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of said town and shall be open to public inspection free of charge, subject,
however, to such regulations as the Mayor and Common Council may
prescribe.

1920 (Special Session), ch. 3, sec. 2D. 1922, ch. 270, sec. 2D. 1927, ch. 168.

479. All elections to fill the offices of Mayor, Councilman and Treas-
urer and for other purposes shall be by ballot, and shall be held on the
first Monday in May in each year, except as otherwise provided by law.
No persons shall be allowed to vote in any election in said town except
those persons whose names shall appear upon the register of voters in the
ward where such persons shall appear to vote and who shall be actual
residents, as hereinafter defined, of said town upon the day of election.
The Mayor and Common Council shall annually appoint two judges and
two clerks, who shall themselves be registered voters, to conduct the elec-
tion in each of said wards; provided that whenever there is only one
Candidate nominated for Mayor or Treasurer of said town or only one

candidate nominated for Councilman in any ward thereof, there being
no, or only one candidate nominated for Mayor and/or Treasurer, the

election for such offices shall be held in such ward or wards as the said
Mayor and Common Council shall direct, and judges and clerks shall be
appointed to conduct the election only in the wards in which elections are
so directed to be held. The judges and clerks of any ward in which the
said Mayor and Common Council shall direct the election of any other
ward or wards to be held, shall, in addition to conducting the election in
the ward for which they are appointed, conduct the election for such other

ward or wards. The polls shall be open from the hour of nine o'clock
A. M. to the hour of seven o'clock P. M., when they shall be closed, and

no ballots shall be deposited in the ballot box after that time. The said
judges and clerks shall conduct such elections, canvass the ballots and

certify the results in the manner prescribed by the General Election Laws

of this State for State and county elections, except that said judges and

clerks shall within twenty-four hours after the closing of the polls in each
election deliver into the hands of the Mayor one certificate or return of
the result of the canvass of the ballots cast in the election, together with

the tally sheet, and shall deliver another certificate or return of the result

of said canvass, together with the other tally sheet, into the hands of the
chairman of the Council, and shall deliver the ballot box containing the
ballots, properly sealed, to the clerk of the Council in person.

1920 (Special Session), oh. 3, sec. 2E.

480. The registration officers and Judges of Election herein provided
for and each of them shall have and exercise all the power and authority
now vested in registration officers and Judges of Election, under the Gen-
eral Election and Registration Laws of this State, to administer oaths,
keep the peace, to cause any person to be arrested for any breach of the
peace or for any breach of the election laws or any interference with the
progress of any registration, election or canvass of the ballots; and it

shall be the duty of all officers of the law to obey the order of any regis-