see making the payment and delivering the promissory notes. within the time, and as required by the 9th section of this ordinance, such certificate shall be delivered to the lessee, and unless such certificate and surrender shall be so filed with the Comptroller within three months after the passage of this ordinance, such lessee or assignee shall be forever precluded from any benefit or advantage under the provisions of this ordinance.

§ 26. Upon full payment of the money and interest specified in such certificate, a deed in fee simple, for the same, shall be executed in the manner hereinafter provided, to the lessee, or the person whom he may designate.

§ 27. Should any part of the purchase money or interest remain unpaid for three months after due, it shall be lawful for the city, by concurrent resolution of the City Council, to declare such sale and purchase to be null and void to all intents and purposes.

§ 28. All deeds made in pursuance of this ordinance shall specify the actual consideration thereof, either according to the certificate of the Board of Control, or the purchase thereof at public sale.

§ 29. Such deeds shall be signed by the Mayor and countersigned by the Register, under the seal of the city, and shall be deemed sufficient to pass to the grantee therein named, in fee simple, all the right, title, claim and estate of the city to the land therein specified, but shall contain no clause of warranty, except as against those claiming by, through, or under the city.

§ 30. All ordinances or parts of ordinances contrary to, or inconsistent with, the provisions of this ordinance, are hereby repealed.

31. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, July 20, 1843.

AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTAL AND EXPLANATORY OF AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE RELATIVE TO THE DISPOSITION OF THE COMMON.

§ 1. No block to be appraised at less that $25 per acre.

2. Comptroller not to make certificate when appraised at less.

3. When to take effect.

Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of St. Louis:

§ 1. The Board of Control of the City Common shall not value and appraise any lot or block, nor any part or parts thereof, in the Common, for less than twenty-five dollars per acre.

§ 2. The Comptroller shall not make out and deliver a certificate to any person or persons for any lot, or block, nor any part or parts thereof, in the common valued and appraised for less than twenty-five dollars per acre.

§ 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, August 24 1843.

AN ORDINANCE IN ADDITION TO AN ORDINANCE RELATIVE TO THE DISPOSITION OF THE COMMON, APPROVED, JULY TWENTIETH, Eighteen hundred

AND FORTY-THREE.

1. Purchasers paying up within four years entitled to a deed.

2. When to take effect.

Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of St. Louis:

§ 1. That purchasers of lots in the Common, who, at any time within four years from the day of sale shall pay up the whole of the purchase money, and all interest which may have accrued, shall be entitled to a deed in the manner prescribed in the twenty-ninth section of an ordinance to which this is an addition.

§ 2. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, September 5, 1843.

Contractors.

AN ORDINANCE TO PREVENT CERTAIN CITY OFFICERS FROM BECOMING CONTRACTORS TO DO PUBLIC WORKS.

§ 1. Officers not elected by the people cannot conract for public works paid by the city.

2. Penalty for breach of the above section.

Be it ordained by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the city of St. Louis, as follows:

§ 1. No officer of this city except such as shall be elected by the people shall directly or indirectly become contractor to do, or perform any work, the payment of which is to be made by the city, nor shall any officer of this city except as aforesaid, become the security upon any note, bond, or contract, in which the city is party.

§ 2. Any officer who shall offend against this ordinance shall be removed from office, and shall moreover pay a fine of fifty dollars for the use of the city.

Approved, September 15, 1836.

AN ORDINANCE TO PREVENT CONTRACTORS FOR EXCAVATION OF EARTH AND STONES FROM SELLING THE SAME.

§ 1. Contractors for grading the streets, &c. not to sell the earth or stone. 2. Penalty for violation of.

Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of St. Louis:

§ 1. That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons who have contracted or shall hereafter contract to excavate earth or stone on any public street, alley, lane, or avenue, within the limits of the city, to sell or in any way dispose of any portion of such earth or stone, except under the direction of the Street Commissioner, or those acting in his stead.

§ 2. That any person or persons violating the provisions of this ordinance, shall forfeit and pay to the city the sum of ten dollars for each offence, to be recovered before any tribunal having competent jurisdiction to try the same; and that every delivery of any parcel of stone or earth as aforesaid, shall constitute an offence against this ordinance. Approved, August 20, 1339.

Convent.

A JOINT RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF THE CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART.

Superintendent Water Works to furnish water to.

Resolved, by the City Council of the City of St. Louis, that the Superintendent of the Water Works be and he is hereby instructed and required to allow to the Ladies of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, a Water License on the payment of ten dollars per annum for the same, for the use of said Convent; Provided, that they shall pay all expense attendant on conducting the water to the premises of the Convent.

Approved, August, 16, 1841.

City Counselor and City Attorney.

ARTICLE I. City Counselor.

ART. II. City Attorney.

ART. III. Miscellaneous provisions.

AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO THE CITY COUNSELOR AND

CITY ATTORNEY.

ARTICLE I.

CITY COUNSELOR.

1. City Counselor, when and how nominated and appointed.

2. Qualifications of City Counselor.

3. How qualified, conditions of bonds, how executed.

4. How commissioned.

5. Duties of the City Counselor.

6. Assistant Counsel, how employed.

7. When appeals may be taken, and how.

8. When appeat taken, City Counselor to report to Mayor.

Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of St. Louis, as follows:

§ 1. At the first stated meeting of the City Council in each year, the Mayor shall nominate, by and with the advice and consent of the Board of Aldermen, shall appoint a City Counsel

or.

§ 2. The person so appointed, shall be a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city at least two years next preceding his appointment, shall be well learned in the law, and shall have been admitted to practice as an attorney and counselor in the Supreme Court, and other Courts of the State of Missouri.

§ 3. The City Counselor shall take and subscribe an oath, before some Judge or Justice of the Peace of the county of Saint Louis, to support the Constitution of the United States, and of the State of Missouri, and faithfully to demean himself in the office. of City Counselor, for the term for which he has been appointed; he shall also execute his bond to the city of St. Louis, with two or more securities to be approved of by the Mayor, in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned that he will faithfully demean himself in office of City Counselor, and account for, and pay over to the Treasurer all moneys which may come to his hands as City Counselor, and otherwise conform to such ordinances, as are or may be passed in relation to said office, or the duties thereof.

§ 4. Upon the filing of the certificate of the oath aforesaid, and the bond aforesaid, approved and attested by the Mayor, the Register shall issue a commission to the person so appointed to the office of City Counselor, for one year from the 1st day of May, and until his successor is duly appointed and qualified.

§ 5. It shall be the duty of the City Counselor:

First. To act as the legal Counselor of the city, in all matters pertaining to contracts with or by the city, or any questions of legality, arising out of any law, ordinance, the city charter, or otherwise.

Second. To give his opinion in writing, when required by the Mayor, or any officer of the city, upon any question of law, pertaining to the duties or action of such officer.

Third. To prescribe the form of all deeds, contracts, or other legal instruments, to or by the city, and when required so to do. by the Mayor, or by ordinance, or resolution of the City Council, to draft the same.