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The effect of this law may be illustrated by supposing, in the above case of Aberdeen, that the registrars had certified that Mr. Leith, Mr. Baillie, Lord Elcho, and Mr. Ellice had, and that no other of the candidates had, obtained the full complement of votes. Mr. Leith would then be returned as the second member. Assuming that Aberdeen were entitled to return a third member, that the other successful candidates were Lord Elcho, Mr. Baillie, and Mr. Ellice, and that none of the 250 votes given for Mr. Baillie had been appropriated to him, his quota being completed without their aid, by voters of the constituency to which he had offered himself, or the