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Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Te

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New Series.---No, 20

Legislative Council Chamber, Weoxespay, April 11, 1860.

ESOLVED, That the further consideration of the Bill R intitaled * An Act to repeal certain parts of the Act consolidating the Election Laws, and to make other provistons in lieu thereof,” be delayed until the next ensuing Session of the General Assembly; and that in the meantime tt published onee im the Islander and Examiner newspapers, te made knowa to the public.

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so that its provisions may By order, « J. BARRETT COOPE!

Clerk of Legislative Council.

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An Act to repeal certain parts of t i i . } ake solidating the Election Laws, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof, yy the Act passed in the nineteenth year o!

the reiga of her present Majesty, intituled Au Act to increase the number of members to serve in the Genera! Assembly, and to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Elections,” is oftentimes violated by persons exercising the elective franchise more than once in the one Town or District at the same Election, and also by persons presuming to vote without the qualification intended by the said Act;

and it is necessary to provide against such frauds on the

Law:

I. Be it therefore enacted, by the Lieutenaut Governor, Council and Assembly, that the ninth, nineteenth, twenty- first, twenty-third, twen seventh, twenty-eighth, thirty-first, seventieth, and eightieth sections of the above recited Act, also the Schedules, A, B, and C. thereunto annexed, be, and the same aye hereby repealed. i

IL. And whereas Princetown, although intended, by the original plan or design by which this Island was laid off into Gounties and Townships, to be the C rief Town of Prince County. has never as yet become inhabited, and the advan- tages possessed by the Village or Sottlement of Summerside on Township Number Seventeen, as a Port for St ain Navi- gation, aod for al! commercial purposes, a3 wel: as the grow- ing increase in its trade, and number of its inhabitants, render it better adapted than Princetown as a site for the chief Town in the said Vounty: Be it therefore further enacted, that so mach and such parts of the hereinbefore recited Act as authorizes the owners and occupiers of Neal Estate in Prinectown and Royalty, or Township Number Kightcen, or the several Islands in Richmond Bay, or other persons resident therein, to return Mem'ers Assembly, to represent the said Town aud Royalty, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

Ill. Princetown and Royalty, together with Township Royalty senener, Gn78 “an | - 7 the Fowe aud Roya = 0! Number Highteen aforesaid, and the severa! Islands in Rich.) * fPee! ae =e frosts in tae Cond fide use au I oupation mond “Bay, shall be attached to, and shall hereafter ae | OF Stem ees vty cirscet Meedypeess Poe seo : srenouse, shop, deemed and taken as part of the Third Electoral District of | °F other buil 11ng, ' any ‘arm, or re sti my oe 1, or et Prince County ; and ali persons owniag or occunying Real Town, Common or R yal bia Island, save and exce) Estate, and all residents in the said own or Royalty, or *% ® wresaid, of the clear yearly vaiue of forty sti 8 Township Num'er Exyhteen, or on the Islands aforesaid, r ros led every persona claiming 0 ¥ale under eenar of the shall be entitled to vote for Members to represent the said | regoing property qualiications, ehall have owne: oF pos- Taisd Electoral District in General Assembiy: Provided | 8e8-e4, or been in the use aud occupation of, the eame, for always, that such per-ous shail, at the time of voting, be - a . . on a 4 — relma eee , daly qua Ged in manner by aw requ red fue E ectors of the} @' 8S Writ for ce ran we vs ” ss a eae saii ibied Destriet of Primee Coanty. such male perom 8 al he ontithed to vé ta meres 1 for

