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COMPLETE ELECTION GUIDE:
THE
REFORM ACT,
2WM. IV. CHAP. XLV.
DISSECTED, ARRANGED, AND ILLUSTRATED
BY A
COMMENTARY
ON ITS VARIOUS PROVISIONS,
WITH REFERENCE TO THE GENERAL
HaiD antt K^vattitt of mtcUonfit
DIRECTING
ELECTORS, CANDIDATES, AND OFFICERS,
IN THE PROSECUTION AND EXERCISE OF THEIR RIGHTS, AND THE
PERFORMANCE OF THEIR DUTIES.
WITH
THE BOUNDARY ACT, 2 ^ 3 W. 4, c. 64.
BY GEORGE PRICE, ESQ.
OP THE TEMPLE, BARRISTER AT LAW.
LONDON:
JAMES RIDGWAY, PICCADILLY.
1832.
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V
?"
It is an observation proved by a great number of presidents, that
never any good bill vt^as preferred, or good motion made in Parlia-
ment, whereof any memoriall was made in the Journall Book, or
otherwise, though sometimes it succeeded not at the first, yet hath
it never died, but at one time or other hath taken effect ; which may
be a great encouragement to worthy and industrious attempts.
4th Institute, p. 32.
LONDON:
C. nOWORTH AND SONS, BEIL YARD,
TEMPLE BAR.
PREFACE.
It may be proper and of use to apprise the Reader
of the object and design of the present publication
of an Edition of the Reform Act, — as the statute
£ W. 4. c. 45. " To amend the Representation of
the People in England and Wales," (its proper
title,) — is commonly and conventionally called.
The object is to render the reading of that
statute more readily intelligible and more easily
legible generally; but particularly to the official
agents required by the Act to administer to its ope-
ration, and to such persons as may be interested in
the provisions and would avail themselves of the
benefits of this Law.
The means by which it has been attempted to
accomplish that object are principally these: —
Every division (by Section) of the Statute has been
again separately dissected and broken, by aid of
paragraphs, into the several distinct and often dif-
ferent enactments contained or embodied in each,
with a marginal sum of the substance of every
integral provision opposed to each enacting or
providing clause.
a2
248189
IV PREFACE.
Appended to the Act so dissected and displayed
is an analytical Commentary, embracing, compre-
hensively and succinctly, the principles and practice
of the new Election Law, with a minute reference
to every sentence of the statute, calculated to es-
tablish the accuracy or expose the errors of the
explanatory passages.
The Commentary is composed of propositions
for guidance in practice, made up of the various
and often numerous provisions, applying to one
and the same subject, found scattered in disjointed
and distant clauses of the Act, but here collected
together and united and arranged under the proper
head or topic to which each fairly belongs.^
Thus the several Sections of the Commentary
are confined to single subjects, following progres-
sively, yet not servilely and inconsequently, the
provisions of the Act, but as each step is to be
taken in order of time, from the first necessary
to registration down to the last measure required
to mature the right to exercise the Elective Fran-
chise, and the course of appealing from the adju-
dication of the revising barrister to the House of
Commons.
The several pages of the Act are all headed with
a running title of the substantial matter of the con-
tents of each, and the statute and the Commentary
• For example, in stating the first Qualification of Voters
for Knights of Shires, numbered 1 in page 12, the incidents
positive and negative are supplied from no less than five several
Sections of distinct provisions in different parts of the Act.
PREFACE. V
are made to refer mutually to and from each other,
wherever on the one hand the treatise explains or
expounds the Sections of the Act, and where on
the other the Commentary is sanctioned and jus-
tified by the terms of the Statute.
The mere wording of the Statute has been ad-
visedly varied, and other language has been used,
with a view to explain and enlarge the meaning of
the Legislature, instead of coasting cautiously along
each separate enactment in the very course and in
the very terms of the Act.
In executing the design of this undertaking bre-
vity has been mainly consulted. The Act itself is
given at large and in full, lest any omission should
give to that most inestimable work the semblance
of an abridgment ; or the forms and Schedules and
the provisions merely temporary and no longer of
use would have been omitted.
Respect for authority has induced the preserva-
tion of the Directions to Overseers from the Office
of Secretary of State for the Home Department.
The Order in Council making a temporary alter-
ation in the dates of the proceedings for the present
year, has however been excluded ; because it is but
temporary and has already partly passed away ; and
because the change it has effected may be stated
and disposed of in one sentence, simply by ob-
serving that the times appointed by the statute for
every act of duty required at the hands of official
agents have been, for the year 1 832, postponed to the
VI PREFACE.
same numerical days of the month next after that
which had been appointed for each.
The short forms prescribed have been introduced
into the body of the analytical Commentary, al-
though printed as originally in the Act; because,
occupying as they do but very little space, they
convey too much practical information to be re-
ferred to in a distantly detached Appendix.
To the new Law promulgated by the Act has
been added the substance of the existing Laws of
Election, preserved by express provision. That
has been done to make this compendium a com-
plete guide to general election business in all its
progressive stages.
Such is the substance of the plan and object of
the present publication, in which the practical
utility of a dissection of the Act, aided by a com-
mentary on its application, for the purposes of
election business, has been alone consulted.
Of the principle and political character of the
radical change effected by the passing of this law,
in the long-rooted practice and system of returning
members to Parliament, various sentiments have
been from time to time expressed, as interest, or
prejudice, or reason, has alternately dictated, but
the supporters of the measure have obtained a very
large majority of the suflfrages of the nation, and it
is sufficient to say the measure has been carried.
The Bill, on which this Act of Parliament is
founded, has been denounced by some as an attack
PREFACE. Vll
upon the constitution of the Country — an invasion
on corporate rights — and the first overt act of a
cherished design to effect a revolution in the State
of the Kingdom.
But now that it is become the Lex scripta of the
Land, it behoves us all, as good Subjects, to believe
that it is no further an attack upon the constitution
of the Country than every necessary sanative medi-
cament is to a certain extent and for a given time
an attack upon the natural constitution of Man, of
which, knowing the temporary nature of the imme-
diate disorder occasioned by the remedy, it would
be puerile and perversely peevish to complain.
Amputation and pruning are corporate invasions,
but submission to such invasions on corporate rights
is often a most necessary sacrifice to the soundness
of the state of the body or to the fructification which
gives worth and utility to existence. In this instance,
moreover, the decayed limbs of the tree here se-
vered from the trunk, have been replaced by en-
grafting on the parent stock other and more vigorous
shoots of most auspicious promise.
If the new Law be truly characterised as re-
volutionary, let us hope that it portends no other
than such as is that planetary revolution of the Earth,
made necessary by the benignant laws of Nature
to its permanent preservation — a revolution where-
by it derives from the solar influence and power an
equal distribution of the common good of light and
heat shed liberally and impartially amongst all who
inhabit therein — and as that secures to the terres-
VIU PREFACE.
tial body the maintenance of a due position in its
proper sphere, may this preserve to the body
politic of the Country the high station and pro-
sperous course it has long sustained in the political
system of the Nations of Europe.
Some unavoidable but well-meant remarks,*
* Frbm repugnance to the ungracious task of pointing oat
defective or apparently deficient provisions in this Statute, the
writer has abstained, even more than warranted by the exigencies
of the duty he has thus volunteered, from so irksome a part of its
performance.
It may however lead to a material amendment, to direct attention
to the two first of the three non obstante Sections, (24, 25, 26,) re-
strictive of the right of voting in respect of property' in the election
of Knights of the Shire, in order to eftect the removal of all ground
for cavil — no mean desideratum — in the constructive operation of
this generous act of Parliament.
The first of those clauses may perhaps be said to have negatived
that right, without any modification or exception, where the qua-
lifying freehold property of the elector is a house (&c.) in any
borough of such value as would qualify him for voting for the
borough, provided he should acquire tlie right to vote for such borough
not by occupation but in the other respects required by the Act,
(that is, should qualify himself fov voting by registtiing the property,
&c. for such borough,) whether he shall have done so or not.
It is much to be feared that this clause will be contended, not
without some show of reason, or at least of plansibility, to exclude
the owners of all freehold houses, &c. in boroughs, and of land held
and occupied therewith, whether occupied or not b^' the owner,
inasmuch as it was at any time and at all times competent to him
to qualify himself in respect of such houses, and to acquire, if he had
thought proper to do so, a right of voting for the city or borough by
means of the four qualifying requisites made necessary to his com-
petency by the four provisions of the 27th Section of the Statute,
that is, by occupying it, (&c.)
If that be so, what becomes of the operative effect of the clause
entitling freeholders, &c. in county towns and cities, generally, to
vote for Knights of those Shires which topographically include them ?
This is the more inconsistent with the general provisions of the
Act, as if on the other hand the freehold property should not be
of sufficient value, or the owner should have an insufficient estate
therein to give him a right to vote in a borough, town or city, or city
county, the owner may then vote for a knight of a county or shire in
PREFACE. rX
savouring of objection to the construction of parts
of the Act, which has been very unequally, though
respect of a qualification declared to be insufficient to qualify for
a town.
The oversight, if there be any, seems to be in not sufficiently at-
tending to the effect of using the word occupy. In the qualifying
clause (Section 27) occupation is made necessary to qualification,
and registration to voting. In the first of the four restrictive pro-
visoes, previous duration of occupation is made necessary to regis-
tration; occupation being so made a condition of qualification, there
is no provision that property in habitable premises or buildings, situ-
ate in boroughs, &c., not occupied by the owner, shall qualify for
counties, where the owner occupies another habitation or place of
business in the borough, which would qualify him for that borough.
Thus occupation, which was clearly meant to be only (amongst
others) a condition entitling an occupier to regisration, will be at-
tempted to be made the means of barring the right of an owner not
occupying to be registered in respect of the same property. This will
be put on the ground that had he occupied he might have registered,
hut that not having occupied, he is not qualified to register, and not
being qualified to register as he might have, but has not made him-
self by actual occupation, he has not acquired, as he could have
done, the right of voting for the particular borough, and therefore
shall not vote for either borough or county in right of that particular
property.
Now the question will be, whether such exclusion from county
election of members was meant or is enacted by the legislature or
not?
In the case of copyhold and leasehold property the exclosion is
still more clear and much more comprehensive.
The 25th section, as to copyholders and leaseholders, very con-
siderably extends the disqualifying enactment of the 24th, for it
does not even require that the property being a house, (&c.) in a
borough, in respect of his estate or interest in which the owner is
to be qualified for a borough, and therefore shall not vote for knights
of the shire, shall be " occupied by himself," as the preceding clause
does; but it goes also much further in another very material respect,
by providing that such property shall not confer a qualification on
the owner or entitle him to vote at elections for members of shires if
it be such as would (or might) according to the provisions of the
act (s. 27,) confer a right of voting for the city or borough in which
it should be, on him or on any other person, whether he or such
other person shall or shall not have qualified himself to vote for such
borough.
The consequence would be that no copyhold or leasehold property
X PREFACE.
for the most part admirably drawn, will be found
to occur in the Commentary. These have been
necessarily, though reluctantly, made, where the
imperfect wording of clauses has either been in-
adequate to the obvious purpose of the framers of
the Bill, or has obscured their meaning even to thfe
danger of defeating the intention of the authors of
the measure.
It could not be within the reach of hope, still
less of expectation, that on such a subject, so Co-
lossal, a law should emerge at once a perfect Chry-
solite complete in all its parts and most minute
proportions.
In this first detail of the practical means and
uses of the projected amendment, there are omis-
sions of necessary matter and an occasional ob-
scurity in some of the provisions which have been
introduced that must be regretted ; but these may
be yet amended when experience shall have shown
the evil and dictated the remedy.
The necessity of a revision of the fabric for the
situate in any city or borough or other place sending a member or
members to serve in parliament, can qualify by estate a voter for a
knight of the shire if he (the owner) do not occupy it himself, nor
does it qualify him to vote for a candidate for parliament in respect
of such propert}' any where, whether the place be county, city, or
borough.
The question will be, again, whether this distinction, or the opera-
tive effect of it was foreseen and meant or not ? It appears to be
unreasonable, and if so should be remedied, as it easily may be by
simply providing that the first of the four restrictive provisions shall
not operate to disqualify, as a consequence of omitting to register,
clearly meant to apply only to and to result from the other three.
If this cavil should hold, it will very largely disqualify — and pro-
bably much more so than was intended.
PREFACE. XI
restructure of defective parts in the mere masonry
of this legislative Pyramid, is widely acknowledged :
and to this end the urgent recommendation of a
great and staunch friend of Reform in his day may
here be aptly cited as matter of wholesome sug-
gestion.
Alluding to the necessity of some reformation in
the existing System of the Law, to which, with all
its imperfections, no man could be more sincerely
attached than that devout venerator of the legal in-
stitutions of his Country — the learned Lord Coke
thus concludes with a religious reverence the colo-
phon of his laboured Treatise on the Constitution
of our Courts. Having most ably delineated the
detailed proportions of the fair but faulty Pile, he
says,
** I shall heartily desire the wise-hearted and ex-
pert builders (justice being architectonica virtus) to
amend both the method or uniformity, and the struc-
ture itselfe, wherein they shall finde either want of
windowes or sufficient lights, or other deficiency in
the architecture whatsoever. And we will conclude
with the aphorisme of that great lawyer and sage of
the law, which we have often heard him say, —
* Blessed be the amending hand.*
Deo Gloria Sf Gratia."
