ART. 7.] MANCHESTER. 717

MANCHESTER.

1870, ch. 135.

65. The inhabitants of Manchester, in Carroll county, are a body
corporate by the name of "The Mayor and Common Council of
the Corporation of Manchester," and by that name may sue and be
sued, may purchase and hold real and personal and mixed estates,
and dispose of the same for the benefit of said town, and may
have and use a common seal, which may be altered at pleasure.

Ibid.

66. The limits of the town of Manchester shall embrace all
that tract of land called the German church; also, all that tract
called New Market, lying contiguous to each other, as originally
laid out in lots; but as the aforesaid bounds do not include all
the buildings in said town, it shall be the duty of the mayor and
common council to extend the limits by causing the same to be
surveyed and stoned; also, a plat and certificate fully describing
the bounds of the corporation, to be returned to the clerk of the
circuit court for Carroll county for record.

1878, ch. 122.

67. The male citizens of Manchester, of the age of twenty-one-
years and upwards, and who have resided within the limits of
the corporation for the space of six months next preceding the
election, shall elect by ballot, on the first Saturday of April in
each and every year, at such place as shall be directed by the
mayor and common council, between the hours of twelve o'clock
M., and four o'clock p. M., a mayor and five councilmen, of the
age of twenty-five years and upwards, who have resided there
twelve months next preceding the election; and in case of a tie
vote at any election, the mayor shall give ten days' notice of a
new election to decide the choice between the parties having such
tie vote.

1870, ch. 135.

68. The mayor shall give at least two weeks' notice of the
election, and shall appoint three persons as judges of election
and the said judges shall have power to appoint a clerk, who shall
keep a record of the persons voting and the persons voted for;