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in the then current year prior to the first day of July and who to be placed is otherwise duly qualified whose name does not appear on the on voters' list voters' list or who is not assessed on the roll high enough to be qualified as a voter or whose name is put down in error or whose name has been omitted from the last revised assessment roll (provided that the taxes are first paid on the property or income in respect of which he claims a vote) may either by himself or agent apply to have the list amended upon giving to the clerk a notice in the following form:

To the secretary treasurer of the municipality of

Take notice that I intend applying to the council to have my name added to the voters' list (or corrected as the case may be) for the following reasons (here state the grounds according to the facts):

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taken off list

13. If any person qualified as a voter on income has left Names to be the municipality or if a person has disposed of the property for which he was qualified as a voter under this Ordinance before the first day of October in the then current year or if any person's name is wrongfully put down he shall be deemed disqualified as a voter and any person duly qualified may apply to the council to have the name of the party so or otherwise disqualified struck off the voters' list and the name of the proper party if any substituted therefor by notice to the secretary-treasurer of his intention of applying to the council for that purpose as provided in the preceding section. 1897, s. 52.

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14. Notices served upon the secretary-treasurer under the Notice two preceding sections shall be served in each year on or before the first day of November. No. 8 of 1897, s. 53.

15. On or before the fifth day of November the secretary- List for court treasurer shall make a list of all applicants for amendments to of revision the voters' list, stating names and grounds of each of such applications and shall post the same in a conspicuous place in his office and shall immediately thereafter notify the parties interested of the time and place fixed by the council for hearing such applications. No. 8 of 1897, s. 54.

revision

16. On or before the fifteenth day of November in each Date of year the council of each municipality shall meet as a final court of revision on the voters' list and shall hear and determine all applications of which notice has been given to the secretarytreasurer as hereinbefore provided and thereupon amend the voters' list in all cases provided for by sections 12 and 13

Court of revision

Annual elections

Qualification of voters

Proviso as to nonpayment of taxes

Defaulter's

list

Oath of election officers

hereof as may be deemed fit and right and the list so amended shall be the voters' list of the municipality for the year next ensuing. No. 8 of 1897, s. 55.

17. The council sitting as a final court of revision on the voters' list as aforesaid shall have all the powers and privileges conferred by this Ordinance upon the court of revision for the municipality sitting upon the assessment roll, as to the attendance of witnesses and the imposition and recovery of penalties and as to procedure. No. 8 of 1897, s. 56.

18. The council shall at least one week prior to the last Monday in November, by bylaw, appoint a returning officer for the municipality, define the districts or subdivisions within the municipality (if such are deemed necessary) and the place or places where the votes are to be polled, and appoint a deputy returning officer for each of the said places where such votes are to be polled.

(2) The persons qualified to vote shall be the men, unmarried women and widows over twenty-one years of age who are assessed upon the last revised assessment roll of the municipality for income or personal property for $200 or upwards or who are named upon the said assessment roll as either occupants or owners of real property held in their own right or (in the case of married men) held by their wives for $200 or upwards and whose names appear in the voters' list founded upon such roll:

Provided always that a municipality may, by bylaw, declare that no person shall be entitled to vote who has not on or before a day to be named therein paid all taxes due by him to such municipality either for the current year or all arrears of taxes or both. No. 8 of 1897, s. 13.

19. In the municipalities which have passed a bylaw under the provisions of the proviso to the next preceding section on or before the day of nomination of candidates the secretarytreasurer shall prepare and verify on oath a correct alphabetical list of the names of all persons who have not complied with the terms of any such bylaw, such list to be called "the defaulters' list."

(2) Any person named in such defaulters' list may vote if at the time of tendering his vote he produces and leaves with the officer holding such election a certificate from the secretary treasurer of the municipality showing that the taxes (in respect of which default has been made) have been paid; and such officer shall file such certificate, receive the vote and note the same on the defaulters' list. No. 8 of 1897, ss. 14, 15; No. 26 of 1898, s. 1 (6, 7.)

20. Every returning officer, deputy returning officer, poll clerk, candidate or agent authorised to be present at any polling place shall, before exercising any of the functions of such returning officer, deputy returning officer, poll clerk, candidate or agent at any polling place, take and subscribe before a

justice of the peace or the clerk of the municipality an oath in form as follows:

I, A. B., do swear that I will not at any time disclose to any one the name of any person who has voted at the election to be held in the municipality of of

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on the day and that I will not unlawfully attempt to ascertain the candidate or candidates for whom an elector has voted; and will not in any way aid in the unlawful discovery of the same; and that I will keep secret all knowledge which may come to me of the person for whom an elector has voted. So help me God. No. 8 of 1897, s. 16.

notice

21. The returning officer shall, by notice in form A in the Election schedule to this Ordinance, posted up in ten conspicuous places within the municipality and at least six days previous to such meeting, call a meeting of the electors within the same on the first Monday in December for the purpose of nominating candidates for the offices of mayor or reeve and as many councillors as may be required for the term commencing on the first day of January next ensuing. No. 8 of 1897, s. 17.

