of deviation, that the result may of necessity be accepted without the possibility of complaint.
It should be observed that the proposed law is now framed in contemplation of the cases of candidates who are found to have, amongst the unappropriated voting papers of different constituencies, more than the quota of votes; and the simple point to be determined is, which of such votes shall be actually and finally appropriated to the several candidates having such excess of votes, and which of such votes shall go over to another candidate standing lower on the voting paper.
XXIV. The registian shall, in the appropriation of the votes, proceed according to the following rules:—
A. If the candidate be a candidate for the representation of several constituencies, and shall not have been returned as a member for the constituency that appears by the gazetted list to be the first constituency for which be has declared himself a candidate, there shall be taken for him,
1, the votes polled for him in such first-named constituency;
2, then the votes polled for him in the second and third-named and other following constituencies, for which he has so offered himself consecutively;
3, then the votes polled for him in the remainder of the constituencies of the United Kingdom in the order hereafter mentioned.
B. If the quota of any candidate be not made up of votes polled for him in the constituency or constituencies for which he has, as appears by the gazetted list, offered himself as a candidate, then,
(a) If he be a candidate for a county or a division of a county, or other district, comprising within its geographical limits any borough or other local constituency, there shall be taken for him,
1, the votes polled for him in the constituencies comprised within such geographical limits in the alphabetical order of the names of such borough or local constituencies; and
2, then the votes polled for him in the boroughs or local constituencies nearest to any part of the external boundary of the said geographical limit successively, in the order of their proximity, so far as they shall be included within an area of [twenty] miles from such boundary;
