ART. 7.] UNION BRIDGE. 747

1880, ch. 434.

172. If any person elected to the office of mayor or common
councilman shall refuse or neglect to qualify, or be otherwise
disqualified, the mayor shall immediately order a new election to
be held to fill the vacancy; and the mayor and common council-
men for the time being shall continue in office until such election
shall be held and their successors are elected and qualified;
provided, however, that no election shall be held to fill vacancies,
in the office of common councilmen so long as the mayor and
three common councilmen shall remain who have been duly
elected and qualified, and who shall in such case elect councilmen
to fill the vacancy.

Ibid.

173. If the mayor or any member of the common council shall
die, resign or remove from the said town, or from any cause shall
become disqualified during the year for which he has been elected,
the chairman of the common council shall act as mayor for the
balance of the term; or the mayor and remaining members of
the common council shall elect one or more councilmen to fill the
vacancy for the remainder of the said term.

Ibid

174. The common council shall meet at some convenient place
in the said town, at least once in every three months, or oftener if
the mayor shall deem it necessary, and the mayor may preside at
said meetings, but shall not otherwise take part in the delibera-
tions thereof; and the said council shall elect from their own
number a chairman, who shall preside at their meetings in the
absence of the mayor, and have the same power of voting and
taking part in all acts and deliberations of the said council as any
other member thereof.

Ibid.

175. The mayor and three councilmen, or the chairman and
two councilmen, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of
business, but no ordinance shall be enforced unless the same shall
have been passed by three affirmatives, and be signed by the
mayor; and if the mayor shall refuse to sign any ordinance or
other paper requiring his signature, passed by the said common
council, he shall, within three days, return the same to them with