524 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 26,

sum exceeding ten thousand dollars, without first submitting
the question to the voters of said city, after twenty days' pub-
lic notice, and a majority of the legal voters voting on said
question assenting thereto; to erect and repair bridges within
the corporation limits; to pass ordinances to levy and collect
taxes on dogs, and to restrain them from going at large; to
prevent swine from going at large, and to restrain and sup-
press the keeping of any hog-pen within certain portions or
wards in said city; they shall have power to pass all ordi-
nances necessary to define the duties of the officers of said
corporation; to require bonds and fix the penalties thereof for
the faithful performance of their respective duties; and to
pass all ordinances for conducting the elections herein di-
rected, and for making the returns thereof; Provided, That
duplicate copies of said returns shall be made out, one copy
of which shall be filed with the Mayor and City Council, and
the second copy thereof filed in the office of the Clerk of the
Circuit Court lor Allegany county, and they shall have pow-
er to enforce their ordinanpes by pains and penalties.

48. 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 so passed by the
Council, he shall return the same, with his reasons therefor,
at the next regular meeting of the Council, when, if passed
by three-fourths of all members elected to said Council, it
shall be an ordinance to all intents and purposes as if it had
been approved by the Mayor, and if the Mayor shall fail to
return any ordinance passed by said Council, with his ap-
proval or disapproval, at its next regular meeting, such ordi-
nance shall be taken and considered as approved by him.
The passage of all ordinances shall be by yeas and nays, en-
tered on the Journal of said Council, and a majority of all
members elected to said body shall he necessary to pass any
ordinance.

49. The City Council shall meet on the first Monday and
Tuesday in each month, so long as may he necessary; and
(until by ordinance it is otherwise provided,) bi-monthly
meetings shall be held, and they shall receive for their ser-
vices, at the meeting herein provided for, the sum of three
dollars per day; Provided, That the amount so to be paid to
each Councilman, shall not exceed the sum of seventy-five
dollars in any one year.

50. The Mayor and City Council shall cause a registration
to be made of all the voters in the respective wards herein
provided for, which registration shall be completed on or
before the second Wednesday in May, eighteen hundred and
seventy-four; such registration to be made in the same man-
ner as provided in the Registration Law of the State, and