The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1903-05-29
Modern System of Bookkeeping
Ordered and City Clerks Duties
Enlarged at Special Session
of the City Fathers.
,Recordation Of All City Transactions to be Made
ScrupulousIy Exact In the Future--6arbage
Crematory Contracted For.

out o correct statement of the receipts
and expenditures of the city for the year,
and said statement, after having been
approved by the council, shall be pub
lished in two newspapers published In
the city.
8. The city clerk shall keep book.
to be called sRecord of Grades" where
IN he shall record al ordinances and res
olntions relating to any change in the
creating of new, or the closing of old
streets or alleys, or relating to the es-
adjustment, or alteration of any grade,
or grades, of any street or alley, and
where survey is made, he shall enter
plainly and distinctly, with proper ref
erences to marks and drafts, all surveys
and regulations, the degrees of descent,
and also express in inches to the hum
dred feet, in all the principal streets and
alleys, from one marked corner to an
other, as also from the highest points in
each street, when not corner, to the
next marked corner between the streets,
with their distances from said points re-
spectively. An such grades, etc, shall
be furnished by the city engineer to the
city clerk at the council chamber, and
in case the city engineer shah fan or
refuse, within ten days after he has
made any survey, or established any
grade, he shall forfeit to the city q sum
of Eve dollars for each time he so fails
or refuses to deliver any grades ~ here
in specified.
Q. The city clerk shall keep a book OF
printed drafts or vouchers, with proper
blan1s, TO be called @order Book. and
shall note ON the margin thereof the
number and date of every draft Issued,
the person In whose favor It Is drawn,
and the account TO which the same Is 10
be charged. No money shall be paid out
of the treasury except ON such drafts on
vouchers be signed by the mayor and
thu city clerk.
10. All bills or debts due from the
city to any person, or persons, or corpo-
ration, shall be delivered by the persons
holding said bill to the city clerk, and
it shall be his duty to see that all of
such bills are properly itemised when
presented, and he shall submit said bill
to the head of the department through,
or by, which the same was contracted,
before delivering the same to the COM
mittee on finances.
IL. 1t shall be the duty OF the city
clerk to correctly make out the street
nav roll and the waterworks pay roll,
and in order that the city clerk may be
enabled to correctly make out said pay
rolls. 1t shall be the duty of the super
intendent of streets and commissioner
of water works to furnish to him, BIZ
weekly. certified copies from their re-
spective time books, showing the day
and date. and the number of days, or
fraction of day, of each mans work.
l2. 1t shall be the duty of the city
clerk to keep in suitable book, an ne
curate and alphabetical list of all water
consumers. the amount of water and for
what purpose consumed, the amount of
water rent for each quarter, for the
April, July, October and January, of
each year. due from each consumer. The
city clerk shall be an assistant ITO the
commissioner of water works in collect
ing the same. The city clerk shail each
day pay all moneys so collected by him,
to the commissioner of water works, tax
ing his receipts therefor. But before en-
,cring on his duties of collecting said
water rents. he shall enter into bond
in the usual sum of one thousand dollars,
payable to the city of Clarksburg, for the
faithful performance of his duties
II. The books named in sections 2. 3,
4. 5. 9 and of this ordinance shall be
properly indexcd by the clerk.
II. The city clerk shall furnish to
the committee on finances, monthly
statement of the finances of the city