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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Butterworths, 1875 - City councils - 276 pages

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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...

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