LV. tere shall be one poling Division for Prinectow my Klecto: al strict. who men ow * " ahs a ant Roy.ity, and Township Nu uber, Kighteen, and the trechuid estate, ur Wau sia be Wy ine some on se nM Is ands sforesaid s and the Poli shail be held at or near | Ove ipation, or actaal pos-ession of, and in, ane ee Og | Be jamit Woods de's; and such polling D v si m shall de | er sR 7 ad : rae = 7, ets deemed the Fourth Polling D.vision for the Third Electoral |? ( oe . with'n such 5 ectoral eng District of Vrinee Cou ity. yearly value of { ty saniiings I urthly : -Kivery such

i persou shall be entitled to vote, as aforesaid, for any

7. Township N umber Seventeen shail he $ parated irom |

the Third Electoral District of Prince County, and shal) not

hereafer be deemed to be within, cr part of, the said Elec- tora! District; nor shall amy place of Polling for the sata Third Kiectoral District be held on said Township Nu nber Seventeen ; nor shall any person, by reason of ho.ding a

property qualification on said Township Number Seventeen, or by reason of his having resided thereon, be entitied vote for members to represent the said Tuird Elect trict in the said General Assembly; and so much of t hereinbefore recited Act of the General Assembly as here- tofore authorized or prescribed Townsh p Number Seventeen to be part of the said Third Electoral District of Prince County, or the Electors of said Township, to vote for Mem- bers to represent the said Third Electoral District of Prince County in the Genera! Assembly ; and so much of the said recited Act as is contrary ‘0, or inconsistent with, this Act. in such respects as this Act constitutes Township Number Seventeen aforesaid, a separate Electoral District,—shall be, and the same are hereby repealed

Vi. The Village or Settlement of Summerside, togethe: with all other parts of said Township Number Seventeen, ghall hereafter be represented as one Electoral District in the General Assembly of this Island, by two members, to be qualified, clected, and returned in manuer provided, and sub- ject to the enactments and regulations prescribed in the said recited Act for the election and return of members of Asseiu-

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bly for Hlectoral Districts in the said Island; and said 2 :

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Township Number Seventeen shall be deemed and knows as the Fifth Electoral District of Prince County; and there shall be one polling Division for the said Fifth Electoral District; and the Poll therein sha!! be held, as heretofore, at Saint Lleanor’s.

VIL. Wherever the words “ Electoral District.” or Elee- toral Dis‘ricts,” or “ District,” are, or is expressed in the

| Sixty-seven ; and such part of Township Number Twenty-two’ | qual fi

on the said south side of the Prineetown Road as aforesaid,

against fraudulent conveyances and bribery, contained in

cation oath, applicable to such elector; and the oath!a Return she

!] be luwfully made thereon, or attached there- to; nor shall it be neeessary to prove the signature of the

i shall hereafter be deemed to be part of the Fourth Polling | Schedules A, B, and ©, to this Act annexed ; and the Sheriff| said Colonial Secretary, or of his said Deputy, to any such

he Act con- | Polling Division shall comprise and i

to the General | except, as aforesaid, of the clear yearly

hereinbefore recited Act, in a general sense, and not as re-|

ferring especially to any one or more particular Electoral pessession of, and | | Distriet or Districts, such words shall be deemed, and taken improved farms, and other pice s of land, the annual rent | to mean ond include Township Number Seventeen, as consti- | whereof doth not in the who! > att te tuted an Electoral District by this Act; and also to mean unless otherwise provided for it might happen that the/p oreinbefore recited Act, publish other and include Princetown and Royalty, Township Number) amount of rent payable by them in such Fighteen, and the said several Islands in Richmond Bay, as withsta constituted parts of the Third Electoral District of Prince possession, by ar

lerected thereon, woud uot entitle vot ng. thereiore every person who shall be in possession fied; which advertisements shall be (or as near as may b

Coun y by this Act. os : VIiL. Aud whereas the Polling places ia divers Polling

Te : ; = Divisions of several of the Electoral Districts in this Island, of or entith as established by the hereinbefore recited Act, have been other piece of land, wh iments thereon, would be | pounds, whether the annual rent reserved or payable therefor

found inconvenient to the electors respectively interested therein, and it is necessary that the same should respectively be changed to the places hereinafier expressed: Be it therefore enacted, that the Polling place of the First

