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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

the Board of Governors constituted by the said Act,
shall be made at a meeting of the Board of Education,
of which notice shall have been given to each member
of the said Board of Education, specifying the object
of such meeting.

2. The majority of the members present at such
   meeting shall elect the Governor or Governors so
   required to be elected. The Chairman of such meet-
   ing shall, in addition to his ordinary vote, in case of
   an equality of votes, have a casting vote.

3. The Chairman of any meeting at which a Gover-
   or or Governors shall be appointed shall forthwith
   cause to be published in the New Zealand Gazette a
   notice specifying the names of the person or persons
   so elected.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS FOR CONDUCTING THE ELECTION OF
GOVERNORS OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS CON-
STITUTED BY "THE AUCKLAND COLLEGE AND
GRAMMAR SCHOOL ACT, 1877," BY THE PERSONS
AUTHORIZED TO DO SO BY SUBSECTION TWO OF
SECTION THREE OF THAT Аст.

1. Except where something in the subject or con-
   text is repugnant to such meaning, the expression
   following has in these regulations the meaning as-
   signed to it, that is to say,-

"Public notice" means the publication of a
notice in a newspaper commonly circu-
lating in the City of Auckland.

2. There shall be a Returning Officer, who shall be
   appointed by the Board of Governors constituted by
   the said Act, who shall hold office until his removal
   by such Board of Governors, or his resignation,
   incapacity, or death, in any of which events the
   Board of Governors shall appoint a Returning
   Officer in his stead.

Until the appointment of a Returning Officer by
the Board of Governors as aforesaid, and whenever
the Board of Governors shall fail, neglect, or refuse
to appoint a Returning Officer, the Returning Officer
shall be the person for the time being appointed
Returning Officer for the Electoral District of the
City of Auckland for the election of Members of the
House of Representatives.

3. Every election shall be held by the Returning
   Officer; but, if he is unable from any cause to fulfil
   the duties of his office at any election, he shall, by
   writing under his hand, appoint a substitute, who
   shall for all purposes in respect of such election be
   deemed to be the Returning Officer.

4. No member of the Board of Governors shall be
   appointed to or shall act as Returning Officer, or as
   his substitute; and no Returning Officer, or his sub-
   stitute, shall be capable of being a candidate at any
   election to be held by him, or by his substitute, in
   virtue of his office.

5. Not less than fourteen clear days before the
   first election or any election, the Returning Officer
   shall give public notice thereof, and shall in such
   notice appoint a place within the City of Auckland
   for the delivery of nomination papers, as next herein-
   after provided.

6. No person shall be deemed to be a candidate
   unless nominated in the following manner, that is to
   say:-A nomination paper in the Form A at the foot
   hereof, signed by either a Member of the Legis-
   lative Council usually resident in the Provincial
   District of Auckland, or one of the Members of the
   House of Representatives of an electoral district in
   the same provincial district, and by the candidate in
   token of his assent to such nomination, shall be
   addressed to the Returning Officer, and delivered at
   the place named in the said notice, at any time after
   the publication thereof, but not later than five days
   of the day appointed for the election.

7. If the number of candidates does not exceed the
   number of vacancies to be filled, the Returning
   Officer shall, at the place and on the day appointed
   for the election, by public notice declare such candi-
   date or candidates to be duly elected.

8. If the number of candidates nominated exceeds
   the number of offices then to be filled, the Returning
   Officer shall forthwith give public notice of the day
   on which the poll is to be taken, of the names of the
   several candidates, and of the situation of the polling-
   booths. The day on which the poll is to be taken
   shall be the day appointed for holding the election
   as herein or by the said Act provided.

9. If a candidate at any election sign and deliver
   to the Returning Officer, not later than one day before
   the polling day, a paper stating that such candidate
   retires, and if by such retirement the number of
   candidates is reduced to the number of vacancies to
   be filled, the Returning Officer shall on the day ap-
   pointed for the election by public notice declare the
   remaining candidates to be duly elected; but if the
   said number of candidates is not so reduced, the poll
   shall proceed, but the person so retiring shall not be
   capable of being elected.

10. The poll at every election shall commence at
    nine o'clock in the forenoon of the day appointed, and
    shall close at six o'clock in the afternoon of the same
    day. The Returning Officer may appoint one or
    more poll clerks to assist him in taking the poll.

11. The Returning Officer shall provide,-

(1.) One or more rooms for a polling-booth
or booths.

(2.) In each booth a ballot-box having a lock
and key, and a slit in the upper side by
which the voting papers may be put into
the box.

12. The voting papers shall be in the Form B at
    the foot hereof. If a candidate retires after the
    voting papers have been printed, the Returning
    Officer shall, before the poll, erase his name from
    every voting paper.

13. Each candidate may, by writing under his
    hand, appoint one scrutineer for each polling-booth
    at any election.

14. If there is more than one polling-booth the
    Returning Officer shall appoint a deputy for each
    booth at which he cannot be present in person, and
    such deputy shall have in and about the polling-booth
    to which he is appointed, and in taking the poll
    thereat, all the powers and duties of the Returning
    Officer.

15. The voter having received the voting paper or
    papers shall on each voting paper draw a line through
    the name of each candidate for whom he does not
    desire to vote, and deposit the voting paper in the
    ballot-box.

16. Immediately on the close of the poll the Re-
    turning Officer and each of his deputies, if any, shall,
    in the sight of such of the scrutineers as may be pre-
    sent, open their respective ballot-boxes, and make up
    from the voting papers deposited therein the number
    of votes received by each candidate; and the Deputy
    Returning Officers shall forthwith send the said
    numbers to the Returning Officer, who shall make
    up the whole number of votes received by each candi-
    date at the election. Those candidates, not exceeding
    the number of vacancies then to be filled, who have
    received the highest number of votes shall be elected.
    If two or more candidates have received an equal
    number of votes, neither shall be deemed elected, but
    this shall not entitle any other candidate to be de-
    clared elected if such candidate has not received a
    higher number of votes than the candidates whose
    votes are equal. The vacancy thereby occasioned
    shall be filled by the Board of Governors in the
    manner provided by subsection six of section four of