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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 280, 28 November 1870, Page 4

TO THE 1- LECTORS OF NEW ZEALAND. BROTHER "T^l-ECTORS— As the Election J___ of Members fe>r the General Assembly will shortly take place, I beg lo lay gefore you a series of questions to be put to those bemknien who may be desirous ot looking alter your intere sts in the House of Representatives. Most of ther-e questions are selected from a number carefully drawn up by a Committee <-f intelligent men in England, who had made themselves well acquainted with the laws of their country. 1. — Will you bind yourself to accept from no Minister place, promise, nr favor of whatever description, e*r to look for such ? 2. — Will you oppose eviry measure for the increase of Customs, and use your best c-n---1 deavourb to lessen or abolish them, and will * you seek to establish taxation on the scale , of property ? ! 3, — Do you bind yourself to resist by every » means every vote of money incurred or to be incurred for purposes that arc not strictly 1 lawful, or strictly necessary ? 4. —Do you hold the duties of a Member of the s House of Representatives to consist in pro- [ tecting the pockets, morals, trade, rights, and liberties of his constituents and the country against Ministers, or in having i opinions upon abstract subjects ? i 5, — Do you conceive the business of a Minister to be the enforcing of the laws that exist, or the making of new ones ? 6. — Do you hold the duties of a Member to consist in the enquiry into grievance s with a view to their redress, or in uniting himself to a party ? 7,_Do you hold that a Member requires any qualifications, such as the knowledge of Constitutional Law, and of the transactions in which the Government involves the country ? And are you possessed of that knowledge ? 8. — Can you declare, on your honor as a gentle man, that you will, on every occasion, without tear or favor, pursue every doubtful case to its issue, and enforce reparation when wrong has been done ? 9. — Will you do all you can to enforce the at--1 tendance of every member in his place whilst business is being carried on ? 10. — Will you, on the proposal of new measures, convene your constitutents, submit such measures to thtm, and be guidtd by their decision thereon in any vote which you give ? 11. — Will you resist any and every attempt to I tamper with trial by jury, either by accepting the verdict of the majority, or by abolishing the grand jury. 12. — Will you try every means to exclude placemen from the House of Representatives ? ! 13.— Will you hold the Minister to be the person • whom you are sent neither to support nor i oppose, because of his opinions, but to supervise and to control in regard to his acts? 14. — "Will you hold yourself to be commissioned 1 to represent, not the opinions of any class, s but the grievances and wants of your conS stituents ; and, as a juryman, bound in . your conscience to give a true verdict in all matters suhmitted to you ? 15. — Do you hold the functions of a Minister to "1 consist in the introduction of sp-culative _ measures of legislation, or in the aelminist. aD tion oi the Colony ? And will you resist every legislative proposal emanating from r the Government, on the grounds that it is a k falsification cf their duties, and consequently a normal obstruction eif public business ? ~. 16. — "Will you strenuously exert yourself to get ""* the nefarious Pension Act abolished ? c 2126 AN ELECTOR b BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED *•' AMD 5, TASTEFULLY BOUND 0 JUST RECEIVED AND ON SAM AT d° k, i_ TCAS & S ON ' S ' ' BRIDGE STREET.