ALBERT C. RITCHIE. GOVERNOR. 795

ure to serve, the Mayor and Common Council shall elect a suc-
cessor to serve for the unexpired term.

SEC. 7. On the same day on which the Mayor and Common
Council is to be elected under this act, and on each and every
first Monday in May in each and every year thereafter, one per-
son, a legal voter in said town, and owner of real estate to the
value of at least one thousand dollars, shall be chosen by the
voters of said town as its treasurer, to serve for one year and
until his or her successor shall qualify, but before said treasurer
shall enter upon the duties assigned, he shall give bond payable
to the Mayor and Common Council of Seat Pleasant, in such
penalty as the Mayor and Common Council may fix, with securi-
ties to be approved by them, conditioned as they may direct, and
the said treasurer shall qualify and enter upon the duties of his
office on or before the first Monday in June succeeding his elec-
tion, and a failure to qualify within the time herein specified
shall be deemed a refusal to accept the office, whereupon the
Mayor and Common Council shall order a new election to fill the
vacancy, such election to be held in the manner prescribed by
Section 5 hereof. In the event of the death, resignation, in-
ability to act, or removal for cause of the treasurer by the
Mayor and Common Council, it shall be its duty to appoint
another treasurer under like conditions as to bond, to serve
until the next succeeding town election, at which his successor
shall be chosen to serve until the expiration of the next regular
term of treasurer or until his successor may be elected and
qualified.

The treasurer shall make all collections of taxes and receive
all money paid for the use and benefit of said corporation, and
shall, upon the order of the Mayor and Common Council make
all the authorized disbursements of said town. He shall keep an
account of the receipts and disbursements of the funds of the
corporation, and shall render the account to the Mayor and
Common Council when required by them, for all moneys re-
ceived by him. and shall promptly disburse on the order of the
Mayor and Common Council under such regulations as they
may prescribe, all sums of money so received by him. He shall
receive for his services such sum as the Mayor and Common
Council shall designate.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor shall
preside at all the meetings of the Common Council, but shall
have no vote with the Councilmen in said meetings except in