Members of the 26th Halifax Municipal Council are shown in the above picture as they gathered at the Law Courts building yesterday for their annual session. In the front row from left to right are the new warden W.J. Dowell, Milview; Miss Mary T. King, Wellington Station, the first woman to sit in the council, and Deputy Warden G.G. Harnish, Hubbards. Others in the picture are Hector C. Smiley, Port Dufferin; E.A. Cornelius, Halifax; Eric Collier, Shad Bay;  Walter Brown, Herring Cove; William Topple, Armdale; Charles Myers, Eastern Passage; Fred Settle, Woodlawn; M.H. Naugle, West Lawrencetown; A.W. Evans, Preston; Patrick LaPierre, Grand Desert; Dennis Williams, Musquodoboit Harbour; Byran Mitchell, Oyster Pond, Jeddore; P.S. Ferguson, Tangier; H.P. Anderson, Sheet Harbour; Burnham Stewart, Upper Musquodoboit; D. A. Hutchinson, Middle Musquodoboit; Norman Cruikshanks, Elderbank; Garnet McMichael, Carroll's Corner; Martin Archibald, Municipal Clerk and Tresaurer; R.G. Guildford, Municpal Collector and County Constable Warden Slaunwhite.