1132 FREDERICK COUNTY. [ART. 11.

shall have perpetual succession, and by their corporate name may
fine and be sued, purchase and hold real, personal and mixed
property, and may have and use a common seal

1872, ch. 348.

154. The limits of Frederick city are as described in section
one hundred and seventy-six of the act of eighteen hundred and
seventy, chapter three hundred and fourteen, and the boundaries
of the lots, streets, lanes and alleys in said city, are as described
on the surveys and plats thereof, in the office of the register of
Frederick city; and the said plats and surveys shall be received
as the boundaries of the lots, streets, lanes and alleys thereof.

Ibid.

155. Frederick city shall be deemed and taken to be divided
into ten wards, according to the description in the survey and
plat filed with the register of Frederick city by the commissioners
making the same, under the act of 1872, chapter 348; and said
certificate and plat or any official copy thereof shall be taken and
received as evidence of the boundaries of said wards.

Ibid.

156. All male citizens of Maryland above the age of twenty-
one years, possessing the qualifications, and who shall be first
duly registered, as prescribed in the subsequent sections of this
sub-title of this article, shall be entitled to vote for a mayor and
alderman, as hereinafter directed; all elections shall be by ballot,
and no person shall be entitled to vote at any election who is not
duly registered as hereinafter required.

1878, ch. 464.

157. On the last Monday of February in every third year,
accounting from the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, the
residents of Frederick city, qualified as hereinafter prescribed,
shall elect the mayor and five aldermen for the city, in the
manner following, namely: the qualified voters of each of the
five aldermanic districts of the city, shall vote at the polls in their
respective districts, for mayor, and no person shall be permitted
to vote for mayor in any other district, except as hereinafter