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THE ELECTORAL ACT.

AN INTERESTING P.OINT. (B? mKGRAPH—PBBB9 ABBOOIATION.J ■..',' iNVER'dAKGiLL, October 17. The Registrar.of Electors to-day sought direction of Mr Rawsdnj R.M., on the construction of sub-section 2, section 6 of the Electoral Act. A in the colony, but who had been out of it from 1888 to May this year had applied to the registrar to be enrolled on residental qualifications, but the Registrar was of opinion that a year's residence as defined in'the Act must' be the 12 month's before the .statute .came into force. Mr Rawson. decided that 12 months residence may have taken place at any period of life, so long as the applicant was 3 months in.the district in which he desired to register. He therefore instructed the' Registrar to accept the applicants claim...

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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 7661, 18 October 1893, Page 2

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THE ELECTORAL ACT. Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 7661, 18 October 1893, Page 2

THE ELECTORAL ACT. Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 7661, 18 October 1893, Page 2