ART. 10.] CAMBRIDGE. 987

or more of the newspapers printed in the town, for at least ten
days next preceding the day of election; if said town commis-
sioners shall fail or refuse to appoint said judges and designate
said polling" places as aforesaid, the clerk of the circuit court for
Dorchester county shall appoint said judges and designate said
polling places, and give notice of election as aforesaid, in which
event, if there should not be sufficient time to give said ten days'
notice before the day of election as aforesaid, such notice shall be
posted in five conspicuous places in each of said wards, at least
five days before the election.

1882, ch. 216.

52. Each of said persons so as aforesaid appointed judge of
election, before he proceeds to act as such judge, shall make oath
before a justice of the peace for the said county, or one of the
commissioners of the town, that he will faithfully and impar-
tially discharge the duties of his office; and any judge failing to
qualify and act shall be subject to a penalty of fifty dollars; and
upon failure of any judge to attend, the remaining judge or
judges shall hold the election; and if none of the said judges
attend, the citizens of the ward present shall select three judges.

Ibid.

53. The said judges of election for each of said wards, on the
day of election, and immediately after the polls are closed, shall
count the ballots in their respective wards, and certify the result
under oath, to be administered as in the preceding section, to the
said town commissioners, together with the ballots cast; and the
persons receiving the highest number of votes in each of said
wards, respectively, shall be declared elected commissioners for
said wards; and the said certificates shall be recorded and the
ballots preserved for at least two years.

Ibid.

54. If any vacancy shall happen in the office of commissioner,
by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, the mayor shall cause
a new election to be held in the ward from which said vacancy
occurs, to supply the same during the remainder of the term, and