FRANCHISE

AND

ELECTION LAWS.

A MANUAL FOR THE USE OF REVISING OFFICERS,
MUNICIPAL OFFICERS, CANDIDATES, AGENTS,
AND ELECTORS.

With Supplement

CONTAINING THE AMENDING ACTS OF 1886.
(SEE PAGE 405.)

BY

C. O. ERMATINGER,

ONE OF HER MAJESTY'S COUNSEL, AND MEMBER FOR EAST
ELGIN IN THE LEGISLATURE OF ONTARIO.

TORONTO:

CARSWELL & CO., PUBLISHERS.

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OCT 2

ENTERED according to Act of Parliament of the Dominion of Canada, in the year of our Lord 1886, by Carswell & Co., in the office of the Minister of Agriculture.

THE thanks of the author of this work are due to W. R. Meredith, Q.C., M.P.P., Dalton McCarthy, Q.C., M.P., Hon. L. O. Taillon, Attorney-General of Quebec, Mr. J. B. Abbott of Montreal, Mr. A. R. Creelman of Toronto, and to Judges Hughes, Sinclair, and Macdougall, for valuable hints and assistance received from them in the course of preparation of the work; also to the Attornies-General of the other provinces, for copies of their respective franchise and election acts.

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VII.-Persons who may not be elected, nor sit and vote.

APPENDIX--Miscellaneous Forms.

Resolutions of Quebec Revising Officers.

INDEX.

237

292

307

323

339

349

354

364

368

369