The corporate name of a city shall be 'The City of ____________________.' The corporate name of a town shall be 'The town of ____________________.' The corporate name of a village shall be 'The village of ____________________.' In each case the blank shall be filled in with the name by which such municipality has been legally designated. Codes, 1892, § 2912; 1906, § 3300; Hemingway's 1917, § 5796; 1930, § 2370; 1942, § 3374-02; Laws, 1938, ch. 335; Laws, 1950, ch. 491, § 2.
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