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after Section 80 and to be designated as Section 80A ; all of said
re-enacted and new sections to read as follows:

SEC. 45. All elections shall be by ballot, and every male
citizen of the age of twenty-one years or upward, who is a citi-
zen of the United States and who has been a bona fide resident
of the town for one year next preceding the election and whose
name shall appear upon the list of registered voters of the
town, as hereinafter provided, shall be entitled to vote at all
elections hereafter to be held, but no person who has been con-
victed of larceny or other infamous crime, unless pardoned by
the Governor, shall ever be entitled to vote at any town elec-
tion, and no person under guardianship as a lunatic or as a per-
son "non compos mentis," shall be entitled to vote.

SEC. 45A. The qualified voters shall on the first Monday in
May, in the year 1910, and every two years thereafter, at the
engine-house in said town or such other place or places as the
Mayor and Council may designate, elect a Mayor to serve for
two years and until the qualification of his successor; and the
said qualified voters shall, on the first Monday in May, in the
year 1910, and every two years thereafter, at the same time and
place, elect five members of the Council to serve 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 from each of the four wards.

SEC. 49. Each candidate for Mayor and president of the
Council whose certificates of nomination have been properly
filed shall at least ten days before the election file with the
town clerk the name of a voter of the town to act as judge. In
the event there are less than three names for judges filed, the
person or persons whose name or names shall have been filed
as above provided shall select such other person or persons,
voters of the town, to act with him or them as judges of elec-
tion, but if more than three names are so filed, the town clerk
shall draw by lot from the names filed three names, in the
presence of the candidates, if they desire to be present, and the
person or persons whose names are drawn 'shall be the judges
of election, and the judges so chosen shall before the election
select two voters of the town to act as clerks <5f election. Said
judges and clerks shall serve at any and all special elections
which may be held within two years after their election. Each
judge and clerk shall be a man of good character, able to read
and write and speak the English language, and not holding
any other office under the town government. And the case of
death, resignation, removal from the town or refusal to serve
of any judge, the remaining judges shall elect some voter of
the town to fill said vacancy. Before entering upon the dis-