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Under the head of Municipal Cor porations" Sandels x HiH's Digest provides:
 SEC. 5303 In cities of the first class there shall be a Board of Public Affairs, composed of the Mayor, as chairman, and two citizens of the city, elected by the City Council. and at the first election under this act, one shall be elected for the term of two years, and the other for the term Of one year. and every year thereafter as each members term expires, his successor shall be elected for the term of two years The time for the election of members on said board shall be on the second Monday after the election of Aldermen in each year.
 SEC. 5304. No person shall be eligible to membership on the board who is related to the Mayor or any Alderman of the city with in the sixth degree of consanguinity or affin- ity under the civil law.
 SEC. 530S. The board shall have the exclu- sive power to make purchases of all supplies apparatus, materials and other things requi- site for public purposes in such city, and to make all necessary contracts for work or labor to be done, or material or other neces- sary things to be furnished for the benefit of such city, or in carrying out any work or un- dertaking of a public nature therein; but where the amount of expenditure involved therein may exceed S300 said board shall first transmit to the city council an estimate thereof, and an ordinance authorizing such expenditure with their recommendation in relation thereto, and. upon the passage of such ordinance. it shall be the duty of the board 10 advertise and let the work or con traetto the lowest responsible bidder
 SEC. 5309. In cases where the amount of expenditure involved may exceed $50, said board shall first give notice to he council of their intention to contract in relation there to, and thereupon. if ordered by the council to advertise for bids in relation thereto they shall do so and let the work or contract to the lowest responsible bidder. otherwise, and in all other cases, said board shall exercise their ewne best judgment and discretion in the matter of making such contracts but they shall have no power in any case, ex- cept upon advertisement and to the lowest bidder, to make any contract with any per son associated in business with or related within the sixth degree of consanguinity or affinity under the civil law, to any member of said board or member of the city council, and every contract in which any such for bidden person shall have an interest, direct or Indirect, shall be utterly null and void.
 SEC. 53f1. All contracts by the board shall be made in the name of the city. and, where the amount te be paid hereunder exceeds S50, it shall be in Writing and signed by the Mayor by order of the board, and sealed with the corporate seal.
 SEC. 53l2. All lIpayments on contracts made by the board, fort the benefit of the city, shall be upon order ofthe city council, but no such order shall be made until the person claiming under such contract shall have first filed with the city clerk his statement under oath disclosing the names of all persons directly or indirectly interested in the contract or the proceeds or profits thereof. declaring that no other person than those named, is interest," ed, and that no person forbidden by this act has any interest in the same.