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 § 49. POLLING PLACES, HOW ESTABLISHED--APPOINTMENT OF JUDGES.] The county superintendent in each county shall, at least twenty days prior to the third Tuesday in June, 1890, fix and designate some polling place in each school district, so located as to be convenient for the voters of said district, and shall appoint two persons to act as judges and two to act as clerks of the election of said school officers; said judges and clerks shall be qualified voters in their respective districts. The county superintendent shall notify in writing said judges and clerks of their appointment, and of the place fixed and designated as the polling place in their respective districts, and shall furnish them with the necessary blanks and poll books for such election. He shall also furnish one of said clerks with three notices of such election, specifying the time and place at which said election is to be held and the officers to be elected and term of each, which notices said clerk shall post in three of the most public places in the district at least ten days prior to the third Tuesday in June. The county superintendent shall fix the date and perform such other duties as devolve upon him by the provisions of this section for the first election in any school district hereafter formed under the provisions of this act, and such election shall be called by the county superintendent within thirty days after the formation of such school district.

§ 50. WHO QUALIFIED TO VOTE OR HOLD OFFICE.] At any election of school officers in any school corporation in this State, all persons who are qualified electors under the General Laws of the State, and all women twenty-one years of age having the necessary qualifications as to citizenship and residence required of male voters by the General laws, shall be qualified voters, and shall be eligible to the office of county superintendent of schools, school director or member of the board of education, or school treasurer, or may be judge or clerk of such election.

§ 51 ELECTION OF COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT.] At the election on the third Tuesday in June, 1890, and biennially thereafter, at the time and place of electing school district officers, the legal voters in each school district, except cities organized under a special school law, in each county, shall vote for a county superintendent of schools for such county.

§ 52. HOURS POLLS OPEN.] At all elections for school district officers, and for county superintendent of schools, the polls shall be open at 2 o'clock p. m. and closed at 5 o'clock p. m.

§ 53. NOTICES OF ANNUAL ELECTION.] Each year after 1890, and at least fifteen days before the third Tuesday in June, the district school board of each school district shall designate one polling place, as convenient as possible to the voters of such district, at which such annual election shall be held, and shall cause notice of such election to be posted in at least three of the most public and conspicuous places within the district. Such notices shall be signed by the clerk, or in his absence by the president of