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returns of said elections shall be made; and no one shall be eligible for
the office of Mayor or Councilman of said town unless he shall be a real
estate owner in said town and shall have resided therein for two years
previous to his election; the first election under this Act to be regulated
and conducted in the manner now regulated by law for the election of
commissioners of Grantsville, and by the present board of corporation
officers of said place.

1906, ch. 423, sec. 115.

208. The newly elected Councilmen, on the second Monday of June
after their election, shall meet for organization and shall choose some one
of their number as president of the board, whose duty it shall be to pre-
side at all meetings, preserve order and to give such directions as may
be deemed necessary by said board of councilmen to carry into effect the
provisions of the subtitle of this Article, but said president shall not be
entitled to vote at said meetings of said Council unless there should be
a tie vote, and in that case he shall have the deciding vote; three members
shall constitute a quorum of said board for the transaction of business.

1906, ch. 423, sec. 116.

209. Said Councilmen shall hold regular meetings on the first Mon-
day of each and every month, and as much oftener as the proper conduct
of the business of said town may require, and for their services they shall
receive such compensation as shall be from time to time fixed by ordinance,
the same not to exceed one dollar each, for each and every meeting so held
and which they may attend; said councilmen to regulate by ordinance the
compensation of the Mayor for his services, the same not to exceed twenty-
five dollars in amy one year.

1906, ch. 423, sec. 117.

210. It shall be the duty of the Mayor of said town to see that all
ordinances of said town are duly and faithfully executed, and he shall
appoint, subject to the confirmation of the Council, all such persons as
agents and servants of said corporation as may be necessary to carry out
the object and purposes of the incorporation, and to enforce the ordinances
to be passed thereby, including a clerk to said Council, whose duty it
shall be to attend all meetings of said Council, and to perform all other
such duties as shall be from time to time prescribed by ordinance; and
said clerk shall receive such compensation as said Council may by ordi-
nance prescribe; and shall hold said office for one year from the date of
his appointment; all ordinances passed by said Council shall be signed
by said Mayor and president of said Council, and attested by said clerk,
and be by said clerk entered at length in a book to be kept by him for
that purpose, and shall be open at all times for the inspection of any
person or persons interested; and immediately upon the passage of any
ordinance, or as soon thereafter as convenient, said clerk shall post
printed or written copies of said ordinance so passed by said Council in
five of the most public places of said town.
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