Manila, Feb. 22.
Among the business that is being done by the Legislature during the extra session is the consideration of the Bill for a new charter for the has already been passed by the Assembly (the Lower House) and is now in its final stages with the Commission. Under the new charter, the city is to have an elective Municipal Board of ten members. Several of the changes from the old charter are of a radical nature; the chief among them being the substitution for the present board of six members of one of eleven; ten of these to be elected by the people of Manila and the eleventh—the Alcade—to be appointed by the Governor-General. This new Municipal Board will hold office for the term of years; the Alcade will receive a salary of P. 9,000 a year, and the elected—_ councilman P. 90 per diem for each regular or special session of the board actually attended by them. The city engineer ceases to be an ezofficio member of the board and the number of the city departments is reduced to four. The secretary of the board is also to be elected, but by the members of that body, and will hold office for the same term as that of the members electing them. His compensation is to be fixed by the board, but shall not exceed 1,800 per annum. At the same
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