We command you that you cause the Act or Acts or parts of Acts in the proposed Act or Acts (copies of which are attached hereto) to be submitted according to law to the electors qualified to vote for the election of a member of the Legislative Assembly for the Electoral Division of AND we appoint the following dates for the purposes of the said submission: 1. For taking the votes of the electors In testimony whereof, we have caused these our letters to be made patent, and the Great Seal of our said Province of Saskatchewan to be hereunder affixed. Witness our trusty and well-beloved Lieutenant Governor (or Administrator) of our Province of Saskatchewan, at our City of Regina, the day of in the in the year of our Lord 19 year of our reign, and (By Order)... Clerk of the Executive Council. FORM B. PROVINCE OF SASKATCHEWAN. The Direct Legislation Act. BALLOT. Submission of a proposed Act (or an Act or part of Act, as the case may be) entitled (here insert title) to electors. Direction to Voters-The voter shall indicate his vote as follows: If he approves of the proposed Act (or said Act, or part of Act, as the case may be) he shall make a cross in the square opposite the word "Yes." If he does not approve of the proposed Act (or Act, or part of Act, as the case may be) he shall make a cross in the square opposite the word "No." Question. Do you approve of the proposed Act (or do you approve of the said Act or part of Act, as the case may be) (here set out the title of the proposed law or the title of the said Act, as the case may be). YES. NO. FORM C. In the Matter of The Direct Legislation Act: I, ested in and desirous of obtaining an affirmative (or a negative, as the case may be) answer to the question stated in the ballot , do solemnly declare that I am inter 1912-13 CHAPTER 3 An Act to submit to the Electors the Question of the Adoption of The Direct Legislation Act. H1 [Assented to January 11, 1913.] IS Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the 1. On a day in the year 1913 to be fixed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council the question of the adoption of The Direct Legislation Act passed at the present session of the Legislature shall be submitted to a vote of the electors of Saskatchewan. 2. For the purpose of taking such vote the Lieutenant Governor in Council shall appoint a returning officer in each electoral division and shall issue his writ to such returning officer returnable upon such date as shall be stated therein. 3. The persons entitled to vote upon the said question shall be the persons entitled to vote at an election of members of the Legislative Assembly. 4. For the purpose of taking the said vote all the provisions of The Saskatchewan Election Act respecting the election of members of the Legislative Assembly shall subject to the provisions of this Act and of any regulations that may be made by the Lieutenant Governor in Council pursuant hereto apply mutatis mutandis to the conduct of the proceedings on the taking of the said vote. 5. The voting shall be by ballot and each voter shall indicate his vote by marking it on the ballot in accordance with the directions given therein: Provided that when more than one Act or proposed Act is being voted upon a separate ballot shall be prepared for each said Act or proposed Act. 6. The ballot shall be in the form A in the schedule hereto, with such variations as are necessary. 7. The ballots shall be prepared by the government printer and shall be forwarded to the returning officers in sufficient number for each electoral division by the clerk of the Executive Council together with such forms, notices and instructions as the Lieutenant Governor in Council may prescribe. 8. Every returning officer shall by writ ng under his hand, appoint from among the applicants for such appointment or on behalf of persons applying to have such appointments made, two agents to attend at each polling station, and to act as scrutineers at the final summing up of the votes on behalf of those desirous of obtaining an affirmative answer to the question and two agents to so attend on behalf of those desirous of obtaining a negative answer, but no such agents shall be entitled to any remuneration from the province. (2) Before any person so appointed enters upon his duties as agent he shall make and subscribe before the returning officer or any deputy returning officer an oath to the effect that he is interested in and desirous of obtaining an affirmative or negative answer, as the case may be, to the question, which oath may be in the form B in the schedule to this Act. (3) Every person so appointed, before being admitted to the polling station or to the final summing up of the votes, as the case may be, shall produce to the deputy returning officer his written appointment. (4) In case no person has been appointed as aforesaid to attend at any polling station or at the final summing up of the votes or in the absence of any person so appointed, any electors not exceeding two in the same interest may upon making and subscribing a declaration to the above effect before the deputy returning officer or the returning officer, as the case may be, be admitted to the polling station or to the final summing up of the votes as agents on behalf of that interest. (5) Whenever it is provided in The Saskatchewan Election Act that anything may or shall be done in the presence of or by the candidate or his agent such provision shall as applied to proceedings under this Act be taken to refer to agents appointed in the manner aforesaid. 9. The result of the poll shall be ascertained by scrutiny to be conducted by the deputy returning officer in the presence of agents, if any, appointed in the manner hereinbefore provided. (2) The scrutiny shall commence as soon as practicable after the closing of the poll. (3) All the proceedings at the scrutiny shall be subject to the inspection of said agents. 10. At the scrutiny the following things shall be done: (a) The ballots shall be examined as they are taken out of the ballot boxes and shall be either allowed or rejected; (b) All spoiled ballots shall be rejected and their number recorded, and they shall be placed in a separate parcel which shall be sealed up; (c) All allowed ballots shall be counted and a record of them taken, when all affirmative ballots shall be placed in a separate parcel and sealed up and all negative ballots shall be placed in a separate parcel and sealed up; (d) The deputy returning officer shall forthwith after completing the scrutiny of the ballots forward to the returning officer the sealed parcels of ballots, together with a statement showing: (i) The number of votes in the affirmative. (ii) The number of votes in the negative. (iii) The number of ballot papers rejected as spoiled. 11. A ballot shall be spoiled if : (a) It is not authenticated by the initials of the deputy returning officer; or (b) It has no vote indicated on it: or (c) It has more than one vote indicated on it, or (d) It has put upon it by the voter some mark or writing not authorised by this Act to be put upon it which would enable any person to identify the voter. 12. Each returning officer after he has received from each deputy returning officer a statement showing the voting on the ballots taken from the ballot box opened by him shall indorse on the writ a statement certifying in relation to the votes given at the polling places in or for his electoral division: (a) The number of votes in the affirmative; (b) The number of votes in the negative; and (c) The number of ballots rejected as spoiled; and shall within ten days after the holding of the vote transmit the writ as indorsed together with all sealed parcels of ballots to the clerk of the Executive Council. 13. The clerk of the Executive Council shall prepare a statement from the returns indorsed on the writ so returned to him a statement of the number of votes in the affirmative, of the number of votes in the negative and of the number of ballots rejected as spoiled, and shall sign the statement and shall publish a copy of the same in The Saskatchewan Gazette within thirty days after the taking of the vote and the statement so published shall be conclusive evidence of the result of the vote. 14. In case the majority of the votes polled are in favour of the bringing into force of the said The Direct Legislation Act and the number of votes so polled in favour of the said Act is not less than thirty per centum of the total number of votes named upon the voters' lists in Saskatchewan, the Lieutenant |