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the second copy thereof filed in. the office of the Clerk of the
Circuit Court for Allegany county, and they shall have pow-
er to enforce their ordinances 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 lie necessary to pass any
ordinance.

49. The City Council shall meet on the first Monday and
Tuesday in each month, so long as may be 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, 1874; such registration
to be made in the same manner as provided in the Registra-
tion Law of the State, and shall specify the residence of the
voters on each street, lane and alley within said wards; and
the Council first elected under the provisions of this Act
shall, if they deem the same necessary, re-divide the wards
of said city, so as to give to each ward representation accord-
ing to the number of voters, as nearly as can conveniently be
done; and the said Mayor and City Council shall, after each
national census, if they shall deem the same necessary, cause
said wards to be re-divided according to the number of regis-
tered voters in each, as near as may conveniently be done;
provided, that after the first registration herein directed, the
Clerk to the Council shall discharge the duties of registrar.
for each of the wards at each succeeding election; and provi-
ded further, that whilst registration shall be essential to the
right of voting under this Act, such registration shall not be
deemed conclusive evidence of such right to vote; and also
provided, that the registration herein directed shall take place
annually, between the second Monday in April and the second