1897 private laws – Ch.163 Sec.7

At noon of the day next after said election, in the a tome t presence of such candidates or their duly authorized repre- sentatives as may choose to attend, shall open said returns, and enter the result in a book to be kept in his office for that purpose, labeled election returns, giving the title of the office, the name of each candidate for said office, and the number of votes received by each individual for said office at each precinct in said city. After so entering the precinct returns in said book, the said clerk shall carefully file in the vault of said city the original precinct returns,and add up the number of votes. received by each eandidate voted for at said election, and at twelve oclock noon, on the first Wednesday next after the day of said election, the clerk shall make proclamation at the front entrance of the city hall of said city, and in a clear and distinet voice declare the result of said election, giving the number of votes received by each candidate for the respective offices voted for in said city, and th person receiving the greater number of all the legal votes cast for such office shall be declared elected for the term prescribed by law. If at any such election any two or more persons receive an equal number of votes for the same office, and no other person shall have received a greater number of votes for such office, the clerk shall declare no election for said office, and give notice by proclamation, then and there, of another election to fill said office, which shall be held on the next Monday following at the same places and under the same rules and regulations herein provided for holding elections for said city, except, it shall not require any further or additional registration or the appointment of other registrars or judges; those appointed for the former election shall serve for the latter and their proceedings shall be the same, and all duly qualified voters in the former election shall be entitled to vote in the subsequent election without challenge. The clerk shall immediately notify all persons elected at said election, and request them to appear at the mayors office in said city at 12 e’clock meridian on the third Monday in May, next after their election, to qualify and enter upon the duties of their respective offices. The ballots which were at said election deposited in the duplicate ballot box shall be securely locked in said box, and together with said box delivered to said clerk of said city at his office by the judges of said precinct, and securely preserved in some safe place until said boxes are required for succeeding elections for said city, when said ballots may be destroyed. OTHER MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. _