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DRAFT of a Bill amendiny the " Diseases in 

 Sheep Acts Amendment Act of 1878." 



60 VICTORIA, 1897. 



A BILL 



intituled 



An Act to amend the " Diseases in Sheep Acts Amendment 

 Act of 1878," in respect of Elections of Sheep Directors 

 thereunder. 



>E it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with 

 the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative 

 Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the 

 authority of the same, as follows : 



1. For the purposes of the First Election of Directors under Amendment of sheep 

 the Diseases in Sheep Acts Amendment Act (forty-first Victoria ^^1^1^' 

 number nineteen) to be holden after the passing of this Act, and for qualification and 

 all subsequent Elections of such Directors, instead of the words " five scale of votes - 

 hundred " in section five of that Act, the words " two hundred and 

 fifty" shall be read ; and for the purposes aforesaid instead of the First 

 Schedule to the said Act, there shall be substituted the Schedule 



following, viz. :- 



FIRST SCHEDULE. 



SCALE of Totes which owners or superintendents of sheep stations shall be entitled to 

 record at Elections of Sheep Directors. 



1 vote. 



2. In any case in which the returns made under the Diseases 

 in Sheep Act of 1866, or any Act amending that Act, are for a less 

 number of sheep than two hundred and fifty, the owners or occupiers 

 of the land in respect of which such returns have been made, shall, if 

 the same be wholly or mainly cultivated lands, have a right to vote at 

 the Elections of Sheep Directors on a scale proportioned to the carrying 

 capacity of such lands; provided that the carrying capacity of such 

 lands shall be taken to be acres to one sheep. 



Sydney : William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer. 1397. 



