warrants, their date, amount, number, the fund from which paid, and person to whom paid, specifying also the time of payment, and all such warrants shall be examined by the finance committee at the time of making such annual report.

SEC. 58. Same, Diversion.-Each and every fund created by this act shall be strictly devoted to the purpose for which it was created and shall not be diverted therefrom, and any member of the city council voting to so divert the money in any fund shall be liable to suit for damages for the amount of funds so diverted.

SEC. 59.-Same, Special Funds.-All moneys received in any special assessment shall be held by the treasurer, as special fund to be applied to the payment of the improvement for which the assessment was made; and such money shall be used for · no other purpose whatever.

SEC. 60.-Fiscal Year.-The fiscal year of each city shall commence on the second Monday in August.

SEC. 61.-Appropriation Bill, Annual.-The city council shall, within the last quarter of each fiscal year, pass an ordinance, to be termed the "Annual Appropriation Bill," in which such corporate authorities may appropriate such sum or sums of money as may be deemed necessary to defray all necessary expenses and liabilities of such corporations, not exceeding in the aggregate the amount authorized tax. of tax authorized to be levied during the then ensuing year; and in such ordinance shall specify the object and purposes for which such appropriations

Shall not ex

ceed the

appropriation, how made.

are made, and the amount appropriated for each object or purpose. No further appropriation shall be Additional made at any other time within such fiscal year, unless the proposition to make such appropriation has been sanctioned by a majority of the legal voters of such city, either by a petition signed by them, or at a general or special election duly called therefor; and all appropriations shall end with the fiscal year for which they were made;

Provided, That the fund arising from "Road Taxes" and bridge taxes, as in this chapter provided, shall be deemed especially appropriated, and shall not be included in the annual appropriation ordinance; and

Provided further, That no warrant shall be drawn, account allowed, or debt contracted with reference to such fund, unless there shall be money in the treasury for the payment thereof; and

Provided further, That nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the council from appropriating other money in the annual appropriation bill for the use of streets, grades, and bridges.

SEC. 62.-Same, Estimates.-Before such annual appropriation bill shall be passed, the council shall prepare an estimate of the probable money necessary for all purposes to be raised in said city during the fiscal year for which the appropriation is to be made, including interest and principal due on the bonded debt and sinking fund, itemizing and classifying the different objects and branches of expenditures as near as may be, with a statement of the entire revenue of the city for the pre

Publication.

vious fiscal year, and shall enter the same at large upon its minutes and cause the same to be published four weeks in some newspaper published and of general circulation in the city.

SEC. 63.-Money, How Expended. The mayor and council shall have no power to appropriate, issue, or draw any order or warrant on the treasurer for money unless the same has been appropriated or ordered by ordinance, or the claim for the payment of which such order or warrant is issued has been allowed according to the provisions of this chapter, and appropriations for the class or object out of which such claim is payable has been made as provided in section 61. Neither the city council nor any department or officer of the corporation shall add to the corporation expenditures in any one year anything over and above the amount provided for in the annual appropriation bill for that year, except as herein otherwise specially provided. And no expenditure for any improvement to be paid for out of the general fund of the corporation shall exceed in any one year the amount provided for such an improvement in the annual appropriation bill;

Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall prevent the city council from ordering, by a two-thirds vote, the repair or restoration of any improvement, the necessity of which is caused by any casualty or accident happening after such annual appropriation is made, or, by a like vote, from making necessary appropriations for quarantine or hospital purposes in case of the outbreak

Mayor may

credit of the

of a virulent epidemic or contagious disease. The city council may, by a like vote, order the mayor borrow on the to borrow a sufficient sum to provide for the ex-city. pense necessary to be incurred in making any repairs or restoration of improvements, the necessity of which has arisen, as is last above mentioned, for a space of time not exceeding the close of the next fiscal year, which sum and the interest shall be added to the amount authorized to be raised in the next general tax levy, and embraced therein.

SEC. 64.-Power to Contract.-No contract shall be hereafter made by the city council or any committee or member thereof, and no expense shall be incurred by any of the officers or departments of the corporation, whether the object of the expenditure shall have been ordered by the city council or not, unless an appropriation shall have been previously made concerning such expense, except as herein otherwise expressly provided.

SEC. 65.-Contracts, Officers Not to be Interested in.-No officer of any city shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract to which the corporation, or any one for its benefit, is a party; and such interest in any such contract shall avoid the obligation thereof on the part of such corporation, nor shall any officer receive any pay or perquisites from the city other than his salary, as provided by ordinance and this chapter, and the city council shall not pay or appropriate any money or other valuable thing to any person not an officer for the performance of any act, service, or duty,

Proof of

Ordinances.

the doing or performance of which shall come within the proper scope of the duties of any officer of such corporation, unless the same is specially appropriated and ordered by a vote of three-fourths of all the members elected to the council.

SEC. 66.-Ordinances, Rules for Passing.-All ordinances shall be passed pursuant to such rules and regulations as the council may provide, and authenticity of all such ordinances may be proved by the certificate of the clerk under the seal of the city, and when printed or published in book or pamphlet form, and purporting to be published by authority of the city, shall be read and received in evidence in all courts and places without further proof. The passage, approval, and publication, or posting of said ordinances shall be sufficiently proved by a certificate under the seal of the city, from the clerk thereof, showing that such ordinance was passed and approved, and when and in what paper the same was published, and when and by whom, and where the same was posted up. And when ordinances are published in book or pamphlet form, purporting to be published by authority of the city council, the same need not be otherwise published, and such book or pamphlet shall be received as evidence of the passage and legal publication of such ordinances, as of the dates mentioned in such book or pamphlet, in all courts without further proof.

SEC. 67.-Ordinances, Style.-The style of ordinances shall be: "Be it ordained by the mayor and council of the city of.. ," and all ordinances