Division of the Sccond Klectoral District of Prince County member or members to serve in: the : emb! ichard Wood’s, ou the Town, Common and Royalty, or Electoral D strict w

shall, in fature, be held at or near Ki Township Number Eight ; Division of the said Secon County : u's, Bridge o» Township Number Thirteen. In ihe Third Klee- toral District of King’s County the Poll for the Third Poll-

the Poll for the Third Polling in the same may be situate: very } ; te nalihe “ec Hnire d Electoral i istrict of Prince | such person shall, in other respects, be qualified, as required

ball, in future, be held at Allan MacLean’s, near the | by this Act,

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(that portion of Townsh

male

shall claim to vote twelve calem teste the Returning Oficer, if required so to do by him,

Candidate, a receipt or cei tifi:ste in writing, subserib the name of the Overse Oity Taxes, for the precinct wher vote testifying to the effect, tha all such statute labor, or pata al! such commutation money, ax by within twelve months next be ef election.

fication shall be owned or occupied by joint tenan

occupants,

trade, then not more thane one of either of such description | 9, elections b

on behalf of any Candidatepat any ele

standing.

XL. In the Seeond Electoral District of King’s County there shall. in future, be four Polling Divisions, the first o! which shall comprise Township Number Thirty-eight, and the Poll shall be held at or near Qarey’s, at Saint Andrew’s,

ion the said Townshin; the seeond Polling Division shall

° .: r ‘ nyt . } comprise and include Township Namber Thirty-nine, and all » Namber Forty, south of Sunt shall be held at or near Saint Number Thirty-nine; the Third , .. aa a ae nelade Townships Num- bers Forty-one and Forty-t vO, an i that p iriion of Township Saint Peter’s Bay, and the Poll

Peters Bay; and the Poll Peter’s Mills, on Townshi;

Number Forty, noith of shall be held at or near Sutherland’s, Head Bay, on said Township Division shall comprise Township N

Poll shall te beld at or sear Coonahan’s, at the Cross Roads, |

on said Township. XLL. So much, and such part of the hereinbefore recited

of Saint Peter’s wty-one; and the Fourth Polling | and disabilities as persons convicted of wilful and corrupt | umber Fifty-six, and the | perjury are or may be

| Division of the First Electora! District of Queen’s County,| or other Officer presiding for taking the Poll is hereby —anything in the said recited Act to the contrary notwith- |

| authorized to administer such oath, | XVIII. Any person, being a Quaker or Moravian, when- ever an oath is required by this Act, shall be permitted instead of such oath, to make his solemn affirmation o: declaration.

XIX. If any person shall wilfully, falsely, and corruptly take any of the oaths or affirmations appointed and required by any of the provisions of this Act, and be therefor lawfully convicted by Indictment or Information; or if any person shall corruptly procure or suborn any other person to take the said ouths or aflirmations, or guy of them, and the

person so procuring or suborning shall be thereof convicted | by Lodictment or Ln‘o: mation, every such person so offending | y of wilful and corrupt perjury, and shall for

ence incur and suffer such penalties, forfeitures |

’ 1 nil shall be guil

every such o

liable to.

XX. Every elector, qualified to vote for the Town or Eectoral District in which he resides, shall vote at any Election in such Town or District in the Polling Division in

‘ ‘+ eae . i ’ a | } > . Act as prescribes that there shall be three Polling Divisions whic h he resides, and not elsewhere; and the oath of quali

in the Second Klectoral District of King’s County, and what Townships shall be comprised in each of such divisions, and

the places of holding the Poll therein respectively, shall be,

and the same is hereby repealed,

XILLL. Every maie person of the age of twenty-one years J } ) J

and upwards, being a British subject, and not subject to any

twenty-fourth, twenty-sixth, twenty- legal incapacity, and who shalj be also qualified by any one the Polliug Division in wh

or more of the severe] qualifications hereinafter next cnumer- ated, shall be entitled held, for the election of a member or members to represent in the General Assembly of this [sland the Town, Common, ind Royalty, or Electoral District wherein his preperty qualification shall be situate, o ng otherwise qualified by

