Have you already voted at the present election? [or, if the town be divided into wards], have you already voted for commissioners to be elected for this or any other ward at the present election
And no person required to answer either of the said questions shall be permitted or qualified to vote until he has answered the same; and if any person wilfully make a false answer to either of the questions aforesaid he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, or in Scotland shall be deemed guilty of perjury.