HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1823
of the City are duly and faithfully executed. By and with
the advice and consent of the City Council, he shall appoint
a City Clerk, City Treasurer, City Attorney, Chief of Police,
and he may appoint a City Engineer and Building Inspector,
which latter two positions may be held by the same person,
and such other officers as the Ordinances of the City may pro-
vide. He shall annually on the first Monday in April, or as
soon as possible thereafter, report to the Council in writing
the general state of the City, with an accurate account of
money received and expended, which said report shall be pub-
lished in two newspapers of the City, if so many be published
therein; he shall have power, at a hearing held for the purpose
of preferring charges, to remove any of the officers appointed
by him for neglect or violation of any duties pertaining to
their respective offices, and shall appoint others in their stead,
subject to confirmation by the City Council as in the case of
original appointments; he shall have general supervision of
the City, and shall receive for his services an annual salary of
Fifty ($50. 00) Dollars.
SEC. 32. All ordinances passed by the City Council shall
foe attested by the Clerk and approved by the Mayor; if the
Mayor shall disapprove any ordinance passed by the Council,
he shall return the game with his reasons therefor in writing
at their next regular meeting, when, if passed by five-sixths
of all members elected to said Council over the Mayor's veto,
it shall be an Ordinance to all intents and purposes as if it
had been approved by the Mayor; and if the Mayor shall fail
to return any Ordinance passed by said Council at their next
regular meeting after it shall have been presented to him,
such Ordinance shall be a law in like manner as if he had
signed it; the passage of all Ordinances shall be by "Yeas"
and "Nays", entered on the minutes of the Mayor and City
Council and a majority of all members of the City Council
elected to said body shall be necessary to pass any Ordinance.
SEC. 33. In case of sickness, necessary absence or death of
the Mayor, the President of the City Council shall be Ex Officio
Mayor of the City during the continuation of said sickness,
necessary absence or death.
THE CITY COUNCIL.
SEC. 34. The City Council shall consist of six members who
shall be citizens of the United States above twenty-five years
of age, a resident of said City for three years next preceding
their election and for one year next preceding their election
shall be assessed either individually or with their wives upon
the assessment books of the City with real property to an
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