JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR,

election, whereon he is elected, he shall be a qualified voter to
vote at the municipal elections of said town and is then at
least twenty -five years of age and has been a bona fide resident
of said town for one year and a bona fide resident of the ward
which he is to represent for six months next preceding the
day of such election, and unless he or his wife holds and pos-
sesses on the day of such election and has held and possessed
for one year previous thereto real estate or leasehold property
which is assessed on the assessment book of said town as
worth at least three hundred dollars; provided that in the case
of leasehold property the lease-giving qualification must pass
or confer a term of not less than fifteen years.

QUALIFIED VOTERS.

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46. The male inhabitants of said town, who at the date of
any municipal election therein are respectively twenty-one
years of age, and have been bona fide residents of the town
for one year, and of the ward where they severally propose to
vote for two months next preceding such election, shall pos-
sess qualifications of voters in such ward and shall be entitled
to vote at any election for Commissioners or at any other
municipal election therein.

ELECTIONS.

Qualified
voters.

47. On the third Wednesday of June, in the year nineteen
hundred, and on the third Wednesday of June in each second
or alternate year thereafter, an election for Commissioners
shall be held in said town, and at such election five Commis-
sioners shall be elected, as hereinbefore provided, and once in
each year the Commissioners, if they so desire, may take the
sense of the qualified voters of the town as to the passage of
any ordinance or ordinances which they contemplate passing.
In every election for Commissioners, whether such election be
the regular biennial election or a special election to fill a
vacancy, the polls shall be open at noon and close at 5 o'clock
P.M. In all elections to ascertain the sense of the qualified
voters of the town as to the passage of ordinances the election
shall be by wards, and the polls shall open at 2 o'clock P.M.
and close at 5 o'clock P.M. on the day appointed for such
election.
JUDGES AND CLERKS OF ELECTIONS.

Elections.
When and how
held.

48. Within the month next preceding the election of Com-
missioners, the Commissioners shall appoint three judges of
election and one alternate judge from each ward from among
the qualified voters thereof, and one of the three judges shall
be of a different political party from the other two judges. At

Commission'rs
shall appoint
judges of
election.