286 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

collected for the use of the City by any municipal official,
unless otherwise provided in this Article, shall be turned over
to the Comptroller and by him deposited with the City Reg-
ister. He shall perform such other duties as may be pre-
scribed by ordinances, not inconsistent with this Article. In
case of the temporary absence or disqualification of the Comp-
troller, or a vacancy occurring in said office from any cause,
the Deputy Comptroller shall, during such absence or dis-
qualification or vacancy from any cause, act as Comptroller.
The Second Branch of the City Council, by a majority vote of
all the members elected to said Branch, may remove the
Comptroller from office for incompetency, wilful neglect of
duty or misdemeanor in office, upon charges preferred by the
Mayor, and after notice of such charges is given to the Comp-
troller and an opportunity afforded him to be heard by said
Branch.

35. The City Register shall be the head of the second sub-
department of Finance, and he shall be the register of the public
debt, and also the custodian of all moneys belonging to the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. He shall be appointed
by a joint convention of the two Branches of the City Council
on the Tuesday next after the fourth Monday of May, in the
year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and on the same day
and month in every fourth year thereafter. His salary shall be
three thousand and three hundred dollars per annum, payable
monthly, in addition to three hundred dollars for services ren-
dered the State, as provided for in section 93 of Article 81,
Code of Public General Laws. He shall be removable at the
pleasure of the convention of the said two Branches. The City
Register shall take under his charge and keeping the corporate
seal of the City, and use it in all cases which are now or may be
hereafter required by Federal or State laws, ordinances, or the
uses and customs of nations, and shall charge a fee of two
dollars for each impression of the seal except such as shall be
affixed to or impressed upon documents for the Mayor and
City Council or used in connection with the affairs of the City.
He shall pay to the Comptroller, for the use of the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, all fees so received by him. He
shall have power to appoint a Deputy Register, with a salary