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ward, one Alderman on tlic first Friday in May, one thousand eight 

 hundred and seventy; the Seventh ward, one Alderman on the first 

 Friday in May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one ; the Eighth 

 ward, one Alderman on the first Friday in May, one thousand eight hun- 

 dred and sixty-seven ; and the Ninth ward, one Alderman on the first 

 Friday in May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, or whenever a 

 vacancy shall exist by death or resignation, or otherwise, and commissioned 

 for the same term of years as is provided by the act of Assembly, passed the 

 twenty-first day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and 

 thirty-nine, entitled " An Act providing for the election of Aldermen and 

 Justices of the Peace," and the acts supplementary thereto, and the Alder- 

 man who shall be elected in pursuance of this act and the acts herein 

 referred to, shall give security as provided in the said acts, shall be subject 

 to the same liabilities and penalties, be removed from office in the same 

 manner, and respectively shall have all the civil and criminal authority 

 and jurisdiction, and all the rights, powers and privileges which are now 

 or hereafter may be vested in the several Justices of the Peace of this 

 Commonwealth by the laws thereof, and be entitled to the same fees and 

 perquisites, with the like right of appeal by the party or parties aggrieved 

 from any judgment, order, or decree of any such Alderman or Aldermen 

 to the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Lancaster. 



Sec. 38. That the Select and Common Council and convention assem- 

 bled shall, on the Wednesday after their election, in each and every 

 year, by a majority of votes elect one person to serve as City Treasurer 

 for one year from the first day of June in each and every year, and until 

 his successor shall be duly elected and qualified ; the said Treasurer 

 shall give bond to the city, conditioned for the faithful performance of 

 his duties in such amount as the City Councils shall direct, and with 

 such sureties as shall be by them approved; and shall, before he enters 

 upon his office take and subscribe an oath or affirmation before the 

 Mayor, to support the Constitution of the United States and of this 

 Commonwealth, and honestly to keep an account of all public mone3's 

 and property entrusted to his care, and to discharge the duties of his 

 office with fidelity. No money shall be drawn from the treasury of the 

 city except the same shall have been previously appropriated by Coun- 

 cils to the purpose for which it is drawn ; the accounts to be kept by the 

 said Treasurer shall exhibit all the receipts and all the expenditures of 

 the city in an intelligible manner, in which the particulars of each item 

 of charge and discharge shall fully and precisely appear. The said 

 Treasurer shall verify his cash account at least once in every month to 

 the satisfaction of a standing committee of Councils; and, upon the affi- 

 davit of a majority of such committee to any default therein, the said 



38. Ibid., Sec. 25. 

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