INSPECTOR OF ELECTIONS.
Mr. Walz's bill [H. R. 457] to amend Section 14 of an act for the incorporation of towns, providing for the election of officers, etc., was read the third time.
Mr. WALZ--The law for the incorporation of towns fails to provide for the filling of vacancies in case of death or other absence of any of the Inspectors, at the time for opening the election for the first town officers. This bill should pass to supply a want in the law. There is a case in my town now, where one of the Inspectors died and the citizens do not know how further to proceed in electing the first town officers, unless it passes, a special enabling act will have to pass, to permit them to fully organize their corporation.
The bill passed by yeas, 79; nays, 0.
