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on matter involving the consideration of his own official con-
duct or when his financial interests are involved.

41. (Introduction and Passage of Ordinances and Resolu-
tions.) Ordinances and resolutions shall be introduced in the
Council only in written or printed form. All ordinances, ex-
cept ordinances making appropriations and ordinances codi-
fying or rearranging existing ordinances or enacting a code of
ordinances, shall be confined to one subject, and the subject,
or subjects, of all ordinances shall be clearly expressed in the
title. Ordinances making appropriations shall be confined to
the subject of appropriations. No ordinance shall be passed
until it has been read on two separate days, unless the require-
ments for reading it on two separate days be dispensed with
by a vote of not less than three-fourths of the members of the
Council. The final reading of each ordinance shall be in full
unless a written or printed copy thereof shall have been fur-
nished to each Councilman prior to such reading. The yeas
and nays shall be taken upon the passage of all ordinances and
resolutions and entered upon the journal of the proceedings
of the Council.

Ordinances changing ward boundaries and the number of
Councilmen shall take effect only upon approval by the legal
voters of the town in accordance with the voting procedure
for elections hereinafter set out in so far as they may be
applicable. Said approval may be given prior to or subse-
quent to the enactment of such ordinance.

41 A. (When Ordinances and Resolutions Take Effect.) All
ordinances and resolutions passed by the Council shall take
effect at the time indicated therein but not less than ten days
after the date of their passage, except ordinances of an emer-
gency nature, which may, by direction of Council, become
effective on date of passage.

41B. (Authentication and Publication of Ordinances and
Resolutions.) Upon its final passage each ordinance or reso-
lution shall be authenticated by the signature of the Mayor
and the Town Clerk and shall be recorded in a book kept for
that purpose. Each ordinance and resolution shall be pub-
lished as soon as possible after its passage by posting a certi-
fied copy of it in the community hall for ten days or by pub-
lishing it once within ten days in a newspaper of general
circulation in the town, or both, as determined by the Council.

41C. (Ordinances—Style of.) The enacting clause of all
ordinances shall be "Be it ordained by the Council of the
Town of Bladensburg."