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resolution of the Mayor and Council of Easton. If any ordinance or
resolution duly passed by the Council shall not be returned by the Mayor
to the Council by its next regular meeting, excluding special meetings
called by the Mayor, or the President of the Council, after it shall have
been delivered to him, the same shall become an ordinance or resolution
of the Mayor and Council of Easton in the same manner as if the Mayor
had approved it, unless the Council by an adjournment of a period exceed-
ing one month shall prevent its return, provided, however, the Mayor
may, in his discretion, submit to a veto at any special meeting. In case
an ordinance or resolution duly passed by the Council shall embrace
different items of appropriation the Mayor may approve the provisions
thereof relating to one or more items of appropriation or involving expense
to the town and disapprove the others, and in such case, those he shall
approve shall become effective and those he shall not approve shall be
reconsidered by the Council in the manner and form as hereinbefore pre-
scribed in this Section, and shall become effective if again passed over
the veto of the Mayor by the vote as above prescribed for the passage over
the veto of the Mayor of entire ordinances or resolutions. The mode and
manner of procedure of the Council and of the Mayor in the matter of
the veto of one or more distinct items of appropriation in any ordinance
or resolution shall be the same as the mode and manner of procedure pre-
scribed in this Section for the passage of an entire ordinance or resolution
over the veto of the Mayor.

1910, ch. 365, sec. 71A (p. 1172).

168. The Mayor shall duly and faithfully execute all ordinances, reso-
lutions or orders of the Mayor and Council in a prompt and reasonable
manner. In the event of the failure or refusal of the Mayor to execute
or have executed any ordinances, resolutions or orders of the Mayor and
Council which have been regularly approved, it shall be competent and
proper for the Council, by order or resolution, to have the matter in hand
properly executed in accordance with the true intent of the resolution or
order, and it shall have the same force and effect as if it had been regu-
larly done and executed by the Mayor. And the town treasury shall be
liable therefor in settlement of any expenses incurred.

1906, ch. 458, sec. 72. 1912, ch. 208. 1920, ch. 17.

169. The Mayor and Council shall have full power and authority to
levy annually upon the assessable property of the town by direct tax, with
full power to provide by ordinance for the collection of the same, such
sum of money not exceeding one dollar on the one hundred dollars of the
assessable property within the limits of the town, as may be necessary in
its judgment for the purpose of defraying the expenses of said town over
and exclusive of all expenses, charges and sums of money which it is or
shall be required by law to collect for other purposes, subject to the pro-
visions and limitations herein contained; to levy and collect taxes upon
every description of property found within the corporate limits of said
town, which is now authorized by law to levy taxes upon for the purpose
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