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. --*■DcStricb C-irlides.ELECTION PROTESTS.Never has there been an election in Canada at which so many •• protests” have been recorded, as the present. Both parties have a fair share of them, but the Radicals being the losing party in most instances, their protests, as n matter of cotir^, • I .1 r . I r • Ijoriiy of casc» these objections are a mere expression of disappointment by the unsuccessful candidate, and will end where i they arc recorded, on the Poll bool.* ; but in a few instances we 'notice seriou* objections, which :f followed up will no doubt prove fatal to the sitting members.— Among those may be mentioned the protect of the unsuccessful candidate for North Lincoln, winch we find in the .Viit’ura Chronicle. It is 33 follows.PROTEST.To Elias Smith Adams. Evpiire, the Reluming Oflicer appointed to hold the Election for the return of one Member to represent the North Riding of the County of Lincoln, in the Provincial Parliament.We the undersigned Electors fur the said Riding, do hereby Proltbl against vour re-turning William Hamilton Merritt as the'Representative for this Riding, for the fu!-* lowing reasons :1st— because the «nid William Hamilton Morvitt w as at the time of the commencement of the polling in JlarJiruplry—a writ j in the said Court having previously been ' i»ued again si him. which was exhibited to Lurvnzo Dutnngc Raymond, Esquire, acting agent of the said William Hamilton Merrill, and to Charles Rolls, Esquire, one of your Deputy Returning Officers. imme- 1 l •liutcly after the opening of the Poll at St. Catharines, on the morning of the twenty-ninth Jay of October last, and before a single vole was recorded ; and being in Bankruptcy, the undersigned contend that the saul William Hamilton Merritt was not elig'h.’e to lie ejected a* a Member to represent the Ruling—which objection was raised at the time, as will appear on rcfcrcnro tu the Poll Book.2nd— Bccaure the said William Hamil-1 ton Merrill when called upon hv an Elector for a Declaration of Qualification, un- . drr the provisions of the fourth and fifth I Victoria, chapter fifty two, before the commencement of the taking of Vote# on the first day of the said Election, peremptorily refused to allow his agent,Lorenzo Dnlmage Raymond, Esquire, to give in a Declaration, wnieh it appeared he had previously ■ taken before you as Returning Oflicer fur the Riding, alleging that the demand should have been made on the day of nomination, and that consequently he was not then hound to comply with the Elector’s demand.3-d—Because a sufficient Declaration . of Qualification is not now mode by the • said William Hamilton Merritt, not with- i standing live demand made by Cuphn Stin-1 son, as an Elector, agreeably to the above i recited Art 4- and 5 Vic. chapter 52, in the absence of which he cannot be legally returned by you as the Member to represent the Riding.4th—Because at the said Election one of your Deputy Rcturnmg Olficcrs, Charles Roll#, Esq., admitted the votes of several aliens, upon the production of your certificate as Returning Oflicer of tiicir hav'mg taken the oath of allegiance, which oath you had no authority whatever to administer—the individuals to whom the same was administered not coming within the provisions of the Statoi* X »nd *V Vie.
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Kingston British Whig
Kingston, Ontario, CA
Tue, Nov 12, 1844
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