ants as may be required. In counties where the public buildings are not in charge of a janitor they have the undoubted right to employ a person to keep their rooms in order.

It is quite customary to appoint a Sergeant-at-arms and assistants to preserve order and to execute the orders of the chairman and Board during sessions of the Board. $746. Physicians.

In Albany County the Board is required to choose, at their annual session in each year, four physicians of good standing and properly qualified to attend any and all post-mortem examinations held by the Coroners of said county, to be paid a compensation to be fixed by the Board. Laws 1878, chap. 37, §§ 5 and 6.

In Monroe County the Board of Supervisors shall at their annual session each year, elect four physicians, two to reside in the City of Rochester, and one each in the first and third assembly districts respectively, including the 15th and 16th wards, in the same manner as other county officers are elected by said Board; said physicians to be of good standing and properly qualified, whose duty it shall be to attend any and all post-mortem and all other examinations held by any of the Coroners, whenever required by the Conorers holding such examination. The physicians in the first and third assembly districts shall receive an annual salary of $100, each; those of the second assembly district an annual salary of $400, each, and not to be increased. Laws 1878, chap. 156, § 3.

In Rensselaer County, messenger, etc. The said Board of Supervisors may appoint not to exceed two messengers, and the compensation of each messenger shall be two dollars a day for each day's attendance on said Board when in session.

Doorkeepers, compensation of. The doorkeeper of said Board shall receive for his compensation as such doorkeeper, three dollars a day for such day's attendance when said Board shall be in session.

And it shall not be lawful for said Board to audit and allow, or the County Treasurer to pay, any Supervisor of said county, or the Clerk, messengers or doorkeeper of said Board of Supervisors, any greater salary or compensation than that provided by this act. Laws 1875, chap. 560, § 3.

In Erie County. The Board of Supervisors may appoint a Sergeant-at-Arms and one messenger, who shall hold their office during the pleasure of the Board. Laws 1876, chap. 231, § 2, as amended by Laws 1879, chap. 195, 1.

The compensation of the Sergeant-at-Arms shall be two dollars per day for each day's actual attendance at any session of the Board of Supervisors.

The compensation of the messenger shall be one dollar per day for each day's actual attendance at any session of said Board.

The compensation of the Sergeant-at-Arms and messenger shall be paid at the close of each session by resolution of the Board, on the certificate of the chairman, filed with the clerk. Laws 1876, chap. 231, § 3, as amended by Laws 1879, chap. 195, § 2.

It shall not be lawful for said Board to audit or allow, or for the County Treasurer to pay, any Supervisor, clerk, assistant clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms or messenger, any greater sums than is allowed by this act. Every offense against the provisions of this act shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not less than fifty dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not more than six months, or both such fine or imprisonment. Laws 1876, chap. 231, § 4.

$747. Rules of procedure.

County Boards of Supervisors shall also have authority, by resolution, to be duly entered in their minutes of proceedings, and to be published therewith,

To make rules for the conduct of their proceedings, to compel the attendance of absent members at meetings of their respective Boards, and for the maintenance of

order and decorum at such meetings, and to enforce pecuniary penalties, not exceeding fifty dollars for each offense, for the violation of such rules. Laws 1875, chap. 482, § 7.

$748. Standing rules.

The following are the standing rules used by the Board of Supervisors in the County of Erie, and are a useful set of rules. Of course each Board adopts such rules as it deems best for its use.

I. Roll call. At any and every meeting of the Board, upon the members being called to order by the chairman, the roll of members shall be called by the clerk, the names of those present and absent shall be inserted in the minutes, and the members present shall be announced by said clerk. The minutes of the preceding day shall be then read, to the end that any mistakes therein may be corrected by the Board.

II. Order of business. After reading and approving of the minutes, the order of business, which shall not in any case be departed from, except by the unanimous consent of the Board, shall be as follows:

1-Calling of the roll.

2-Reading and approving minutes.

3-Presentation of petitions and remonstrances.

4-Communications presented by members of the Board.

5-Presentation and reference of accounts.

6-Reports of standing committees.

7-Reports of select committees.

8-Motions, resolutions and notices.

9-Unfinished business.

10-Announcements from the chair.

11-Special orders of the day.

III. Questions of priority. All questions relating to the priority of business shall be decided without debate.

IV. Preservation of order. The chairman shall preserve order and decorum, and shall decide all questions of order, subject to an appeal to the Board. He shall have the right to name any member to perform the duties of the chair, but such substitution shall not extend beyond the next adjournment.

V. Vote of chairman. The chairman in all cases shall have the right to vote, and when the Board shall be equally divided, including his vote, the question shall be lost.

VI. Speaker to address the chair. Every member, previous to his speaking, shall rise from his seat and address himself to the chair.

VII. Chairman to recognize speaker. When two or more members rise at once, the chairman shall name the member who is first to speak. VIII. Members entitled to speak. No member shall speak more than once on any question, nor, in any case, until every member choosing to speak shall have spoken, nor more than twice in any case without leave of the Board.

