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CHAP. 299.
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notice of any election to be held in said city, at such
place as they may designate, between the hours of
twelve o'clock noon, and six o'clock in the evening, on
the first Monday of May, eighteen hundred and fifty,
for a mayor and five common councilman of said city,
at which election, the said three commissioners and
judges, or any two of them, shall preside, and shall take
and receive the votes of all inhabitants within said city
limits who shall be qualified to vote, at said time, for
members of the House of Delegates of the State, and
said judges shall have power to appoint a clerk, who
shall make a record of the names of such voters, and of
the persons voted for, and that the person who shall
have received the highest number of voles, and shall be
twenty five years of age, and who shall have resided
two years previous within said city limits, shall be elect-
ed mayor of said city, and the five who shall respective-
ly have received the highest number of votes, and shall
be twenty-one years of age, and shall have resided one
year previous within said city limits, shall be elected
members of the common council, of which number said
council shall consist, and said commissioners and judges
shall give notice to the persons elected of their election,
and hand over to the mayor the record of voles of said
election to be recorded, and the provisions of this sec-
tion, as to voles, qualifications of candidates, and num-
ber of councilmen, shall be the fundamental law of said
city, and the mayor and common councilmen so elect-
ed, shall act as such from the third Monday of May
next ensuing the election, for and during one year, and
until their successors shall be duly elected.
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Day of election
prescribed, etc.
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SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That an election for
mayor and common councilmen, shall be held on the
first Monday of May in each and every year, of which
at least two weeks notice shall be given by the mayor,
under the direction of three judges, or any two of them
to be appointed by the mayor; and said judges shall be
governed by the same rules as are hereinbefore prescrib-
ed for the direction of the commissioners named, and in
case said notice shall not be given, or said judges shall
not be appointed as aforesaid, or shall refuse to act on
the day of election, it shall and may be lawful for any
five or more of the voters of said city to call an election
for said officers, by notices set up in the most public
places in said city, not less than one week previous to
the holding such elections, therein naming the time and
place of holding said elections, and naming three judges
thereof, who, or any two of whom, shall be clothed
with the authority and be governed by the rules herein-
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