Annual Report of the Committee on Finance on the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Manchester, Together with the Treasurers' Accounts, Volumes 1-4

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Page 63 - If by the neglect of a collector any moneys collectible by him shall be lost to the district, he shall forfeit to the district the amount of the moneys thus lost, and shall account for and pay over the same to the treasurer in the same manner as if it had been actually collected. The treasurer may bring an action to enforce such liability, or if the collector is also treasurer, the action may be brought by the trustee, and any moneys collected by him in such action shall be used for the ordinary...
Page 63 - He shall enter in a book to be kept for that purpose, the number of every volume delivered by him ; the name of the person to whom delivered ; the time of taking and returning the same ; together with the forfeitures arising from every default.
Page 63 - SECT. 2. No account or claim against the city, other than judgments of the Judicial Courts, shall be received or acted on by the Committee on Accounts, unless such account or claim shall be accompanied with a certificate of the Mayor...
Page 63 - Council, or of some officer, committee, or agent, authorized on behalf of the city to make the contract or cause the expenditure to be made, that the same is correct.
Page 61 - ... treasurer by warrants, under the corporate seal, signed by the trustees and countersigned by the clerk, who shall keep a copy thereof, which warrants shall specify for what purpose the amount specified therein is to be paid. The treasurer shall exhibit at every annual meeting a full account of all the receipts and expenditures of the preceding year, and of the state of the treasury, which statement shall be filed in the office of the clerk.
Page 26 - State, at a legal meeting for that purpose, may raise in addition to the amount by law required to be raised therein for the support of common schools, a sum not exceeding five per cent, of such amount, to be applied to the support of a teachers' institute within the limits of the county in which said town is situated.
Page 98 - By the Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council of the City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows: That...
Page 63 - ... its place upon the shelves But the Librarian may withhold any book, particularly in the case of minors, as in his discretion may seem proper. SEC. 15. He shall, on application by any person entitled to take books from the Library, deliver to him such book as he may wish, and on its return receive it, and after examination to see if it is uninjured, restore it to its place. If injured, he shall appraise the damage, and shall enter in a book to be kept for that purpose the number of every volume...
Page 61 - Manchester in euch sum and with such sureties as the Board may approve, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office and to account for all such sums as may come into his hands belonging to the city ; he shall draw from the City Treasury the sums appropriated for the City Library ; shall pay all moneys appropriated by the Board for the purchase of...

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