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therefor, at a rate of interest not exceeding six per cent., and
payable in not less than thirty or more than fifty years, with
interest payable semi-annually, and may levy a tax to pay the
interest thereon, and provide a sinking fund for the redemption
of said bonds.

Taylor v. M. & C. C. of Cumberland, 64 Md 68

1878, ch. 484.

64. All orders or resolutions for the appropriation of money
from the city treasury, whether for special or general purposes,
and all ordinances passed by the city council, shall be attested by
the clerk and, approved by the mayor; if the mayor shall disap-
prove any ordinance, resolution or order so passed by the city
council, he shall return the same with his reasons therefor at the
next regular or special meeting of said council, when, if passed
by two-thirds of all the members elected to said council, it shall
be an ordinance, resolution or order, to all intents and purposes
as if it had been approved by the mayor; and if the mayor shall
fail to return any ordinance, resolution or order so passed by said
city council, with his approval or disapproval, within six days
after the passage thereof by said council, then such ordinance,
resolution or order shall be taken and considered as approved by
him, and shall be as valid and binding as if actually so approved;
and the passage of all ordinances and of all resolutions or orders
for the appropriation of money shall be by yeas or nays, entered

on the journal of said city council, and the affirmative vote of a
majority of all the members elected to said body shall be neces-
sary to pass any ordinance or any resolution or order for the
appropriation of money.

Ibid.

65. Said city council may provide by ordinance for the
codification of all ordinances which have been or may hereafter
be passed by it, and for the printing of such codification thereof;
and the printed copy thereof issued by authority and under the

sanction of said body, shall be legal evidence of the passage of
said ordinances and the contents thereof in any court of law or

equity in this State.

1883, ch. 860.

66. The mayor and city council shall have power to provide
for the laying out, opening, extending, -widening, straightening