. .- 'Legilative Council (Elections). 1951.


 (7) All the ballot papers not rejected by the presiding officer
 shall be counted and a list kept of the number of votes given to
 each candidate and of the number of rejected ballot papers. The
 ballot papers which respectively indicate the votes given for each
 candidate shall be put into separate envelopes; all rejected ballot
 papers shall be put into a special envelope and all such envelopes
 shall be endorsed so as to indicate their contents, and shall be
 sealed by the presiding officer, and by such agents or witnesses
 present as may desire to seal them or to sign their names thereon
 in addition or instead.

 (8) The presiding officer and the poll clerk, immediately
 after the completion of the counting of the votes, shall take and
 subscribe respectively the oaths in the forms set out as Forms
 Nos. 41 and 42 in the First Schedule which shall remain attached
 to the poll book.

 (9) The presiding officer shall make the necessary number of
 copies of the statement of the poll in the form set out as Form
 No. 43 in the First Schedule, one copy to remain attached to the
 poll book, one copy to be retained by the presiding officer and one
 copy for the returfling officer, which shall be enclosed in a special
 envelope supplied for the purpose, which envelope he shall seal
 and deliver personally or transmit to the returning officer.

 (10) The 'poll book, the several envelopes containing the
 ballot papers-unused, spoiled, rejected or counted for each
 candidate-:each lot 'in its proper envelope, the envelope
 containing the official list of_ electors and other documents used
 at the poll shall then be placed in the large envelope supplied for
 the purpose, and this envelope shall then be sealed and placed in
 the ballot box. The ballot box shall then be locked and sealed
 with' the seal of the presiding officer and forthwith transmitted
 or delivered to the returning officer. The returning officer may
 specially appoint one or more persons for the purpose of
 collecting the ballot boxes from a given number of polling stations
 and such person or persons shall, on delivering the ballot boxes to
 _th' returning officer, take the oath in the form set out as Form
 No. 44 in the First Schedule.

 (11) The presiding officer shall, with the ballot box, transmit
 or deliver to the returning officer, in the envelope provided for
 that purpose, the key of such ballot box, the preliminary
 statement bf the. poll in the, form set out as Form No. 43 in the
 First Schedule and the polling station account furnished him in
 blank by the returning officer, having first caused it to be filled
 in and sighed by the officials of his polling station entitled to fees,
 and by the landlord thereof, if any. .