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of the corporation, the same fees as are allowed constables for similar
service. And the chief bailiff shall perform such other duties mentioned
in this Charter or as the Mayor and Council shall assign to him by ordi-
nance or otherwise. The chief bailiff, before entering upon the discharge
of his duties, shall take the required oath and give bond to the Mayor
and Council in the sum of five hundred dollars, conditioned that he will
faithfully discharge all the duties appertaining to the office of chief bailiff
of Brunswick and he shall hold office for two years and until his successor
has been appointed and qualified. The Mayor may appoint such deputy
bailiffs as urgent necessity may require, but such appointments shall not
be for a longer period than one week, all of whom shall be vested and
clothed with all the powers and authority herein conferred upon the chief
bailiff. And the bailiff and deputy bailiffs shall receive such compensa-
tion as may be determined by the Mayor and Council.

RECALL.
1916, ch. 456, sec. 11. 1918 Code, sec. 60.

41. The holder of any elective office may be removed at any time with-
in six months after the date of his election, by the electors qualified to
vote for a successor of such incumbent. The procedure to effect the re-
moval of an incumbent of an elective office shall be as follows:

In case of the Mayor a petition signed by electors entitled to vote for a
successor to the incumbent Mayor sought to be removed equal in number
to at least twenty-five per centum of the entire vote for all candidates for
the office of Mayor cast at the last preceding general municipal election,
and in case of a councilman a petition signed by electors entitled to vote
for a successor to the incumbent councilman sought to be removed equal in
number to at least twenty-five per centum of the entire vote for all candi-
dates for the office of councilman cast in the particular ward from which
the incumbent sought to be recalled was elected at the last general
municipal election, demanding an election of a successor of the person
sought to be removed, shall be filed with the town clerk, which petition
shall contain a general statement of the grounds for which the removal
is sought. The signatures to the petition need not all be appended to one
paper, but each signer shall add to his signature his place of residence.
One of the signers of each such paper shall make oath before an officer
competent to administer oaths that the statements therein made are true
as he believes, and that each signature to the paper appended is a genuine
signature of the person whose name it purports to be. Within ten days
from the date of filing such petition the town clerk shall examine and from
the voters registered ascertain whether or not petition is signed by the
requisite number of qualified electors, and, if necessary, the Mayor and
Council shall allow him extra help for that purpose; and he shall attach to
said petition his certificate showing the result of said examination. If by
the town clerk's certificate the petition is shown to be insufficient it may be
amended within ten days from the date of said certificate. The town clerk
shall, within ten days after such amendment, make like examination of the