19 meetings of the two boards, but shall have only a 20 casting vote. The salary and compensation of the 21 mayor shall be two hundred dollars per year, which 22 shall not be increased or diminished during his con23 tinuance in office, unless by the vote of the qualified 24 electors in ward meetings called for that purpose. 25 Nor shall he receive from the city any other compen26 sation for any services by him rendered in any other 27 capacity or agency. Provided, however, the city 28 council may elect the mayor to any city office and 29 allow him a reasonable compensation for services ren30 dered in such office. But the aldermen and common 31 council shall not be entitled to receive any salary or 32 compensation for any services by them performed as 33 such or in any capacity or agency for the city.

SEC. 4. The executive powers of said city gener2 ally, and the administration of police, with all the 3 powers of the selectmen of the town of Augusta, shall 4 be vested in the mayor and aldermen as fully as if the 5 same had been herein particularly enumerated, all 6 other powers not vested in the inhabitants of said 7 town, and all powers granted by this act, shall be 8 vested in the mayor and aldermen and common coun9 cil of said city, to be exercised by concurrent vote,

10 each board to have a negative upon the other. But 11 all elections of offices by the city council, shall be by 12 joint ballot of the two boards in convention. The 13 city council shall, annually, on the third Monday of 14 March, elect and appoint all the subordinate officers 15 and agents for the city, for the ensuing year, shall 16 define their duties, and fix their compensation, in 17 cases where such duties and compensation shall not 18 be defined and fixed by the laws of this state; and 19 may by concurrent vote remove officers, when in their 20 opinion sufficient cause for removal exists. All offi21 cers shall be chosen and vacancies supplied for the 22 current year, except as herein otherwise directed. 23 All the said subordinate officers and agents shall hold 24 their offices during the ensuing year and until others 25 shall be elected and qualified in their stead unless 26 sooner removed by the city council. All moneys 27 received and collected for or on account of the city, 28 by any officer or agent thereof, shall forthwith be paid 29 into the city treasury. The city council shall take care 30 that moneys shall not be paid from the treasury unless 31 granted or appropriated; shall secure a prompt and 32 just accountability by requiring bonds with sufficient 33 penalty and sureties from all persons trusted with the

34 receipt, custody, or disbursement of money, shall have 35 the care and superintendence of city buildings and the 36 custody and management of all city property, with 37 power to let or sell what may be legally let or sold; 38 and to purchase and take, in the name of the city, 39 such real or personal property, not exceeding the sum 40 of twenty five thousand dollars, including the prop41 erty now owned by the town, as they may think useful 42 to the public interest. And the city council shall, as 43 often as once a year, cause to be published for the in44 formation of the inhabitants, a particular account of 45 receipts and expenditures and a schedule of the city 46 property. And no money shall be paid from the 47 treasury unless the same be appropriated by the city 48 council, and upon a warrant signed by the mayor, 49 which warrant shall state the appropriation under 50 which the same is drawn.

SEC. 5. Every law, act, ordinance or bill appropri2 ating money having passed both branches of the city 3 council, shall be presented to the mayor of the city; 4 and if he approve the same, he shall sign it, if not he 5 shall return it, in seven days, with his objections to 6 that branch of the city council, in which it shall have 7 originated, which branch shall enter the objections at

8 large on its journals and proceed to reconsider said 9 law, act, ordinance or bill. If upon such reconsider10 ation a majority of the whole number of that branch 11 shall agree to pass it, it shall be sent together with the 12 objections, to the other branch by which it shall be 13 reconsidered, and if approved by a majority of the 14 whole number of that branch it shall have the same 15 effect as if signed by the mayor.

SEC. 6. City assessors shall be annually appointed 2 by the city council, who shall exercise and be subject 3 to the same powers, duties and liabilities that the 4 assessors, in the several towns in this state, may exer5 cise and be subject to, under existing laws. Provided, 6 however, that the city council may appoint one person 7 in each ward, whose duty it shall be to furnish the 8 assessors with all necessary information relative to 9 persons and property, taxable in his ward, and who 10 shall be sworn to the faithful performance of his duty. 11 All taxes shall be assessed, apportioned and collected 12 in the manner, prescribed by the laws of this state 13 relative to town taxes. Provided, however, that it 14 shall be lawful for the city council to establish further 15 and additional provisions for the collection thereof.

SEC. 7. The city council shall have exclusive au

2 thority and power to lay out and establish any new 3 street, public way or town way that the selectmen and 4 town of Augusta could lay out and establish, and to 5 widen or otherwise alter or discontinue any street or 6 public way in said city, and to estimate the damages 7 any individual may sustain by such laying out, wid8 ening, alteration or discontinuance, and shall in all 9 other respects be governed by and subject to, the 10 same rules and restrictions as are provided in the laws 11 of this state regulating the laying out and repairing 12 streets and public highways. And any person ag13 grieved by the decision or judgment of said city 14 council, may, so far as relates to damages, have them 15 assessed by a committee or jury as now by law pro16 vided; and the county commissioners for the county 17 of Kennebec shall have power to lay out within said 18 city any part of any new county road, that shall by 19 them be laid out in any adjoining town or towns, and 20 shall pass thence into or through said city, according 21 to the provisions of law.

SEC. 8. It shall be lawful for the city council, by a 2 committee by them appointed, or by instructions to 3 the commissioner of streets, to appropriate, set off and 4 reserve as side walks, such part or portion of the sev