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Qualification of voters at all elections after the first.
Triennial meetings for the election of commissioners shall be held on the first Monday in July by the chairman of commissioners.
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16. [1]
At all meetings for the election of commissioners for the execution of this Act, which shall be held subsequent to the first election of commissioners, saving and excepting the elections herein-after appointed to be made by the surviving or remaining commissioners, in any city, borough, or town, every person shall be admitted and entitled to vote who shall occupy, and who for twelve months then next previous shall have occupied, within such city, borough, or town, or the liberties or suburbs thereof, to which, as determined by the commissioners for such city, borough, or town, in virtue of the discretion herein-after vested in them, the purposes of this Act shall extend or be extended, a dwelling house of the annual value of five pounds at the least, and none other person whatsoever, and the registry herein-after directed to be made shall be conclusive evidence of the aforementioned qualification; and the chairman of the commissioners for the time being for the execution of this Act shall, previous to the first Monday in July in the year in which such election shall take place, give due notice, in manner by this Act required with respect to the first meeting to be held under this Act, that a meeting will be holden on such first Monday in July for the election of commissioners for the execution of this Act for the three years next succeeding; and such chairman shall at and in such election proceed in such manner as the mayor or other chief magistrate or justices presiding at the first meeting to be held under this Act are herein-before directed to proceed in the election of the commissioners to be first appointed for the execution of this Act, and shall decide all questions which may arise as to the eligibility or qualification of any persons whatsoever, and as to all other matters whatsoever connected with the said election, and shall certify the result of the same to the commissioners for the time being for the execution of this Act in such city, borough, or town as aforesaid, where such election shall be made.
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