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WORCESTER COUNTY. [ART. 22.

the year eighteen hundred and seventy, and every two
years thereafter, elect five persons who are qualified
voters of said town to be commissioners of said town,
to serve, for two years from the date of their election,
and until their successors are elected and qualified.

Where election
to be held.

131. The first and all subsequent elections shall be
held at the court house of Worcester county, and the

Judges.

judges thereof shall be two in number, and be desig-
nated and appointed by the clerk of the circuit court
for Worcester; the said judges shall appoint a clerk,
and shall keep the polls open from ten o'clock in the
morning until four o'clock in the afternoon; they shall
carefully count, after closing of the polls, the ballots
taken by them, and within two days after said election
shall make a true and correct return of the same, under
their hands, to the clerk of the circuit court for Wor-

Certificate of
election

cester county, who shall forthwith issue certificates of
election to the five persons appearing from the said
returns to have received the highest number of votes,
and the said certificates shall be recorded among the
record of proceedings of the said commissioners.

Oath of judges.

132. The judges of election shall, before proceeding
to hold an election, take an oath before some justice of
the peace for Worcester county, to allow all persons to
vote who are qualified under this act, and to allow
none to vote unless so qualified.

Vacancy, how
filled.

133. If any person so elected as commissioner shall
refuse to serve as such, or his place shall become vacant
by death, resignation or disqualification, or otherwise,
the remaining commissioners, or a majority of them,
shall fill the vacancy as early thereafter as possible
from among the qualified voters of the said town; and

Failure to
qualify.

a failure to qualify within two weeks after election shall
be conclusive evidence of a refusal to act as commis-
sioner, and the person appointed to fill said vacancy
shall hold his office till the next election: and in case

Tie vote.

of a tie between any persons voted for at any election
under this act, the clerk of the circuit court for Wor-
cester shall issue certificates only to the persons receiv-
ing the highest number of votes, and if there be less