The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-05-23
Council ReVisss
GiH's Book keeping
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I ficer or committee, woh shall be entrust'
ed with the disbursement Of money for
or on account Of the city, and with every
person, or persons, or corporation, which
\ i or shan become creditor or debtor
Of the city. All such accounts shall be
50 kept as to show, 50 far as possible. at
III times, the respective sumo due to q
by every such officer or committee per.
son, or persons, or corporation. He shall
also keep in said system of books an ac.
count showing. for each fiscal year, the
amount of revenue aecruing to the city,
separating the several sources Of reve-
nue., and showing the expenses Of the
city for the year.
!. 1t shall be the duty of the city
clerk, at the end Of each year, to make
out a 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.
s. The city clerk shall keep book,
to be called "Record of Grades" where
in he shall record all odrinanees and res
Olutions 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 a survey IS made, he shall enter
plainly and distinctly, with proper ref
erenccs to marks and drafts, all surveys
and regulations, the degrees of descent,
and also express in inches to the hun
bred feet in all the rpincipal streets and
alleys, from one marked corner to an
other, as also from the highest points in
each street, when not a corner, to the
next marked corner between the streets,
with their distances from said points re-
spectively. All such grades, etc, shall
be furnished by the city engineer to the
city clerk at the council chamber, and
in case the city engineer shall fail or
refuse, within ten days after he has
made any survey, or established any
grade. lie shall forfeit to the city a sum
OF five dollars for each time he so fails
or refuses to deliver any grades as here
in specified.
.. The city clerk shall keep book Of
printed drafts or vouchers, with proper
blanks. 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 to
be charged. No money shall be paid out
OF the treasury except on such drafts or
vouchers be signed by the mayor and
the city clerk.
10. All bills or debts due from the
city to any person, or persons, or corpo'
ration. shah 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 itemized when
presented, and he shall submit said bill
70 the head Of the department through
or BY. which the same was contracted
before delivering the same to the com
mittee on finances.
II. It shall be the duty Of the city
clerk to correctly make out the street
pav roll and the waterworls pay roll
and in order that the city clerk may Be
enabled 10 correctly make out said pay
rolls. il shah be the duty Of the super
intcndcnt Of streets and commissioner
ii water works to furnish to him, bi
weekly. certified copies from their re
spective time books, showing the day
ana date. and the number Of days, o.
fraction Of day, Of each mans work.
u. 1t shall be the duty Of the city
clerk to keep in i suitable book. an nc
curatc and alphabetical list Of al water
consumers. tbe amount Of water and 70.
,rb,t nurro.e consumed. M amount Of
water rent tor each quarter for tn,
or,rt.rs bcriDpipr On Inc first DAYS o.
mi .Iuly october and January. o
,a,b yc,r. an from ca,h consumer. IN,
,itv cIerE ,boll IN m assistant 10 III,
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