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County Councils.
6. The following regulations shall apply to the election of a A.D. 1886. councillor in an electoral division other than a quarter sessions. Mode of borough, that is to say,-
election of councillors
(a.) A person shall not be entitled to give more than one vote for electoral for each vacancy, nor to vote in or for more than one electoral divisions division.
not being quarter (b.) The votes at the election of councillors shall be taken by ssions
ballot.
borough.
(c.) The term of office of a councillor shall be three years. (d.) On the ordinary day of election of councillors in every year one third of the whole number of councillors for the division shall go out of office, and their places shall be filled by election.
Wardens.
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7.-(1.) The wardens shall be fit persons elected by the council, Regulations with the exception that the lord lieutenant of the county and the to war- chairman of the quarter sessions of the county shall be ex officio wardens, and if there are more chairmen of quarter sessions than one in the county, then such one of those chairmen as the quarter 20 sessions determine shall be ex officio wardens.
(2.) The number of elective wardens shall be the number specified in the first schedule to this Act, being one third of the number of elective councillors.
(3.) A person shall not be qualified to be elected or to be an 25 elective warden unless he is a councillor or qualified to be a
councillor.
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(4.) If a councillor is elected to, and accepts, the office of elective warden he vacates his office of councillor.
(5.) The term of office of an elective warden shall be six years. (6.) On the ordinary day of election of wardens in every third year one half of the whole number of elective wardens shall go out of office, and their places shall be filled by election.
(7.) At the first election of wardens after the passing of this Act, the following chairmen appointed by quarter sessions shall be 35 wardens in the same manner as if they had been elected to that office in pursuance of this Act, that is to say, the chairmen of the permanent committees appointed by the court of quarter sessions not exceeding one fourth of the whole number of elective
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