Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-06-02
How to Buy Materials and Hire
Labor,

How to Buy Materials and Hire
Labor.
Joseph T. Engleby, president of the
Fidelity Loan and Trust company of
Roanoke, Va, observing the Jour
NAILS remarks anent the care that
should be exercised in the matter of
auditing and paying bills against the
town, sends an Ordinance of that city.
approved March 6, 1894, and asks
How will this with the necessary changes)
suit your people?
The JOURNAL has made the changes
so as to apply to the Frostburg sit
uation and herewith submits the paper
to those interested. 1t is entitled ian
Ordinance to provide for the purchas-
ing of supplies for the use of the Town
Of Frostburg, and the approval of
claims Therefore
BE it Ordained, By the Mayor and Council
men of the Town of Frostburg-
l, No supplies of any kind or character
shall be purchased for the use of the Town eX-
cept upon the written order Of the Mayor.
All officers Or persons in the employ of the
Town needing supplies for the transaction
of the business of the Town, shall make
requsition for the same to the Mayor before
an order shall be issued therefor. But no
order for any article or supplies costing an
amount exceeding S25 shall be given without
the approval of Council. Any person in the
employ of the Town who shall purchase or
attempt to purchase any article on the credit
of the Town without the use of the order of
the Mayor calling for the required supplies,
shall be liable to suspension by the Mayor
and Council.
,, The Baiiff shall have placed across the
face of every tax bill the following informa-
ton in red ink:
No article for the Use of the Town will be
paid for unless purchased upon the written
order of the Mayor.
,, The Clerk of Council shall not receive
any claim or bill for articles purchased for
the use of the Town unless such bill shall be
fully itemized, and if for street or alley I'M
prOvement the name of street or alley for
which such materials are purchased shall be
stated and the price of each item or separate
article marked thereon. And all such
claims must be accompanied by the order on
which they were obtained, or have written
on them the name of the purchaser of the
articles enumerated.
A. 1t shall be the duty of the Clerk of Coun-
Gil to post or have posted copy of Section l
of this Ordinance in a conspicuous place in
every department of the Town government,
and renew the same if at any time such
copy should be removed or defaced, and shall
furnish a copy of this entire Ordinance to
each department of the Town government.
s. All claims against the Town shall be
audited and adjusted by the Committee on
Finance, and approved and reported to Coun-
Gil by said Committee before being acted upon
by the Council Any person having claim
against the Town shall be required to report
the same to the Clerk at least forty eight
hours before the regular monthly meeting of
Council; otherwise, the said claim shall be
held over until the next succeeding monthly
meeting thereof.
6, 1t shall be the duty of the Street Super
visor and Water Superintendent upon max.
ing requsiton for materials or supplies for
their respective departments, to state in said
acquisitions the street or locality where such
materials or supplies are to be used or applied,
and in submitting their monthly bills to the
Clerk, sad bills must be temized by stating
the several amounts of money thus expended
and where, naming the street or alley i'll the
one case, and the location in the other. And
it shall also be the duty of said officers to
designate in bills for labor the street or alley
i'll the one case and the location IN the other
where the several amounts of work was
done
7, All bills for supplies purchased upon
the order of the Mayor by any officer of the
Town government shall be sworn to before
the Mayor.
g. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in
conflict herewith are hereby repealed