Be it ordained by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Water

bury:

SECTION I. The Mayor of said city shall issue an order, under his hand, for the biennial city meeting, and for each election of city or ward officers in said city, and for any special election or vote of freemen of said city to be taken in said city, or any ward thereof, under authority of law, which order shall specify the purposes of such meeting, election or vote. and the several places of meeting or voting, and said order, being recorded in the city records and a certified copy published in one or more newspapers in said city, at least six days before the time prescribed for such meeting, election or vote, shall be sufficient warning thereof.

SEC. 2. Such elections and votes shall be conducted, in all respects, as provided in the Statutes and Special Acts of this State. All the ballots cast at any such election or meeting shall be by the moderator, immediately after the ballots are all counted, returned to the box, and the box by him locked and sealed and deposited in the office of the City Clerk.

SEC. 3. Immediately upon the close of the poll in each ward on the day of election, the ballot boxes shall be unlocked and opened by the moderator, and the ballots publicly counted at the polling place in each ward where cast, by freemen of said city appointed for such duty by the Registrars of Voters of the

Town of Waterbury. counted the moderator of such poll shall publicly declare, in the polling place in which such ballots were cast, the true result of said balloting, and shall certify in writing, over his hand, such result, giving in detail the names of the several officers voted for, together with the number of votes cast for each, respectively, which certificate shall by such moderator be forthwith delivered to the presiding officer of said city meeting at the voting place in the third ward of said city, except when such vote is not taken in all the wards, in which last case said certificate shall be transmitted to the City Clerk and recorded. Said presiding officer shall, immediately upon the receipt of said certificate from the moderator of the polls in all said wards, publicly declare the result of the vote in said city and in the several wards thereof, with the number of votes cast for each officer; and said officer of said city meeting shall endorse his own name, as presiding officer of said city meeting, upon each of said several certificates of said moderators of the several wards, and securely seal the same in one package, in presence of said city meeting, and forthwith return. said sealed package to the City Clerk, who shall receive and safely keep the same unbroken and sealed until the next meeting of the Board of Aldermen, when said package shall, by said City Clerk, be delivered to said board, which said board shall, during said next meeting, unseal said package and canvass said returns and declare the result thereof; and the result of such canvass shall be recorded at length in the records of said city and become a part thereof. A plurality of votes only shall be required to elect any officer of said city, except where otherwise expressly required by law. The City Clerk shall forthwith record said returns in the city records, and all said original certificates shall be deposited with him and carefully kept on file in his office.

Immediately upon such ballots being

SEC. 4. No minor, nor other person not an elector, shall loiter about any such voting place during the taking of any vote, or about the place where the vote is being counted.

SEC. 5. The moderator of the poll at any city election or vote shall see that official challengers shall have full and free

opportunity to exercise their office, that every voter shall have convenient and unobstructed opportunity to vote, that a free passage to the ballot boxes shall be kept open, that the polls and voting booths shall be free from noise and disturbance, and have authority forthwith to arrest without warrant any person disobeying his lawful orders for the aforesaid purposes, or guilty of violating any law, or of attempting to violate any law, with reference to such election, and to cause him to be taken to the police station for prosecution; but if such person is entitled to vote, he shall have an opportunity to do so before removal.

SEC. 6. Every person who shall disobey the proper order of the moderator for any of the aforesaid purposes, or who shall wilfully and maliciously disturb the good order and quiet of any such election or vote, or injure, deface or interfere with any of the voting booths provided for such election, or violate any other provision of this ordinance, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than one nor more than one hundred dollars for every such offense.

SEC. 7. The Mayor of said city shall be charged with the duty of enforcing the foregoing provisions in such manner that every election and vote in said city shall be conducted quietly and in good order, and that every legal voter shall have full and fair opportunity to procure or prepare and cast the vote of his choice, according to law, without intimidation or unnecessary hindrance.

Passed by Board of Aldermen August 16, 1897. Operative August 27, 1897.

FIRE.

Be it ordained by the Court of Common Council of the City of Waterbury:

FIRE DEPARTMENT.

SECTION I. The Board of Fire Commissioners shall meet statedly on the Monday preceding the first Thursday of every month. Said board shall each month audit all bills, created in and for said department, and cause those approved by them to be duly certified and passed over to the City Clerk, for the approval of the Board of Finance.

They shall annually, in the month of October, report to the Court of Common Council an estimate of the expenses of their department, for the year commencing on the first day of January next ensuing.

SEC. 2. If at any time it shall be necessary for said board to exceed the amount of expenses required by the next preceding annual estimate for said department or to exceed the amount of any particular appropriation, to accomplish the particular object of such appropriation, they shall report the facts in writing to the next regular session of the Court of Common Council, with the reasons for the deficiency, and an estimate of the amount needed in the case; but they shall in no case allow the expenses to exceed the estimate previously approved, or appropriation previously made, by said court.

SEC. 3. There shall be, for the use of said fire department, such number of fire engines, hose carriages, hook and ladder