1874 ARTICLE 7. .

collected, or as the Mayor and Common Council may by ordinance adopt
for the benefit of the corporation; provided, that the said treasurer shall
not be required to call personally on the taxpayers to collect said taxes,
but shall give public notice of the time when they are due and payable,
and the place in" the town where they may be paid; and may distrain
therefor at any time after sixty days from the date they shall become
clue and payable; and the said treasurer shall keep an accurate account
of the receipts and disbursements of the funds of the corporation in a
well-bound book, and shall pay out the same only on the order of the
Mayor and countersigned by the clerk after the bills therefor have been
passed by the Common Council, and shall annually report by a written
or printed statement in detail to the Mayor and Common Council, show-
ing the condition of the finances of the town, giving the several sums
received or expended, and from whom received and for what account,
and for what particular purpose expended, and to whom paid, and the
Mayor and Common Council shall require the said treasurer to enter into
bond, with sufficient surety for the true and faithful performance of his
duties of such; said bond to be furnished by any one of the regularly
incorporated bonding and trust companies of the State; he shall be elected
for the period of two years, or until his successor qualifies, and shall
receive such a salary as the Mayor and Common Council may determine
just and proper.

CORPORATION COUNSEL.

1900, ch. 206, sec. 179A.

458. The Mayor shall, upon the organization of the Council, appoint
an attorney for the town, who shall be subject to the approval of the
Council, and shall servo for n term of two years and receive such com-
pensation as the Mayor and Common Council may determine, he shall
be legal advisor of the officers of the town, and shall draw up all ordi-
nances, leases, deeds, contracts, or other legal papers of said town when
requested to do so by the proper officers.

ELECTIONS.

1900, ch. 206, sec. 180.

459. The Common Council shall have power to pass all ordinances
for conducting the elections herein provided for, or which may be here-
after authorized to be hold, and for making returns thereof, said returns
shall be filed with the Clerk of the City Council; and whenever the said
Council shall provide by suitable ordinances for the holding of elections
in said town under the powers hereby granted, then said elections shall
hereafter be held under said ordinances; but in passing said ordinances
and providing for the conducting of said elections and the registration of
voters, the said Common Council shall conform as nearly as possible to
the general aims and purposes of the general election laws of the State