ceiving and disbursing officers, and perform such other duties as the City Council may direct.

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SEC. 16. To Make Reports He shall as soon as may be after the close of each fiscal year report to the City Council the financial condition of the city and the several wards thereof, and of the Board of Education.

SEC. 17. To Countersign and Record Contracts. He shall countersign all contracts made in behalf of said city, and no such contract shall be valid until so countersigned. He shall keep a book in which he shall enter all contracts, which shall be open to the inspection of all parties interested. He shall not directly nor indirectly be interested in any contract or job to which the city or any ward thereof or said Board of Education is a party.

SEC. 18. To Audit Accounts. All claims and demands against the city, before the same shall be allowed by the city council, and all claims against the Board of Education of the City of Minneapolis, before the same shall be allowed by said board, shall be audited and adjusted by the Comptroller: and all orders on the treasury, either on the part of the city or of said Board, shall be examined and countersigned by him, and by him kept until delivered to the persons entitled thereto, and he shall take and preserve receipts for all orders so delivered. He may keep and use a seal of office, which may be used instead of the seal of the city in the execution of licenses and such other sealed instruments as the Comptroller shall be specially directed to issue, and any use of such seal by the Comptroller heretofore, is hereby legalized; or he may use the seal of the city, in his discretion.

SEC. 19. Duties of Treasurer. The treasurer shall receive all moneys belonging to the city, including license money and fines, and keep an accurate and detailed account thereof in such manner as the City Council shall from time to time direct. He shall also be ex officio Treasurer of the Board of Education of the City of Minneapolis.

SEC. 20. Bonds of Treasurer. The Treasurer shall give separate bonds for the safe keeping of the funds of the city and the Board of Education, in such sums as may be required by the City Council and the Board of Education respectively.

SEC. 21. Treasurer to make Report. The Treasurer shall, as soon as may be, after the close of each fiscal year and at least fifteen days before the annual election for city officers, exhibit to the City Council a full and detailed account of all receipts and expenditures for the last fiscal year, and also of the state of the treasury, which account shall be filed with the Clerk, and a copy of the same shall be published in the official paper of the city.

SEC. 22. Wharf Master. The City Council shall have power to provide for the appointment of a Wharf Master, with power of a police officer, or may devolve the duties of such officer on any member of the police

force, and may by ordinance define the duties of such Wharf Master, and regulate all wharf landings and levees in said city.

SEC. 23. Jurisdiction of Municipal Court. The Municipal Court of said city shall have exclusive cognizance and jurisdiction of all trials and examinations within said city, cognizable before a Justice of the Peace under the laws of the State, and of all suits, prosecutions and proceedings for the recovery of all forfeitures, fines and penalties or inflictions of punishments for the breach of any by-law, regulation or ordinance of said city, and of all offences against the same. And in all cases of conviction for assaults, batteries and affrays, disorderly conduct, breach of the peace, keeping or frequenting disorderly houses or houses of ill-fame, the Municipal Court may, in addition to any fine or punishment authorized or imposed, or without such fine or other punishment, compel the accused to give security to keep the peace and be of good behavior, for a period not exceeding six months and in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. The Judge and Special Judges of said Court shall have powers of Justices of the Peace as conservators of the peace and in all ministerial and exparte matters, and shall have all the power of Justices of the Peace to take depositions to be used in other courts. All fines and penalties imposed by said court shall belong to and be a part of the revenue of said city. Said court shall also have power in all criminal actions within its jurisdiction, when the punishment is by imprisonment, or by imprisonment in default of payment of fine, to sentence any offender to hard labor in any workhouse established by the city for that purpose, or in case of male offenders to sentence them to labor on any public work or improvement, in like manner and under the same qualifications as hereinafter provided in case of offences against city ordinances.

SEC. 24. City Officers to Turn over City property. If any person having been an officer in said city, shall not, within ten days after notification and request, deliver to his successor in office all property, books, papers and effects of every description, in his possession belonging to said city, or pertaining to the office he may have held, he shall forfeit and pay to the use of the city one thousand dollars, besides all damages caused by his neglect or refusal to deliver, and such successor may recover the possession of such books, papers and effects in the manner prescribed by the law of this State.

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SEC. 25. No Alderman to be Interested in any Contract. Alderman shall be a party to or interested in any job or contract with the city or either of the wards thereof, and any contract in which any Alderman shall be so interested shall be null and void, and in case any money shall have been paid on any such contract, the amount so paid may be recovered by a joint or several action from the parties to such contract, and the Alderman interested in the same.

SEC. 26. Other Duties may be Required and other Officers Appointed by City Council. The City Council shall have power at any time to require other and further duties to be performed by any officer whose duties are herein prescribed, not inconsistent with this act, and to appoint such other officers as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act, and to prescribe their duties, unless herein otherwise provided for.

SEC. 27. Salaries of Mayor and Aldermen. (As amended February 27th, 1883.) The Mayor shall be entitled to an anual salary of one thousand dollars. Each Alderman shall be entitled to an annual salary of three hundred dollars, and in addition thereto members of the Board of Equalization of taxes, and Aldermen acting as Judges of Election may be given compensation for such special services.

SEC. 28. Exemption from Jury Duty. The Mayor, Aldermen, all city officers and the men employed in the several departments of said city while holding such office or engaged in the service of the city shall be exempt from serving as jurors in any court.

