smaller constituencies wonld be in a still more simple form, thus:—
Sir,—I certify that at a poll this day taken for a member to serve in Parliament for the borongh of Ashburton, the votes of 220 electors for the said borough were polled for the several candidates hereinafter named, being the candidates first named in the voting papers respectively, viz.:—
| George Moffat, Esq. | 150 |
| Sir James Weir Hogg, Bart. | 22 |
| Charles Seale Hayne, Esq. | 14 |
| John Hardy, Esq. | 10 |
| James Taylor, Jun., Esq. | 8 |
| George Pott, Esq. | 8 |
| Henry Thoby Prinsep, Esq. | 7 |
| John Gregory, Esq. | 1 |
And I have transmitted to you by the hands of ______________, one of the poll-clerks appointed and duly sworn to officiate at the said election, the said 220 voting papers.
I also certify, that it appears that sixteen registered electors of the said borough have not voted at the poll this day.
To the Registrar for England.
Another provision with respect to the duties of the returning officers will be that which relates to the returns they will be required to make of members for their several constituencies,—not founded upon their own calculations of the number of votes, but upon the casting up of the votes in the offices of the registrars, in which the votes polled in other constituencies are brought in aid. In these cases the certificates of the registrars will be the evidence and the authority on which the returning officers will necessarily act.
XXII. Upon the receipt by the returning officer of the certificate of the registrar, that the quota of votes of any candidate for whom a vote or votes has or have been given in the constituency of which he is such re-