CONTENTS.
Page.
THE REFORM ACT i to Ixxxvii
COMMENTARY 1 to 141
• CHAPTER I.
Introductoht? 1
CHAPTER II.
Division of the Subject 6
CHAPTER III.
Of Qualification.
Section 1. — Restriction and Extension of Qualification for Right
of Voting 9
Section 2. — Qualification (by Estate) conferring a Right to vote
at the Election of Candidates for Counties, and Cities or
Towns being Counties V2
Section 3. —Qualification for cities and Towns, being Corporate
Counties 18
CHAPTER IV.
QUAUnCATIONS FOR VOTING IN CiTlES AND BoROUGHS.
Section 1. — Borough Qualifications, entitling Persons to vote in
the Election of Members to serve in Parliament for Cities or
Boroughs generally 20
Section 2. — Old Chartered Qualification (permanent.) 21
Section 3. — Borough Qualification (ancient, temporary, and
personal.) 22
b
XIV CONTENTS,
Vigt.
CHAPTER V.
Duties of Overseers, &c.
Section 1. — Lists (of Voters for Coanties) to be made out by
Overseers, from Notices of Claims; for Boroughs, 6cc. by
Overseers and Town Clerks, Clerks of Livery Companies,
and Returning Officers of London 24
Section 2. — Borough Lists to be made by Overseers and Town
Clerks 35
Section 3. — Framing the London list of Voters 47
CHAPTER VL
Of the Froceeqinos necessary to effect the Voter's Registra-
tion.— S. 38.
Section 1 49
•Section 2. — Acts of Parties necessary (in prosecuting their claim
to vote) for effecting the registration of their names and
qualifications 51
Section 3. — In Boroughs 55
Section 4i. — In London 56
CHAPTER VU.
Oejecting (to Enlistment Voters) by Claimants op Right op
Voting — (Counties).
Section 1. — Objecting by Persons claiming or listed as Voters
to the Title of others to vote or be enlisted amongst Voters . . 58
Section 2. — Objecting to City and Borough Voters generally . . 61
Section 3. — Objecting in London to Parties in Livery Lists. . . 63
CHAPTER VIII.
Objection to Voters on ground of Personal iNCAPAcrtY or
Incompetency 66
Section 2. — Objections from other incidental Causes denying to
Parties the Right to Registration for Counties only 72
CONTENTS. XV
Page.
Section 3. — Objections ou Incompetencv to vote for Counties
from incidental Causes, where Party is already registered 72
Section 4. — Objections of personal Incompetency to vote for
Cities and Boroughs for want of Right to Registration .... 73
Section 5. — Objections to Voting distinguished from Objections
to being registered 73
CHAPTER IX.
Revisal op Lists of Voters, Appointment and Business op Re-
vising Barrister, and the Holding of his Courts.
Section 1. — ^Revising Barristers— Objects, Course, and Business
of Revisal 77
Section 2. — Power of Appointment in the Chief Justices and
Senior Judges on Circuits 78
Section 3. — Establishment of Courts, Duties and business of
revising Barristers therein as to Lists of Voters for Counties 79
Section 4. — Revising Barrister's first Court for Counties 81
Section 5. — Objections by Electors, and Adjudication thereon 83
Section 6. — Correcting Mistakes in supplying Omissions of
matter from County Lists 85
Section 7. — Adjudication of Claims of Persons omitted 86
Section 8. — Duties of Revising Barristers and Business of Courts
for Boroughs 87
Section 9. — Power of Adjournment, &c. (general.) 88
CHAPTER X.
Result of Revisal and Effect of Decision 93
CHAPTER XI.
The Registers.
Formation of Registers of Electors to vote at Elections in the
Choice of a Member or Members to serve in Parliament for
Counties, and Divisions of Counties, Cities and Boroughs. . . 95
XVI CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XIL ^''*'
Candidates for Representation of the People in Parliament,
AND their Qualification.
Section 1. — Candidates 99
Section 9. — QualificatJoD of Candidates 100
Section 3. — Disqualifications for sitting in Parliament as Mem-
bers of the House of Commons lUS
CHAPTER XIII.
AtrrBORmr for and Preliminaries to General Election . . 106
CHAPTER XIV.
Polling Votes.
Section 1. — Commencement and Conduct of Polls for Election
of Members for Counties 108
Section 2. — Commencing and Conduct of Poll at Elections for
Corporate Counties, or Cities and Towns being Counties and
Corporate Towns, or other Cities and Boroughs 112
Section 3. — Exception of Monmouth and contributory Boroughs
of Wales, and Special Provisions respecting 1 14
Section 4. — Provisions as to certain Boroughs 115
Section 5.— Polling (generally) — Oaths under Reform Act and
other Statutes to be administered to Electors 116
Section 6. — Adjourning the Poll in case of violent Obstruction
of Proceedings 119
Section7. — Final Close of Poll, Declaring State of Poll, and
Proclaiming Members chosen ISO
CHAPTER XV.
Retorn to be made by Sheriffs and their Deputies, and other
Returning OpncERa, of Members to serve in Parliament.
Section 1.— Returning OflBcers 121
Section «.— The Return , 123
CONTENTS. XVll
CHAPTER XVI. "***
Of P£titionihc^jwgaik6t Return or Election of Members.
Section 1.— Right of |*etilJon conferred or reserved by the 60th
Section of the 2 W. 4, c. 45 125
Section 2. — Nature and Ground-work or Foundation of Peti-
tions to the House of Commons against undue Retams .... lot
Section 3. — Summary of Course of Practice in Proceeding on
Petitions t.S3
Section 4. — Select Committee 135
Section 5. — Trial of PeHliou 1 J6
Section 6. — Hearing 1 ;>G
Section 7.— Report 1.J7
CHAPIER XVII.
Penalty of of'^OO by Action against ah. Pehsons having Act
TO DO OR DirriM to perform under this Statute contra vemno
ITS Provisions — Exceptions from Statute — Clause or Inter-
pretation — Concluding Sections.
Section, 1 — Penal Clause 139
Section 2. — Exceptions from Operation of Act 1 i<>
Sections. — ^Interpreting Proviso and concluding Clauses .... 1 ]0
BOUNDARY ACT 143
INDEX of Principal Matters : 257
INDEX of Places 287
ERRATA.
P. xxxii. n* line 4, for " him" read " them."
lines 6 and 7, transpose words " direction" and " dis-
cretion."
P. 62 line 7, for " 16th" read " 15th Sept."
P. XXX. line 4 from bottom, for " p. 80," read " 82."
P. 44, lines 10, 15, after October, add •' hereafter September."
P. 9, line 17, for " magis" read " majus."
THE
REFORM ACT,
2 WM. IV. CHAP. XLV.
An Act to amend the Representation of the People
in England and ^Vales. [7th June, 1832.]
WfIEREAS it is expedient to take effectual mea- preamble:
sures for correcting divers abuses that have long Correction
prevailed in the choice of Members to serve in the sappressfol^
Commons House of Parliament, — to deprive many Jf decayed
inconsiderable Places of the right of returning Mem- creation of
bers, — to grant such privilege to large, populous, and "thers— ex-
' o 1 & & ' r r ' tension of
wealthy 1 owns, — to mcrease the number oi Knights franchise—
of the Shire,— to extend the elective Franchise to e^Jen^j."^ ''^
many of His Majesty's Subjects who have not
heretofore enjoyed the same, — and to diminish the
expense of Elections ;
Be it therefore enacted by the King's most
Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com-
mons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by
the authority of the same. That each of the Boroughs
enumerated in the Schedule marked (A.) to this Act
annexed, (that is to say,) Old Sarum, Newtown, St. Boroughs to
Michael's or Midshall, Gatton, Bramber, Bossiney, Meraberrto"*
Dunwich, Jjudgershall, St. Mawes, Beeralston, West Parliament.
Looe, St. Germain's, Newport^ Blechingley, Aldboroughj
b
11 RESTRICTION OF RIGHT OF BOROUGHS SCHED. B.
2 w. 4, c. 45. Camelford, Hindon^ East Looe, Corfe Castle, Great
Bedwin, Yarmouth, Queenborough, Castle Rising, East
Grinstead, Higham Ferrars, Wendover, Weobly, Win-
chelsea, Tregony, Haslemere, Saltash, Orford, Calling-
ton, Newton, Ilckester, Boroughbridge, Stockbridge,
New Romney, Hedon, Plympton, Seaford, Heytesbury,
Steyning, Whitchurch, Wootton Bassett, Downton,
Fowey, Milborne Port, Aldeburgh, Minehead, Bishop^s
Castle, Okehampton, Appleby, Lostwithiel, Brackley,
and Amersham,* shall from and after the end of this
present Parliament cease to return any member or
members to serve in Parliament.
Certain H. That cach of the boroughs enumerated in the
to%eturn One Schedule marked (B.) to this Act annexed, (that
Metnberoniy. is to Say,) Petersfield, Ashburton, Eye, Westbury,
Wareham, Midhurst, Woodstock, Wilton, Malmes-
bury, Liskeard, Reigate, Hythe, Droitwich, Lyme
Regis, Launceston, Shaftesbury, Thirsk, Christchurch,
Horsham, Great Grimsby, Calne, Arundel, St. Ives,
Rye, Clitheroe, Morpeth, Helston, North Allertofi,
* The List in Sched. A. is given in alphabetical order, for the
convenience of reference.
Sched. A.
Boroughs to
cease to re-
turn mem-
bers to Par-
liament.
Aldhorough, York.
Aldeburgh, Suff.
Araershara, Buck.
Appleby.
Bedwin (Great).
Beeraiston.
Bishop's Castle.
Bletchingley.
Boroughbridge.
Bossiney.
Brackley.
Bramber.
Callington.
Camelford.
Castle Rising.
Corfe Castle.
Downton.
Dunwich.
East Grinstead.
East Looe.
Fowey.
Gatton.
Haslemere.
Hedon.
Heytesbury.
Higham Ferrers.
Hindon.
llchester.
Lostwithiel.
Ludgershall.
Milburne Port.
Minehead.
Newport.
New Romney.
Newton.
Newtown (Hants).
Okehampton.
Old Sarura.
Orford.
Plympton.
Queenborough.
St. Germain's.
St. Mawe's.
St. Michael's, or
Midshall.
Saltash.
Seaford.
Steyning.
Stockbridge.
Tregony.
Wendover.
Weobly.
West Looe.
Whitchurch.
Winchelsea.
Wootton Basset.
Yarmouth (Isle of
Wight).
CREATION OF NEW BOROUGHS SCHED. C.
Wallingford, and Dartmouth,* shall from and after the 2 w. 4, c. 45.
end of this present Parliament return one member
and no more to serve in Parliament.
III. That each of the places named in the Sche- New Bo-
dule marked (C.) to this act annexed, (that is to aftef to^^e-*
say,) Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Greenzuich, Shef- tjm '^"^0
field, Sunderland, Devonport, Wolverhampton, Tower
Hamlets, Finshury, Mary-le-bone, Lambeth, Bolton,
Bradford, Blackburn, Brighton, Halifax, Macclesfield,
Oldham, Stockport, Stoke- upon-Trent, and Stroud f
shall for the purposes of this act be a borough, and
shall as such borough include the place or places
respectively which shall be comprehended within the
boundaries of such borough, as such boundaries shall
be settled and described by an act to be passed for
that purpose in this present Parhament, which act,
when passed, shall be deemed and taken to be part of
this act as fully and effectually as if the same were
incorporated herewith; and that each of the said
boroughs named in the said Schedule (C.) shall from
and after the end of this present Parliament return
two members to serve in Parliament.
* Alphabetical List of the Boroughs in Sched. B.
Arundel.
Horsham.
Reigate.
Schedule B.
Ashburton.
Hythe.
Rye.
Boronghs to
return One
Calne.
Launceston.
St. Ive's.
Member unly.
Christchurch
Liskeard.
Shaftesbury.
(Hants.)
Lyme Regis.
Thirsk.
Clitheroe.
Malmesbury.
Wallingford.
Dartmouth.
Midhurst.
Wareham.
Droitwich.
Morpeth.
Westbury.
Eye.
North Allerton.
Wilton.
Grimsby (Great.)
Petersfield.
Woodstock.
Helslon.
t Alphabetical
List of the Boroughs
} in Sched. C.
Birmingham.
Halifax.
Sheffield.
Schedule C.
New Bo-
roughs to
Blackburn.
Lambeth.
Stockport.
Bolton.
Leeds.
Stoke-upon-Trent.
return Two
Bradford.
Macclesfield.
Stroud.
Members.
Brighton.
Manchester.
Sunderland.
Devonport.
Marylebone.
Tower Hamlets.
Finshury.
Oldham.
Wolverhampton.
Greenwich.
b2
iv NEW BOROUGHS — (ONE MEMBEr).
