§ MR. COLMANasked the Vice President of the Council, Whether the attention of the Education Department has been called to the fact that at the recent triennial election of the Attleborough School Board a candidate having been duly nominated and returned at the head of the poll, the returning officer refused to declare him elected, on the ground that he had absented himself during six successive months from the meetings of the Board going out of office; and, whether such refusal is according to law?
§ VISCOUNT SANDONWe have received a letter from a gentleman at 993 Attleborough informing us that he was duly nominated for the school board of that place, and was returned at the head of the poll, but that the returning officer refused to declare him elected on the ground that he had absented himself for six successive months from the meetings of the board then going out of office. We are advised that we have no power to decide in such a case, and that the question whether such refusal is according to law must be decided by the ordinary tribunals.