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Notice to Sorters. 1. Before the sorting for any count begins, look at the notice on the notice-board and ascertain exactly what you have to do. 2. This will be in every case to sort the papers given to you, by the Assistant Returning Officer or one of his assistants, according to the next available choice after the candidate named in the notice. At the first count the sorting should be done twice by the same sorter, or by two different sorters, as the 3AR.O. may direct. No informal paper should escape this count. 3. In ascertaining the next available choice disregard any candidates who have been declared elected or have been excluded. A. B. C. D. Burns. Burns. 3 Burns. Burns. Byron. 2 Byron. 7 Byron. 5 Byron. Carlyle. Carlyle. 8 Carlyle. Carlyle. 2 Dickens. 5 Dickens. 5 Dickens 3 Dickens. Milton. 6 Milton. 2 Milton. Milton. Ruskin. Ruskin. Ruskin. Ruskin. 4 Scott. Scott. Scott. Scott. 1 Shakspere. I Shakspere. .1 Shakspere. 1 Shakspere. 3 Tennyson. 3 Tennyson. 4 Tennyson. 2 Tennyson. 5 Thackeray. 4 Thackeray. 6' Thackeray. 4 Thackeray. For instance, if Shakspere, Dickens, Thackeray, and Tennyson have been elected and Byron has been excluded, the next available choice after Tennyson is-—on voting-paper• A, Scott; on paper B, Milton ; on paper C, Carlyle. Put each paper into the pigeonhole for the candidate who is next available choice. 4. Put any informal or doubtful papers into the pigeonhole for informal papers. These are to be taken to the Returning Officer or his Assistant. 5. Put any " exhausted " papers into the proper pigeonhole for exhausted papers. These are to be taken to the Assistant Returning Officer. A voting-paper is " exhausted " when there is no candidate opposite whose name a number is placed, other than those already elected or excluded. For instance, paper " D " is exhausted (see paragraph 3) after Tennyson. 6. Give the papers of the several candidates who are the next available choices to one of the supervisors for delivery to the proper counters. 7. See that no papers are left in the pigeonholes, or on your table, or on the floor near your table.

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