JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

the case may be, to fill the vacancy, who shall appear and
qualify as herein provided. In case of death, absence or
inability of the Mayor to issue such certificates, the duty
of issuing the same shall devolve upon the chairman of the
Council.

Sec. 173 A. The said judges shall be conservators of the
peace during the continuance of the election and until the
ballots shall be counted, and the necessary certificates
required by this Article shall be made out by the judges
and clerk, and they shall be vested with the power and
authority to commit offenders for any breach of the peace
in the like manner as any justice of the peace.

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Sec. 173B. Every judge of election, at every election to be
hereafter held in the town of Union Bridge in pursuance of
law, before he proceeds to take or receive any vote shall
take the following oath or affirmation before a justice of the
peace or notary public: "I, A. B., do swear (or affirm) that I
will permit all persons to vote who shall offer to vote at the
election now to be held for the town of Union Bridge whose
names shall appear on the registry or list of voters furnished
to me according to law, as qualified voters under the consti-
tution and laws of this State, and that I will not permit any
person to vote at the same election whose name shall not be
found upon the said registry or list of qualified voters, and
I will in all things execute the office of judge of the said
election, according to the best of my knowledge, without
favor or partiality."

Sec. 173C. Every clerk before he enters any vote in the
poll-books shall take the following oath, to wit: "I, A. B.,
do swear that I will well and faithfully, without favor, affec-
tion, or partiality, execute the office of clerk of the election
now to be held according to the best of my knowledge, so
help me God."

Judges and
clerics shall
make oath.

Sec. I73D. At the close of the polls the judges shall
immediately count the ballots, cast up the vote, and return
under their hands and seals to the clerk of the town of Union
Bridge the number of votes cast for each candidate, and return
the persons receiving the highest number of votes as duly
elected, and they shall return at the same time the ballots
that were cast for the candidates and all records of said elec-
tion; and the said clerk, upon receipt thereof, shall file the
same, together with the certificate of the oath taken by the
judges, and shall immediately notify the persons chosen of

Election
returns.
How made.