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THIRTIET H CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 42. 1848. 2725 or more persons, highest in vote, shall have an equal number of votes, the commissioners of election for the ward in which such equality shall exist, shall decide the choice by lot. No person who is not eligi- Who are eligible to a seat in the Board of Aldermen or Board of Common Council, l’l°· shall be eligible to election as assessor. And on the first Monday of May next succeeding the first election of assessors under this act, the Board of Assaid board, or a majority of the members thereof, shall meet in the “°’“°"‘ City Hall, and in the presence of the mayor and register, shall draw by lot the names of three members thereof, if the number of wards be seven, or if the number of wards exceed seven, the names of one half, as near as may be, of the members of said board; and the members whose names shall be thus drawn, shall thereupon cease to be members of said board; and at the next general election a member shall be elected to serve for two years in each of the wards in which the members so drawn shall have been elected; and at every regular annual election thereafter in such wards as the time of the assessors is about to expire, an assessor shall be elected to serve for two years. No person holding any other office under the corporation, shall be Persons holdelected to or hold the office of assessor. In the event of the death, l“8l°;l’:’,’ °m°°' resignation, inability, or refusal to serve of any person elected an uw ° ' assessor, the vacancy shall be filled immediately by the Board of Al- Vacanciesdermen and Board of Common Council, in joint meeting, in which manner all vacancies in the board of assessors shall be filled: Provided, That until the assessors authorized to be elected by this act, shall have been duly elected and qualified to enter upon their duties, full power and authority are hereby given to the said corporation to provide for the temporary appointment of assessors to perform the Temporary duties required of the assessors to be elected under this act. The P*°"l$l°¤· board of assessors shall assess and value, and make return of all and P0,,,,,,.,, and d,,_ every species of property by law taxable, at such times, and under ties or board or such regulations, as the said corporation shall prescribe, and shall ““”°"· make return of all persons subject to a school-tax, in the said city, under such regulations as the said corporation shall prescribe; and if the said assessors, or either of them, shall refuse or wilfully neglect to assess and value, and make return of all and every species of property by law taxable, which may be known to them, or either of them, or come to their knowledge, or shall refuse or wilfully neglect to make return of any person subject to a school-tax, they, or the one so offending, shall be subject to a line not exceeding one hundred dollars for l’€Ml*Y fc; °V· each offence, at the discretion of the CircuifCourt of the District of 6°whm°°°" °°t' Columbia for the county of iVashington, and shall thereafter be incapable of holding any ofitice under the corporation; and the Board of Aldermen and Board of Common Council may, by joint resolution, remove any assessor from office for any misconduct in office. Sec. 4. And be itfurtluer enacted, That the register, collector, and Election erm. surveyor of the said city shall severally be elected on the first Monday in gis;/¢*'» ¤°ll¤°*°*`» I une next, and on the same day in every second year thereafter, at the an s°"°y°r` same time and place, in the same manner, and by the persons qualified to vote for mayor and members of the Board of Aldermen and Board of Common Council: Provided, That if the said first Monday in June next shall be the regular day for the election of mayor of the said city, then the next election thereafter, of register, collector, and surveyor, shall take place on the same day in the following year, and then on the same day in every second year thereafter, as above provided ; and the commissioners of election shall make out duplicate certificates of the result of the election for register, collector, and surveyor, and shall return one to the Board of Aldermen, and the other to the Board of Common Council on the Monday next ensuing the day of election; and the persons having the greatest number of votes for those offices Vox,. IX. Pun.—29