magistrates and constables in and for the territory within said city, and may limit the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the territory of said county of Cook outside of said city to that territory, and in such case the jurisdiction and practice of said municipal courts shall be such as the General Assembly shall prescribe; and the General Assembly may pass all laws which it may deem requisite to effectually provide a complete system of local municipal government in and for the city of Chicago.

No law based upon this amendment to the Constitution, affecting the municipal government of the city of Chicago, shall take effect until such law shall be consented to by a majority of the legal voters of said city voting on the question at any election, general, municipal or special; and no local or special law based upon this amendment affecting specially any part of the city of Chicago shall take effect until consented to by a majority of the legal voters of such part of said city voting on the question at any election, general, municipal or special. Nothing in this section contained shall be construed to repeal, amend or affect section four (4) of Article XI of the Constitution of this state.

APPENDIX NO. 4.

PROPOSAL OF THE CHICAGO CITY
COUNCIL.

1. Subject to the provisions of the constitution, to laws now existing and to future general laws, the City of Chicago shall have powers of local government and of corporate action adequate for all municipal purposes. This grant of powers shall be liberally construed and no power shall be presumed to be denied by reason of not being specified in any existing or future law.

2. Laws of the state relating to the organization of the City of Chicago and to the mode of exercising its powers may be superseded in their application to the City by or under a charter framed by an elective convention called as provided by city ordinance and adopted by the voters of the city as provided by the convention, or by or under amendments of said charter adopted as provided by said charter. The question whether a convention shall be called or not shall be submitted to be voted on separately.

3. The following shall be deemed to be laws or ordinances relating to organization and to the mode of exercising powers:

First-Those which determine, create and organize the offices by which powers conferred or obligations imposed upon the city or upon any of its departments or agencies shall be exercised or performed, as well as the subdivision of the city for municipal purposes.

Second-Those which determine the methods by which such offices and all places in the municipal service shall be filled or vacated, and the compensation paid to officers and employes, which compensation, as well as the conditions of appointment and promotion of clerical or technical employes shall be determined according to a general plan.

Third-Those which determine the relations between offices and officers; but the relations between city officers and officers of the state, or of any of its subdivisions, and all provisions for supervision and control by the state or state officials of the exercise of the city's powers shall be determined by state law.

Fourth-Those which determine the procedure to be observed by city officials in exercising their powers, but so far as such procedure affects private rights, it shall be subject to state law.

Fifth-Those which determine which of the powers conferred upon the city shall be exercised by the people of the city directly, and the method of direct popular action.

4. Charter provisions and ordinances which in accordance with the foregoing provisions supersede state laws in their application to the city, shall be general in character and shall not be altered by state legislation.

5. The following shall not be deemed to be ordinances relating to the organization of the city or the mode of exercising its powers so as to supersede the application of state laws:

First-Those which determine the extent of the powers possessed, or to be exercised, by the city.

Second-Those which relate to the property rights and obligations of the city.

Third-Those which determine or impose penalties.

6. The administration of justice by the courts shall not be deemed to be a matter of local government, but the general assembly may delegate to the city, powers connected with the administration of justice.

7. The city shall have power to condemn private property (including public utilities and the privileges or licenses held in connection therewith) for public use in accordance with law. The power to condemn property lying outside of the city limits shall be determined by

law.

8. The power of the city to own, acquire, construct, operate, or let or lease for operation public utilities shall not be denied by law.

The city shall have exclusive power, either by the exercise of its legislative authority or by contract, to regulate the rates to be charged and the services to be rendered by persons or corporations supplying transportation, communication, light, heat, power or other public utilities to the people of the city and enjoying special street privileges for that purpose.

Any contract made concerning rates or services shall for the term for which it is made, which shall not exceed ten years, be inviolable.

No law shall be passed by the General Assembly granting the right to construct and operate a public utility requiring the occupation of city streets by permanent fixtures, without requiring the consent of the city. 9. No state law shall be regarded as general which by reason of the conditions of its application is operative only in the City of Chi

cago.

