2832 ARTICLE 12.

of said officers so appointed, as provided in Section 404, during their
incumbency.

1898, ch. 25, sec. 171. 1918, ch. 26, sec. 171.

409. No person shall be eligible to the office of Mayor unless he shall
have attained the age of thirty years, and shall have resided two years
next preceding his election in said town, and shall be a freeholder in said
town of Oakland. The Mayor elected at any regular election shall hold
office for two years from the first Monday in April next after his election
and until after his successor is elected and qualified. Should a vacancy
occur in the office of Mayor by reason of removal from town, removal
from office, death, resignation or otherwise, the president of the council
shall perform all the duties of Mayor and act as such until the next gen-
eral election of the Mayor and Council. Wilful neglect of duty or mis-
behavior in office on the part of the Mayor is hereby declared a misde-
meanor, and on conviction before a justice of the peace or in the Circuit
Court for Garrett County, he shall be removed from office by the Justice
of the Peace or Judge who shall sit in the case, and any person who shall
be convicted and removed from the office of Mayor as aforesaid, shall be
disqualified from holding any office in said corporation. He shall, on the
second Monday in April of each year appoint and send to the Town Coun-
cil for confirmation the names of persons for the office of police magis-
trate, attorney, and Weighmaster respectively. He shall have power to
remove for cause any officers, agent, servant or employee of said corpora-
tion who has been appointed by him or employed by him and to fill any
and all vacancies which may occur in offices which he has the power to
fill. He shall have general supervision of the town, see that the ordinances
are enforced, and from time to time report to the Town Council such
matters as may in his judgment require the attention of the Town Council.
He shall read and sign the minutes of the Town Council after each and
every meeting. He shall have power to administer oaths and certify the
same in all matters pertaining to said corporation which may be required
by the business or transactions of said corporation. He shall in the ab-
sence or sickness of the police magistrate, in such case only, have power
to hear and determine all cases to which said corporation may be a party,
and over which the police magistrate may have jurisdiction, and for this
purpose he is hereby clothed with all the power and authority of a justice
of the peace. No ordinance shall be valid without his approval unless the
same be passed over his veto by a two-thirds vote, nor shall any order or
resolution for the payment of money out of the town treasury be valid
without his approval in writing. He shall during his official term hold
no other corporation office, nor shall he be interested in any contract to
which the said corporation is a party or when the money for any con-
tract is to be paid out of the corporation treasury. He shall receive the
sum of one hundred dollars a year for his official services to be paid iu
quarterly installments of twenty-five dollars. Before entering upon his
duties he shall take and subscribe to before the clerk of the Circuit Court