lecting or refusing to serve, after being elected to office by the electors of the city or of his ward, shall forfeit to the use of the city for such refusal the sum of twenty-five dollars, besides all damages and costs which may result from such refusal, to be recovered in a civil action, by and in the name of said city. At its first regular meeting after organizing under this act, and after each succeeding annual organization, the common council shall fill by appointment, until the next election, any office not filled by the preceding election by reason of a tie vote thereat. It shall at the same time, or at a subsequent meeting, as soon thereafter as may be, appoint the officers by it to be chosen under this act and make and file with the city clerk a certificate of every appointment so made, and the city clerk shall notify each person so certified to have been appointed of his appointment, in the manner and within the time specified in this section for notifying persons elected to office. All full terms of elective officers shall commence on the first day of January next following the annual city election, except as otherwise provided by this act; and all full terms of appointive officers shall begin upon the date of their appointment by the common council; but no person shall receive a salary or other emolument, as an officer, for the time intervening between his election or appointment, and the time of taking the oath of office and filing the security required of him by law or by the provisions of this act. No salary or compensation shall be allowed or paid to the mayor or any alderman for any services rendered in the discharge of the duties of any of their respective offices, pursuant to the provisions of this act. amended. § 5. Section fifteen of chapter two hundred and seventy-five § 15 of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine is hereby amended to read as follows: son § 15. Qualifications of the city and ward officers. No pershall be elected or appointed to a city office unless he be over twenty-one years of age and a resident of said city, nor to any ward or district office unless he be a resident elector of the ward or district for which he is elected or appointed; and whenever any officer of said city shall cease to be a resident of said city, or of the ward or district for which he was elected or appointed, his office shall thereby become vacant. amended. § 6. Section twenty-seven of chapter two hundred and seventy- 27 five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine is hereby amended to read as follows: § 29 amended. § 27. Supervisors, their powers and duties. The supervisors in their several wards shall have the same power and discharge the same duties as supervisors of towns, except as otherwise provided by this act, and shall be members of the board of supervisors of Fulton county. Their terms of office shall commence on the first day of January next after their election. Each shall receive the compensation allowed by law to supervisors of towns. They shall also discharge all other duties. imposed upon them by this act. Each of said wards of said city shall be regarded as a town of Fulton county for the purposes specified in title three, chapter ten, article second of the code of civil procedure respecting the selection, drawing and procuring the allowance of trial jurors. The supervisors of each ward respectively and the city clerk and assessors of said city shall perform in said ward the duties prescribed in said article. A duplicate of each list of jurors selected by them respectively shall be filed in the office of the clerk of said city, which shall be deemed a town clerk's office for that purpose. The supervisors and the clerk and assessors of said city shall meet in the clerk's office at the time provided by law, and proceed to discharge the duties imposed upon them by the code of civil procedure as aforesaid and by this act; and the lists made by them, each supervisor acting for the ward only in which he was elected, shall constitute the lists of persons to serve as trial jurors for the ensuing three years. The supervisors elected under this act and the clerk and assessors of said city shall meet every third year thereafter for the same purpose and make and file lists so required of them. § 7. Section twenty-nine of chapter two hundred and seventyfive of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine is hereby amended to read as follows: $ 29. Chamberlain, his powers and duties. The chamberlain shall be collector and treasurer of the city of Gloversville. He shall receive, safely keep, and properly disburse, as hereinafter stated, all moneys belonging to said city or which may be collected from the taxable inhabitants and property thereof. He shall receive from all officers authorized to receive money, fees, fines, or penalties of said city all moneys sɔ received by them or by any of them. Suitable books shall be provided by the city for his use, in which he shall enter daily each and every item of his receipts and disbursements in such a manner as to exhibit the several amounts paid by or to him under each class of purposes or funds for which money shall be raised or may be raised by tax or collected for licenses, water rents, or otherwise in said city, with the name of each person, by, to, or from whom, and on what accounts, the same was received or paid. He shall also be the custodian of all securities, obligations and other evidences of debt belonging to said city. It shall be his duty personally to collect and receive at his office in said city all taxes and assessments laid upon said city by the common council thereof or by the board of supervisors of Fulton county. All moneys collected and received by him by virtue of his office shall be deposited in such bank or banks as shall be approved by the common council, board or department of said city to which such moneys belong; and all such moneys so deposited shall be subject only to the orders of the common council, board or department controlling the same, signed and countersigned by the officers of said common council, board, or department as provided by this act, and accepted by the chamberlain; excepting, however, that the moneys collected by him for state and county taxes shall be deposited in such bank or banks as shall be approved by the mayor, and such moneys shall be drawn from said bank or banks only upon the order of the chamberlain, countersigned by the mayor. All orders drawn for said moneys or deposits, except those drawn