EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1453

of education, or for charitable purposes of any description,
within the said city; and the said corporation may lease or
otherwise dispose of any property belonging to the City, having
first complied with the requirements of Section 276, and having
afterwards given public notices of such proposed lease or sale
in one or more of the public newspapers of said City, at least
once a week for three successive weeks before such lease or
sale.

Section 279. All male citizens of the United States above
the age of twenty-one years, who have resided in said city
not less than one year next preceding a municipal election and
who were on the first day of January next preceding the election
assessed on the tax books of said City with at least two hundred
dollars worth of real or personal property, and whose names
shall appear upon the list of registered voters of said City as
hereinafter provided, and who have paid the tax levied for the
preceding year on not less than the amount aforesaid one month
before the day of election, shall be the qualified voters of said
City, and as such shall be entitled to vote at any election held
under the provisions of this Charter.

The said qualified voters shall on the first Monday in May,
in the year 1903, and every two years thereafter, elect a Mayor
to serve for two years and until the qualification of his suc-
cessor, and the said voters shall on the first Monday in. May
in the year nineteen hundred and three, at the same time and
place elect six members of the City Council, three of whom
shall be chosen by lot as hereinafter provided to serve for two
years and until the qualification of their successors, and three
of whom shall be chosen in like manner to serve for one year
and until the qualification of their successors, and every year
after the election last aforesaid, the said qualified voters upon
the first Monday in May shall elect three members of the City
Council to serve for two years and until the qualification of
their successors, to succeed those three whose terms are next to
expire, the said choice by lot shall take place at 12 o'clock, noon,
on the Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday in May, 1903,
at the usual place for holding the meetings of the City Council,
and shall be conducted by the Supervisors of Election in the
presence of the Mayor and Council, and the Mayor and Coun-
cil elect or such of them as choose to attend.

Section 280. The Mayor, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the City Council shall on or before the second Monday
in April, in the year nineteen hundred and two, appoint three