Excerpt from City Charter, Chapter 283 Acts or 1897: With Amendments to January 1, 1906; Revised Ordinances of 1906; Standing Regulations, Statutes Relating to the City Section 2. The territory of said city shall be divided into seven wards, as at present constituted, until the wards are changed under the provisions of law. Section 3. The financial year of said city shall begin with the first day of january, and the municipal year, and the term of all officers elected at the annual city election, shall begin with the second Monday of January following the election. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.