HANKOW MUNICIPAL REGULATIONS.
Ch. XVII
Article 37. Persons having a right to vote at the Annual General Meeting, who are absent from Hankow, or are prevented by illness from attending,, are per- mitted to vote at the meeting by proxy through duly authorized delegates who, must satisfy the conditions required for the personal voting at the Annual General Meet- ing. Such. proxies must be deposited with and approved by the Bureau not less than three days before the Meeting.
Article 38. Persons participating in the Annual General Meeting shall be entitled to votes as hereinafter provided:-
Registered lotholders of the District shall be entitled to one vote in respect of Tls. 25.00 paid in land and house taxes under the assessment for the time being in force, in the calendar year immediately preceding the time of voting; and every person having so paid Tls. 150.00 shall be entitled to two votes, and every person having so paid more than Tls. 150.00 shall be entitled to one additional vote for every full sum of Tls. 75.00 so paid, up to a maximum of 12 votes in all.
Persons who are not lotholders of the District but occupiers of houses in the District, registered as hereinafter provided, shall be entitled to votes in respect of house-tax paid on the same scale as lotholders as provided for in the parpagraph immediately preceding, always provided that every such person must have resided in the District for at least one calendar year previous to the time of voting. Provided further that in the case of joint occupiers of a house, paying taxes as herein pro- vided, only one such occupier shall be entitled to vote, and, when applying for registration as a voter, as hereinafter provided, he must at the same time provide satisfactory proof in writing of the concurrence of his co-occupiers that he should be so registered as voter on their joint behalf.
Article 39. No person can have more than 12 votes in all (Articles 35, 36 and 37).
Article 40. The following persons cannot be registered as voters at the Annual General Meeting:
(a) Persons in the regular Administration Service.
(b) Persons in the Municipal Police Service.
(c) Persons legally recognized as insane, mad or deaf and dumb or disqualified
by the law of their own countries from voting.
Article 41. The following persons are deprived of the right to participate at the Annual General Meeting :-
(a) Persons charged with or on trial for crimes involving deprivation or limita-
tion of civil rights.
(b) Persons who are undergoing punishment for crimes. Such persons are fur- ther deprived of the right to participate at the Meeting for three years after the term of punishment has elapsed.
(c) Persons who are in arrears in the payment of taxes to the Bureau. (d) Undischarged bankrupts.
Article 42. On or before the 15th day of December in every year the Bureau shall cause to be inserted in at least three issues of one or more daily newspapers published in Hankow and printed in Chinese and English a notice to persons who wish to register as voters under Article 38, to make application in writing before the 31st day of December to the Secretary of the Bureau for registration upon a form to be provided by the Bureau. The Bureau shall consider the evidence adduced by such persons, and may register or refuse to register, according to whether in its opinion the necessary conditions in accordance with these regulations, have or have not been complied with. In the latter case the Bureau shall inform the applicant or its refusal and of its reasons therefor.
Lotholders of the District, who have satisfied all the conditions of these Re- gulations, should automatically and without application be included by the Bureau in the list of voters.
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