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In case of any casual vacancy, the chairman shall within 14 days call a meeting of the commissioners to supply such vacancy.
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17. In case any commissioner shall die, or become disqualified by change of residence or otherwise, or shall refuse or neglect to act, and in case of any casual vacancy happening in any manner whatever, it shall be lawful for the chairman of the commissioners for the time being, and he is hereby required, within fourteen days next after a vacancy shall so happen, to issue a summons for an extraordinary meeting of the surviving or remaining commissioners, for the purpose of electing a new commissioner to supply such vacancy, such summons to be served on the said surviving or remaining commissioners personally, or left at their respective dwelling houses; and the time appointed for such extraordinary meeting shall be not less than seven and not more than fourteen days from the date and issuing of such summons; and at such meeting it shall be lawful for such commissioners to elect a proper person to be a commissioner in the room of the person who shall have ceased to be such commissioner as aforesaid: Provided always, that until such casual vacancy or vacancies shall be supplied the remaining commissioners shall, notwithstanding any such vacancy or vacancies, be fully competent to do all acts and things which by this Act such commissioners are authorized, empowered, or required to do; and the commissioner elected upon any such casual vacancy shall, on coming into office, occupy the place of the person in the room of whom he shall have been elected, and remain in office for the residue of the term during which the said former commissioner might or would have remained in office if such vacancy had not occurred.
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