210 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 136.

AN ACT to repeal section forty-eight of an act of
the General Assembly of Maryland, entitled " an
act to amend the charter of the City of Cumber-
land by repealing sections twenty-two, &c., passed
at the January session of the General Assembly
of Maryland, eighteen hundred and seventy-four,
chapter one hundred; also to repeal section fifty-
two of article one, of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland, title "Allegany county, " sub-
title "Cumberland, " and to re-enact the same with
amendments.

Repealed and re-enacted.	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by Thee General Assembly of Maryland, That section forty-eight of chapter one hundred, entitled "an act to amend the charter of the City of Cumberland, by repealing sections twen- ty-two, &c., " passed at the January session of the General Assembly of Maryland, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and approved March the twenty- seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and section fifty-two of article one, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Allegany county, " sub-title "Cumberland, " be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Be approved	SECTION 48. All orders or resolutions for the ap- propriation of money from the city treasury whether for special or general purposes, and all ordinances passed by the city council, shall be attested by the clerk and approved by the mayor; if the mayor shall disapprove any ordinance, resolution or order so passed by the city council, he shall return the same with his reasons therefor at the next regular or spe- cial meeting of the city council, when, if passed by three-fourths of all the members elected to said city council, it shall be an ordinance, resolution or order,
Shall fail.	to all intents and purposes as if it had been approved by the mayor; and if the mayor shall fail to return any ordinance, resolution or order, so passed by said city council, with his approval or disapproval at its next regular meeting, such ordinance, resolution or