JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

Railroad; thence with the eastern boundary of said railway
right of way southerly to the Alexandria junction of said
railroad; thence, with the eastern boundary of the right of
way of said Alexandria branch road, to the centre of the
eastern branch of the Potomac River; thence, with the centre
of said eastern branch, to the place of beginning.

SEC. 4. The government of said town shall be, after the
next election, vested in a Mayor and six Councilmen, to be
elected as hereinafter provided.

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SEC. 5. The male citizens of said town, of the age of
twenty-one and upwards, who shall possess the qualification
of legally-registered voters of the State, and who shall have
resided in said town for the space of six months next preced-
ing the first Monday in May, nineteen hundred, shall elect on
that day, at such places as shall be selected for the holding
of elections, one person, a legal voter of said town, who has
resided therein for two years at least next preceding the elec-
tion, to be Mayor of said town, and two persons in each of
the wards herein provided for, who shall possess the same
qualifications and be residents of the wards for which they
shall be chosen by the voters of said wards to be Common
Councilmen of the said town; and annually thereafter on the
first Monday in May, such citizens shall select one person hav-

Election of
Mayor and
Councilmen.

ing the qualifications above described, to be Mayor; provided,
that one such Councilman shall at the first election held'
under the provisions of this section be elected for the term of
two years, such person to be voted for upon a ticket to be
designated, "To serve for two years," in each ward, and one
person at said election shall be elected from each ward to
serve for one year; and annually thereafter one person shall
be elected in each ward, having the qualification above

Terms of office

described, to serve for two years as Councilman. The said
town of Hyattsville shall be divided into three wards, as
follows: Weird number one shall embrace all of said town
lying south and east of the centre line of Maryland avenue,
commonly known as the Washington and Baltimore turnpike,
and south and east of the Washington Branch of the Balti-
more Railroad, as now established in its line through said
town. For wards numbers two and three, the remaining part
of Hyattsville, shall be divided into two sections by a general
division line, beginning at the junction of the centre line of
Johnson avenue at its intersection with the centre line of Mary-
land avenue, and running thence along the centre line of John-
son avenue to the centre line of Wine avenue, thence along
the centre line of Wine avenue to the centre line of Ralston

Divided into
wards.
Division
and limits.