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The City Council, Everett, Washington: I hereby protest passage and enactment of Ordinance No . 2232 , which presumes to transfer the collection of public moneys due City of Everett, Water Department, from control of Department of Finance, on following grounds; 1. Everett's City Charter, Article 1V, Sec. 22b provides "The Department of Finance shall include the office of clerk and treasurer. Article X1V, Section 132, reads ; "b. The Treasurer shall receive and receipt for . all funds .payable to the city. He shall make his receipt therefor in triplicate. " Section 133; "The Treasurer shall at the close of each month report to the Council the amount of moneys received and disbursed by him, and the amount on hand. " 2 . The' State Examiner, Bureau of lunicipal Corporations, 1924 Report, in passing on this question, said ; "Under the Charter, (Everett) provision, all accounting of the Water Department must be done in the clerk's office, and the treasurer the collector of all moneys. " 3. This proposed ordinance makes the receiver of public moneys due City of Everett, Water Department, responsible to the Commissioner of Public Works . 4. Public moneys payable to the Water Department amount to approximately 4250,000.00 annually, considerable more than the amount collected by the general tax levy for current expense. This ordinance would put the collection of this large sum under the Commissioner of Public Works, in place of the bonded officer provided by the Charter of the City. 5. The proposed action of majority of the City Council in passing such an ordinance is absolutely contrary to the City Charter and is void. I hereby record my protest against such an illegal practice . Commissioner of Finance .