suppress riots, gambling, affrays, disturbances, and disorderly assemblies; to punish and prevent intoxication, fighting, quarreling, and all disorderly conduct; to make and enforce all nece ssary police ordinances, with the view to the confinement and reformation of vagrants, gamblers, disorderly persons, mendicants, and prostitutes, and persons convicted of violating any municipal ordinance. ( ii ) Penalties for violation of ordinances . — To 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 r ate of one day's imprisonment for each peso of the fine. Persons undergoing violation ordinances may be required to labor for the period of imprisonment upon public works of the municipality in such manner as may be directed by the municipal council. Whenever a person is imprisoned for nonpayment of a fine he shall be released upon payment of such fine, less one peso per day for each day that he has been confined. Persons charged with violation of a municipal ordinance who cannot be tr ied immediately after arrest, shall be released by the chief of police or his authorized agents either upon personal recognizance or a cash bond not exceeding fifty per centum of the maximum fine provided in the ordinance. (jj) General welfare clause . — To make such further ordinances and regulations not repugnant to law, as may be necessary to carry into effect and discharge the powers and duties conferred by this title, and such as shall seem necessary and proper to provide f or the health and safety, promote the prosperity, improve the morals, peace, good order, comfort, and convenience of the municipality and the inhabitants thereof, and for the protection of property therein; and enforce obedience thereto with such lawful f ines or penalties as the municipal council may prescribe under the provisions of subsection ( ii ) of this section. [2408-47.]  SECTION  2612 . Councilors . — Each councilor shall have the following general duties and powers: aECTcA ( a ) Information for barrios . — He shall keep the people of his barrio informed as to the acts of the council, or other governmental measures which directly concern them, by  bandillo  or other method Copyright 2012 CD Technologies Asia, Inc. and Accesslaw, Inc. Philippine Law Encyclopedia 2011 837