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to the Chairman, consenting to be so nominated, shall be a candidate for election. The Chairman of the meeting shall afford opportunity for nomination as allowed by this section of the Act, and shall then read or cause to be read a complete list of the persons nominated for 5 election. The meeting shall then proceed to elect the required number of persons to serve on the Committee. (2.) If the number of duly nominated candidates is equal to the number of persons to be elected, the Chairman shall declare that such candidates have been duly elected. 10 (3.) If the number of duly nominated candidates is in excess of the number of persons to be elected, a ballot shall be taken, and, up to the required number, those candidates shall be declared duly elected for whom a preference has been proved by the number of the votes respectively recorded in their favour. 15 (4.) If the number of candidates duly nominated is less than the number required to be elected, the candidates duly nominated shall be declared duly elected, and the Board shall appoint such resident householders as it deenis fit to make up the number of members of the Committee to the number required, and any member or members 20 appointed in accordance with this provision shall be deemed to have been duly elected. 110. In every school district in which there are more than one hundred children in the school under the care of the Committee, it shall be the duty of the Committee to provide a ballot-box, which 25 shall be locked, and shall be placed in the schoolhouse or place of election in some accessible position on the day appointed for holding the election; and immediately before the taking of any ballot the Chairman of such meeting shall unlock the ballot-box and show that it is empty, and then shall lock it again, and shall not remove it 30 from its place until the election is concluded. 111. (1.) If a ballot is required to be had, every householder present at the meeting who wishes to vote shall apply to the Chairman for a voting-paper, who, if satisfied that he or she is duly qualified to vote, shall give him or her a voting-paper, upon which 35 he or she shall, without leaving the room or place of election, write the name or names of the candidate or candidates for whom he or she desires to vote, and, folding the paper so that its contents cannot be seen, shall return the same to the Chairman, or in the presence of the Chairman put the same into the ballot-box, or, if the meeting so 40 desire, the voting-papers used may contain the names of all duly nominated candidates, from which the elector shall, without leaving the room, strike out any names he pleases, but so as not to leave more names on the paper than the number of Committee-men to be elected. (2.) So soon as all the householders present who desire to vote 45 have recorded their votes the Chairman shall declare the ballot closed, and hand the ballot-papers to the scrutineers, if such be appointed by the meeting, or, if no scrutineers be appointed, shall himself open the ballot-papers, and, counting the votes given for each candidate, shall ascertain and declare the result of the election. 50 112. At every election for a School Committee— (a.) No person shall be entitled to vote in respect of more qualifications than one, although he possess them;

Ballot-box to be provided by Committee. 1891, No, 36, sec. 10

Conduct of ballot. Tbid, sec. 11

Voting at elections. Ibid, sec. 12

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