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What Enquiries may be made.

32. No enquiry shall be permitted at any such Election as to the right of any person to vote, except only as follows: that is to say—The Returning-Officer or his Deputy shall, if required by any two Electors for the District, put to any Voter at the time of his delivery of his voting-paper, and not afterwards, the following questions, and no others:
    1—Are you the person whose name is signed as (A. B.) to the voting-paper now delivered in by you?
    2—Are you the person whose name appears as (A. B.) on the Electoral Roll now in force for the District of ( )?
    3—Have you already voted at the present Election?
    And no person required to answer any of the said questions shall be permitted or qualified to vote until he shall have answered the same—the first two affirmatively, and the last negatively.

State of the Poll to be declared.

33. As soon as conveniently may be after the Election shall have been held, the Returning Officer for the District shall at the place of nomination openly declare the State of the Poll, and shall at the same time declare the name or names of the person or persons who may have been duly elected at such Election. And in the event of the number of votes being found to have been equal for any two or more candidates, he shall by his casting-vote declare which of the same candidates shall be elected. Provided that no such Returning Officer shall vote at any Election of which he is the Returning Officer, except in the case of an equality of votes, as aforesaid.

Names of Persons Elected to be inserted in Writ.

34. The name or names of the person or persons so elected shall be inserted in or endorsed upon the Writ by the Returning Officer, and such Writ shall be returned by him to the Governor within the time by which such Writ may be returnable.

Voting Papers to be preserved.

35. The voting-papers at every such Election shall be kept for the space of six calendar months after such election, by the Returning Officer, who shall permit any elector to inspect the same upon payment of one shilling.

New Writs in certain cases.

36. In case any writ to be issued by the Governor shall not be duly executed, or in case no valid Election shall be made by virtue thereof, the Governor shall issue a new writ, directing the Returning Officer to proceed to a fresh Election, in manner and subject to the provisions hereinbefore prescribed.

Objection to validity of Return.

37. All complaints of the undue return of members to serve in the said Council shall be addressed in the form of Petition to the Governor, stating the ground of objection: but no petition shall be noticed, nor any proceedings had thereon, unless it be signed by some person who was a candidate at the election where-of it may be alleged that an undue return was made, or by a number of persons who voted or who were qualified to have voted at the said Election, amounting to not less than one-tenth of the whole number on the List of Electors: and no such petition shall be noticed which shall not be delivered at the Office of the Colonial Secretary within twenty-one days from the day of the Election, nor unless a copy thereof shall have been served upon the party whose return shall be objected to, within such period of twenty-one days as aforesaid. Within ten days after any such Petition shall have been left at the office of the Colonial Secretary, if the said Council be then sitting, or, if the Council be not then sitting, within ten days after its next meeting, the Governor, or some other person duly authorised by him in that behalf, shall cause such Petition to be referred to the said Council, and the validity of the Return so complained of shall be decided by such Council or by such other Tribunal and in such manner as the said Council shall direct and appoint.

Auckland to be deemed to be a Town for purposes of the Ordinance.

38. And I hereby further proclaim and declare that Auckland shall be deemed and taken to be a Town for the purposes of the said recited Ordinance.

Interpretation.

39. For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Proclamation, the term Governor shall be taken to include the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province.

Proclamation to take effect from date.

This Proclamation shall take effect from the day of the date hereof.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand, at Government House, at Wellington, in the Province of New Munster, in the Islands aforesaid, this twenty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.

G. GREY,
Governor-in-Chief.

By His Excellency's Command,
ALFRED DOMETT,
Civil Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

SCHEDULE A.

DESCRIPTION OF DISTRICTS.

1. The "City of Auckland" District comprises the "East Town Ward," the "Middle Town Ward," and the "West Town Ward" of the Borough of Auckland.

2. The "Suburbs of Auckland" comprise the "Suburban East Ward," the "Suburban South Ward," and the "Suburban West Ward" of the Borough of Auckland.

3. The "Pensioner Settlements" District comprises so much of the sites of the several villages