1895 private laws – Ch.85 Sec.18
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CHAPTER 85, An act to repeal the present charter of Elizabeth City and recharter the city. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
On the first Monday in June the commissioners-e lect, after having taken and subscribed an oath or affirmation before some justice of the peace for said county to support the constitution of the United States, the constitution of North Carolina, and to perform faithfully the duties of their offices (which oath or affirmation shall be entered upon the minutes of the corporation, subscribed as aforesaid and attested by some justice), shall take their seats and continue in office until their successors have been elected and qualified. They shall organize by appointing one of their number chairman, and shall first proceed to fill vacancies caused by death or failure to elect in any ward, whether by virtue of a tie or on a certificate of fraud.