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shall fail to qualify within the required time he shall
be considered as refusing to accept the office and the

vacancy shall be filled by a majority of those remain-
ing, and if during the year for which they are elected
any one shall die, resign, remove from said town or
in any other manner be disqualified from holding
said office a majority of the remaining commissioners
may by ballot elect a successor to fill the vacancy.

Vacancies.

5. It shall be lawful for the commissioners of said
town to levy to themselves as compensation for their
services a sum not exceeding fifty dollars annually,
the provisions of this section to entitle the present
board of commissioners compensation for the present
term of office, from the first day of April, eighteen
hundred and sixty-six.

Ibid. c. 7.
Compensation.

6. The said commissioners when elected and duly
qualified shall have power to appoint a bailiff for the
said town for the period of one year or until a suc-
cessor is appointed and qualified, and said bailiff
shall, within the limits of Somerset and Worcester
counties and town of Salisbury, have and exercise all
the powers, and perform all the duties of a con-
stable.

Ibid. s. 8
Town bailiff, his
powers and
duties.

7. The bailiff before entering upon the duties of
his office shall make oath before a justice of the
peace for Somerset county that he will faithfully and
impartially perform the duties of bailiff and con-
stable within said town and county according to the

Ibid 9 9.
Bailiffs oath.

best of his skill and ability, and shall also give bond
in the same penalty and in all respects be subject to
the same liabilities as the constable's bond of said
county, with good and sufficient security, to, be
approved by the commissioners of Somerset county
conditioned that he will faithfully and truly execute
the said office in all things appertaining thereto, and
shall well and truly account for all moneys and other
liabilities placed in his hands for collection or other-
wise, and shall well and truly pay over all sums of
money received by him.

Bond.