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be elected and qualified, and he shall receive a salary of six
thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly. He may ap-
point such persons to aid him in the discharge of his duties as
may be prescribed by ordinance.

21. The Mayor, by virtue of his office, shall have all the
jurisdiction and power, as a conservator of the peace, of a Jus-
tice of the Peace, and may call upon any officer of the City
entrusted with the receipt or expenditure of public money, for
a statement of his account as often as he may think necessary,
and may at any time by expert accountants and bookkeepers
examine the books and accounts of any department, sub-
department, municipal board, officer, assistant, clerk, subor-
dinate or employee.

22. The Mayor shall see that the ordinances and resolu-
tions are duly and faithfully executed, and shall report to the
City Council, as soon as practicable after the first day of Jan-
uary in each year, the general state of the City, with an accu-
rate account of the money received and expended, to be pub-
lished for the information of the citizens. He shall have gen-
eral supervision over all departments, sub-departments, munic-
ipal officers not embraced in a department and special com-
missioners or boards.

23. All ordinances or resolutions duly passed by the City
Council, after being properly certified by the Presidents of the
First and Second Branches of the City Council as having been
so passed, shall be delivered by the Clerk of the Branch in'
which the same originated, to the Mayor for his approval, and
there shall be noted on said ordinances or resolutions the date
of said delivery ; and, when approved by him, they shall be-
come ordinances or resolutions of the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore. If the Mayor shall not approve of any ordi-
nance or resolution so passed by the City Council he shall
return the same with his objections in writing to the Branch
in which the said ordinance or resolution originated, within five
days of actual regular sittings of said Branch, excluding special
sittings called by the Mayor, occurring after such delivery of
said ordinance or resolution to him, which objections, upon