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shall be designated by the Mayor and Commissioners of
Westernport, to elect one person, who shall have resided
within the limits thereof at least two years next preceding
said election, be a qualified voter therein, and assessed upon
the books of the town with property therein to the value
of at least five hundred dollars, as Mayor of the Town of
Westernport, and the said Mayor shall serve for two years
and until his successor is elected and qualified and shall
preside at all meetings of the Mayor and Commissioners of
Westernport and shall execute all ordinances passed by
them and shall be entitled to vote upon all matters pending
before them, and in the absence of the Mayor at any meet-
ing of the Mayor and Commissioners, the Commissioners
may appoint a President, who shall have all the powers of
the Mayor, except to sign ordinances; and the qualified
voters are at the same time and place authorized and di-
rected to elect four Commissioners for said town who
shall have resided within the limits of the same eighteen
months next preceding the election, be duly qualified
voters at said municipal election and each assessed
upon the books of the town with property therein to the
value of at least two hundred and fifty dollars, who shall
serve for a term of two years and until their successors
are elected and qualified. And annually the said Mayor
and Commissioners at their first meeting, which shall be
on the first Monday in April, or as soon as possible there-
after, elect one person to serve as Bailiff of said town
until the first Monday in April in the following year and
until his successor is appointed and qualified, and on the
first Monday of April, 1935, they shall elect one person to
serve as clerk of said town, who shall serve for a term of
two years and until his successor is appointed and quali-
fied, and thereafter biennially elect a clerk of said town.
The said Mayor and Commissioners shall have the power
to fill by appointment all vacancies occurring from death,
removal, resignation or any other cause, whether in the
office of Mayor or Commissioners, or in any other office
provided for in this Act.

644. The Mayor and Commissioners of Westernport
shall cause to be maintained a registration of the legal and
qualified voters residing within the corporate limits of the
Town of Westernport; said registration shall specify the
residence of the voters on each street, lane and alley and
such further information as the Mayor and Commissioners
of Westernport may consider necessary to show their quali-
fications as such voters, and such registration shall be