III.  Afrika.  940  1  51.  Or.-Riv.-  Col.

so  appointed  shall  have  all  thıe  powers  and  perform  all  the  duties  of  the  Commissioner
in  whose  place  he  is  appointed.  The  Commissioners  shall  proceed  in  accordance
with  the  Regulations  prescribed  in  the  First  Schedule  to  these  Our  Letters  Patent.

XIV.—(1.)  The  Commissioners  shall  submit  to  the  Governor—

(a.)  A  list  of  electoral  divisions,  with  the  names  given  to  them  by  the  Conimissioners,
  and  a  description  of  the  boundaries  of  every  such  division;

(b.)  A  map  or  maps  showing  the  electoral  divisions  into  which  the  Colony  has
been  divided;

(c.)  Such  further  particulars  as  they  consider  necessary.

(2.)  The  Governor  may  refer  to  the  Commissioners,  for  their  consideration,
any  matter  relating  to  such  list,  or  arising  out  of  the  powers  or  duties  of  the  Commissioners.


(3.)  The  Governor  shall  publish  the  names  and  boundaries  of  the  electoral
divisions,  as  finally  settled  by  the  Commissioners,  in  the  “Gazette,”  and  tlereafter
until  there  shall  be  a  redivision,  the  electoral  divisions  so  named  and  defined  sha'l
be  the  electoral  divisions  of  the  Colony,  and  each  such  division  shall  return  one
member  to  the  Legislative  Assembly.

(4.)  If  any  discrepancy  shall  arise  between  the  description  of  the  divisions  and
the  aforesaid  map  or  maps,  the  description  shall  prevail.

XV.  The  Governor  shall  cause  to  be  compiled  from  the  list  of  qualified  voters
&amp;  list  of  the  voters  resident  in  each  electoral  division  of  the  Colony  as  defined  by
the  Commissioners  at  the  date  of  the  commencement  of  the  framing  of  the  aforesaid
first-mentioned  list,  and  the  list  so  compiled  shall  be  the  register  of  voters  for  such
division  until  a  new  register  is  made  as  hereinafter  prescribed.

XVI.  There  shall  be  a  biennial  registration  of  voters  in  every  electoral  division
commenced  not  later  than  the  last  day  of  December  in  the  year  next  but  one  after
the  commencement  of  the  last  preceding  registration,  and  so  on  during  each  successive
biennial  period.  The  first  biennial  registration  shall  be  commenced  not  later  than
the  last  day  of  December  1909.

XVII.  Upon  the  completion  of  the  voters’  lists  made  in  pursuance  of  the
second  biennial,  and  thereafter  of  every  alternate  biennial,  registration,  the  Colony
shall  be  redivided  into  electoral  divisions  for  the  purpose  of  the  election  of  Members
of  the  Legislative  Assembly.

XVIII.  For  the  purpose  of  every  such  redivision,  the  Governor  in  Council  shall
sppoint  three  Commissioners  as  hereinbefore  prescribed  in  the  case  of  the  first  division
of  the  Colony  into  electoral  divisions,  and  the  provisions  of  these  Our  Letters  Patent
with  reference  to  the  said  first  division  of  the  Colony  shall  apply  in  the  case  of  every
such  redivision,  provided  that  the  Commissioners  shall  proceed  in  accordance  with
the  Regulations  prescribed  in  the  Third  Schedule  to  these  Our  Letters  Patent,  and
that  for  the  Governor  in  the  provisions  aforesaid  shall  be  substituted  the  Governor
in  Council.

XIX.  Any  redivision  of  the  Colony  made  as  aforesaid  shall  come  into  operation
at  the  next  general  election  held  after  the  completion  of  the  redivision,  and  not  earlier.