JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

ments, and that Sections 176 and 177 of said Article and sub-
title be and the same are hereby repealed, and that new sec-
tions be and the same are hereby added to said Article, to be
known as Sections 141 A, 150A, 150B, 150C, 150 D, 152A,
155A, 155 B, 157A, 157 B, 157 C, 158A, 158 B and I59A; said
amended and new sections to stand in the following order,
and to read as follows :

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140. All male citizens of the United States above the age
of twenty-one years, who have resided in said city not less
than one year preceding an election, and whose names shall
appear upon the list of registered voters, as hereinafter pro-
vided, shall be qualified voters of said city, and as such shall
be entitled to vote at any election held under the provisions
of this charter.

Who entitled
to vote.

The said qualified voters shall on the first Monday in Jan-
uary, in the year nineteen hundred and one, and every two
years thereafter, at such place within said city as the Mayor
and City Council shall designate, elect a Mayor to serve for
two years and until the qualification of his successor, and the
said voters shall on the said first Monday in January, in the
year nineteen hundred and one, at the same time and place
elect six members of the City Council, three of whom shall
be chosen by lot, as hereinafter provided, to serve for two
years and until the qualification of their successors, and three
of whom shall be chosen in like manner, to serve for one
year and until the qualification of their successors, and every
year after the election last aforesaid the said electors, upon
the first Monday in January, shall elect three members of the
City Council to serve two years and until the qualification of
their successors, to succeed those three whose terms are next
to expire.

The said choice by lot shall take place on the first Monday
succeeding the election, and shall be conducted by the judges
of the election in the presence of the Mayor and Council and
the Mayor and Council-elect, or a majority of each of them.

Shall elect
Mayor and
Councilmen.
Terms of office

141. The Mayor, by and with the advice and consent of the
City Council, shall on or before the first Monday in Novem-
ber, in the year nineteen hundred and one, appoint three
citizens, not office-holders, who shall constitute a board of
election supervisors, one of whom shall be appointed for three
years, one for two years and one for one year, and until their
respective successors shall qualify. On or before the first
Monday in November in each year thereafter the Mayor shall
in like manner appoint a citizen, not an office-holder, to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the expiration of the term of the

Mayor shall
appoint
election
Supervisors.
Terms of office