Section 97. The authorities sustain the doctrine, that a municipal corporation, like an individual or private corporation, may become bound by a contract irregularly made or one made without authority by the officers or agents of the corporation by ratification of the same; but the acts or contracts must be within the corporate powers, since a municipality has no authority to contract in excess of its charter powers.9

8 Dillon, Mun. Corp. (3d Ed.,) Par. 457, and cases cited in note.

9 Brown vs. Winterport, 79 Me., 305; Cory vs. Somerset Freeholders, 44 N. J. L., 445.