Chap. 0163 An Act in addition to "an act in relation to registration and elections in the city of boston."

Be it enacted, &c, as follows:

Section 1. On or before the first day of May in the current year the board of assessors of taxes in the city of Boston shall divide the wards numbered twenty-three, twenty-four and twenty-five of said city into the same number of voting precincts to which said wards were entitled, under chapter two hundred and forty-three of the
acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight; said division to have reference to convenience of neighborhoods, and to remain in force until the new division of wards shall take effect as provided in said chapter two hundred and forty-three.
Section 2. The wardens and clerks chosen in the several voting precincts of the city of Boston at the last state election shall hold their respective offices until the next annual city election, and until their successors are chosen. In case any ward shall be divided into new voting precincts under the provisions of this act, the wardens and clerks chosen within the limits of such wards at the last state election shall, until others are chosen, act in the voting precinct which shall bear the same numerical designation as that for which they were respectively chosen at said state election. The mayor and aldermen shall, previous to any election during the. current year, appoint from the legal voters in each additional voting precinct which may be established, one warden, one clerk and two inspectors. The inspectors so appointed shall be selected from different political parties, and all such officers shall hold office until others are chosen in their place as now provided by law.
Section 3.   This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 26, 1879.