GASR_Colonial_Bills_176005_14

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twelve, and the Votes shall be given openly, and the poll kept
open till sunset, [boxed text] ^(dele) unless the Majority of the Freeholders
those present, shall agree to have it closed sooner, dele [end boxed text] And the
Sheriff shall then cast up the Number of Votes given for each
Candidate, and declare the holder who shall have the greatest
Number of Suffrages to be duly elected; and in Case of an
Equality of Votes among any of the Candidates, the Sheriff shall
have the Casting Vote, and in no other Case give his Vote.

And to prevent disputes concerning who shall be un
=derstood to be a Freeholder; Be it further enacted, by the
authority aforesaid; that no person who is not in actual
Possession of an Estate Real for his Life, or the Life of
some other person or an Estate of Greater Dignity, in Fifty
Acres of Land ^(or a lot in some Town saved according to Law) in the Parish for which such Election shall be made
shall be deemed a Freeholder within the meaning of this Act;
And any one of the Candidates may in Case he suspects any
Person going to give his Vote, hath not a Freehold within the
meaning of this act, object to such Person giving his Vote,
and require the Sheriff to tender him an Oath, or affirmation,
concerning his Qualification; which Oath or affirmation,
the Sheriff is hereby impowered and directed to administer in
the following words; to wit,

You shall Swear, (or affirm,) That you are
in actual Possession of a Freehold of Fifty Acres of Land in
your own right or the right of some other person ^(or a Lot in the Town of [blank space] saved according to Law.) in the Parish
of [blank space] And that you have not given your Vote before [crossed out word illegible]
in this election. So help you God.

And be it further enacted, That no Person under the age of
twenty one years, shall ^(be elected a Vestry-Man or) give his Vote, for the election of Vestrymen
in any Parish.

[left margin note] Stet [end left margin note]
[circled paragraph]
[circled word] [crossed out] Dele [end circled word] [end crossed out] [inserted word] Stet [end inserted word] And to Enforce the attendance of the Freeholders at
such elections, be it further enacted by the authority afore
=said; That every person Qualified to ^([crossed out word] Dele [end crossed out word] Stet) Vote for Vestryman in their
respective Parishes ^(The people call^(d) Quakers accepted) as hereby required to attend and give his
Stet [crossed out word] Dele [end crossed out word]
Stet Vote
[end circled paragraph]

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