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Session Laws, 1937
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HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 11

fled, and no person so elected shall be eligible as a candidate
to succeed himself as President of said Board for two years
after any particular term in office as President of said Board;
also, on the first Monday in May, 1937, said voters shall elect
four Commissioners for terms to be determined as follows: as
soon as said Commissioners have been elected and qualified
they shall by lot divide themselves into two classes, two of
said Commissioners to serve for two years from the date of
their election, or until their successors are elected and quali-
fied, and two to serve for one year from the date of their
election, or until their successors are duly elected and quali-
fied ; and on the first Monday in May, 1938, and on that date
annually thereafter, said voters shall elect two Commissioners
to serve for two years from the date of their election, or until
their successors are duly elected and qualified, and no person
so elected shall be eligible as a candidate to succeed himself
as a Commissioner for two years after any particular term in
office as Commissioner.

58. The President and Commissioners of said town shall
annually designate the time and place of holding said election,
and give at least two weeks notice thereof by notices set up at
five of the most prominent places in the town; and prior to
the first Monday in May of each year, shall appoint some per-
son 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 officers in this State are required to qualify
before a Justice of the Peace, and shall open the polls at two
o'clock P. M. on the first Monday in May in each year and
close the same at six o'clock P. M.; and the person voted 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 previous section voted
for at said election for Commissioners for said town who shall,
respectively, receive the highest number of votes, shall be Com-
missioners as aforesaid.

59. If at any election to be held as aforesaid it shall appear
by the certificate of the said 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 number of votes, so that there shall be no choice for
President, or no choice for an entire Board of Commissioners,
if there shall be two of said five officers duly elected, the per-
son or persons so elected, together with the President and
Commissioners holding over, if any, shall assemble immedi-
ately, and, having qualified, shall proclaim a new election to
supply the vacancies occasioned by the failure to elect, giving

 

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