The County of Wolfe shall be divided into four districts, in each of which there
shall be elected two justices of the peace and one constable, which districts
shall also be election precincts. Said Dr. Clark, S.R. Turner,
Major Hampton, William Day, and Thomas Sewell are appointed commissioners, who, after taking an oath faithfully to discharge their
duties as such. shall lay off and designate the place of voting in each.
A majority of said commissioners may act; they shall meet at the
residence of C. M. Hanks, on the Wednesday after the first Monday in June, 1860,
or as soon thereafter as may be convenient, and proceed to perform the duties imposed upon them by this act, and may adjourn
from time to time, and place to place, until they shall complete the same. They
shall lodge a certified copy of the boundaries of said districts in the hands of S.R. Turner, who shall hold the same in safe-keeping until a
clerk of the county court of said county shall have been elected; and
then it shall be delivered to said clerk, who shall file and record the
same in his offices; and they shall forthwith transmit another certified
copy thereof to the Secretary of State, who shall carefully preserve the
same in his office; and they shall also designate in each of said districts
two suitable persons to act as judges, and one in each to act as clerk,
and one in each to act of sheriff of the election of a circuit court clerk,
a county court clerk, a sheriff, an assessor, a surveyor, a jailer, a
coroner , a presiding judge of the county court, and a county attorney,
also for two justices of the peace and one constable for each district
for said county, which election shall be held on the first Monday in
August, 1860, before entering on their duties respectively, each judge,
sheriff, and clerk of the election so designated, shall take an oath
faithfully to perform the duties required of them by this act; those
who may act as sheriffs aforesaid shall meet at the residence of
C. M. Hanks, in the county of Wolfe, on the second day after said
election, and, after carefully comparing the polls, shall sign two
certificates of the election, designating the name of each person having
the highest number of votes, and to the office to which he shall have
been elected, one of which shall be lodged in the hands of S.R. Turner, who
shall cause it to be recorded in the clerk’s office of the county court
of Wolfe County, and the other of which they shall forthwith transmit,
by mail or otherwise, to the Secretary of State, where it shall be carefully
preserved, whose duty it shall be forthwith to cause commissions to be
issued to those persons named in the certificate, to each for the office
to which he shall have been elected.
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