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Settlements, the Northern Division, or the
Southern Division, shall deliver his claim or
cause the same to be delivered at the Police
Office, Auckland.

Where to be preferred for certain Districts.

9. Every person claiming a right to vote at
   the Election of the Members for the Bay of
   Islands shall deliver his claim or cause the
   same to be delivered at the Police Office at
   Russell.

Where to be preferred for certain Districts.

10. And every person claiming a right to
    vote at the Election of the Members for New
    Plymouth or Taranaki, shall deliver his claim
    or cause the same to be delivered at the Police
    Office, New Plymouth.

List of Claims to be prepared.

11. On the first of August next, and on the
    first of August in every succeeding year, or as
    soon thereafter respectively as conveniently
    may be, the Resident Magistrates at Auckland,
    the Bay of Islands, and New Plymouth, or
    some other fit person or persons to be ap-
    pointed in that behalf by the Governor of the
    Province, shall respectively cause a List to be
    prepared of the claims which may have been
    delivered at such respective Police Offices as
    aforesaid during the month then next pre-
    ceding, setting forth the christian and sur-
    name of each claimant at full length, together
    with his place of abode, calling or business,
    and the ground on which his claim may be
    made, and arranging the names in alphabetical
    order, and classing them for the several Dis-
    tricts for which they may respectively claim to
    be entitled to vote.

And to be published.

12. In the month of August next, every such
    Resident Magistrate, or other person as afore-
    said, shall, as soon as conveniently may be,
    cause a copy of the List of Claims, and in the
    month of August in every succeeding year,
    shall cause a copy of the List of Claims which
    may have been preferred in the month of July
    then immediately preceding, together with a
    Copy of the Electoral Roll then in force, to be
    posted in some conspicuous place in the District
    to which the said List and Roll shall respectively
    relate, and shall subjoin thereto a Notice that
    all objections thereto will be heard and deter-
    mined at a Meeting of Justices open to the Pub-
    lic, and to be held on a day to be specified in
    such notice, not being more than one calendar
    month after the date thereof.

Justices to prepare Electoral Roll.

13. Each such Resident Magistrate or other
    person shall call a Special Meeting of the
    Justices of the Peace residing within the Dis-
    trict or Districts to which the said claims may
    relate, to be held on the day so to be spe-
    cified as aforesaid, for the purpose of hearing
    and determining objections to such List and
    Roll as aforesaid, and of forming the Roll for
    the ensuing year of persons qualified to vote
    under the provisions of the said recited Ordi-
    nance.

Objections to Claims.

14. Any person whose name shall be on any
    such List or Roll may object to any other per-
    son, as not entitled to have his name retained
    in the Electoral Roll; but the person so ob-
    jecting shall, ten days at least before the day
    appointed for the formation of such Electoral
    Roll, cause notice in writing of such objection,
    and of the ground thereof, to be given to the
    Resident Magistrate, or other the person acting
    for the District, and also to the person objected
    to.

Electoral Roll, how to be formed.

15. At the meeting to be held for the for-
    mation of the said Electoral Roll, or at some
    adjournment of such meeting, the Justices
    (any two being a quorum) shall retain on the
    List of Claims, and on the Roll then in force,
    the names of all persons to whom no objection
    shall have been duly made, and shall also
    retain on the said List and Roll the name of
    every person who shall have been objected to,
    unless the party objecting shall appear in per-
    son in support of such objection, and shall also
    prove due service of his notices of objection.

Proof of Qualification, in what case required.

16. In case the party objecting shall make
    his objection in person and shall prove such
    service of notice as aforesaid, the Court shall
    require proof of the qualification of the
    person so objected to. And in case the
    qualification of such person shall not be
    proved to the satisfaction of the Court, the
    name of such person shall be expunged from
    the List or Roll. The Court shall also
    expunge therefrom the name of every person
    who shall be proved to be dead, and shall cor-
    rect any mistake or supply any omission
    which shall be proved to have been made
    therein respectively in respect of the name or
    the place of abode of any person who shall be
    included therein or in respect of the local des-
    cription of his property. And the List and
    Roll so corrected shall form the Electoral
    Roll for the ensuing year, and shall be signed
    by the Resident Magistrate or other the per-
    son presiding at such meeting of Justices as
    aforesaid.

The Electoral Roll, how long in force.

17. The persons whose names shall be so
    enrolled thereon shall be deemed and taken to
    be the Electors of the District until the com-
    pletion of the "Electoral Roll" for the year
    the next ensuing; and every person whose name
    shall appear upon such Electoral Roll shall be
    deemed and taken to be duly qualified to vote
    for the District in respect of which he shall
    shall appear upon such Roll, without any fur-
    ther or other enquiry, revision, or scrutiny
    whatever. And when the name of any person
    claiming to be placed upon such Roll shall
    once have been duly enrolled thereon, such
    name shall from year to year continue to be
    published as aforesaid and be retained on the
    Electoral Roll for the time being, without any
    further claim on the part of the Elector, until
    his name shall be objected to and shall be duly
    expunged in manner hereinbefore prescribed.