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Mayor [according to some, anciently written meyr, fr. the British miret, to keep, or fr. the Old English maier, power, not from the Latin major, although maire is the more probable derivation through the lingual corruption of 'major'] the annual chief magistrate of a municipal borough, elected by the councillors under s. 15 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46Vict. c. 50), from among the aldermen or councillors, or persons qualified to be such,' on the 9th November of every year (ibid., s. 61). Ss. 15 and 61 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, have been repealed (except as London) by the (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), see ss. 18-20 of that Act. He receives little salary, if any. His principal duties are to act as returning officer at municipal elections, and in certain cases at parliamentary elections, as chairman of the meetings of the council, and as a justice of the peace for the borough