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perintendent; and the voting shall be conducted in the manner following, that is to say,—every elector may vote for any number of persons, (not exceeding the number of persons then to be chosen) by delivering to the Returning Officer or his Deputy or Deputies a voting paper, containing the Christian names and surnames, and designations, of the persons for whom he votes, and signed with the name of the elector so voting, and setting forth his own designation: Provided always that it shall be lawful for the Returning Officer, if there be no votes polled before ten o'clock forenoon on behalf of the candidate or candidates for whom a poll was demanded, to hold the poll closed, and to proceed as if it had not been demanded; and provided also that it shall be lawful for such Returning Officer, with the written consent of opposing candidates, to declare the poll closed at any time earlier than four o'clock.

10. No inquiry shall be permitted at any election as to the right of any person to vote, except only that the Chairman, Returning Officer, or Deputy, if required by any two electors, may put to any voter at the time of his giving his vote, and not afterwards, the following questions, and no others:

11. Are you the person whose name appears (A. B.) on the Electoral Roll now in force for the Town of Dunedin?

12. Are you the person whose name is signed (A. B.) to the voting paper now delivered in by you?

13. Have you already voted at the present election?

And no person required to answer the first of these questions at any meeting for election shall be permitted or qualified to vote until he shall have answered the same affirmatively; and in case of a poll being demanded, no person required to answer any of the said questions shall be permitted or qualified to vote until he shall have answered the first two affirmatively, and the last negatively.

11. The Returning Officer having publicly declared the poll closed, shall forthwith ascertain the number of votes given for every candidate, and publicly declare, according to the number of vacancies to be filled, the several persons who shall have the greatest number of votes to be duly elected.

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

13. The voting papers aforesaid shall be kept by the Returning Officer for the space of twelve months after the election, and any elector shall be permitted to inspect the same on payment of one shilling.

14. If any person so elected shall decline the office, or shall fail within 30 days to declare his acceptance thereof, at any meeting of the Town Board which may be held within that time, or by letter signed by him, addressed and delivered to the Clerk of the Town Board, the office shall be deemed vacant; in which case, and in every case in which any vacancy shall otherwise occur, every such vacancy shall be filled up by an Election, to be conducted in manner hereinbefore provided, and to take place upon a day to be fixed by the Superintendent, within 30 days after such vacancy shall have been made known to him by a certificate under the hand of the Clerk of the Town Board (who is hereby required forthwith so to make known the same); and every person so elected shall hold office until the time when the person in whose room he was chosen would regularly have gone out of office.

15. The Town Board having met under authority of this or any other Ordinance, may from time to time adjourn to meet at such time and place as they shall appoint; and all their orders and determinations in the execution of any powers and authorities vested or to be vested in them, shall be exercised at meetings to be held in pursuance hereof, or of such other Ordinance (except in cases otherwise particularly provided for), by the major part of the members who shall be present, the whole number present not being less than three; and a Chairman shall in the first place be appointed at every meeting, who, in case of an equal number of votes, including the vote of the Chairman, shall have the casting vote: And no order or determination once made, agreed upon, or entered into, shall be revoked or altered at any subsequent meeting, unless notice of the intention to propose such revocation or alteration shall have been given at a previous meeting, and entered in the Book of Proceedings in which such order or determination is entered, and intimated in writing to every member of the Board not present at such previous meeting, who shall have been present at the meeting whereat such order or determination was made, and the like public intimation.