Sec. 6. The City Council shall at least twenty days previous to any general election determine the number of Aldermen and Counsellors and otherwise designate the offices to be filled at the ensuing election, and the place or places at which such election shall be held; and the Recorder shall immediately make out and deliver to the Marshal four written notices thereof -[or as many as there are City Wards;]- and the Marshall shall post up in some public place in each Ward, the proper notice as aforesaid, at least ten days previous to any general election. The Notices as aforesaid shall be, as nearly as circumstances will admit, as follows, to wit:

Sec. 7. At all elections to be held under this Ordinance the polls shall be open at the hour of eight in the morning, and continue open until Six O Clock in the afternoon of the same day, at which time the polls shall be closed: Provided, however, that if no Judge shall attend at the hour of eight in the morning, and it shall be necessary for the electors present to appoint Judges to conduct the election, as hereinbefore prescribed, the election may in that case commence at any hour before the time for closing the Polls shall arrive, as the Case may require: and provided also, that the Judges of the Election may, if they shall deem it necessary, for the purpose of receiving the Votes of all the electors wishing to vote; postpone the closing of the Polls, until twelve O Clock at night. And upon opening of [p. 133]