Chap. 236.—An ACT to Provide for an Election in Towns of less than Five
Thousand Inhabitants.

Approved July 9, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That in all towns
within this commonwealth of less than five thousand inhabi-
tants, in which there has been no election of officers to which
such town is entitled, either under its charter or any general
law of this commonwealth, an election for such officers may be
held on Thursday, the twenty-eighth day of July, eighteen
hindred and seventy.

2. It shall be lawful, and it is hereby made the duty of the
judge of the county court in which such town is located, as
soon after the passage of this act as practicable, to appoint for
such town or corporation, a register, who shall proceed, as
soon as possible, to register all the qualified voters of such
town, according to the Provisions of an act approved April
twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and the acts amenda-
tory thereto, entitled an act to provide for a general registra-
tion of voters; and the said judge shall also select and appoint
three competent male citizens for each voting place within
such town or corporation, who shall be the judges of elections,
and whose duties shall be the same as those defined by an act
approved May eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, and
the acts amendatory thereto, entitled an act to provide for a
general election.

3. The officers so elected shall, within thirty days after their
election, qualify as is provided for by the terms of the charter,
or before the judge of the county in which such town is lo-
cated, or some other officer authorized to administer oaths,
and shall, 80 soon as they qualify, enter upon the discharge of
their duties, and continue in office until the next general elec-
tion to be held for such town, either under their charters or
any general law of the state, and until their successors, so
elected, shall have qualified.

4. This act shall be in force from its passage.