60Time and mode of election of aldermen.
(1)The ordinary day of election of aldermen shall be the ninth of November, and the election shall be held at the quarterly meeting of the council.
(2)The election shall be held immediately after the election of the mayor, or, if there is a sheriff, the appointment of the sheriff. .
(3)An outgoing alderman, although mayor elect, shall not vote.
(4)Every person entitled to vote may vote for any number of persons not exceeding the number of vacancies, by signing and personally delivering at the meeting to the chairman a voting paper containing the surnames and other names and places of abode and descriptions of the persons for whom he votes.
(5)The chairman, as soon as all the voting papers have been delivered to him, shall openly produce and read them, or cause them to be read, and then deliver them to the town clerk to be kept for twelve months.
(6)In case of equality of votes the chairman, although as an outgoing alderman or otherwise not entitled to vote in the first instance, shall have the casting vote.
(7)The persons, not exceeding the number of vacancies, who have the greatest number of votes, shall be declared by the chairman to be, and thereupon shall be, elected.