Mode of Working Plan.

The mode by which this is proposed to be reached is ingenious, and at the first glance may appear com- page 23 plex, but when understood is simple in the extreme. Existing single seats are grouped up into natural combined districts; (Mr. Hare's plan, of which this is a modification, threw the whole country into one electorate); the number of seats for such combined district having been fixed, candidates, to any number and from any place, are nominated in writing, each by such section of the electors, or even individual electors, as may wish. For the purpose of taking the vote polling places may be opened, as at present, in such number of places in the combined district as may appear needful for the collecting of the voting papers, (it has been proposed that the whole collection could be done through the post, but this is no part of the Society's proposal). Every voter receives on the polling day a paper containing an alphabetical list of the candidates proposed throughout the entire district—the names having some time previously been published in the newspapers—and against the names in this paper the voter marks the candidates in the order in which he prefers them, marking one, a few, or all of the names, as he may elect. This paper given in, the voter's work is done: so that the charge of the system being complex is not true, at all events as relates to the duty of the voter.