22. At the time and place named in the notice the return- Nomination ing officer shall declare the meeting open for the purpose of proceedings receiving nominations and any person whose name appears on the last revised assessment roll may propose or second the nomination of any duly qualified persons to serve as mayor, reeve or councillor; and the meeting shall remain open until noon when if the number of duly qualified persons nominated to serve as mayor, reeve or councillors for the municipality does not exceed the requisite number the returning officer shall declare the persons so nominated duly elected, as hereafter provided:

1. As mayor or reeve for the ensuing year, the candidate Term of duly nominated for that office;

2. As councillors, at the first election the three candidates in town municipalities and the two candidates in rural municipalities who shall have been first nominated shall be declared elected for the two years next ensuing and the three candidates in town municipalities and the two candidates in rural municipalities who shall have been next nominated shall be declared elected for the next ensuing year and at each elec tion thereafter councillors shall be elected for a term of two years:

service

consent

Provided always that every nomination for mayor, reeve or Written councillor shall be accompanied by a written consent from the person named in each nomination to accept the office if elected. No. 8 of 1897, s. 18; No. 26 of 1898, s. 1 (8).

23. In the event of more than the required number of such Poll declared persons being nominated for the municipality the returning officer shall declare that a poll will be held in such municipality and name the time (which shall be the same day of the week as the nomination in the next following week), the place

Election notices

Candidates

and the deputy returning officer or deputy returning officers,
as the case may be, appointed to hold the same and the time
and place where the result of such poll shall be declared.
8 of 1897, s. 19.

No.

24. Whenever a poll has to be taken the returning officer shall without any unreasonable delay after the nomination cause to be posted up in at least ten conspicuous places within the municipality a notice in form B in the schedule to this Ordinance. No. 8 of 1897, s. 20.

25. Any candidate nominated may withdraw at any time may withdraw after nomination and before the close of the poll on polling day by filing with the returning officer or deputy returning officer a declaration in writing to that effect signed by himself in the presence of the returning officer or deputy returning officer, a justice of the peace or a notary public and any votes cast for any such candidate shall be null and void. No. 8 of 1897, s. 21.

Hours of polling

Agent of candidate

Direction for voting

Penalty for

26. The poll shall be kept open from nine o'clock (standard time) in the forenoon until five o'clock (standard time) in the afternoon of the same day. No. 8 of 1897, s. 22.

27. Any person producing to the deputy returning officer at any time a written authority to represent a candidate as agent at a polling place shall be recognized as such by the deputy returning officer. No. 8 of 1897, s. 23.

28. Every elector who is entitled to a vote in more than one polling subdivision shall vote for mayor in towns and for reeve in rural municipalities at the polling place or polling subdivision in which he is resident if qualified to vote therein; or when he is a non-resident or is not entitled to vote in the polling subdivision where he resides then where he first votes and there only.

(2) Any person who votes for mayor or reeve after having voting twice already voted for mayor or reeve at some other polling place at that election shall incur a penalty of $50 to be recovered with full costs of suit by any person who will sue for the same in any court having jurisdiction where the offence was committed and any person against whom judgment is rendered shall be ineligible either as a candidate or elector at the next annual elections.

Evidence of voting

Oaths

(3) The receipt by any voter of a ballot paper within the polling booth shall be prima facie evidence that he has there and then voted. No. 8 of 1897, s. 24.

29. At the request of any candidate or his agent or of any elector the following oath shall be administered to any person tendering his vote at such election:

You do solemnly swear that you are the person named or purporting to be named by the name of

on

the voters' list now shown to you; that you have not before

voted at this elec'ion; and that you have not received or been
promised any consideration whatsoever for voting at this elec-
tion and (if the municipality has passed a bylaw requiring all
persons to have paid their taxes to entitle them to vote) that you
have paid all taxes in arrear due by you to the municipality
of
; that you are of the full age of twenty one
years; (if a woman that you are unmarried or a widow). No.
8 of 1897, s. 25.

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30. Every deputy returning officer may by writing under Poll clerk his hand appoint a poll clerk who in the absence of such deputy duties returning officer or on his failure or inability to fulfil the duties required of him by this Ordinance shall have all the powers of such deputy returning officer. No. 8 of 1897, s. 26.

31. The votes at all elections shall be given by ballot in Ballot manner hereinafter set forth. No. 8 of 1897, s. 27.

32. Every ballot paper shall contain the names of the can- Form of ballot didates alphabetically arranged and all ballot papers shall be in form C in the schedule to this Ordinance. No. 8 of 1897, s. 28.

procure ballots

33. The returning officer shall procure or cause to be pro- R. O. shall cured as many ballot boxes as there are polling subdivisions in and boxes the municipality and cause to be printed a sufficient number of ballot papers for the purposes of the election. No. 8 of 1897, s. 29.

ballot boxes

34. The returning officer shall at least two days before poll- Delivery of ing day deliver one of the ballot boxes to each deputy returning officer. No. 8 of 1897, s. 30.

delivered

35. The returning officer shall before the poll is opened Ballots to be cause to be delivered to every deputy returning officer the ballot papers, materials for marking the ballot papers and a sufficient number of printed directions for voting in form D in the schedule to this Ordinance. No. 8 of 1897, s. 31.

36. The secretary-treasurer of the municipality shall supply Voters' list to each deputy returning officer before the opening of the poll a voters' list in form E in the schedule to this Ordinance, containing the names of all the electors at that polling subdivision and a copy of the defaulters' list if any as provided in section 19 of this Ordinance. No. 8 of 1897, s. 32; No. 26 of 1898, s. 1 (9).

37. Every deputy returning officer shall provide a compart- Polling booth ment at the polling place to which he is appointed where the voters can mark their ballots screened from observation, and may appoint a constable to maintain order at the polling place. No. 8 of 1897, s. 33.

38. Every deputy returning officer shall immediately before Proceedings at the commencement of the poll open the ballot box and call such opening of poll

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