WRIT OF ELECTION. 
131 
GREETING. 
Whereas by the advice of our Privy Council for Canada 
We have ordered a Parliament to be holden at Ottawa 
on the day of [Omit this preamble except in 
case of a General Election], We command you that notice 
of the time and place of election being duly given You do 
cause Election to be made according to law of a Member to 
serve in the House of Commons of Canada for the Electoral 
District of [Except in the case of a General 
Election insert here in the place of deceased or 
otherwise stating the cause of vacancy] and [except in 
the Electoral Districts mentioned in s. 2 of 37 Vic. ¢. 9] 
that you do cause the nomination of Candidates at such 
Election to be held on the day of next and 
that you do cause the name [or names] of such member 
for members] when so elected whether he [or they] be 
present or absent to be certified to our Clerk of the Crown 
in Chancery on or before the day of next. 
WirNEss Our Right Trustv and Well-beloved &ec., 
Governor-General of our Dominion of Canada at our City 
of Ottawa, the day of in the year of 
Our Reign and in the year of Our Lord 18 . 
Where a vacancy occurs in any Electoral District owing Vacancies 
to death, resignation or other cause, the fact of the vacancy 
is brought to the Speaker's notice in either of two ways, 
(1) by a member giving notice from his place, or (2) by a 
notice in writing under the hands and seals of any two 
members, 
The usual form of notice is as follows: 
Dominion of Canada) House of Commons, 
To wit 
To the Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons. 
We the undersigned hereby give notice that a vacancy 
hath occurred in the representation in the House of Commons 
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