ART. 4.] ELECTIONS. 369

bility, or by the unanimous vote of the board. Should any
vacancies occur from any of said specified causes, the said board
of supervisors shall promptly fill the same, and publish as herein-
before directed, the names of the persons so appointed to fill the-
same ; and it shall be their duty in like manner to receive, con-
sider and decide upon all complaints submitted to them in
writing, touching the qualifications and fitness of the persons
so appointed to fill such vacancies. Each and every person
finally selected and appointed as above provided, to act as judge
of election, shall be bound to serve as such judge for the term of
one year, and in case of refusal so to serve shall be liable to the
penalty of five hundred dollars, recoverable by the said board by
civil action in the name of the State; and a failure to attend at
any election during said term, unless prevented by sickness, shall
be deemed a refusal within the meaning of this section; but any
person having once served as judge of election shall not be bound
to serve again for three years next succeeding. In order to
enable them the better to perform the duties required of them,
the said board shall appoint a clerk, at a salary of one thousand
dollars per annum, who shall keep a regular record of all pro-
ceedings of said board, and preserve and file all papers submitted
to them, which said record and papers shall be open to the public
inspection, and who shall perform such other duties as said board
shall direct

1876, ch 233.

253. The said board shall have power, and it shall be their
duty to fill all vacancies which may be caused among said judges
by death, disqualification or refusal to act, or otherwise, and from
time to time to appoint successors to those judges whose term of
service may be about to expire, or may have expired, and substi-
tutes to fill vacancies as aforesaid; and every such substitute shall
hold office until the end of the original term of one year for
which his predecessor was appointed.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 207.

254. The said judges of election, and each of them, are made
conservators of the peace while they shall be acting as such
judges, and shall have full power and authority, and are hereby
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