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lease created for not less than one year, of lands or tenements,
and his name is similarly on the roll. But he can vote only
once at any election.
A person is disqualified from being enrolled or from voting
He
(@) He is receiving relief as an inmate of any charitable
institution other than a hospital ; or
(b) If during the three years immediately preceding he
has served any terms of imprisonment for periods amounting
in the aggregate to at least three months, and imposed
without the option of a fine ; or
{¢) If during such three years he has been convicted of
any offence against ss. 275-80 of the Act No. 1075, or against
ss. 204-9 of the Crimes Act, 1890; or
(d) If during the year immediately preceding he has been
convicted of having been an habitual drunkard, or an idle
and disorderly person, or an incorrigible rogue, or a rogue
and vagabond within the meaning of the Police Offences
Acts, Nos. 1126, 1241, 2093; or
(e) If during the year he has been convicted of an aggra-
rated assault on a woman or child ; or
(f) If ‘there is in existence against him an unsatisfied
maintenance order for the maintenance of his wife or child,
or children, legitimate or not.
Elaborate provision is made for the conduct of elections,
and for an electoral canvass to secure full enrolment.
By Part 4 of the Act, voting by post at elections for the
Assembly is fully regulated.
In Queensland the qualifications for electors are as
follows! :—
Every person not under twenty-one years of age, whether
male or female, married or unmarried, who has resided in
Queensland for twelve months continuously, being a natural-
born or naturalized subject of His Majesty, and not dis-
qualified or incapacitated, is entitled to vote for the district
in which he or she resides. Any person not disqualified or
incapacitated, (a) having a freehold estate of the clear value
of one hundred pounds above all charges affecting the same,
t See The Flectoral Acts, 1885-1905, as amended by 8 Edw. VIL No. 5.
