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? taken before the registrars or deputy registrars, any member of an election board, or any officer authorized by law to administer oaths. All oaths taken before the election board shall be by them preserved and returned with the ballots. As amended, Stats., 1949, 208. SECTION 7® Before opening the polls each inspector and each clerk must take and subscribe to an oath to faithfully perform the duties imposed upon him by law. Any elector of the precinct may administer and certify such oath. Vacancies occur-ing during the progress of the election may be filled by the remaining inspector or inspectors, and any inspector of election may administer and certify oaths. The time of opening and closing the polls, the manner of conducting the election, canvassing and announcing the result, the keeping of the tally list, and the making and certify­ing of such re stilt, and the disposition of the ballots after election, shall be the same, as near as may be, as provided for elections tinder the general election law of this state. Registrars and election officers may receive such compensation for their services as the board shall prescribe, not exceeding the amount paid for similar services at general elections* The returns shall be delivered to the secretary of the district, and no list, tally paper, or returns from any election shall be set aside or rejected for want of form if it can be satisfactorily understood. The board of directors shall meet at its usual place of meeting on the second Monday after an election to canvass the returns, and it shall proceed in the same manner and with like effect, as near as may be, as the board of county commissioners in canvassing the returns of general elections, and when it shall have declared the result the secretary shall make full entries in his record in like manner as is required of the county clerk in general elections. The board of directors must declare elected the person or persons having the highest number of votes given for each office. The secretary shall immedi­ately make out and deliver to such person or persons a certificate of election, signed by him and authenticated with the seal of the board. Within ten days after receiving the certificate of his election, each director shall take and subscribe to an official oath and file the same with the secretary of the board of directors. Each member of said board of directors shall execute an official bond in the sum of ten thousand ($10,000, which shall be approved by the judge of the district court in and for the county where such organization is effected. Such bonds shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder and filed with the secretary of the board. The costs of such bonds shall be borne by said water district. SEC. 8. The officers of such district shall consist of seven directors as aforesaid, a president and a vice president, elected from their number, a secretary, and treasurer. The board may appoint an assistant secretary who shall exercise such of the powers and perform such of the duties of the secretary as may be designated by the board of directors, except that such assistant secretary shall not be invested with authority to sign on behalf of the secretary any bonds of the district. The secretary and treasurer shall be appointed by the board of directors and may or may not be members of said board. Such officers shall serve at the will of the board. One person may be appointed to serve as secretary and treasurer. The board may also appoint an engineer and manager and such other assistants as may be necessary. The directors immediately upon their election and qualification shall meet and organize. The board of directors shall designate some place within the county as the office of the board, and the board shall hold a regular monthly meeting in this office on such day of the month as that fixed upon by resolution duly entered upon the minutes. All meetings of the board shall be public, and a majority of the members shall con­stitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but on all questions requiring vote there shall be a concurrence of at least a majority of the members of the board. All records of the board shall be open to the inspection of any elector during business hours. On the first Monday in May next following their election, the board of directors shall meet and organize, and elect a president and vice president, and appoint a secretary and treasurer. The appointees aforesaid shall file bonds, which shall be approved by the board for the faithful performance of their duties. Any vacancies in the office of director shall be filled from the division in which the vacancy occurs by the remaining members of the board. In cases where a vacancy occurs in the office of director, and the remaining directors, at the next regular monthly meeting of the board of directors following such vacancy, do not by a majority vote of such remaining directors appoint a successor to fill such a vacancy, then the president of the board of directors shall fill such vacancy by appointment, and in the event of the vacancy occurring in the office of the director who is president of the board, then the vice president shall fill the vacancy by appointment. A director - 5-