by law; said President shall keep a separate set of books for the property in the city as now constituted, and for that in the enlarged limits of the city. As soon as the assessment books for the city and for the enlarged limits shall have been completed and corrected as required by law, they shall be turned over by said President with the other books and plats of his office to the proper officer of said city. After the assessment books have been corrected, the President of Assessors shall make out a fair copy of the same and shall make an abstract of said books, showing the amounts of the several kinds of property taxed, specifying: First, the amount of all property within the old limits of the City of St. Louis; second, the amount of value of all property within the new, or extended, limits, and outside the old limits, and add thereto his certificate that the same contains a true and correct list of all taxable property in the City of St. Louis, so far as he has been able to ascertain the same. Said abstract shall be verified by oath and delivered to the Mayor of St. Louis on or before the fourth Monday of

June, 1877. As soon as the Assessor of St. Louis County shall be elected and qualified, the President of the Board of Assessors shall deliver to the said Assessor the books, plats and all papers appertaining to the property of said county, as herein provided, and it shall be the duty of the Assessor of said county to assess the property of said county in the same manner as now provided by law for other counties of this State.

SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the present County Court of St. Louis County to see that all buildings, moneys and other property belonging to the county, which are placed under the control of the city under this Scheme, shall be formally and properly transferred. Said Court shall cause all records, books, papers, etc., now in the office of said Court to be turned over to the Register, who shall duly schedule same, and report the same for inspection of the Mayor. All employes and officers now in the service of the county in connection with public institutions, or otherwise under appointment of said Court, and within the limits of the City of St. Louis as herein established shall continue in the discharge of their duties under the present rules and regulations until notified to the contrary by the Mayor of the city, who shall have authority to retain or for unfitness discharge such as he may deem necessary, and to fill any vacancies that may occur, until the Municipal Assembly can provide by ordinance for the government of such institutions and regulations of such service.

SEC. 10. All the public buildings, institutions, public parks and property of every character and description heretofore owned and controlled by the County of St. Louis within the limits as extended, including the Court House the County Jail, the Insane Asylum, and the Poor House, are hereby transferred and made over to the City of St. Louis, and all the right, title and interest of the County of St. Louis in said property, and in all public roads and highways within the enlarged limits, is hereby, vested in the City of St. Louis, and divested out of the County; and in consideration of the city becoming the proprietor of all the county buildings and property within its enlarged limits, the city hereby assumes the whole of the existing county debt, and the entire park tax, and the Municipal Assembly shall, as soon as practicable after the adoption of this Scheme and Charter, provide by ordinance for the management