BALTIMORE CITY. 883

1906, ch. 420.

20A. Hereafter, all checks of the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more shall be signed by the City Register and countersigned by either the
Mayor or the City Comptroller and all bonds executed in favor of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall be approved either by the
Mayor or by the City Comptroller, and all contracts relative to the respec-
tive departments of the City Government, sub-departments, municipal
officers not embraced in a department, special commissions or boards,
shall be executed on behalf of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
by either the Mayor or the respective heads of said departments, sub-
departments, municipal officers not embraced in a department, special
commissions or boards, or the chairman or President as the case may be,
of said special commissions or boards.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 8. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 11.

21. The Mayor, by virtue of his office, shall have all the jurisdiction
and power, as a conservator of the peace, of a Justice of the Peace, and
may call upon any officer of the city entrusted with the receipt or expendi-
ture of public money, for a statement of his account as often as he may
think necessary, and may at any time by expert accountants and book-
keepers, examine the books and accounts of any department, sub-depart-
ment, municipal board, officer, assistant, clerk, subordinate or employe.
Mayor, &c., v. Dechert, 32 Md. 369.

P. L. L. (I860), Art. 4. sec. 9. P. L. L. (1888). Art. 4, sec. 12

22. The Mayor shall see that the ordinances and resolutions are duly
and faithfully executed, and shall report to the City Council as soon
as practicable after the first day of January in each year, the general
state of the city, with an accurate account of the money received and
expended, to be published for the information of the citizens. He shall
have general supervision over all departments, sub-departments, municipal
officers not embraced in a department and special commissioners or boards.
Baltimore v. Radecke, 49 Md. 217. Cumberland v. Wilson, 50 Md. 138.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, secs. 10, 11. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4. secs. 13. 14.

23. All ordinances or resolutions duly passed by the City Council,
after being properly certified by the President of the City Council as
having been so passed, shall be delivered by the Clerk of the Council, to
the Mayor for his approval, and there shall be noted on said ordinances
or resolutions the date of said delivery; and, when, approved by him, they
shall become ordinances or resolutions of the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore. If the Mayor shall not approve of any ordinance or reso-
lution so passed by the City Council he shall return the same with his
objections in writing to the City Council within five days of actual regu-
lar sittings of said City Council, excluding special sittings called by the
Mayor, occurring after such delivery of said ordinance or resolution to
him, which objections, upon receipt of the same by said City Council,
shall be forthwith read to said Council and entered at large oil its Jour-