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78 list may object to any other person as not entitled to have his name retained therein; and any person so objecting shall, on or before the twenty-fifth day of May, give, or cause to be given, to the Returning Officer, and also the person objected to, or leave at his place of abode notice thereof, in writing, according to the form in the Schedule to this Act annexed, marked F, or to the like effect; and the said Returning Officer shall include the names of all persons so claiming to be inserted on each electoral list, in separate lists, according to the form of the Schedule to the Act annexed, marked G; and the names of all persons objected to in separate lists, according to the form of the Schedule to this Act marked H; within four days from the receipt of such last-mentioned claims; and shall cause copies of such several lists to be forwarded to the places aforesaid four days prior to the holding of the Annual Court of Revision, as herein-after provided; and the said Returning Officer shall likewise keep separate lists of the names of all persons so claiming as aforesaid, and also separate lists of the names of all persons so objected to as aforesaid, to be perused by any person without payment of any fee, at all reasonable hours during such four days (Sundays excepted), and shall allow any person desiring the same to take a copy of each of such lists, on payment of a sum of One Shilling for each copy so taken.

Returning Officer may object

11. The Returning Officer of every electoral district or division may object to any person as not entitled to have his name retained on any electoral list, giving, or causing to be given, such notice of objection as aforesaid; and he is hereby required to object, in the case of all persons whom he shall have reason to believe are not entitled to be retained on the said lists.

Notice of objection may be sent through the post.

12. It shall be sufficient, in every case of notice to any person objected to in any electoral list, if the notice, so required to be given as aforesaid, shall be sent by post, the sum chargeable as postage for the same being first paid, directed to the person to whom the same shall be sent, at his place of abode as described in the said list; and when any person shall be desirous of sending any such notice of objection by the post he shall deliver the same, duly directed, open, and in duplicate, to the postmaster of any post office within such hours as shall have been previously given notice of at such post office, and under such regulations with respect to the registration of such letters, and the fee to be paid for such registration (which fee shall, in no case exceed Twopence over and above the ordinary rate of postage) as shall from time to time be made by the Postmaster-General in that behalf; and in all cases in which such fee shall have been duly paid, the postmaster shall compare the said notice and duplicate, and, on being satisfied that they are alike in their address and their contents, shall forward one of them to its address by the post, and shall return the other to the party bringing the same, duly stamped with the stamp