138 THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. 
an election. Corrupt practices include bribery, treating, 
undue influence, or personation. 
Trial of The Act confers jurisdiction to try Election Petitions on 
Petitions. 5 
the following Courts: 
in Quebec : the Superior Court of the Province ; 
in Ontario: the Court of Appeal, and the High Court 
of Justice of the Province; 
in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward's Island 
and the North West Territories: the Supreme Court; and 
in Manitoba : the Court of Queen's Bench of the 
Province. 
A Petition may be presented either by a candidate or by 
any one who had a right to vote at the election to which the 
Petition relates. 
The Petition is heard before one Judge without a jury 
and takes place in the Electoral District, to which the return 
in question relates, unless the Court is of opinion that the 
trial could be held more conveniently elsewhere. ; 
An Appeal is allowed in Quebec to any three judges 
of the Superior Court of Quebec or of Montreal, and in the 
other provinces to the Court of which the Judge trying the 
Petition is a member. 
Such Appeal must be limited to a preliminary ob- 
jection, which, if allowed, would have put an end to the 
Petition, or to an Appeal from the decision of the Judge 
who tried the Petition on a point of law * 
At the conclusion of the trial the Judge makes his report 
s0 the Speaker who communicates it to the House. 
Appeal. 
f. OFFICERS OF THE HOUSE. 
The The Speaker is elected by the House? though after his 
Speaker lection he proceeds, accompanied by the members, to the 
Senate Chamber to inform his Excellency the Governor- 
IR. S.C.c. 9, 8 50. 2 B. N. A. Act, 1867, ss. 44, 45.