to vote at any election hereafter to be

r bei

have resided twelve ea!endar

for said election, i

shal! the teste of the writ fo ~~ , ee Se t ) . 1) 5

rst:—Every such male person saall be

any Tow#, and the Common

this section, wherein he months next before that is to say: Fi

entitled to voie as af>resaid for

and R yalty thereof, save and except the Town and Royalty |

of Princetown, who shall own, or be entitled to a freehold estate of, and in one whole Water Lot, Common Lot, Town

ot, or Pasture Lot, situate within such Town, or the Com- mon or Royalty e entitled to a freehold estate of,

; thereof, or who shall own, or b and in any dwelling house, warehouse any ‘farm or piece of land, within

any Town, Common or Royalty in this Island, ] +

y value of forty s

shop, or other building, or

2: . 8 save and hil- Secondly :—Every such male person shall be entitled x any Town, and the Common and

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to vote, as aforesaid, f

ows, Common and R 5 ity, ctoral District

who, beiag liable to perform on the pub.lc roads, shall have actually performed the same, or shall have .: : sal } f , Lites

‘OIntnu ed his said statute labo: r money, and di y pa

the Saipe ; or who, being otherwise =o i ibie, sna bes eC aii

exempted therefrom by statute, on account of holding any

iffice, situation, or employment: Provided always, that every D persou claiming to vote by virtue of his statute labor qualiiee

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tion. shal! have resided in the Polling sion in which h

r mouths next veiore Link

: a a ; . ia co : ot the aforesaid writ of elec lon, and shall produce to

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opposing Candidate, or the Lepresentative of any opposing

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tute Labor or Collector o!

er of Stat in such person Clautmiog to resided for twelve months as aforesaid,

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person hath duly periormed

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liable to perform or pay, at any time ore the teste of the said writ

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law he became

a property quali- } or $ Or copartners in

XLV. Where the premises constituting y 8

tenants In common, coparcenet

as 1 : , | P . le walnea > facte dual interest thercin shall be of the yearly value of forty

Tv, - temporary absence for any pericd not exceeding

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XVI. And whereas there are many persons who are in

entitled to, leasehold estates in valuable amount to forty shillings, and cases, not- thstanding the increased va'ue of the estates in, their improvements and buildings made and them to the rizht o! leasehold estate in, and to a farm, or ch, with the buildings and improve-

to a

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; . ; © of the fee simple value of thirty-five

shall or shail not amount to forty shillings, shall, at any | ing euch el Polliag | eleetiom.hereafter to be holden, be entitled to vote for a |

the General Assembly for bere- Provided always, that every

shall be questioned by, or

XVII. Whenever any elector etiov hereafter to be

. =e . : . da 4 a . se al Ss ie ing Division therein shall, in future, be held at or near j.j4) such elector, if he claims to vote on account of property.

Grand River Bridge. In the Fourth E'ectoral District of | .4)) truly describe the same, and where it is situate ; and if,

f persons respectively shal! vote thereon, unless their indi- |

electors by this Act

fication to be administered to, an ut elector, When required, shall be the oath in the Schedule

) \ to this Act annexed, applicable to the nature of his quali-

fication. XXI[. Every elector, qualified to vote in any Town or ectoral District in which he do:s not reside, shall vote in ich the property on which h os LT > fat 7 . claims to vote for such Town and Royalty, or Electoral Dis-

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trict, is sttuate, and not elsewhere; and the oath of qualifi-|

cation to be admin:stered to, and taken by every such non- resident elector, in this section mentioned, when req tired as herein previded, shall be the oath coata

