PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1663

amined, and report to the Mayor and Council upon all bills, ac-
counts, pay-rolls and claims before the same are acted on or
allowed by the Mayor and Council. He shall perform such other
and further duties as may be required of him by law or ordi-
nance, and the Commissioner of Accounts shall deposit all money
received by him from all departments in such banking institu-
tion in the City of Hagerstown as shall after competitive bid-
ding agree to pay on said deposits the highest rate of interest;
and the Commissioner of Accounts may require such banking
institution in which said deposits are made to give bond, to be
approved by such Commissioner of Accounts, for the faithful
performance of its trust.

SEC. 159-1. The said officers of registration, appointed for
any registration district in the City of Hagerstown shall en-
dorse upon the back and write at the head of each registry of
voters delivered to him, as aforesaid, the number of the ward of
which such books may be respectively the registries of said
voters, and shall sit for the purpose of ascertaining and register-
ing in the said two duplicate registries of voters of each of the
wards of which they may be officers of registration, at some
place to be selected by him, as convenient as possible to all
residents of said wards, for three successive days in April in
the year nineteen hundred and fifteen and every second year
thereafter, said sittings to begin on the first Monday in April.
They shall also sit on the second Wednesday after the first Mon-
day in April in the year nineteen hundred and fifteen, and
every second year thereafter for the hearing of applications
for reinstatement by persons whose names shall have been
stricken off, the said respective officers of registration shall sit
at said several sittings with open doors from nine o'clock A. M.
to nine o'clock P. M. on each day of their sessions, and their
proceedings, while so sitting shall be public and open to free
inspection, without any obstruction whatever.

SEC. 159-J. The several officers of registration shall give in
the year nineteen hundred and fifteen and every second year
thereafter a collective notice, signed by them, of their respec-
tive sittings to be held in said year, under the provisions of this
Article, and of the place of sitting in each ward, and of the
times at which each of said respective sittings shall take place;
said notice shall be given by said officers of registration four
days before the first of their respective sittings, by publication
in two newspapers published in Hagerstown and by handbills
set up in at least ten public places in each registration district