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executive officer and the secretary, as appointed by law, shall constitute 

 the regular officers of the board. The board may, by a majority vote, 

 reject any clerk or employee appointed by the chief executive officer, but 

 the rejection must be made at the next meeting after the official notifica- 

 tion of said appointment. 



Rule III. 



Regular meetings of the board shall be held on the third Tuesday of 

 each month, commencing on the third Tuesday of April, 1892. 



Rule IV. 

 The president or vice-president or any two members of the board, by 

 writing, may issue notices for special meetings at any time. ' 



Rnle V. 

 Three members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transac- 

 tion of any business, but in an emergency two members, at a regular or 

 special meeting, may consider business, and when such business is approved 

 by one or more members it shall stand and be recorded as regular, the 

 same as if a quorum had been actually present and assented thereto, pro- 

 vided that each member of the board shall be notified of the action taken 

 and the subject considered by the two members at said meeting. 



Rule VI. 



The president or, in his absence, the vice-president, shall preside over 

 all the meetings of the board. He shall appoint all committees, unless 

 otherwise directed, and shall generally have all the power and authority 

 incident to his officj. 



In the absence of the president and vice-president, the board may 

 appoint a chairman who shall, for that occasion, exercise the functions of 

 the president. In the absence of the president and vice-president he shall 

 sign requisitions, as provided by section 1 of chapter 236, Laws of 1892. 



Rule VII. 



The chief executive officer shall exercise such direction and manage- 

 ment of the office as shall make effective the various agencies employed. 



He shall nominate to the board all clerks and employees in all the 

 departments of the board and of the commissions of the several judicial 

 districts; but all employees of said judicial district commissions shall be, 

 as far as practicable, residents within their respective districts. 



He shall fix and establish all salaries of officers, clerks and employees, 

 subject to the approval of the board. 



He shall in like manner have power to remove for cause, made in writ- 