B, to this Act annexed | XXII, If any elcctor, being thereunto required, shall | refuse to take any of the oaths in this Act appointed to b

vr ' le elect the

taken, or either of them, or to affirm

then the poll or vote of such ;

to tl reot, erson shall not be taken; and and void ;

|jected ; and if any Presiding Officer or Poll Clerk shal! ‘neglect or refuse, when thereunto requested, as afvresaid, to ladminister any oath or affirmation to any ele:tor in a com- potent state of mind to take any such oath or affirmation, or shall

oe . as ' by GeciareG null and shal! be re-

the same is hers

otherwise offend in the premises, contrary to the true ntent and meaning of this Act, every such Presiding Officer or Poll Clerk shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a

'sum not exceeding ten p

unds XXIII. The clear yearly value in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth sections of this Act mentioned, shall be esti-|

vated by the value of agricultural or other produce which j } ak ie all ‘ le » he LO « ' 1 wel

he land or property actually yields, or by the annual value | , , 1 - 1 i

if the buildings thereon ere

XXIV.

’ , . Whenever any Sheriff or any election to be is

Returning Officer, at A ae

held under this Act, has reason to know or

elieve that frauds and violeuce are being practis€d. in yio- uee of the rights of electers, by which undue vores sre tendered, or that uby voter is not qualified, or hae alr sad) voted at the said election, and offrs to vote again, or tenders 13 vote under a fulse name or d + ‘allo 1, OF pr rsonutes, or re-ents bimse!f falsety, as beisg du!y qaa ified to vote, it 3 ho the duty of such Sherifap Netucmeg Olieer, under enalty of ten ounds curreacy, to administer tbe oath « yiths authorized DY this Act, {0 sun voter whether be be reauived so to do by avy party or net, of wiich mexiion shal:

» made on the Poll Book.

XXYV. fi any person shall s'eal, or unlawfully or mili- ciously, either by violence or stealth, take from ary Sher fi or Returning Odicer or Poil Clerk, or from any other person | having the lawful custody ther or trom its taw!ui place of leyosit for the time being, or sha uuiawluliv or malicou ly destroy, injure or obitterate, o ise to be wiifuliy or ma- iclously destro , lajured or obliterated, or make, or cau o be ma-e, any erasure, addition of names, or interlineation { names, in, to, or upon, or shall aid, counsel or assist, in $9 stealing, taking, destroying, injuring, or obliterating, o1 in making any erasure, addition of names, or interlineation f names, in, to, or upon, any Writ of Elcetio y Re

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yf OK, certificate, or

turn toa Writ of

affidavit, or

.) a? ob i) 7? ke ec:iedn, or aby Poll bb

} , any Other GoOcuinent or paper, Made, prep ired

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or drawn out, according to, or for the purpose of meeti re jul einents this Act, or any of them, ee ee as i

iil be guilty of fe shall t the discretion of the Sapreme Court, to be im- isoned for any term not exceeding two years; and in addi-

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vary a} > every fuca ofenie

lony; and being convicted thereof,

0;

yy } ¢ a oe iind.e, a

pr tion to such imprisonment, if the Qourt shall so think fit, to be fined in such sum as the said Court shall award. XXVL. Whesever any vacansy or vacancies shall happen

in the House of Assembly, from any cause mentioned in the . i if the hereinbefore

recited Act, relating to the Eleestion Laws, the Election or Elections to be held to supply such vacancy er vacancies, shall not, in any manner, affeet the rights of any person or | pt rsons who may be entitled to contest the previ us election or at which the person or persons Whose seat or seats shall ay have been returned ; the report of any Election Committee, appoint d to try s election, shall determine whether the member

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yt ent

| have been so vacated, m and jsuch previ ‘or members, whose seat or seats shall have so become vacant,

three calendar months from the Town and Royalty, or Elee- ‘or any other person, was duly retarned or elected thereat, toral District, in which any person may be qualified to vote | which determination, if adverse to the return of such member on a property qualification, shall wot exclude such person | or members, and in favor of any other candidate, shall avoid from the right of voting.

