„ ORDINANCE 123. i lie People of the Town of Jacksonville tS °r 1>art of a interested, either directly or indirectly in any contract the expense of which is to be paid by said city; provided, however, that when any member of tire council or the mayor is called upon to perform and does perform any special duty where he is required to incur expenses, such actual expense, if previ- ouslystlthorized by the council, shall be paid by the city. Section 3 6. The council may provide the time and place of its regular meetings, but its regular meetings must be held at least once in each month, and the date of holding the same shall not be changed otteuer than twice in any one year, and all of the meetings and proceedings of said council shall be public. Section 3 7. The council must keep a journal of its proceedings and upon demand of any two of its members shall cause the yeas and nays upon any question before them to be taken and the result thereof to be entered in the journal. Section 3 8. In case the city recorder, city marshal, treasurer or they street commissioner shall be absent or unable to perform any of the duties devolving upon him during his term of office, the mayor may in his discre­ tion appoint some other person to act as such officer during the time that such disability continues, and such appointee shall receive the same com­ pensation as is received by the regular officer for performing the same services and such sums so paid shall be deducted from the salary of such regular officer; provided, however, that the mayor shall not have such power in the event that the officer so absent or disqualified from acting shall have previously designated or appointed a competent deputy to per­ form the duties of said office during his disability, but this section shall not be construed so as to deprive the city council as herein prescribed from the power and right to remove any officer. Section 39. The City of Jacksonville can not enter into any contract except by ordinance or resolution duly adopted in the manner herein pro­ vided, and all ordinances shall contain the enacting clause: “The People of the City of Jacksonville do ordain as follows:" An ordinance can be adopted only upon a majority vote of the council and the approval of the mayor, or if the mayor does not approve, then upon a three-fourth's vote of all of the members of the council. CHAPTER VI. The Recorder—His Powers and Duties. Section 40. The city recorder shall be the clerk of the city council; shall keep the journal of their proceedings and all records of the city; he must keep the accounts of the city showing all moneys received and disbursed by the city, and must countersign all warrants on the city treasury, keep a true account thereof and of the financial condition of the city; and do such other things as the council may, by ordinance, prescribe. Section 41. He shall keep, in proper books for that purpose, a list of all road poll taxes and all assessments for municipal taxes, or better­ ment assessments for improvements, showing the names of persons liable to pay the same, whether or not they have been paid, and the property • assessed, If any. Section 4 2. The recorder shall be the judicial officer of the city, shall hold and preside over a court to be called the "Recorder’s Court,” and shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all violations of city ordinances. He shall by virtue of his office be ex-officio justice of the peace with all powers of such justice of the peace within the justice district of Jacksonville, and shall perform the duties of such Justice of the peace during a vacancy in said office or the disability or absence of any incumbent thereof. Section 43. All civil and criminal proceedings before the recorder, as such, Bhall be governed and regulated by the laws of the State of Oregon in relation to justices of the peace, except that in all proceedings for or on account of the violation of a city ordinance, the trial shali be without a jury. Section 4 4. All fines collected by the city recorder, and all other moneys coming into his hands as such recorder, he shall forthwith turn over to the city treasurer and take his receipt therefor, and shall make a monthly report thereof in writing to the city council. Section 45. He shall Issue all licenses when directed so to do by the city council. He shall draw all orders for the payment of money after the same has been ordered by the city council, sign the same and present the same to the mayor for his signature. Section 4 6. He shall record, in a book to be kept for that purpose, all ordinances which are finally adopted, and all resolutions passed by the council; and such record, when signed by the recorder, with the date when such ordinance became operative, shall bo competent evidence of such ordinance or resolution. Section 47. In pleading any ordinance of the City of Jacksonville, it shall be sufficient to state the number of s:rh ordinance and the date when it was signed by the mayor or became operative, whereupon tho court shall take judicial knowledge of the same. Section 48. Absence of the recorder from the city for a period of more than one week, without the consent of the council, or carelessness or Inattention to his duties or disobedience to a proper order of said court shall be sufficient cause to authorize tho council to declare his office vacant. The mayor may appoint a recorder pro tempore to hold the recorder’s court and transact any other dntli- required during the absence of the recorder, during which period the acting recorder shall icceive tho salary of the office. Section 49. Whenever any police or officer turns over to the recorder any cash bail taken by him for the appearance of any person charged with an offense, the recorder shall thereupon take the affidavit of said officer as Jo the person and offense charged, and if any n u ll person does not ap­ pear and answer such charge during that day, the r -order shall declare such cash ball forfeited for the use and benefit of the city, and shall there­ upon make a record of the matter on the records of said court, and forth­ with pay the sum forfeited to the city treasurer, and shall enter the fact of such payment and a copy of the treasurer’s receipt below on the maigin of his record of such proceedings, if the person so