10. No law shall be questioned by reason of not being general if the City Council by resolution shall accept the same.

11. The charter framed by an elective convention as above provided may provide for the consolidation with the city of the municipal corporations other than the County of Cook, now exercising taxing powers in any part of the City of Chicago, or any of them, but no taxing power shall be exercised under any such consolidation over that part of any such municipal corporation lying outside of the city unless such consolidation shall have been agreed to by the people inhabiting said part, voting as provided by law.

12. Limitations and requirements of the constitution relating to legislation concerning county organization, county officers or county affairs shall not bind legislation regulating relations between the County of Cook and the City of Chicago, or transferring functions performed by the County of Cook for the people of Chicago in whole or in part to the City of Chicago, or creating the City of Chicago into a separate county.

13. (1) The General Assembly may vest the corporate authorities of the City of Chicago with power to make local improvements by special assessments or by special taxation of contiguous property or otherwise.

(2) The General Assembly shall not limit the annual general tax on real or personal property by reference to the rate of taxation imposed by other authorities exercising powers of taxation over property in the City of Chicago, and any such limit now existing shall become inoperative.

(3) The City of Chicago may fix the limit of the annual tax rate on real or personal property in excess of the limit prescribed by law with the approval of the governor to be given or withheld only upon taking into consideration the recommendation of the state tax commission (or other authority performing the functions of the state tax commission) such recommendation to be made only after a public hearing and by a written opinion.

(4) The excess maximum rate of taxation thus fixed shall be effective for a period not longer than five years, as prescribed by ordinance, but subsequent increases may be authorized in like manner and for not exceeding a like period.

(5) The maximum rate so fixed may be inclusive or exclusive of taxes levied to meet indebtedness or interest thereon, as the ordinance may determine.

(6) The General Assembly shall not directly or indirectly impose upon the City of Chicago or the inhabitants or property thereof, any taxes for municipal purposes, nor create or provide for the creation of new municipal corporations, within the County of Cook, having taxing powers so as to include any territory of the city or enlarge or increase the taxing power of any such municipality except with the consent of the City Council.

(7) Where an act of the legislature of the state requires governmental functions to be carried out in the city which impose a new or additional financial burden upon the government of the city, the city may with the consent of the state tax commission, to be filed with the City Clerk, provide for the required expense by levying a tax in addition to the taxes then authorized by law.

14. (1) The City of Chicago may borrow money for corporate purposes and issue bonds or other evidences of indebtedness therefor.

(2) No bonds or other evidences of funded indebtedness shall be issued except in accordance with an ordinance authorizing the particular issue, which shall have been approved by the voters of the City in accordance with general provisions of law.

(3) No bonds or other evidences of funded indebtedness shall be issued except in accordance with a plan providing for the retirement of said bonds within a period not more than 50 years from the time of their issue, and provision shall be made in the ordinance for the levy of annual taxes and the application of the proceeds of such taxes to carry out such plan.

(4) The aggregate indebtedness of the City of Chicago, including existing indebtedness, shall not at any time exceed the limit fixed by

a stated city ordinance which limit may be expressed therein as amount or by reference to the taxable resources of the city.

(5) Such ordinance fixing the limit of aggregate indebtedness shall not be valid without the approval by written opinion of the State Tax Commission (or other authority exercising the functions of a state tax commission) and shall not take effect until the expiration of three months after such passage and approval and if, during such time a petition of two per cent of the legal voters for the submission of said ordinance to referendum shall have been filed with the City Clerk pursuant to law, not until said ordinance shall have been approved by the voters of said city.

(6) Such ordinance shall be unalterable for a period of 20 years from the time it shall take effect and thereafter shall be alterable only by like ordinance.

(7) Until a limit shall have been fixed as above provided, the City of Chicago shall not become indebted for any purpose to an amount including existing indebtedness, in the aggregate exceeding five per cent of the value of the taxable property therein to be ascertained by the last assessment for state and county taxes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.

(8) Loans incurred for the financing of income-producing property of the city and secured by the pledging of such property or its income, or franchises or privileges necessary for its enjoyment, shall, to the extent that they do not impose upon the city any general corporate liability, not be included in the limit of aggregate indebtedness fixed as aforesaid.