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qualifications of voters for thirty days next preceding such election, and
who are registered as hereinbefore provided, shall possess qualifications
of voters in such ward and shall be entitled to vote at any election for
Mayor and Councilmen, or at any other municipal election therein.

Nominations.

Nominations of candidates for Mayor and Councilmen shall be made
by petition, provided that the said petition for that purpose be signed
by fifteen voters for Mayor and five voters for Councilmen and filed with
the said clerk ten days before the day of election. But the signers of
these petitions must be qualified to vote for the person whose name is pre-
sented for a place on the official ballot, and at least one of them shall make
oath that he is informed and verily believes all the signers thereof intend
so to do, which oath shall be appended to the petition.

C. GENERAL ELECTIONS.

On the first Monday in August in the year nineteen hundred and six-
teen there shall be selected by the qualified voters of the town of Bruns-
wick a Mayor who shall have certain qualifications as hereinafter pre-
scribed, and who shall hold office for a term of two years or until his
successor is duly elected and qualified. There shall also be selected on the
first Monday in August in the year nineteen hundred and sixteen by the
qualified voters of each of the three wards of the town of Brunswick one
councilman from each of said wards who shall have certain qualifications
as hereinafter prescribed, and who shall hold office for a term of two
years, or until his successor is duly elected and qualified; and on the first
Monday in August in the year nineteen hundred and seventeen and on
the first Monday in August in each and every year thereafter there shall
be selected by the qualified voters of e'ach of the three wards of the town
of Brunswick one councilman from each ward, who shall hold office for a
term of two years, or until his successor is duly elected and qualified.
The Mayor and Council shall provide the official ballots, which shall in-
clude distinct ballots for each ward in said town, for such election or elec-
tions, the form and arrangement of such ballot to be as they shall by order
prescribe, except that all candidates for the same office shall be grouped
together and the names shall be arranged alphabetically on said ballot.
The Mayor and Council shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, at each
polling place or at one general polling place on the clay of said election
to the judges of election before the opening hour, the said registries of
voters and a sufficient number of the said official ballots, not less, how-
ever, than twice the number of registered voters at each polling place or
ward, and one of such ballots shall be handed by the judges of election
to the voters as they shall apply for them for the purpose of voting and
shall be accepted by the judges and when properly marked counted in
canvassing the vote provided that nothing herein shall be deemed to pre-
vent candidates for the various offices to have sample ballots, to be pro-