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manner as judges of election for State and county officers in this
State are required to qualify, before a justice of the peace, and
shall open the polls at two o'clock p. M. on the first Monday in
May in each year, and close the same at six o'clock F. M. ; and the
five persons voted for at said election who shall respectively
receive the highest number of votes, shall be commissioners for
the town for the ensuing year and until their successors are duly
elected and qualified.

1880, ch. 435.

132. If at any election for commissioners it shall appear by
the certificate of the judge of said election that any two or more
persons voted for as commissioners have received the same
number of votes, so that there is no choice for an entire board,
but a vacancy in one or more seats, if there shall be as many as
three duly elected, the persons so elected shall assemble immedi-
ately, and having qualified as commissioners, shall proclaim a
new election to supply the vacancies occasioned by the failure to
elect, giving at least five days' notice of said election.

Ibid.

133. If it shall not appear that three of the persons voted for
have been duly elected, or if the persons duly elected shall fail
to assemble and proclaim a new election for the space of five
days, the old board of commissioners, or any three of them, shall
assemble and proclaim a new election, giving at least five days'
notice thereof.

Ibid.

134. The commissioners so elected may meet and adjourn
from time to time as they may think proper, and at their first
meeting, which shall be within one month after their election,
shall choose from their own body a president, who shall preside
at all meetings of the commissioners, vote on all questions before
them, and remain in office until superseded by the appointment
of a new president, after a new election of commissioners; and
shall also elect from among their number a secretary and treasurer,
who shall continue in office during the term for which said
commissioners are elected, unless sooner removed by them, and