ART. 24.] BISHOPVILLE. 2125

1884, ch. 70.

62. The legal voters of the said town who have resided within
its corporate limits six months preceding the election, of the age
of twenty-one years and upwards, shall elect by ballot, on the
first Monday in May in every second year, accounting from the
year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, three persons who are
owners of real estate in 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; and the
services rendered by the said commissioners shall be gratuitous,
and without pay.

Ibid,

63. The judges of election, before proceeding to hold an elec-
tion, shall take an oath before some justice of the peace for Wor-
cester county, to allow all persons to vote who are qualified under
the preceding section, and to allow none to vote unless so quali-
fied.

Ibid.

64. If any person elected as commissioner shall refuse to serve
as such, or if his place shall become vacant by death, resignation,
disqualification or otherwise, the remaining commissioners shall
fill the vacancy as early thereafter as possible from among the
qualified voters of the said town, and a failure to qualify within
two weeks after election shall be conclusive evidence of a refusal
to act as commissioner; and the person appointed to fill said
vacancy shall hold his office till the next election; and in case of
a tie between any persons voted for at any election under this,
sub-title of this article, the clerk of the circuit court for Worces-
ter county shall issue certificates only to the persons receiving the
highest number of votes, and if there be less than three elected,
shall immediately certify to the said persons so elected the fact
of there being such a tie; and the said commissioners shall, at their
first meeting as a board, designate one of the persons so voted
for, who has received a tie vote, to be commissioner, and shall
notify the clerk of the circuit court of said county, of their selec-
tion, and the said clerk shall issue, immediately, a certificate to-
said commissioner, which certificate shall set forth the manner of
his election; and the said commissioner shall hold his office as.
fully as if he had received the highest number of votes.