WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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

at two o'clock P. M. on the first Monday in May in

When to open

each year, and close the same at six o'clock P. M.,

and close polls.

and the five persons voted for at said election, who

shall respectively receive the highest number of

votes, shall be commissioners for said town for the

ensuing year, and until their successors are duly

elected and qualified.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, If at any election for

commissioners it shall appear by the certificate of

the judge of said election that any two or more per-

Failure to
elect.

sons voted for as commissioners have received the

same number of votes, so that there is no choice for

an entire board, but a vacancy in one or more seats,

if there shall be as many as three duly elected, the

persons so elected shall assemble immediately, and

having qualified as commissioners, shall proclaim a

new election to supply the vacancies occasioned by

election.

the failure to elect, giving at least five days' notice

of said election.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That if it shall not ap-

pear that three of the persons voted for have been

duly elected, or if the persons duly elected shall fail

to assemble and proclaim a new election for the

Give notice of
election.

space of five days, the old board of commissioners,

or any three of them, shall assemble and proclaim a

new election, giving at least five days' notice thereof.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the commis-

sioners so elected may meet and adjourn from time

to time as they may think proper, and shall, at their

first meeting, which shall be within one month after

their election, choose from their own body a president,

Choose presi-
dent.

who shall preside at all meetings of the commis-

sioners, vote on the questions before them, and re-

main in office until superseded by the appointment

of a new president after a new election of commis-

sioners, and also to elect from among their number

a secretary and treasurer, who shall continue in

office during the term for which said commissioners

are elected, unless sooner removed by said commis-

Elect secre-

sioners, and require and take from the treasurer a

tary, &c.

bond in a penalty to be fixed by said commissioners

for the faithful discharge of his duty as said treas-

urer.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the said presi-

dent and commissioners shall have the power to