party objected to within the same period. When a firm is assessed in respect of property or income sufficient to give each member a qualification, the several persons composing such firm shall be inserted on the list.

10. If the Assessors neglect to make up and deliver the list, or wilfully deliver an incorrect list, or if the Revisors neglect to revise the list so delivered, or wilfully transmit an incorrect list, for every neglect or wilful delivery or transmission of an incorrect list, each Assessor or Revisor so contravening this Chapter shall pay a fine of eighty dollars, which any person may recover with costs, and each day a list is delayed shall be a separate contravention hereof.

11. Any duly qualified voter resident in the Parish of Eldon, in the County of Restigouche, and possessed of a freehold estate situate in the said Parish of the value of one hundred dollars, may have his name placed on the list for the Parish of Addington in the following manner,—such voter shall, on or before the twenty fifth day of October in each year, make and subscribe before the Revisors of the Parish of Addington, or one of them, the following affidavit under oath, which oath the said Revisors or any one of them are hereby authorized to administer :

"I, A. B., do hereby make oath and say I am a British subject of the full age of twenty one years, I reside in the Parish of Eldon, in the County of Restigouche, and am possessed of a freehold estate therein of the full value of one hundred dollars, and that I am not subject to any legal incapacity."

And such Revisors shall thereupon add the name of the voter to the said list before transmitting the same to the County Secretary, and such person shall be dealt with as if he was a resident elector of Addington.

12. The Sheriff of the County shall on or before the tenth day of December in each year, attend at the office of the County Secretary to ascertain the non-resident and resident electors who may be qualified to vote in more than one Parish, and the Secretary shall, under his direction, make a copy of the list of each polling district, with the name of any nonresident elector marked as such, who may have selected that poll. He shall make an alphabetical list of the remaining non-resident electors. Whenever a non-resident elector shall

notify the Sheriff in writing of his selection of a particular poll, his name shall be inserted and continued in the list of that poll until he become disqualified, or direct otherwise. If it appear by the list that a resident elector of any Parish is returned qualified to vote in any other, his name shall be only inserted on the list of the polling district in which he resides.

13. The list shall be made up and signed by the Sheriff, and deposited with the County Secretary on or before the twenty fourth day of December in each year, and shall be the Register of electors for the County for which they are so made for the year commencing with the first day of January following; and the County Secretary shall send a copy of the list for each polling district to the Clerk of the Parish for which such poll is held, on or before the thirtieth day of December in each year, for inspection by any elector.

14. If from any cause the Register of electors for any polling district is not made up in any year, the register last made up shall be used in its stead for the purpose of elections.

15. The list of electors for the City of Saint John shall be revised and corrected by the Aldermen and Councillors at the time herein prescribed, and the Common Council may regulate the same by bye laws not inconsistent with this Chapter; and the name of every freeman of the City not included therein, assessed in the sum of one hundred dollars, shall be added to and inserted in the list, and when it is corrected, and an alphabetical list of every Ward or polling district made up, it shall be signed by the Mayor, filed with the City Clerk, and be the Register of electors for the said City.

16. The Revisors shall have power to summon witnesses to attend at the time and place appointed, to give evidence as to the qualification or disqualification of any person, and to administer an oath, and examine the parties and such witnesses on oath; and every person so summoned who shall neglect to attend without good cause shewn therefor to the Revisors, or attending shall refuse to be sworn or give evidence, shall be liable to a penalty of twenty dollars; and every witness attending shall be entitled to receive the same fees and travelling charges as witnesses attending before Justices of the Peace in civil suits, to be paid by the person at whose instance the respective witnesses may be summoned.

17. The County Council shall allow the Sheriff, County Secretary, Warden, Assessors, Revisors, and any other person required by them to assist in preparing the Register of electors, a reasonable compensation for their services, and any necessary expenses incurred, and charge the amount thereof on the County funds.

18. Every Writ of Election shall be issued by the Provincial Secretary, and have forty days at least between the teste and return thereof, and be delivered to the Sheriff to whom it is directed, who shall immediately after the receipt thereof, indorse thereon the day of the receipt, and within six days thereafter, and at least ten days before the day of opening the polls, cause public notice, by handbills, to be posted up in three or more of the most public places in each Parish of the County, stating the time at which he shall hold his Court, for opening the Election at the Shire Town, as also the day and places at which the poll shall be taken, if demanded, which shall not be less than three nor more than six days after the day of holding his Court for opening the said Election; and in the County of Gloucester shall be the Monday next after the day of holding such Court; the Sheriff shall give the like notice to two or more of the Constables of each Parish.

