Section 31
SEC. 31. The council shall, by a majority vote of all its members: (a) Fix the salaries of all duly authorized employees, except teachers in the public schools, subject to the limitations expressed in section twenty-four. (b) Fill a permanent vacancy in the office of vice-president or of councilor from among persons having the necessary qualifications. A person thus substituted as vice-president or councilor shall serve only for the unexpired portion of the term for which his predecessor was elected and until his successor shall have been chosen. The provincial governor, with the advice and consent of the provincial board, shall fill temporary vacancies in the office of vice-president, treasurer, or councilor, and whenever a president, vice-president, or councilor is suspended, shall appoint some person to discharge his duties until he is reinstated or until he is removed and the vacancy thus occasioned is filled. (c) Make appropriations for lawful and necessary expenditures, subject to the approval of the provincial board. (d) Manage the property of the township. (e) Erect all needful buildings for the use of the township. (f) Provide regulations for the sanitation of the township, and order the removal of nuisances and causes of disease. (g) Regulate the running at large of domestic animals. (h) Adopt such measures to prevent the introduction and spread of disease as may from time to time be necessary. (i) Prohibit gambling, opium-smoking, or the sale of opium for smoking. (j) Establish, regulate, and maintain a police department. (k) Establish, maintain, and regulate township prisons. (l) Establish and maintain primary schools, subject to the approval and supervision of the division superintendent. (m) Establish a post-office and provide for the collection and delivery of mails; but such regulations must be in harmony with the postal service and rules established by the General Government. (n) Provide by ordinance for the levy of taxes for township purposes, within the limitations of law, as hereinafter provided in section forty-four. (o) License and regulate or prohibit the selling, giving away, or disposing in any manner of any intoxicating, malt, vinous, mixed, or fermented liquors, at retail in quantities of not more than five gallons, except the native liquor made from rice and known as "bubud," and determine the amount to be paid for such licenses, subject to such limitations of general law as may hereafter be enacted. (p) Provide for inspection of weights and measures, and enforce the keeping of proper weights and measures by vendors, but without the power to exact fees for such inspections. (q) Fix penalties for violation of ordinances, but no single penalty shall exceed a fine of two hundred pesos, or imprisonment for six months, or both; imprisonment shall be imposed in lieu of unpaid fines at the rate of one day's of imprisonment for each peso of the fine. An appeal shall lie to the Court of First Instance, next to be held within the province, in all cases where the judgment shall be for a fine exceeding fifteen pesos, or for imprisonment exceeding fifteen days; and it shall be the duty of the provincial fiscal to appear for the represent the prosecution in such appeal cases. Pending the appeal the defendant shall remain in custody unless released upon sufficient bail, in accordance with the general provisions of law, to await the judgment of the appellate court. (r) Make such ordinances and regulations, not repugnant to law, as may be necessary to carry into effect and discharge the powers and duties conferred by this Act, and such as shall seem necessary and proper to provide for the health and safety, promote the prosperity, improve the morals, peace, good order, comfort, and convenience of the township and the inhabitants thereof, and for the protection of property therein; and enforce obedience thereto with such lawful fines or penalties as the council may prescribe under the provisions of subsection (q) of this section.