The Town Councillors & Burgesses Manual: a Popular Digest of Municipal and Sanitary Law, with Information as to Charters of Incorporation, and a Useful Collection of Forms, Especially Adapted for Newly Incorporated Boroughs |
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... mark their votes . It will be convenient so to arrange the room that voters who have marked their papers can reach the ballot box and leave the station without meeting the fresh voters who are entering the stations THE POLL . 29.
... mark their votes . It will be convenient so to arrange the room that voters who have marked their papers can reach the ballot box and leave the station without meeting the fresh voters who are entering the stations THE POLL . 29.
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... mark to be stamped on the ballot paper is to be kept secret . As the mark is to be visible on both sides of the paper , perforating or embossing stamp should be used . Each compartment in the polling station should be supplied with ...
... mark to be stamped on the ballot paper is to be kept secret . As the mark is to be visible on both sides of the paper , perforating or embossing stamp should be used . Each compartment in the polling station should be supplied with ...
Page 33
... mark one of the official ballot papers with the official mark , so that it be visible on both sides , call out the number , name and description of the voter as stated on the burgess roll , enter such number on the counterfoil of the ...
... mark one of the official ballot papers with the official mark , so that it be visible on both sides , call out the number , name and description of the voter as stated on the burgess roll , enter such number on the counterfoil of the ...
Page 34
... mark his ballot paper and fold it up so as to conceal the mark or marks which he has made , and so as to leave the official mark visible on the back , and to take it so folded , with- out showing the front of the paper to any person ...
... mark his ballot paper and fold it up so as to conceal the mark or marks which he has made , and so as to leave the official mark visible on the back , and to take it so folded , with- out showing the front of the paper to any person ...
Page 35
... mark their votes ; ( 3 ) persons unable to read . If a voter declares that he is unable to read , he must make before the presiding officer a declaration of inability to read in the prescribed form ( g ) . This declara- tion must be ...
... mark their votes ; ( 3 ) persons unable to read . If a voter declares that he is unable to read , he must make before the presiding officer a declaration of inability to read in the prescribed form ( g ) . This declara- tion must be ...
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Page 48 - Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person on his behalf, make any such gifi, loan, offer, promise, procurement, or agreement as aforesaid, to or for any person, in order to induce such person to procure, or endeavour to procure, the return of any person to serve in parliament, or the vote of any voter at any election : 4.
Page 52 - ... upon or against any person in order to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting or on account of such person having voted or refrained from voting at any election...
Page 49 - Every person who advances or pays, or causes to be paid, any money to or to the use of any other person with the intent that such money, or any part thereof, shall be expended in bribery at any election...
Page 213 - ... by law, before the poll is closed, to any person any information as to the name or number on the register of voters of any elector who has or has not applied for a ballot paper or voted at that station...
Page 103 - ... within the prescribed time after the notice is given any person who might have been a petitioner in respect of the election to which the petition relates may apply to the Court or judge, in and at the prescribed manner, time, and place, to be substituted as a petitioner.
Page 258 - CD the share [or shares] numbered standing in my name in the books of the company, to hold unto the said CD, his executors, administrators, and assigns, subject to the several conditions on which I held...
Page 50 - Every candidate at an election, who shall corruptly by himself, or by or with any person, or by any other ways or means on his behalf, at any time either before, during, or after any election, directly or indirectly, give or provide, or cause to be given or provided, or shall be accessory to the giving or providing, or shall pay, wholly or in part, any expenses incurred for any meat, drink...
Page 88 - VIII.—When the respondent in a petition under the act complaining of an undue election, and claiming the office for some person, intends to give evidence to prove that the election of such person was undue, pursuant to the 15th section of the act, sub-section (9), such respondent shall, six days before the...
Page 213 - If the voter votes for more than candidate , or places any mark on the paper by which he may be afterwards identified, his ballot paper will be void, and will not be counted.
Page 101 - All interlocutory questions and matters, except as to the sufficiency of the security, shall be heard and disposed of before a Judge, who shall have the same control over the proceedings under the Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868...