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Election of guardians to be annual.
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20. On the twenty-fifth day of March in every year, or, if that day should fall on a Sunday or Good Friday, then on the day next following, or within fourteen days next after such twenty-fifth day of March, the guardians for the ensuing year, to be computed from such twenty-fifth day of March, shall be chosen; and immediately upon their election the guardians previously elected by the rate-payers of any union shall go out of office: Provided always, that the guardians first elected by such rate-payers shall, if the said commissioners shall by any order so direct, hold office until the twenty-fifth day of March next after their election, and thenceforth for one year; and that in every case the guardians whose term of office shall expire on the twenty-fifth day of March in any year, shall continue to act as guardians until others are elected or appointed in their stead.
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