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previous to his election, fhall be eligible to the firft branch: No perfon who is
not of the age of twenty-five years, two years a citizen of the ftate, one year an
inhabitant of the city, and refident at the time of election in the ward for which
he is elected, fhall be eligible to the fecond branch: No perfon fhall be an elector
of the firft branch who is not thirty years of age, worth one thoufand dollars
(in real and perfonal property,) within the bounds of the corporation, three
years a citizen of the ftate, and two years an inhabitant of the city or precincts
previous to his election: No perfon fhall be eligible for mayor, who is not of
known integrity, experience and found knowledge, five years a citizen of the
United States, thirty years of age, and refident of the city at the time of his
election; he fhall be chofen every fecond year by the council of electors, who
fhall be on oath, or affirmation, to elect, without favour, partiality or prejudice,
fuch perfon for mayor, as they in their judgment and confcience believe beft
qualified for the office: No perfon fhall be eligible for recorder, who is not of
found legal knowledge, thirty years of age, and five years a citizen of the ftate :
The five commiffioners appointed as aforefaid, or a majority of them, fhall ap-
point proper perfons in each ward for judges of the firft election: The firft elec-
tion for the council of electors, and members of the fecond branch of the com-
mon-council, fhall be held on the firft Monday in February, feventeen hundred
and ninety-five, that of the latter every fecond, and of the former every fourth,
year, for ever thereafter; but the common-council may alter the time for holding
future elections: The elections fhall be held by wards, the polls in each ward
fhall be kept open one whole day; but the time may be extended by the com-
mon-council: The refident alderman of each ward, and two difcreet citizens of
one of the neighbouring wards, to be named by the recorder previous to the day
of election, fhall be judges of the election for his ward; but in cafe of any al-
derman being abfent, or unable to attend, the faid citizens, named as aforefaid,
fhall be judges of the elections: When the polls are clofed, the refpective judges
fhall, within three days after the election, notify to the perfons chofen their being
duly elected, and fhall depofite their refpective polls of the firft election with the
clerk of the county court, and in all fubfequent elections with the clerk of the
city civil court: The council of electors fhall continue for and during the fpace
of four years; they fhall be judges of the election, returns and qualifications, of
their own members; not lefs than a majority fhall be a quorum to do bufinefs;
they fhall choofe by ballot, within ten days after being notified of their election,
as many perfons, qualified as aforefaid, for members of the firft branch of the
common-council, as there fhall be wards; they fhall fill up fuch vacancies as
may from time to time happen in the firft branch of the common-council, and
mayorfhip: Vacancies happening in the fecond branch of the common-council,
or council of electors, fhall be filled up by a new election, and a warrant of
election fhall be iffued by the fpeaker of the fecond branch, or council of electors,
refpectively, as the cafe may be, for the election of another perfon, of which
three days notice, excluding the day of notice and day of election, fhall be given :
The firft feffion of the common-council fhall be held at the court-houfe of Bal-
timore county on the firft Monday of March, feventeen hundred and ninety-five :
Every free male perfon, one year a citizen of the ftate, and refident of the city
one year next preceding the election, and entitled to vote for delegates to the ge-
neral affembly, fhall be entitled to vote for electors of the firft branch, and for
members of the fecond branch, of the common-council: The judges of elections
fhall appoint their own clerks: The election of electors, and members of the fecond
branch of the common-council, fhall be viva voce: Any voter, who fhall at-
tempt to vote in a ward of which he is not a refident, or who fhall obftruct, by
force or violence, an election, or employ treating, bribery or corruption, fhall,
on conviction thereof in Baltimore county and city criminal court, be punifhed
by fine or imprifonment, and deprived of his vote for fix years, and rendered in-
eligible for feven years to any office or appointment under the corporation; and
every perfon who has no vote, or is a nonrefident of the city, offending in like
manner, fhall, on like conviction thereof, be punifhed by fine or imprifonment ;
and any common-council-man, mayor, recorder, alderman, or officer of the
corporation, found guilty of any of the faid offences, fhall be and is hereby de-
clared expelled from his office, and fhall not be eligible to the fame, or any office
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