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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

way pledge the faith and credit of the city for any

sum for any purpose whatever, without having first

Must obtain

obtained the written order of the Council, approved

written order

by the Mayor (or passed over his veto as the case

may be) ; and any debt or obligation contracted in

violation of the provisions of this section shall be

altogether and in every way subject to the approval

and ratification of said Mayor and City Council.

Exhaustion
of appropria-
tion

56g. When the appropriation made by the Mayor
and City Council in the beginning of each fiscal year
for any or all of the departments of the city govern-
ment shall have been exhausted, the clerk shall

immediately report the fact to the Mayor, who shall

communicate the same in writing to the Council at

its next meeting, which notice shall operate to close

up such department so far as any outlay of money

or issue of draft is concerned from the time said

notice is given until the close of said fiscal year, and
no extra appropriation, outlay of money, obligation

or expenditure whatever on account of such depart-

ment shall be made or allowed by the Mayor and

City Council during the remainder of said year; but

this section not to apply to the department of the

city water-works.

Clerk to re-

56h. It shall be the duty of the city clerk to re-

port all viola-

port any and all violations of either of the two pre-

tions.

ceding sections by any officer or employee of the

Mayor and City Council to said Dody, where-

upon such report shall be at once investigated, and

if ascertained to be true, it shall be construed as a

surrender of his office or employment by such officer

or employee, whereupon it shall be the duty of the

Mayor, as soon as the truth of such violation is

known to him, to at once remove such officer from

office or employment, and the said Mayor and City

Council shall have no power to condone such offence

or reinstate such officer or employee during said

year.

56i. All supplies needed by the several depart-

Supplies to be
estimated for.

ments, and all repairs to machinery at the water
works, to implements or tools used by employees
of the supervisor of streets, or superintendent of

the water works for the fiscal year, shall be ascer-

tained or estimated for, as nearly as can. be, by the