defeated member for the electoral district to which the list belongs, and ber and to twenty copies to the defeated candidate at the last Dominion candidate. election therein. 2. The Governor in Council may, by regulation, provide for the issue to members and candidates of such additional copies as are thought proper. 61 V., c. 14, s. 10. 17. The Clerk of the Crown in Chancery and the King's Copies to be furnished on Printer shall supply copies of any lists so printed to any person payment. applying therefor and paying for them a price proportionately sufficient to cover the cost of printing them; but such price shall not exceed ten cents for each copy of the list for a polling division. 61 V., c. 14, s. 10. Printer's im print. 18. All voters' lists so printed by the King's Printer shall King's be authenticated by his imprint in the same manner as other parliamentary documents, and every copy of a voters' list purporting to bear such imprint shall be deemed to be for all purposes an authentic copy of the original list of record in the office of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, and evidence of such original list may be given by the production of a copy thereof purporting to be printed by the King's Printer and to bear his imprint. 4-5 E. VII., c. 13, s. 1. Alterations in Printed Lists. additions to be noted on of 19. If, under the provincial law, any changes in or additions Changes and to a list of voters have been made since the final revision, it shall, upon the request of any person presenting, for the purpose, presented any such printed copy of the list, and paying or tendering the payment sum of fifty cents, be the duty of the official having a record of 50 cents. such changes and additions, to make corresponding changes in and additions to such printed copy, and to certify under his hand as to the correctness of such changes and additions; and such printed copy, with such changes and additions so certified, shail be deemed to be, for all purposes, an authentic copy of the list of voters as it exists and is in force at the time of such certification. 61 V., c. 14, s. 10. King's Printer to keep Lists of Voters standing in Type. Printer 20. The King's Printer shall keep standing in type every List kept by list of voters so printed by him, until he is furnished by the King's Clerk of the Crown in Chancery with a duly certified copy of standing in a later list for the same polling division, or of a later list or lists type. showing some change in the polling division; whereupon he shall correct such list so that it shall correspond with such later list or lists or shall make such other changes as are necessary; and he shall then keep standing in type such list so corrected, or any new resulting list or lists, until he has been furnished with a certified copy of a later list or lists affecting the same, If copy not received by Crown in and so on, so that there shall always, so far as practicable, be kept standing in type a correct copy of every finally revised provincial list of voters. 61 V., c. 14, s. 10. Provincial Voters' Lists to be used at Dominion Elections until revised. 21. So long as and whenever, for any reason, a certified Clerk of the copy of any list of voters as finally revised has not been transmitted to or received by the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, pursuant to the provisions of this Act, the original and legal list for Dominion elections shall be the same as that for provincial elections. 61 V., c. 14, s. 10. Chancery, provincial list to be used. Returning officer to Polling Divisions and Voters' Lists. 22. The returning officer shall, forthwith after the receipt obtain docu- of the writ for an election, obtain from the officers who are the ment defin, legal custodians of any by-laws, orders, proclamations or other ing provincial polling divi- documents or proceedings defining provincial polling divisions or duly certified duplicates or copies thereof, sions. Fees to custodian. Copies of voters' lists ed on pay ment of fee. (a) such certified copies of the said by-laws, orders, procla- 2. The legal custodian from whom any such document is so obtained shall be paid therefor the same fees, if any, as in the case of such document being obtained by a returning officer for the purposes of a provincial election. 63-64 V., c. 12, s. 22. 23. The legal custodian of any voters' list shall deliver certo be obtain- tified copies thereof or of any part thereof, as last revised and corrected, to any person applying therefor, on payment therefor of a fee not exceeding the fee, if any, allowed by the provincial law in the like case, and not exceeding in any case ten cents for a printed list and one cent for every two names in writing, if the list or part of the list is written. 63-64 V., c. 12, s. 22. Provincial polling divisions. Case of a polling division not en 24. The polling divisions shall, except as herein otherwise provided, be those established by or under the laws of the province for the purposes of provincial elections within the territory comprised in the electoral district for which the election is held. 61 V., c. 14, s. 5. 25. Where any provincial polling division, as constituted at the time of the receipt by the returning officer of the writ for an tirely within election, lies only partly within the electoral district for which such election is to be held, the part thereof within such electoral district one electoral district. 62 district shall, for the purpose of that election, form a separate polling division, or it may be attached by the returning officer to an adjoining polling division; and the returning officer shall, as soon as possible after the receipt of the writ, prepare from the existing voters' lists a separate voters' list containing the names of the persons entitled to have their names placed on the list for such part of such polling division. 61 V., c. 14, s. 8. places to be sions are not 26. Where, for any part of any province, polling divisions Provincial are not established by or under the laws of the province, but, by polling or under such laws, places are fixed where polls shall be opened used where and held at provincial elections and lists of the voters entitled polling divito vote at such places at such elections have been prepared and established. are or have been in force, polls shall be opened and held in that part of the province at the same places, and the voters' lists so prepared and which are or were last in force shall be the voters' lists for the purposes of a Dominion election. 61 V., c. 14, s. 5. divisions, re electoral dis divisions. 