SEC. 17. It shall be the duty of said Board to classify or divide the various works or interests under its control into departments as far as may be, and keep an accurate account of each branch, showing the amounts expended for original improvements and construction and the amounts for repairs, superintendence and other expenditures, exhibiting the source of expenditure, and it shall be the duty of said Board to make a report in writing to the Common Council and to the Mayor once every three months, or oftener if thereto required, giving the expenditure of the different branches or departments of work, under the control of said Board, and embracing a statement of the condition, progress and operation of the works in its charge.

SEC. 18. The Board of Public Works, at the beginning of each fiscal year, shall submit to the Comptroller a statement of the estimated amounts required by said Board for the use of the department during the ensuing year. Such statement shall be in detail and the same shall be laid before the Common Council by the Comptroller. The Common Council, in the first apportionment ordinance of each fiscal year, shall set apart such amount as may be deemed necessary for the purposes of said Board, payable out of the next annual revenue of the city.

SEC. 19. It shall be the duty of said Board to keep books of account showing with entire accuracy the receipts and expenditures of the Board in such manner as to enable the same to be understood and investigated, and also to preserve on file in its office, duplicate vouchers for all its expenditures, which books and duplicates shall, at all times, be open to the examination of the Comptroller and to the Finance Committee of the Common Council, or to any other Committee appointed by the Council. Said Board shall keep full and complete record of all its proceedings, and said Board shall at the close of each fiscal year print and publish an annual report of its finances. and an official summary of its proceedings.

SECTION I. The city shall have power to own, construct, reconstruct, extend, repair, maintain and operate water works and may, for such purposes take, hold, own and use real estate and personal property in the city and outside of the city in the State of Missouri and in the State of Kansas. It may acquire such property by purchase, gift, devise or an exercise of the power of eminent domain, and may do whatever may be necessary or proper to the exercise of the powers herein mentioned.

SEC. 2. There is hereby established a department of the city to be known as the Water Department, which shall be under the control and management of the Board of Public Works. The board shall appoint a Water Commissioner, who shall hold office at the will of the Board and who shall be the chief executive officer of the Water Department. He shall have the right, subject to the civil service laws, rules and regulations contained in or provided for by this charter, to appoint and discharge all employees provided for by ordinance for the department, and he shall have direction and supervision of all work of, the department except the collection of water rates. The board shall let

all contracts and purchase all supplies for the department. The Water Commissioner shall be a duly qualified hydraulic engineer and shall receive such salary as may be fixed by the Board of Public Works and give such bond as may be provided by ordinance.

SEC. 3. The doing of all work and the furnishing of all material and supplies for the water works shall be let out by the board of public works in the same manner as other public work, except in cases where it is not practicable to do such work or furnish such materials by contract; and all contracts shall be submitted to the common council for approval.

SEC. 4. The city shall pay just compensation for all private property taken or damaged for public use, for the purposes necessary for the construction or extension or efficient operation

of the water works, and such compensation, when not otherwise provided by law, may be ascertained in proceedings therefor as far as practicable, in the same manner as is prescribed in the general laws of the State of Missouri for the appropriation and valuation of lands taken for telegraph, telephone, gravel and plank or railroad purposes, being Article VII, Chapter 12, Revised Statutes of Missouri. Upon paying to the clerk of the circuit court the amount of damages awarded, the party in whose favor the same may be assessed, shall have the right to enter upon and take possession of the property, notwithstanding the filing of exceptions to such award, and any subsequent proceedings shall only affect the amount of compensation to be allowed.

SEC. 5. Whenever owners of private lands on any street, avenue, public highway or alley, or part thereof, residing in this city and owning a majority in front feet thereon of the land of residents of the city, shall petition for water pipe to be laid along such street, avenue, public highway or alley, or part thereof, and the laying of the same shall be authorized by an ordinance of the city, or when the city shall, by ordinance passed by vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house of the common council, declare the laying of water pipes on any street, avenue, public highway or alley, or part thereof, to be necessary, the board of public works shall cause the same to be laid, and the cost of laying such pipe shall be paid as provided by ordinance and in conformity to this charter.

