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veto by a two-thirds vote, nor shall any order or resolution for
the payment of money out of the town treasury be valid with-
out his approval in writing. He shall during his official term
hold no other corporation office, nor shall he be interested in any
contract to which the said corporation is a party or when the
money for any contract is to be paid out of the corporation
treasury.. He shall receive the sum of one hundred dollars a
year for his official services to be paid in quarterly installments
of twenty-five dollars. Before entering upon his duties he shall
take and subscribe to before the clerk of the Circuit Court for
Garrett County, the oath prescribed by section six, Article one
of the Constitution of Maryland.

174. The Town Council shall meet on the first Monday in
each month and at such other times as it may deem necessary
for the public business. The members of the Town Council shall
be entitled to two dollars and fifty cents per day each for at-
tending the sessions of the council, or attending to the other
public business required of them; not, however, to exceed fifty
dollars to any member in any one year.

177. The members of the Town Council shall meet at their
regular place of meeting on the first Monday in April in each
year to organize; they shall elect one of their number to be
president of the Town Council, who shall preside at their meet-
ings and in the absence of the Mayor, or in case of vacancy in
that office, shall ex-officio be clothed with all the powers and
perform all the duties of Mayor. The Town Council shall also
at said meetings elect a town clerk, and street commissioner.
In case of a vacancy in the offices of the treasurer, tax collector
or bailiff by reason of death, resignation, removal from office
or otherwise, the said Town Council shall have the power to fill
said vacant office by appointment from the unexpired term of
said office so vacant. The council shall not allow or pass any
order for the payments of claims or indebtedness against the
said corporation unless such claims are probated and sworn to.

187A. The Town Clerk shall receive for his services the sum
of three hundred dollars per annum. He shall have power to
administer oaths or affirmations to any person presenting a
claim against the said corporation to the Town Council, and shall
have power to take affidavits to all papers to be filed with the
said Town Council, and to administer oaths to any person who is
examined as a witness in any matter before the Town Council,
for which services for administering oaths and taking affidavits
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