EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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office shall be determined by lot, cast or drawn, in the presence

of and by the direction of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for

Terms of of-
ficials to be

Somerset County at his office, during the month of June, 1904,

determined.

as said Clerk of said Circuit Court shall direct, this drawing

or casing of lots shall be public and shall be entered among

the minutes of said Clerk of said Circuit Court, this being as-

certained, the persons so chosen shall serve for the terms they

respectively draw and until their successors are elected and

qualified as hereinbefore provided for and no longer ; and in

the event of a vacancy, the person elected or appointed to fill

such vacancy shall only fill out the unexpired term; the said

Commissioners shall meet in regular session at least twice in

each month in every year, and in the discretion and at the

call of the President shall hold special meetings, and the com-

Special meet-

pensation for the services of each of said Commissioners shall

ings.

be the sum of twenty-live dollars per annum.

199. If any of the said Commissioners after they are elected.

shall refuse to qualify or after they have qualified, shall die.

Board to fill
vacancies.

resign, remove from said town, or be otherwise disqualified.

such vacancy shall be filled by appointment of the remaining

members of said Board of Commissioners at their first regular

meeting after such vacancy shall occur.

210C. That all taxpayers who shall pay their taxes in the

month of September next succeeding the levy of the same, shall

Discount for
prompt pay-

be entitled to n discount of three per cent, on the amount clue,

ment of

and all who pay in October following said levy shall be entitled

taxes.

to a discount of two per cent., and all who pay in November fol-

lowing said levy shall be entitled to a discount of one per cent.

which shall he allowed by the collector to such persons so pay-

ing and shall be allowed to said collector in his settlement with

said Commissioners.

210D. And all taxes as aforesaid shall be due and bear

interest from the first day of January next succeeding the levy

Taxes due.

of same, and the collector shall pay over any levy placed in his

hands within nine months after the receipt of the list of said

levy, and upon his failure to do so his bond shall be put in suit.

210G. The assessors and each of them appointed by the Com-

missioners of said town, and between the times of any general

Power of as-

assessment or re-assessment the said Commissioners shall have

sessors.

the power and authority to require the owners, possessors or

claimants of any property liable to valuation and assessment,

to give them such full and accurate statement in writing of

his, her or their property as may be necessary to enable the

assessors or Commissioners, as the case may be, to ascertain