102 ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY. [ART. 2.

in Annapolis on the third Monday in July, and shall meet on the
second Monday in each month thereafter, but the mayor may
summon them to convene whenever and as often as it may
appear to him that the interests of the city, require their delibera-
tions, and a majority of the whole board shall be a quorum to do
business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day.

P. L. L., (1860, ) art 2, sec. 88.

34. They may compel the attendance of absent members in
such manner and under such penalties as they may by ordinance
provide; shall settle their rules of proceedings; appoint their own
officers and remove them at pleasure.

Ibid. sec. 39.

35. They shall judge of the election returns and qualifications
of their own members, and may, with the concurrence of the
whole number, expel any member for disorderly behavior or mal-
conduct in office, but not a second time f or the same cause.

Ibid. sec. 40.

36. They shall keep a journal of their proceedings and enter
the yeas and nays upon any question, resolve or ordinance, if re-
quired by any one member, and their deliberations shall be public.

1880, ch. 468.

37. The mayor, counsellor and alderman shall have power to
enact all laws and ordinances necessary to preserve the health of
the city; to prevent and remove nuisances; to prevent the intro-
duction of contagious diseases within the city; to establish night
watches and patrols; to light the city; to establish new streets,
lanes and alleys, and to widen, straighten, extend, stop up or dis-
continue any streets, lanes and alleys; and when any street, lane
or alley is opened, widened, straightened, extended, stopped up
or discontinued by the corporation, the full value of all property
taken and used for such public street, lane or alley, or damages
to be sustained in closing the same, shall be assessed by a jury of
twelve citizens, and the said full value, so assessed, shall be first
paid or tendered to the proprietor of said property; and if in
opening, widening, straightening or extending any street, lane or