ELIHU B. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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give at least ten days notice thereof by notices set up at five of

the most prominent places in the town; and at some meeting

prior to the second Monday of April in each year, shall appoint

some person to act as judge of said election, who before acting as

such, shall qualify in the same manner as judges of election for

State and county offices in this State are required to qualify

Elections.

before a justice of the peace, and shall open the polls at two

o'clock, p. m., on the second Monday in April in each year, and

close the same at six o'clock, p. m., and the person voted for for

president as aforesaid at said election, who shall receive the

highest number of votes shall be president as aforesaid, and the

persons in number according to the preceding section voted for

at said election for commissioners for said town, who shall re-

spectively receive the highest number of votes shall be commis-

sioners as aforesaid.

SEC. 132. If at any election to be held as aforesaid, it shall

appear by the certificate of the judge of said election that any

two or more persons voted for as president, or any two or more

persons voted for as commissioners, have received the same num-

Cases of a

tier of votes so that there shall be no choice for president, or no

tie vote

choice for an entire board of commissioners, if there shall be two

of said five officers duly elected, the persons so elected together

with the president and commissioners holding over, (if any,) shall

assemble immediately, and having qualified, shall proclaim a new

election to supply the vacancies occasioned by the failure to elect,

giving at least five days notice of said election.

SEC. 133. If at the election to be held on the second Monday

of April, eighteen hundred and ninety, it shall appear that less

than two of said officers have been elected, then the board of com-

missioners now in office, or any three of them, shall proclaim a

new election, giving at least five days notice thereof; in case of

New elec-

the failure to elect four commissioners on the second Monday in

tion.

April, eighteen hundred and ninety, the division into classes

prescribed in section one hundred and thirty-one, shall not take

place until after the vacancies are filled; and should a vacancy

arise in any of said offices because of the death, resignation, re-

fusal to qualify, or otherwise, of the persons elected to fill them,

the said board shall proclaim a new election to fill the same, giv-

ing at least five days notice thereof.

134. The president and commissioners so elected may meet and

adjourn from time to time as they may think proper, at which

meetings the president, (or in his absence, or in case of a tem-

Meetings.

porary vacancy in the office of president, such other member of

the board as it shall name) shall preside, and vote on all ques-

tions before them.

134 A. The said board shall annually appoint by ballot a

treasurer, who shall not be selected from the members of said