'the said previous clection; and the candidate deciared duly elected at, the ]

-vicus election shall be entitled to take his ‘fp ' , } seat, aS 11 bo sucu suvsequeut ei

ant cud

n had been held. XXVilL. Every Sheriff shall, at the time he shal! adver- tise the holding of the Poll or Polls, as prescribed by the advertisements, des- cribing in subs'ance the qualifications that are required of| —the penalty for voting or attempting ) pting ce at such election, and for voting unde:

yithout being quali \

to vote more than on z

a false or fictitious name, or for voting wi

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in the form in the Schedule to this Act annexed, marked D; and such advertisements shal! be posted up at not less than

a aes

hundred yards of the hal bhva

five conspicuous places, within thre> respective places in each Polling Division appointed for hold-

Q ction,

XXVIII. In all cases of scrutiny or investigation of votes, under the hereinbefore recited Act of the nineteenth | year of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter twenty -one, | afier prima facie evidence, given by the party objecting to! any vote or votes, sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt of | the validity of any such vote or votes, the bugthen of proof

to establ onthe party to “the scrutiny in whose behalf such vote or| votes were polled, | XXIX. Upon every trial for perjury or other misde-

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King’s County the Poll for the Second Polling Division | jj¢ property for which he elaims to vore shall be held under | meanor, and in every prosecution for any penalty or other |

therein +vall in future be held at or near Dentuer’s, Cross | jeyse or agreement, for a lease by paro!, or in writing, the punishment for any breach or violation of this Act, wherein ancual rent payable for the same; and if freehold, or if he|it may be necessary to give evidence of the holding of an claims to vote on the ground of use and occupation, or pos- | Sheriff's Court, or any Hlection,or the opening, duration session thereof only, as hereinbefore mentioned, the estimated | closing of avy Sher.ff's Court or Poll tor the election of any yearly value thereof; and if he claims to vote because he! member or members of A-sembly, or of any particular fact | shail be liable to perform statute labor, or because, being which shall have transpired at any such Court or Election, it!

Roads, 0» Township Number Sixty-three.

1X. So much and such parts of Section Namber Four, of the said hereinbefore recived Act, as prescribes a polling place to te held at or near Care's, near the Boundary iine berween Lowoships Numbers seven and E ght; also at or near Barlow's Mil's, Town-hip Number Tweive ; also at or near Donatd Macdona d's, head ot Narrow’s Creek, Town-inp Number Vifiy-five ; aso at or near the Sehoo house, norih enl of Mink River Kvad, on Township Number Sixty-ove, shall be, und the same are hereby repealed

X. Al! electors residing on Township Number Twenty- two, ou the south side of the Princetown Road, and al!

property qualificaion thereon, ou the suid south side of the said Road, shall, in fuiure, poll their v tes at the polling piace preseribed in the said recited Act, to Le held at or

pear the Church, Anderson's Road, on Township Number

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| otherwise so liable, he is specially exempt by any Act o: shali not be necessary to produce the Writ of Election, or}

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| specify where, or in waat Towa and R ryalty, or

the General Assembly from performing the same, he shall Road Dis- trict he is, or would be liab e to perform sah labor; and il exempt therefrom, the srounds of such exemption, aud ali the particulars of such clam to vote, as aforesaid, according to the circumstauces of the cise, suall be takem down ia the

electora not residing en the sail Township, but having «| Poll Book, and shal! be conclusive against every saeh clec-

ior; and every Candidate against whom the vote 18 given,

vote to be marked * o! jected,”

be sworn, and to have administered to him the elector’s}majters recite: in the Sherf’s Return to such Writ, where! such vote.

y} 7 | or |

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of the pali: notices required ly law for the opening or | | holding of such Court or K.ection, but the said recited facts | way be proved by the parol te-t.mony of the Sheriff, or K -| lrurning Odlicer, or Poll Cierk, or other ercdible wiiness or, | witnesses,who can tstify to vhe fact ; and a copy of the Writ, ‘of Election, and Sheriff's Return thereon, where such revirn | i shall be made, certified under the sea! of this Island, and the ‘uame of the Colonial Secretary, subseribed by bimself or his|

ny

or his substitu:e, may object to sach elector, and direct his | lawful Deputy thereto, shall, ia like manner, be of itaelt | and als» cause the elector to | sufficient evidence of thesaid Wait of Election, andOf the| veyed to you fraudulently, on purpose to qualify you to give

