and wilfully offending, in the premises, shall be fined in the sum of ninety dollars. Passed by the board of aldermen, May 11, 1835. APPROVED May 15, 1835. JAMES P. SPENCER, President. JOHN F. DARBY, Mayor. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. An ordinance to establish and regulate the treasury department. SEC. 1. Auditor and treasurer to be appointed-to give bond. 2. Duties of treasurer. 3. Duties of auditor. 4. Persons or bodies politic indebted to city, to account to auditor quarterly. 6. Accounts audited and adjusted-proceedings when balance against the city. 7. Accounts andited and adjusted-proceedings when balance in favor of the city. 3. Auditor to make quarterly statements to the board of aldermen of his accounts. 9. Board of aldermen to appoint some person at the first stated meeting in each year, to examine auditor's and treasurer's books and report. 10. Compensation of auditor and treasurer. 11. Penalty on auditor and treasurer for neglect of duty.. 12. Officers receiving fines and forfeitures, to pay over the same to treasurer-repealing clause. § 1. Be it ordained by the mayor and board of aldermen of the city of St. Louis as follows: That there shall be appointed an auditor of accounts and city treasurer, to continue in office for one year, and until their successors shall be appointed and duly qualified, unless sooner removed; and before entering upon the duties of their office, shall each enter in bond to the corporation, in a sufficient sum, with two or more securities to be approved by the mayor, for the faithful performance of the trusts and duties which are or may be enjoined on them by ordinance or resolution: and at the expiration of their term of service, or on being removed, shall respectively deliver over to their successors in office all the books, papers, and money, that may be in their hands belonging to the city. § 2. It shall be the duty of the treasurer to receive and keep the moneys of the city, and to pay out the same, upon warrants drawn by the auditor, in such manner as is herein or may be hereafter prescribed by ordinance, and not otherwise; he shall keep a just and comprehensive account of all moneys by him received and disbursed, particularly specifying the different kinds, or any thing he may be directed by ordinance to receive in payment, in a book to be by him kept for that purpose; he shall render his accounts to the auditor quarterly, and oftener if required. § 3. It shall be the duty of the auditor to prescribe the mode of keeping, stating, and rendering all city accounts; to examine, settle and adjust, all accounts (unless otherwise provided for by ordinance) between the city any person or persons, body politic or corporate, as well those of the officers of the revenue, as of all persons having claims on the city: Provided, that if any person or persons, body politic or corporate, shall be dissatisfied with the decision of the auditor on any demands, account or credit, claimed, it shall be the duty of the auditor, at the request of the party claiming, to refer the same with the reasons of his decision to the board of aldermen: Provided also, that the auditor shall not allow any account or demand against the city of longer standing than one year; he shall keep and preserve all accounts and vouchers settled or to be settled in his office; he shall keep an account between the city and the treasurer; and he shall generally perform all such services relative to the finances as he shall be directed by ordinance or resolution to perform. § 4. All persons, bodies politic or corporate, entrusted with the receipt, or who hereafter may become possessed, of any money belonging to the city, and who have not accounted for the same, or in case of the death of any such person, his heirs, devisees, executors or administrators, shall render his or their accounts, with the vouchers in support thereof, to the auditor quarterly, on the first Mondays of January, April, July, and October, and oftener if required; and the auditor shall immediately examine all such accounts and settle and adjust the same, § 5. It shall be lawful for the auditor in the settlement of any account, to examine the parties, witnesses, and others, upon oath or affirmation, touching any material matter or thing for his information in such settlement. § 6. That when any account shall be audited and allowed, and a balance shall appear to be due from the city, and in all cases of grants, salaries, pay, and expenses, allowed by ordinances or resolutions, the auditor shall issue a warrant on the treasuary for the amount, payable to the party to whom the same may be due; and shall keep a registry thereof, setting forth the number of the warrant, the date, in whose favor, on what account, and the amount. § 7. Whenever the auditor shall have settled any account, and a balance thereby appears to be due to the city, and the person or persons accountable therefor, shall not pay the same into the, treasury within ten days after such settlement and produce to the auditor the treasurer's receipt therefor, it shall be the duty of the auditor to charge the same to such delinquent; and if said delinquent be a city officer, to add to the balance so ascertained, the commissions, if any, of such delinquent, and the further sum of five per cent. per month upon such balance for each and every month the same shall remain unpaid, which shall be forfeited to the use of the city; and the auditor shall immediately commence and prosecute suits therefor, according to law. § 8. It shall be the duty of the auditor, at the first stated meeting of the board of aldermen, in every year, to exhibit to the board a complete statement of the funds of the city, showing, in a connected view, the receipts and