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First meeting of commissioners to be appointed by mayor, &c.
Oath of commissioners to be administered at first meeting by mayor, &c.
Oath.
Affirmation if a Quaker.
Oath may subsequently be administered by sworn commissioners.
Oath shall be entered and signed in minute book.
Penalty on commissioner acting without being sworn, 100l.
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27. The commissioners first elected in any city, town corporate, borough, market town, or other town, shall assemble at such time and place as shall have been appointed and notified by the mayor or other chief magistrate or justices, as the case may be, presiding at the meeting for the election of such commissioners, and at such time and place such mayor or other chief magistrate or justices, as the case may be, shall attend; and it shall be lawful for such mayor or other chief magistrate or justices, or either of them, and he and they is and are hereby authorized and required, to administer to any and every of the persons elected commissioners who shall be present at such meeting, and every such commissioner shall make and take and subscribe, an oath to the effect following; (that is to say,)
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‘I A.B. do swear, that I am duly qualified to act as a commissioner under an Act made in the ninth year of the reign of King George the Fourth, intituled “An Act” [here set forth the title of this Act], and that I will faithfully, impartially, and honestly execute the powers and trusts reposed in me as a commissioner appointed by virtue of the said Act, to the best of my knowledge and ability, for the purpose in the said Act mentioned.
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And if any person elected a commissioner shall be Quaker, the solemn affirmation of such person to the above effect shall be received instead of his oath; and all persons elected commissioners who shall not be present at such first meeting, or who shall be elected commissioners at any subsequent election, shall take such oath (or, if Quakers, make such affirmation,) at a meeting of the commissioners for the time being, and any one of such commissioners is hereby authorized to administer such oath in the presence of the other commissioner at such meeting; and the form of such oath or affirmation shall be entered by the clerk in a book to be prepared for the minutes of the proceedings of the said commissioners, and shall be subscribed in such book by every commissioner making or taking the same; and such entry shall, upon oath of any subscribing commissioner, be received as conclusive evidence that such oath or affirmation was duly taken or made; and if any person at any time elected a commissioner shall vote, or shall do any other act or thing as a commissioner under this Act, without having previously taken such oath, or made such affirmation, such person shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds to any person, being a householder within the same city, town corporate, borough, or market town, or other town, or the suburbs and liberties aforesaid, who shall sue for the same.
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