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Select Committee re: Election returns in the South Riding of Huron
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Select Committees are ad-hoc committees of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario with specific terms of reference to investigate and report on a specific issue. This committee began its sitting in February, 1868 with MacNeil Clarke as Chair. The final report, which appeared in December 1868, found that charges were accurate.
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The Select Committee Re: Election returns in the South Riding of Huron was created in response to a petition from Isaac Carling objecting to the results of the vote in South Riding in the County of Huron which had returned Robert Gibbons to the Legislature. It was charged that a large proportion of the votes had been obtained fraudulently and that a new election should be held.
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RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
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2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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Records of the Archives of Ontario, Series RG 49-81.
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Committee not found in Sage, Richard; Weir, Aileen. Select Committees of the Assemblies of the Provinces of Upper Canada, Canada and Ontario, 1792-1991: A Checklist of Reports. Toronto: Ontario Legislative Library, 1992.
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Wayne Crockett