2598 ARTICLE 11.

1900, ch. 341, sec. C. 1918 Code, sec. 554.

559. The said corporation may receive in trust, and may control for
the purposes of said trusts all money and assets which have been or may be
bestowed upon it by deed, will or any other form of gift or conveyance in
trust for any general corporate purpose, or for the general purpose of edu-
cation, or for charitable purposes of any description within the said town.

1900, ch. 341, sec. D. 1918 Code, sec. 555.

560. All persons who have resided within the corporate limits of said
town for six months next preceding the election, and who are qualified to
vote for delegates for the General Assembly, shall be qualified voters of
the corporation, and entitled to vote at any corporation election held under
the provisions of this Act, or any ordinance made in pursuance thereof; and
said voters shall elect by ballot, on the first Monday in May, nineteen
hundred, and thereafter biennially, at such place as- shall be designated
by the Mayor and Council, between two o'clock in the afternoon and six
o'clock in the evening, one person, at least twenty-five years of age, who
is the owner of real estate or leasehold property within the corporate
limits of said town, and who has resided in said, town at least two years
next preceding said election, Mayor of said town, and five persons, each
of whom shall be at least twenty-one years of age, and shall have resided
in said town at least one year next preceding said election, and be the
owner of real estate or leasehold property within the corporate limits of
said town, members of the Council.

1912, ch. 710. 1918 Code, sec. 556.

561. All persons qualified to vote within the limits of said corpora-
tion shall register with the clerk of said corporation in the town register
fifteen days prior to the election of the Mayor and Council of said corpo-
tion.

1900, ch. 341, sec. B. 1918 Code, sec. 557.

562. The Mayor shall give at least two weeks' notice of the election
by handbills, posted in not less, than iive public places in said town, and
shall appoint three persons, who are qualified at such election, judges of
election, and the said judges shall appoint a clerk, who shall record the
names of the persons voting as they vote; and each of said judges, before
holding any election, shall make oath or affirm, before a justice of the
peace of Carroll County or notary public that he will fairly and im-
partially discharge the duty of judge of such election, and immediately
after the close of the election said judges shall, in the presence of such
persons as may desire to witness the same, count the ballots, and the per-
sons having the highest number of votes for the several offices of Mayor
and members of the Council shall be declared duly elected, and said
judges shall then and there make and sign a certificate of the result of
the said election, showing the number of votes cast for each person voted
for, and shall deliver said certificate to clerk of said town, who shall
notify the persons elected of their election, and the persons so elected