JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 799

Sixth ward shall contain all that portion of the city
lying south of the Fifth ward and east of the Poto-
mac river.
26. The Mayor and City Council shall appoint	Appoint
three judges of election for each ward, who shall	udgcso'elcc-
have power to appoint clerks and conduct elections	1OU.
in all respects as elections for members of the Gen-
eral Assembly are required to be conducted — open
the polls at nine o'clock in the morning and closing
them at seven in the evening ; and said judges and
clerks shall receive the same compensation as judges
and clerks of election in Allegany county — to be
paid by said city.
27. The inhabitants of the city of Cumberland,
residents thereof for one year previous to the muni-
cipal elections of said city, and qualified to vote for
members of the General Assembly, and registered as
hereinafter provided, shall, on the third Monday of
May, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and on
the same day in every second year thereafter, elect .	Elect Mayor.
by ballot a person of known integrity, experience
and sound judgment, not less than thirty years of
age, ten years a citizen of the United States and five
years a resident of said city next preceding the elec-
tion, and owning property in said city to the value
of one thousand dollars, to be Mayor of said city ;
and the person so elected at each of said elections
shall serve as such Mayor for the term of two years
from the first Monday of June next succeeding his
election.
28. The City Council shall consist of eleven mem-	Number of
bers, five of whom shall be elected at large on the	councilmen.
third Monday-in May, eighteen hundred and seventy-
eight, and every alternate year thereafter, to serve
for the term of two years from the first Monday in
June next succeeding their election, and six mem-
bers, one from each ward, who shall be elected from
the respective wards on the third Monday in May
in every alternate year, commencing with the year
eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. The members
of said City Council shall all be citizens of the United
States of the age of twenty-five years or upwards,
residents of the city three years next preceding their
election, and those elected from the wards shall be