884 ARTICLE 4.

nal; and said Council shall, after five days and within ten days after such
ordinance or resolution shall have been returned to it by the Mayor,
proceed to reconsider and vote upon the same. If such ordinance or
resolution shall, after reconsideration., be again passed by three-fourths
of all the members elected to said City Council it shall be and become,
to all intents and purposes, an ordinance or resolution of the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore. In such cases, after said reconsideration,
the votes on the question, of the passage of such ordinance or resolution
over the veto of the Mayor shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the
names of the persons voting for and against the passage of said ordinance
or resolution over the veto of the Mayor shall be entered on the Journal
of the City Council. If any ordinance or resolution duly passed by the
City Council shall not be returned by the Mayor to the City Council
within five days of its actual regular sittings, excluding special sittings
called by the Mayor, after it shall have been delivered to him, the same
shall become an ordinance or resolution of the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore in the same manner as if the Mayor had approved it, unless
the City Council by an adjournment sine die, or for a period exceeding
one month, shall prevent its return. In case an ordinance or resolution
duly passed by the City Council shall embrace different items of appro-
priation the Mayor may approve the provisions thereof relating to one
or more items of appropriation and disapprove the others, and in such
case those he shall approve shall become effective and those which he shall
not approve shall be reconsidered in manner and form as hereinbefore pre-
scribed in this section, by the City Council, 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 resolu-
tions. The mode and manner of procedure of the City Council and of
the Mayor in the matter of the veto of one or more distinct items of appro-
priation in any ordinance or resolution shall be the same as the mode and
manner of procedure prescribed in this section for the passage of an entire
ordinance or resolution over the veto of the Mayor.

Baltimore City v. Gorter. 93 Md. 1. See note to Hooper v. Creager. 84 Md. 197.
Heiskell v. Mayor, 65 Mel. 149. Also. Murdoch v. Strange. 90 Md. 89. M. & C. C. v.
First M. E. Ch.. 134 Mel. 593.

1898. ch. 123.

24. The Mayor shall summon all the heads of departments to a confer-
ence on municipal matters at least once in each fiscal year, and oftener, if
he thinks the public interest will be promoted thereby, and every head of
department shall report to him, orally or in writing, as he may prefer,
once in every month.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 26. 1880, ch. 101. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 31.

25. The Mayor shall have the sole power of appointment of all heads
of departments, heads of sub-departments, municipal officers not embraced
in a department and all special commissioners or boards, except as other-
wise provided in this Charter, subject to confirmation by a majority vote