JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

and the alternate judge shall become a judge of election and
discharge the duties thereof. And if from sickness or other
necessity, any judge in any ward shall become unable to act,
after beginning to discharge the duties of judge, the alternate
judge, having taken the proper oath, shall become and act
as judge thereafter. Between the time when a judge retires,
as aforesaid, and the qualification of the alternate judge, the

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remaining judges shall conduct the election. Each judge of
election, who acts, shall be entitled to be paid by the town
one dollar for his services as judge at and in connection with
said election.

Compensation

The Commissioners shall also appoint for every such election
in each ward two clerks, who shall receive the same com-
pensation as the judges of election.

ELECTION RETURNS.

Clerks
of election.

49. The judges of election in each ward, immediately after
the polls are closed on the day of election for Commissioners,
shall count the ballots cast therein, and the judges who count
the same shall make out anrl sign a return, wherein they shall
set forth the whole number of votes cast and the names of
all the candidates, and the number of votes which each one
received in said ward, and the correctness of this return shall
be verified by an oath taken before a justice of the peace,
who shall append to such return his certificate that the said
oath was taken and subscribed by the judges of election before
him.

Election
returns.
How made

In the returns for the several wards the judges of the ward
who sign the same shall appoint one of their number as gen-
eral return judge, and shall deliver to him said returns
within twenty-four hours after the polls close; at said election
the general return j udges shall meet and make out and sub-
scribe a certificate wherein they shall set forth the name of
the candidate in each ward who received the highest number
of votes therein, and wherein they shall declare that the
candidates named by them as having received the highest
number of votes in the several wards are and have been elected
Commissioners of Cambridge for two years from the second
Wednesday of July following such election. The general
return judges shall forthwith deliver the returns from the
several wards and their certificate and declaration of election,
verified by their oath before a justice of the peace, who
shall return certificate thereof to the Commissioners or to the
Town Clerk for the Commissioners.

Return
judges.
Duties of.