Decision The votiog paper having been objected to, the

objections. Eetuming Officer, his Deputy or AsseBSor, is em-
powered to put questions to the person tendering
the voting paper : s. 3 : a false answer to which,
amounts to a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or im-
prisonment not exceeding one year : s. 5 : and after
this investigation the Eetuming Officer, or his De-
puty or Assessor, may reject the vote, or receive and
record it, or receive and record it as objected to or
protested against. But if the objection offered to
the voting paper be, that it is forged or falsified, the
Eetuming Officer, or his Deputy or Assessor, must
receive and record the voting paper [q. the vote ?],
having previously written upon the voting paper
^' objected to as forged,'^ or " objected to as falsified,"
together with the name of the person making the
objection, s. 3.
Voting All the voting papers received and recorded, or

papers to 1)6

filed. rejected for informality, or on any other ground,

must be filed and kept with the poll-books; and
any person may, at all reasonable times, examine or
take copies of them upon paying a fee of one shil-
ling. 8. 4.
CHAPTEE V.
OF THE PROCEEDINGS AFTER THE FINAL CLOSE OF

THE POLL.
In Conn ties, on the final close of the poll, the Deputy in counties

must forthwith deliver the poll-hooks enclosed and

sealed to the Sheriff or his Under- Sheriff, who must

receive and keep all the poll-hooks unopened until Time of de-
claring the

the re-assemblmg of the Court on the day next but poii.
