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of the Board in which it is presented, or to which it is sent, specifying the number of copies to be printed.

§ 11. Each Board shall transmit to the other, every ordinance or resolution requiring a concurrent action, together with all papers on which it was founded.

12. When an ordinance or resolution which shall have passed one Board, is rejected in the other, it shall be returned to the Board in which it originated, together with all papers on which it was founded, with notice of its rejection.

§ 13. Messages from one Board to the other, shall be communicated by their respective clerks, unless the Board transmitting the message shall specially direct otherwise.

§ 14. Either Board may amend any amendment made by the other, to an ordinance or resolution.

§ 15. In case of a difference between the two boards upon any subject of legislation, either Board may request a conference and appoint a committee

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for that purpose; and the other shall also appoint a committee to confer. The committee shall meet at a time and place to be appointed by the chairman of the committee on the part of the Board requesting the conference. The committee of each Board shall report in writing to the Board appointing them, and may report such modifications or amendments as they think proper. When either Board shall have acted thereon, they shall transmit the same, and the papers relating thereto, to the other, with a message certifying their action thereon.

§ 16. Either Board may recede from its action on any subject matter of difference between the two Boards, at any time previous to a conference, whether the papers on which the difference arose, are before the Board receding, formally or informally.

17. If both Boards adhere to their disagreement, the ordinance or resolution shall be deemed

lost, and shall not be again revived during the same session.

§ 18. All committees of conference shall consist of three members of each Board, unless otherwise specially ordered by concurrent resolution.

TITLE II.

OF THE OFFICERS OF THE COMMON COUNCIL.

ARTICLE I.-OF THE CLERK OF THE COMMON COUNCIL, AND HIS DEPUTY AND As

SISTANTS.

II. OF THE CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
ASSISTANT ALDERMEN.

III. OF THE OTHER OFFICERS OF THE
COMMON COUNCIL.

ARTICLE I.

OF THE CLERK OF THE COMMON COUNCIL, AND HIS DEPUTY AND ASSISTANTS.

§ 19. The Board of Aldermen shall appoint a clerk, who shall hold his office during the continuance of the Board by which he is appointed,

and until his successor shall be duly appointed and qualified. He may, however, at any time be removed by that Board, and another clerk be appointed in his stead, who shall hold his office during the unexpired term of the clerk so removed.

§ 20. The clerk so appointed, shall, by virtue of his office, be Clerk of the Common Council, and of the Board of Health, and the Board of Supervisors. The title of his office shall be Clerk of the Common Council.

§ 21. Before entering upon the duties of his office, he shall execute a bond to the Corporation, with one or more sureties, to be approved by the Comptroller, in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office.

§ 22. He shall attend all the meetings of the Board of Aldermen, and of the Board of Health, and the Board of Supervisors, and shall keep the minutes thereof, proper records of which he shall cause to be made and kept in his office, in books to be provided for that purpose.

§ 23. He shall keep the common seal of the Corporation, and cause it to be affixed to all instruments in writing, made or executed by order of the Common Council, pursuant to the charter of the city, or any law of the state.

§ 24. He shall keep the seal of the Mayoralty, and cause the same to be affixed to such instruments as the Mayor shall from time to time direct.

25. He shall issue notices to the members of the Board of Aldermen, the Board of Health, and the Board of Supervisors, when directed by those Boards respectively, and to the members of the different committees of those Boards, and all persons whose attendance will be required before any such committee, when directed by the chairman thereof.

§ 26. He shall, without delay, deliver to all officers of the Corporation, or of the Board of Health, or the Board of Supervisors, and to all committees of those Boards, or of the Board of Aldermen, all resolutions and communications

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