2 w. 4, c. 45. IV. That each of the places named in the Sche-
New Bo- dule marked (D.) to this act annexed, (that is to
aftefto*!?-^" ^^y') ^shton-under-Lyne, Bury, Chatham, Chelten-
tnrn One ham, Dudley, Frome, Gateshead, Huddersfield, Kidder-
Member. minster, Kendal, Rochdale, Salford, South Shields,
Tynemouth, Wakefield, Walsall, Warrington, Whitby,
Whitehaven, and Merthyr Tydvil, shall for the pur-
poses of this act be a borough, and shall as such
borough include the place or places respectively
which shall be comprehended within the boundaries
of such borough, as such boundaries shall be settled
and described by an act to be passed for that purpose
in this present Parliament, which act, when passed,
shall be deemed and taken to be part of this act as
fully and effectually as if the same were incorporated
herewith ; and that each of the said boroughs named
in the said Schedule (D.) shall from and after the
end of this present Parliament return one member to
serve in Parliament.
o?Sh^reham' ^' ^^at the borough of New Shoreham shall for
Crickiade, ' the purposcs of this act include the whole of the
andSt Ret- '^pc of Bramber in the county of Sussex, save and
ford shall in- exccpt such parts of the said rape as shall be included
adjacenTdTs" ^^ the borougli of Horsham by an act to be passed
tricts. for that purpose in this present Parliament ; and that
the borough of Crickiade shall for the purposes of
this act include the hundreds and divisions of High-
worth, Crickiade, Staple, Kingshridge, and Malmsbury
in the county of Wilts, save and except such parts of
the said hundred of Malmsbury as shall be included
in the borough of Malmsbury by an act to be passed
for that purpose in this present Parliament; and
that the borough of Aylesbury shall for the purposes
of this act include the three hundreds of Aylesbury
in the county of Buckingham; and that the borough
of East Retford shall for the purposes of this act
include the hundred of Bassetlaw in the county of
Nottingham, and all places locally situate within the
outside boundary or limit of the hundred of Basset-
law, or surrounded by such boundary and by any
EXTENT OF CERTAIN BOROUGHS. V
rt of the county of Lincoln or county of York. 2 w. 4, c. 45.
See Sect. 69.]
VI. That the borough of Weymouth and Melcomhe Weymouth
Regis shall from and after the end of this present co^be^Regis
Parliament return Two Members, and no more, to to retura Two
serve in Parliament ; and that the borough of Penryn Jniy,^|"
shall for the purposes of this Act include the town of
Falmouth; and that the borough of Sandwich shall
for the purposes of this Act include the parishes of
Deal and Walmer,
VII. That every city and borough in England Boundmei
which now returns a member or members to serve JorouSrfn
in Parliament, and every place sharing in the elec- England to
tion therewith, (except the several boroughs enume- ^® *^"'«*'-
rated in the said Schedule (A.), and except the
several boroughs of New Shoreham^ Crichlade, Ayles-
bury^ and East Retford,) shall, and each of the said
boroughs of Penryn and Sandwich also shall, for the
purposes of this Act, include the place or places
respectively which shall be comprehended within the
boundaries of every such city, borough or place, as
such boundaries shall be settled and described by an
Act to be passed for that purpose in this present incorporation
Parliament, which Act, when passed, shall be deemed "kai^lSl^
and taken to be part of this Act as fully and effectu-
ally as if the same were incorporated herewith. [See
Boundary Act.]
VIII. That each of the places named in the first Places in
column of the Schedule (E.) to this Act annexed, J^^e^a share
shall have a share in the election of a member to in Elections
serve in all future Parliaments for the shire-town or [owns! **^"^*"
borough which is mentioned in conjunction therewith,
and named in the second column of the said Sche-
dule (E.) [See Sect. 32, (p. xx.) 74 (lix.)].
IX. That each of the places named in the first Boundaries
column of the said Schedule (E.), and each of the tStlXnA
shire-towns or boroughs named in the second column pjaces in
of the said Schedule (E.), and the borough oi Brecon,* settled.*" ^^
» S. 74.
VI CONTRIBUTORY BOROUGHS.
2 w. 4, c. 45. g|,all for the purposes of this Act include the place
or places respectively which shall be comprehended
within the boundaries of each of the said places,
shire-towns, and boroughs respectively, as such boun-
daries shall be settled and described by an Act to be
passed for that purpose in this present Parliament,
which Act, when passed, shall be deemed and taken
to be part of this Act as fully and effectually as if
the same were incorporated herewith.
Swansea, ' X. That each of the towns of Swansea, Loughor^
Neathr' Neath, Aberavon, and Ken-Jig shall for the purposes
tnd'Ke*"fi °^ ^^'^ ^^^ include the place or places respectively
to form One which shall be comprehended within the boundaries
EieS^""* of each of the said towns, as such boundaries shall
thereof not to be Settled and described by an Act to be passed for
member for ^^^^ purposc in this present Parliament, which Act,
Carfiiff. when passed, shall be deemed and taken to be part
of this Act as fully and effectually as if the same were
incorporated herewith ; and that the said five towns,
so including as aforesaid, shall for the purposes of
this Act be one borough, and shall as such borough,
from and after the end of this present Parhament,
return One Member to serve in Parliament; and
that the Portreeve of Swansea shall be the returning
officer for the said borough ; and that no person, by
reason of any right accruing in any of the said five
towns, shall have any vote in the election of a mem-
ber to serve in any future Parliament for the borough
of Cardif,
S^'he'r"**" XI. That the persons respectively described in
ing officers'^ the said Schedules (C.) and (D.) shall be the return-
borou^hr^ ing officers at all elections of a member or members
to serve in Parliament for the boroughs in conjunc-
tion with which such persons are respectively men-
tioned in the said Schedules (C.) and (D.);
and that for those boroughs in the said Schedules
for which no persons are mentioned in such Schedules
Temporary ap- as returning officers, the sheriff for the time being of
s^hyrTfli.*"^ ^ the county in which such boroughs are respectively
situate shall, within two months after the passing of
RETURNING OFFICERS FOR NEW BOROUGHS. Vll
this Act, and in every succeeding respective year in 2 W. 4, c. 45.
the month of March^ by writing under his hand, to
be deUvered to the Clerk of the Peace of the county
within one week, and to be by such Clerk of the
Peace filed and preserved with the records of his
office, nominate and appoint for each of such boroughs Quaiitication.
a fit person^ being resident therein^ to be, and such
person so nominated and appointed shall accordingly
be, the returning officer for each of such boroughs
respectively until the nomination to be made in the
succeeding March ; and in the event of the death of
any such person, or of his becoming incapable to act
by reason of sickness or other sufficient impediment,
the sheriff for the time being shall on notice thereof
forthwith nominate and appoint in his stead a fit per-
son, being so resident as aforesaid, to be, and such
person so nominated and appointed shall accordingly Exemption.
be, the returning officer for such borough for the
remainder of the then current year ; and no person,
having been so nominated and appointed as return-
ing officer for any borough, shall after the expi-
ration of his office be compellable at any time there-
after to serve again in the said office for the same
borough: [See Commentary, p. 121, 122.]
Provided always, that no person being in holy or- Who disqua-
ders, nor any churchwarden or overseer of the poor eJ^fptlJ^fVom
within any such borough, shall be nominated or being] to he
appointed as such returning officer for the same ; ^officerl^
and that no person nominated and appointed as re-
turning officer for any borough now sending or here-
after to send members to Parliament shall be ap-
pointed a churchwarden or overseer of the poor
therein during the time for which he shall be such
returning officer : [See Commentary, p. 122.]
Provided also, that no person qualified to be Who exempt,
elected to serve as a member in Parliament shall be
compellable to serve as returning officer for any
borough for which he shall have been nominated and
appointed by the sheriff as aforesaid, if within one
week after he shall have received notice of his nomi-
nation and appointment as returning officer he shall
make oath of such qualification before any justice of
VIU WHO EXEMPTED FROM BEING RETURNING OFFICERS.
2 w. 4, c. 45. the peace, and shall forthwith notify the same to the
sheriff:
^ncateofxn. P^ovided also, that in case His Majesty shall be
the''ma''or&c P^^^^^^i ^^ grant His Royal Charter of Incorporation
rSmin*'''f ^^ ^"^ ^^ ^^^ boroughs named in the said Schedules
ficer. '' (C.) and (D.) which are not now incorporated, and
shall by suck charter give power to elect a mayor or
other chief municipal officer for any such boroughf
then and in every such case such mayor or other
chief municipal officer for the time being shall be
the only returning officer for such borough ; and
the provisions hereinbefore contained with regard to
the nomination^nd appointment of a returning officer
for such borough shall thenceforth cease and deter-
mine.
Six knights of XH. That in all future Parliaments there shall be
Yorkshh-eT ^^^ knights of the shire, instead of four, to serve for
two for each the county of York, (that is to say,) two knights for
" *"^' each of the three ridings of the said county, to be
elected in the same manner, and by the same classes
and descriptions of voters, and in respect of the same
several rights of voting, as if each of the three
ridings were a separate county ; and that the court
for the election of knights of the shire for the
North riding of the said county shall be holden at
the city of York, and the court for the election
of knights of the shire for the West riding of the
said county shall be holden at Wakefield, and the
court for the election of knights of the shire for
the East riding of the said county shall be holden
at Beverly.
ofThe^Shift*' ^^^^' That in all future Parliaments there shall
for Lincoln- be four knights of the shire, instead of two, to serve
foMhVparts ^^^ *^^ county of Lincoln, (that is to say,) two for
of Lindsey, the parts of Lindsey in the said county, and two for
t^*'en''Ind^'' ^^^ P^^^^ ^^ Kcstcven and Holland in the same
Holland. county ; and that such four knights shall be chosen
in the same manner, and by the same classes and
descriptions of voters, and in respect of the same
several rights of voting, as if the said parts of Lindsey
were a separate county, and_the said parts ofKesteven
FOUR MEMBERS FOR LINCOLNSHIRE. IX
and Holland together were also a separate county; 2 W. 4, c. 45.
and that the court for the election of knights of the
shire for the parts of Lindsey in the said county shall
be holden at the city of Lincoln^ and the court for
the election of knights of the shire for the parts of
Kesteven and Holland in the said county shall be
holden at Sleaford.
XIV. That each of the counties enumerated in Certain coun-
the Schedule marked (F.) to this act annexed shall ^^^^J^ ^^^^^
be divided into two divisions, which divisions shall retnm' Two
be settled and described by an act to be passed for S" Shire'for
that purpose in this present Parliament ; which act, each division,
when passed, shall be deemed and taken to be part
of this act as fully and effectually as if the same
were incorporated herewith ; and that in all future
Parliaments there shall be four knights of the shire,
instead of two, to serve for each of the said counties,
(that is to say,) two knights of the shire for each
division of the said counties ; and that such knights
shall be chosen in the same manner, and by the same
classes and descriptions of voters, and in respect of
the same several rights of voting, as if each of the
said divisions were a separate county; and that the court for dec-
court for the election of knights of the shire for each Shi'/e.^"'^'"*
division of the said counties shall be holden at the
place to be named for that purpose in the act so to
be passed as aforesaid, for settling and describing
the divisions of the said counties.
XV. That in all future Parliaments there shall be Certain coun-
three knights of the shire, instead of two, to serve xhreeknlghts
for each of the counties enumerated in the Schedule of the Shire.
marked (F. 2.) to this act annexed, and two knights
of the shire, instead of one, to serve for each of ths
counties of Carmarthen , Denbigh, and Glamorgan.
XVI. That the Isle of Wight in the county of isie of Wight
Southampton shall for the purposes of this act be a Hlmp^hire!"
county of itself, separate and apart from the county to return a'
of Southampton, and shall return one knight of the ^^^ ^^'
shire to serve in every future Parliament ; and that
b5
X COUNTIES TO BE DIVIDED — SCHED. F.
2 w. 4, c. 45. such knight shall be chosen by the same classes and
descriptions of voters, and in respect of the same
several rights of voting, as any knight of the shire
shall be chosen in any county in England; and that
all elections for the said county of the Isle of Wight
shall be holden at the town of Newport in the Isle of
Wight, and the sheriff of the Isle of Wight, or his
deputy, shall be the returning officer at such elec-
tions.
Towns which XVII. That for the purpose of electing a knight
orthemseives or kuights of the shire to serve in any future Par-
te be included liament, the East riding of the county of York, the
in adjoining -vti-t ^i ° n tr t"^ ^ i*
counties for North ridmg oi the county oi York, the parts oi
elections. Lindsey in the county of Lincoln, and the several
counties at large enumerated in the second column
of the Schedule marked (G.) to this Act annexed,
shall respectively include the several cities and towns,
and counties of the same, which are respectively
mentioned in conjunction with such ridings, parts,
and counties at large, and named in the first column
of the said Schedule (G.)* [See Commentary, p. 19.]
Limitation on XVIII. That no person shall be entitled to vote
vodng for in the election of a knight or knights of the shire to
counties and gervc in any future Parliament, or in the election
for cities be- „ . -^ . ' . _
ing counties ot a member or members to serve in any future
i*n^respect^of' Parliament for any city or town being a county of
freeholds for itsclf, in rcspect of any freehold lands or tenements
**^®' whereof such person may be seised for his own life,
or for the life of another, or for any lives whatsoever.
