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shall serve as such Mayor for t he term of two years from the
first Monday of June next succeeding his election.

"28. The City Council shall consist of twelve members,
two from each ward in said city. They shall 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 at the time of their election shall have been residents of
the respective wards from which they are elected at least
thirty days, and the qualifications of electors for said City
Council shall be the same as those of the Mayor, and each
elector for members of the City Council shall be a resident of
the ward in which he may offer to vote for not less than thirty
days next preceding the election at which he may so offer to
vote, and each member of said City Council shall own prop-
erty in said city to the value of five hundred dollars.

"29. The twelve members of said Council elected prior to
the passage of this Act, and now in office under existing
laws, shall hold office until the end of the respective terms
for which they were elected, and on the third Monday of
May, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and on the same
day in every year thereafter, six members of said City Coun-
cil shall be elected, one from each ward, to serve for two
years from the first Monday of June next succeeding their
election, so that said Council shall consist of two classes,
each class consisting of one member from each ward, and
one of said classes shall go out of office at the end of each
year.

"Sub-Section 35. Strike out the words 'or at large, as the
case may be.' "

Which was rejected by yeas and nays, as follows :

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs, Bannon, Hill,

Combs, of Allegany, Newcomer,

Freeman, ' Steiner,

Garey, Welfley-8.

NEGATIVE.

Messrs. President, Joyce,

Combs, of St. Mary's, Lee,

Dennis, McLane.

Ford, Miller,

Gorman. Stump,

Humphreys. Sulivane—12.

The question recurring upon the original amendment,