462 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

effect and be in force from and after the date of their passage,
unless it shall therein otherwise expressly be provided. All
ordinances of the city, when printed and published, and bear-
ing on the title page thereof the words "Ordained and pub-
lished by the Mayor and City Council of Cumberland," or
words of like import, shall be prima facie evidence of their
authority, and shall be admitted and received in all courts and
places without further proof.

SEC. 114. The style of all ordinances shall be, "Be it ordained
by the Mayor and City Council of Cumberland," but such
caption may be omitted when said ordinances are published in
book form, or are revised and digested under the order of the
Mayor and City Council.

SEC. 115. The Mayor and City Council, at their first meeting
after their qualification, or as soon thereafter as possible, shall
select the following officers, to wit: a city clerk, a treasurer,
an attorney, a collector of taxes, a city magistrate and health
officer, a chief of police, a chief of fire department, an en-
gineer, who shall also be superintendent of streets, an audi-
tor, a superintendent of water and electric light works, an
assistant engineer of the water and electric light works, and,
if deemed necessary by the Mayor and City Council, an assist-
ant chief of police, an assistant chief of the fire department
and an assistant city engineer. All said officers so elected shall
receive such salary or compensation as the Mayor and City
Council may by ordinance provide, payable in equal monthly
instalments, and shall hold their offices for two years, and
until the election and qualification of their successors, unless
removed by the said Mayor and City Council under the authori-
ty vested in it by this Act.

CITY CLERK

SEC. 115A. It shall be the duty of the City Clerk to attend
every meeting of the Mayor and City Council, and keep the
minutes and records of all their proceedings in a well-bound
book kept for that purpose, and he shall perform other duties
as may be required of him by said Mayor and City Council.

TREASURER.

The Treasurer shall give bond in such amount and in such
form as may be required by the said Mayor and City Council,
in a sum not less than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), and
with two or more good and sufficient sureties, to be approved
by the Mayor and the Commissioner of Finance and Reyenue,
said bond to be conditioned for the faithful discharge of his