upon the state and county funds, shall be numbered consecutively and shall specify for what purposes the amount stated is to be paid and to what fund it is chargeable. He shall, whenever required by the common council, furnish to them a detailed report of the amounts received by him, the sources from which they are received and the amounts credited to each particular fund, together with a detailed statement of all payments made by him, the persons to whom same were paid and the particular fund to which such payments were charged. He shall keep his office in such convenient place in said city as the common council may provide, where he shall attend during the business hours of each day, Sundays and legal holidays excepted, unless otherwise directed by the common council. All the books and records of his office shall be produced upon reasonable demand and shall be open for the inspection of any officer or taxpayer of said city, and he shall permit copies and transcripts to be made and taken thereof by any such officer or persons. All fees, fines, commissions, and interest money received by him on account of collections made by virtue of any tax warrant or otherwise, shall be paid by him into the general contingent fund of the city; and any willful neglect or refusal by him to collect or receive any fee, fine, or commission belonging to the city, or any willful neglect of his duties as such chamberlain, shall be deemed a violation of the duties of his office and subject him to suspension by the mayor and removal from office by the common council upon the complaint of any taxpayer, as provided in section one of this title. The chamberlain shall receive an annual salary of not to exceed eighteen hundred dollars, to be fixed by the common council in full payment of his services under this act, to be paid to him in monthly installments. Before he enters upon the discharge of his duties he shall execute to the city a bond in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars with two or more sureties approved by the common council, which bond shall be joint and several in form and accompanied by an affidavit of each surety subjoined thereto to the effect that he is a resident and a freeholder within the county of Fulton and is worth the sum stated therein over all his debts and liabilities which he owes or has incurred, and exclusive of property exempt by law from levy and sale under execution. Said sureties shall so justify in an aggregate sum equal at least to the penalty of the bond. Said bond shall be conditioned only that the chamberlain will faithfully discharge the duties of his office and execute and collect the taxes in all assessment-rolls and warrants delivered to him by the common council; such bond when approved by the common council shall be filed and entered in the office of the clerk of Fulton county in the manner prescribed by law for filing and entering bonds of county treasurers; and every such bond shall be a lien on all real estate held jointly or severally by the parties executing it, within the county of Fulton, and continue to be such lien until its conditions, together with all costs and charges which may accrue by the prosecution thereof, shall be fully satisfied. A true copy of such bond shall be filed in the city clerk's office. Before the delivery to the chamberlain of each assessment-roll and warrant for the collection of a city or school tax, he shall execute to said city a bond in the penal sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, with two or more sureties, which bond shall be in form of execution similar to the bond hereinbefore mentioned, except that it shall be conditioned that said chamberlain shall account for and pay over all moneys which shall come to his hands by virtue of the assessmentroll and warrant delivered to him as aforesaid. The sureties on such bonds shall justify in the same manner as provided with respect to the bond first above mentioned in this section, and the same shall be approved by the common council and filed and entered in the county clerk's office, as in the case of said former bond, and be a lien upon the real estate of the parties executing the same in like manner. But in the discretion of the common council, any bond or undertaking required to be executed by the chamberlain may be executed, or the conditions thereof guaranteed, by a company duly organized or authorized to guarantee the fidelity of persons holding positions of public trust, in lieu of sureties as above provided. The common council in lieu of any other bond or undertaking required of the chamberlain by this act, except the one first above mentioned, may at its option direct the said chamberlain to procure from an approved company or companies, organized and authorized as aforesaid, a bond or undertaking to the city, or a guarantee of said chamberlain's bond or undertaking, in the penal sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, conditioned that the city shall be protected and saved harmless from all loss by embezzlement, larceny, or wrongful disposition by the chamberlain of any of the moneys of the city coming into his hands or received by him by virtue of his office. The common council is authorized to pay the expense of any bond or undertaking or guarantee procured from such company or companies as aforesaid. The common council may require of the chamberlain such other bond or undertaking as it shall deem expedient or necessary, which other bond or undertaking shall be in such form and penalty, with such conditions and sureties as shall be prescribed by the said common council. The chamberlain shall settle annually with the common council or as often as the common council shall direct, for all assessment-rolls and tax warrants issued to him by the common council or board of supervisors of Fulton county and produce the proper vouchers for the disbursement of moneys collected thereby and thereupon receive from said common council a satisfaction and discharge of the bond or bonds, in whole or in part, given by him for the collection of said war rants and assessment-rolls. At the expiration of his term of office he shall settle his accounts with the common council or a committee duly appointed thereof, and shall pay over to his successor in office all moneys remaining in his hands and deliver to him all assessment-rolls, books, and papers appertaining to the affairs of the city in connection with the duties of his office. Said common council shall thereupon execute and deliver to him a proper satis |