Frackville Borough Council Case

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Drew,

Frackville is an incorporated borough composed of three wards, with three councilmen from each ward. By section 1001 of the General Borough Act of May 4,1927, P. L. 519, the borough council is required to organize, by electing a president, treasurer, and secretary, at eight o’clock post meridian on the first Monday of January of each even-numbered year, and, by section 1004, it is provided that “If the council of any borough shall fail to organize within ten days from the time prescribed in this article, the court of quarter sessions, upon the petition of ten…