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A. V. SPENCE Acting Chief Clerk Acting Clerk Administrator aforesaid Agent Agricultural Credit Society Agricultural Superintendent allowed Amending amount appeal application appointed assessment authority of Section ballot paper behalf Bequia British candidate chargeable claim Clerk of Councils close season Commissioner Committee Cotton Protection Ordinance cotton seed meal Court Credit Societies Ordinance day of March declare deduction DENNIS ARCHER deposit duties election electoral district ended 31st December fees fumigated Gaugers gauging Gazetted Ginnery Government Governor Governor-in-Council hereby Honour ROBERT WALTER Honour's Command Income Tax Ordinance interest Island of Saint Jany Kingstown Legislative Council liable lists loan notice of objection Order in Council paid parcel parish payable payment polling station presiding officer Proclamation profits purpose Registrar registration officer registration unit Regulations resident respect returning officer Rules Saint George Saint Michael Saint Vincent Schedule Secretary seed cotton Signature Stamping or verifying surety thereof tion Treasurer Trustees United Kingdom voter
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Page 73 - paper may, on delivering to the presiding officer the ballot paper so inadvertently dealt with, and proving the fact of the inadvertence to the satisfaction of the presiding officer, obtain another ballot paper in the place of the ballot paper so delivered up (hereinafter called a spoilt ballot paper), and the spoilt
Page 72 - shall then retire to a table apart, but within the polling station, and having secretly marked his vote on the paper, and folded it up so as to conceal his vote but so as to show the official mark at the back, shall place it in the ballot box in
Page 75 - any of such candidates to be declared elected, the returning officer, if he is a registered elector of the electoral district for which the election is held, may give such additional vote ; but the returning officer shall not in any other case be entitled to vote at an election for which he is the returning officer.
Page 72 - In the case of a poll at an election the votes shall be given by ballot, The ballot of each voter shall consist of a paper (in this Proclamation called a ballot paper) showing the names and description of the candidates. Each ballot paper
Page 73 - presence of the presiding officer, after having shown to him the official mark at the back. The voter having voted shall forthwith leave the polling station. The presiding officer, after having delivered to the voter a ballot paper, and while the voter is recording his vote, shall make
Page 76 - At the time of presentation of the petition, or within three days afterwards, security for the payment of all costs, charges and expenses that may become payable by the petitioner— («) to any person summoned as a witness on his behalf, or
Page 75 - officer shall report to the Governor the number of ballot papers rejected, and not counted by him, under the several heads of— 1. Want of official mark, 2. Voting for more candidates than entitled to, 3. Writing or mark by which voter could be identified,
Page 76 - allegation of corrupt practices, and specifically alleges a payment of money or other reward to have been made by any member, or on his account or with his privity, since the time of such return, in pursuance or in furtherance of such corrupt practices, in which case the petition may be presented at any time within twenty-eight days after the date of such payment.
Page 75 - if it appears to the tribunal having cognizance of the question that the election was conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in this
Page 76 - be to an amount of one hundred pounds; it shall be given either by recognizance to be entered into by any number of sureties not exceeding four, or by deposit of money in the Treasury to the credit of the petition to abide the order of the Court, or partly in one way and partly in the other.