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a failure to have appointed deputy registrar, the selectmen and the town clerk shall fill such
 vacancy. -.
 INTENT OF STATUTE
 We deem the intent of this
 statute to be to provide for four possible contingencies D the absence or the inability of the registrars to act, @ the regis- trar's death, removal or resigna- tion, (3) the registrars refusal or failure to accept the office, and (4) his failure to have appointed 8 deputy registrar. In the first contingency the deputy registrar shall perform the duties of his chief, and in the second he shall at once become the registrar. It is quite obvious that in these two provisions the Legislature did not intend to provide for the filling of a vacancy. Manifestly the ab- Sence or inability of the regis trar did not create a vacancy and there was no interim con- templated between the death or resignation of the registrar and the succession of the deputy. There was at all times an in- cumbent of the office charged with the duties of 8 registrar.
 LEGISLATIVE INTENT
 The respondents argue that the Legislature must have contem- plated that some interval would exist between the death or resig- nation of the registrar and the succession of the deputy. They base this upon the General Stat utes, section 56S, which provides that each registrar, before enter ing upon the duties of his office, shall be sworn, and 2 certificate of such appointment shall be filed and recorded in the office of the town clerk" We cannot concur in this view. Whether the deputy upon assuming the designation of registrar is required to take 9 new oath and file a certificate, quaere. Whether one is elected to the of- flee of registrar or becomes regis- trar by and under the statutory provision for succession, the talk ing of the office and the filing of 8 certificate would necessarily fol- low that incident, being simply 8 condition to be met by him before he enters upon his duties. In neither case can it be said that anything like 8 vacancy exists in the interval between the election or succession and the taking of the oath and filing of the certifi- cate. On the other hand, the third and fourth contingencies are the only ones which this statute recog- nizes as creating 8 vacancy, and they manifestly have no applica- tion to the facts of this case.
 NO VACANCY RESULTED
 We conclude therefore that no vacancy in the office of registrar within the meaning of the statute, resulted from the resignation of Dillane and O'Conn0r. At once, without any interval their depu- ties automatically became regis trars. It also follows that the charter provisions upon which the respondents rely, have no applica- tion to the facts of this case. While these conclusions are drawn from the language of the statute itself, and are determinative of the question at issue, there are consideration which strongly sup port them.
 It is a legal presumption that the Legislature in framing the charter, was well aware of the ex- isting provisions of the statute, and 8 further presumption that there was no intention to enact conflicting provisions, particularly in relation to the important Of- flee of registrar of voters. "The presumption is that the Legisla- ture, in enacting that law, did 1t in view of existing relevant stat utes, and intended it to be read with them, so as to make one con- sistent body of law. The General Assembly is always presumed to know all the existing statutes and the effect that its action or nom action will have upon any one of them. And it is always presumed to have intended that effect which its action or nOn-acti0n pre- duces.'" Hartley v. Vitiello, ll3 Conn. "A, S2, 154 Att 255.
 RECOGNIZED NECESSITY
 We are to assume that the Leg. islature recognized the vital neces- sity of an incumbent of the of- fee who could act at any and all times. To have created . vacancy to re filled by the mayor would have brought about . situation where the latter Ofilcial could by failure or refusal Co act have prevented or greatly delayed the operation of the elective machin- cry. The specific provisions for instant succession by the deputy when the registrar resigned, seems well calculated to avoid such pos- nlbility. eve cannot assume that g--I.u-I1.. m.m@un4....Aa n- M.A-aE