ABSTRACT
43. The Chamberlain or Treasurer of the Corporation is usually chosen by the common council, and in a great majority of instances is a member of it. His duties are to receive the revenues, to make the necessary payments to the order of the competent authorities, to keep the accounts, and generally to superintend the property of the Corporation. In some instances the Mayor acts as treasurer, and in that case, as in every other in which the Chamberlain is a member of the common council, he commonly belongs to the body by whom his accounts are audited. In some large towns, as Bath, Bristol and London, the Chamberlain is never a member of the body by whom the accounts are audited. In the two former places, the election is by the common council; in London by such liverymen of the companies as are freemen of the city.
Chamberlain.
