no removal shall take place until the party sought to be removed has had an opportunity to be heard in his defence, and unless two-thirds of the whole number of both branches vote therefor; and provided also, that the cause of such removal shall be entered at large upon the journals of both branches of the Common Council.

§ 481. The Board of Assistant Aldermen shall have the sole power of impeachment of all city officers, not otherwise provided for; and pending such impeachment, and until the final disposition thereof, the party impeached shall not exercise any of the functions of his office.

§ 482. The Board of Aldermen shall have the sole power to try all impeachments; and when sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation, truly and impartially to try the impeachment according to evidence; and no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of all the members elected to that Board.

§ 483. Judgment in case of impeachment shall not extend farther than removal from office and

disqualification to hold any office under the city charter; but the party convicted shall be liable to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment, according to law.

TITLE II.

OF THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF THE OFFICERS OF THE DEPARTMENTS AND BUREAUX.

§ 484. In all cases, except where this ordinance otherwise provides, the heads of departments and other persons applying to the Comptroller for warrants for money to be by them disbursed, shall furnish that officer with the following vouchers :

1. When a payment shall have been completed by the signing of a pay-roll, the pay-roll or a copy thereof, signed by the party receiving the money, shall be filed with the Comptroller.

2. When a demand shall have been settled by giving a receipt, the receipt or a copy thereof, signed by the party receiving the money mentioned therein, shall be filed with the Comptroller.

3. When payments are made for supplies furnished for the use of the Corporation, the original

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bill or a copy thereof, with a receipt thereon, signed by the party receiving the money ed therein, shall be filed with the Comptroller.

4. When supplies have been furnished or work done, not coming within any particular department, and which in their nature are not subject to any general regulation, the account therefor shall be accompanied by an affidavit that the supplies have been furnished or work done, and that the charge therefor is in all respects just, which shall be filed with the Comptroller.

§ 485. All officers or other persons to whom the collection or receipt of public moneys is entrusted, and who are required by the laws of this state, or by this or any other ordinance of the Common Council, to pay the same to the Chamberlain, or to make a report thereof to the Comptroller, shall furnish the account or report, under oath, at the time, and in the manner required by such law or ordinance.

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§ 486. In case of any neglect or refusal to make such payment or report, the Comptroller shall forthwith report the same to the Common Council, who may thereupon suspend or remove the delinquent from office, if he be an officer of the Corporation.

§ 487. If such delinquency shall occur during a recess of the Common Council, the Comptroller shall forthwith report the same to the Mayor, and may thereupon, with the consent of the Mayor, suspend the delinquent from office, if he be an officer of the Corporation; which suspension shall continue until the action of the Common Council thereon.

§ 488. If the Comptroller, with the consent of the Mayor, shall suspend an officer of the Corporation from office, as authorized by the last section, he shall report such suspension, with the facts on which it was founded, to the Common Council at its next session.

§ 489. Every officer of the Corporation intrusted with the receipt or disbursement of the public

moneys, shall exhibit the books and vouchers of his office to the Mayor, the Comptroller, the head of his department, or any member of the Common Council, at all reasonable times, when so required.

§ 490. If he shall omit or refuse to do so, the like proceedings may be had against him, as are provided in sections 486, 487 and 488.

§ 491. No officer of the Corporation who shall receive a fixed salary or rate of compensation for his services, shall be entitled to extra compensation for any service which he may render to the Corporation, or which may be required of him by an ordinance or resolution of the Common Council, the Board of Supervisors, or the Board of Health, unless provision be expressly made for such extra compensation by the ordinance or resolution requiring the service.