Qualification 
     
     of Electors 
     
    
   
   
    
     Freeholder 
     
    
   
   
    
     Cap, 17. ‘III EDWARD Vii. 1903. 
     
    
   
   
    
     and above all legally recorded incumbrances of Free- 
     
     hold Estate, Leasehold Estate, or of Freehold and 
     
     Leasehold Estate, both together (as the case may 
     
     be) of the value of one thousand dollars or (in case of 
     
     a rental qualification) that I am in the use, possession 
     
     or occupation of premises in the City of the yearly 
     
     rent of, or assessed at two hundred dollars per annum, 
     
     and that I have not fraudulently or collusively obtain- 
     
     ed the same or a title to the same, for the purpose of 
     
     qualifying myself to be elected to .the said oflice ; and 
     
     I do swear that I will diligently, faithfully and im- 
     
     partially, and to the best of my ability, discharge the 
     
     several duties which appertain to the said office of 
     
     Councillor while I hold the same. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ So help me God." 
     
    
   
   
    
     QUALIFICATION 0F ELECTORS. 
     
    
   
   
    
     24. At the election of Mayor or of aCouncillor 
     
     or Councillors, there shall be qualified to vote thereat, 
     
     every male inhabitant of the said City and Common 
     
     thereof, and every female inhabitant thereof, 
     
     being a widow or unmarried, of the age of 
     
     twenty-one years and upwards who shall have resided 
     
     in the said City or Common for at least one year then 
     
     next preceding the day of such election, and who shall 
     
     be a British subject, and who shall have paid, previous 
     
     to the time of holding such election, all rates, taxes 
     
     and assessments then due by him or her, of which 
     
     payment the evidence shall be the receipt of the City 
     
     Clerk or City Collector to that effect produced at the 
     
     time of such voting, and—— 
     
    
   
   
    
     (1) Who shall actually and within the Ward 
     
     for which he or she shall vote, then be, and for three 
     
     months previously shall have been, actually, and in 
     
     his or her own right, the bona fide owner of the free- 
     
     hold of lands or premises in said City or the Common 
     
     thereof, of the assessed value of one hundred 
     
     dollars,——«