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(1.) Section 21.01, Chapter 1, Title II, is amended to read as follows : SECTION 21.01. MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT. That the government an t e municipa aut ority of said city shall be vested in a Mayor, a City Council composed of five members, a City Manager, a Tax Collector and Tax Assessor, a Chief of Police, a Board of Equalization of Taxes, and in such other boards and officers as may be hereinafter designated or may be created by ordinance. The City Council shall have power to create such other offices as they may deem necessary, to provide for filling the same by appointment or election, and to abolish at any time any office so created by them. (2. ) Section 2.1. 11, Chapter 1, Title II, is amended to read as follows : SECTION 21. 11. DUTIES : DESIGNATE DEPOSITORIES. TZeiCity Counci s all, b regio cation, designate from time to time such banks to be the depositories of the funds of said city, and the Tax Collector shall be required to deposit day by day such funds of the city as may come into his hands in said banks, to the credit of the city, and shall be required to present at each regular Council meeting a report of all such moneys collected and deposited in said banks by him; the City Council may, by resolution, require such banks acting as city depository, to give such bond as they may deem proper, for the safe-keeping of all city funds entrusted to their care, said depository only to pay out said funds upon a written order signed by the President of the City Council, attested by the City Manager. (3. ) Section 21. 12, Chapter 1, Title II, is amended to read as follows : SECTION 21. 12. DUTIES : FILL OFFICES . At their first meeting in April, following the election of the Mayor, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the City Council shall receive from the Mayor nominations of a person to fill the office of City Manager, Tax Collector and Tax Assessor (unless they shall have previously provided by ordinance that said office shall be filled by more than one person, in which case they shall receive as many nominations for those offices as they have provided for) , and one to fill the Chief of Police, Fire Chief and three (3) to fill the office of Board of Equalization of Taxes, and of persons to fill such other offices as they may have provided for by ordinance, and shall at said meeting proceed to vote upon such nominations . Any person so nominated who receives a majority vote of the Councilmen at such meeting shall be elected to the office for which nominated. If any nomination is rejected by the City Council, they shall notify the Mayor thereof and he shall 2.