QUALIFICATION OF ELECTORS. Persons who cannot be Electors. LXV. The following persons can in no case be electors, Persons who can or vote: (1.) The judges of the court of the Queen's Bench and of the county court, and the recorders of cities; (2.) Clerks of the crown and peace, registrars, sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, and clerks of the county court; neither be electors nor voters. ed from voting. (3.) Indians or persons of Indian blood, receiving an Persons excludannuity from the crown, so long as said Indians or persons of Indian blood receive such annuity; and if any of the persons set forth in this section vote, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars, or Penalty on perto imprisonment for a period not exceeding twelve entitled to vote. months in default of the payment of the penalty imposed, and his vote shall be null and void. 38 V. c. 2, s. 11. sons voting not A 14 make oath that to the best I, rect and according to law, and that nothing has been entered thereon or omitted therefrom unduly or fraudulently. So help me God. of my knowledge and belief, the list of electors above mentioned is cor THE BRITISH COLUMBIA PROVINCIAL FRANCHISE. (a) AN ACT TO MAKE BETTER PROVISION FOR THE QUALIFICATION AND REGISTRATION OF VOTERS. [Assented to 19th May, 1876.] HER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows: Act 1. The "Qualification and Registration of Voters Act, Repeals former 1875," shall be and is hereby repealed. at Elections for 2. Every male of the full age of twenty-one years, not who may vote being disqualified by this Act or by any other law in Legislative Asforce in this Province, being entitled within this Pro-sembly. vince to the privileges of a natural-born British subject, having resided in this Province for twelve months, and (a) By sec. 9 of the Dominion Franchise Act, besides the persons who are entitled to be registered under that Act, every person who at the time of the passing of the same : (1) Is of age and not disqualified; (2) Is a British subject, resident in the Province, and entitled to vote by the existing Provincial laws, is entitled to be registered under the Dominion Act. Only those of age when the Dominion Act was passed (20th July, 1885), and otherwise qualified at that date can qualify under the Provincial Act to vote at Dominion elections. If they cannot so qualify they must do so under the provisions of the Dominion Act. By this arrangement no one is disfranchised who has hitherto voted, while the gradual adoption of the franchise as in the Dominion Act is provided for, for Dominion elections. Who may be electéd a mem lature. in the Electoral District in which he claims to vote for. two months of that period immediately previous to sending in his claim to vote as hereinafter mentioned (b), and being duly registered under the provisions of this Act, shall be entitled to vote at the Election of a Member or Members of the Legislative Assembly: Provided that no person shall be entitled to be registered as aforesaid, who shall have been convicted of any treason, felony, or other infamous offence, unless he shall have received a free or conditional pardon for such offence, or have undergone the sentence passed upon him for such offence. 3. No person shall he capable of being elected a Member of the Legis- ber of the Legislature who shall not be duly registered or entered on the Register of Electors for some Electoral District of the Province according to the provisions of this Act at the time of his election, and who shall not have been resident within this Province for one year previous to the date of his election; and no person shall be capable of being elected a Member to serve in the Legislative Assembly who shall be a Minister of any Religious Denomination, whatever may be his title, rank, or designation. Who shall not vote at elections Polling Divisions 4. No Judge of the Supreme Court or of the County Courts, no Stipendiary Magistrate, no Constable or Police Officer, Sheriff or Deputy Sheriff, or Returning Officer, except in cases to be hereafter provided, shall be entitled to vote at any election of a Member of the Legislature. (See 46 Vic. c. 34, s. 2). 5. It shall be lawful for the Lieutenant Governor in Council, from time to time, to fix a polling place or polling places in each Electoral District; or, if in the opinion of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council it is advisable, to (b) Under the Dominion law however non-resident owners may be registered, and may vote; See Dom. Fran. Act, s. 3, subs. (3); and sec. 4, subs. (3). See also Act of 1875, post; also Dom. Fran. sec. 2, "Person,"; and sec. 11, subs. (c), ante. divide any Electoral District into any number of Polling Divisions, and to assign to each such Polling Division a polling place, in such manner as to enable each voter, so far as practicable, to have a polling place within a convenient distance of his residence; and such polling places and the boundaries of such Polling Divisions shall be proclaimed in the British Columbia Gazette; and every such Polling Division to alter and vary, as in his discretion he may think fit. sions now estab tinued. 6. The existing Polling Divisions shall be deemed to Polling Divibe Polling Divisions established by virtue of this Act, lished to be conand shall be continued as such Polling Divisions until altered or varied by the authority hereof. 7. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council shall appoint Appointment of Collector, and for each Electoral District, or for any Polling Division of his duties. such District, as may be required from time to time, a person to be Collector, and the duties of such Collector shall be as follows: (a) He shall furnish to any one applying for the same, any of the first three forms in the Schedule hereto, without charge: (b) To receive from any person offering the same, a no tice of claim to vote in the Form A in the Schedule (c) After such name shall have been inserted for two |