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tion, acetmling to the form of the Schedules of this Act annexed, or as near thereto as the circumstances ofthe case permit, and which said Schedule shall be signed and sworn to by sucl. Elector, before the presiding Officer, at any such Polling llivision “here such Elector may now be entitled to vote, as afore- said.

Ill. Every Presiding Officer is hereby required to swear every such Elector, claiming to Vote, as aforc~ said, to the truth of the matters Contained in such Schedule, upon the same being produced, to such Presiding Officer; and the Presiding Officer shall sign his name to the foot of the jurat thereof; and the Poll Clerk is hereby required to enter the name ofsuch Elector, claiming to Vote as aforesaid, in the Poll Book, together with the Candidate’s name, for whom such vote may be given, in such place in the said Poll Book, as the Presiding Officershall direct, or in like manner as special Votes are, at the time of the passing ofthis Act, usually recorded.

IV. Every Presiding Officer shall, after the clos- ing of the Poll in his Polling Division, and before making his Return to the Precept, for taking such Poll, take and subscribe the following Affidavit, which Affidavit shall be written, or partly printed and" partly written, and sworn to before any Justice ofthe Peace for the County, or any two Electors of the Town and Royalty, or District, being Freehold- ers, who are hereby authorized, and, on request, re- quired to administer:

“I, A. B., Presiding Officer for Polling Division, in the Electoral District in the County of (or Town and Royalty of ) do sol- emnly swear that the Schedules of Special Votes of C. 1)., E. F., G. H., and I. K., were sworn to be- fore, and filed with me, as such Presiding Officer, for the said Polling Division, pursuant to the Statute; and that no further Schedules of Special Votes, oth- er than those set forth, were sworn to before me, or filed with me.” X. Y., Presiding Officer.

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day of A. D., 186 M. N., J. P., for County. or P. Q., R. S.

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V. Every Presiding Officer, after he shall have taken the Oath in the last preceding Section pre- scribed, shall enclose and seal such Schedules, toge- ther with his said Affidavit, in a parcel or packet, se arate from the Poll Books, and shall endorse them “ Schedules ofSpecial Votes;” and shall Sign his name, underneath such endorsement; and shall, forthwith, transtnit said parcel or packet, so sealed and endorsed, as aforesaid, to the Sheriff of the County, from whom such Presiding Officer shall have received his precept.

VI. The Sheriff shall keep the said Packets of Special Votes unopened, until the same day of the week next after that upon which such poll shall have been held; and the Sheriff shall, upon such day, in his office, in the presence of one or more persons, Openly break the sealed Packets of Special Votes, and shall transmit such Schedules in a sealed packet,

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(‘tltlnl‘s‘t'd “ St‘ltt'tlttles‘ 'll‘Sllt‘(‘litl \thlt‘e—A. liq Site!" Itfol~ ('ounty ” to the Sheriffs of the Counties wherein the property «pialilication may be situated, upon which such \‘utt't‘s claim to vote, and shall rc- seal and enclose, asalorvsattl, the Schedules 0f SUCll Voters, whose l’l‘opettf.‘ qualification shall be situated in the County ofsueh Sheriff.

Vll 'l‘lie Slierifl'sltall keep the Schedules ofSpe- cial Votes unopened, until the re-assembling of his Court, on the day to which the same shall have been adjourned, and then he shall openly break the seals of the Packets of Special Votes, re-sealed by him, as aforesaid, as also the packets containing the Spe- cial Votes, transmitted to him by the Sheriffs of the other Counties; and he shall then proceed to add such Special Votes to the Poll Books, inlike manner as he is now directed to add the Special Returns thereto, previously to declaring the state ofthe Poll. Prov1ded always, that it shall be the duty of the Sherifl‘to adjourn his Court to such a time, that at least three clear days shall have elapsed since the day in which the Packets of Schedules of Special Votes were opened and transmitted, as aforesaid.

VIII. At any scrutiny or investigation of Votes, which may be held under the provisions of any Acts ofthe General Assembly ofthis Island, any Special Vote polled in manner herir. before required, may be scrutinized in such manner as, in such Acts. may be directed; and every such Special Vote may be so scrutinized, althUgl] it may not have been marked “ objected,” in the Sheriff’s Poll Book.

IX. Any Presiding Officer, who shall refuse to swear any Elector to such Schedule of his qualifica— tion to vote, as aforesaid, or who shall neglect or delay to return such Schedules of Special Votes to the Sheriff, before the. same day of the week next after that upon which such poll shall have been held, as hereinbefore directed, or who shall alter, vary, or destroy such Schedules of Special Votes, shall be liable to an action for damages, at the suit of any party aggrieved; and shall also forfeit for each and every such offence the sum ofFive Hundred Pounds; and shall also forfeit the further sum ofFifty Pounds for every day, after the said day, during which the said Schedules of Special Votes shall not be returned, and made to the Sheriff, as herein required, together

‘with costs of suit.

X. Any Sheriff who shall neglect or refuse to open any Schedules of Special Votes, which may be in accordance with this Act, transmitted to him by any Presiding Officer, or to transmit the same, as here- ~ inbefore directed, or shall alter, vary, or destroy any of such Schedules of Special Votes, or who‘shall ne- glect or refuse to add such votes to the Poll Books, as hereinbefore directed, shall be liable to the like pains and penalties as are hereinbefore given against any Presiding Officer, in the last preceding Section.

XI. Ifany person shall wilfully, falsely and cor— ruptly take any ofthe oaths appointed and required by any ofthe provisions ofthis Act, and be thereof lawfully convicted by Indictment or information; or if any person shall corruptly procure or suborn any other person to take the said oaths, or any of them, and the person so procuring or suborning shall be thereofconvicted by indictment or information, every