19. On the day appointed for opening the Election, the Sheriff shall open his Court at the County Court House, between the hours of ten and twelve o'clock in the forenoon, and shall read the Writ and take the following oath, to be administered by a Justice, or any two electors of the County:

"I, A. B., do swear that I have not, directly or indirectly, received any money, office, employment, gratuity, or reward, or any bond, bill, or note, or promise of gratuity whatsoever, either by myself or another, or to my use or advantage, for appointing any presiding officer to superintend the polling, or any Clerk, or for making the return at this Election, and that I will, in all things to be done by me in this Election, act impartially and according to law, and return the person having a majority of votes."

20. The Sheriff shall then administer to the Clerk whom he shall appoint to assist him in the election, and to keep the check list at the County Court House, the oath prescribed hereafter for the respective Clerks. The Sheriff

shall keep his Court open until two o'clock in the afternoon, during which time the names of all the candidates who shall offer, or be handed in by one or more freeholders of the County, and who shall, when required, have qualified, shall be entered in a general poll book under his direction. If no poll be demanded, he shall proceed to the election by a show of hands, and declare the members chosen, close the election, and make his return. If a poll be demanded, he shall grant the same, and immediately make public proclamation of the time and place at which the polls shall be taken in the several Districts of the County, and then adjourn the Court and further proceedings in the election until some day within three days after the day fixed for taking the polls.

21. No person shall be capable of being elected a Member to serve in the Assembly, or of sitting and voting therein, who shall be a Minister, Priest or Ecclesiastic under any form or profession of religious faith or worship whatever.

22. No person shall be eligible to be a candidate, or capable of being elected or returned as a Member to serve in the Assembly of this Province, or capable to sit and vote therein, who holds any office connected with the collection or protection of the Revenue, or holds the office of Deputy Surveyor of Crown Lands, or Supervisor of Great Roads, or Postmaster, Registrar of Deeds, Judge of Probates, Registrar of Probates, or Clerk of the Peace, or of the Crown, or of the Pleas, or of the Circuits, or Equity side of the Supreme Court, or of any County Court, or of the Circuits in any County.

23. No contractor with or under the Government, nor any surety of such contractor, shall be capable of being elected or sitting in the House of Assembly while such contract is subsisting, or such person has any interest therein.

24. No Commissioner, Appraiser or Arbitrator to investigate, adjust, settle or determine any claim, matter or difference between the Government of this Province and any person therein, or the Government or subjects of any other Colony, or to investigate or inquire into the management or affairs of any Public Institution in this Province, shall be capable of being elected or of sitting in the House of Assembly.

25. Nothing in the last two preceding Sections shall be

held to apply to Members of the House of Assembly who are Members of the Executive Council.

26. No person being a Member of the Senate or House of Commons of Canada, shall be capable of being elected to or of sitting and voting in the House of Assembly.

27. No person holding or accepting any office, commission or appointment in the service of the Government of the Dominion of Canada, with a salary or emolument directly or indirectly attached thereto, by whomsoever to be paid or allowed, or howsoever payable, shall be capable of being elected to or of sitting and voting in the House of Assembly while holding such office, commission, or appointment.

28. Nothing in the last Section contained shall disqualify any person holding a Commission in the Militia or Volunteer Militia of the Dominion of Canada, if otherwise not disqualified.

29. A person capable of being elected a Member of the Assembly shall be a male British subject of the age of twenty one years or upwards, and for six months previous to the teste of the writ of election have been legally seized as of freehold for his own use of land in the Province of the value of twelve hundred dollars over and above all incumbrances whatever charged upon or affecting the same; and any candidate at any election shall, if required by any other candidate or any elector, or the Sheriff, make before the Sheriff the following declaration :-

"I, A. B., do declare and testify that I am a British subject of the age of twenty one years, and that I have been duly seized as of freehold for my own use of lands in this Province for six months previous to the teste of the writ of this election, of the value of twelve hundred dollars over and above all incumbrances charged upon or affecting the same, which are known, distinguished and situated in the [here particularly describe the Parish and County, or different Parishes and Counties where the lands comprising the qualification are situate, with the number or other specific description, by boundaries of the lot or lots.]"

30. The candidate, or any elector for him, may make and subscribe the declaration in the presence of a credible witness, and transmit it to the Sheriff, or it may be made on behalf of the candidate by an elector in presence of the Sheriff.