27. Where, under the laws of the province, there are no poll- Where there ing divisions for the purpose of provincial elections, the return- are no polling ing officer shall forthwith after the receipt of the writ subdivide turning offithe electoral district into as many polling divisions as he deeins cer to divide necessary for the convenience of the electors, adopting, so far trict into as he deems it expedient, the polling divisions, if any there were, at the last Dominion election, and so that, as far as is possible, 2 polling division shall contain not more than three hundred and not fewer than two hundred qualified voters' names; and he shall number or otherwise designate such polling divisions, and fix upon a suitable polling station in each. 2. It shall be the duty and shall be within the power of the Polling returning officer appointed by the Governor in Council to consti- stations. tute polling divisions, and to appoint and fix polling places and polling stations in all cases where, under the laws of the province, it is respectively the duty or within the power of the returning officer or any other officer or person at provincial elections to do so; and the returning officer shall, in all cases, indicate such polling places and polling stations in the election proclamation. 61 V., c. 14, s. 5; 63-64 V., c. 12, s. 23. than three 28. Where a polling division has more than three hundred Additional polling qualified voters according to the voters' list, the returning officer stations shall provide separate and additional polling stations according where more to the total number of qualified voters on the voters' list, near hundred to one another, for the polling of the votes in such polling divi- voters. sion, and so that not more than three hundred, and, when practicable, not less than two hundred qualified voters' names. shall be on the list for each polling station. 61 V., c. 14, s. 7. 29. The returning officer in such cases shall prepare, or cause Separate lists to be prepared, from the voters' list for the polling division, a to be pre 63 pared in such separate case. separate list for each polling station, made up in alphabetical order according to the initial letter of the surname of each voter. Polling 2. Each separate polling station shall be designated by the Stations to be initial letters of the voters on the list who are to vote in such designated by initial letters. station, in the following manner, that is to say:-From A to K, and from L to R, and from S to Z, or as the case may be. 3. Every voter, the initial letter of whose name is included vote accord within the letters of the alphabet designating a polling station and contained in such list, shall vote in the station so designated. Voters to ingly. Deputy returning officer for 4. The returning officer shall appoint a deputy returning officer for each such station, and shall deliver to such deputy each station. in due time a list certified by him to be a correct list of all voters on the voters' list whose surnames commence with the letters of the alphabet included within the letters by which such polling station is designated. 61 V., c. 14, s. 7. Non-resident voters. Non-resident Electors. 30. The provisions of the law of the province as to the places where non-resident electors shall vote shall apply mutatis mutandis to any Dominion election, and the returning officer at such election shall have the powers and be charged with the duties of the sheriff or returning officer under such provisions; but nothing herein shall enable any person to vote by schedule or otherwise than by appearing personally. 61 V., c. 14, s. 5. PART II. PROVINCES OF SASKATCHEWAN AND ALBERTA AND YUKON TERRITORY. Application. Qualification in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Application. 31. This Part applies exclusively to the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta and the Yukon Territory. Franchise. 32. In the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta, except as in this Act otherwise provided, every male person shall be qualified to vote at the election of a member under this Act, who, not being an Indian, is a British subject and of the full age of twenty-one years, and has resided in either of the said provinces for at least twelve months, and, in the electoral district where he seeks to vote, for at least three months, immediately preceding the issue of the writ of election: Provided that, except as hereinafter provided, an elector may only vote at the polling station of the polling division in which he is a resident at the time of voting. 58-59 V., c. 11, s. 1; 4-5 E. VII., c. 28, s. 1. tory. 33. In the Yukon Territory, save as in this Act otherwise Same in provided, every male' person shall be qualified to vote at the Yukon Terrielection of a member under this Act, who, not being an Indian, is a British subject and of the full age of twenty-one years, and has resided in such territory for at least twelve months immediately preceding the issue of the writ of election. 2 E. VII., c. 37, s. 4. Returning Officer. election law writ of elec 34. In the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta and the Copy of Yukon Territory, one copy of this Act and of such instructions, with index to approved by the Governor in Council, as are necessary to carry be sent with out the elections according to this Act, with a copious alpha- tion. betical index prefixed, for the returning officer, and one for each of his deputies, shall be transmitted, with the writ of election, to the returning officer. 57-58 V., c. 15, s. 9; 2 E. VII., c. 37, s. 49. 35. In the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta, at least Posting up of eight days before the day fixed in the writ for the nomination proclamation of candidates, the returning officer shall cause to be posted up in a conspicuous position in at least ten of the most public places in the electoral district a proclamation in form G, in which proclamation shall be set forth, (a) the place and time fixed for the nomination of candi- (b) the day on which the poll for taking the votes of the 36. In the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta and Governor to the Yukon Territory, the Governor General shall fix the place day for nomifix place and and the day for the nomination of candidates at each election; nation. and the place and the day so fixed shall be specified in the writ of election for the electoral district to which such day applies. R.S., c. 7, s. 6; 2 E. VII., c. 37, s. 6. district into 37. In the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta and the Subdivision Yukon Territory, immediately upon the receipt by the return- of electoral ing officer of the writ for the election, the returning officer shall polling divisubdivide the electoral district into as many polling divisions sions. as he deems necessary for the convenience of the electors; and he |