EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1465

be due said City from any source whatever, and he shall attend
at the City Council Chamber at such times and between such
hours and shall receive such compensation as the Mayor and
City Council shall by ordinance prescribe.

Section 307. The Mayor by and with the advice and con-
sent of the City Council shall annually on or before the first
Monday in June appoint a resident and legal voter of the
City of Havre de Grace not less than twenty-five years of age
to be City Clerk. Before entering upon the discharge of his
duties the said Clerk shall take and subscribe before some Jus-
tice of the Peace of Harford County the oath prescribed in
Section 6 of Article 1, of the Constitution of this State.

In case the person appointed City Clerk shall fail to take
the oath required by this Section within twenty days after his
appointment, or in the event of the Clerk's removal from the
City, death, resignation or removal from office, the Mayor
shall at once proceed to fill the vacancy thereby occasioned by
new appointment.

The Clerk shall be ex-officio clerk to the Mayor and City
Council, and shall perform all the duties that are required of
said Clerk under the Charter and Ordinances of said City,
including the duties of Officers of Registration as hereinbefore
provided. He shall attend all meetings of the City Council
and preserve accurate minutes of the proceedings thereof in a
permanent record. He shall keep an accurate itemized account
of all receipts and disbursements of the funds of the City and
an inventory of all the property belonging to the City. He
shall as often as he is called upon to do so, make a statement
to the Mayor and City Council of the financial condition of
the City.

He shall make all transfers and abatements on the assess-
ment books of said City when authorized to do so by the Mayor
and City Council. He shall annually assess all new property
or assessable property not before assessed, and charge the same
on the assessment books to the respective owners.

It shall be the duty of the Clerk to keep correct minutes
of the proceedings of the City Council, and he shall make
publication, by advertisement in two newspapers in the city,
if so many be published therein, or by hand-bills, of all ordi-
nances passed for the police regulation of said City, and such
other ordinances as the Mayor and City Council may direct
to be published; he shall enter into a book kept for that pur-
pose all ordinances passed by the Council, and said book shall