The North Riding to consist of the Townships of Holland, Sullivan, Sydenham, Derby, Sarawak, Keppel and the Town of Owen Sound; The East Riding to consist of the Townships of Proton, Melancthon, Osprey, Artemisia, Collingwood, Euphrasia and St. Vincent; The South Riding to consist of the Townships of Normanby, Egremont, Bentinck and Glenelg. 3. The Townships of Morrison, Ryde, Muskoka, Draper, Muskoka. Oakley, Wood, Monck, Macauley, McLean, Medora, Watt, Stephenson, Brunel, Humphrey, Cardwell, Stisted, Chaffey, Christie, Monteith, McMurrich, Matchitt, Ryerson, Spence, McKellar, McDougall, Ferguson, Carling, Hagerman, Croft, Chapman, Ferrie, Mackenzie, Wilson, Brown, Blair, Mowat, Cowper, Conger, Parry Island, Parry Sound, Aumick Lake Territory, Maganetawan, and all other surveyed townships lying north of the North Riding of Victoria, and south of the Nipissing District, shall form the Electoral District of Muskoka, and shall return one member. 4. The City of Toronto, shall be divided into three Electoral Toronto. Districts, to be called respectively West Toronto, East Toronto and Centre Toronto, each of which shall return one member; West Toronto to consist of the wards as at present consti tuted of St. Andrew, St. George and St. Patrick; East Toronto to consist of the wards as at present constituted of St. David and St. Lawrence; Centre Toronto to consist of the wards as at present consti tuted of St. John and St. James. 5. The City of Hamilton shall return two members. 6. The City of Ottawa shall return two members. Hamilton. Ottawa. 7. The County of Haldimand, shall consist of the Townships Haldimand of Oneida, Seneca, Cayuga North, Cayuga South, Rainham and Walpole. 8. The County of Monck, shall consist of the Townships of Monck. Canborough, and Moulton and Sherbrooke and Dunn, and the Village of Dunnville (taken from the County of Haldimand), the Townships of Caistor and Gainsborough (taken from the County of Lincoln), and the Townships of Pelham and Wainfleet (taken from the County of Welland). 9. The County of Wellington shall be divided into three Wellington. Ridings, to be called respectively the North, Centre and South Riding, each of which shall be an Electoral District, and shall return one member; The North Riding to consist of the Townships of Maryborough, Minto, Arthur, Luther and Amaranth, and the Villages of Mount Forest and Arthur ; The Centre Riding to consist of the Townships of Pilkington, Elora, Nichol, Fergus, Garrafraxa West, Garrafraxa East, Peel and the Village of Orangeville; The South Riding to consist of the Townships of Puslinch, Guelph, Eramosa and Erin, and the Town of Guelph. 10. The North Riding of the County of Victoria shall in- Victoria. Renfrew. Commence clude and consist of the same Townships as it did before the passing of this Act, except those included by this Act in the Electoral District of Muskoka. 11. The Townships of Hagarty, Richards, Sherwood, Burns and Jones shall be added to, and included in, the South Riding of the County of Renfrew. The remainder of this section does not relate to Ontario. 3. This Act shall take effect upon from and after the termiment of this nation of this present existing Parliament. Act. Preamble. Village of Richmond Hill to be part of West Riding of York 37 VICT. CAP. 12. An Act to attach the Village of Richmond Hill to the Electoral District of the West Riding of the County of York. WHEREAS [Assented to 26th May, 1874.] WHEREAS the Village of Richmond Hill, which has been lately incorporated, is situated partly in the Electoral District of the West Riding of the County of York, and partly in the Electoral District of the East Riding of the said county; and whereas the corporation of the said village has, by petition, prayed that the said village may be attached to the Electoral District of the West Riding of the County of York; and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. From and after the passing of this Act, the incorporated Village of Richmond Hill shall, for purposes of elections to the House of Commons of Canada, be attached to and form part of the Electoral District of the West Riding of the County of York. Preamble. 37 VICT. CAP. 9. An Act respecting the Elections of Members of the [Assented to 26th May, 1874.] ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. Every writ for the election of a member of the House of Writs of ElecCommons of Canada shall be dated and be returnable on such tion, and Returning Offidays as the Governor-General shall determine, and shall be cers. addressed to the Sheriff or to the Registrar of Deeds, or to one of the Sheriffs or of the Registrars for the Electoral District or a portion of the Electoral District for which the election is to take place who shall be the Returning Officer at such election; And in case there is no such Sheriff or Registrar, then to such other person as the Governor-General may appoint as such Returning Officer; In case the Sheriff, the Registrar, or any other person to whom the writ for any Electoral District in the Province of Ontario or in the Province of Quebec, may have been addressed should refuse, be disqualified or be unable to act, then the Governor-General, and in the other Electoral Districts the Lieutenant-Governors in their respective Provinces, may appoint another person to act as such Returning Officer. nation of Can 2. The Governor-General shall fix the day for the nomina- Day of nomition of candidates at the election, and shall, at every general didates, how election, fix one and the same day for the nomination of candi- fixed. dates in all the Electoral Districts, except in the Electoral Dis- Exceptions. tricts in the Provinces of Manitoba and of British Columbia, and in the Electoral Districts of Muskoka and Algoma, in the Province of Ontario, and of Gaspé and Chicoutimi and Saguenay, in the Province of Quebec. Clause relating to the Province of Manitoba. Manitoba. 3. The day so fixed by the Governor-General shall be named To be named in the writs of election for the several Electoral Districts res- in the writs. pectively, to which such day shall apply. 