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and discreet person, resident as aforesaid, to be made at the
court house in the said town, by the house keepers and others
qualified to vote as aforesaid, in the month of April in every
year; and the person elected shall remain in office for the term
of five years, and the succession of the commissioners be
so continued as that one commissioner shall be chosen annu-
ally.
3. AND. BE IT ENACTED, That any justice of the
peace for the county aforesaid shall in the first instance, be the
judge of the said election, and shall return his certificate there-
of to the said commissioners on the day first appointed for
their meeting, and the same shall be filed and recorded among
their proceedings; and at every subsequent election the com-
missioners of the said town, or a majority of them, shall be
judges of such election, and the proceedings thereof shall be
recorded under their direction; and every commissioner be-
fore he shall proceed to open an election shall take an oath, or
affirmation, that he will faithfully and impartially permit every
person to vote at such election who shall be qualified to vote
for a commissioner of the said town, according to the direc-
tions of this act, and that he will not suffer any person to vote
at such election who shall not in his judgment be qualified to
vote as aforesaid.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any vacancy shall
happen in the office of one or more of the commissioners by
death, resignation, removal, or otherwise, it shall be lawful for
the remaining commissioners, and they are hereby required to
cause an election to be made at the court-house in the said town,
by the inhabitants thereof, and others qualified to vote as afore-
said, of one or more judicious and discreet persons, resident
as aforesaid, to supply every such vacancy during the remain-
der of the term, and the time of holding such intervening elec-
tion shall be previously notified for the space of ten days pre-
ceeding the election.
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every commissioner to
be appointed in pursuance of this act, before he shall proceed to
execute his office, shall take an oath, or affirmation, before
some justice of the peace, that he will diligently and faithfully,
according to the best of his judgment, perform the duties of a
commissioner of the said town, according to the directions of
this act, without favor, partiality or prejudice, and a certificate
of such qualification shall be made and returned by such justice
of the peace to the said commissioners, to be filed and recorded,
among their proceedings.
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commission-
ers, or a major part of them, shall meet together at the court-
house in the said town, or at such other public place within the
limits thereof as shall be previously notified, in the month of
April eighteen hundred and sixteen, and statedly on the first-
Monday in every third month thereafter, and as much oftener,
by adjournment as they shall judge to be necessary; and when
so assembled, the said commissioners, or the major part of
them, shall proceed to execute the several powers and authori-
ties vested in them by this act, from time to time, as occasions
shall require.
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commission-
era shall be and they are hereby authorised, empowered and
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Dec. Sess.
1815.
Judges of
elections.
Commission-
ers shall take
an oath.
Meetings of
commissioners.
Nuisances
&c—by-laws
&c—clerks--
taxes, &c.
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