JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.
amendments thereto; and the clerk shall have power to
administer the oath required by this section. On the Mon-
day following the closing of the registration the City Council
shall revise the list, striking therefrom the names of all per-
sons who are dead, or who have removed from the city, or who
have otherwise disqualified as voters; and within one week
from the day above specified they shall publish by hand-bills,
to be set up at the City Hall, and three other public places, a
list of names that have been stricken from the registration
book, as well as a list of the new names added thereto.

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Any one considering himself aggrieved by the Clerk in
refusing to register his name as aforesaid, or by the City
Council in striking out his name as aforesaid, shall have the
right of a hearing before the Council, which shall have power to
determine the matter, subject to an appeal to the Circuit
Court. The Clerk, by hand-bills and by advertisement

Persons

refused regis-
tration may
appeal to
Circuit Court.

inserted in two of the newspapers published in said city,
shall give at least two weeks' previous notice of the time
and place of the sitting for the registration of voters, and
at the same time he shall give notice of the time and place of
the sitting of the City Council for the review of the registra-
tion-list, and of the date and place for holding the next muni-
cipal election, and a list of the offices to be filled. The Mayor
and City Council may provide for an entire new registration
as often as they deem proper.

Publish notice
for registra-
tion of voters.

175. Whenever the Mayor and City Council shall, by
ordinance, order the opening of a new street or alley, or the
construction of any park, public square, sewer, water-works,
gas-works, bridge, wharf or other public improvement, the
Mayor shall, by and with the consent of the Council, appoint
three of the legal voters and freeholders of the city not office-
holders, who, together with the Mayor and City Attorney, shall

Ordinances for
opening
streets, con-
struction of
water-works,
gas-works, etc.

constitute a commission to examine and report on the proposed
improvement; and if the said commission, or a majority of
them, shall certify to the Mayor and City Council that any
land, building, stone, material or other property belonging to
any person or corporation, or the removal thereof shall be
necessary or convenient for the construction of the proposed

Commission
to examine
and report on
proposed
improvements

improvement, then the Mayor and City Council may condemn
such property, or may agree with the owner or owners thereof
for the purchase, use, occupation or removal of the same, and
if they cannot agree, or if the owner or owners, or any of
them, be an infant, femme covert, who is not possessed of the
property to her sole and separate use, or authorized to con-

Mayor and
Council may
condemn
property
necessary for
such purpose.