APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES.,

SECT. 16. In the present and every future financial year the specific appropriation for the several objects enumerated in the general appropriation order shall be deemed and taken to be the maximum amount to be expended by the several committees, boards and officers having the charge thereof, for the entire financial year, and shall be expended with a proper regard thereto. Whenever the amounts designated and appropriated as aforesaid have been expended, and an additional sum is required, or whenever the estimates for the completion of any object, or for any purpose, exceed the appropriation specially made therefor, or whenever an expenditure is required for an object, or a purpose, not contemplated at the time the appropriation was made, the committee, board or officer having charge thereof shall furnish to the City Council a detailed statement in print, of the expenditures already made, and the necessity for an additional appropriation; and no contract shall be made, nor expenditure authorized in either case, unless provision for the same shall be made by special transfer from some of the appropriations contained in the general appropriation bill, or by loan.

SECT. 17. When application shall be made for an additional appropriation, to be provided for by transfer or loan, such appropriation shall not be made until the application has been referred to, and reported upon by, the Committee on Finance.

SECT. 18. No order authorizing the borrowing of

money, or the transfer of one appropriation or part of an appropriation to another appropriation, shall be passed, unless two-thirds of the whole number of the members of each branch of the City Council vote in the affirmative by vote taken by yea and nay.

SECT. 19. No presiding officer of any Board or chairman of any committee shall audit or approve any bill or account against the city, for any supplies or services, which have not been ordered or authorized by such Board or committee at a regular meeting.

SECT. 20. No bills for refreshments or carriagehire furnished to any member of the city government shall be paid, unless such bills shall specify in detail the names of the members to whom such refreshments or carriages were furnished, the dates of furnishing the same, and have been approved by the presiding officer of a Board or the chairman of a standing or special committee of the City Council, or of either branch thereof, duly authorized by vote of such committee or Board at a regular meeting; such bills, when so approved, shall be paid from the appropriation to which they are incident; and the Auditor of Accounts shall not receive or pass any such bill for the approval of the Committee on Accounts, unless it has been approved, as provided in this and the preceding section.

SECT. 21. All bills for refreshment or carriagehire, incurred more than three months previous to the date of their presentation to the Auditor, shall go before the City Council for approval.

SECT. 22. The foregoing rules shall not be altered, amended, suspended or repealed at any time, except by the votes of two-thirds of the members of each branch of the City Council.

RULES AND ORDERS

OF THE

COMMON COUNCIL.

PRESIDENT.

SECTION 1. The President shall take the chair precisely at the hour to which the Council shall have adjourned; shall call the members to order; and, on the appearance of a quorum, shall proceed to busi

ness.

SECT. 2. He shall preserve decorum and order; may speak to points of order in preference to other members; and shall decide all questions of order, subject to an appeal to the Council.

[With regard to appeal, see Rule 61.]

SECT. 3. He shall declare all votes, subject to verification as hereinafter provided.

See Rules 63 and 64.

SECT. 4. He shall rise to address the Council, or to put a question, but may read sitting.

SECT. 5. He shall appoint all committees, unless their appointment is otherwise provided for by the Council.

SECT. 6. In all cases he may vote.

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SECT. 7. He may at any time call another member to the chair, but such substitution shall not continue beyond an adjournment.

SECT. 8. In the absence of the President, the senior member present shall call the Council to order, and preside until a President pro tempore shall be chosen by ballot; and, if an election is not effected on a first trial, on a second and subsequent trials a plurality of votes shall elect.

CLERK.

SECT. 9. The Clerk shall keep a record of the votes and proceedings of the Council, and shall enter thereon, by their title, or otherwise, all orders and resolutions adopted, and all reports, petitions, memorials, and other papers presented; and he shall enter at length all accepted reports of select committees of the Council, in a separate journal to be kept for the purpose, and provided with an index.

SECT. 10. He shall note all questions of order raised, with the decisions made thereon, in an appendix to the record.

SECT. 11. He shall draw up all messages to the Board of Aldermen, and send them by the messenger.

SECT. 12. He shall, when required, attend the meetings of committees of the Council, and make their records.

SECT. 13. He shall retain possession of all papers in reference to which any member has given notice of his intention to move a reconsideration, as herein