PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1043

foe voted on at such election, of the office for which he wishes
to become a candidate and the party with which he is affiliated.

(f) The Mayor and Council shall have power to provide
by ordinance for the conducting, regulating or controlling of
Primary or City Elections in any respect not covered by the
specific provisions of this Act.

142-A. And be it enacted, That when any ordinance is in-
troduced for passage by the Council it shall be read but not
passed at the meeting at which it is introduced. As soon there-
after as conveniently may be, a statement of the substance of
the said ordinance shall be published by posting the same at
some public place, in the City of Salisbury (or by printing
the same in some newspaper printed in the City of Salisbury).
At any regular or special meeting of the Council held not more
than sixty nor less than six days after the meeting at which
such ordinance was introduced and first read, th'e said ordinance
shall be read for a second time and passed, or amended and
passed, or rejected, or its consideration deferred to some speci-
fied future date, by the said Council, provided, that no ordi-
nance shall be passed until it has been published as required by
this Section for at least five days.

Ordinances, when passed and approved by the Mayor, or when
passed over his veto, shall be permanently filed by the Clerk

of Salisbury in a book or book kept for that purpose.

No ordinance shall become a valid law until the provisions

of this Section have been at least substantially complied with,
provided, that it shall not be necessary, in any suit, proceeding
or action in any Court or before any Justice of the Peace in
which the passage of such ordinance or its validity shall be in
issue, for the party relying on such ordinance to prove the
publication thereof unless such publication is denied by written
pleading, and in case of such denial, the due publication of
such ordinance shall be presumed and the burden of proving
failure of publication shall be upon the party relying upon such
failure or the invalidity of the ordinance.

In all the Courts and before all Justices of the Peace of this
State the book in which any ordinance is filed, and the ordinance
filed therein shall be proof of the law, provided, that the
Mayor and Council of Salisbury shall have power to provide by
ordinance for the codification of the laws and ordinances of the
said City, and for the adoption of a City Code, and for the