PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1115

of 1896 are hereby adopted and made a part of this act as fully
as if they had been herein specifically set out.

Powers of Mayor.

SEC. 209. The person elected as Mayor of the said town
shall qualify upon the next Monday night succeeding his elec-
tion by taking the same oath required to be taken by the City
Councilmen.

SEC. 210. The Mayor of the said Town of Laurel shall be
the executive officer thereof, clothed with all the powers neces-
sary to secure the enforcement of all ordinances and resolutions
passed by the City Council of said town. He may convene
the City Council whenever in his opinion the public good may
require it, and shall from time to time lay before it in writing
such proposed alterations in the laws or ordinances of the town
as he may deem necessary and proper. He shall have the power
to veto any ordinance, resulotion, regulation or order passed
by the City Council, and unless said veto is overruled by a
four-fifths vote of all the members of the Council, said veto
shall stand, and such ordinance, resolution, regulation or order
shall be null and void. He shall also have power to veto any
one or more items of appropriation, no matter in what manner
the same may be made. He shall return every ordinance, reso-
lution, regulation or order passed to the City Council, or the
clerk thereof, whether he approves the same or not, and if he
vetoes the same he shall give his reasons therefor in writing
within thirty days from the time of the passage of the same by
the City Council or such ordinance, resolution, regulation, order
or appropriation shall be considered to have been passed and
shall become in all respects valid without his approval. He
may call upon any person in the service of the town entrusted
with the receipt or expenditure of the town's money for a state-
ment of his accounts as often as he may deem necessary.

SEC. 211. The Mayor shall have the sole power of appoint-
ment of all officers herein provided for, subject to confirma-
tion by a majority vote of all the members elected to the City
Council, which confirmation shall not be later than at the next
regular meeting after the receipt of such appointment or
appointments. If the City Council fails to take such action
within said time, then the person or persons so nominated shall
be to all intents and purposes such officer or officers as if they
had been confirmed by the City Council.

If the City Council shall by the required vote and in the pre-
scribed time, refuse to confirm such nomination or nominations,
the Mayor shall, at the next regular meeting of the City Coun-