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The city attorney shall draft all contracts, leases, deeds, bonds, conveyances, obligations, agreements and other legal instruments which may be required of him by ordinance, or by order of the mayor or of the city council. It shall be the duty of the city attorney to commence and prosecute all actions and suits for the city before any tribunal. He shall appear in defense and protect the interests of the city, or of any officer thereof in any suit of prosecution for any act or omission in the discharge of their official public duties. The city
attorney shall be an able and experienced person learned in the law and an attorney and counselor at law in the courts of the Commonwealth.
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