PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.
and voting shall constitute a quorum of the City Council for
the transaction of business, and a majority "vote of all the
members of said City Council shall be necessary for the pas-
sage of any ordinance, resolution, order or appropriation. No
ordinance or resolution providing punishment by fine or im-
prisonment for its violation shall take effect until three days
after it shall have been posted, as provided in section 212 of
this article.

("A") SEC. 214. The style of all ordinances shall be, "Be
it enacted and ordained by the Mayor and City Council of
Laurel."

("B") SEC. 215. The City Council shall be the judge of
the qualifications of its own members, and may provide by
ordinance for contested elections, and in like manner may pro
vide for a contest of the Mayor's election.

SEC. 216. They may pass such ordinances, resolutions or
regulations for the good government, improvement and com-
fort of the town and the inhabitants thereof as to them may
seem proper: To prevent and remove all nuisances within said
town, and to restrain disorders and disturbances; to forbid any
person from carrying fire arms or other concealed weapons; to
open and close streets, fix the grade thereof, straighten, widen
and improve the same; make causeways; establish the width
and grade of sidewalks, and pave the same and set out shade
trees thereon; to prohibit the firing- of guns and pistols in
the town, and the tumultuous and irregular meetings of
idle and dissolute persons; to impose such fines, penalties and
forfeitures and punishment for the breach of their ordinances,
resolutions or regulations as they may think proper, not exceed-
ing ten dollars for any one offense, and for the non-payments
of such fines, penalties and forfeitures may commit the offender
to the County Jail, or to such place of confinement in said
town as they may provide, for a period not exceeding thirty
days, in the same manner as commitments are made for fines
and penalties imposed by the Circuit Court on conviction for
misdemeanor; to remit, at any time, any fine, penalty or for-
feiture, or any part thereof, in their discretion; to provide by
ordinance for the immediate arrest, without warrant, of any
person found violating any town ordinance, resolution or reg-
ulation ; and when it shall appear that the offender is intoxi-
cated, may confine said offender in some secure place until he
shall be sober, and may provide further for the confinement
of any person arrested, if the time be reasonable, as in the
night, whereby he cannot attend the Justice of the Peace
until a reasonable hour the succeeding morning, when he shall