1900 ARTICLE 7.

Council receiving the highest number of votes shall hold office for the
period of two years; the three other members of the Council holding for
only one year; and if at this election there should be a tie between more
than two candidates with the highest number of votes, the ones to hold
office for two years shall be publicly determined by lot, after due notice
to the parties interested by the judges of election. At the election to be
held in May, 1911, there shall be three members of the Council elected
for a period of two years, and at the election in the year 1912, the Mayor,
with two members of the Council, shall be elected for two years, and so
alternately from year to year thereafter; said elections shall be held an-
nually on the first Monday of May, at such place as shall be designated
by the Mayor, between the hours of twelve o'clock noon and six o'clock in
the evening. The Mayor shall give at least two weeks' notice of the elec-
tion in the newspapers published in Westminster and by such other means
as he may elect, and shall appoint three judges of election. The said
judges shall have power to appoint a clerk, who shall keep a record of the
persons voting and the persons voted for; and the persons having the high-
est number of votes for the several offices of Mayor and Common Council
shall be declared duly elected. The judges and clerks of election shall
notify the persons elected of their election, and the persons so elected shall
severally hold their respective offices from the third Monday of May next
ensuing the election for and during the term of two years (except the three
members of Council above mentioned to be elected in May, 1910, who shall
hold for one year) and until their successors shall be duly elected and quali-
fied. Said judges shall conduct such election in accord with the ordinance
prescribing the same, which shall require them to make return to the
Mayor and Common Council, and provide for the preservation of the
ballots for a reasonable time. If notice of such election shall not be given
as hereinbefore required, or if the judges of election shall be appointed or
shall refuse to act, five or more voters of the said city may call an election
for said officers by notice set up in the most public places in said city,
not less than one week previous to such election, therein naming the time
and place of holding such election, and naming three judges thereof, who,
or any two of whom, may hold such election, and have the same powers
in respect thereto as the judges appointed by the Mayor.

1910, ch. 341, sec. 217 (p. 686).

525. If at any election for Mayor and Councilmen, or three Council-
men, there shall be a tie vote between any candidates for the same office, a
new election shall be held; or if any person elected to the office of Council-
man shall refuse to act, die, resign, be disqualified or remove beyond the
corporate limits, the remaining members of the Council shall elect a suc-
cessor to serve the remaining part of his term, who shall qualify as the
other members; and in event of the death or disqualification of the Mayor
during the term of his office, he shall be succeeded by the President of the
Council, as hereinafter provided, and a successor of the President of the
Council shall be elected by its remaining members.