SESSION OF 1884-'85. ticulars of the qualification as de- and if any person shall wilfully make a false "You do swear (or being a Quaker Penalty for making wilfully a false answer. Oath which may or Moravian, or other person ob- be administered to "jecting to an oath, do affirm) that any voter. "you are the same person whose name appears as A.B. in the regis "ter of voters now in force for the "that you have not before voted ་་ and no elector shall hereafter at any such election be required to take any other oath or affirmation except as aforesaid either in proof of his freehold, age, or other qualifica LAWS OF BARBADOS. tion or right to vote; and no person claiming to vote at any such election shall be excluded from voting thereat except by reason of its appearing to the sheriff upon putting such questions as aforesaid, or any of them, that the person so claiming to vote is not the same person whose name appears on such register as aforesaid, or that he has previously voted at the same election, or that he has not the same qualification for which his name was inserted in such register, or except by reason of such person refusing to answer the said questions or either of them, or to take the said oath or make the said affirmation. and X. At the close of every election, before the person acting as sheriff shall depart from the place of election, the candidates who shall have the majority of votes shall be publicly declared by the person acting as sheriff to be duly chosen vestrymen for such parish, and the names of the persons so chosen vestrymen shall be returned by the person acting as sheriff to the Rector of the parish, or in the absence of the Rector to the Churchwarden of the parish in which such election shall be held for the time being; but it shall not be in the power of such person to make any special return thereof unless it shall happen that any of the candidates have an equal number of votes, and upon such return he shall make and subscribe the following declaration before such Rector or Churchwarden, namely; 66 "I, A.B., do declare that according to my skill and judgment the return "by me now made upon the election of vestrymen for the parish of SESSION OF 1884-'85. "is according to the law of election and if any person who shall have acted as sheriff at any election of vestrymen within the meaning of this Act shall refuse to make and subscribe such declaration, the person so offending shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding twenty five pounds to be recovered as in the case of servants' wages on the complaint of any elector before any Police Magistrate, half to be paid to such elector, and the other half to be paid to the Parochial Treasurer of the parish for the use of the parish. Power and au XI. The sheriffs at all elections of vestrymen shall have and possess all the like thority of sheriff. powers and authorities for conducting such elections as the sheriffs acting at the election of members for the General Assembly have or possess. XII. Any person elected a member of vestry may either before or after taking his seat withdraw from the vestry by signing and addressing a letter to the chairman for the time being, signifying that he is desirous of withdrawing from the vestry, and if the chairman is satisfied as to the authenticity of the letter purporting to come from such person, he shall upon the reading of the said letter at the Vestry Board direct that the receipt thereof be noted on the next agenda paper of the vestry, and at the following. meeting the matter shall be laid before the vestry, and the chairman shall order the letter to be recorded on the minutes, and upon this being done, the seat shall be declared vacant. Provided always that if a Any vestryman may resign his seat as member of a ves try. If any member of a vestry dies, retires, or is absent from the Island for forty days at one time, another person to be elected in his place. LAWS OF BARBADOS. motion be made in the vestry that such letter of resignation be not entertained, such letter shall not be entertained, and such seat shall not be deemed vacant except a majority of two thirds of the members then present agree that such letter and resignation be entertained, and such seat be vacant XIII. If any member of any vestry shall die or retire from office in the manner mentioned in the last preceding section or shall be absent from the Island for a period of forty days at any one time, the parishioners duly qualified to vote at any election of vestrymen for the parish where such death, retirement or absence from the Island shall take place, shall on the second Monday following such death, retirement or absence of forty days from the Island as aforesaid, repair to the place provided by law for the holding of elections of vestrymen for such parish and elect a duly qualified person to serve in the place of the member who shall have died or retired or have been absent from the Island for the period aforesaid, and such election shall be determined in the same manner as is in this Act hereinbefore mentioned, and in case a poll shall be required for the determination thereof such poll shall be taken on the Monday then next following, and the same course shall be pursued and observed in all respects filling up the place of any member of vestry who shall have died or retired or have been absent from the Island for the period aforesaid as is required to be pursued and observed concerning elections of vestrymen on the first Monday in January in every year and subsequently to such Monday, or as near thereto as circumstances will admit. SESSION OF 1884-'85. XIV. A meeting of any vestry may be convened by any five members thereof or by the clerk of such vestry upon the requisition in writing of any five members of such vestry by a notice to the several members thereof forty eight hours at least before the time of meeting, such notice to be signed by the members or clerk convening the meeting and to specify the object thereof. XV. Sections two, three, seven, eight, and nine of "The Vestries Act, 1874," and section thirteen of "The Vestries Amendment Act, 1879," shall be, and the same are hereby repealed. XVI. This Act, and "The Vestries Act, 1874," as amended by "The Vestries Amendment Act, 1879," and this Act, and "The Vestries Amendment Act, 1879," as amended by this Act, shall be construed together as forming one Act. XVII. "The Vestries Act, 1874," may be cited for all purposes by that name or style, and this Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Vestries Amendment Act, 1884." CAP. III, (Assented to 31st December 1884.) BARBADOS. An Act to grant a sum of money out of the public treasury and to appro- WHEREAS it is deemed expedient to grant the sum of fifty two thousand three hundred and nine pounds pounds six Any five members may convene or require the clerk to convene a meeting of a vestry. Repeal Section. This and all other Acts relating to ves tries to be construed together as one Act. Short title, section. Preamble. |