BY E. L. PIESSE, B.SC, LL.B. 47' 



1913. 



1897. 



4. W. Jethro Brown . The Application of the Hare 

 System in Tasmania. 



{In Papers and Proceedings of the Koyal Society of 

 Tasmania, 1897, pp. 79-92 (supplementary pages). 

 Also as a ]xi>?rphlet, The Hare System of Election in 

 Tasmania, rejjrinted from the " Tasmania?! News," 

 May 13th, Uth, 15th, and lUh, 1897, " Tasmanian 

 News " Office, Hohart, Svo., pp. 1-13. Also in Law 

 Quarterly Review, Jan., 1899, XV., 51-70 [see 9]. 

 Also in The New Democracy, A Political Study 

 [see 10]). 



Discussion of the modifications of Hare's proposals 

 adopted in the Electoral Act of 189G— the country not 

 one constituency but divided into districts, the elector to 

 give preferences to at least three candidates, the pro- 

 visions for transfer of surpluses. Account of the elec- 

 tion in Hobart in 1897, and copy of R. M. Johnston's 

 analysis of the voting (see 3). 

 Reprinted in 19<(. 



1898. 



5. Catherine Helen Spence. Effective Voting: Aus- 

 tralia's Opportunity. An Explanation of the Hare Sys- 

 tem of Representation. 



f Adelaide: Shawyer and Co., 1898, pp. 1-28, ^vo.) 



The time occupied in the scrutiny at the elec- 

 tion in Hobart in 1897 (p. 13). Analysis of the voting 

 (as in 3), and remarks (pp. 19-22). 



1899. 



6. R. M. Johnston (Government Statistician, Tasmania). 

 Further Observations on the Plare System. 



(Government Printer ,. Tasmania, n.d. (? 1899), 



12 2?i?., 8?'o.) 



A comparison of the Hare system with the single- 

 member system, exemplified by elections in Tasmania. 

 An example showing that the Hare system gives pro- 

 portional representation. 



7. Tasmania: House of Assembh/. The Electoral Bill, 



1899 (Bill 4). 



See Introduction. The debates on the second read- 

 ing, in which the continuance of the Hare system was 

 discussed, are reported in the "Mercury" of 14th, 15th, 

 and 16th June, 1899. The debates in Committee, on 



