The rules of the Education Department for the election of
-School Boards in the Metropolis and in other boroughs have been issued. In the Metropolis the election is to be held on the 29th November. Official notice of the election is to be given on the 14th, and any candidate may be nominated for any district by any two electors, who specify the name of the candidate in writing, -on or before the 17th November. Such candidates may withdraw their names before the 23rd November. If on the 23rd November at 4 o'clock there are only as many candidates' names nominated for any district as there are places to be filled up, the nominated candidates are declared elected. If not, the poll is to be fixed for the 29th November between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. The -electors in the City are Common Councilmen, and in other districts are ratepayers. The voting in the latter is to be by ballot. The deputy returning officer, or the person presiding at the poll, is to give every elector of whose claim he is satisfied (and his being satisfied is to be final) a voting-paper to fill up,—in the City with the name of the voter signed,—in any other districts without any name ; and the number of votes to be given shall be printed on this paper, as also the right of the voter to distribute them as he pleases. All papers wrongly filled up are not to be -counted. There is to be no test of the authenticity of the voter, -except the declaration of the presiding officer that he is satisfied with his qualification, and there is to be no sort of condition that he shall have paid his rates. If any person who has no right to vote falsely personates a voter, and deceives the presiding officer, there is no subsequent remedy,—no means of detecting or striking -off the vote. The deputy returning officers, or their representa- tives, in those London districts where the eligibility of the voter is finally decided at the poll, will have an enormous responsibility.
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