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COMMISSIONERS CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 17

One-third of elected commissioners to go out of office every three years.

17. Where by the special Act it is provided that the commissioners shall be
elected by the ratepayers within the town, or other like class of electors,
the first body of commissioners, whether appointed by the special Act, or
elected under the provisions of this and the special Act, shall go out of
office according to the prescribed rotation, and at the prescribed times, and
where no rotation or time of going out of office is prescribed they shall go
out of office by rotation in the following manner (that is to say), on the
first Thursday in the month of September in the year following that in which
the special Act is passed one third of such body of commissioners shall go out
of office, and on the first Thursday in September in the following year
another third of such body of commissioners shall go out of office, and on the
first Thursday in September in the year following the remainder of such body
of commissioners shall go out of office, and on the first Thursday in the
month of September in every subsequent year one third of the commissioners,
being those who have been longest in office, shall go out of office; and in
each instance the places of the retiring commissioners shall be supplied by
the election of a like number of commissioners in the manner herein or in the
special Act provided: Provided always, that if the prescribed number of
commissioners be some number not divisable by three and the number of
commissioners to retire be not prescribed, the commissioners shall in each
case determine what number of commissioners, as nearly one third as may be,
shall go out of office, so that no commissioner shall remain in office longer
than three years without being re-elected.

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