Sec. 508. Superintendent—employment and control of
help.
Subject to the consent of the committee, the Superintendent
may employ such help for carrying on the work of this department,
in all of its details, in an economical and satisfactory
manner, and over all such employees he shall have absolute
control. He shall pay his employees such wages as are usual and
necessary in the opinion of the committee, but the pay of no employee
shall at any time be increased by the committee in an
amount exceeding one hundred dollars per annum without first
obtaining authority therefor from the City Council in due form.
