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Declaration to be made by Returning Officer
(or other Officer as required by Law.)

I Frederick Taylor do
hereby declare that I accept the office of Deputy Returning
Officer for the Electoral District of West Downs, and
I do hereby promise and declare that I will faithfully
perform the duties of my office to the best of my
understanding and ability, and that I will not attempt
to ascertain for whom any elector shall vote; and that I
will not by any word or action directly or indirectly aid in
the discovery of same; and that I will keep secret all
knowledge of the mode in which any Elector has voted which
I may obtain in the exercise of my office, unless in answer
to any question which I am legally bound to answer.

Declared before me this eleventh day of April 1860

Wm Justice of the Peace