Note.-Where a candidate is an Irish peer, or is commonly known by some title, he may be described by his title as if it were his surname.

Form of Nomination Paper in Municipal Election. Note.-[Repealed by 38 & 39 Vict. c. 40, 2nd Schedule.] Form of Ballot Paper.

Form of Front of Ballot Paper.

Note. The number on the ballot paper is to correspond with that in the counterfoil.

Directions as to Printing Ballot Paper.

Nothing is to be printed on the ballot paper except in accordance with this schedule.

The surname of each candidate, and if there are two or more candidates of the same surname, also the other names of such candidates, shall be printed in large characters, as shown in the

form, and the names, addresses, and descriptions, and the number on the back of the paper, shall be printed in small characters.

Form of Directions for the Guidance of the Voter in voting, which shall be printed in conspicuous Characters, and placarded outside every Polling Station and in every Compartment of every Polling Station.

The voter will go into one of the compartments, and, with the pencil provided in the compartment, place a cross on the right-hand side, opposite the name of each candidate for whom he votes, thus X

The voter will then fold up the ballot paper so as to show the official mark on the back, and leaving the compartment will, without showing the front of the paper to any person, show the official mark on the back to the presiding officer, and then, in the presence of the presiding officer, put the paper into the ballot box, and forthwith quit the polling station.

If the voter inadvertently spoils a ballot paper, he can return it to the officer, who will, if satisfied of such inadvertence, give him another paper.

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If the voter votes for more than or places any mark on the paper by which he may be afterwards identified, his ballot paper will be void, and will not be counted.

If the voter takes a ballot paper out of the polling station, or deposits in the ballot box any other paper than the one given him by the officer, he will be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be subject to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months, with or without hard labour.

Note. These directions shall be illustrated by examples of the ballot paper.

Form of Statutory Declaration of Secrecy.

I solemnly promise and declare, That I will not at this election for do anything forbidden by section four of the

Ballot Act, 1872, which has been read to me.

Note. The section must be read to the declarant by the person taking the declaration.

I, the undersigned, being the presiding officer for the polling station for the county [or borough] of

do

hereby certify, that the above declaration, having been first read to the above-named A.B., was signed by him in my presence with his mark.

Provisions of Registration Acts referred to in Part III.
of the foregoing Act.

35 & 36 Vict. c. 60.

An Act for the better prevention of Corrupt Practices at Municipal
Elections, and for establishing a Tribunal for the trial of the
validity of such Elections.
[6th August, 1872.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to make provision for the better prevention of corrupt practices at municipal elections, and for establishing a tribunal for the trial of the validity of such elections:

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Preliminary.

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the "Corrupt Short title. Practices (Municipal Elections) Act, 1872."

2. In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires, the Definitions. following words and expressions shall respectively be construed as follows, viz. :

(1.) "Borough" means a place for the time being subject to the provisions of the Act of the fifth and sixth of William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, intituled "An Act to provide for the regulation of municipal corporations in England and Wales," as amended by the Acts amending the said Act:

Office means the office of mayor, alderman, councillor,
auditor, or assessor, of a borough or ward of a borough:
"Election "" means an election to an office :

"Candidate" means a person elected, or who has been
nominated or has declared himself a candidate for elec-
tion to an office :

"Canvasser means any person who solicits or persuades,
or attempts to persuade, any person to vote or to abstain
from voting at an election, or to vote or to abstain from
voting for any candidate at an election :

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"Register" includes a burgess roll or ward list :

"Voter" means a person included in a register or who
voted or claimed to vote at an election :

"Returning officer" means a person under whatever
designation presiding at an election :

"Election court" means an election court constituted and

acting under the provisions of this Act for the trial of a petition respecting an election :

'Superior court means the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster :

"Prescribed" means prescribed by general rules to be made under the provisions of this Act.

(2.) This Act shall so far as is consistent with the tenor thereof be construed as one with the Acts for the time being in force relating to boroughs and to elections in boroughs.

As to corrupt practices at municipal elections.

Disqualifications of candidates personally guilty of corrupt practices.

PART I.

Corrupt Practices at Municipal Elections.

3. The offences of bribery, treating, undue influence, and personation, shall be deemed to be corrupt practices at an election for the purposes of this Act.

The terms "bribery," "treating," "undue influence," and "personation," shall respectively include anything committed or done before, at, after, or with respect to an election, which if done before, at, after, or with respect to an election of members to serve in Parliament would render the person committing or doing the same liable to any penalties, punishments, or disqualifications, for bribery, treating, undue influence, or personation, as the case may be, under any Act for the time being in force with respect to elections of members to serve in Parliament.

Any person who is guilty of a corrupt practice at an election shall be liable to the like actions, prosecutions, penalties, forfeitures, and punishments, as if the corrupt practice had been committed at an election of members to serve in Parliament.

4. Where it is found by the report of an election court acting under the provisions of this Act that any corrupt practice has been committed by or with the knowledge and consent of any candidate at an election, such candidate shall be deemed to have been personally guilty of corrupt practices at the election, and his election, if he has been elected, shall be void, and he shall (whether he was elected or not) during seven years from the date of the report be subject to the following disqualifications; viz.,

(1.) He shall be incapable of holding or exercising any municipal office or franchise, and of having his name placed on the register, or voting at any municipal election:

(2.) He shall be incapable of acting as a justice of the peace, and of holding any judicial office :

(3.) He shall be incapable of being elected to and of sitting or voting in Parliament :