Exception of exccpt sucli pcrsou shall be in the actual and
bona fide occupation of such lands or tenements,
[See Commentary, p. 4, 9, 12, 13, 14.]
or except the same shall have come to such person
• But this must be taken subject to the exception of persons
having a possible right to vote in the city under Sec. 24 and 25 :
or it may be questionable whether by the operation of this
clause the corporate rights of returning members, as counties, is
not merged in the new privilege. This, if it be a question, is
a serious one.
LIMITATION OF QUALIFICATION. — EXCEPTIONS. XI
by marriage, marriage settlement, devise, or promo- 2W.4, c.45.
tion to any benefice or to any office, [See Com- Exception of
MENTARY, p. 13.] '•"♦^•
or except the same shall be of the clear yearly Exception of
value of not less than Ten Pounds above all rents
and charges payable out of or in respect of the same ;
any statute or usage to the contrary notwithstanding :
[See Commentary, p. 14.]
Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained Proviso saving
shall prevent any person now seised tor his own life, on condition of
or for the life of another, or for any lives whatso-
ever, of any freehold lands or tenements in respect
of which he now has, or but for the passing of this
Act might acquire, the right of voting in such re-
spective elections, from retaining or acquiring, so
long as he shall be so seised of the same lands or
tenements, such right of voting in respect thereof,
if duly registered according to the respective provi-
sions hereinafter [Sects. 26, 37.^ contained. — [See
Commentary, p. 14.]
XIX. That every male person of full age, and Right of vot-
not subject to any legal incapacity, who shall be JfeVeVtenSed
seised at law or in equity of any lands or tenements to copyhow-
of copyhold or any other tenure whatever except ^'^**
freehold,* for his own life, or for the life of another,
or for any lives whatsoever, or for any larger estate,
of the clear yearly value of not less than Ten Pounds
over and above all rents and charges payable out of
or in respect of the same, shall be entitled to vote
in the election of a knight or knights of the shire to
* There is a singular incongruity between the disqualifying
Section 18, and the qualifying Section 19, in that the 10/. life
freeholder is qualified by being excepted out of the first, and
disqualified by being also excepted out of the last. This may
create difficulty, and certainly requires amendment. The words
" except freehold" should be omitted, as freeholds of that value
of this quantity of estate are not meant to be excepted. " Other
than freehold" is obviously meant ; but in law as in logic and
in the language, the terra eicept has an gxc/uc?/n^ operation. la
fact, as before observed, it is by an exception that this qualifica-
tion in respect of such freehold estate is saved.
xu
EXTENSION OF RIGHT OF VOTING FOR
2W.4, C.45. serve in any future Parliament for the county, or for
the riding, parts, or division of the county, in which
such lands or tenements shall be respectively situate.
[See Commentary, p. 14, 15.]
/ Right of vot-
ing in coun-
ties extended
to leasehold-
ers and occu-
piers of pre-
mises of cer-
tain value
above
charges.
Term, or resi-
due of term, of
not less than
60 years, of
yearly value of
not less than
10/.
Not less than
ao years, of
annual value
of not less
than 601.
Occupying as
tenant at a
bona fide rent
of not less
than 501.
Proviso that
sub-lessee, or
his assignee,
shall be in
actual occupa-
tion.
XX. That every male person of full age, and not
subject to any legal incapacity, who shall be entitled,
either as lessee or assignee, to any lands or tene-
ments, whether of freehold or of any other tenure
whatever, for the unexpired residue, whatever it
may be, of any term originally created for a period
of not less than sixty years, (whether determinable
on a life or lives, or not,) of the clear yearly value
of not less than ten pounds over and above all rents
and charges payable out of or in respect of the
same: [See Commentary, p. J 5.]
or for the unexpired residue, whatever it may be,
of any term originally created for a period of not
less than twenty years, (whether determinable on a
life or lives, or not,) of the clear yearly value of not
less than fifty pounds over and above all rents and
charges payable out of or in respect of the same :
[See Commentary, p. 16.]
or who shall occupy as tenant any lands or tene-
^lents for which he shall be bona fide, liable to a
yearly rent of not less than fifty pounds, shall be
entitled to vote in the election of a knight or knights
of the shire to serve in any future Parliament for
the county, or for the riding, parts, or division of
the county, in which such lands or tenements shall
be respectively situate. [See Commentary, p. 17.]
Provided always, that no person, being only a
sub-lessee, or the assignee of any underlease, shall
have a right to vote in such election in respect of
any such term of sixty years or twenty years as
aforesaid, unless he shall be in the actual occupation
of the premises.* [See Commentary, p. 16, 17.]
y*
* This Proviso in effect disqualifies such persons from voting
for counties where the premises consist partly of a house, &c. in
a borough, under the 24lh and 25th Sections.
A
~r
^.
A':
COUNTIES TO COPYHOLDS AND LEASEHOLDS, &C. xiii
XXI. And be it declared and enacted, That no 2W-4, c.45.
public or parliamentary tax, nor any church rate, what not to
county rate, or parochial rate, shall be deemed to Jj^r^lf^*^
be any charge payable out of or in respect of any
lands or tenements within the meaning of this Act.
XXII. That in order to entitle any person to vote County voters
in any election of a knight of the shire or other ass^essed\o^
member to serve in any future Parliament, in respect ^^^ ^^nd tax.
of any messuages, lands, or tenements, whether free-
hold or otherwise, it shall not be necessary that the
same shall be assessed to the land-tax ; any statute
to the contrary notwithstanding.
XXIII. That no person shall be allowed to have Provision as i
any vote in the election of a knight or knights of and'^SSr? Jt
the shire for or by reason of any trust estate or gagees* ^\
mortgage, unless ^ch trustee or mortgagee be in
actual possession or receipt of the rents and profits
of the same estate, but that the mortgagor or ces-
tuique trust in possession shall and may vote for the
same estate notwithstanding such mortgage or trust.
[See Commentary, p. 17, 18.]
XXIV. That notwithstanding any thing herein- No person to
before contained no person shall be entitled to vote county'in re-
in the election of a knight or knights of the shire to JP**^^ ?J ^"y
serve in any future Parliament in respect of his house, &c.
estate or interest as a freeholder in any house, ware- Jiro"eif which
house, counting-house, shop, or other building occu- would confer
pied by himself,* or in any land occupied by himself J^JoJ^gJ^"^ *
together with any house, warehouse, counting-house,
shop, or other building, such house, warehouse,
counting-house, shop, or other building being, either
separately or jointly with the land so occupied there-
with, of such value as would, according to the pro-
visions hereinafter contained, confer on him the right
of voting for any city or borough, whether he shall
or shall not have actually acquired the right to vote
• Omitting the words " or on any other person," introduced
into the next Section.
XIV RESTRICTION OF RIGHT OF VOTING — COUNTIES.
2 W. 4, c. 45. for such city or borough in respect thereof. [See
Commentary, p. 12 to 18.]
No person to XXV.* That notwithstanding any thing hercinbe-
vote for a ^ , . , i i, V *^ • i r
county in re- lorc Contained, no person shall be entitled to vote in
taTn cm'?-'^ the election of a knight or knights of the shire to
HOLDS and scrve in any future Parliament in respect of his
a bo?ough/" estate or interest as a copyholder or customary
which might tenant, or tenant in ancient demesne, holding by
fo"r*voting in copy of court roll, or as such lessee or assignee, or
sach borough, as such tenant and occupier as aforesaid, in any
house, warehouse, counting-house, shop, or other
building, or in any land occupied together with a
house, warehouse, counting-house, shop, or other
building, such house, warehouse, counting-house,
shop, or other building being, either separately or
jointly with the land so occupied therewith, of such
value as would, according to the provisions herein-
after contained, confer on him or on any other person
the right of voting for any city or borough, whether
he or any other person shall or shall not have actually
acquired the right to vote for such city or borough
in respect thereof. [See Commentary, p. 14 to 18.]
PosaesMon XX Vl.f That notwithstanding any thing hereinbe-
thne, an/* forc Contained no person shall be entitled to vote in
"^^f ntTaY*to' ^^^ election of a knight or knights of the shire
the right of to serve in any future Parliament unless he shall
lounL^^^^ HAVE BEEN DULY REGISTERED according to the provi-
sions hereinafter contained ;'^ — and that 7io person shall
be so registered in any year in respect of his estate
or interest in any lands or tenements, as a freeholder,
copyholder, customary tenant, or tenant in ancient
No person to demcsnc, unless he shall have been in the actual
unie^sf'heThaii posscssion thercof, or in the receipt of the rents
iifs^qSca-^' and profits thereof for his own use, for six ca-
tion a given ^^,.^_<-'^"'~~"
* These two clauses might have been more properly and ad-
vantageously blended.
f This and the two preceding Sections form the three non-
obitante clauses of the Act ; the two first imposing conditions
on the right of voting, the third on the right of registering.
t S. 37, 38.
QUALIFICATION FOR RIGHT OF VOTING — BOROUGHS. XV
lendar months at least next previous to the last 2 w. 4, c. 45.
(lajTof July in such year ; which said period of six period previ-
calendar months shall be sufficient/ any statute to ^^* '^«j.'J>«^»^|
the contrary notwithstanding : which hV?e-
and that no person shall be so registered in any quires to be
year in respect of any lands or tenements held by "^^^^
him as such lessee or assignee, or as such occupier and
tenant as aforesaid, unless he shall have been in the
actual possession thereof, or in the receipt of the
rents and profits thereof for his own use, as the case
may require, for twelve calendar months next pre-
vious to the last day of July in such year :
Provided always, that where any lands or tene- Exception in
ments, which would otherwise entitle the owner, perty coming
holder, or occupier thereof to vote in any such elec- ^y (descent,
tion, shall come to any person, at any time within
such respective periods of six or twelve calendar
months, by descent, succession, marriage, marriage
settlement, devise, or promotion to any benefice in a
church, or by promotion to any office, such person
shall be entitled in respect thereof to have his name
inserted as a voter* in the election of a knight or
knights of the shire in the lists then next to be made
by virtue of this Act as hereinafter mentioned, and,
upon his being duly registered according to the
provisions hereinafter contained, to vote in such
election. [See Commentary, p. 12 to 20.]
XXVII. That in every city or borough which Boroughs. ^
shall return a memxber or members to serve in any Right of
future Parliament, every male person of full age, roughVto be
and not subject to any legal incapacity, who shall enjoyed by
• •^•^ ^ ^ occuDicrs of
occupy, within such city or borough, or within houses, &c.
any place sharing in the election for such city or yain'^e^ofToT*
borough, as owner or tenant, any house, warehouse,
counting-house, shop, or otl^er^ building being,
either separately, or jointly with alnynand within
such city, borough, or place occupied therewith by
him as owner, or occupied therewith by him as te-
nant under the same landlord, of the clear yearly reqisxra.
value of not less than ten pounds, shall, if duly tion
^ required.
* i. e. To have his name and qualification registered.
XVI CONDITIONS OF REGISTRATION
2W.4,c. 45. REGISTERED according to the provisions hereinafter
contained, be entitled to vote in the election of a
member or members to serve in any future Parlia-
ment for such city or borough :
Tiraeofoccn- Providcd always, that no such person shall be so
S*twefvT' registered in any year unless he shall have occupied
wonths. ^ gy^i^ premises as aforesaid for twelve calendar months
next previous to the last day of July ifi such year :
No occupier iffor unless such person, where such premises "are
rate?to"th?^ situate in any parish or township in which there shall
poor rate. be a rate for the relief of the poor, shall have been
rated in respect of such premises to all rates for the
relief of the poor in such parish or township made
during the time of such his occupation so required
as aforesaid :
Rates and nor unless such person shall have paid, on or before
mu?t*be S! *^^^ twentieth day of July in such year, all the poor's
rates and assessed taxes which shall have become pay-
able from him in respect of such premises previously
to the sixth day of April then next preceding:
Residence Provided also, that no such person shall be so
also required, registered in any year unless he shall have resided
for six calendar months next previous to the last day
of July in such year within the city or borough, or
within the place sharing in the election for the city
or borough, in respect of which city, borough, or
place respectively he shall be entitled to vote, or
r, within seven statute miles thereof or of any part
"^ tWeof. {See Commentary, p. 20 to 23.]
Provision as XXVIIl. That the premises in respect of the
to premises occupation of which any person shall be entitled to
occupied 10. . ^ . , . 1 • \ ^ ^'
succession, be registered m any year, and to vote m the election
for any city or borough as aforesaid, shall not be
required to be the same premises, but may be dif-
ferent premises occupied in immediate succession
by such person during the twelve calendar months
next previous to the last day of July in such year,
such person having paid, on or before the twentieth
day of July in such year, all the poor's rates and
assessed taxes which shall previously to the sixth
IN CITIES AND BOROUGHS. XVU
day of April then next preceding have become pay- 2 w. 4, c. 45.
able from him in respect of all such premises so
occupied by him in succession. [See Commentary,
p. 21.]
