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32. The voting shall commence at nine of the clock in the forenoon, and shall finally close at four of the clock in the afternoon of the same day.

33. At the close of the Election the Returning Officer shall ascertain the number of votes given for every person whose name shall appear upon the Voting Papers, and shall make out a list of such persons, shewing the number of votes given for each, and distinguishing the Wards for which such votes shall have been given.

34. The Returning Officer shall immediately publish such list as aforesaid, and forthwith forward a copy thereof to the General Returning Officer, accompanied by a certificate under his hand that the said return is correct and true.

35. The General Returning Officer shall, as soon as conveniently may be, publish copies of the said lists, and the several persons who shall have the greatest number of votes for each such Ward shall be deemed to be duly elected for the same accordingly.

36. Such Voting Papers as aforesaid shall be kept for the space of six calendar months after the election by the respective Returning Officers, who shall permit any Burgess to inspect the same upon payment of one shilling.

37. In case of an equality of votes at any such election the General Returning Officer shall determine by lot the priority between the persons for whom an equal number of votes shall have been given.

38. The General Returning Officer shall forthwith give notice, in writing, to the several persons elected of such their election, and shall require them severally within one week to declare whether they accept or decline the office to which they may have been respectively elected.

39. If any person so elected shall, after receipt of such notice, fail to comply with such requirement, he shall be held to have declined such office.

40. *Any person duly qualified (except as hereinbefore provided) who shall be elected to fill any such Corporate office shall, in the event of his refusal, or omission to discharge the duties thereof, be liable to the same fines or penalties to which any person is liable in England for the like offence, which fines and penalties shall be recovered and applied as nearly as may be in the same manner in which the like fines and penalties are recovered and applied in England.

41. In case any person shall decline the office to which he shall have been so elected, or in case any extraordinary vacancy shall occur in the Council, every such vacancy shall be filled up by an election to be conducted in manner hereinbefore provided within ten clear days after such vacancy shall occur; and every person so elected shall hold office until the time when the person in the room of whom he was chosen would regularly have gone out of office, and shall then go out of office.

42. Every person who shall have been elected to any Corporate Office shall be capable of being re-elected upon the expiration of his term of office.

III.—THE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, THEIR ELECTION, &c.

43. *The Common Councillors of the said Borough, when so elected, shall annually choose from their own number the Aldermen and the Mayor thereof, to serve for the year next ensuing such choice.

44. The Election of such Mayor and Aldermen shall take place within one week after the annual election of Common Councillors.

45. The said Mayor and Aldermen shall be elected by a majority of votes; and in case of an equality of votes, the priority between the Common Councillors for whom an equal number of votes have been given, shall be determined by lot.

46. *Every Mayor, Alderman, and Common Councillor shall, before entering on the discharge of such his trust or office, take and subscribe the Oath of Allegiance, and none other.

47. Until otherwise ordered, the said Oath shall be administered by a Judge of the Supreme Court, or by such person as the Governor-in-Chief shall for that purpose appoint.

48. It shall be lawful for any such Mayor, Alderman, or Common Councillor, to resign his office at any time, with the consent of the Common Council: Provided that the person so desiring to resign shall give to the Common Council not less than three week’s notice of his intention so to do.

49. *The Mayor of the said Borough for the time being shall, in virtue of such his office, and without any further appointment, be a Justice of the Peace of and for the Borough during a period of two years next following on his election.

50. *Every Alderman of the said Borough, in virtue of such his office, and without any further appointment, shall be a Justice of the Peace of and for the Borough, so long as he shall continue in the discharge of such his office of Alderman.

51. If any such Mayor, Alderman, or Common Councillor, shall be declared Bankrupt, or shall apply to take the benefit of any Act or Ordinance for the relief of persons imprisoned for Debt, or shall compound by deed with his Creditors, or shall be absent from the said Borough for six calendar months at one and the same time, such Mayor, Alderman, or Common Councillor, shall thereupon cease to be Member of the Council.

52. In case of an extraordinary vacancy in the office of Mayor or Alderman, the Common Council shall, within ten days after such vacancy, meet for the purpose of choosing a successor for the remainder of the year, by an election to be conducted in manner hereinbefore mentioned; and the person so to be elected shall hold office until the time when the person in the room of whom he shall have been chosen would regularly have gone out of office, and he shall then himself go out of office.