PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 763

other to vote at the election; every clerk before he enters any
votes on the polls shall take an oath that he will diligently
and faithfully, without favor, affection or partiality execute
the office of the Clerk of Registration and Election. The sev-
eral Judges may administer the oath to each other, or take
the oath before a Justice of the Peace, and a certificate of
every such oath signed by the person administering the same
respectively, shall be annexed to the polls, and the Mayor and
Common Council of Capitol Heights are vested with power
and authority to pass all ordinances, necessary and proper in
respect to the manner of making election returns and provide
what shall be done on the failure of the Judges of Registra-
tion and Election to attend at the time appointed for holding
a registration or an election and for the manner and time
of destroying all election returns.

SEC. 12. The Mayor and Common Councilmen shall qualify
and take possession of these offices respectively on the second
Wednesday in May immediately following their election, and
the failure to qualify within the time prescribed shall be
deemed a refusal by the party failing to qualify to accept the
office, whereupon a new election shall be proclaimed to fill
the vacancy thereby occasioned.

SEC. 13. The Mayor of the Town of Capitol Heights shall
be the executive officer thereof, clothed with all the power
necessary to secure the enforcement of all ordinances passed by
the council of said town under the charter. He may convene
the Council when in his opinion the public good may require
it, and shall from time to time lay before them in writing
such proposed alterations in the laws of the corporation an
he may deem necessary and proper. In case of his death,
resignation, inability or refusal to serve or removal from the
town, the Common Council shall elect some qualified citizen
of the town to act in his place until his successor is elected
or the disability is removed. The Mayor shall have the power
to veto any ordinance, law or regulation passed by the council,
and unless said veto is overruled by a two-thirds vote of all
the councilmen elected, said veto shall stand. In the case of
any ordinance, law or regulation of the said council the Mayor
shall in the event of his disapproval thereof, give his reason
therefor in writing within thirty days after receipt thereof by
him from said council, or such ordinance, law or regulation
shall be considered to have been passed and shall then in all
respects become valid without his approval.

SEC. 14. The Common Council shall meet each year upon
the second Wednesday next succeeding the election, and after