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Commissioners shall go out of office on the 31st of July in the third year after election, and so at the end of every three years, when fresh elections shall be made, and the outgoing commissioners, except the chairman at the election, may be re-elected.
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14. All persons who shall be first elected commissioners in any city, town corporate, borough, or town, at the first meeting held under the provisions of this Act, shall go out of office on the thirty-first day of July in the third year from the said first election; and in place of such commissioners so going out of office a like number of other commissioners, to be elected as hereinafter provided, shall come into office, and remain in office for a term of three years, and at the expiration of such last-mentioned term of three years shall in like manner go out of office, and be succeeded by other commissioners, who shall remain in office for a like term of three years, and so on for ever: Provided always, that any of such out-going commissioners, except the chairman of the said commissioners who shall hold and preside at the election of commissioners as herein-after directed, shall be re-eligible and may be re-elected, and shall in such case continue to act and remain in office; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
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