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• • • . LAWS OF FLORIDA 2191 safety and welfare, the protection of property, the preservation of peace and good order, the suppression of vice, the benefit of trade and commerce, the preservation of good health, the preven- tion and extinguishing of fires, and for the exercise of its corporate powers and the performance of its corporate duties. No ordinance shall become a law unless passed by at least three-fifths of all the members of the City Council. Every ordinance passed by the City Council before becoming a law shall be presented to the Mayor under the certificate of the Clerk. If the Mayor approves the same he shall sign it and return it to the Clerk; but if he shall not approve it, he shall return it to the Clerk with his objections in"writing at or before the next regular meeting of the Council for reconsideration; and if the Council shall pass the ordi- nance by a four-fifths vote of all its members it shall go into effect. If the Mayor shall fail to return any ordinance, or shall return the same unsigned, without objections. in writing, at or before the next regular meeting 'of the Council after its passage, he shall be deemed to have approved the. same, and it shall become a law without his signature. Section 34. The City Council may require any officer or em- ployee of the City to give bond and with such sureties as the Council may by ordinance determine. Section 35. The City Council shall have power by ordinance to impGse a tax upon any and all business, professions and occupa- tions engaged in, or carried on, either wholly or in part within the corporate limits of said City, whether the same be taxed by the State or not, and without regard to the amount of the State tax, if any, imposed upon such business, profession or occupation. Section 36. The City Council shall have the power by ordinance to establish, maintain and regulate, hospitals, jails, houses of de- tention and correction, public libraries and cemeteries. Section 37. The Council shall have power by ordinance to make regulations to secure and protect the general health of the in- habitants and to prevent and remove nuisances, where affecting the health or morals of the community; to regulate the sale and storage of all articles of food and to establish and regulate mar- kets; to establish fixe limits and to regulate the construction of buildings within the fire limits; the Council shall have the power by ordinance to prohibit and suppress gambling houses, bawdy houses and disorderly houses, and any exhibition, show, circus, parade or amusement contrary to good morals, and all obscene pictures or literature; to regulate and prevent the carrying on of CV