At all elections the polls shall open at 9 o'clock in the morning and close at 5 o'clock in the evening. Ten days' notice of the time and place of each election shall be given by posting three or more written or printed notices thereof in as many public places within the corporate limits; such notices to specify what officers and what taxes, if any, are to be voted for. Notices of the first election to be signed by three or more legal voters, and of subsequent elections by the corporation clerk. At the first election under this act, the electors present at the time of opening the polls, shall elect two of their number to act as judges and one as clerk, who shall give certificates to the persons elected and make returns of the poll book and certificates attached, to the clerk, when he shall be appointed and enters upon the duties of his office. All other elections shall be held by two competent persons appointed by the council, to act as judges and the corporation clerk provided in the absence of any of these parties, the electors present at the opening of the polls may elect any of their number to fill the place of such absentees, and all judges and clerks of elections shall be duly sworn, and shall conduct such elections as is required by the general election laws of this state, shall canvass the votes and make returns thereof to the corporation clerk. The corporation clerk shall make duplicate certificates of the election of police magistrate and forward the same to the clerk of the Cook County Court, whose duty it shall be to file one certificate in his office and forward one to the governor of the State of Illinois for a commission for the person elected. A failure to elect officers on the day herein named, shall not operate as a dissolution of the corporation, but such election may be held on any subsequent day, by giving the required notice.