4. The writs of election shall be in the form Schedule A Form of writ, and shall be transmitted by mail to the respective Returning &c. Officers, unless otherwise ordered by the Governor-General. act as Election 5. None of the persons hereinafter mentioned shall be Who shall not appointed Returning Officers, or Deputy Returning Officers, Officers. Election Clerks or Poll Clerks, that is to say: Firstly Members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada or of the Executive Council of any of the Provinces of the Dominion; Secondly Members of the Senate or Members of the Legislative Council of any of the Provinces of the Dominion; Who shall not be bound to act as such. Endorsing receipt, and oath of Returning Offi cer. Appointment of Election Clerk. Thirdly Members of the House of Commons or Members of the Legislative Assemblies of the several Provinces of the Dominion; Fourthly Ministers, Priests, or Ecclesiastics of any religious faith or worship; Fifthly: Judges of the Courts of Superior, Civil and Criminal jurisdiction, or judges of any County or District Court, Insolvent Court or Vice-Admiralty Court; Sixthly Persons who have served in the Parliament of the Dominion in the session immediately preceding the election, or in the then present session of Parliament; Seventhly Sheriffs, Registrars, or other persons who shall have been found guilty by the House of Commons, or by any Court for the trial of Controverted Elections, or other competent tribunal, of any offence or dereliction of duty under this. Act. 6. None of the persons hereinafter mentioned, unless they are Sheriffs or Registrars or Town Clerks or Assessors, shall be obliged to act as Returning Officers, Deputy Returning Officers, Election Clerks or Poll Clerks, that is to say : Firstly: Professors in any University, College, High School, or Academy; Secondly: Physicians or Surgeons ; Thirdly Millers; Fourthly: Postmasters, Customs Officers, or Clerks in Post Offices or Customs Offices; Fifthly Persons being sixty years of age or upwards; Sixthly: Persons having previously served as Return ing Officers at the election of a member for the House of Commons. 7. On receiving the writ of Election, the Returning Officer shall forthwith endorse thereon the date at which he shall have received the same, and before taking any further action thereon, he shall take the oath of office in the form Schedule B to this Act. 8. The Returning Officer, by a commission under his hand, and in the form, Schedule C of this Act, shall appoint an Election Clerk, and may, at any time during the election, appoint, in the same manner, another Election Clerk, in case the one so appointed shall resign, refuse or be unable to perform his duties as such. 9. The duty of the Election Clerk shall be to assist the Re- Duty of Electurning Officer in the performance of his duties, and to act in tion Clerk. his stead as Returning Officer, whenever the Returning Officer shall be disqualified, or unable, or shall refuse to perform his duties, and shall not have been replaced by another. 10. The Election Clerk shall, before acting as such, take the Oath of office. oath of office in the form, Schedule D to this Act. what means. 11. The Returning Officer shall ascertain from the lists of Returning voters, which, under the provisions of this Act, are to be used at Officer to ascertain persons the election, and, in Electoral Districts where there are voters qualified to entitled to vote but there are no lists of voters, from such other vote, and by information as may be within his reach-the number of, or probable number of persons qualified to vote in each city, town, ward, parish, township, local municipality or other locality, where voters are so entitled to vote; and if such city, town, ward, parish, township, local municipality or other locality has not been subdivided for electoral purposes into polling districts by the Legislature, or by the local authorities under the legislation of the Province wherein such Electoral District is situate, or where such subdivision comprises more than three hundred To constitute Polling disvoters, he shall subdivide the said city, town, ward, parish, tricts in certain township, local municipality or other locality or subdivision, cases, and apinto polling districts in a convenient manner, so that there point polling shall be at least one polling district for every two hundred voters; and he shall also fix a polling station in a central and convenient place in each polling district; and the Returning Officer may in his discretion grant such additional polling places in such polling districts as the extent of the district and the remoteness of any body of its voters from the polling place may render necessary, although the voters thereof may be less than the number above specified. districts. 12. In the Electoral Districts in the Province of British Nomination Columbia, and in the Electoral Districts of Muskoka and Al- and polling days in certain goma, in the Province of Ontario, and of Gaspé, in the Province Electoral of Quebec, the Returning Officers shall fix the day for the Districts." nomination of candidates, and also the day and places for holding the polls. The nomination in any of the said Electoral Districts shall not take place less than fifteen days nor more than thirty days after the proclamation hereinafter required shall have been posted up, and the day for holding the polls shall not be less than fifteen days nor more than thirty days after the day on which the nomination is to take place,-neither the day of nomination nor the day of posting the proclamation being reckoned: (Clause relating to Chicoutimi and Saguenay.) In Chicoutimi and Saguenay. In all the other Electoral Districts the proclamation herein- Polling days after required shall be posted up, at least eight days before the in other disday fixed for the nomination of candidates; and the day for tricts. |