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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 549

signed at the foot thereof by the president of the
Council and the town clerk, on behalf of the Council,
and the Mayor shall also certify thereunder, under his
hand, the date upon which he approved the said ordi-
nance. And the Mayor and Council of Pocomoke City are
hereby declared to have full power and authority to pass
all ordinances which have been passed by the said Mayor
and Council, and all ordinances so passed and recorded in
the ordinance book now in use by the Mayor and Council

Ordinances
declared to
be valid and
in force.

are hereby declared to be valid and in full force and effect
and shall remain in full force and effect until repealed or
amended by authority of the Mayor and Council. In the
general record book shall be recorded all notices, papers,
documents, petitions, certificates and other papers connected
with the election of the Mayor and Councilmen, such con-
tracts entered into by the Mayor and Council with other
persons, as the Mayor and Council shall direct, to be recorded
in full, and all other papers and documents which the Mayor
and Council may order to be recorded therein. Extracts
from any of the municipal record books, from any papers or
documents recorded therein, and copies of any ordinance
recorded in the ordinance book shall be admissible in evi-
dence when pertinent and relevant in any of the courts of
this State or before any justice of the peace thereof, when

Proviso.

verified by certificate signed by the Mayor and authenticated
by the corporate seal; provided, the clerk of the Circuit
Court for Worcester county, when the extract or copies are
to be used outside of said county, shall certify by his hand
and the seal of the said Court that the person who verifies
said extract or copy is the Mayor of Pocomoke City; pro-
vided, that no extract shall be made and so certified by the
Mayor unless it embodies all the municipal records about
the matter in question; and provided further, that no copy
of any ordinance shall be so certified by the Mayor unless
the same contains all the amendments that have been made
thereto; or if the same has been repealed, that fact shall
also be certified in the Circuit Court of this State; and before
any justice of the peace of the State the record books them-
selves may be offered in evidence to prove any relevant or

Custodian of
certain
booka.

pertinent matter contained in the same. The town clerk
shall be custodian of the minute books, the ordinance books,
the record books and the assessment books of the town, and