ART. 4.] MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. 297

MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 1.

1. The inhabitants of the city of Baltimore are a corporation,
by the name of the "mayor and city council of Baltimore," and
by that name shall have 'perpetual succession, may sue and be
sued, may purchase and hold real, personal and mixed property,
and dispose of the same for the benefit of said city, and may have
and use a common seal, which may be altered at pleasure.

M. & C. C. o. State, 15 Md. 376. Pumphrey v. M. & C. C., 47 Md. 146.

Ibid. sec. Z. 1888, ch. 111.

2. All the property and funds of every kind belonging to or
in possession of the city of Baltimore are vested in the said cor-
poration-; and the said corporation may receive in trust, and may
control for the purpose of such trusts, 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 con-
veyance, in trust for any general corporate purpose, or in aid of
the indigent and poor, or for the general purposes of education,
or for charitable purposes of any description, within the said city;
and the said corporation may sell or lease, or make such other
disposition as to it may seem best, of any property belonging to the
said corporation.

Ezra, of McDonogh v. Murdock, 15 Howard, 413. Morse v. Darling, 51 Md.
1. Barnum v. M. & G. C. of Baltimore, 62 Md. 275.

1883, ch. 2. 1888, ch. 98.

3. The city of Baltimore is divided into twenty-two wards,
according to the bounds and limits now established by law, and
each of said wards is divided into nine election precincts, with
the metes and bounds fixed by the board of police commissioners,
as directed by the act of 1882, chapter 2, and by ordinance
number 36 of the mayor and city council of Baltimore, approved
April 6, 1882, and by the act of 1888, chapter 98. And all the
provisions of the constitution of the State and of this article shall
be applicable to the portions of Baltimore county which, under the
terms, conditions and provisions of said act of 1888, chapter 98,
have been annexed to the city of Baltimore and constitute wards
twenty-one and twenty-two thereof. Said wards twenty-one and