BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PROPORTIONAL REPRE- 

 SENTATION IN TASMANIA. 



By E. L. PiESSE, B.Sc, LL.B. 



(Read 12th May, 1913.) 



Introduction 39 



Bibliography 45 



Index of Authors o7 



General Bibliographies 57 



Appendices — The various rules proposed or used in Tas- 

 mania for the transferable vote 



1. The Electoral Bill, 1896 58 



2. The Electoral Act, 1896 60 



3. The Electoral Bill, 1899 63 



4. The Electoral Act, 1907 67 



5. The Launceston Voting System 72 



INTRODUCTION. 



Proportional representation was introduced in Tasmania 

 by the Electoral Act of 1896, in which a form of the Hare 

 system was used for two of the electorates of the House 

 of Assembly. 



The causes which led to the adoption of the Hare system 

 were thus stated by the late Mr. Justice Andrew Inglis 

 Clark in the following paragraphs, contributed by him 

 to the report by Messrs. J. G. Davies and R. M. 

 Johnston on the elections for the Senate and House of 

 Representatives in Tasmania in 1901 (^) : — 



The Clark-Hare system of voting was introduced into the 

 electoral law of Tasmania in consequence of the fr equent fail- 



(1) See Bibliography No. 16. 



