members of the Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and six affirmative votes shall be necessary for the passage of any ordinance, resolution or motion. The ayes and noes shall be taken and rec orded upon the passage of all ordinances, upon all resolutions or motions directing the payment of money or creating liability, and, at the request of any member upon any other resolution or motion. Each proposed ordinance shall be published in two daily newspapers of general circulation in the city, one printed in English and the other in Spanish, and shall not be discussed or enacted by the Board until after the third day following such publication. Each ordinance enacted by the Board, and each resolut ion or motion directing the payment of money or creating liability, shall be forwarded to the Mayor for his approval. Within ten days after the receipt of the ordinance, resolution or motion, the mayor shall return it with his approval or veto. If he does not return it within that time, it shall be deemed to be approved. If he returns it with his veto, his reasons therefor in writing shall accompany it. It may then be again enacted by the affirmative votes of seven members of the Board, and again forwarded to the mayor for his approval, and if within ten days after its receipt he does not again return it with his veto, it shall be deemed to be approved. If within said time he again returns it with his veto, it shall be forwarded forthwith to the Governor-Gen eral for his approval or disapproval, which shall be final. The mayor shall have the power to veto any particular item or items of an appropriation ordinance, or of an ordinance, resolution or motion directing the payment of money or creating liability, bu t the veto shall not affect the item or items to which he does not object. The item or items objected to shall not take effect except in the manner heretofore provided in this section as to ordinances, resolutions and motions returned to the Board with his veto. Each approved ordinance shall be sealed with the city seal, signed by the president of the Board and the secretary, and recorded in a book kept for that purpose; shall be published in two daily newspapers of general circulation in the city, one prin ted in English and the other in Spanish, within ten days after its approval; and shall take effect and be in force on and after the twentieth day following its publication, if no date is fixed in the ordinance. 

[183-10; 1869-3.] 

SECTION 2416 . General Powers and Duties of Board.  — Except as otherwise provided by law, the Board shall have the following legislative powers: 

( a ) To provide for the levy and collection of taxes for general and special purposes in accordance with law. 

( b ) To fix the fees and charges for all services rendered by the city or any of its branches or officials. 

