ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 209

or against the said city in the courts of the State, or of the
United States, in the Circuit Court and before the City Mag-
istrate. When requested by the Mayor and City Council or
any member thereof, he shall, in writing, give legal advice on
all questions that may be referred to him, and shall also in
writing advise the officers of said city as and when he may be
called upon for said advice. He shall prepare all ordinances
and examine, supervise, prepare and approve as to form, all
the contracts, specifications, deeds and all other legal papers
and forms of the said Mayor and City Council, and he shall

have general supervision over all the legal business of said
Mayor and City Council, and shall attend to all said business.
He shall maintain an office in the City Hall and shall prose-
cute all city cases in the City Police Court. He shall be paid
such salary as the Mayor and City Council shall by ordinance
direct, and he shall, when obliged to leave the city on the city's
business receive his actual expense, in addition to his salary.
He shall be not less than twenty-five years of age, five years a
resident of the city and three years a member of the bar. He

shall give bond for the faithful performance of his duties in
the sum of five thousand dollars ($5, 000. 00) to be approved
by the Mayor and City Council of Cumberland.

31. It shall be the duty of the auditor to examine in detail
all bills, accounts and claims against the said city, and if found
correct, sign his name in approval thereof, but if found incor-
rect, he shall return them to the party presenting the same for
correction. He shall be general accountant for the said city,
and shall keep in books regular accounts of all real, personal
and mixed property of the said city, of all receipts and dis-
bursements of money, and under proper heads, separately, each
source of receipt and the cause of each disbursement, and shall
also keep an account with each person, including the officers,
who have money transactions with the said city, crediting the
amounts allowed by proper authority, and specifying the par-
ticular transactions to which the said entries apply. It shall
also be his duty at least once a month to examine the books or
accounts of all officers of said city, charged with the receipt and
disbursement of money, and if they be found incorrect, to at
once make a report in writing of the same to the commissioner
of Finance and Revenue. It shall also be his duty to examine
all accounts against said city, after appropriation has been duly
made to pay the same by the Mayor and City Council; and he
shall render such services from time to time as the Mayor and