1810 ARTICLE 7.

1900, ch. 519, sec. 7.

267. If the qualified voters of said town shall at any time neglect to
hold an election for any officer or officers to be elected under this Act, the
powers of such voters under this Act shall not be forfeited, but the officers
previously elected shall be continued until their successors shall be elected
and qualified.

1900, ch. 519, sec. 8.

268. The Burgess and Commissioners shall hold the office for which
they have each respectively been elected for one year from the first Mon-
day of June, next ensuing his election, and until his or their successors
shall be elected and qualified, and a failure to qualify for more than two
weeks after the election of the Burgess or any Commissioners shall create
a vacancy in such respective office.

1900, ch. 519, sec. 9.

269. Three of the Commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business, and in case of vacancy in the office of Commis-
sioners by death, removal out of the corporate town, resignation, refusal
to qualify or other disqualification, a majority of the qualified Commis-
sioners shall elect a Commissioner or Commissioners to fill such vacancy
or vacancies for the remainder of the term, and until a successor or suc-
cessors shall be elected by the qualified voters of said town, and shall have
qualified; and if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Burgess by any of
the causes of vacancy heretofore mentioned in this section, the Chairman
of the Commissioners shall act as Burgess for the unexpired term.

1900, ch. 519, sec. 10.

270. The Burgess, Commissioners and all other officers designated by
the ordinances of said corporation of this Act, excepting the attorney for
said corporation, before entering upon the duties of their offices, shall
take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: "I do make oath in
due form of law (or affirm, as the same may be,) that I will faithfully
execute the office of —————, to which I have been elected (or appointed),
to the best of my judgment and abilitv, without favor or affection."

1900, ch. 519, sec. 11.

271. The Burgess shall appoint one of said Commissioners or any
other qualified voter of said Town as clerk to said corporation, who shall
keep accurate minutes of the proceedings of said Burgess and Commis-
sioners and shall enter all laws and ordinances passed by them in a well-
bound book, open to public inspection; he shall attest all laws and ordi-
nances and cause copies of the same to be posted in not less than two of
the most public places in said town; he shall file and keep all original
papers entrusted to his care; he shall act as treasurer to said corporation;
he shall keep an accurate account of the receipts and disbursements of all
money and funds of said corporation in a well-bound book; and shall pay