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WASHINGTON COUNTY.

after, vote by ballot for one person, [or] resident of the district
in which the voter is entitled to vote for delegates as aforesaid,
and also having the same qualifications as are, or shall be re-
quired for such delegates, to be a commissioner for Washing-
ton county ; and the judges of election for each district in said
county, or a majority of them, shall certify under their hands,
and return in a form and manner similar to their certificates
and return of the election of delegates aforesaid, the number
of votes given in their respective districts for a commissioner
as aforesaid ; and the judges of the several election districts in
said county, when met at the court-house of the said county,
to ascertain and certify the election of delegates as aforesaid,
for commissioners as aforesaid, in the said election districts, re-
spectively, and by a certificate to be filed in the office of the
clerk of the said county court of said county, and which shall
be by said clerk recorded, certify in a form similar to a certi-
ficate of the election of delegates, that the seven persons by
name, residents respectively, of the seven election districts in
said county, who they shall ascertain [receive] the greatest
number of votes in the districts in which they so severally re-
side, are duly elected commissioners for Washington county,
to serve for a period of two years from the date of the said
election, and if any commissioner so elected, shall die, resign,
refuse or neglect, for twenty days after said election, to qualify
as commissioner under this act, or shall remove from said
county at any time within the period for which he shall have

Vacancies
supplied.

been elected, the governor and council shall apppoint a person
qualified as herein before provided, in case of an original elec-
tion, to fill his place until the next annual election for dele-
gates to the general assembly, when the said voters of the
district in which such [commissioners] so dying, resigning,
refusing or neglecting to qualify, or removing from the county
as aforesaid, was elected, shall vote in like manner as at first,
for another person with like qualifications, as such [commis-
sioner,] to serve for the residue of his said term.

Oath.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That every commissioner elected
or appointed as aforesaid, shall before he enters on the duties
of his office, take and subscribe, before some judge or justice
of the peace, an oath or affirmation, that he will faithfully, dili-
gently and impartially, exercise the powers and perform the
duties of commissioner for Washington county, as authorized
and enjoined by law, according to the best of his skill and
judgment, without being influenced by favour, affection, hatred,
malice or ill will, and that he will in making all appointments
to office, vote for such persons among those willing to accept,
as in his judgment and belief shall be most capable and best
qualified to perform the dutios of such office, which oath or