SEC. 29. City Council to Fix Salaries. (As amended February 27th, 1883.) The City Council shall have power, where the same is not herein fixed, to fix the compensation of all officers elected or appointed under this act. Such compensation shall be fixed by resolution at the time the office is created, and at the commencement of any year, as soon after election as practicable, and when so fixed, shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which such officer shall have been elected or appointed.

All fees and emoluments of whatever character accruing to any city officer, as such officer, shall be reported to the City Council monthly, and paid monthly into the city treasury, except that the Sealer of Weights and Measures shall be entitled to receive his fees as fixed by the City Council and shall have no other compensation, and except Market Masters and such inspectors, weighers and measurers as the City Council may appoint whenever the City Council fixes their fees and gives them the same in lieu of all other compensation.

SEC. 30. Officers to Make Returns of Property. All officers of the city having charge of any city property shall at the close of each fiscal year make and return to the City Council a full inventory of all public property in their hands or control respectively. Such inventories shall be preserved and filed by the City Clerk. and kept open to inspection of all parties interested, but need not be printed in the proceedings unless the Council shall so specially direct.

SEC. 31. Deputy Comptroller. (Amendment of Nov. 17, 1881.) The City Comptroller shall have the power to appoint a deputy, who shall be designated "Deputy Comptroller," and whose official acts shall have the same force and effect as if performed by the Comptroller, except that he shall not be authorized to countersign any bond or contract of the city,

nor make any official statement of the condition of any city fund. Such deputy shall, before entering upon the duties of such office, take and file with the City Clerk like oath as is required of other city officers, and may be required by the Comptroller to give such bond as may be satisfactory to himself, for the faithful performance of his said duties; and the Comptroller shall be responsible to the city for the acts of such deputy.

The compensation of such Deputy Comptroller shall be paid by the Comptroller, unless otherwise provided by the City Council.

CHAPTER IV.

THE CITY COUNCIL-ITS GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES.

SECTION 1. City Council, Quorum and Presiding Officer. The Aldermen shall constitute the City Council. A majority of the Aldermen shall constitute a quorum. The President or Vice-President of the Council shall, when present, preside at all meetings. In their absence the Council may elect a President pro tem. who shall for such meeting have the same power as the President.

SEC. 2. Stated and Special Meetings of Council. The City Council shall hold stated meetings, and the Mayor may call special meetings, by notice to each of the members, to be delivered personally or left at their usual places of abode. At such special meeting no other business shall be transacted than such as is designated in the call. In case of the attendance of less than a quorum at any stated meeting the members present may adjourn to any special time they may designate, and all business transacted at such adjourned meeting shall have the same validity as if done at a stated meeting.

SEC. 3. City Council Judge of Election of its Members-Rules of Procedure. The City Council shall be the judge of the election of its own members, and in such cases shall have the power to send for persons and papers. It shall determine the rules of its own proceedings, and have power to compel the attendance of absent members, and may provide for the punishment of such absent members.

SEC. 4. Power to Remove Officers and how Exercised. The City Council shall have power to remove from office any officer of said city whether appointed by the City Council or elected by the people, but no officer elected by the people shall be removed except for cause, nor unless first furnished with a copy of the charges, nor until such person

shall have had reasonable opportunity to be heard in person or by counsel in his own defense. Continued absence from the meetings of the Council in case of Aldermen, and neglect of duty in case of other officers, unless for good reason, shall be deemed a good cause of removal.

The City Council shall fix a time and place for the trial of such officer, of which not less than ten days' notice shall be given, and shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses, and the production of papers, and to hear and determine the case, and if such officer shall refuse or neglect to appear and answer such charge the City Council may declare the office vacant.

SEC. 5. Power to Enact Ordinances and their Force. (As amended February 27th, 1883.) The City Council shall have full power and authority to make, ordain, publish, enforce, alter, amend or repeal all such ordinances for the government and good order of the city, for the suppression of vice and intemperance, and for the prevention of crime, as it shall deem expedient. and in and by the same to declare and impose penalties and punishments, and enforce the same against any person or persons who may violate the provisions of any ordinance, passed and ordained by it, and all such ordinances are hereby declared to be and to have the force of law, provided, that they be not repugnant to the laws of the United States or of this State; and for these purposes the said City Council shall have authority by such ordinances:

First-To license and regulate the exhibitions of common showmen, and shows of all kinds, and the exhibitions of caravans, menageries, circuses, concerts, and theatrical performances, also to license and regulate all auctioneers, pawnbrokers, dealers in second-hand goods, junk dealers, keepers of intelligence or employment offices, as well as all persons doing the business of seeking employment for others or procuring or furnishing employees for others, billiard tables, pigeon-hole tables, nine or ten-pin alleys, bowling saloons, shooting-galleries, taverns, victualling houses, and all persons vending, dealing in or disposing of spirituous, vinous, fermented or malt liquors. Provided, that all licenses, except for exhibitions, caravans, menageries, circuses, concerts and theatrical performances shall extend to and terminate upon the first Monday in May next after the same shall be issued, unless sooner revoked.

And provided, further, that the power to regulate, above given, shall be construed to include among other powers the power to define who shall be considered as auctioneers, pawnbrokers, dealers in second-hand goods, and junk dealers, and to compel each and every such person, whether licensed or not, to keep in such manner as it may direct, open at all times for inspection or record of all such property as it may designate, with the time when received, and the name, residence and description of the person from whom the same was received, and to make daily reports thereof to the police department of said city as it shall direct, and also among other powers, the power to require all persons doing the