The municipal corporation heretofore known as the Village of Bryan, Ohio, was advanced to a City as result of the 1940 census. The municipal corporation now existing and known as the City of Bryan, Ohio, shall continue to be a body politic and corporate under the name of the City of Bryan, Ohio, and with the same boundaries and with power and authority to change its boundaries and annex other territory contiguous thereto in the manner authorized by the general laws of Ohio.