SEC. 6. The board of public works may require owners or lessees or their agents, of houses, stores and other buildings in the city, or in any such parts thereof as they are ready to supply, 'to take out license for the use of water for such house, store or building, according to the rates and assessments fixed by ordinance of the city for the use of water, whenever the Health Commissioner of Kansas City shall, by order duly made, declare that the use of water from the water works of the city, in any such store, house or building, is demanded as a sanitary measure for the preservation of the health of the inmates or inhabitants of such house, store or building; and the said rates and assessments shall be paid by all such proprietors, owners or lessees, or their agents, as well by those who consent as by those who refuse to place in their houses, stores and buildings, the water pipes to convey the same, and shall be payable whenever the board of public works shall have notified the proprietor, owner, lessee, or his agent, of the readiness of said board of public works to supply

such house, store or building with water as aforesaid. The parties who fail or neglect to comply with the provisions of this section will be subject to such penalties as may be provided by ordinance.

SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the city treasurer to collect all revenue due or to become due to the city for water or on account of the water works, and to keep a separate account thereof, and to pay out the same only pursuant to this charter and ordinances of the city. The city treasurer shall, for the purpose of performing his duties hereunder, appoint such clerks and subordinates as may be provided by ordinance, and such appointments and the discharge of all appointees shall be subject to the provisions, rules and regulations of the civil service commission as provided by this charter.

SEC. 8. Blanks for water licenses shall be in such form and countersigned and issued in such manner as may be prescribed by ordinance.

SEC. 9. For the purpose of paying off and satisfying the judgment and decree rendered against the city by the United States Circuit Court for the Western Division of the Western District of Missouri, in the case of the National Waterworks Company of New York, complainant, and against Kansas City, defendant, on the 28th day of November, 1894, and the full and entire amount thereof, as the same is now, or may hereafter be fixed and determined by said court in said case, and interest and costs therein, said judgment and decree being in the matter of the purchase of the waterworks of said company by said city, the city by ordinance of the common council may, after said decree shall have become final and the amounts thereof payable by the city, issue and sell its negotiable coupon bonds to such an amount as may be necessary, not exceeding the amount of said decree as the same is or may hereafter be determined. Such bonds shall be in such amounts, each not less than $100 nor more than $1,000, payable to bearer, at such time or times, not exceeding twenty years from their date, at such place or places in the United States, in such lawful money of the United States, with interest as shown by coupons attached payable annually or semi-annually at such rate, not exceeding six per cent. per annum, as may be prescribed by ordinance, and such bonds shall be under the seal of the city, signed by the mayor, attested by the city clerk, countersigned by the city comptroller, and in all other matters shall be in such form and issued and sold in such manner as may be prescribed by ordinance.

At any time after said decree shall have become final and payable, the city may, by ordinance of the common council, cause said bonds, when prepared and executed, to be placed in escrow with the clerk of the United States Circuit Court for the Western Division of the Western District of Missouri, to be delivered to the purchaser or purchasers of the same, and then only to be issued and become binding on the city when such purchaser or purchasers shall pay to said clerk the purchase price thereof, and the decree against the city shall be satisfied and canceled, so that the city shall not at the same time be liable both for the amount of said decree and upon the bonds, and so that the actual indebtedness of the city shall not be increased by the issue of such bonds.

The city shall, at or before the issue of such bonds, provide, by ordinance of the common council, for the collection of an annual tax, which, together with all sums which shall be applicable to the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds, shall be sufficient to pay the interest of the bonds as it falls due, and also to constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the principal at maturity. Such sinking fund shall be kept invested and managed in the same manner as the other sinking funds of the city.

Any bonds so issued and delivered shall, in the hands of bona fide holders, be conclusively presumed and held to have been duly and regularly authorized and issued under this section, and the ordinances passed in pursuance thereof, and shall be valid obligations of the city, negotiable to the same extent as securities negotiable by the law merchant.

The city may, by ordinance, make alterations in the prices or rates to be paid for the use of water from the water works. No water rate shall be allowed or fixed by any other principle or consideration than that of producing revenue, and exceptional discriminations in rates are forbidden. Water rates shall be so fixed as to produce revenue enough to pay at least all running expenses, the interest on all bonds issued and outstanding for water works purposes, and cost of all repairs of the works. All revenue and income derived from the water works, after paying salaries of officers and employes, running expenses and cost of repairs shall, so far as may be necessary to meet the same, be first applied to the payment of interest on said bonds, and the balance thereof shall go to the sinking fund aforesaid, to meet the principal of said bonds.

SEC. 10. If deemed advisable by the law-making authorities of the city, water rates may be so fixed by ordinance as