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This was a petition presented by the Police Commissioners of Dunoon for an order to regulate procedure at a forthcoming election of Commissioners.
The application arose out of the following circumstances:—In 1892 the Sheriff of Argyllshire fixed the number of Commissioners for Dunoon (a police burgh under the General Police Act of 1862) at twelve.
In December 1895, in terms of section 11 of the Burgh Police Act 1892 (55 and 56 Vict. cap. 55), the Sheriff divided the burgh into four wards.
In terms of section 37 of the Burgh Police Act, one-third of the Commissioners, who all represented the burgh as a whole, were to retire on the first Tuesday of November 1896, and thus each of the four wards was to have the opportunity of electing one Commissioner.
In September 1896 Mr Shields, one of the Commissioners, but not one of the four who were to retire in ordinary rotation, resigned office, and it became necessary that another Commissioner in addition to the four should be elected in his stead.
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