IX. Calls to order. A member called to order shall immediately sit down unless permitted to explain. If there be no appeal, the decision of the chair shall be conclusive; but if any member appeal to the Board, from the decision of the chair, the Board shall decide on the case without debate, if the question on which the appeal was taken was not debatable, and the question shall be stated by the chair to be--Shall the decision of the chair stand as the judgment of this Board?

X Members must vote unless excused. Every member who shall be present when the question is stated from the chair shall vote thereon, unless excused by the Board, or unless he be directly interested in the question, in which case he shall, if he choose, be excused from voting. No member shall be permitted to vote upon any question unless present when, upon division, his name is called in its regular order, or unless he appears in the Board before the decision shall have been declared by the chair.

XI. Presentation of petitions. Petitions, memorials, and other papers addressed to the Board shall be presented by the chair, or by a member in his place.

XII. Petitions to be indorsed. Every member, previous to presenting a petition or memorial, shall indorse on the same the substance thereof, and add his name; the clerk shall read the endorsement, after which the chairman shall put the question on the reference of said petition or memorial.

XIII. Motion may be withdrawn. After a motion is stated by the chairman, it shall be in the possession of the Board, but may be withdrawn at any time before a decision or amendment.

XIV.

Division of question. If the question in debate contains several distinct propositions, any member may have the same divided. XV. Filling blanks. When a blank is to be filled, and different sums or times are proposed, the question shall be first put upon the largest sum and longest time.

XVI. Motions during debate. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received, unless for the previous question, to postpone it indefinitely, to adjourn to a day certain, to lay it on the table, to commit it, to amend it, or to adjourn the Board.

XVII. Motion for previous question precludes debate. A motion for the previous question, to lay the question on the table, or to commit it until it is decided, shall preclude all amendment and debate of the main question; and a motion to postpone a question indefinitely, to adjourn it to a day certain, shall, until it is decided, preclude all amendment of the main question.

XVIII. Previous question, how stated. The previous question shall be as follows: Shall the main question be now put?

XIX. Motion to adjourn. A motion to adjourn the Board will always be in order, and shall be decided without debate.

XX. Name of mover to be in minutes. In all cases, when an order, a resolution or motion shall be entered on the minutes of the Board, the name of the member moving the same shall also be entered on the minutes.

XXI. Ayes and Noes. The ayes and noes upon any question shall be taken and entered upon the minutes, if required by any member, before the decision of the chair is announced.

XXII. Reports of select committees. Select committees to whom references are made, shall, in all cases, report the facts in full.

XXIII. Quorum not present. of the whole Board, there be not

If, at any time, when in committee

present a quorum to do business, the

chairman shall immediately report the fact to the Board.

XXIV. Motions to reconsider. No motion for reconsideration shall be in order, unless on the same day or the session day following that on which the decision proposed to be considered took place, nor unless one of the majority shall move such reconsideration. A motion for reconsideration, being put and lost, shall not be renewed; nor shall any subject be a second time reconsidered without unanimous consent.

XXV. Amending or suspending rules. No standing rule or order of the Board shall be rescinded, suspended, or changed, nor any additional rule or order added thereto, unless it be by unanimous consent, without one day's notice being given of the motion therefor, and no motion to such effect shall be in order without such notice.

XXVI. Manner of presenting petitions. Every member; previous to presenting a paper of any kind, shall properly fold and indorse the same with the substance thereof, date of presentation, and his name thereon; and upon accounts the amount claimed shall be indorsed; and the clerk or chairman shall read the indorsement, after which it shall be referred to its appropriate committee, or otherwise disposed of, as the Board may direct.

XXVII. Accounts, when not to be audited. No accounts shall be audited for services rendered, or liabilities which shall have accrued, subsequent to the commencement of the present meeting of the Board, except for services of the members and officers, and such other accounts as may be ordered by the Board at its present meeting.

XXVIII. Duties of clerk. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the Board to carefully preserve the rough minutes of each day's proceedings, and immediately after the final adjournment of the Board engross the same in a book prepared for that purpose. Also to carefully arrange and file all accounts, reports and other papers belonging to the Board, as required by statute. It shall also be his duty to present a full report to the succeeding annual session of the Board, of all orders drawn on the County Treasurer, specifying in full for what purpose and by what authority the same were drawn. The clerk-elect shall, before entering upon his duties as such clerk, execute to the county a bond, with two sureties, who shall be freeholders, in the penal sum of Ten Thousand Dollars, to be approved by the chairman of the Board, together with the finance committee, for the faithful discharge of all duties imposed on him by the statutes of the Board, which bond shall, after being approved, be filed with the County Treasurer (and a copy of the same be printed with the proceedings of each year); such bond shall be discharged only by the Board and not until the chairman of the Board and the finance committee shall have certified to the Board that all of the duties of the