360 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

penalties as it may by ordinance provide. The First Branch
shall appoint its own President, who shall preside at all its ses-
sions, and shall vote on all questions, and in case of the ab-
sence, sickness or other disqualification of the Mayor and the
President of the Second Branch, shall perform all the duties of
the office of Mayor during the period in which the sickness,
absence or disqualification of said officer shall continue. Each
Branch of the City Council shall judge of the election and quali-
fications of its own members, subject to appeal by petition of the
party aggrieved to the Baltimore City Court. With the con-
currence of three-fourths of the whole members of either
Branch, it may expel any member for disorderly behavior or
misconduct in office, but not a second time for the same offense.
Each Branch shall adopt its own rules of procedure, not incon-
sistent with this Article, appoint its own officers, regulate their
respective compensation not to exceed in the aggregate the
amount appropriated by the ordinance of estimates, and re-
move them at pleasure. Each Branch shall keep a journal of
its proceedings, and enter the yeas and nays on any question,
resolution or ordinance, at the request of any member, and the
deliberations of both Branches shall be public.

218. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall have
power to pass all ordinances necessary to give effect and opera-
tion to all powers vested in the corporation of the City of Balti-
more.

219. Ordinances and resolutions of the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore may be read in evidence from the printed
volumes thereof published by authority of said corporation.

220. The style of all ordinances shall be: "Be it ordained
by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore."

221. Every legislative act of the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore shall be by ordinance or resolution. No ordinance
or resolution shall be passed except by the vote of a majority of
all the members elected to each Branch, and on its final pas-
sage the vote shall be taken by yeas and nays, the names of
members voting for and against the same being entered on the