[37 Vict.] Foot Laio Guardians {Ireland).
BILL
to
Provide that in oases of a Poll at an Election for Poor Law a.d. i874.
Guardians in Ireland the Votes shall be taken by Ballot.
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide that in ail contested
elections for poor law guardians in Ireland the poll shall he
taken by ballot;
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with
5 the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and TemjDoral, and
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows : Fi-om ist
March 1875,5-
1. Erom and after first day of March one thousand eight votes at Poor
hundred and seventy-five in all contested elections for poor law
10 guardians in Ireland the poll shall be taken by ballot. tions shall be
taken by
2. Before the first day of January one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five the Local Government Board of Ireland shall frame GovemmLit
and issue a sealed order regulating the mode in which elections of Board of
poor law guardians in Ireland by ballot shall be carried out, and frame reg^i^^
15 such sealed order may be varied or amended from time to time by lations for
the Local Government Board of Ireland by sealed order : Provided
^ at Jroor JLa'W
always, that every sealed order shall provide that the poll at an contested
election for a poor law guardian in Ireland shall be taken in the ®aken°Ly
electoral division for which the guardian is proposed to be elected, ballot.
20 3. The returning officer at an election for a poor law guardian in houses, con-
Ireland may use, free of charge, for the purpose of taking a poll at
such election, any room in any national school, constabulary barracks, may be 4ed"
or court or sessions house in Ireland which may be convenient for the taking
the poll at
purpose. Poor Law
elections.
25 4. Every voter entitled to more than one vote may give such votes Cumulative '
to one candidate, or may distribute such votes among the candidates branowe'd at
as he may think fit. contested
Poor Law
5. This Act may be cited as " The Poor Law Guardians Election elections.
(Ireland) Act, 1874."
[Bill 95.
