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. . • ;. , . - I. f•- 1 SUPREME COURT OF HAWAII-1313 , • Opinion of the Court e f taken to mean onus or obligation to execute the power e I granted." La Fleur concluded that the Louisiana statute . 1 Z fixing the salaries to be paid to firemen did not apply to . l• firemen of the fire department of the City of Baton Rouge, 1 ,. holding that "the question of pay of a fireman being a matter E of structure and organization and distinguished from a . power or function is reserved exclusively to [City of Batan ' " 124 So.2d at 379. The foregoing definition of i Rouge] . . structure and organization was approved by the Louisiana i Supreme Court inLetellier•v.Jefferson Parish;254 La. 1067, ' • 229 So.2d 101(1969).3 We think that such an interpretation is :• 1 ' .. . . • compatible with the natural sense of these words. . II. The Second State Legislature passed Act 73 in 1963, r the framing and adapting of charters by i h rovided fo :, . whc p the counties. Act 73 has. been amended by Act 65, S.L.H. 1965, and by Act 235. S.L.H. 1967, and as so amended I presently comprises HRS.chapter 50, constituting the enabl- . ing statutory law on charter commissions. HRS chapter 50 is a general law which authorizes the I . . , i • mayor of each county to appoint a charter commission of. eleven members with the approval of the legislative body of , the county:It further authorizes the charter commission after the appointment of its members to organize, hold its first : meeting and to adopt such rules and regulations.for the con- ', duct of its business as it may deem necessary and desirable. • The statutory provisions prescribing the ch Tter commis- sions' duties and functions are set forth in HRS§ 50-6. which ' has not been amended since 1963. It provides that: • The charter commission shall study.and analyze the exist- ing governmental structure of the county for the. purpose 3These two rases were concerned with the application of the term structure and • . 11, organization as used in the Louisiana Constitution to the salaries of and pension • ; -l• system for firemen of the local governments. In the present case under Standing Committee Report No.53..cee supra at 10.personnel was deleted from the constitu- • tional proposal so that civil service and compensat• would not be included within , the area of structure and organization. , i I { fl i .