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Manner of making the rotation list.
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9. In order to determine the rotation by which the first members of the said council shall go out of office, the said council shall at their first meeting under this Act form a rotation list, and at such meeting the chairman shall write the names of all the members on separate slips of paper, all as nearly as may be of equal size, and having folded them up in the same manner, be shall put them into a ballot box, and shall in the presence of the meeting draw out such slips of paper in succession, and the names upon the slips so drawn shall be written by the chairman in a list in the order in which they are drawn; and every such list shall be kept among the papers of the said council, and the names therein shall be numbered consecutively, and the members of the said council shall retire from office in the order in which their names appear on such list, in the proportions in this Act mentioned.
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