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council meetings, shall keep the minutes thereof, shall keep
the ordinance book herein provided for, and shall submit said
minutes and said book to the inspection, in his presence, of
any citizen of said town at any time. He shall keep the assess-
ment books, collect all taxes, and receive and pay out all
money belonging to said town, provided, however, that he shall
not pay out any money except upon an order duly passed by
the Mayor and Common Council, or in pursuance of an ordi-
nance duly passed by them. He shall keep an accurate account
of the receipts and disbursements of the Mayor and Common
Council of Mount Rainier, and shall render monthly state-
ments to the Common Council of such receipts and disburse-
ments. He shall perform such other duties as may be provided
for in this Act, and as may be provided for by ordinances duly
passed by the Mayor and Common Council of Mount Rainier,
and he shall receive for his services such reasonable salary as
the Mayor and Common Council may by ordinance establish,
provided, however, that the salary of no Town Clerk and Treas-
urer shall be decreased during his term of office.

Before said Town Clerk and Treasurer shall enter upon the
duties of his office, he shall execute and deliver to the Mayor
a bond payable to the Mayor and Common Council of Mount
Rainier in such penalty as the Mayor and Common Council
by ordinance shall fix, the sureties to be approved by the Mayor
and conditioned upon the faithful performance of the duties
of his office. In case of a vacancy occurring in the office of
Town Clerk and Treasurer the Mayor and Common Council
shall have power to fill such vacancy.

Voters.

Section 8. And be it further enacted, That all male citizens
of the United States of the age of twenty-one years and over
who shall have actually resided within the limits of said town
not less than 365 days next preceding any regular election for
Councilmen, who have never been convicted of any infamous
crime, shall be qualified voters of said town and as such shall
be entitled to register as hereinafter provided and after such
registration to vote at any election held in said town under the
provisions of this Act, or under the provisions of any other
Act requiring an election to be held in said town for any town
purposes whatsoever, until they shall be thereafter disqualified
by loss of citizenship, actual removal from said town or con-
viction for an infamous crime, and shall for such disqualifica-