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This act shall be submitted for acceptance to the qualified voters of the Town of Holden at the first annual Town Election after passage of this act, or at a special Town Election called for the purpose not less than ninety days before the date of said annual election. The vote shall be taken by ballot in accordance with the provisions of the General Laws, so far as the same shall be applicable, in answer to the question, which shall be placed upon the ballot to be used at said election – "shall an act passed by the General Court in the year nineteen hundred and
fifty-one, entitled ‘An act to establish the selectmen-town manager form of government in the town of Holden’ be accepted by the town?" If a majority of the voters on this question shall vote in the affirmative, said act shall take effect immediately for the purposes of the next following annual town election, and for all things relating thereto, and shall take full effect beginning with said election. It shall be the duty of all town officials having duties to perform with respect to elections and holding office at the time of acceptance to do, in compliance with law, all things necessary for the nomination and election of officers first to be elected under this act. If this act is rejected when so submitted, it shall be submitted for the second time at the next following annual town election, and if accepted shall take effect as hereinbefore provided. If this act is again rejected when so submitted for the second time, it shall again be submitted at the next
following annual town election, and if accepted shall take effect as hereinbefore provided. If this act is again rejected when so submitted for the third time, it shall thereupon become void.
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