MUNICIPAL ROLL PURGING

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2157, 25 May 1914, Page 4

MUNICIPAL ROLL PURGING

A LEGAL OPINION. SUGHfLY^OirPLiCATEp'' At the fast jn'ct-tuift of the Oiisfew Koroftsji Co-uiidl a letter wfrtteii hy the Town Clt?rk (>lr. Howry Allrnhftnlß) lo Mv, T. F. Martin, legal adv'isev t<i t'ho Kct Zc'iihiiKl Mnaieiiifll Associatimi, Was read, in. which * the- iVi'Her asked fojf ;\n epimon reg-afiiljiiis the scop? unci ivracticahil'Jty. off HcgiiTatwn .6 of regulatious untHttf Wio HWtetpa! C*?v|ip'rjiiiicfu* Act, lOCS-., which st-ft'tes: 'The fawn Ohxk fitelf oiftit fr<?nt£}.ro district; ■eicctors* tisfc the n'aijjo. of ovei'y peracm whose .siarn.o/ appears on. the disti'iot ojpctefs' roil ffti - tisp procctluifi ycHT iii rtepeet <jf a- TP'sjdOfVfein.l '9uaiil.isaiEt6i\, .and w'lii.), not tejng a eaiidida-te at : '?«t-li election, lias itofc vatod ofthor at iho /joiJoja] elpß.fcioK- of coii-iiciltei's of tjie. last olertiau of Jiayor held since the entry o{ his name on tt«* rdL • • •" In the ennvsi? of Im-lftgai osnt«t, Mr. .T. F. JHafttß said iliat "tho only op;p<irtv v ivity that the fowii Clofk has nt t;oi,iij%wp; wit ; )i 13 is by ynspftetJUg live foils tin ring the .iiltwvnl lietwcfi'ii the drey of eloctian Slid tX'io scaling up of i : hc fells," 'Bra tutorral of time referted to woitid bo iitcwttl* ing t<) tlio imnvliel , of electors that is required, to died: fto soils for duplifate voting and the ihrte diiys after tte anndoiiccsnent. of the flnii] figurfts alfcwL'd for ohjeptiim. 'Whilo tlicro- is naw no ctiUiy «ast tip&n tlio retaining officer to hn-nol thp »Hs to t'lie Town writ, $MqA JTr. 3faftffi, tliera is #j> legislivtivo enafitaent feAtdJWig the ivturning officer to allow the %i~n Olev'k te hispect t!io Jtiis' fb/r the: Dnqjoses ■of JRAgwlafioii 6 (faring the saw! interval.." It is no doubt to lie desii'ed thr.t .the saSio osp-'ress p.fovisioA should iio ■miide. hy op reftiiiatioi)., on the [Snhjeot of the.inspection «{ the rails I by tlio Town Cilci-k for the ptirooiso of I ilosHiatiffn No. 6." • '' '