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 vision shall consist of the Governor, the acting governor (Kár-guzár), one well-known local ecclesiastical authority, one Prince, two notables, and two merchants of repute. (In any place where one of the persons above-mentioned is not to be found, one of the notables or merchants shall be elected in his place.)

12. In large towns the Council of Supervision may form separate branches in each quarter, consisting of the Kad-khudá and five trustworthy inhabitants of the quarter, to give out the voting papers.

13. The Council of Supervision shall from its own members elect one or two secretaries.

14. The Council of Supervision shall be dissolved one week after the conclusion of the elections.

15. The elections throughout the whole of Persia shall be in two degrees.

Definition (i).—What is meant by election in two degrees is that first of all in the quarters of one city, or in the towns of one Electoral Division they shall elect a fixed number [of persons] who shall be called “the Elected.” After this the persons thus elected in the first degree shall meet in the centre of the Electoral Division and shall in turn elect from amongst themselves the requisite number. The persons thus elected in the second degree shall be the representatives.

Definition (ii).—What is meant by an Electoral Division is those portions of the Kingdom which, according to the schedule set forth in these Regulations, conjointly elect one or more persons and send them directly as Members to the National Consultative Assembly, irrespective of whether such division be under one or several governments. The centre of the division is that point where the elections in the second degree of the division take place.

16. The elections in the first and second degrees will in general be multiple elections, save in places which, according to the schedule of the Regulations, have only the right to elect one person. In such cases single election will be practised.