XXIX. That where any premises as aforesaid, in As to joint
any such city or borough, or in any place sharing in °""P'^"'
the election therewith, shall be jointly occupied by
more persons than one as owners or tenants, each
of such joint occupiers shall, subject to the condi-
tions herein-before contained as to persons occupy-
ing premises in any such city, borough, or place, be
entitled to vote in the election for such city or bo-
rough, in respect of the premises so jointly occu-
pied, in case the clear yearly value of such premises
shall be of an amount which, when divided by the
number of such occupiers, shall give a sum of not
less than ten pounds for each and every such occu-
pier, but not otherwise. [See Commentary, p. 21.]
XXX. That in every city or borough which shall Occupiers
return a member or members to serve in any fu- ^^be rated!
ture Parliament, and in every place sharing in the
election for such city or borough, it shall be lawful
for any person occupying any house, warehouse,
counting-house, shop, or other building, either se-
parately, or jointly with any land occupied there-
with by him as owner, or occupied therewith by
him as tenant under the same landlord, in any
parish or township in which there shall be a rate
for the relief of the poor, to claim to be rated to
the relief of the poor in respect of such premises,
whether the landlord shall or shall not be liable to
be rated to the relief of the poor in respect thereof;
and upon such occupier so claiming and actually
paying or tendering the full amount of the rate or
rates, if any, then due in respect of such premises,
the overseers of the parish or township in which
such premises are situate are hereby required to put
the name of such occupier upon the rate for the
time being; and in case such overseers shall neglect
or refuse so to do, such occupier shall nevertheless
XVm QUALIFICATION OF VOTERS — BOROUGHS.
2 w. 4, c. 45. for the purposes of this Act be deemed to have been
rated to the relief of the poor in respect of such
premises from the period at which the rate shall
have been made in respect of which he shall have
so claimed to be rated as aforesaid :
Provided always, that where by virtue of any
Act of Parliament the landlord shall be liable to
the payment of the rate for the relief of the poor
in respect of any premises occupied by his tenant,
nothing herein contained shall be deemed to vary or^.
discharge the liability of such landlord ; but that iiVil
case the tenant who shall have been rated for such '
premises in consequence of any such claim as afore-
said shall make default in the payment of the poor's
rate due in respect thereof, such landlord shall be
and remain liable for the payment thereof in the
same manner as if he alone had been rated in respect
of the premises so occupied by his tenant. [See
Sect. 26, and Commentary, p. 5Q.^
Provision as XXXI. That in evcry city or town being a
Jjjtin^g for^*" county of itself, in the election for which freeholders
cities and or burgage tenants, either with or without any su-
collnties^of^ pcraddcd qualification, now have a right to vote,
themselves, every such freeholder or burgage tenant shall be
entitled to vote in the election of a member or
members to serve in all future Parliaments for such
city or town : [See Commentary, p. 18, 19.]
Condition of PROVIDED HE SHALL BE DULY REGISTERED accord-
ing to the provisions hereinafter contained; [See
Sect. 26, and Commentery, p. 18 to 23.] .^^
Previous po- But that HO such persou shall be so registered in.^
session neces- , ^_ r. t_ i j i
sary to regis- any year m respect ot any ireehold or burgage tene-
ment, unless he shall have been in the actual pos-
session thereof, or in the receipt of the rents and
profits thereof, for his own use, for twelve calendar
months next previous to the last day of July in such
Exception. year, (except where the same shall have come to him,
at any time within such twelve months, by descent,
succession, marriage, marriage settlement, devise, or
promotion to any benefice in a church, or to any
office :) [See Commentary, p. 18 to 23.]
CONDITIONS OF REGISTRATION — EXCEPTIONS. XIX
Nor unless he shall have resided for six calendar 2 w. 4, c. 45.
months next previous to the last day of July in such sis months'
year within such city or town, or within seven statute necSy to
miles thereof or of any part thereof : [See Com- "-egistraiion.
MENTARY, p. 18 tO 23.]
Provided always, that nothing in this enactment f/g%'*{*je'8 for
contained shall be deemed to vary or abridge the 'jfe or uves in
, • ^ n ^ !• 1-1 county towns.
provisions herem-beiore made relative to the right
of voting for any city or town being a county of
itself, in respect of any freehold for life or lives:
[See sect. 18, and Commentary, p. 18.]
Provided also, that every freehold or burgaffe to extend to
,., , .*' ., 1 °° freeholds
tenement which may be situate without the present wuhin the new
limits of any such city or town being a county of thouerh without
itself, but within the limits of such city or town, as °''* '""***'
the same shall be settled and described by the Act
to be passed for that purpose as herein-before men-
tioned, shall confer the right of voting in the election
of a member or members to serve in any future
Parliament for such city or town in the same man-
ner as if such freehold or burgage tenement were
situate within the present limits thereof.
XXXII. That every person who would have been ^' ®' ^' '**
entitled to vote in the election of a member or mem- to'^vote^Si"^
bers to serve in any future Parliament for any city boroughs, un-
or borough not included in the Schedule marked &c! "^^^
(A.) to this Act annexed, either as a burgess or
freeman, or in the city of London as a freeman and
liveryman, if this act had not been passed, shall be
entitled to vote in such election : [See Commentary,
p. 21 to 23.]
Provided such person shall be duly registered ac- proviso as to
cording to the provisions hereinafter contained ; and coSons.
[See Commentary, p. 22.]
But that no such person shall be so registered in Qualification
any year, unless he shall, on the last day of July in juiy*L if ih°at
such year, be qualified in such manner as would enti- of^'eiectfoa'
tie him then to vote if such day were the day of elec-
tion, and this Act had not been passed,
nor [or] unless, where he shall be a burgess or
XX CONDITIONS OF REGISTRATION
2 w. 4, c. 45. freeman or freeman and liveryman of any city or bo-
rough, he shall have resided for six calendar months
next previous to the last day of July in such year
within such city or borough, or within seven statute
miles* from the place where the poll for such city
or borough shall heretofore have been taken :
nor unless, where he shall be a burgess or freeman
of any place sharing in the election for any city or
borough, he shall have resided for six calendar
months next previous to the last day of July in such
year within such respective place so sharing as afore-
said, or within seven statute miles of the place men-
tioned in conjunction with such respective place so
sharing as aforesaid and named in the second column
of the Schedule marked (E. 2.) to this Act annexed:
[See Commentary, p. 21, 22, 23.]
Residence for ♦ Places from which the seven miles are to be calculated,
places in ,,,.,, J '
Wales. alphabetically arranged.
Aberavon. . . .The Bridge over the Avon.
Aberystwith..The Bridge over the Rheidal.
Adpar The Bridge over the Teivi.
Caergwrley ..The Parish Church of Hope.
Caerwis The Parish Church.
Conway The Parish Church.
Cowbridge . . .The Town Hall.
Criccieth The Castle.
Holt The Parish Church.
Ken-fig The Parish Church of Lower Ken-fig.
Kevinleece . . .The Parish Church.
Knighton . . . .The Parish Church.
Knucklas . . . .The site of the ancient Castle of Cnweglas.
Llantrisseut . .The Town Hall.
Lampeter.. . .The Parish Church.
Loughor The Parish Church.
Neath The Town Hall.
Nevin The Parish Church.
Newport The Market Place.
Overton The Parish Church.
Pwllheli The Guildhall.
Rhayder ... .The Market Place.
Rhyddlan . . .The Parish Church.
Ruthin The Parish Church called St. Peter's.
Swansea The Town Hall.
Tenby The Parish Church.
Usk The Town Hall.
Wiston The Parish Church.
IN CITIES AND BOROUGHS — EXCEPTIONS, XXI
Provided always, that no person who shall have 2 w. 4, c. 45.
been elected, made, or admitted a burgess or free- ~
man since the first day of March one thousand eight freemelTcre-
hundred and thirty-one, otherwise than in respect of ated since
birth or servitude, or who shall hereafter be elected, March, i83i.
made, or admitted a burgess or freeman, otherwise
than in respect of birth or servitude, shall be entitled
to vote as such in any such election for any city or
borough as aforesaid or to be so registered as afore-
said: [See Commentary, p. 21, 22.]
Provided also, that no person shall be so entitled Exception,
as a burgess or freeman in respect of birth unless
his right be originally derived from or through
some person who was a burgess or freeman, or enti-
tled to be admitted a burgess or freeman, previously
to the first day of March in the year one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-one, or from or through
some person who since that time shall have become
or shall hereafter become a burgess or freeman in
respect of servitude: [See Commentary, p. 23.]
Provided also, that every person who would have provision as
been entitled, if this Act had not been passed, to ^^ the free-
vote as a burgess or freeman of Swansea, Lougkor, sea°Lou^or,
Neath, Aberavon, or Ken-Jig, in the election of a ^^^^^'. •^^*^"
member to serve in any future Parliament for the Ken-fig.
borough of Cardiff^, shall cease to vote in such elec-
tion, and shall instead thereof be entitled to vote as
such burgess or freeman in the election of a member
to serve in all future Parliaments for the borough
composed of the towns of Swansea, Loughor, Neath,
Aberavon, and Ken- fig, subject always to the provi-
sions herein-before contained with regard to a bur-
gess or freeman of any place sharing in the election
for any city or borough.
XXXIII. That no person shall be entitled to vote Reservation
in the election of a member or members to serve in of other rights
any future Parliament for any city or borough, save bo7oughs.*°
and except in respect of some right conferred by
this Act, or as a burgess or freeman, or as a freeman
and liveryman, or, in the case of a city or town be-
XXll DISQUALIFICATION OF VOTERS
2W.4, C.45. ing a county of itself, as a freeholder or burgage
tenant, as hereinbefore mentioned: [See Commen-
tary, p. 21,22,23.]
Retainer of Provided always, that every person now having a
col^men8''u^rate right to vote in the election for any city or borough
ofq'uauikaiioD, (cxccpt those enumerated in the said Schedule A.)
in virtue of any other qualification than as a burgess
or freeman, or as a freeman and liveryman, or, in the
case of a city or town being a county of itself, as a
freeholder or burgage tenant, as hereinbefore men-
tioned, shall retain such right of voting so long as he
shall be qualified as an elector according to the
usages and customs of such city or borough, or any
law now in force, and such person shall be entitled to
vote in the election of a member or members to serve
in any future Parliament for such city or borough, if
duly registered according to the provisions herein-
after contained;
rausthavebeen but that uo sucli pcrsou shall be so registered in
of iSiy "uaif-'^ any year unless he shall, on the last day of July in
Js?f that we7e' such year, be qualified as such elector in such man-
the^dayofeiec jjgj. ^g ^^^j^j g^title him then to vote if such day
were the day of election and this Act had not been
passed : [See Commentary, p. 22.]
Residence, nor [or] unless such person, where his qualification
&c.reqnired. ^\^^\\ \yQ {j^ ^ny city or borough, shall have resided
for six calendar months next previous to the last
day of July in such year within such city or bo-
rough, or within seven statute miles from the place
where the poll for such city or borough shall here-
tofore have been taken :
nor unless such person, where his qualification
shall be within any place sharing in the election for
any city or borough, shall have resided for six
calendar months next previous to the last day of
July in such year within such respective place so
sharing as aforesaid, or within seven statute miles of
the place mentioned in conjunction with such re-
spective place so sharing as aforesaid, and named in
the second column of the Schedule marked (E. 2.)
to this Act annexed: [See Commentary, p. 21.]
IN CITIES AND BOROUGHS. (EXCEPTION.) XXiH
Provided nevertheless, that every such person 2 w. 4, c. 45.
shall for ever cease to enjoy such right of voting for
any such city or borough as aforesaid if his name shall
have been omitted for two successive years from the
Register of such voters for such city or borough omission from
hereinafter directed to be made ; — unless he shall have jSdestroTs**
been so omitted in consequence of his having re- "^'*''
ceived parochial relief within twelve calendar months Exception.
next previous to the last day of July in any year, or
in consequence of his absence on the naval or mili-
tary service of his Majesty. [See Commentary,
p. 67.]
XXXIV. That every person now having a right Provision as
to vote for the borough of New Shoreham, or of JJ^^j P^g^'JJ'^jg^
Cricklade, Aylesbury, or East Retford, respectively, to vote for
in respect of any freehold, wheresoever the same 1,3*^^^ crS-
may be situate, shall retain such right of voting, iaT • T notice of claim.
mserted m any hst of voters tor such county, ridmg,
parts or division so to be made out as aforesaid:
[See Commentary, p. 58 to 0)5.']
and every person so objecting (save and except Person* object
overseers objecting in the manner hereinbefore men- mJst'drsomi
tioned) shall, on or before the twenty-fifth day of ^ugulr ''"'
August in the present and in every succeeding year,
give or cause to be given a notice in writing accord-
c2
XXViii OBJECTING TO VOTERS (COUNTIES) LISTS.
2 w. 4, c. 45. ing to the Form numbered 4, in the said Schedule
Notice &c. to (^')f ^^ ^^ ^^^ 1^^^ effect, to the overseers who shall
l^e^eers, and havc made out the list in which the name of the per-
son so objected to shall have been inserted: [See
Commentary, p. 59.]
Notice to par- and the person so objecting shall also, on or before
les, an orm. ^j^^ tweuty-fifth day of August in the present and in
every succeeding year, give to the person objected
to, or leave at his place of abode as described in such
list, or personally deliver to his tenant in occupation
of the premises described in such list, a notice in
writing according to the Form numbered 5, in the
said Schedule (H.), or to the like effect: [See
Commentary, p. 59, 69.]
