16 ALLEGANY COUNTY. [ART. 1.

record of their proceedings, and recorded in the office of the
clerk of the Circuit Court for Allegany county, shall constitute
the bounds and limits of aaid city.

24:*. 'The free white male citizens of *the age of twenty-one
years, who have resided in the city of Cumberland one year
next preceding the election, shall, on the second Monday of May
in each year, at the market house in said city, elect one person,
residing in said city, and having real and personal property
therein to the value of five hundred dollars, mayor of the city
of Cumberland.

25*. The persons qualified as required by the preceding section,
shall also at the same time and place elect six persons, who shall
have resided in said city one year next preceding said election,
and who shall be assessed on the books of said city to a sum not
less than one hundred dollars, as councilmen of said city.

26. The mayor and councilmen of the city of Cumberland
shall appoint three judges of election, who shall have power to
appoint clerks, and conduct the elections in all respects as elec-
tions' for members of the General Assembly are required to be
conducted: opening the polls at nine o'clock in the morning and
closing them at six o'clock in the evening; and the said judges
and clerks shall receive the same compensation as judges and
clerks of election in Allegany county, to be paid by the said city.

27. In case of the death, refusal to act, resignation, or dis-
qualification of the mayor or of any councilman, the council-
men, or the remaining councilmen, shall direct an election to be
held to fill such vacancy; and the mayor and councilmen, or the
councilmen in case of a vacancy in the office of mayor, shall
give at least ten days' notice of all elections to be held for said
city, by advertisement in one or' more newspapers, printed in
said city.

28. The mayor shall, ex officio, have all the powers of a justice
of the peace in cases where the city is a party, and an appeal
may be taken from his judgment to the Circuit Court for Alle-
gany county, in the same manner as from a judgment of a justice
of the peace for said county. '

29. The mayor and councilmen. shall meet at the council cham-
ber on the first Monday in June next succeeding their election;