916 WASHINGTON COUNTY. [ART. 21.

213. At all elections for burgess, assistant burgess, and com-
missioners, the persons who shall receive the highest number of
votes for the respective offices shall be declared duly elected, and
shall qualify as such before a justice of the peace of the county,
by making oath that they will discharge the duties of their
respective offices according to the best of their skill and judg-
ment, without fear, favor, affection or partiality to any; a copy
of •which oath, with the certificate of the justice administering
the same, shall be entered on the journal of the corporation.

214. If at any election for burgess, assistant burgess, and com-
missioners, any two or more persons shall have an equality of
votes, another election shall be held, after ten days' notice, and so
on, until a choice shall be made.

215. If, during the year for which they were i elected, the
burgess, assistant burgess, or any of the commissioners, shall die,
resign, remove from said town, be disqualified, or be displaced,
an election to fill the vacancy shall be held, after ten days' notice,
and all persons qualified to vote at a regular shall be entitled to
vote at such special election.

: 216. The burgess and commissioners, or a majority of them,
may meet from time to time, aa often as they may think proper,
upon the business of the town, and not less than once in every
three months; the burgess shall preside at all meetings, and have
the privilege of the casting vote; only in his absence the assistant
fcurgess shall preside, under the same restrictions, but, when the
burgess is present, the assistant burgess shall have the powers of
a commissioner.

, 217. The burgess and commissioners may appoint a clerk, and
assign his duties, and allow him such compensation as they may
think proper.

218. The clerk shall enter all ordinances passed by the burgess
and commissioners in a book to be kept by him for that purpose,
and they shall be open at all times to the inspection of any person
interested; and copies of all ordinances shall be set up in the
most public places in the town.

219. The burgess and commissioners shall have power to make
all such by-laws and ordinances as they may deem expedient for
the comfort, health, convenience and prosperity of the town and