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CHAP. 221.
How elec-
tions are to be
conducted.
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trustees for each district, and to vote for one person as
superintendent of common schools for the whole
county, whose duties are hereinafter defined; and after
the closing of the polls, which shall be opened at one,
and closed at four o'clock in the evening of said day,
the chairman and secretary of each district meeting
shall carefully examine the ballots cast, and shall cer-
tify, under their hands and seals, the names of the
three persons receiving the highest number of legal
votes for district trustees, who shall be declared duly
elected trustees of said districts, and shall serve until
the first Saturday in March, eighteen hundred and
fifty-one, and until their successors are duly elected
and qualified; the said chairman and secretary, in
each of the said several school districts, shall also
carefully examine and ascertain the number of ballots
cast for superintendent, and the names of the persons
for whom they were cast, and the number of ballots
which each received, and shall transmit a report there-
of to the board of education, who shall assemble in
the town of Elkton, on the seventh day after said elec-
tion has been held, tor the purpose of receiving said
election returns, which said returns they shall then
and there carefully examine, and they shall ascertain
and certify, under their hands and seals, the number
of votes cast for superintendent, as reported to them
with the names of the persons for whom they were
cast, and the number of votes received by each per-
son voted for, and he that has the highest number of
legal votes for superintendent in the whole county,
shall be declared duly elected to said office, and shall
serve until the first Saturday in March, eighteen hun-
dred and fifty-three, and until his successor is duly
elected and qualified; in case of a tie, or any other
failure to elect, either a superintendent or district trus-
tees, the board of education shall proclaim a new
election, giving three weeks notice, as before men-
tioned.
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Vacancies in
board of educa-
tion — how sup-
plied.
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SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That after the first elec-
tion, as provided for in the preceding section, all sub-
sequent elections under this act shall take place on
the first Saturday of March annually, of which it shall
be the duty of the board of education always to give
at least three weeks notice in the manner before pre-
scribed; that on the first Saturday in March, eighteen
hundred and fifty-one, and annually thereafter, the
school voters of the said county shall elect one person
to be chosen in the same manner as the superinten-
dent, to serve as a member of the board of education
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