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|town, and which vote is ly this Act

d taken by, every such resi- |

ued in the Schedule | |

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; have not polled, or giver a vote for any Candidate at this Elec

| place of your abode is

certificate, so accompanied by the seal of the said Island, XXX. All penalties and forfeitures imposed by this Act |

in the eighty-second and eighty-third sections of the hercin- | before recited Act relating to the Eleetion Laws.

XXXI. Nothiog in this Act shall have any force or effect until her Majesty’s‘ussent thereto shall be made known, and notification thereof’ published in the Royal Gazette news: | ver of this Istand; for until the expiration or dissolution

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SCHEDULES TO WHICH THIS ACT REFERS, SCHEDULE A, (No. 1.)

Oath to be administered to an Elector claiming to vote as a\

Freeholder for the Town, Common or Royaliy, in which he re- |

sides, saving and excepting the Town dnd Royalty of Prince |

‘equired lo be polled in the |

Polling Division in which the Elector resides.

You,

A.B, do swear that you are by law qualified to vote at this fle

ction for the Town, Common and Roya'ty of in nght of, and as owner of one whole (Town, | Common, Pasture or Water) Lot, (name which) or in right of and as owner of a freehold estate, consisting of and of the yearly value of forty shuillin -s (as the case may be), | which bas now been entered in the Poll Book, as designated by | you; and that you have not polled or given a vote for any Candidate at this E ection within this or any other Polling Di vision; and that the place of your abode is n the Polling Division of ‘he Town &c , of and is, according to the best of your j kaowledg 1 belief, within tus Polling Division. So help you God. |

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TY Y > Tr EDL LE A, (N J. 2.)

Oath lo be administered to an Elector claiming to vote as a} Lona fide occupier, or aciual possessor of a building or land, of the yearly value of forty shillings, for the Town, Common or |

; Gc., (save and excep: the Tow? d yC., (Save and excep: the Lown anc

Lf perdre have rTesiccs,

Royalty in whi Royalty of Princetown.) You A. B., do swear that you are by law qualified to vote ar | this Election forthe ‘Town aad Royalty of inrigat of your use and occupation, or actual possession, held in good faith of (a dwelling house, warehouse, shop, or other building, or any farm or piece of land, as the case may be) ihe yearly value of forty slillings, which has now been iby you; and that you

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entered in the Poll Book, as designated

von, within this or any other Polling Division; and that the |

in the | Polling D.vision of the Town, &c., of and is | according to the test of your knuwiedge and belief, within this | Polling Division. So help you God.

tr > TTT ‘ Tr ° SCHEDULE A, (No. a.) Oath to be administered to an Elector claiming to vote as a eholder for any Electoral District in which he resides, and | wich voteis by this Act requir:d to be polled in the Pol ing | Division in which ihe Elector resides. { You, A.

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B3., do swear that you are by law qualiSed to vote at the Kiectoral District of onaty, la right of, and as owner of a freehold estate, consist-

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lity Of aud of the yearl; vatue Gf forty shillings, which has now been entered in th: Poll Book, as des grated by you, and that you nave hot p stle«

or g veu a vote for any Candidate at this Election, within this |

many other Polling Division ; and that the place of your abode | 1s he Klectoral District of County, | s, according to the best of your knowledge and belief,

wiihin Unis Polling Division. So help you God.

ee coe | SUHEDULE A,(No. 4) | Oath to be administered to an Elector claiming to vote as an |

vccupier, Gc., for any L’ectoral District in which he resides, |

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d which voteis ry this Jct req red to be poucd an the Poiling Division tn which the Elector resides.

