SEC. 3. The mayor shall have no vote on any question which may come before the board of aldermen, or which may come before the city council in convention, unless said board of aldermen, or said city council in convention, as the case may be, shall be equally divided, when he shall have a casting vote.

SEC. 4. The first section of an act to amend the charter of the city of Portsmouth, approved July 12, 1850; the fourth section of an act to amend an act to establish the city of Portsmouth, approved June 27, 1857; an act relating to the appointment of chief engineer and assistant engineers of the city of Portsmouth, approved June 25, 1858, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect in fifteen days after its passage. Approved July 4, 1860.

An Act in relation to the compensation of Police Justices.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, &c. The several city councils of the cities in this State are authorized and empowered to make such compensation to their respective Police Justices as they may see fit, in addition to the compensations now provided by law.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved June 29, 1865.

Acts in relation to Pilots and Pilotage and the Harbor of the Piscataqua. [Laws of 1855, Page 1587-do. 1856, p. 1765-do. 1859, p. 2100.]

REVISED ORDINANCES.

ORDINANCES.

CITY OF PORTSMOUTH:

In the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty.

ORDINANCE No. 1.

Prescribing the manner of recording the Ordinances and keeping the Journals of the City Council and the Accounts of the city.

SECTION 1. Ordinances when and how to be recorded.

2. Supervisory Committees on records, &o. to be appointed, and their duty.

3. City Clerk shall keep a historical record of the city government, and what he shall record therein.

4. Organization of the city government in 1850 to be recorded.

5. Duty of the city clerk.

6. Duty of the clerk of the common council.

7. Duty of the joint committee on engrossing ordinances.

Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Portsmouth, as follows:

SECTION 1. All ordinances, which shall be passed by the Mayor and Aldermen, and the Common Council of said city, shall, after they have received the certificate of the committee on engrossed bills, and the signatures of the President of the Common Council and the Mayor, be recorded by the City Clerk, in a fair and legible hand, without interlineation or erasure, and in the order in which they shall be passed, in a book to be kept for that purpose, made of strong linen paper, with proper margin and index, to be lettered "Record of Ordinances of the City of Ports

mouth," which book shall be preserved in the office of the City Clerk, subject to the inspection of the citizens.

SEC. 2. There shall be appointed annually by the board of Aldermen, a standing committee consisting of the Mayor and one or more members of that body, to be denominated a supervisory committee on records, journals of the board, and accounts; whose duty it shall be to prescribe particularly the manner of keeping the journals of said board, together with all records of ordinances and all accounts kept by the City Clerk, City Treasurer or Collector, and from time to time to revise the same. And there shall also be a similar supervisory committee of the Common Council, who shall exercise the same powers, and perform the like duties in regard to all journals and records kept by that body, and shall see that all orders, resolutions and accepted reports are correctly enrolled.

SEC. 3. The City Clerk shall, under the direction of the supervisory committee of the Mayor and Aldermen, commence and keep, in a book, made of material similar to that of the record book mentioned in the first section, a brief historical record of the establishment of the City Government, in which he shall record:

First.-The City Charter at length.

Second. The proceedings and action of the town of Portsmouth in the adoption of the City Charter, and the several wards, preparatory to the organization of the City Government, in the following order, viz:

First. The warrant of the Selectmen issued for a legal meeting of the voters of said town (on the twenty-first day of August 1849) agreeably to the twenty-eighth section of said Charter, and the proceedings and result of said meeting.