The Common Council shall not appropriate, or order the payment of any city money either by check or in cash, from any fund whatsoever, except by approval of a majority of the members of the Council at a duly constituted meeting. Orders for the payment of money, when so approved, shall be signed by the Mayor and City Clerk, directed to the City Treasurer; and it shall be the duty of the City Clerk to spread upon the minutes every order for the payment of money, showing the amount of money, to whom payable, for what purpose allowed, and the fund from which payment is to be made.
(Prior Code, § 2-28)
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