You, Jaw qualifiedto vote at this Mlee Electoral Dis . in right of your use and occupation, or actual posses- sion, ield in good fanh of (a dwelling house, warehouse, ehop, r building, or any tar.n, or of land, as the case of the yearly value of forty shillings, which has now din the Poll Book, as designaied by you; and that you have not polled or given a vote for any Candidate at this Kiection, within this or any other Polling Division; and that

A. B., do swear that you are by tion for the rict of County or ot! it piece may ‘ve )s

poen ettere

the place of your abode ts in the

iiectoral Dustrict of County, and is, according to

the best of your knowledge and belief, within this Polling |

Division. So help you God. SATIN w — -& SCHEDULE A (No. 9.)

Oath to be administered to an Elector claiming to vote in right of a Statute Labor qualification, or Statute priv for any | ‘own or Electoral District in which he resides, ana A vote} is by thes Act reguired to be poiled in the Polling Division in which the Elector resides.

You, A. B., do swear that you are by law qualified to vote at thes Election for the Town, Common and Royalty of wr for the Electoral District of County, as the case may be) in the County of iy 7" and that you duly performed your statute labour on a | public road or highway, or paid the commutation money pre- sertued by law in lieu thereof, for the year ending in the month | of Jast or present. according to the Overseer’s | certificate in writing now delivered into my possession ; and |

ihat you are the person nemed in the said certificate. 7}

(If the voter be an Overseer of highways, schoolmaster, or other person specially privileged by law from performing statute labor, then, in place of the above words between the hands, |

ting that he duly perfurmed statute labor repeat bere as foul- | Jaws, nainely:) By reason of your situation or office of

heid by you during the time specified for the per- | formance of statute labour, and exempting you therefrom ; and | that you have not polled or given a vote fur any Candidate at this Eection, within this or any other Polling Division; and that the place of your abode ts in the Polling Division of the Town, &c , (or in the Electoral Dis- trict of County, as the case may be), and is, aceording | to the best of your knowledge and belief, writin this Polling So heip you God. |

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SCHEDULE B. Oath to be administered to an Elector claiming to vote in any Town or Electoral District in which he does not reside, and which vote is required to be givenin the Polling Division wherein his qualification is situate. You, A. B., do swearthat vou are by law qualified to vote | at this Election for the Town and Royalty of or | iectoral District of (as the |

case may be). 10 the right of the property and title which nave row been taken down in the Poll Book, and read to you; and that, according to the best of your koowledge and belief, the |

as ° ie i 28 ee oe i vs Pollins ‘ . ‘ vin | ish such vote or votes to be good and valid sha!l lie | S#:d proper'y hes inthis Polling Division; and that you have |

not been polled or given a vote for any Csndidate at this Klec-

non, either in this Polling Division or any other Polling

| Division, in this Town and Royalty or Dis rict (as the case may

be), and that the place of your avod+ is not witvin tos biec- vral District. Sv help you God. |

SCHEDULE ©. |

Oath against Bribery and against fraudulent Conreyances, to be adaunistered alike, when required, to ali classes of voters. | You A B, do swear that you have not received, or had fo | yourself, or any person whatsvever, iM trust for your use and benefit, directly or indirectly, any sum of money, office, cr emp oyment, or gift, in order to give your vote et th 3 Kiection for ihe Town and Royalty of or the Electoral District of (as the case may be ;) | and that you have not before been polled, or given a vule for any Candidate at tie said Eiection, for this Town and Royalty, | or Electoral District, (or otherwise, as the case may be ;) and | that your place of abode is at (if ed tue voter Claims to vote on a property qualification here add | further)—and thatthe property in respect of which you |

claim tv vete at this Elecuon hath not been granted or con-

So help you God.

SCHEDULE D. ELECTION POLL NOTICE. The qualifications of voters for members in the Honse of

| Assembly, as required by the Act of the twenty-third year of

the reign of her present Mojesty, chapter are in