276 ARTICLE 1A.

lished in every issue of each of two newspapers published in said city for
three (3) days successively (excluding Sundays), providing the amend-
ments and corrections made in digesting and revision for publication in
book form need not be so published. Ordinances passed by the Mayor and
City Council and requiring publication shall take effect and be in force
from and after the date of their passage, unless it shall therein otherwise
expressly be provided. All ordinances of the city, when printed and pub-
lished, and bearing on the title page thereof the words "Ordained and pub-
lished by the Mayor and City Council of Cumberland," or words of like
import, shall be prima facie evidence of their authority, and shall be ad-
mitted and received in all courts and places, without further proof.

1922, ch. 96, sec. 25.

25. The style of all ordinances shall be, "Be it ordained by the Mayor
and City Council of Cumberland," but such caption may be omitted when
said ordinances are published in book form, or are revised and digested
under the order of the Mayor and City Council.

1922, ch. 96, sec. 26.

26. The Mayor and City Council, at their first meeting after their
qualification, or as soon thereafter as possible, shall select the following
officers, to wit: A City Clerk, a City Solicitor, an Auditor, a Collector of
Taxes, a City Magistrate, a doctor to act as a member of the Board of
Health, a City Engineer, a Superintendent of Streets, a Superintendent
of Water and Electric Light Works, a Water Waste Inspector, and if
deemed necessary by the Mayor and City Council at any time, an assistant
City Engineer. All said officers so elected shall receive such salary or
compensation as the Mayor and City Council may, by ordinance, provide,
payable in equal monthly installments, and shall hold their offices for two
years, and until the election and qualification of their successors, unless,
removed by the said Mayor and City Council, under the authority vested
in it by this Article.

1922, ch. 96, sec. 27.

27. The said Mayor and City Council shall also have the power and
authority in conjunction with the Board of Directors of the Evitts Creek
Water Company to contract with a competent man to hold the position
of Superintendent at the Evitts Creek Dam, and to provide for his duties
by appropriate ordinances.

1922, ch. 96, sec. 28.

28. In addition to the duties hereinbefore prescribed for the Commis-
sioner of Finance and Revenue, he shall also be the Treasurer of said city,
and as such treasurer shall give bond in such amount and in such form
as may be required by the said Mayor and City Council, in a sum not
less than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) with a surety company
authorized to do business in the State of Maryland as surety (the cost of