, 1880-07-28

all consider the present question a dubious
one. He would then refer to t he discus
SlonS IN the Goth meeting of the Council on
the 10Th May 1868 see printed Report p.
LXXXII . where the then 3rd CIownmem.
Der, our present Vicegovernor, stated that
she could we'll understand the ruiein $40 of
the Draft, that the party must have reSid-
ed 2 years in the municipality, but he could
not understand, why he likewise should
have had a fixed abode one year in
the elective district he was OF the opinion
that the rule should be confined to the
residence in the municipality" 1t will be
remembered that in 5 20 of the Draft of
Colonial Law the.term was originally pro-
posed l year, instead of 6 months, as i'll
the final law. 70 those remarks. the then
Governor Birch replied, that the rule
concerning residence l year in tho ell ectiyo
district lis based on , grounds, first, that
the probability is, that an individual in
the elective district itself will be elected,
aud that each OF the voters ought TO have
resided theIe for such Il time, that it can
be looked upon As granted, that he is some
what acquainted with the situation of
those individuals S, who may come under
consideration at the elections, and next to
prevent removals shortly before the election
from one elective district to another, with
the intention Of making himself ELI giblG'
this word must be a miStranSlation the
Danish is svalgberettiget'-Nin the latter
district, instead of in the one III which he
formerly lived" From this it will be seen
that the then Governor seemed most dis
tinctly to mean, that if the clause i'll ques-
ton. were not in the law. a person remov-
ing from the one district into the other,
could obtain for himself theright of voting
bnn0A also tIot SfpnSS iS lai1 y,ot an fJa
fact of the party being on the list, but on
the place where he is at the time of the
voting. Further, in the 32nd meeting Of
the Colonial Council, on the Doth May
1862, p CLXXXIII*-I the then Governor.
prompted by the then 3rd Crown member
IStakemann, proposed an amendment to
5 20 Of the Draft to the effect that the
term Of residence III the elective district
be altered from | year to 6 months, and at
the same time stated as reason for so doing
that he must g acknowledge that the peri
Oh of l year, prOpOSed1n the Draft and
taken from s 8 of the present Colonial Law
was longer than necessary, and might lead
TO an unreasonable state of things, in case
a person entitled to vote had in the course
of last year removed from one elective dis
trict to the other in tho municipality, but
had already resided for a good time in this
latter" 1t is then, as evident as can be-,
that all the stress was laid on the place
where the election takes place; the party is
anyhow only able to vote where he is. He
hoped that he had succeeded III convincing
some, that according to 5 Is of tho Coloni-
al Law u person cannot vote but in the
district where he is at the time the election
takes place.-AS already stated, the other
question as to whether the residence shall
have been for the last 6 months or no., is Of
no consequences, since the party in ques-
ton here was not residing at all in the
district ut the time of the election, and con-
sequently his being admitted to vote would
not in any way have altered the result.
He would only further add, that as far as he
had followed parliamentary discussions, and
he was also able 10 quote good authorities for
parliamentary usage in that respect, it was The
custom in all dubious cases-but Us previous
ly said, he did not look on this question as a
dubious one-not to pay attention to protests
against elections, unless they are of very
material importance and unless the facts
adduced could have exercised influence
on the result of the election we
have row here a declaration from the
voter himself of his intention to vote
for the gentleman returned at the last
election. In winding up, be had merely to add,
that he looked pom this matter merely as a
question of interest and one requiring to be
settled in fact, in the same light as the 4
electors who have protested against the stand
CT the majority of the elective board, mnst
be- supposed to have viewed the matter, as
likely to affect the general right of voting.
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