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'FORM MENTIONED IN SECTION 37.

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

1. That I have given the notice required by section 21 of the Quebec Election Act.

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 hus been corrected) by the Council of this Municipality, within the thirty days next after the said day (date of publication of notice required by section 21) 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 publication of the notice required by section 21);

the

4. That the above list of electors thus came into force on day of the month of

eighteen

being the thirtieth day after the (date of

hundred and
publication of notice required by section 21).

Made on both duplicates of the list this

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day of the

P. P., Secretary-Treasurer.

THE

NEW BRUNSWICK

PROVINCIAL FRANCHISE.

CON. STATS. OF NEW BRUNSWICK, CAP. 4 (a).

Qualification of

1. Every male person of the age of twenty-one years or upwards, being a British subject, not subject to any electors. legal incapacity, who shall have been assessed for the year for which the registry is made up, in respect of real estate to the amount of one hundred dollars, or personal property, or personal and real amounting together to four hundred dollars, or four hundred dollars annual income, shall be qualified to vote for Representatives of the County or City for which he shall be so assessed; if there be no assessment for the Parish in any year, then the possession of the qualification shall of itself be sufficient.

2. The County Councillors of each Parish, with another Revisors. person appointed therefor by the County Council, shall be the Revisors for their respective Parishes; provided that where there are three Councillors for a Parish they shall be the Revisors, and where there are more than three Councillors for a Parish the County Council shall select three of such Councillors to be Revisors.

Revisors in Saint

and incorporated

3. In the Cities of Fredericton and Saint John, or any incorporated Town, being in itself a Parish, any three or John, Fredricton more of the Aldermen and Councillors to be appointed in Towns, being each year by the respective Councils of such Cities or.

Parishes.

(a) Only those portions of the statute which relate to the Franchise are here given,

Assessors to furnish Revisors

with Assessment List.

Towns, shall annually revise the list of electors qualified to vote therein at County elections, in the manner and at the times herein prescribed.

4. The Assessors of every Parish shall, on or before the first day of August in each year, deliver to the Revisors a copy of the assessment list for the Parish; or if they have not received any warrant therefor, make out a list of the names of all persons possessed of real or personal estate, or income, in the form following, and deliver it to the Revisors :

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5. The Revisors (b) shall before the first day of September of each year, meet and prepare from the assessment list an alphebetical list of the qualified electors in their Parish, distinguishing the resident from the non-resident, and affixing the place of residence of the non-resident when known, and on or before the first day of September in each year, post up a copy of the said list in three of the most public places in each polling district of their Parish, with the following notice:

"The Revisors will meet at

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in the Parish of

on the twenty-fifth [if Sunday say twenty

(b) A bill was introduced at the session of the Legislature of 1885, which provided among other things for the appointment, by the Lieut.-Governor in Council, of a Revising Commissioner or Barrister for each county, to whom appeals from the Revisors might be had, but the bill did not become law.

sixth] day of October (c) next, at

Revisors to meet

o'clock, A.M., and prepare Elec

to revise the list of electors for the Parish of
and any person claiming to add to or strike off a name
from the list, must give notice thereof, with the cause of
objection, to either of us, on or before the first day of
October next, and also notify every person proposed to
be struck off-Dated the

day of
A. B.

18

C. D. Revisors.'

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toral Lists; no,tice of meeting

to revise list.

posed and time

posted.

6. The Revisors shall, on or before the tenth day of Changes proOctober in each year, post up in the said three most public of hearing to be places of the polling district, an alphebetical list of the persons proposed to be added or struck off respectively, with a notice appropriate to each list, to the effect following:

"The Revisors will on the twenty-fifth [if Sunday, say twenty-sixth] day of October (c) instant, at

the Parish of

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adjudicate upon the propriety of adding (or striking off, in case of striking off,) the foregoing names to (or from) the list of qualified voters. -Dated the

day of October, 18

A. B.

C. D. Revisors."
E. F.

7. The person who proposes to strike a name from the Objectors to no

jected to.

list, shall, on or before the first day of October, give tify parties obnotice in writing to the party objected to, either personally or by leaving it at his last or 'usual place of abode, and shall prove on oath the giving the notice to the satisfaction of the Revisors before they hear the objection.

8. At the time and place appointed, the Revisors shall

(c) By cap. 14 of the Stats. of 1879, s. 1, when the 25th Oct. falls on the same day on which the election of Councillors for any Municipality is to be held, there shall be substituted in the notices provided by secs. 5 and 6 above, the words "twentieth day of October" instead of twenty-fifth day of October."

sent to the Coun*y Secretary.

Revised list to be attend and correct the lists, and shall, with all convenient dispatch, make out an alphebetical list of the resident electors of each polling district of the Parish, and of the non-resident electors, stating the residence when known, and on or before the tenth day of November in each year, transmit the same to the County Secretary.

Firms, members of, may vote; when.

9. The Revisors shall add to or strike off from the list Mode of revision. the name of any person whose qualification or disqualification is satisfactorily proved to have existed at the date of the last assessment, or date of the list to be made up by the Assessors in the event of no assessment, if notice have been given to a revisor of the claim on or before the first day of October, and in case of disqualification, they prove to the satisfaction of the Revisors. that notice in writing has been given to the 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.

Incorrect Lists,

penalty for.

10. If the Assessors neglect to make up and deliver the list, or wilfully deliver an incorrect list, or if the Reneglect to revise; visors 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

Eldon, resident voters of, may

have their names

on List for Ad

dington.

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

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