On such demand as aforesaid being made for a Poll, the Polling shall be taken on the day so to be h'xed as aforesaid, the voting to commence at any time after nine o'clock of the said day, and: to close at four o'clock in the afternoon of the same day. " 44.— The Polling. The Polling shall take place before the Re turning Officer or his Deputy, and the voting shall be conducted in the manner following, that is to say,— 45.— Mode of Voting. Every Elector for the District may vote for any number of persons'not exceeding the num ber of persons then to be chosen, by delivering to the Returning Officer or his Deputy a Voting Paper containing the Christian names and Sur names of the persons for whom he votes, toge ther with their place of abode and description, and signed with the name of the Elector so voting, and setting forth his own place of abode and description. 46. — What enquiry may be made. No enquiry shall be permitted at any such Election as to the right of any person to vote except only as follows. that is to say, the Re turning Officer or his deputy shall, if required by any two Electors for the District, put to any voter at the time of his delivering in of his Voting Paper, and not afterwards, the following question?, and no others:— 1. Are you the person whose name is signed as (A.8.) to the Voting Paper now de livered in by you ? 2. Are you the person whose name appears as (A.8.) on the Electoral Roll now in force for the district of ( ) ? 3. Have you already voted at the present Election ? And no person required to answer any of the said questions shall be permitted or qualified to vote until he shall have answered the same, the first two affirmatively, and the last nega tively. 47.— State of the Poll in certain cases to be declared. 