LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 287

of eighteen hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly, and
such other clerical assistants as may be prescribed by ordi-
nance not inconsistent with this Article. In case of a vacancy
occurring in the office of City Register by removal or other-
wise, the joint convention of the two Branches of the City
Council shall forthwith fill said vacancy. He shall perform
such other duties as may be prescribed by ordinance not in-
consistent with this Article; provided, the present incumbent
of the office of City Register shall hold his office until the ex-
piration of his term, as now provided under existing laws and
ordinances, and should a vacancy occur in said office, a suc-
cessor shall be appointed by a joint convention of the City
Council for the balance of said term.

36.The Board of Estimates shall be the head of the third
sub-department of Finance, and shall consist of the Mayor, City
Solicitor, Comptroller, President of the Second Branch City
Council and President of the Board of Public Improvements.
The first meeting of said Board in every year shall be called by
notice from the Mayor or President of the Second Branch of the
City Council, personally served upon members of the said
Board. Subsequent meetings shall be called as the said Board
may direct. The President of the Second Branch shall be
President of said Board, and one of the number shall act as
Secretary, and said Board may employ such clerks as may be
necessary to discharge its duties, their number and compen-
sation shall be fixed by ordinance. The said Board shall have
power at any time to summon before it the heads of the depart-
ments and sub-departments, and all municipal officers and
special commissions or boards. The said Board shall annually,
between the first day of October and the first day of November,
meet, and by an affirmative vote of a majority of all the mem-
bers make out the following three lists of moneys to be appro-
priated by the City Council for the next ensuing fiscal year.

First—A list, to be known as the "Departmental Estimates,"
of the amounts estimated to be required to pay the expenses of
conducting the public business for the next ensuing fiscal year,
including the expenditures by the City Council for the salaries
of its members, officers and expenses; said list shall be pre-
pared in such detail, as to the aggregate sum and the items