ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  527

lic places at least ten days before said election. Such polling
places shall remain open from 1 o'clock P. M. to 7 o'clock
P. M., or longer at the discretion of the Mayor and Common
Council. Such election shall be conducted by three judges
and two clerks to be appointed by the Mayor and Common
Council annually, and they shall each take the oath prescribed
herein for town officers.

The said election judges and clerks shall be known as the
Board of Election Supervisors, shall serve without pay as such,
and shall meet on the first Monday of April of each year from
7. 30 to 10 o'clock P. M. for the purpose of receiving certificates
for nomination for Mayor and Councilmen, which said nomina-
tions shall be in writing, signed by not less than twenty quali-
fied voters of said town, and no signature shall be counted if it
be upon more than one nomination paper of a candidate for
Mayor, or upon more than five nomination papers of candi-
dates for Councilmen. No certificates of nomination shall be

received by the said Board of Election Supervisors after the
said meeting of the Supervisors for the purpose of receiving
such certificates of nomination, as hereinbefore provided, ex-
cept that in the event of any vacancies occurring in nomina-
tions for Mayor and Councilmen, either by declination, death
or any other cause; the same may be filed in the manner herein
provided, at any time prior to the Tuesday before the day of
any election, general or special, held hereunder. No names
shall be printed on the official ballot not presented to said
Board of Election Supervisors in the manner herein provided.

Suitable ballot boxes and polling places shall be provided
by the Mayor and Common Council. Immediately upon the
closing of the polls the ballots shall be publicly counted and
the said judges shall make a true and correct return of the
votes so cast, shall seal the same and shall within two days
thereafter return the same to the Mayor and Common Coun-
cil or the Clerk thereof. Within ten days after said election
the Mayor and Common Council shall meet and canvass the
said returns and shall declare those persons receiving the high-
est number of votes for the respective offices voted upon elected,
and shall record a copy thereof among their proceedings.

In the event of a tie vote for any office, there shall be an
election on the fourth Monday in May for the office or offices
so tied. The terms of all elective officers shall begin on the
first Monday in June next succeeding the election. The Mayor