When the boundary line of said county shall divide any township heretofore established in either of the Counties of Currituck, Tyrrell or Hyde, any officer of the township board [of] trustees heretofore elected who shall reside within said County of “Dare,” shall continue to hold his office and exercise all the powers thereof in the County of “Dare” to which he was entitled in the county in which he was elected, and if there be a vacancy in any township board of trustees, the governor shall fill said vacancy, and the persons by him appointed shall hold his office until the first Thursday in August in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and until his successor shall have qualified; and the regular election for said officers shall be held every two years thereafter.
(Pub. Laws 1869-70, ch. 36, § 3.)