3932 ARTICLE 17.

ment 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, resolution, 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, regu-
lation 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, resolution, regula-
tion 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 rea-
sons 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 statement of his accounts as often as he may
deem necessary.

1912, ch. 695, sec. 211.

820. The Mayor shall have the sole power of appointment of all officers
herein provided for, subject to confirmation by a majority vote of all the
members elected to the City Council, which confirmation shall not be later
that 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 prescribed time,
refuse to confirm such nomination or nominations, the Mayor shall, at the
next regular meeting of the City Council send to it another name or names,
for such office or offices, and the duties of the City Council and the Mayor
shall continue to be as above prescribed until a confirmation is had or a
failure to act as aforesaid by the City Council. All vacancies occurring in
the offices which the Mayor has the power to fill, subject to the ratifica-
tion or confirmation of the City Council, during the recess of the City
Council, shall be filled by the Mayor until the next regular meeting of the
City Council, at which meeting the Mayor shall present the name of a
person for each office in which such vacancy has occurred for the confirma-
tion by the City Council, and the mode and manner of procedure in such
case shall be the same as provided in this section for other appointments
by the Mayor and confirmation by the City Council. And any person or
persons appointed by the Mayor to fill any vacancy or vacancies in any
office shall hold the same until his or their successor or successors have
been confirmed by the City Council.