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SECTION 4
The members elect of the select council shall on the day next succeeding their election, divide themselves by lot into three classes; and the term of office of the first class shall expire upon the first and the second upon the second and the third on the third city election next succeeding, at which respective elections the vacancies shall be supplied by the election annually of one third part of said select council in the manner aforesaid.
SECTION 5
That the Mayor, Common Council and High Constable shall respectively hold their offices until the city election next succeeding, and shall be thereafter annually elected, and after the first election aforesaid the city election shall be holden on the same day as township elections are or shall be holden by the laws of this state; and the Justices of Peace, Common Constables, Assessors, Inspectors and Judges of Elections and Auditors of said Borough of Corry in office at or immediately before said first elections shall continue in office in said city till the next elections for said several offices and be vested with the same powers and subject to the same duties until others are elected and qualified under this act.
SECTION 6
The legislative powers of said city and corporation shall be vested in the select council and common council thereof who shall perform legislative acts in separate bodies, and a majority of the members of each body must be present to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The Mayor whereas present shall be the presiding officer of the select council and in case of an equal division, shall give the casting vote. The common council shall annually choose one of their own number to preside at its deliberations who shall vote as other members; and no act by-law or ordinance shall be valid unless passed by a majority of the members present in each body legally assembled.
SECTION 7
The stated meetings of the select and common council shall be holden for the transaction of business every two weeks, and may hold meetings as much often as the Mayor and the respective councils may designate, and at such place in said city as shall be provided by the ordinances thereof; and the doors of respective halls of said select and common councils shall be open for the admission of orderly and peaceful disposed citizens who may choose to attend sessions thereof; and the said council may provide by ordinance for the punishment by fine of any disorderly conduct disturbing either of the perspective sessions and either body may expel such persons from the hall at its sessions.
SECTION 8
That each body shall appoint a clerk, who shall make and keep a full record of it s proceedings recording the names of the members present; and all of the ordinances and by-laws rules and regulations of said councils shall signed by the Mayor and clerk of the respective councils and published in one or more of the public newspapers of said city and the publication proved by oath of some creditable witness and recorded in the records of said city; and the said record shall be deemed and taken as sufficient evidence, of the passage and publication of all such ordinances by-laws, rules and regulations.
SECTION 9
That the Mayor of said city shall have the same powers and jurisdiction of the Police Justices, elected under this act.
SECTION 10
The select and common councils shall have power to compel the owners or occupiers of lots to repair the sidewalks in front of their respective lots or to cause the repairs to made and file their liens as is now provided by the general laws of this state and the said common council and select council may by a general ordinance regulate the portion of the sidewalks which the owners of dwelling houses and others may use for door steps and other purposes in front of their respective premises; and may impose penalties for mutilating or injuring trees growing upon the streets and public grounds of said city; and the council shall be vested with all the powers in said city which at and immediately before the passage of this act belonged to and were vested in the burgefs and council of the Borough of Corry.
SECTION 11
That the select and common council shall have power, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to pass from time to time such and so many ordinances as may be thought proper and necessary for the prevention or regulation of the erection or removal from any other place in said city of any wooden dwelling house, shop or warehouse carriage house store stable or other wooden building within the limits of the said city. Provided, that such ordinances shall not be contrary to the constitution or laws of this state.
SECTION 12
That all the estate and property whatever real or personal, or mixed and all chases in action, claims, or demands of the Borough of Corry or of the burgefs and council thereof, are hereby vested in the corporation or body corporate or politics of the City of Corry in the same manner and for the same estate which the corporate authorities of the said borough held or had therein; and all suits now pending may be prosecuted to judgment by and for said city, in the same manner and with the same effect as could have been done by the said burgefs and council if this act had not been enacted; and all judgments suits claims and demands whatsoever against said borough are hereby transferred to and shall continue and may be prosecuted against said city as fully and completely as they could have been against said borough if the said borough charter had not been abolished.
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