140 ROYAL SOCIETY OF f'ANAPA 



TbM the Township of Lunanburs comprehend all the lands betAveen La 

 Have River and the easternmost Head of Mahone Bay. With all the Islands 

 within said Bay and all the islands within MirligTiash Bay, and those Islands 

 lying to the southwards of thé above limits. 



That when fifty qualified electors shajll be settled at Pisiquid, Mlnas, 

 Cobequld or any other township which may hereafter be erected, each of the 

 said Townships so settled shall, for the encouracremi-nt be entitled to send two 

 Representatives to the General Aseemhly and shall llkeiwise have a right of 

 voting in the Election of Representatives for the Province at Large. 



That the House shall always consist of at least eleven MJembers present 

 besides the speaker, befor.? they enter upon business. 



That no person shall be chosen as a member of the said House or shall 

 have a right of voting in the Election of any Mamlber of the said House who 

 shall be a Popish Recusant, or shall be under the age of twenty-one years or 

 who shall not at the time of such election be possessed in his own Right of 

 a Freehold Estate within the District for which he shall be elected, or shall 

 so vote, nor shall any elector have mors than one Vote for each Member to 

 be chosen for the Province at large or for any Township and that each Free- 

 holder present at such election when giving his Vote for one Member for the 

 Province at larg.? shall be obliged to vote also for the other eleven. 



That respecting Freeholds which may have been conveyed by the Sheriff 

 by virtue of an Execution, the right of Voting shall remain and be in the 

 persons from whom the same were taken in Execution until the time oif 

 rederhption be elapsed. 



That no non-commissioned officer or Private Soldier In actual Service 

 shall have a right of voting, by virtue of any dwelling built upon sufferance, 

 nor any possession of Freehold, unless the same b'e registered to him. That 

 all the electors shall, if so required at the time of the eleotion, take the usual 

 Stale Oaths appointed by Law, and declare and subscribe the test. 



That any Voter shall at the request of any Candidate be obliged to take 

 the following Oath, which Oath together with the State Oaths, the returning 

 Ofl^cer is hereby enipo<w^ered to administer. 



"I, A. B., do swear that I am a Freeholder in the Township of , 



in the Province of Nova Scotia, and have Freehold Lands or hereditaments 

 lying or being a,t , within the said Township, and that such Free- 



hold Estates hath not been made or granted to me fraudulently on purpose 

 to qualify me to give my vote, and that I have not received or had by myself 

 or any person "whatsoever In Trust for me or for my use and benefit, directly 

 or indirectly, any sum or sums of money, office, place or employment, gift or 

 reward, or any promise or security for any money, office, employment or 

 gift in order to give my vote at this election, and that I have not before 

 been polled at this election and that the Place of my abode Is at ." 



That a precept be issued by His Excellency the Governor to the Provost 

 Marshal or Sheriff of the Province requiring him by himself or his deputies 

 to summon the Freeholders of the Province to meet within their respective 

 districts, at some convenient place and time, to be by the said Provost Marsihal 

 or one of his Deputies appointed, and of which he or they shall g-ive Twenty 

 days' notice, then and there to elect (Agreeable to the regulajtions hereby 

 proscribed) such a number of repre.=entatives as shall In the said precept be 

 expressed, agreeable to the preceding detail. 



That on account of the present rigorous season the preoeT)t for convening 

 the first Assembly be made returnable in Sixty days from the date thereof, 

 at which time the Assembly shall meet at such place as His Excellency the 

 Cirovernor shall appoint in the Precept. 



That the Provost Marshal or his Deputy shall be the returning ofllcer of 

 the ©lections to be held by him with the Assistance of three of the Free- 

 holders present to be appointed and sworn by the returning ofilcer for that 



