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The judge of said court shall never hold his court out of the room provided by the council as a city court room unless said room can not be used.
==Clerk.==
===Section 113.===
The clerk of the police court shall have the qualifications, and take the oath, and give bond required of the clerk of the circuit court. Said bond, and the requisite surety thereon shall be approved by the council.
===Section 114.===
The clerk of the court may administer oaths as clerk of the circuit court, and lie shall be subject to the same fines and penalties. For neglect and violation of his duty he may be prosecuted, punished or removed in such manner as herein provided.
===Section 115.===
He shall receive no fees whatever, but he shall be paid such salary, and may appoint such deputies as he may be allowed by ordinance. His deputies shall receive no fees, but shall receive such salary as may be allowed them by law.
===Section 116.===
In case of a vacancy in said clerk's office the mayor shall fill such vacancy with the consent of the council.
===Section 117.===
The clerk of said court may be allowed such stationery as may be necessary for his office, but it shall be obtained through the city buyer, as supplies are obtained, by other municipal officers.
===Section 118.===
The clerk shall attend all meetings of the council, and make record of its proceedings, attest all ordinances and resolutions for record, and also for publication, after the comptroller has affixed the seal of the city, and he shall act as clerk for the mayor.
===Section 119.===
The clerk of the police court shall, for the use of said court, daily enter in a book to be kept for that purpose, a list of all cases, leaving sufficient space on the margin of said book, or following each case, for the judge to note whatever orders may be made therein. Said book shall be known as the judge's docket, and it shall be the duty of the judge to concisely note therein, in ink, all orders and judgments in each case, and to daily sign his name at the foot of the day's docket. No order or judgment of said court shall be modified, set aside, or annulled, except in court, during the regular hours of the court, and by the judge who tried the ease, except as provided in section 85 of this act. No order or judgment shall be modified, set aside or annulled except on motion duly made in open court within three days from the date on which the judgment or order was entered. Said motion must be accompanied by the written reasons therefor, and the grounds for modifying, setting aside or annulling said order or judgment, shall be stated briefly and accurately by the judge of the bench, and recorded by the clerk in the order book of the court.
===Section 120.===
The marshal shall act as officer of the police court, or he may detail a member of the police for such service in his absence.
===Section 121.===
It shall be the duty of the marshal or his detail to be present at the sessions of the court, to maintain order therein, and to perform all other court duties, subject to the directions of the court.
===Section 122.===
If any officer or deputy of said court shall, without legal excuse, fail or neglect, for one week, to perform the duties provided herein, or to keep up any book, docket or record, as required by law, he shall be subject to a fine of twenty-five dollars for each day the offense continues; and any officer or deputy of said court who shall in the conduct of his office do that which is forbidden by law, shall be subject to a like fine for each day's offense, and, if the offense be repeated, or if the delinquency continue two weeks, the offender shall be liable to said fine, and also to imprisonment not exceeding sixty days.
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