1444 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 665

necessary to a proper discharge of their official duties.
The Mayor and Common Council shall receive no pay for
their services. The Mayor shall be president of the Council
and preside at its meetings, and shall have all the privileges
of a Councilman in debate and vote. He shall have no power
to veto any measure, but every resolution or ordinance passed
by the Council must be signed by the Mayor, or by four
Councilmen and be recorded before the same shall be en-
forced. The Council may elect one of their number as chair-
man pro tempore, who shall in the absence or inability of
the Mayor preside at the sessions. Special meetings of the
Council may at any time be convened by the Mayor, or at
the request of four members of that body. The Mayor of
the town of Fairmount Heights shall be the executive officer
thereof, clothed with all the powers necessary to secure the
enforcement of all ordinances of said town under this charter.
At all meetings of the Mayor and Common Council the Mayor
and four Councilmen, or in the absence of the Mayor, four
Councilmen, present and voting shall constitute a quorum
for the transaction of business, and four affirmative votes
shall be necessary for the passage of an ordinance, law or
resolution, at all times. No ordinance shall be passed by the
Council except at stated public meetings. Upon every vote
the yeas and nays shall be called and recorded, and every
motion, resolution or ordinance, shall be reduced to writing
and read before the vote is taken thereon.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the elec-
tions hereunder shall be held 'at such places as the Mayor
and Common Council of Fairmount Heights shall des-
ignate, after at least ten days public notice of the same
given by them and three judges and clerks to conduct
same shall be designated and appointed by them at least
two days prior thereto. The polls shall be kept open
at such places as the Council may designate, from 7 o'clock
A. M. to 6 o'clock P. M. of the day of election, when they
shall be closed and the ballots publicly counted, and the said
judges shall within two days after the election make a true
and correct return of the same under their hands, te be
addressed and transmitted to the Mayor, who shall convene
the Common Council on the second Monday of May after
the election to receive said returns. At said meetings the
returns shall be opened by the presiding officer and certificates
of election shall be forthwith issued by the clerks to the Mayor