A.D. 1877. heretofore obtained by the grand jury. The county board shall during each assizes transmit to the judge of assizes any presentments they may have agreed to in the same manner that same have heretofore been transmitted by the grand jury.

Acts of board valid when not complete.

Officers of grand jury transferred

to county board.

Constabulary to post notices.

Corrupt Practices Municipal

Act, 1872, incorporated with Act.

Ballot Act, 1872, incorporated with Act.

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19. In case the full number of board members shall not be elected 5 any election of board members for the time being, or in the event of any vacancy occurring in such county board by the death or disqualification to act of any board member, the other or remaining board members of the said county shall continue to act until the next election, or until the completion of such board, as if no 10 such vacancy occurred, and as if the number of such board were complete.

20. In every county all officers, clerks, barony constables, the present secretary of the grand jury, and all other persons employed in or about the execution of the powers and duties by this Act 15 transferred to the county board, shall, from and after the eighth day of November one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, be attached to and under the control of the county board for such county.

21. The nominating officer shall be entitled to require the con- 20 stabulary of the county in which any election may take place to post all notices required to be given for the carrying out of this Act. 22. The Corrupt Practices Municipal Act, 1872, shall be incorporated with this Act: Provided as follows,—

"Office" includes sheriff, sub-sheriff, and board member.
"Town clerk" includes clerk of the peace.

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Borough rate or fund" includes rate under the sixth and seventh
William the Fourth, chapter one hundred and sixteen.

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Register" includes the different parliamentary voting lists for 30 the polling districts which form any board district.

23. The Ballot Act, 1872, shall be incorporated herewith: Provided as follows,

(a.) In Part III. the expression "municipal" includes county board:

35 (b.) In the application of the provisions of the first schedule of the Ballot Act, 1872, to county board elections, the following modifications shall be made. 1. An order of the civil bill court having jurisdiction in the county or any part thereof, or of any tribunal in which a county board election 40 is questioned, shall be substituted for an order of the House of Commons, or of one of Her Majesty's superior

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courts, but an appeal from such civil bill court may be A.D. 1877.
had in like manner as in other cases in such civil bill
court; 2. Nothing in such schedule with respect to time
to elapse from day of poll to day of nomination shall apply
to a county board election.

The returning officer shall have a similar right to require the use of
any room and of any ballot-boxes, as provided by sections six and
fourteen of such Act for parliamentary elections.

to be dealt with as in

24. The returning officer shall forward all ballot papers and all Ballot papers 10 other documents connected with the election to the clerk of the hanaper office, and transfer in the same manner all such documents as Ballot Act. are directed to be forwarded in contested parliamentary elections by the Ballot Act, 1872, all which documents shall be dealt with and liable to be produced and inspected so far as circumstances 15 admit in the same way and manner as such documents are now dealt with by the Ballot Act, 1872.

constable to assist.

25. The returning officer shall be entitled to require any barony Barony constable in the county for which an election is being held to preside for him at any polling station on payment to him of the sum 20 of one guinea.

Any barony constable neglecting to preside when so required shall be liable to pay to the returning officer whatever sum such officer may have had to pay a deputy to preside in his place. Such sum may be recovered before the chairman of the Civil Bill Court 25 of such county.

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26. All dates in this Act on which matters are ordered to be done Dates to be may from time to time be altered by the Lord Lieutenant, with the altered. advice of his Privy Council, at the recommendations of the county board for the county for which such alteration is made.

27. In every case where any date on which any matter or thing Elections not ordered to be done under this Act shall fall on a Sunday, such to be held on Sunday. matter or thing shall be done on the following day.

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28. The county board shall pay to the returning officer the Returning expenses of carrying out an election under this Act. Such expenses titled to 35 shall not exceed for each polling place in the county the sum of expenses. three pounds.

29. It shall and may be lawful for the county board of each County board county, and such county board is hereby required to present (without to present for previous application to presentment sessions), to be raised off such

40 county, such sum as the returning officer may be entitled to for expenses in carrying out elections under this Act.

expenses.

30. No candidate shall be allowed to employ any paid agent as a No paid canvasser on his behalf. The election of any candidate who employs agents, such an agent shall be void.

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Sheriff returning

officer.

Commis

sioners

31. The sheriff of each county shall be the returning officer for the election of the county board.

32. The following sections of the Commissioners Clauses Act, Sections of 1847, shall be incorporated in this Act, sections 2, 3, sections 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 25, 32, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 48, 49, 5 Clauses Act 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 60, 62, 64, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101: Proincorporated. vided as follows in the above sections: commissioner includes board 10 Vict. c. 16. member; ward includes board district; annual meeting shall mean first meeting in each year of board members after their election. In section 17, for first Thursday of September shall be substituted 10 first of November. In section 20, commissioners shall mean twentyfour elected commissioners.

Lord Lieutenant to

make orders.

Orders to be laid before Parliament.

Meaning of

terms.

Title of Act.

Act may be
amended.
Extent of
Act.

33. The Lord Lieutenant with the advice of the Privy Council in Ireland may and is hereby required on or before the twentieth day of October one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven to make 15 general orders for the purpose of carrying this Act into effect and for regulating the forms and procedure at board elections: Provided always, that in making such general orders regard shall be had to preserving the secrecy of the ballot.

34. All such general orders as aforesaid shall immediately after 20 the making and issuing thereof be laid before both Houses of Parliament if then sitting; or if Parliament be not then sitting, within five days after the next meeting thereof: Provided always, that if either of the Houses of Parliament shall by any resolution passed within thirty-six days after such general orders have been laid before such 25 Houses of Parliament, resolve that the whole or any part of such general orders ought not to continue in force, in such case the whole, or such part thereof as shall be so included in such resolution, shall from and after such resolution cease to be binding.

35. The following words or expressions in this and any Act 30 incorporated therewith, and in any Act mentioned in the first schedule hereto, shall have the several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or the context repugnant to such construction; (that is to say),

Secretary or secretary to general jury includes secretary to county 35 board:

Real property shall include chattels real:

Registry of voters, registry of voters for parliamentary elections.

36. This Act may be cited as the County Board (Ireland) Act, 1877.

37. This Act may be amended or repealed during the present session.

38. This Act shall extend to Ireland only.

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nominate the following person as a proper person to serve as local member for 30 the board district of in the said county for the county

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