JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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g. In case of a failure to elect a Mayor and at least three
Councilmen, those in office shall continue to perform the,
duties pending an election, which shall be held upon the
notice prescribed hereinbefore. Every judge of election
before he proceeds to take or receive any votes shall take an
oath that he will permit every qualified person, and none
other, to vote at the election. Every clerk before he enters
any vote on the polls shall take an oath that he will well and
faithfully, without favor, affectation or partiality, execute the
office of clerk of election. The several judges may administer
the oath to each other, or take the oath before a justice of
the peace, and a certificate of every such oalh, signed by the
person administering the same, respectively, shall be annexed

Hold-over
Officers in case
of failure to
elect.

Judges
and clerks of
election shall
make oath.

to the polls, and the Mayor and Common Council of Hyatts-
ville are vested with power and authority to pass all ordi-
nances necessary and proper in respect to the manner of
making election returns, and provide what shall be done on
the failure of the judges of election to attend at the time
appointed for holding- an election, and for the manner and
time of destroying all election returns.

10. The Mayor and Common Council shall qualify and
take possession of their offices, respectively, on the second
Wednesday in May in each and every year, and the failure
to qualify within the time prescribed shall be deemed a
refusal by the party failing to qualify to accept the office,
whereupon a new election shall be proclaimed to fill the
vacancy thereby occasioned.

Power to pasc
ordinances,
etc.

11. The Mayor of the town of Hyattsville shall be the
executive officer thereof, clothed with all the powers necessary
to secure the enforcement of all ordinances passed by the
Council of said town under this Charter; he may convene the
Council when in his opinion the public good may require it,
and shall from time to time lay before them in writing such
proposed alterations in the laws of the corporation as he may
deem necessary and proper; in case of his death, resignation,
inability or refusal to serve, or removal from the town, the
Council shall elect some citizen of the town to act in his place
until his successor is elected or the disability is removed; the
Mayor shall have power to veto any ordinance, law or regula-
tion passed by the Council, and unless said veto is over-ruled
by a two-thirds vote of all the Councilmen elected, said veto
shall stand, and such ordinance, law or resolution shall be
null and void, and he shall return every ordinance, law, or
resolution of the said Council with or without his approval
thereof, and if without his approval, shall give his reasons

powers of the

Mayor.