Lists of per- and the overseers shall include the names of all
to by'^t'hird^** persons SO objected to in a list according to the Form
parties to be numbered 6 in the said Schedule (H.), and shall
published, ^ause copies of such list to be fixed on or near the
doors of all the churches and chapels within their
parish or township, or if there be no church or
chapel therein, then to be fixed in some public and
conspicuous situation within the same respectively,
on the two Sundays next preceding the fifteenth day
of September in the present and in every succeeding
year: [See Commentary, p. 33, 61.]
Copies to be and the overseers shall likewise keep a copy of
i'nspec?ionl'*''"^ the uamcs of all the persons so objected to, to be
perused by any person, without payment of any fee,
at all reasonable hours during the ten days next pre-
ceding the said fifteenth day of September in the
present and in every succeeding year. [See Com-
mentary, p. 32.]
Lists of coun- XL. That on the twenty-ninth day of August in
b^ fomarded ^^^ present and in every succeeding year, the over-
to the clerks sccrs of cvcry parish and township shall deliver the
through^the^ list of votcrs SO made out as aforesaid, together with
high consta- a written statement of the number of persons objected
to by the overseers and by other persons, to the Jbigh
constable or high constables of the hundred or other
like district in which such parish or township is
situate: [See Commentary, p. 33.]
APPOINTMENT OF REVISING BARRISTERS. XXIX
and such high constable or high constables shall 2W. 4,c.45.
forthwith deliver all such lists, together with such jj; j^ ^^^^
statements as aforesaid, to the clerk of the peace of stables to de-
the county, riding, or parts : [See Commentary, 33.] '*'^" **'^™'
who shall forthwith make out an abstract of the Abstract of
number of persons objected to by the overseers and revUai?"* ^^""^
by other persons in each parish and township, and
transmit the same to the barrister or barristers ap-
pointed as hereinafter mentioned, to revise such lists,
in order that the said barrister or barristers may fix
proper times and places for holding his or their
courts for the revision of the said lists. [See Com-
mentary, p. 32, 82.]
XLI. That the Lord Chief Justice of the Court Judges of
of King's Bench for the time being shall, in the month barrisJersr'
of July or Augusti in the present and in every sue- who shall
ceeding year, nominate and appoint for Middlesex, [fJsTf county
and the senior judge for the time being in the commis- voters.
sion of assize for every other county shall, when
travelling the Summer circuit, in the present and in
every succeeding year, nominate and appoint for
every such county, or for each of the ridings, parts,
or divisions of such county, a barrister or barristers
to revise the lists of voters in the election of a knight
or knights of the shire: [See Commentary, p. 78.]
and such barrister or barristers so appointed as Duties of such
aforesaid shall give public notice, as well by ad- NotJcTtobe
vertisement in some of the newspapers circulating ^^^^^^""^ **'*
within the county, riding, parts, or division, as also
by a notice to be fixed in some public and conspi-
cuous situation at the principal place of election for
the county, riding, parts, or division, (such last-
mentioned notice to be given three days at the least
before the commencement of his or their circuit,)
that he or they will make a circuit of the county,
riding, parts, or division for which he or they shall
be so appointed, and of the several times and places
at which he or they will hold courts for that pur- Period for
pose, such times being between the fifteenth day of '^^^'*'°"-
September inclusive and the twenty-fifth day of
October inclusive in the present and in every sue-
XXX
ATTENDANCE ON COURT OF REVISAL BY OFFICERS.
2 W. 4, c. 45.
If two barris-
ters for one
place, to hold
separate
courts.
No such bar-
rister eligible
for that place
to parliament
for 18 months.
No member of
parliament, or
barrister hold-
ing office under
the crown, to
be appointed.
No barrister so
appointed eli-
gible to serve
in parliament
till IS months
after appoint-
meat.
Clerk ©f the
peace and
overseers to
attend before
the barristers,
who shall re-
tain on the
county lists
all names not
objected to,
and shall ex-
punge those
whose qualifi-
cation, if ob-
jected to,
shall not be
proved.
Overseers to
attend court,
and answer
questions on
oath.
Names to be
retained.
ceeding year, and he or they shall hold open courts
for that purpose at the times and places so to be an-
nounced; [See Commentary, p. 80.]
and where two or more barristers shall be ap-
pointed for the same county, riding, parts, or divi-
sion, they shall attend at the same places together,
but shall sit apart from each other, and hold separate
courts at the same time for the despatch of business :
[See Commentary, p. 81.]
Provided always, that no member of Parliament,
nor any person holding any office or place of profit
under the crown, shall be appointed such barrister,
and that no barrister so appointed as aforesaid shall
be eligible to serve in Parliament for eighteen months
from the time of such his appointment* for the
county, riding, parts, or division for which he shall
be so appointed: [See Commentary, p. 78, 103.]
XLII. That the clerk of the peace shall, at the
opening of the first court to be held by every such
barrister for any county, or for any riding, parts, or
division of a county, produce or cause to be produced
before him, the several lists of voters for such county,
riding, parts, or division, which shall have been de-
livered to such clerk of the peace by the high con-
stables as aforesaid : [Commentary, p. 80.]
and the overseers of every parish and township
who shall have made out the lists of voters shall
attend the court to be held by every such barrister
at the place appointed for revising the lists relating
to such parish or township respectively, and shall
also deliver to such barrister a copy of the list of the
persons objected to, so made out by them as afore-
said ;t and the said overseers shall answer upon oath
all such questions as such barrister may put to them
or any of them touching any matter necessary for
revising the lists of voters ; [Commentary, p. 80.]
and every such barrister shall retain on the lists
of voters the names of all persons to whom no ob-
jection shall have been made by the overseers, or by
♦ The word appointment here means office, as it may be, and
is often used in that sense.
t p. xxvii}. s. 39.
REVISAL OF LISTS BY BARRISTERS. XXXI
any other person, in the manner hereinbefore men- 2 w. 4, c. 45.
tioned ;
and he shall also retain on the list of voters the J^^y Pf^*^«»
name of every person who shall have been objected overseers ob-
to by any person other than the overseers, unless the iheSves! oV
party so objecting shall appear by himself or by some tiTi?behaff, to
one on his behalf in support of such objection; support ihem.
and where the name of any person inserted in if objection
the list of voters shall have been objected to by the rr8\e*r"o ex-*"^"
1 ,1 • . 1 punge name.
overseers, or by any other person, m the manner
hereinbefore mentioned, and such person so objecting
shall appear by himself or by some one on his behalf in
support of such objection, every such barrister shall
require it to be proved that the person so objected
to was entitled on the last day of July then next pre-
ceding to have his name inserted in the list of voters
in respect of the qualification described in such list ;
and in case the same shall not be proved to the Title not
satisfaction of such barrister, or in case it shall be fo^be '"*™^
proved that such person was then incapacitated by expunged, j
any law or statute from voting in the election of
members to serve in Parliament, such barrister shall
expunge the name of every such person from the said
lists : [See Commentary, p. 85.]
and he shall also expunge from the said lists the Power to
name of every person who shall be proved to him to [akes^nd'*
be dead ; and shall correct any mistake which shall be spppiy omis-
proved to him to have been made in any of the said H^^^
lists as to any of the particulars by this Act required
to be inserted in such lists ; and where the Christian
name of any person, or his place of abode, or the
nature of his qualification, or the local or other de-
scription of his property, or the name of the tenant
in the occupation thereof, as the same respectively
are required to be inserted in any such list, shall be
wholly omitted therefrom, such barrister shall ex-
punge the name of every such person from such
list, unless the matter or matters so omitted be
supplied to the satisfaction of such barrister before
he shall have completed the revision of such list, in
which case he shall then and there insert the same
in such list: [See Commentary, p. 8.5.]
XXXll LISTS OF VOTERS FOR CITIES AND BOROUGHS.
2 w. 4, c. 45. Provided always, that no person's name shall be
Proviso that cxpunged from any such list, except in case of his
exp"un?ed''ex- death or of his being objected to on the margin of
S^o^rlb-*' the list by the overseers as aforesaid, or except in
ifs'ts^,'lr"htre ^^^^ ^^ ^^Y ^uch omission or omissions as hereinbe-
^on"unTs'r ^^^^ ^^^t mentioned, unless such notice as is herein-
been givYif bcforc rcquircd in that behalf shall have been given
to the overseers, nor unless such notice as is here-^
inbefore required in that behalf shall have been given^
to such person, or left at his place of abode, or deli-^
vered to his tenant as hereinbefore mentioned. [See^^
Sect. 52, and Commentary.] -^
Barrister to XLIII. Provided also. That if it shall happen that
tolnse?tTn ^^Y P^^^ou who shall havc given to the overseers of
the county any parish or township due notice of his claim to
names^of ^^Lve his name inserted in the list of voters in the
claimants election of a knight or knights of the shire shall have
thIJ' overseers hccn Omitted* by such overseers from such list, it
claim and*^*^ shall be lawful for the barrister, upon the revision of
qualification, such list, to insert therein the name of the person so
Where persons omittcd, in casc it shall be proved to the satisfaction
of such barrister that such person gave due notice of
such his claim to the said overseers, and that he was
entitled on the last day of July then next preceding
to be inserted in the list of voters in the election of a
knight or knights of the shire for the county, or for
the riding, parts, or division of the county, wherein
the parish or township of such overseers may be
situate, in respect of any lands or tenements within
such parish or township. [See Commentary.]
Overseers
to prepare XLIV. That the ovcrsccrs of the poor of every
sons (other parish and township, either wholly or in part situate
entmed^to^"^ within any city or borough, or place sharing in the
vote in election for any city or borough, which shall return
BOROUGHS,
and to pub- * It does not appear how this omission thus to be redressed^,,.
ijsh them. j,^,^ ^^gj. properly happen, because the overseer is bound, by'.*
Sect. 38, to insert on claim made all persons so claiming, and'^'^'
must, having inserted, object, if he consider him not entitled. -'<'
The advantage of insertion of all claimants' names by the
overseer, without other direction on his part than to note them
as objected, being a compulsory discretion, is shown in the
CoMMENTAliy, p. 95.
OVERSEERS — DUTIES OF — (boROUGHs). XXxiii
a member or members to serve in any future Parlia- 2 w. 4, c 45.
ment, shall, on or before the last day of July in the
present and in each succeeding year, make out or
cause to be made out, according to the Form num-
bered 1, in the Schedule marked (I.) to this Act
annexed, an alphabetical list of all persons who may
be entitled by virtue of this Act to vote in the elec-
tion of a member or members to serve in any future
Parliament for such city or borough in respect ofoneiistof
the occupation of premises of the clear yearly value of prlmi'ses^***
of not less than ten pounds as hereinbefore men- Jeariy v'liiue.
tioned, situate wholly or in part within such parish
or township, and another alphabetical list, according
to the Form numbered 2 in the said Schedule (I.) ^ second ust
of all other persons (except freemen) who may be exc*eprfree-"*
entitled to vote in the election for such city or '"^"'
borough by virtue of any other right whatsoever;
[See Commentary, p. 35, 36, 37.]
and in each of the said lists the Christian name contents of
and surname of every person shall be written at full
length, together with the nature of his qualification ;
and where any person shall be entitled to vote in
respect of any property, then the name of the street,
lane, or other description of the place where such
property may be situate shall be specified in the
list; and where any person shall be entitled to vote
otherwise than in respect of any property, then the
name of the street, lane, or other description of the
place of such person's abode shall be specified in
the list; [See Commentary, p. 37, 39.]
and the overseers shall sign each of such lists, lyoyeilert
and shall cause a sufficient number of copies of j^, be posted
such lists to be printed, and to be fixed on or near the '""^ publish.- j.
doors of all the churches and chapels in their several
parishes and townships, or if there be no church or
chapel therein, then to be fixed up in some public
and conspicuous situation within the same respec-
tively, on the two Sundays next after such lists shall
have been made;* and the said overseers shall like- f^X^kept'*'*
wise keep true copies of such lists, to be perused by for inspec
any person, without payment of any fee, at all rea- "*^"'
• So in counties, p. xxvi.
c5
XXXIV
LISTS — BOROUGHS.
Provision for
places within
boroughs
having no
overseers.
To belong to
adjoining
township.
2W.4, C.45. sohable hours during the two first weeks after such
lists shall have been made. [See Commentary, p. 39.]
XL V. That every precinct or place, whether extra-
parochial or otherwise, having no overseers of the
poor, which now is or hereafter may be within any
city or borough, or within any place sharing in the
election for any city or borough, shall, for the pur-
pose of making out the list of voters for such city or
borough, be deemed to be within the parish or town-
ship adjoining thereto, and situate wholly or in part
within such city or borough, or within such place
sharing in the election therewith ; and if such pre-
cinct or place shall adjoin two or more parishes or
townships so situate as aforesaid, it shall be deemed
to be within the least populous of such parishes or
townships according to the last census for the time
being; and the overseers of every such parish or
township shall insert in the list for their respective
parish or township the names of all persons who may
be entitled to vote in the election of a member or
members to serve in any future Parliament for any
such city or borough in respect of any property oc-
cupied by such persons within such city or borough,
or within any place sharing in the election therewith,
such property being situate wholly or in part within
such precinct or place as aforesaid. [See Commen-
tary, p. 46, and ante^ p. 27.]
