Full text: Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

482 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART III 
one electoral district at any election or elections for the 
Legislative Assembly, nor to vote more than once at the 
same election. 
(1) Ratepaying Qualification. Enrolment on the citizen 
or burgess roll of any city, town, or borough, or any ward 
thereof, or the voters’ roll of any shire, or any riding, or 
subdivision thereof, in respect of ratable property in any 
division of an electoral district, qualified any person to have 
his name placed on the ratepayers’ roll, and to vote for such 
electoral district in such division thereof. 
(2) Qualification by Electors’ Rights. (a) Residential. Resi- 
dence in Victoria for twelve months, and in the same or 
some other division of the district for one month preceding 
his application for an elector’s right, qualified such person 
to obtain a residential right and to have his name placed 
on the general or supplementary roll, and to vote for the 
electoral district in which he resided. (b) Non-residential. 
Being seised at law or in equity of lands or tenements for 
his own life or for the life of any other person, or for any 
larger estate of the clear value of £50, or of the clear yearly 
value of £5, qualified such person to obtain a non-residential 
right and to have his name placed on the general or supple- 
mentary roll, and to vote for the electoral district in which 
such lands or tenements were situated. 
(3) An elector’s right for any district could not be issued 
to any person who had a right already for the same district, 
nor (if the application were in respect of a residential qualifi- 
cation) to any person who had already received a right 
“in respect of a residential qualification in any division of 
any district whatsoever’, nor to any person who was on 
the roll of ratepaying electors for any division of the district 
for which he sought to obtain a right; nor to any person 
who was receiving relief as an inmate of any eleemosynary 
or charitable institution other than a hospital. 
(4) Voters’ Certificates. The holder of a residential right 
whose name was not on the rolls in force for the division 
in which he resided, could, if he had resided therein for one 
month, obtain a voter’s certificate under the provisions of 
s. 23 of Act No. 1601 and s. 34 of Act No. 1864, authorizing
	        
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