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sign a certificate of the result of said election, showing the number of
votes cast for each person voted for, and shall deliver said certificate to
the clerk of said town, who shall notify to the persons elected, their elec-
tion, and the persons so elected shall severally hold their respective offices
from the third Monday of May next ensuing their election, for and dur-
ing the term of two years, and until their successors shall be duly elected
and qualified.

1894, ch. 283, sec. 44.

67. If notice of such election shall not be given as hereinbefore re-
quired, or if the judges of election shall not be appointed or shall refuse
to act, five or more voters of said town may call an election for said offices
by notices set up in the most public places in said town, not less than one
week previous to such election therein, naming the tune and place of
holding such election, and naming three judges thereof, who, or any two
of whom, may hold such election.

1894, ch. 283, sec. 45. 189S, ch. 441, sec. 45.

68. If at any election there shall be a tie between any two persons
voted for for the same offices, a new election shall be held in two weeks
after such fact shall have become known after at least one week's notice
given by the Mayor, one or more of the council or five or more of the
voters, as directed in the preceding section, and such election shall be
held by three judges or any two of them, appointed by the Mayor or one
or more of the council, or five or more of the voters, as the case may be;
and the person elected shall serve until a, new election; and if any person
elected as a member of the council shall die, resign, remove from the
town, be disqualified or refuse to act, the vacancy caused in the council
by reason of any of the causes mentioned in this section, a majority of
the qualified members of the council shall elect members of the council
to fill such vacancy for the remainder of the term, and until a successor
shall be elected by the qualified voters of the said town, and shall have
qualified; and if a vacancy shall occur in the office of the Mayor by any
of the causes of vacancy mentioned in this section, the chairman of the
council shall act as Mayor for the unexpired term.

1894, ch. 283, sec. 46.

69. All officers of said town except, the Mayor, before they enter upon
the duties of their respective offices, shall qualify by taking an oath before
the mayor of said town, that, they will act faithfully, without favor, par-
tiality or prejudice in all things appertaining to their respective offices;
the mayor shall qualify as directed by Section 7 of Article 70 of the Code
of Public General Laws, title "Official Oaths"; and a failure to qualify
within two weeks after his election shall be deemed a refusal on the part
of the person so failing to qualify to accept the office to which he has been
elected.