XLVI. That the town clerk of every city or
borough shall, on or before the last day of July in
the present and in each succeeding year, make out
or cause to be made out, according to the Form
numbered 3 in the said Schedule (I.) an alphabetical
list of all the freemen of such city or borough who
may be entitled to vote in the election of a member
or members to serve in any future Parliament for
such city or borough, together with the respective
places of their abode ; and the town clerk of every
place sharing in the election for any city or borough
shall, at the respective times aforesaid, make out or
cause to be made out a like list of all the freemen of
such place who may be entitled to vote in the elec-
Town clerks
to prepare
and publish
the lists of
freemen.
TOWN CLERKS — DUTY OF — OBJECTING, XXXV
tion of a member or members to serve in any future a w. 4, c. 45.
Parliament for such city or borough ; and every such
town clerk shall cause a copy of every such list to
be fixed on or near the door of the town-hall, or in
some public and conspicuous situation within such
respective city, borough, or place as aforesaid, on
the two Sundays next after such list shall have been
made, and shall likewise keep a true copy of such
list, to be perused by any person, without payment
of any fee, at all reasonable hours during the two
first weeks after such list shall have been made:
[See Commentary, p. 37.]
Provided always, that where there shall be no Provision
town clerk for such city, borough, or place as afore- no town cTc^rk!
said, or where the town clerk shall be dead or inca- capahilofact-
pable of acting, all matters by this Act required to substitution of
be done by and with regard to the town clerk shall acting''a8''t?wf
be done by and with regard to the person executing '^^^'^'
duties similar to those of the town clerk, and if there
be no such person, then by and with regard to the
chief civil officer of such city, borough, or place.
[See Commentary, p. 46.]
XLVII. That every person whose name shall Persons
have been omitted in any such list of voters for any Ih^'boroigh
city or borough so to be made out as hereinbefore lists to give
mentioned, and who shall claim to have his name cia/m»r
inserted therein as having been entitled on the last
day of July then next preceding, shall, on or before
the twenty-fifth day of August in the present, and
in every succeeding year, give or cause to be given
a notice in writing, according to the Form numbered
4 in the said Schedule (I.), or to the like effect, to
the overseers of that parish or township in the list
whereof he shall claim to have his name inserted,
or if he shall claim as a freeman of any city or bo-
rough, or place sharing in the election therewith,
then to the town clerk of such city, borough, or
place ; [See Commentary, p. 52.]
and every person whose name shall have been Objecting.
inserted in any list of voters for ani/ city or borough
may object to any other person as not having been
XXXVl OBJECTING TO VOTERS BOROUGHS.
2 w. 4, c. 45. entitled on the last day of July then next preceding
to have his name inserted in any list of voters for
the same city or borough, [See Commentary, p. 60.]
Notices as and every person so objecting shall, on or before
enSueTto'bi ^^^ twenty-fifth day of August in the present and in
retained in evcry Succeeding year, give or cause to be given a
pereons'ob^ noticc in writing, according to the Form numbered
jectingtothe 5^ in the Said Schedule (I.), or to the like effect, to
nameriJithe the ovcrscers who shall have made out the list in
''"*• which the name of the person so objected to shall
have been inserted, or if the person objected to shall
have been inserted in the list of freemen of any city,
borough, or place as aforesaid, then to the town clerk
of such city, borough, or place ; [See Commentary,
p. 61.]
Lists of and the overseers shall include the names of all
and*of^- persons so claiming as aforesaid in a list according
sons objected to the Form numbered 6 in the said Schedule (I.),
iuh3!'&?."** and the names of all persons so objected to as afore-
by overseers, g^id in a Hst according to the Form numbered 7 in
the said Schedule (I.), and shall cause copies of such
two lists to be fixed on or near the doors of all the
churches and chapels within their parish or township,
or if there be no church or chapel therein, then to
be fixed in some public and conspicuous situation
within the same respectively, on the two Sundays
next preceding the fifteenth day of September in the
present and in every succeeding year; [See Com-
mentary, p. 61.]
Town clerk to aud cvcry towu clcrk shall include the names of
freemen!^* ''^ all pcrsons SO claiming as freemen in a list accord-
ing to the Form numbered 8 in the said Schedule (I.),
and the names of all persons so objected to as free-
men in a list according to the Form numbered 9 in
the said Schedule (I.), and shall cause copies of such
two lists to be fixed on or near the doors of the
Town Hall, or in some public and conspicuous situa-
tion, within his respective city, borough, or place as
aforesaid, on the two Sundays hereinbefore last men-
tioned in the present and in every succeeding year ;
[Commentary, p. 62.]
and the overseers and town clerks shall likewise
LONDON LISTS. XXXVll
keep a copy of the names of all the persons so claim- 2 W. 4, c. 45.
ing as aforesaid, and also a copy of the names of all ^"TtTbT"
persons so objected to as aforesaid, to be perused by ^^f^^^ ?•"»''•=
any person, without payment of any fee, at all rea-
sonable hours during the ten days next preceding
the said fifteenth day of September in the present
and in every succeeding year, and shall deliver a c opies to be
copy of each of such lists to any person requiring the men°o*f"ir^'
same, on payment of one shilling for each copy. ^^^'
[See Commentary, p. 61, 62.]
XLVIII. That for providing a list of such of Retumiug
the freemen of the city of London as are liverymen jSclptl^tr"*
of the several companies entitled to vote in the complnfell''"'
election of a member or members to serve in any
future Parliament for the city of London, the re-
turning officer or officers of the said city shall, on
or before the last day of July in the present and in
each succeeding year, issue precepts to the clerks
of the said livery companies, requiring them forth- Listofiivery-
with to make out or cause to be made out, at the men of Lon-
^ , . . Ill don to be
expense 01 the respective companies, an alphabe- transmitted
tical list, according to the Form in the Schedule jL^o^'c^e"'""
(K.) to this Act annexed, of the freemen of London
being liverymen of the said respective companies and
entitled to vote in such election ;
and every such clerk shall sign such list, and
transmit the same, with two printed copies thereof,
to such returning officer or officers, who shall forth- lj^i ^t ciaim
with fix one such copy in the Guildhall and one in f" clindhal?***
the Roi/al Exchange of the said city, there to remain Ix^hlnge.
fourteen days in the present and in every subse-
quent year ;
and the clerks of the said livery companies shall copies for pub-
cause a sufficient number of such lists of freemen ''*^ *'*™*
and liverymen of their respective companies to be
printed at the expense of the respective companies,
and shall keep the same, to be perused by any per-
son, without payment of any fee, at all reasonable
hours during the two first weeks after such lists shall
have been printed ; [See Commentary, p. 47, 48.]
and every person whose name shall have been
XXXVin LONDON LISTS — CLAIMS OBJECTING.
2W.4, c. 45, omitted in any such list of freemen and liverymen,
and who shall claim to have his name inserted
given of omis^- therein as having been entitled on the last day of July
sions and ob- then ucxt preccdinff, shall, on or before the twenty-
jectionsin list r'r'^ t n a ■ ^ i '
Of liverymen, ntth day ot August m the present and m every suc-
ceeding year, give or cause to be given a notice in
writing according to the Form numbered 1 in the
said Schedule (K.), or to the like effect, to the re-
turning officer or officers, and to the clerk of that
company in the list whereof he shall claim to have
his name inserted : [See Commentary, p. 56.]
Lists of free. and the returning officer or officers shall include
men and livery- , /» n i • • r> -j •
nien b^ return- thc names of all pcrsous SO claiming as aforesaid m
London?*^ ° a Hst accordiug to the Form numbered 2 in the said
Schedule (K.), and shall cause such last-mentioned
list to be fixed in the Guildhall and Royal Exchange
of the said city on the two Mondays next preceding
the fifteenth day of September in the present and in
every succeeding year; [See Commentary, p. 48.]
copj of claim- and the said returning officer or officers, and clerks
hi kept by of the said companies, shall likewise keep a copy of
n.ry c ei s. ^^^^ names of all the persons so claiming as aforesaid,
to be perused by any person, without payment of
any fee, at all reasonable hours during the ten days
next preceding the said fifteenth day of September
in the present and in every succeeding year ; [See
Commentary, p. 48.]
Time and mo.']
and the said Lord Chief Justice and judge respec- Borough*.
tively shall have power to nominate and appoint one
or more barristers to revise the lists for the same
city or borough or other place as aforesaid, or one
barrister only, to revise the hsts for several cities,
boroughs, and other places as aforesaid : [See Com-
mentary, p. 78.]
Provided always, that no Member of Parliament, Jo^'mlmbS'of
nor any person holding any office or place of profit
Parliament.
xl COURTS OF REVISAL.
2 w. 4, c. 45. under the crown, shall be appointed as such barris-
hoiding place ^^^ ^^ aforcsaid, and that no barrister so appointed
under the as aforcsaid shall be eligible to serve in Parlia-
crown, be ap- n • i i r» i • n t •
pointed. Such meut lor eighteen months from the time of his ap-
bairisier not . ^ • i i i i *^
fliisibie for poiutmeut lor any city, borough, or other place as
lb mo'iiihs^. ""^ aforesaid for which he shall be so appointed : [See
Commentary, p. 78, 103, and ante, p. xxx.]
Provided also, that nothing herein contained shall
prevent the same barrister from being appointed to
revise the lists for two or more counties, ridings,
parts, or divisions, or for any county, riding, parts,
or division, and any one or more of the cities or
boroughs therein. [See Commentary, p. 78.]
Barrister to L. That the barrister or barristers so appointed
borough*^^ ^^ to revise the lists of voters for any citi/ or borough
voters, and shall hold an open court or courts for that purpose
proof toln- within such city or borough, and also within every
sert and ex- place sharing in the election for such city or bo-
punge names. *^ , o . . i ^ ^ i i /»
rough, at some time between the niteenth day of
September inclusive and the twenty-fifth day of
Time of hold- Octobcr* iuclusivc in the present and in every suc-
ing courts. ceeding year, having first given three clear days*
Notice of hold- ^- c ^i^ i. ij' c l, ^ ^ \
in? courts. noticc ot the holding oi such court or courts, to
be fixed on the doors of all the churches and
chapels within such city, borough, or place respec-
tively, or if there be no church or chapel therein,
then to be fixed in some public and conspicuous
situation within the same respectively ; [See Com-
mentary, p. 80, 87, 88.] ,j
Overseers. and the ovcrsccrs and town clerks who shall havcrg
and returninf? made out thc lists of votcrs as aforesaid, and in the
don to*p"roduce case of the city of London the returning officer or
tiv^usuauhe officcrs of the said city, shall, at the opening of the
ffcourtf and first court to be held by every such barrister for
fo^revistDg'^* revising such lists, produce their respective lists
afteidYhe" bcforc him ; [See Commentary, p. 81, 88.]
answer*53e8- ^ud the Said ovcrsccrs and town clerks shall also
to**uching"th?'' deliver to such barrister a copy of the list of the per-
lists. gQjjs objected to, so made out by them as aforesaid ;
* For this year these days are postponed hy order of his
Majesty in Council, to the same days in the following months.
CITIES AND BOROUGHS. xli
and the clerks of the several livery companies of the 2 W. 4, c. 45.
city of London, and the town clerk of every other
city or borough, or place sharing in the election
therewith: and the several overseers within every cieiksofiivery
city, borough, or place as aforesaid, shall attend the a?t^ndcouite
court to be held by every such barrister for any such o^ '^^'^ai.
city, borough, or place as aforesaid, and shall answer
upon oath all such questions as such barrister may
put to them, or any of them, touching any matter
necessary for revising the lists of voters ; [See
Commentary, p. 86.]
and every such barrister shall insert in such lists insertion of
the name of every person who shall be proved to his "*"''* *" ''*'*'
satisfaction to have been entitled on the last day of
July then next preceding to have his name inserted
in any such list of voters for such city or borough ;
and such barrister shall retain on the lists of voters Retainer,
for such city or borough the names of all persons to
whom no objection shall have been made in the man-
ner hereinbefore mentioned, and he shall also retain
on the said lists the name of every person who shall
have been objected to by any person, unless the
party so objecting shall appear by himself, or by
some one on his behalf, in support of such objection ;
[See Commentary, p. 87.]
and where the name of any person inserted in the objections
list of voters for such city or borough shall have ^'^p®*^*^ ***•
been objected to in the manner hereinbefore men-
tioned, and the person so objecting shall appear by
himself, or by some one on his behalf, in support of
such objection, every such barrister shall require it
to be proved that the person so objected to was
entitled on the last day of July then next preceding
to have his name inserted in the list of voters for
such city or borough in respect of the qualification
described in such list, and in case the same shall not
be proved to the satisfaction of such barrister, or in
case it shall be proved that such person was then
incapacitated by any law or statute from voting in
the election of members to serve in Parliament, such
barrister shall expunge the name of every such per-
xlii
COURTS OF REVISAL.
aw. 4, C.45.
Power to rec-
tify mistakes
and supply
omissions in
the lists.
