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EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.
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town, as hereinafter provided, shall be entitled to vote at all
elections hereafter to be held, but no person who has been
convicted of larceny or other infamous crime, unless pardoned
by the Governor, shall ever be entitled to vote at any town
election, and no person under guardianship as a lunatic or
as a person non compos mentis shall be entitled to vote.
The qualified voters shall on the first Monday in May in the
year 1906, and every two years thereafter, at the engine house
in said town or such other place as the Mayor and Council
shall designate, elect a Mayor to serve for two years, and
until the qualification of his successor; and the said quali-
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CHAP. 458
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fied voters shall, on the first Monday in May, in the year
nineteen hundred and six, at the same time and place, elect
five members of the Council to serve without pay for two
years, and until the qualification of their successors, one of
whom shall be chosen at large and shall be president of the
Council, the other four to be elected one from each of the
four wards.
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Mayor and
council to be
elected.
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46. The town clerk herein provided for shall be the Super-
visor of Elections, and have such powers and perform such
duties as herein prescribed. There shall be a new registra-
tion of the voters of the town of Easton before the election
to be held in May, 1906, and in every tenth year thereafter,
at which registration the town clerk acting as Supervisor of
Elections shall sit in the Council room during the hours
from 2 to 5 P. M. and from 7 to 9 P. M., on the first and
second Wednesdays and Thurdays of April. In those years
in which general elections are to be held, and in which there
is to be no new registration, the town clerk shall sit at the
same place and hours herein provided, on the second Tues-
day and Wednesday of April, for the purpose of registering
and revising the registration books. Should a special elec-
tion be ordered, the Mayor and Council shall name at least
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Duties of town
clerk.
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two days, not more than thirty days before said election, on
which the town clerk, sitting as a register of voters, shall sit
for the purpose of registering and revising the registration lists.
Any person who feels aggrieved by the action of the town clerk
in refusing to register him as a qualified voter, or in erasing
or misspelling his name, or that of any other person on the
registry or in registering or failing to erase the name of
any fictitious, deceased or disqualified person, may at any
time, either before or after the last sitting of the town clerk,
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Registration of
voters.
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