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CHAP. XXV.] president shall also appoint the judges and clerks of said election, and shall give at least ten days notice thereof. Said officers, so elected, shall hold their respective offices for one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified.

. 6. Any legal voter of this territory, who shall have been a resident of said town, within the corporate limits thereof, thirty days next preceding a municipal election, shall be entitled to vote at said election, and any legal voter shall be eligible to any office mentioned in this act.

. 7. Said officers, before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, shall take and subscribe to an oath, before some person qualified and authorized to administer an oath, to support the constitution of the United States and the organic act and laws of this territory, and to faith fully perform the duties of their respective offices, which said oath shall be filed in the office of the recorder of said town council.

. 8. The treasurer, recorder, assessor, and marshal shall give such bonds as may be required of them by the town council, which said bonds must be approved by the council, and filed with the president.

. 9. Said town council is hereby vested with full power and authority to prescribe the duties of the officers of said corporation, to provide for the keeping of the public money and property, to provide for the levying and collection of taxes, to order assessments upon taxable property, real and personal, within said town limits, for the auditing and payment of claims against said corporation, for the working and improvement of roads, streets, and alleys, for the granting and issuing of licenses, abating nuisances, and all other matters usually attended to by the like corporations.

. 10. The said council may hold its regular meetings at such times and places, within said town, as may be provided for by ordinance, and may hold called sessions, by the president giving proper notice thereof, may establish all needful rules respecting town elections, and the returns and the counting of the votes.

. 11. The president, with the advice and consent of the council, is hereby authorized and empowered to enter so much land, within the corporate limits of said town, not em-