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