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Credit: Guide to local government in counties, parishes, and burghs. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![householder of said burgh {or parish], which voting paper, duly filled up and subscribed by you, will be received within [name of •place] on the day of • • next, between the hours of eight o'clock morning and eight o'clock afternoon. The voting paper may be delivered personally or by a messenger, provided it bear your signature. In lieu of delivery of thfe voting paper in manner above mentioned, it is competent to any householder to post it addressed to [name and address of collector^ provided the postage be prepaid, and that the voting paper reach the collector before eight o'clock afternoon of the said [insert day of poll]. The risk of deli- very before the hour specified rests with the householder adopting this method of return. (Signed) ^.5., Chief Magistrate, [or Sheriff]. FoEM or Voting Paper. PuUic Libraries Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1887. Burgh [or parish] of No. [insert number ofhouse'holder on register, roll, or list]. Voting Paper. To be delivered on the day of IS [insert day of poll] between the hours of eight o'clock morning and eight o'clock afternoon, at [insert place of collection]. In reply to the question whether the Public Libraries Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1887, should be adopted by the burgh [or parish] of I vote* ,, , [Signaiiire of householder]. Note.—Any person fabricating a voting paper, or presenting or returning a fabricated voting paper, or any voting paper, knowing that the same does not bear the true signature of the householder to whom such voting paper is intended to apply, is guilty of personation, and is liable to the penalties of that offence as set forth in the Ballot Act, 1872. * Fill in Yes or No, according as the voter does, or does not, desire the adoption of the Act. SCHEDULE (B.) Procedtike for determining by Public Meeting as to the Adoption of the Act. (1 ■) Upon receipt of the requisition specifiecl in the Act, the chief magistrate, or the sheritT as the case may be, shall convene a mectnig of the householders in some convenient place within the burgh or the pariah, as the ease may be, for the purpose of determining whether the Act shall be adopted within such burgh or ^■(.I^Such meeting shall be held on a day not less than fourteen days or more than thirty davs after the receipt of the requisition, and notice of the meeting shall be given not less than seven days preceding its date by posting within the burgh or parish, as the case may be, handbills in the form annexed hereto, and also by advertisement, in the said form, inserted at least once in every daily newspaper published within the burgh or parish, as the case may be, and in the event of there being no daily news- paper so published, then at least once in one or more newspapers published or circulating within the burgh or parish. (3.) The chief magistrate, in the case of a burgh, shall provide himself with a copy of the municipal register, and the sheriff', in the case of a parish, shall provide himself with a copy of the valuation roll applicable to such parish, or a list of the householders therein, which copy or list shall be made, certified, and fur- nished to the sheriff on his application in the manner directed in Schedule (A.). (4.) At the meeting called as aforesaid aU householders on the municipal register, in the case of a burgh, or on the copy or list furnished and certified as aforesaid, in the case of a parish, shall be entitled to vote, and no other person or persons whatever shall be so en- titled, and the chief magistrate, or the sheriff, as the case may be, shall take such measures as may be necessary for the exclusion of non- qualified persons from the meeting, or for pre- venting such persons from voting, and for securing that the votes of such persons, if given, shall not be counted ; and, if necessary for this purpose, he may require that every householder intending to be present at the meeting, or present thereat, shall enter his name and address on a card to be furnished to him, and that all such cards shall be delivered up before entering the meeting, or before the votes are recorded; and every person know- ingly and falsely representing himself to be a householder in such burgh or parish, and as such entitled to vote, shall be guilty of per- sonation, and shall be liable to the penalties of that offence as set forth in the Ballot Act, 1872. (5.) The chief magistrate, or the sheriff, as the case may be, shall attend and shall preside at the meeting, and shall appoint a clerk who shall make regular minutes of the proceedings thereof, and the chief magistrate, or shenfif, as the case may be, shall in case of equality, have a casting vote. -u ^-i <• ™ (6) The result of the vote, whether for or against the adoption of the Act, shall be announced by the chief magistrate, or sheritl, as the case mav be, at the meeting itself, or in any other way he may think most expedientj provided such announcement be made without unnecessary delay. Form of Notice or Pcbuo Meeting. Burgh [or parish] of Notice is hereby given, that under and in virtue of the powers contained in 1'^'L'^ Libraries Consolidation (Scotland) Act, Ibb., the householders of llie burgh [or parish] ol are required to meet upon the day of next, at o'clock, within when a vote will be](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21905678_0654.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
