TALBOT COUNTY. 1171

the Council, shall annually on or before the first Monday in
June appoint a competent person, a resident and legal voter in
said town, to be Chief of Police, who shall hold his office until
the first Monday in June following his appointment and until
the qualification of his successor, unless sooner removed, as
authorized by law. The Chief of Police shall see that all ordi-
nances are enforced, and he, together with such deputies or
other policemen as may be appointed, shall have power to ar-
rest any person or persons for the violation of town ordi-
nances wherein an arrest for violation is provided, and, in ad-
dition thereto, they shall perform such other duties as are now
or may hereafter be prescribed by the laws relating to said town
and by the ordinances thereof, and shall have all and the same
powers and functions that Constables of Talbot County now
have or may hereafter possess as conservators of the peace. He
shall give bond to the State of Maryland, executed by a surety
company, to be approved by the Mayor, in a sum of five hun-
dred dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of his
duties as Chief of Police, and the premium of said bond, if any
thereby, shall be paid out of the town treasury. The Chief of
Police shall report at all regular meetings of the Council for
the purpose of furnishing any desired information concerning
any of the affairs of the town or upon matters which may be
under consideration by the Mayor and Council.

SEC. 71. All ordinances or resolutions duly passed by the
Council, when approved by the Mayor, shall become ordinances
or resolutions of the Mayor and Council of Easton. If the
Mayor shall not approve of any ordinances or resolutions so
passed by the Council, he shall return the same with his objec-
tions in writing to the Council at its next meeting, or not later
than ten days after such delivery of said ordinance or resolu-
tion to him, which objections, upon receipt of the same by the
Council, shall be forthwith read to the Council and entered at
large upon its journal. And the Council shall, at its next meet-
ing after such ordinance or resolution shall have been returned
to it by the Mayor, proceed to reconsider and vote upon the
same. If such ordinance or resolution shall, after reconsider-
ation, be again passed by a four-fifths vote of all the members
elected to said Council, it shall be and become to all intents
and purposes an ordinance or resolution of the Mayor and
Council of Easton in the same manner as if the Mayor had
approved it, unless the Council, by an adjournment of a period
exceeding ten days, shall prevent its return. In case an ordi-
nance or resolution duly passed by the Council shall embrace
different items of appropriation, the Mayor may approve the
provisions thereof relating to one or more items of appropria-
tion and disapprove the others, and in such case those he shall