. PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1113

SEC. 203. The City Council shall meet on the Wednesday
after each election held under the provisions of this act at seven
thirty o'clock P. M. at the City Hall, which shall be its regular
place of meeting, at which meeting it shall be the duty of the
Mayor to be present, to receive the election returns as provided
in the preceding section, and it shall be the duty of the said
Mayor and City Council to issue certificates of election to the
persons who shall appear to have been elected and are returned
elected by the judges and clerks of election on or before the
Saturday after any such election, stating in each certificate the
office to which the person therein named has been elected and
his term of office.

SEC. 204. In case of a failure to elect a Mayor and at least
three members of the City Council those in office shall continue
to serve and perform the duties thereof pending an election,
and the said Board "of Election Supervisors shall give notice
for a special election to be held on the second Monday after
the third Monday in April, in the same manner as provided for
a regular election, and such special election shall be held in
all respects as is provided for a general election under the pro-
visions hereof, and the returns thereof shall be made in the
same manner.

SEC. 205. If, during the term of said Mayor and City
Councilmen, a vacancy should occur in the office of Mayor, or
more than two vacancies occur in the City Council, the said
Board of Election Supervisors shall call a special election to
fill such vacancy or vacancies, in accordance with the provisions
of this act, without regard to whether said vacancy or vacancies,
be caused by removal from the town or from any other cause;
and in the event of a vacancy in the office of Mayor the Presi-
dent of the City Council shall act as Mayor until said office
shall be filled at the next regular election.

Registration.

SEC. 206. The said Board of Election Supervisors shall also
act as a Board of Registration and give notice by publication
in two newspapers published in said town, if there be that
number, at least eight days before the registration to be held
on Monday, March 25th, 1912, between the hours of 8 o'clock
A. M. and 7 o'clock P. M., and the names of the persons regis-
tered in accordance with the provisions of this act shall be
entered in two separate books, to be kept by each of said
Election Supervisors acting as a Board of Registration, and in
addition to the names of the voters there shall be entered
therein the age, color, actual place of domicil in said town and