expenditures not before accounted for; showing the amount of all moneys which have been paid into the treasury, and on what account; and an account shewing distinctly the sum expended, and for what purpose, and the amount of demands against the city, audited and allowed but unpaid, and to whom due. § 9. The board of aldermen at the first stated meeting in each year, shall appoint some competent person or persons to examine the auditors and treasurer's books, accounts and vouchers, to see if the. same have been properly and correctly kept, and make settlement with the auditor and treasurer to the day of the meeting, which when approved by the board, the person or persons so authorized shall cause the necessary entries to be made in the books of the auditor and treasurer, to show the actual balance, and shall attest the same; which having been completed, they shall deface all the warrants drawn by the auditor or treasurer, in the settlement by him or them made; and they shall also deface all vouchers which have been examined and allowed in the settlement with the auditor. § 10. There shall be paid to the auditor and treasurer of the city for their services, annually: to the auditor four hundred dollars; to the treasurer two hundred dollars; which said salaries shall be paid out of the treasury quarterly, and the auditor shall draw warrants therefor, as in other cases. 11. If any auditor or treasurer shall wilfully neglect or refuse to perform any of the duties enjoined upon him by ordinance or resolution, or shall be guilty of any oppression or extortion in the discharre of his official duties, or shall by color of his office do any act not authorized by ordinance or resolution, he shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, to be recovered by action of debt. § 12. All officers who may receive fines and forfeitures for offences against ordinances, shall render to the Mayor under oath, monthly, a list of the same, and shall pay over the same to the city treasurer, every sixty days, under a penalty of double the amount so held by them. All ordinances contrary to or coming in the perview of this ordinance, are hereby repealed. Passed by the board of aldermen, March 15, 1835. APPROVED, March 23d, 1835. JAMES P. SPENCER, President. SIDE-WALKS. An ordinance concerning side-walks. SEC. 1. No porch or other fixtures to extend over side-walks. 2. No cellar.door to extend over side.walks. 3. No cellar grate or window to extend into side-walks. 5. Porches and other fixtures to be removed from side-walks. 7. Constable to cause porches and other fixtures to be removed. Be it ordained by the mayor and board of aldermen of the city of St. Louis, as follows: 1. No porch, gallery, platform, steps or other fixtures shall be allowed to extend into or on any part of the side-walks or streets of this city more than three feet. § 2. No cellar doar shall be allowed to extend into or on the said walks or streets of the city more than three feet, nor shall they be allowed in any case to project or rise above the surface of the pavement of the side-walks more than one inch, and the raised part of the hinges on such doors shall be turned down so that the hook will not rise above the shutter, nor shall any lock, staple or fastening of any kind be put on or made fast to the upper side of any such cellar door. § 3. No cellar grate or window curbing shall extend into or on any of the side walks or streets of the city more than eighteen inches, and in all cases the same shall be covered at the surface of the pavement with iron bars placed not more than three inches from centre to centre. § 4. Trees for shade may be planted at or near the curb stone of the side-walk of the streets by the consent of the board of aldermen. § 5. If any person have at this time any steps, gallery, porch, platform, cellar door, sign-post, grate or window-curbings, or other fixture, in or on any side-walk, or street of this city, the same shall be removed or altered to conform with the requisitions of this ordinance on or before the fifteenth day of September next. § 6. If any person or persons shall neglect or refuse to comply with the next preceding section, he, she, or they so offending, shall pay as a fine for the use of the city, for each and every day he, she or they, shall so neglect or refuse, the sum of three dollars. § 7. The city constable shall proceed without delay, from and after the first day of October next, to have all the steps, galleries, porches, platforms, cellar doors, sign posts, grates, or window curbings, or other fixtures, that are extending into or on any of the side-walks or streets of this city, contrary to the provisions of this ordinance, removed forthwith. § 8. If any person shall erect or place any steps, gallery, porch, platform, cellar doors, sign-post, grate, or window curbing, tree, block, post, or any other fixture, or thing, on any of the side-walks or streets of this city, contrary to the provisions of this ordinance, he, she, or they, so offending, shall pay for the use of the city, the sum of twenty dollars, and the further sum of three dollars for every day they refuseor neglect to remove the same, after having been notified by the city constable so to do. 9. Wherever the word street is used in this ordinance, or any of the ordinances of this city, it shall be so construed as to mean all public highways in the city. Passed by the board of aldermen, June 6th, 1835. APPROVED, June 9th, 1835. JAMES P. SPENCER, President. JOHN F. DARBY, Mayor. WAGONS, CARTS, DRAYS AND CARRIAGES. An ordinance supplementary to an ordinance entitled "An ordinance reg ulating wagons, carts, drays and carriages." SEC. 1. Owners of drays, &c. to pay tax. 2. 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