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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, the said ordinance shall be read
for a second time and passed, or amended and passed, or
rejected, or its consideration deferred to some specified future
date, by the said Council, provided that no ordinance 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 books 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 publica-
cation 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 recorded and the ordi-
nance recorded 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 payment from the general funds of the
City of the expenses of compiling and printing such a Code,
which when adopted shall be proof of the law and ordi-
nances of Salisbury therein contained.

And the Clerk of Salisbury shall deliver to the Judge of
the People's Court of Wicomico County a certified copy of all
ordinances for the violation of which the said Judge may
impose a fine or imprisonment, or both, or other punishment.
And the said Judge shall take judicial notice of all ordi-
nances, so certified to him, and of the due passage thereof.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1941.

Approved April 15, 1941.