Description
An Act to amend and explain an Act from 1822, “An Act to amend certain parts of an Act passed in the forty-seventh year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled, ‘An Act to provide Returning Officers for the Elections of Knights, Citizens and Burgesses to serve in the House of Assembly, and to regulate Elections to be held for that purpose, and more effectually to prevent illegal practices in the Elections of Members to serve in the said Assembly, and for further securing the freedom of such Elections.” Under this Act entries to be made in the Poll Book by the Returning Officer, at every election of any Member or Members to serve in the House of Assembly for this Province, as specified in the first clause or section of the former Act are to be made in accordance with certain instructions described in this Act. The form of the poll book is included at the end of the Act.
