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Rh the receipt of the notice, and when it is decided to have been a wrong registration, it shall be at once erased and the circumstances communicated to the Chocho, Soncho, Shicho, or Kucho of the place in which the person in question is residing at the same time publishing the fact in the election district.

—When either the person who has given the notice, or the person about whom it has been given, is not satisfied with the decision of the Chairman of Election, he may, within seven days from the day on which the said decision was given, institute against the Chairman of Election a suit in a Court of First Instance.

—Upon the receipt of the suit mentioned in the preceding Article, the Court shall promptly proceed to the trial of the case, irrespective of its calendercalendar [sic].

—No appeal is allowed against the judgment of the Court of First Instance mentioned in the preceding Article, but it is permissible to bring an appeal to the Court of Cassation for revision.

—The 15th of June shall he the date on which the electoral list shall be finally settled, and it shall be maintained as it then may be until the day of compilation the following year. When, however, any correction is to be made in pursuance of the judgement of a Court of Law, the Chairman of Election shall make the said correction within twenty-four hours from the receipt of such judgement, and shall communicate the circumstance to the Chocho, Soncho, Shicho, or Kucho of the place in which the person, who bas given the notice, or the one about whom the notice has been given, is residing, at the same time publishing the facts within the election district.

—Voting shall take place ordinarily on the 1st day of July. In the case, however, of the dissolution of the House of Representatives, the date of an extraordinary election shall be fixed and proclaimed by Imperial Ordinance, at least thirty days beforehand.

—The voting place shall be opened in the Town or Village Office or in some other place named by the Chocho or the Soncho and shall be put under the management of the Chocho or Soncho.

—When the number of electors in a Town or a Village is pot numerous enough to require the opening of a voting place, several Towns or several Villages or both, may be united for the purpose.

In this cage, the Guncho shall, subject to the approval of the Governor of the Fu or Ken, determine the Towns or Villages to be thus united, the voting place, and the Chocho or Soncho under whose management the voting place is to be put.

—The Chocho or the Soncho shall nominate not less than two and not more than five witnesses among the electors of the election district under his management, and the notice of the nomination shall be sent to the persons nominated at least three days previous to the day of election, requesting them to attend the voting place on that day.

The witnesses cannot decline their nomination without proper reasons.