of all employments in the administrative service of the City not excepted by the provisions of this Charter, by the Council or by the people, for open, competitive and free examinations as to fitness, for an eligible list from which vacancies shall be filled, for a period of probation before employment is made permanent, and for promotion on the basis of merit, experience and record. To establish a Civic Art Commission. (57) (58) To establish a Park Commission. . . . (59) To establish a Playground Commission. . (60) To establish a Commission of Public Charities. (61) To provide a suitable procedure for taking over or otherwise acquiring municipal ownership of public utilities. (62) To enact appropriate legislation and do and perform any and all other acts and things which may be necessary and proper to carry out the general powers of the City or any of the provisions of this Charter, and to exercise all powers not in conflict with the Constitution of the State, with this Charter or with ordinances adopted by the people of the City. ARTICLE X. FINANCE AND TAXATION Sec. 52. On or before the first Monday in April in each year, or on such date in each year as shall be fixed by the Council, the heads of departments, offices, boards and commissions shall send to the City Manager a careful estimate, in writing, of the amounts, specifying in detail the objects thereof, required for the business and proper conduct of their respective departments, offices, boards and commissions, during the next ensuing fiscal year. Sec. 53. On or before the first Monday in May in each year, or on such date in each year as shall be fixed by the Council, the City Manager shall submit to the Council a tentative budget which shall contain an estimate of the probable expenditures of the City Government for the next ensuing fiscal year, stating the amount required to meet the interest and sinking funds for the outstanding funded indebtedness of the City, and the wants of all departments of the municipal government in detail, and showing specifically the amount necessary to be provided for each fund and department; also an estimate of the amount of income from fines, licenses and other sources of revenue, exclusive of taxes upon property, and the probable amount required to be levied and raised by taxation. Sec. 54. The Council shall meet annually prior to fixing the tax levy, and after considering the tentative budget submitted by the City Manager shall make a final budget of the estimated amounts required to pay the expenses of conducting the business of the City Government for the next ensuing fiscal year. And the Council at the same time shall pass an annual appropriation ordinance, which shall be based upon the budget submitted by the City Manager, and made up as herein provided. The total amount of appropriations shall not exceed the estimated revenues of the City. Before the annual appropriation ordinance has been passed, the Council may make temporary appropriations for current department expenses, chargeable to the appropriations of the year when passed, to an amount sufficient to cover the necessary expenses of the various departments until the annual appropriation is in force. . . At any meeting after the passage of the appropriation ordinance, the Council by a vote of six of its members may amend such ordinance, so as to authorize the transfer of unused balances appropriated for any purpose, including the emergency fund, to another purpose, or to appropriate available revenues not included in the annual budget. . . . Sec. 56. The Council must finally adopt, not later than the first Tuesday in September, an ordinance levying upon the assessed valuation of the property in the City, subject to the provisions of this Charter, a rate of taxation upon each hundred dollars of valuation sufficient to raise the amounts estimated to be required in the annual budget, less the amount estimated to be received from fines, licenses and other sources of revenue. ... Sec. 57. The tax levy authorized by the Council to meet the municipal expenses for each fiscal year shall not exceed, except as herein provided, the rate of one dollar on each one hundred dollars of the assessed value of all real and personal property within the City.. Sec. 115. The City of Berkeley shall have the right and power to make and enforce all laws and regulations in respect to municipal affairs, subject only to the restrictions and limitations provided in this Charter; provided, however, that nothing herein shall be construed to prevent or restrict the City from exercising or consenting to, and the City is hereby authorized to exercise, any and all rights, powers and privileges heretofore or hereafter granted or prescribed by general laws of the State. APPENDIX I SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL IN PAMPHLET FORM1 A.A.I.C. A.H.L. H.J. S.P.D. A. Colonial. Key to Abbreviations. American Association for International Conciliation, 407 W. 117th St., New York, N. Y. American History Leaflets, Simmons-Peckham Co., 112 E. 19th St., New York, N. Y. Haldeman-Julius Co., Girard, Kansas. Old South Leaflets, Old South Association in Boston, Old Superintendent of Public Documents, Washington, D. C. 1. HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS. 1. Magna Carta. O. S. L. No. 5, 5c; S. P. D. 5c. 2. Charter of Massachusetts Bay, 1629. O. S. L. No. 7, 5c. 3. Massachusetts Body of Liberties, 1641. O. S. L. No. 164, 5c; A. H. L. No. 25, 30c. 4. New England Confederation, 1643. O. S. L. No. 169; 5. Franklin's Plan of Union, 1754. O. S. L. No. 9, 5c. B. Formation of the Constitution. 1. Articles of Confederation. O. S. L. No. 2, 5c; A. H. L. No. 20, 30c (contains also Franklin and Dickinson drafts). See also Constitution of the United States. 2. Northwest Ordinance, 1787. O. S. L. No. 13, 5c. Literature of a purely propagandist nature is not listed unless it has some special importance for the study of American government. 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