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Definition of
treating.

Definition of
undue
influence, -

60 = Virgin Islands Constitution No. 7 of 1954.
and Llections.

person or for the use of any committee
room or office for the purpose of pro-
motivg or procuring the election of a
candidate;

(d) payments made in respect of
postage, stationery, printing, advertising,
the distribution of advertising material
and the use of any public address system.

92. The following persons shall be deemed
guilty of treating within the meaning of this
Ordinance:—

(1) Every person who corruptly, by himself
or by any other person, either before,
during or after an election, directly or
indirectly, gives, or provides or pays,
wholly or in part, the expenses of giving
or providing any food, drink, entertain-
‘ment or provision to or for any person
for the purpose of corruptly influencing
that person, or any other person, to vote
or to refrain from voting at such election,
or on account of such person or any other
person having voted or refrained from
voting at such election.

(2) Every voter who corruptly accepts or takes
any such food, drink, entertainment or
provision.

98. Every person who, directly or indirectly
by himself or by any other person on his behalf,
makes use of or threatens to make use of any force,
violence, or restraint, or inflicts or threatens to inflict,
by himself or by any other person, any temporal or
spiritual injury, damage, harm or loss upon or
against any person, in order to induce or compel
such person to vote or refrain from voting or on
account of such person having voted or refrained
from voting at any election, or who by abduction,
duress or any fradulent contrivance, impedes or
prevents the free exercise of the franchise of any
voter, or thereby compels, induces, or prevails upon
any voter, either to give or refrain from giving his