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CHAP. XXXII.] peace, constables, and all other county, precinct, and district officers not herein enumerated, or otherwise provided for.

. 2. The county commissioners shall respectively, at their regular sessions in June preceding the general election, [appoint] three capable and discreet persons, possessing the qualifications of electors, to act as judges of the election at each precinct and for each of the polls of election as (provided] for in this act, and to set off and establish election precincts or districts; and the clerk of the said board of commissioners shall make out and deliver to the sheriff of the county, immediately after the appointment of said judges, a notice thereof in writing, directed the judges so appointed; and it shall be the duty of the said sheriff, within twenty days after the receipt of the said notice, to serve the same upon each of the said judges of the election.

. 3. The said judges shall choose two persons having similar qualifications with themselves, to act as clerks of the election. The said judges shall be and continue judges of all elections of civil officers to be held at their respective precincts, until other judges shall be appointed, as hereinbefore directed; and the said clerks of election may continue to act as such during the pleasure of the judges of election, and the county commissioners shall from time to time fill all vacancies which may occur in the office of judges of election at any election precinct within their respective counties.

. 4. The clerks of the several boards of county commissioners shall, at least forty days before any general election, and at least eight days previous to any special election, make out and deliver to the sheriff of his county, or to a justice of the peace of any county attached for judicial purposes, three written notices thereof for each election precinct, said notices to be, as nearly as circumstances will admit, as follows, to wit: “Notice is hereby given that on the Monday, the  day of  next, at the house  of, in the town, district, or precinct of , in the county of , an election will be held for territorial, town, or district officers (naming the offices to be filled, as the case may be), which election will be opened at nine o'clock in the morning, and will continue open until four o'clock in the afternoon of the same day. Dated this day of    (as the