EDWIN WARFIELD, Esq., GOVERNOR.

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from any of the municipal record books, copies from any papers

or documents, recorded therein, and copies of any ordinance

set out in the ordinance book shall be admissible in evidence,

Admissible

when pertinent and relevant, in any of the Courts of this State,

in evidence

or before any justice of the peace thereof, when verified by a

certificate signed by the Town Clerk and authenticated by the

corporate seal, provided, that the Clerk of the Circuit Court.

for Dorchester County, when the extract or copies are to be

used outside of said county, shall certify by his hand and the

seal of the said court that the person who verifies the said ex-

tract or copy is the Town Clerk of Cambridge ; and provided,

that no extract shall be made by the Town Clerk unless he

embodies in the same all that the municipal records contain

about the matter in question ; and provided further, that the

said Town Clerk, if called on for a copy of an ordinance, shall

embrace with the copv of the ordinance asked any amend-

Amendments.

ments that may have been made thereto, or if the same has

been repealed, he shall state the fact in his certificate.

In the Circuit Court for Dorchester County and before any

May be offer-

justice of the peace of said county, the record books them-

ed in evi-
dence.

selves may be offered in evidence to prove any relevant or per-

tinent matter contained in the same. The Town Clerk shall

be entitled to receive at the rate of ten cents for every hundred

words, embraced in any extract or copy, but no compensation

shall be paid for the extracts or copies for the use of the Com-

missioners, if made while the Board is in session, at hours ap-

pointed by the Board. The record books shall be open for the

inspection of any resident of Cambridge, unless they are act-

ually in use by the Commissioners or the Town Clerk.

48. Within the thirty days next preceding the election for

Election offi-

Commissioners, the Commissioners shall appoint two clerks and

cials.

three judges of election in each ward from the voters of said

ward, of whom one clerk and one judge of election shall be

of different political party from the others, one of said judges

shall also be designated, at the time of appointment, as return

judge. At the time of the appointment of the judges and clerks

of election, the Commissioners shall also name a polling place

in each ward. The Commissioners shall publish in one or more

newspapers published in Cambridge the names of the judges

and clerks of election, the polling place in each ward and the

date and object of the election; said notice shall be published

at least twice before each election, and the last publication shall

not be more than ten nor less than five days before the day of

said election. Before proceeding to act, each judge and clerk

Judges and

of election shall make oath that he will, well and faithfully, with-

clerk to
make oath.

out fear or favor, partiality or prejudice, perform the duties of

judge or clerk, as the case may be, and in the case of a

judge that he will deposit all legal ballots in the ballet-box.

and no ether ballot, and that he will make out and sign correct

returns of the votes cast for each candidate and of the whole

number of votes cast at said election. If any persons, who have

been appointed judge or clerk of election, shall fail, without