ticable, to be marked with the words "City of Portsmouth," in legible letters.

He shall make a general report to the City Council, in the month of November annually, of the condition of the fire department; he shall also, annually, in the first week of March, report to the City Council the condition of the fire department, specifying and estimating the value of each article, namely: number of engines, hose, hook and ladder carriages and axe boxes; number of feet of hose attached to each engine, and also the spare hose, and the quality of the same; number of torches, lanterns, buckets, axes and pipes attached to each engine; number of ladders; number of hooks, chains and ropes; quality and condition of the fire cloth; number of aqueduct stops, public wells and reservoirs and where situated; and also report such articles as are useless and unfit to be repaired; the amount of money expended during the year, and for what purposes; the number of times the department has been called out; and all other matters he may deem of importance.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the Assistant Engineers to assist the Chief Engineer in all things which he may direct relating to the subduing of fires; and also to attend all monthly meetings of their respective fire companies, and see that their apparatus is in perfect order, and report thereon to the Board of Engineers at their next meeting. In the absence of the Chief Engineer, the senior Assistant Engineer present shall perform the duties and possess all the powers of the Chief Engineer; and seniority in rank of the Assistant Engineers shall be determined by the Board of Engineers annually at their first meeting.

SEC. 5. The Fire companies shall be composed of such a number of men, of not less than eighteen years of age, as

the City Council may determine. Every person, previous to becoming a member of any company, shall subscribe an obligation to serve as such during one year from the tenth. day of May. Each company shall meet on the first Monday evening of every month from April to October. The engines shall be filled with fresh water and worked out by the companies, at, their meetings in April, May, June, July, August, September and October, unless otherwise ordered by the Director. Any member refusing to do duty at a fire, or being absent from the city two successive months, shall forfeit his certificate of membership and all claim for services. Each company shall have control of their apparatus, which shall not be interfered with by other companies, except when commanded by an engineer; and on returning from any fire the companies shall cause their respective engines and hose to be well cleansed and washed, oiled, and securely housed; for the performance of which duty the stewards shall receive such compensation as the City Council may determine. In the absence of the director of any company, they shall obey the orders of any engineer. Engineers may issue their orders to the foreman, when practicable.

SEC. 6. All the members of the Fire Department shall be furnished by the Board of Engineers with some suitable badge, which shall be worn by them when on duty.

SEC. 7. The clerk of each company shall report to the Board of Engineers, at their first meeting in May, a list of persons who agree to serve the city as firemen for the current year; and also furnish a true copy of the muster roll for the preceding year.

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SEC. 8. No part of the apparatus of the Fire Department shall be carried out of the city without permission of the Chief Engineer, or, in his absence, of the Mayor; and the same shall be used for no other purposes than the extin guishment of fires.

SEC. 9. If any person shall wantonly or knowingly injure any of the fire apparatus owned by this city, or provided for the extinguishment of fires, or shall wantonly ride or drive any animal or carriage over or across any hose or other apparatus in use at any fire, he or they shall be subject to a penalty of not less than five nor more than twenty dollars, on complaint to the Justice of the Police Court.

SEC. 10. It shall be the duty of the Police of the city, on an alarm of fire, to appear with their badges at the place where the fire may be, and under the direction of the City Marshal, to attend diligently to the preservation of the peace and the prevention of thefts. And the watchmen, on the occurrence of a fire in the night time, shall give notice thereof by crying fire, and naming the street, or direction of the fire, and causing the bells to be rung.

SEC. 11. Any member of the Fire Department, willfully violating this Ordinance shall be removed; if an engineer, by the City Council, if any other member, by the Board of Engineers.

[Passed March 4, 1852.]

ORDINANCE No. 22.

[Repealed by No. 108.]

ORDINANCE No. 23.

[Repealed by No. 108.]

ORDINANCE No. 24.

[Appropriation for 1852-3.]

ORDINANCE No. 25.

[Repealed by No. 108.]

ORDINANCE No. 26.

Defining and prescribing the duties and compensation of the City Clerk.

SECTION 1. City Clerk shall keep a journal of votes of Mayor and Aldermen and of City

Council.

2. Duty of City Clerk as to votes for a Mayor, &c.

3. Duty of City Clerk as to records, accepted reports, &c.

4. Duty of City Clerk as to oaths of office, births, &c., and mortgages.

5. Duty of City Clerk as to bank stock, marriages and attachments.

6. City Clerk has powers of town clerk. Records, &c., delivered to successor.

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

SEC. 1. The duties of the City Clerk of this city shall be, immediately after taking the oath of office prescribed by law, to keep a journal of all the votes and proceedings of the Mayor and Aldermen, and also of the City Council when sitting in Convention, and to perform such other duties as the Mayor and Aldermen and City Council shall prescribe.

SEC. 2. He shall, immediately after receiving the copies of votes for a Mayor, given in at the annual meeting for the choice of city and ward officers, enter the same on the city records, and then lay the said copies before the Mayor and Aldermen; he shall enter in the journal of the Mayor and Aldermen a certificate of the oath or affirmation of the Mayor, Aldermen and Common Councilmen, taken before entering on the duties of their respective offices; he shall also perform all other duties which may be required of him agreeably to the provisions of the city charter.

SEC. 3. He shall record all ordinances which shall be duly passed by the Mayor and Aldermen and Common Council, in a fair and legible hand, without interlinea