ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  121

collection of all taxes imposed by the Mayor and Commissioners
of Barton except such insolvencies as may from time to time bo
allowed by said The Mayor and Commissioners; the said The
Mayor and Commissioners will accept for said assessment pur-
poses the value placed upon the real and personal property
within said town as are placed thereon by the State and county
assessment.

19.     In case of death or refusal to act, resignation or dis-
qualification of the Mayor or any of the Commissioners, a ma-
jority of the remaining of the said Mayor and Commissioners
shall have power to appoint some person or persons to fill their
unexpired term, and any such person shall have all the qualifi-
cations to hold such office as is provided for in this Act.

20.      The Mayor and Commissioners of Barton shall cause
to be maintained a registration of the legal and qualified voters
residing within the corporate limits of the Town of Barton, of
all citizens of 21 years of age or over, who have resided
within said corporate limits for the period of six months next
preceding an election and who are citizens of the United
States; and such registration shall be essential to the right to
vote at any election held under the charter of the said Town of
Barton. The said The Mayor and Commissioners of Barton
shall annually, on or before the fourteenth day next preceding
the first Monday in April of each year, appoint two persons to
act as officers of said registration, who shall sit as officers of
registration at such places in said town as may be designated
by the said Mayor and Commissioners, on the first Monday
in April in each year, and on the fifth day next preceding the
first Monday in June in each year, and said registrars shall
sit not less than eight (8) hours, and ten days' public notice
of said sitting and the places thereof shall be given by adver-
tisement by way of notices on handbills posted in not less than
ten public places within the corporate limits of the said Town
of Barton.

21.      The said registration officers shall sit on the four-
teenth day next preceding and exclusive of the date of any
election for officials of said Town of Barton, at the same
places at which the election is to be held between the hours
of 7 P. M. and 9 P. M. to receive nominations. Any person