ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 811

not exceed the sum of two hundred dollars per annum and that
the salary of said superintendent of water works shall not ex-
ceed the sum of seventy-five dollars per annum.

263. The town clerk shall keep a careful record of the
proceedings of the Council and record all the ordinances passed
and approved, keep all books, records, papers and documents
in his safe custody and turn the same over to his successor in
office; issue licenses and permits and receive the money there-
for and pay the same over monthly to the Treasurer and make
monthly reports of the same. He shall collect the taxes levied
by the Mayor and Council under the annual levy in the manner
hereinafter provided. He shall file all claims and accounts pre-
sented against the town, and when the same are passed by the
Council make a record of the same and perform such other
duties as are imposed upon him by this charter or by any ordi-
nance or order of the Mayor and Council. Neither the Mayor
nor any Councilman shall be eligible for appointment as town
clerk. The town clerk, the town treasurer, the superintendent
of water works, the policemen and all other officers of said town
except the Mayor and Councilmen, whether elected or ap-
pointed, before entering upon the duties of the office to which
they are elected or appointed, shall take the oath required by
Article 1, Section 6, of the Constitution of the State of Mary-
land, before the Mayor, who is hereby authorized to administer
all official oaths to officers of said town; and they shall each sub-
scribe to said oath in one of the record books of the town kept
for that purpose. And the term of office of the town clerk,
treasurer, and the superintendent of water works shall be for
one year from the date of their appointment or until their
successor shall have been appointed and qualified; subject
however, to removal for cause and upon notice as hereinafter
provided.

264. The town treasurer shall receive all money that may
be collected for taxes, licenses, fines, or from other sources,
through the town clerk and shall credit each item and deposit
the same in bank to his credit as town treasurer; and he
shall keep a true and accurate account of the town's finances
in well bound books kept exclusively for that purpose, and
he shall make monthly reports to the Council of his receipts,
disbursements and balances, which shall be recorded in the
minutes; and all money so received by the treasurer shall be
paid out only upon his check drawn in obey ance to written