§ 6. All powers and duties, etc., of aldermanic bodies are hereby conferred upon all other officers; rights and duties of other officers, etc.  


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  • All powers and duties, rights and privileges of the mayor and aldermanic bodies and of all elective municipal officers set forth in the laws of the State of Mississippi are hereby conferred and imposed upon the mayor, upon the commissioners, and upon the subordinate officers, respectively, of the municipality that may adopt the commission form of government. And the additional power is hereby granted the commission to appoint such and all necessary subordinate officers as are not specified in the Charter to be elective, to employ such help as may be necessary to properly conduct the municipal affairs, to prescribe the duties of all subordinate officers, both elective and appointive, and to fix their salaries, and to regulate the same, which in all cases shall be just and in proportion to the value of the time required and the service rendered the municipality, to remove any elective or appointive subordinate officer or school trustee for good cause and to fill the vacancy by appointment; to abolish any appointive office, except that of school trustee, or consolidate two or more when necessity requires.