police, internal health, and paving, shall be appointed at the commencement of the municipal year, and shall consist of five members each.

SECT. 40. No committee shall sit during the sessions of the council without special leave.

SECT. 41. All committees of the council, chosen by ballot, or consisting of one or more from each ward, shall be notified of their first meeting by the clerk, by the direction of the president; they shall organize at their first meeting, by the choice of a chairman, and shall report the same to the council; and members, on the part of the council of joint committees chosen as aforesaid, shall choose a chairman at their first meeting, and report to the council in like manner.

In all cases where the president appoints a committee, unless otherwise provided for, the member first named shall be chairman, and in his absence, the member next in order who shall be present shall be chairman pro tempore.

SECT. 42. All select committees of the council shall consist of three members, unless otherwise ordered.

SECT. 43. No report of any committee shall be entitled to be received, unless agreed to in committee assembled.

SECT. 44. No meeting of any committee shall be called upon less notice than twenty-four hours.

SECT. 45. It shall be the duty of all standing committees to keep a record of their doings in books provided by the city for that purpose.

SECT. 46. Committees of the council, to whom any matter is specially referred, may be required to report within four weeks, or ask for further time.

ORDINANCES, ORDERS, ETC.

SECT. 47. All All ordinances, orders and resolutions shall have two several readings before they are finally passed; and no ordinance, order or resolution imposing penalties, or authorizing the expenditure of money,-whether the same may have been appropriated or not, and no order or resolution authorizing a loan, shall have more than one reading on the same day: provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the passage of an order at any meeting of the council, to authorize the printing of any document relating to the affairs of the city.

ELECTIONS, ETC.

SECT. 48. In all elections by ballot on the part of the council, the number of blanks and ballots for ineligible persons shall be reported, but shall not be counted in the returns.

SECT. 49. All salaried officers shall be voted for by written ballots.

DUTIES OF CLERK, ETC.

SECT. 50. The clerk shall keep minutes of the votes and proceedings of the council; enter thereon such orders and resolutions as are adopted by their title or otherwise; shall notice reports of petitions,