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of electors, and lists of electors, actual cost not exceeding ten cents for each mile necessarily travelled going and returning;

8. For establishing voting subdivisions, when such divisions have not been made by the local authorities, actual cost not exceeding ten cents for each mile necessarily travelled going and returning.

9. For copies of lists of electors duly certified by the legal custodian thereof, three cents for each ten electors;

10. For each certificate of such custodian, fifty cents;

11. For collecting the ballot boxes and lists of electors used at each poll, and swearing the deputy returning officers after the close of the polling, actual cost not exceeding ten cents for each mile necessarily travelled going and returning.

12. For transmitting returns to the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, including postage and telegrams, actual cost;

13. For use, when a public building is not obtainable, of private building for nomination, actual cost not exceeding four dollars;

14. For ballot boxes, when furnished by him, and for ballot papers, and for any other disbursements absolutely required and not hereinbefore provided for, actual disbursements;

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15. For swearing the poll clerk before and after the polling, one dollar;

16. For his services, four dollars;

17. For services of poll clerk, two dollars;

18. For services of a constable, if considered necessary, one dollar:

19. For mileage of deputy returning officer and poll clerk, in going to and returning from the poll, neither exceeding in any case twenty miles, actual cost, not exceeding ten cents per mile;

20. Actual expenses incurred for the use of polls, not exceeding ten dollars in cities, or four dollars in other electoral districts;

21. For making compartment or screen in the poll house, if necessary, a sum not exceeding three dollars. 38 V., c. 7, s. 301.

458. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may, if he is of Bums for cer- opinion that the fees and allowances above mentioned are not sufficient for the services required in the electoral districts of Gaspé and of Chicoutimi and Saguenay, authorize the payment of such additional sums, as he shall deem just. 38 V., c. 7, s. 302.

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459. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may, if he deems New tariff. the tariff prescribed by article 457 not suitable or sufficient, make a new tariff of fees, costs and expenses, to be paid to the different election officers.

He may also, from time to time, revise and amend such Revision of tariff, which shall be substituted at any election subsequent to tariff. that herein before mentioned.

A copy of every tariff, and of any amendment to any tariff To be submade under this article shall be submitted to the Legislative mitted to Legislature. Assembly at the then next session of the Legislature. 38 V., c. 7, s. 303.

460. Such fees, disbursements and allowances are paid to Payment of the returning officer out of the consolidated revenue fund of fees, &c. the Province, and are by him apportioned among the different officers and persons entitled thereto.

The returning officer shall report respecting such distribu- Report. tion through the Provincial Secretary. 38 V., c. 7, s. 304.

oath.

461. No returning officer, election clerk, deputy returning No fees for officer, or poll clerk shall be entitled to the costs or expenses going to take incurred by him in going to the person before whom he must take any oath required of him. 38 V., c. 7, s. 305.

SECTION V.

FINAL PROVISIONS.

of this act

462. A copy of this act, and of the directions approved by Distribution the Lieutenant-Governor in Council which may be necessary and direcfor the due conduct of elections under this act, with a detailed tions. alphabetical index placed in the beginning thereof, for the returning officer, and one for each of his deputy returning officers, shall be transmitted, together with the writ of election, to each returning officer in the Province. 38 V., c. 7, s. 307.

Directions.

463. The Clerk of the Crown in Chancery may cause to be Ballot boxes made for each electoral district, when the ballot boxes already for elections. made are insufficient for the purpose or have been lost, as many new ballot boxes as shall be required, or may give such directions to the returning officers as he shall deem necessary, to procure ballot boxes of uniform size and pattern, as also in relation to the mode of making compartments in the poll.

Such directions shall have been previously approved by the Approval of Lieutenant-Governor in Council. 38 V., c. 7, s. 308.

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If the cadastre of the municipality have been completed, the description of the immoveable by the number given in the cadastral plan and book of reference will be sufficient.

The list of electors shall be made in duplicate, that is to say: the secretary-treasurer, having correctly prepared and made a clean copy of the list of electors, shall make another exactly similar to the first.

The secretary-treasurer shall take two distinct oaths, one oath on one duplicate and the other oath on the other duplicate. The two oaths shall be taken on the same day.

The secretary-treasurer shall, on the same day, give the notice required by article 186 in the manner ordinarily in use for municipal matters, and at the expiration of the 30 days next after such notice, he shall place at the end of the list on each duplicate the certificate given in the following form.

38 V., c. 7, Appendix, Form A.

B.

FORM MENTIONED IN ARTICLE 202.

I, the undersigned, P. P., Secretary-Treasurer, certify, on my oath of office:

1. That I have given the notice required by The Quebec Election Act, article 186 of the Revised Statutes of the Province of Quebec;

2. That, from the date of such notice, one of the duplicates of the above list remained in my office at the disposal of all persons interested;

3. That this list has been examined (and corrected if it have been corrected) by the Council of this Municipality, within the thirty days next after the said day (date of the publication of notice required by article 186,) that is to say: at the sittings of the Council held on the (days when sittings were held,) and that the corrections (if there were any made) were initialed by B. B., Mayor, (or C. C., Councillor, presiding in the absence of the Mayor, as the case may be);

(or if the list has not been examined,)

That this list has not been examined by the Council of this Municipality within the thirty days after the said day (date of the publication of the notice required by article 186);

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FORM MENTIONED IN ARTICLE 239.

Writ of Election

CANADA

Province of Quebec.

VICTORIA, by the grace of GOD, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith;

To the Sheriff (registrar or other returning officer as the case may be) of the district (or, as the case may be) of

GREETING;

HEREAS, by the advice of Our Executive Council for Our Province of Quebec, We have ordered a Legislative Assembly to be holden at Quebec, on the

day of

preamble in the case of a special election);

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We command you that, notice of the time and place of election being duly given, you do cause election to be made according to law of a Member to serve in the Legislative Assembly of Our said Province of Quebec, for the electoral district of (in case of a special deceased,

election, insert here: in the place of or otherwise stating the cause of vacancy); and (except in the electoral districts mentioned in article 232,) that you do cause the nomination of candidates at such election to be held on the next; and do cause the name of such member, when so elected, whether he be present or absent, to be certified to our Clerk of the Crown in Chancery on or before the

day of

day of

next.

In testimony whereof, We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent, and the Great Seal of Our said Province of Quebec to be hereunto affixed.

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