2952 ARTICLE 13.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 278.

270. The property, funds and securities of every kind heretofore be-
longing to the Commissioners of Havre de Grace under their act of cor-
poration, are vested in the corporation created under this subtitle of this
article; and the said Mayor and City Council of Havre de Grace may
receive in trust, and may control for the purpose of such trust, all money
or other property which may have been or shall be bestowed upon such
corporation by will, deed, or in any other form of gift or conveyance in
trust for any general corporation purpose, or in aid of the indigent poor,
or for the general purposes of education, or for charitable purposes of
any description, within the said city; and the said corporation may lease

or otherwise dispose of any property belonging to the City, having first
complied with the requirements of Section 268, and having afterwards
given public notices of such proposed lease or sale in one or more of the
public newspapers of said City, at least once a week for three successive
weeks before such lease or sale.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 279.

271. All male citizens of the United States above the age of twenty-one
years, who have resided in said city not less than one year next preceding
a municipal election and who were on the first day of January next pre-
ceding the election assessed on the tax books of said City with at least
two hundred dollars worth of real or personal property, and whose names

shall appear upon the list of registered voters of said City, as herein-
after provided, and who have paid the tax levied for the preceding year
on not less than the amount aforesaid one month before the day of elec-
tion, shall be the qualified voters of said City, and as such shall be enti-
tled to vote at any election held under the provisions of this Charter.

The said qualified voters shall on the first Monday in May, in the year
1903, and every two years thereafter, elect a Mayor to serve for two
years and until the qualification of his successor, and the said voters shall
on the first Monday in May in the year nineteen hundred and three, at
the same time and place elect six members of the City Council, three of
whom shall be chosen by lot as hereinafter provided to serve for two yeajs

and until the qualification of their successors, and three of whom shall be
chosen in like manner to serve for one year and until the qualification
of their successors, and every year after the election last aforesaid, the
said qualified voters upon the first Monday in May shall elect three mem-
bers of the City Council to serve for two years and until the qualification
of their successors, to succeed those three whose terms are next to expire,
the said choice by lot shall take place at 12 o'clock, noon, on the Tuesday
next succeeding the first Monday in May, 1903, at the usual place for
holding the meetings of the City Council, and shall be conducted by the
Supervisors of Election in the presence of the Mayor and Council, and
the Mayor and Council elect or such of them as choose to attend.
See secs. 290 and 291. Moore v. Bay, 149 Md. 286.