SECTION 1. Section twenty-one hundred and ninety-nine of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, as amended by Act Numbered Thirty-one hundred and fifteen, is hereby further amended to read as follows:
"SEC. 2199. Appointment of subordinate officers and employees in general.—Appointments to all non-elective positions in the municipal service shall be made by the municipal president by and with the consent of a majority of all the members of the council, except that of the municipal secretary which shall be made exclusively by the municipal president. This requirement shall not, however, apply to the employment of laborers engaged for the performance of authorized work, nor to local employees or laborers whose duties are connected with health work and who shall be appointed by the chief local health officer, upon recommendation by the municipal president."