Section 20. It shall be the duty of the Recorder to make and keep accurate records of all ordinances made by the City Council, and of all their proceedings in their corporate capacity, which record shall at all times be open to the inspection of the Electors of said , and shall perform such other duties as may be required of him by the Ordinances of the City Council, and shall serve as Clerk of the Municipal Court.

Section 21. When it shall be necessary to take private property for opening, widening or altering any public street, lane, avenue, or alley, the corporation shall make a just compensation therefore to the person whose property is so taken; and if the amount of such compensation cannot be agreed upon, the Mayor shall cause the same to be ascertained by a jury of six disinterested freeholders of the .

Section 22 All jurors empanelled to enquire into the amount of benefits or damages that shall happen to the owners of property, so proposed to be taken, shall first be sworn to that effect, and shall return to the Mayor their inquest in writing, signed by each Juror.

Section 23. In case the Mayor shall at any time be guilty of a palpable omission of duty, or shall wilfully and corruptly be guilty of oppression mal conduct, or partiality in the discharge of the duties of his office, he shall be liable to be indicted in the Circuit Court of , and on conviction he shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars, and the Court shall have power, on the recommendation of the Jury <​to add to the judgment of the Court​> that he be removed from office.

Section 24. The City Council may establish and organize an Institution of learning within the limits of the , for [th]e teaching of the [Arts,] Sciences and learned professions, to be called the “University of the City of ,” which institution shall be under the control and management of a Board of Trustees, consisting of a Chancellor Registrar, and twenty three Regents; which Board shall thereafter be a [p. [13]]