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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XIII, 15 November 1854, Page 3

be preserved by him as long as it shall remain in forca, open to the inspection of any elector at reasonable times, on payment of one shilling. 14. The polling place or places shall be at aome convenient place in the town of Nelson, to be specified by the Returning Officer, and at ancb other convenient places as the Returning Officer shall from time to time by public notice appoint. 15. The Returning Officer shall be the Resident Magistrate, or such other person as the Superintendent may from time to time appoint. 16. When and so often as any vacancy shall occur in the Board of Trustees, the remaining or continuing Trustees shall signify the same to the Superintendent, and the Superintendent shall, by proclamation in the Government QaMettt of the Province, appoint some day (not being less than thirty nor more than sixty days after the date of such notice), on which day aome person or persons, duly qualified and re* gistered as aforesaid, shall be elected to fill up such vacancy during the remainder of the term of the continuance of such Board, and no longer. 17. The writs for the election of members of the Board of Trustees, and of Auditors, shall be issued by the Superintendent under bis hand, and shall be directed to the Returning Officer, and shall state the number of days within which auch writ shall be returnable to the Superintendent. 18. The Returning Officer shall endorse on the writ the day on which he may have received it, and shall appoint polling places, and fix the day on which the voting, if necessary, shall take plate, and shall- give not less than fourteen days' public notice thereof respectively. 19. On the day of nomination so to be fixed as aforesaid, the Returning Officer shall preside at a meeting, to be holden at noon, at such place in.the town of Nelson as shall be ap. pointed for that purpose by the Superintendent, and shall declare the purpose for which such meeting is held. 20. And if at Buch meeting there be no more candidates proposed than the number of Trustees or Auditors to be returned, the Returning Officer shall declare such candidate or candidates to be duly elected, and shall make his return accordingly. 21. In the event of there being more candidates than the number to be elected, the Returning Officer shall call for a show of hands separately in favour of each candidate, and after such show of hands shall declare the person or persons on whom the election has fallen, and shall return the same accordingly, unless a poll be demanded by one of the candidates, or by not less than three electors on his behalf. 22. On such demand as aforesaid being made for a poll, the polling shall be taken on the day so to be fixed as aforesaid; the voting to commence at any time after nine o'clock of the said day, and to close at four o'clock in the afternoon of the same day. 23. The polling shall take place before the Returning Officer, or his deputy, and the voting shall be conducted in the manner following, that is to say — 24. Every elector may vote for any number of persons not exceeding the number of persons then to be chosen, by delivering to the Returning Officer, or his deputy, a voting paper, containing the Christian names and surnames of the persons for whom be votes, together with their places of abode and descriptions, and signed with the name of the elector so voting, and setting forth his own place of abode and description, and the number of votes to which he is entitled. 25. No inquiry shall be permitted at any auch election as to the right of any person to vote, except only as follows, that is to say — The Returning Officer, or his deputy, shall, if required by any elector, put to any voter, at the time of his delivering in of bis voting paper and not afterwards, the following questions, and no others :— 1. Are you the person whose name is signed as (A. B.) to the voting paper now delivered in by you ? 2. Are you the person whose name appears as (A. B.) on the roll of persons entitled to vote under the Nelson Trust Funds Act, now in force ? 3. Have you already voted at the present election r And po person required to answer any of the aaid questions shall be permitted or qualified to vote until he shall have answered the same, the first two affirmatively, and the last negatively. 26. Aa soon as conveniently may be after the voting for the election of members of the Board of Trustees or Auditors has closed, the Re. turning Officer for each polling place shall declare the state of the poll, and shall, as soon as conveniently may be, transmit a certified copy of the same to the principal Returning Officer, and auch principal Returning Officer, as mid as he has received from the several Returning Officers for each polling place certified copies of the state of the poll at each polling place, shall openly declare and publicly notify the names of the persons who may have been duly elected at such election, by a majority of the votes of the whole province, to be members of the Boards of Trustees, or to be Auditors, aj the case may be; and in the event of the number of votes being found to be equal for any two or more candidates, such' principal Returning Officer shall, by his casting vote, declare which of the aaid candidates shall be elected, but anch principal Returning Officer shall not vote at such election except in the case of an equality of votes as aforesaid. 27. The name or names of the person or persons so elected v numbers of the Board of Trustees, or as Auditors, shall be inserted in or indorsed upon the writ by the principal Returning Officer, and such writ shall be returned