committee of the common council on enrolled bills; and on being found correctly enrolled, without further reading or question shall be signed by the president of the common council and sent to the other board, where a like examination shall be made by the committee of that board on enrolled bills, and if found correctly enrolled the same shall be signed by the mayor.

RULE 13. Every ordinance shall have as many readings in each board as the rules of each board require, after which the question shall be on passing the same to be enrolled, and it shall be sent to the other board for concurrence; and when such ordinance shall have so passed to be enrolled in each board the same shall be enrolled by the city clerk and examined by the committee of the common council on enrolled bills, and on being found by said committee to be correctly enrolled, the same shall be reported to the council, when the question shall be on passing the same to be ordained; and when said ordinance shall have so passed to be ordained it shall be signed by the president of the common council and sent to the other board, where a like examination shall be made by the committee of that board on enrolled bills, and if found to be correctly enrolled the same shall be reported to the board, and the question shall be on passing the same to be ordained; and when the same shall have passed to be ordained it shall be signed by the mayor. RULE 14. No enrolled ordinance or resolution shall be amended.

RULE 15. No chairman of any committee shall audit or approve any bill or account against the city for any supplies or service which shall not have been ordered or authorized by the committee.

RULE 16. Joint standing committees shall cause records to be kept of their proceedings in books provided by the city for that purpose.

RULE 17. No vote by which an order, resolve or ordinance has been passed in its final stage shall be reconsidered in either board after the same has been finally acted upon in the other board, unless the motion for reconsideration be made, or notice given, at the same meeting at which the vote to be reconsidered passed; and when any order, resolve or ordinance shall have been rejected, no other substantially the same shall be introduced by any committee or member during the municipal year, without the consent of twothirds of the members present.

RULES AND REGULATIONS

IN RELATION TO TRUST FUNDS UNDER CONTROL OF THE CITY COUNCIL.

RULE 1. At the commencement of the municipal year, joint standing committees on the Sawyer Fund and on the Brown Fund shall be appointed; each committee to consist of one alderman and two members of the common council.

RULE 2. The committee on Sawyer Fund shall have charge of the bequest made to the city of Newburyport under the will of the late Mathias Plant Sawyer; see that the same is properly invested and cause the annual income to be paid over to the trustees of the

public library, reporting annually to the city council the condition of said fund.

RULE 3. The committee on Brown Fund shall see that the same is safely invested and cause the annual income thereof to be paid over to the city treasurer to be placed to the credit of the school department for the support of a grammar school in compliance with the will of the late Moses Brown.

RULE 4. The mayor, president of the common council and city treasurer shall constitute a standing committee to whom all matters relating to the Atwood and Dexter Funds shall be referred.

RULE 5. Annually in the month of December the committee on Atwood and Dexter Funds shall report to the city council the income derived from each of these funds during the previous twelve months, and also such information as they may be able to obtain in regard to the distribution of the same by the overseers

of the poor.

RULES OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN.

RULE 1. The order of business shall be as follows:

1. The journal of the previous meeting shall be read.

2. Petitions shall next be called for, and be disposed of by reference or otherwise; and also new business may be introduced by any member of the board.

3. Such nominations, appointments, and elections, as may be in order, shall be considered and disposed of.

4. The orders of the day shall be taken up: meaning by the orders of the day, the business remaining unfinished at the previous meeting, and such communications as may have been subsequently sent up from the common council.

RULE 2. Every ordinance shall pass through the following stages before it shall be considered as having received the final action of this board, viz: first reading, second reading, passage to be enrolled, pass

age to be ordained; and every joint resolution shall have two several readings before the question shall be taken on its final passage.

RULE 3. An ordinance may be rejected at either stage of its progress; but shall not pass through all its stages in one day.

RULE 4. Standing committees shall be appointed as follows, viz:

On Police.

On Elections.

On Bromfield Fund.

On Putnam and Atkinson Fund.

On Licenses.

On Enrolled Bills.

The first-named committee to consist of the mayor and two aldermen; each of the others of three alder

men.

RULE 5. All committees shall be appointed and announced by the mayor, unless the board shall determine otherwise.

RULE 6. The above rules and order of business shall be observed in all cases, unless suspended, by a vote of two-thirds of the members present, for specific purposes.

RULES AND REGULATIONS

IN RELATION TO TRUST FUNDS UNDER CONTROL OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN.

RULE 1. No change shall be made in the investment of any trust funds under the control of the