Sydney Corporation Act Amendment Act 1887 No 34a (NSW)

No. XXIII.

An Act to fiirthor amend the “ Sydney Cor- ac

poration Act of 1879.”	[28</t December,
1887.]

TXTHEREAS it is desirable that certain persons being tenants as Preamble.

hereinafter mentioned shall have tlie right of voting at elections for Aldermen for the respective Wards of the City of Sydney and for auditors for the said cit;y. Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, b)' 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 ;—

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1. Between the tenth day of June and the tenth day of July, Lists for citizens

both inclusive, in every year, instead of the lists prescribed by the eighth section of the “ Sydney Corporation Act of 1879,” hereafter called the Principal Act, lists shall be made by the Town Clerk of all persons qualified as hereinafter mentioned, in each Ward of the said

. City,

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City, to vote at elections of aldermen and auditors of the said City. Such lists shall comprise the names of every person (whether male or female) who shall, at the time of making out the said lists, he of the full age of twenty-one years, and who shall then he, and for the immediately preceding six months shall have been, the tenant of premises in that Ward of the said City for which any such list is being made out, and shall also comprise the names of all owners whether males or females of premises within every such Ward. Provided that no name of any person shall he inserted in any such list separately as owner and tenant for the same premises.

How lists to be 2. The said lists shall contain the names and qualifications of

made out.

all persons qualified as aforesaid, alphabetically arranged according to

the form in the Schedule A hereto.

Provision for ascer­

taining cumulative

3. The Town Clerk shall, from the receipts for city rates paid to the thirtieth day of June of each year, and given by the City Treasurer, ascertain the persons who shall have actually paid such rates, and shall in such lists place opposite to the names of the respec­ tive persons who shall have actually paid such rates the number of votes to which, iindcr the twelfth section of the Principal Act, such persons are entitled; and all persons named in the Citizens Polls,

votes.

W lio to have only

other than the persons who shall have actually paid such rates as

one vote.

aforesaid, shall he entitled to one vote, if at the time of voting any such person has still the same qualification mentioned opposite to his name in the roll of citizens. Provided that before any such j)erson shall he pei’mitted to vote he shall make and subscribe before the presiding officer a declaration in the form contained in Schedule B to this Act, and any such person who shall wilfully make a false declara­ tion shall he guilty of a misdemeanour.

W ords to be added

to question under

4. Section thirty-one of the Principal Act shall read as if the put to any person applying to A'ote, that is to say, the AA'ords “ and have you already voted at the present election for such Ward.” Pro­ vided that neither the said question in the Principal Act, nor such question as lierehy amended shall he required to he put to any person

section 31 of

following Avords had been added to the question therein required to he

Principal Act.

Avho shall make the declaration under the next previous section of this

Act.

As to by-laws to

5. The provisions of Part X III of the Principal Act, as to the making and enforcing of hy-laAvs, shall extend to the making and enforcing of hy-laAvs by the Municipal Council of the City of Sydney for collecting, by means of house to house visitation or otherwise, the names of all persons entitled to he enrolled on the Citizens’ Ilolls pursuant to this Act.

facilitate collection

of voters names.

Short title, repeal,

6. This Act may he cited as the “ Sydney Corporation Act Amendment Aet 1887,”-—and, upon the passing thereof, so much of the eighth section of the Principal Act as provides for the mode in Avhich lists shall he prepared, and is inconsistent AA'ith the provisions of this Act, and the Avhole of the eleventh section of the Principal Act shall he repealed. Por the purposes of this Aet the expression “ female” includes any married woman.

and interpretation.

SCHEDULES.

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TFentworlh Electorate Suhctivision.

SCHEDULES.

SCHEDULE A.

Ward.

L is t of Citizens for the year

Kumber in Cbri:?tuiii and Surname and Number of

Number. Nature of Qualification.

Rate Rook. Ko^idonoe. votes.

SCHEDULE B.

Voter’s DesJaration.

Voter’s Number [ ].

I, A.13., do hereby solemnly JccLiro that I am the person named in the roll of citizens now in force for the city of Sydney, my name being; numbered thei'cin as in the margin liereto, that I have not already voted in this AV̂ ard at this election, and tlmt I have still the qualification mentioned in the said roll.

Made and subscribed before me, | A.Ij .

this day of )

C.B., Presiding; Officer.