WORCESTER COUNTY. 5257

shall be set out in full in the ordinance book, and all of the ordinances
shall be numbered consecutively, and the date of the enactment of such
ordinance shall be placed at the end thereof; and each ordinance in the
said ordinance book shall be signed at the foot thereof by the president
of the Council and the town clerk, on behalf of the Council, and the Mayor
shall also certify thereunder, under his hand, the date upon which he
approved the said ordinance. And the Mayor and Council of Pocomoke
City are hereby declared to have full power and authority to pass all ordi-
nances which have been passed by the said Mayor and Council, and all
ordinances so passed and recorded in the ordinance book now in use by
the Mayor and Council are hereby declared to be valid and in full force
and effect and shall remain in full force and effect until repealed or
amended by authority of the Mayor and Council. In the general record
book shall be recorded all notices, papers, documents, petitions, certificates
and other papers connected with the election of the Mayor and Council-
men, such contracts entered into by the Mayor and Council, with other
persons, as the Mayor and Council shall direct, to be recorded in full,
and all other papers and documents which the Mayor and Council may
order to be recorded therein. Extracts from any of the municipal record
books, from any papers or documents recorded therein, and copies of any
ordinance recorded in the ordinance book shall be admissible in evidence
when pertinent and relevant in any of the courts of this State or before
any justice of the peace thereto, when verified by certificate signed by the
Mayor and authenticated by the corporate seal; provided, the clerk of the
Circuit Court for Worcester County, when the extract or copies are to
be used outside of said county, shall certify by his hand and the seal of
the said court that the person who verifies said extract or copy is the
Mayor of Pocomoke City; provided, that no extract shall be made and
so certified by the Mayor unless it embodies all the municipal records about
the matter in question; and provided further, that no copy of any ordi-
nance shall be so certified by the Mayor unless the same contains all the
amendments that have been made thereto; or if the same has been re-
pealed, that fact shall also be certified. In the Circuit Courts of this
State and before any justice of the peace of the State the record books
themselves may be offered in evidence to prove any relevant or pertinent
matter contained in the same. The town clerk shall be custodian of the
minute books, the ordinance books, the record books and the assessment
books of the town, and he shall be entitled to receive fair compensation
for all extracts or copies made by him from said books, to be paid by the
party or parties requesting such extracts or copies, and the Mayor and
Council may fix the price to be charged by the town clerk for all such
extracts or copies. And the record books shall be open for the inspection
of any of the residents of Pocomoke City, unless they are actually in use
by the Mayor and Council, the town clerk or some other officer of the town.

1906, ch. 549. 1920 Code, sec. 262. 1927, ch. 446, sec. 262.
206. At the first regular meeting after the annual town election, that