This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...he votes the number of votes he gives to such candidate iu lieu of a cross, and the form of directions for the guidance of the voter in voting, contained in the Ballot Act, 1872, shall be altered accordingly. c.) The provisions of sections three, four, eleven, and twentyfour of the Ballot Act, 1872, shall be deemed to be regulations contained in this order which involve a penalty within the meaning of section ninety of the Elementary Education Act, 1870. 17. The person presiding at the poll may, and if required by any two voters shall, pnt to any voter at the time of his applying for a ballot paper, bnt not afterwards, the following questions, or one of them, bnt no other: --(1.) Are you the person whose name appears as A. B. on the list of burgesses, being registered therein as being rated, for property described to be situated therein? Here specify the street, &c., as described in the burgess (2.) Have you already voted at the present election 1 And no person required to answer any of the said questions shall be permitted or qualified to vote until he has answered the same. 18. In case of an equality of votes, the returning officer shall determine by lot the persons to be elected. The triennial election shall be deemed to have taken place on the day fixed for such, election. 19. The returning officer shall publish notice of the result of the poll and of the names of the persons elected. He shall also forthwith transmit a copy of such notice to the education department, and deliver the ballot papers to the town clerk, to be Kept for six months among the records of the borough, and section 64 (6) of the Ballot Act, 1872, shall apply as if it were inserted in this order. 20. The expenses of the election and of taking the poll, and the..