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Rh Electoral District shall, directly, or indirectly ask, receive, or take any money or other reward by way of gift, employment, or other reward whatsoever, for himself or for any of his family or kindred, to give his vote or to abstain from giving his vote in any such election; or if any person, by himself, his friends, or by any person employed by him, shall, by any gift or reward, or by any promise and agreement, or security for any gift or reward, procure any person to give his vote in any such election, or to abstain from giving the same, such offender shall, for such offence, forfeit the sum of Fifty Pounds sterling to the person who shall first sue for the same, to be recovered, with full costs, by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in the Supreme Court.

No action against candidate for costs or expenses of election

55. No action, suit, or other proceeding shall be maintainable in any Court of the said Province against any persons who may have been a candidate at any election for or in respect of any costs or expenses whatsoever in or about or relating to such election.

Remuneration to Returning Officers

56. For the remuneration of the Returning Officers, there shall be paid to them, in respect to the several matters and things by this Act directed to be performed by them, the several sums mentioned in the Schedule K to this Act annexed, and no other, and such payments shall be made by the Treasurer, in pursuance of warrants under the hand of the Governor.

Provision in the event of impediments of a formal nature

57. No election shall be held to be void in consequence solely of any delay of the holding of such election at the time appointed, or in the return of the writ, or the absence of the Returning Officer, or any deputy, or any error on the part of any Returning Officer or deputy, which shall not affect the result of the election, or of any error or impediment of a mere formal nature; and within the period of twenty days before or after the day appointed for the holding of any election, it shall be lawful for the said Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, to extend the time allowed for the holding of such election, or for the return of the writ issued for the same, and to adopt or cause to be adopted such measures as may be necessary to remove any obstacle by which the due course of any election may be impeded, and to supply any deficiency that may otherwise affect the same; Provided that any measures so adopted by the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, shall be duly notified in the South Australian Government Gazette.

Declarations to be made by officers before a Justice and to be transmitted to Chief Secretary

58. Every person who may, under the provisions hereof, be appointed a Returning Officer, or Deputy Returning Officer, shall, before he enters on the performance of any duty under the same, make and subscribe, before a Justice of the Peace, the following declaration, and the Justice before whom such