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any vacancy happening in the said electors of the mayor shall

be filled up, without delay, by an election in all the said wards,

to be held as aforesaid, of a person a resident in the ward where

such vacancy happened ; and any vacancy of the mayoralty

happening, the same shall be filled up for the remainder of the

term, with delay, by the electors of the mayor for the time

being.

See note to sec. 6, of 1796, ch. 68.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all nominations of persons

Nomina-

to fill any office in the said corporation, directed by the act to

tions.

which this is a supplement, to be made by the second branch

of the city council, shall hereafter be made by a joint nomina-

tion of the first and second branches of the said city council.

By 1817, ch. 148, sec. 2, the mayor shall nominate, and by and with the

advice and consent of a convention of the two branches of the city council,

appoint all officers under the corporation, except the register, &c. and by

1828, ch. 114, power is given to the mayor and city council to regulate the

mode of appointing officers.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That no person shall be eligible

Eligibility.

as a member of the first branch of the city council of Balti-

inoie, who is riot assessed on the books of the assessor with

property in the city of Baltimore, to the amount of three hun-

dred dollars ; and no person shall be eligible as a member of

the second branch of the said city council, who is not assessed

on the books of the assessor, with property in the city of Balti-

more, to the amount of five hundred dollars ; and that so much

of the act to which this is a supplement, as requires that the

members of the first branch of the said city council shall be

assessed to the amount of one thousand dollars, and the mem-

bers of the second branch to the amount of two thousand dol-

lars, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 6. And be, it enacted, That so much of the said original

Part of an

act, or any supplement thereto, as is repugnant to, or inconsis-

act repealed

tent with, the herein before contained provisions of this act, be,

and the same are hereby repealed ; Provided, that the foregoing

Proviso.

clauses and provisions shall be assented to and adopted at the

time and by the convention herein after mentioned.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the persons qualified to vote

Delegates

for members of the first branch of the city council, shall, on the

to the con-
vention of

first Monday in February next, assemble at the usual place of

the city of

holding elections in their respective wards in the city of Balti-

Baltimore,
how to bo

more, and elect, by ballot, sixteen persons as delegates to the

elected.

convention of the city of Baltimore, two of which said persons,

elected by a general ticket, as aforesaid, shall be residents in

each of the said wards, but no member of the city council, or

other officer of the said corporation, shall be eligible as a dele-

gate to the said convention ; and the said delegates shall, on

the second Monday in February next, meet in convention, at