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 clerk, which is not easy of correction. The process of receiving the voting papers was pointed out with much detail in former editions. These are now, for the most part, superseded by the Ballot Act. As an additional provision, it is proposed that there shall be a tabular book kept at the poll by a clerk, having nothing to do with any other than the first name on the voting paper, and entering, as the voting paper comes to his hands, the number indorsed upon it in his book under that name. This tabular book is composed of a series of columns ruled vertically, one of which is appropriated to every candidate first named in any of the voting papers delivered to him. The form may be as follows:—

The names at the head of the several columns in the above table represent those of supposed candidates, and the numbers underneath the several names are the numbers on the back of