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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. 
     
    
   
   
    
     SWOrn to the 
     
    
   
   
    
     day of A. D., 186 
     
     M. N., J. P., for County. 
     
     or P. Q., 
     
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     ’ Electors and Freeholders for 
     
    
   
   
    
     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