ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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so that there is no choice for the office a new election shall be im-

mediately proclaimed by the mayor or the president of the board,
as the case may be to fill the vacancy, which election shall be held

on ten day's notice and in all respects as aforesaid.

SEC. 197. In case of a failure to elect a mayor and at least five

councilmen those in office shall continue to perform the duties

Non-elec-

pending an election which shall be held upon the notice pre-

tion.

scribed hereinbefore.

SEC. 198. Every judge of election before he proceeds to take or

receive any votes shall take an oath that he will permit every

qualified person and none other to vote at the election; every clerk

before he enters any vote on the polls shall take an oath that he

will well and faithfully, without favor, affection, or partiality

execute the office of clerk of election; the several judges may

administer the oath to each other, or take the same before a jus-

tice of the peace resident of the town, and the clerk may either

be sworn by one of the judges or before a justice of the peace,

Oath.

resident of the town; and a certificate of every such oath signed

by the person administering the same respectively shall be annexed

to the polls; and the mayor and city council of Laurel are vested

with power and authority to pass all ordinances necessary and

proper in respect to the manner of making the election returns

and to provide what shall be done on failure of the judges of

election to attend at the time appointed for holding any election,

and for the manner and time of destroying the said election re-

turns.

SEC. 199. The mayor and city council shall qualify and take

possession of their office respectively by the second Wednesday in

April in each and every year, and a failure to qualify within the

Qualify.

time prescribed shall be deemed a refusal by the party failing to

qualify to accept the office, whereupon a new election shall be

proclaimed to fill the vacancy thereby occasioned.

SEC. 201. The mayor of the town of Laurel shall be the execu-

tive officer thereof, clothed with all the powers necessary to secure

the enforcement of all ordinances passed by the council of said

town under this charter; he may convene the council when in

his opinion the public good may require it, and shall from time

to time lay before them in writing, such proposed alterations in

the laws of the corporation as he may deem necessary and proper;

Duties.

in case of his death, resignation, inability or refusal to serve, or

removal from the town, the council shall elect some citizen of

the town to act in his place until his successor is elected or the

disability is removed; he shall have the power to veto any ordi-

nance, law or regulation passed by the council, and unless said

veto is over-ruled by a two-thirds vote of all the members of the

council elected, said veto shall stand and such ordinance, law or

resolution shall be null and void and he shall return every ordi-