The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-05-24 00:00:00

THE BALLOT BILL.

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lord Hartington's Ballot YUll oonteins thirty clauses
and schedules. The first part rehates to regulations gm
to election of members. The returning officer is to ix
the time and place of election (the place to be a room),
and is to remain to hours forth. nomination of candi-
dates. The nomination I. to he by. paper signed by
the mover and seconder and eight other electors, Clause
3 regulates the polling. Ballot papers are to be supplied
by the returning officer. F.r.oh paper is to have a
number or letter, or other distinguishing mark, printed
on the back, and attached to it • counterfoil with the
same number or letter, or other mark printed on it,
face. The following is the prescribed form of the
paper :
hattor Pinta

County ot
or !Election In
City or Borough of
Names of Candidata.
Jokw .101161 01 W Umo County of

John Breen of la the Canny of I

John &WA of in lb. Onunty of
TAunsar Brous of ln tbo County of

The voter may rote tor candidate.
The voter will plane i cram in the figura of the square (thus
I oppodte the name, lettor,or other distingulehing mark
0-1-7 candidate for whom he rot,.
The voter will then fold up the ballot paper so as to show the
number, letter, nr other distinguishing mark on back, and lea,-
log the isompartment will put It into the ballot box, In the pre-
sence of the prodding °Soar, lint allowing him to eft the
number.

the voter 'rotas for mon than
ballot trill be void.
. . . .

undidatft. him

dtbe voter taken the ballot peper;out a the booth, be will
be guilty of n mbelemeanour, and be eubfect to Imprisonment
/or toy term not exceeding two years, with or without bard
labour.

-;-01.4) 0•01:1 for a itantlidate whom name la withdrawn will
be thrown away.

At every polling-station, where a deputy returning
officer will preside, there shall be one or more secret
compartment", to constructed that • voter in any of
them oompartmenta is screened from the observation of
everybody she who may bo in. or near the polling
station. Further, there is to bs • ballot box, into
abieb papers can be ietredneed, but from which they
cannot be withdrawn without the box being unlocked.
Before the polling begins the presiding offioar mart
show the agents of the candidates that the box is
empty. When the afloat delivers • ballot paper bet.
to mark on the counterfoil the voter's number on the
register ; the voter then goes Ado the secret cionapart-
ment and puts his cross against 'his candidate's name,
folds tip the paper so di to show the mark os the back,
exhibits it to the offiaer, and deposit' it in the box.
As soon am the voter ha; done this he mad quit the
polling dation. At the does of the poll the officer
shall, in the presence of the eandldates' manta, seal VP ,
the tionnterfods„ and send them to the clerk of the
Crown ; next open the box, unfold the papers without
looking at their fee.., plus mob back upward', and
seal them up. The used and unused ballot papers are
eli to be sent to the returning-officer, whose duty ill,
(without looking at the basks of the papers) to emit
thsen, and then at once seal up the PsiOn•
which are thereupon to be delivered to the uterk
of the Crown. The result of the poll will be
advertised by the returning officer. The Secretary of
State will have power to make rules as to the secret
comportment', ballot boxes, papers, he. At the end of
two years all the papers Crete be destroyed. In the
meantime the counterfoil will be taken as proof at law
of a person having voted, but the ballot paper shell
not be inspected until tha feet of the vote ham(' been
given is proved and It. invalidity declared.
Clauses 17 to 20 relate to election offences, and Uwe
are also some emandmonts of the Corrupt Plastics,
Let".
PILOPOSID Amornmsays.—Mr. Paweed Weeds to
move that the prevision throwing the expenses of
elections on eendi&tes shall be expunged. Sir Chad".
Mike will moss that the bollot papers shall be burnt,
instead of Wog sent to the Clerk of the Crown. Mr.
14 Smith will propose a ne or clause to shut public-houses
no polling days until four in the afternoon. Mr.
Torrens will endeavour to substitute cards for ballot PviPart-

TIIE CHARGE AGAINST THE "MONAR.CH"
DIRECTOR&
At the Mansion house the Hon. Augustus George
Fradeeick JocelYn, Mr. George Edward &diner, Mr.
John Willism eirDligi.. Mr. W. J. Flartvard, Mr.
Joesph Taylor, Mr. F.
_Wright, and Mr. W. H. Hodges,
have been severed times before the Lord Mayor oh•rged
with having published • false belvetie-sheet.
Mr. Frederick Msynard, the offload liquidator of the
°elapse', produced a prieted balsoosupeeet of the 030 M -
Mil with the repoit tanned, Lod said he found shout
700 or 800 of them at the offices of the company.
Mr. Ribton objected to the behmele-Itheet being put
in evidence, on the ground that it bad never been cir-
culated, issued, or approved of by the directors.
Mr. Lewis said it win hailed.
Mr. Digt,, tieytocuar said Mr. &timer had aever
seen It.
Mr. Besley said the prosecutor had offered any bribe
to obtain • copy of it.
Mr. Bryson added that it had been surieptitionsly
obtained.
.- Mr. Lewis said it bad beeu anted to the °wintry
shareholders, and he produced one of them.
Witness oontiatied : I orodnoe the manuscript of the
bninnes-sheet, idgeed by Major Carnegie, ris shams& of
the meeting se the 28th of Fel:weary. 1070. (The
natures were admitted.) In it the subseribed elui
was put down lit £71,000 less £40,000 paid. Ale in.
ventmentes end oash at bankers were put as £30,4436, but
Users was only a balsam of £476. The profitPerDOPl.
to be E-5,700. *her Payment of all expeliese- The com-
pany owed in March last 00.000, but the assets were
shoat £l,OOO only.
The defesidauts asrward, Wright end Hodges_ did
not appear. Wriglit's absesee was attributed to his
detention at Retalogse by wises indisposition. A
warrant had hese giented for the apprehension cif
Radon, bat the taw bad dot bats able to anal lata.