Material im-
pcrfectioHs to
be amended.
Notice to party
of expunging
name.
General
power of in-
specting tax
assessments
and rate
books by
overseers.
son from the said lists, and he shall also expunge
from the said lists the name of every person who
shall be proved to him to be dead, and shall correct
any mistake which shall be proved to him to have
been made in any of the said lists as to any of the
particulars by this Act required to be inserted in
such lists ; [See Commentary, p. 85, 87, 93.]
and where the Christian name, or the place of
abode, or the nature of the qualification, or the local
description of the property of any person who shall
be included in any such list shall be wholly omit-
ted in such list in any case where the same is by
this Act directed to be specified therein, such bar-
rister shall expunge the name of every such person
from such list, unless the matter or matters so
omitted be supplied to the satisfaction of such bar-
rister before he shall have completed the revision of
such list, in which case he shall then and there insert
the same in such list : [See Commentary, p. 85.]
Provided always, that no person's name shall be
inserted by such barrister in any such list for any
city or borough, or shall be expunged therefrom,
except in the case of death, or of such omission or
omissions as hereinbefore last-mentioned, unless
such notice shall have been given as is hereinbefore
required in each of the said cases. [See Commen-
tary, p. 85.]
LI. That the overseers* of every parish or town-
ship shall, for their assistance in making out the lists
in pursuance of this Act, (upon request made by
them or any of them, at any reasonable time between
the first day of June and the last day of July in
the present and in any succeeding year, to any as-
sessor or collector of taxes, or to any other officer
having the custody of any duplicate or tax assess-
ment for such parish or township,) have free liberty
to inspect any such duplicate or tax assessment, and
* Town clerks and the clerks of liveries of the city of London
are not mentioned here, but they may, also, it is presumed, have
the same power.
COUNTIES, CITIES, AND BOROUGHS. iliu
to extract from thence such particulars as may ap- aw. 4, c.43.
pear to such overseer or overseers to be necessary;
[See Commentary, p. 46.]
and every barrister appointed under this Act shall Revising bar-
have power to require any assessor, collector 01 powered to
^ 1 /v> 1-1 1 /» require tax
taxes, or other omcer havme the custody ol any officers to pro-
duphcate or tax assessment, or any overseer or ments.
overseers having the custody of any poor rate, to
produce the same respectively before him at any
court to be held by him, for the purpose of assisting
him in revising the lists to be by him revised in
pursuance of this Act. [See Commentary, p. 82.]
LII. That entry barrister holding any court under Barrister, on
this Act as aforesaid shall have power to adjourn the ffsu'To^have
same from time to time, and from any one place power of ad-
to any other place or places "within the same county ^ idm?Sering
riding, parts, or division, or within the same city or ^^ths, &-c.
borough, or within any place sharing in the election
for such city or borough, but so as that no such ad-
journed court shall be held after the twenty-Jifth day of
October in any year;* [See Commentary, p. 88.]
and every such barrister shall have power to ad-
minister an oath (or, in the case of a Quaker or to pmon. ob-
Moravian, an affirmation,) to all persons making io*ie°l-to per-
»'^' ,.!• ^' ' ' £> sons claimine,
objection to the insertion or omission 01 any name and persons
in any of such lists as aforesaid, and to all persons SwUnesMs.
objected to or claiming to be inserted in any of such
lists, or claiming to have any mistake corrected or
any omission supplied in any of such lists, and to '
all witnesses who may be tendered on either side ;
[See Commentary, p. 88.]
and that if any person taking any oath or making raise swear-
any affirmation under this Act shall wilfully swear "'^' p«fj"'y-
or affirm falsely, such person shall be deemed guilty
of perjury, and shall be punished accordingly; [See
Commentary, p. 88.]
and that at the holding of such respective courts Parties not to
the parties shall not be attended by counsel; [_^Qq\1^^'^^''^^''
Commentary, p. 89 to 91.]
• In this year, the 25th November.
Xliv COURTS OF REVISAL.
2W.4, c. 45. and that every such barrister shall, upon the
To have the hearing in open court, finally determine upon the
as a^re'turni'n validity of such claims and objections, and shall for
officer; that purpose have the same powers and proceed in
the same manner (except where otherwise directed
by this Act) as the returning officer of any county,
city, or borough according to the laws and usages
and to settle now observed at elections ; and such barrister shall
and sign the {ji ^jjew couH wHtc his initials against the names re-
lists m open ^ . ■, ■, • i i
court. spectively struck out or mserted, and agamst any
part of the said lists in which any mistake shall have
been corrected or any omission supplied, and shall
sign his name to every page of the several lists so
settled. [See Commentary, p. 92, 94.]
Judges to ap- LIII. That notwithstanding anything hereinbe-
fioiTa^Siis- ^^^® contained, if it shall be made to appear to the
ters in case Lord Chief Justicc or Judge who shall have appointed
of need ; ^^^ barrister or barristers under this Act, to revise
the list of voters, that by reason of the death, illness,
or absence of any such barrister or barristers, or by
reason of the insufficiency of the number of such
barristers, or from any other cause^ such lists cannot
be revised within the period directed by this Act, it
shall be lawful for such Lord Chief Justice or Judge,
and he is hereby required, to appoint one or more
barrister or barristers to act in the place of or in ad-
or to substitute dition to the barrister or barristers originally appointed;
rep ace. ^^^ ^^^j^ barrister or barristers so subsequently ap-
pointed shall have the same powers and authorities
in every respect as if they had been originally ap-
pointed by such Lord Chief Justice or Judge. [See
Commentary, p. 78, 79.]
County lists LI V. That the lists of voters for each county, or
mittedto"* for the riding, parts, or division of each county, so
clerk of the signed as aforesaid by any such barrister, shall be
forthwith transmitted by him to the clerk of the peace
of the county, riding, or parts for which such bar-
rister shall have been appointed ; [See Commen-
tary.]
REGISTER. Xlv
and the clerk of the peace shall keep the said lists 2 w. 4, c. 45.
among the records of the sessions, arranged with every
hundred in alphabetical order, and with every parish
and township within such hundred likewise in alpha-
betical order, [See Commentary, p. 95.]
and shall forthwith cause the said lists to be fairly Ligtg to be
and truly copied in the same order in a book to be ^^Pj^^ ^°5^
by him provided for that purpose, and shall prefix the' names
to every name so copied out its proper number, cambered,
beginning the numbers from the first name, and
continuing them in a regular series down to the
last name : [See Commentary, p. 95.]
and shall complete and deliver such book on or to be den-
before the last day of October in the present and in to'under-
every succeeding year to the sheriff of the county, himhanaeV''
or his under-sheriff, who shall safely keep the same, cesser? ^Mhe
and shall at the expiration of his office deliver over «" surh'^gut''
the same to the succeeding sheriff or his under- *^^''*"'^*
sheriff; [See Commentary, p. 95.]
and the lists of voters for each city or borough, so Lists of city 01
signed as aforesaid by any such barrister, shall be frbe deuvif"
forthwith delivered by him to the returning officer for barriVterlo re-
such city or borough, who shall safely keep the same, '""^"'"^ <*'''<=*''•
and shall cause the said lists to be fairly and truly Lists to
copied in a book to be by him provided for that ''^^^^P^^y
^ , , I'll 1 returning
purpose, with every name therem numbered accord- officer, and
ing to the directions aforesaid, and shall cause such ^^^^^^^^ ^'*
book to be completed on or before the last day of
October in the present and in every succeeding year,
and shall deliver over such book, together with the
lists, at the expiration of his office, to the person suc-
ceeding him in such office : [See Commentary, p. 95.]
and every such book, to be so completed on Such books
or before the last day of October in the present *re6^isJer of
year, shall be deemed the register of the electors to electors.
vote, after the end of this present Parliament, in
the choice of a member or members to serve in Par-
liament for the county, riding, parts, or division of a
county, city, or borough to which such register shall
relate, at any election which may take place after
the said last day of October in the present year and
before the first day of November in the year one
Xlvi REGISTER COPIES.
2 w. 4, c. 45. thousand eight hundred and thirty-three; [See
Commentary, p. 95, 96.]
Register, and every such book to be so completed on or
belJ fofce! before the last day of October in the year one thou-
sand eight hundred and thirty-three, and in every
succeeding year, shall be the register of electors to
vote at any election which shall take place between
the first day of November inclusive in the year
wherein such respective register shall have been
made and the first day of November in the suc-
ceeding year. [See Commentary, p. 96.']
Copies of the L V. That the overseers of every parish and town-
th?registers, ^hip shall cause to be written or printed copies of
to be printed the lists SO by them to be made in the present and
counties by in every succeeding year, and shall deliver such
overseers. copies to all persous applying for the same, on pay-
ment of a reasonable price for each copy ; and the
monies arising from the sale thereof shall be ac-
counted for by the said overseers, and applied to
the same purposes as monies collected for the relief
of the poor; [See Commentary, p. 41.]
Copies of re- and the clerks of the peace shall cause to be writ-
cierkVpeace ten or printed copies of the registers of the electors
or counties; |.^^ their respective counties, ridings, or parts, or for
the divisions of their respective counties ; [See
Commentary, p. d?.]
and by return- and the retuminff officer of every city or borough
ing officers for ^ „ ^ i -^^ 1a- n ^^
borouphsand shall cause to be written or prmted copies of the
*^""' register of the electors for such city or borough;
[See Commentary, p. 97.]
^nj^cierksof and cvcry such clerk of the peace, and every
such returning officer, shall deliver such respective
copies to all persons applying for the same, on pay-
ment of a reasonable price for each copy ; and the
monies arising from the sale of all such copies shall
be accounted for to the treasurer of the county,
riding, or parts. [See Commentary, p. 97.]
Source of LVI. That for the purpose of defraying the ex-
/unds for ex- ^ i • j i ^i r^i.
penses. pcnses to be incurred by the overseers oi the poor
and by the clerk of the peace in carrying into
DEFRAYING OFFICERS EXPENSES. xlvii
effect the several provisions of this Act, so far as 2 w. 4, c. 45.
relates to the electors for any county, or for any ~
• J. !•••/• J Expenses of
ridmg, parts, or division 01 a county, every per- overseers,
son, wpon giving notice of his claim, as such elector to ^^^l^^'^H^'^
the overseers, as hereinbefore mentioned, shall pay how to be'
or cause to be paid to the said overseers the sum ^^^frayed-
of one shilling :
and such notice of claim shall not be deemed valid county ejector,
until such sum shall have been paid ; and the over- notice of his
seers of each parish or township shall add all monies ?nte?ted in the
so received by them to the money collected or to be mus^ply'one
collected for the relief of the poor in such parish or Sce'JJJfi'viiid"
township, and such monies so added shall be applica- *'" ^'"'*"
ble to the same purposes as monies collected for the
relief of the poor;
and that for the purpose of defraying the expenses ci'y and bo-
. ji^i^. • fcr \l ^^"^^ electors
to be incurred by the returning omcer ot every city to pay one
and borough, and by the overseers of the several pa- anyinlddiHon
rishes and townships in every city and borough, and of,' t*h°e Joor*"
place sharing in the election therewith, in carrying '^*'^*
into effect the provisions of this Act, so far as relates
to the electors for such city or borough, every such
elector whose name shall be upon the register of
voters for such city or borough for the time being
shall be liable to the payment of one shilling annually,
which sum shall be levied and collected from each
elector in addition to and as part of the money pay-
able by him as his contribution to the rate for the
relief of the poor, and such sum shall be applicable
to the same purposes as money collected for the
relief of the poor ;
and that the expenses incurred by the overseers Expensep of
f, . , *•,.. ,. •'. .. , overseers and
01 any parish or township m making out, printmff, and returning ofs-
ui- IT- .1- 1 I- . 1 ^- 1- 5^ J I- cers for citiet
publishing the several lists and notices directed by ana borou(?iw
this Act, and all other expenses incurred by them in JoS-?ate?
carrying into effect the provisions of this Act, shall
be defrayed out of the money collected or to be col-
lected for the relief of the poor in such parish or
township ; [See Commentary, p. 45.]
and that all expenses incurred by the returning
officer of any city or borough in causing the lists of
the electors for such city or borough to be copied
Xlviii SOURCE OF FUND FOR EXPENSES.
2VV. 4, C.45. out and made into a register, and in causing copies
of such register to be written or printed, shall be
defrayed by the overseers of the poor of the several
parishes and townships within such city or borough,
or place sharing in the election therewith, out of the
money collected or to be collected for the relief of
the poor in such parishes and townships, in propor-
tion to the number of persons placed on the register
of voters for each parish or township ;
Expenses of and that all expenses incurred by the clerk of the
clerk of the p. ^ • j • • • ^i
peace paid by pcacc oi any couuty, riding, or parts, m causing the
sur"eT/aftlr be- lists of the elcctors for such county, riding or parts,
jnfticerat*^ *** or for any division of such county, to be copied out
sessions. ^^^ made into a register, and in causing copies of
such register to be written or printed, and in other-
wise carrying into effect the provisions of this Act,
shall be defrayed by the treasurer of such county,
riding, or parts out of any public money in his hands,
and he shall be allowed all such payments in his
accounts :
Provision for Providcd always, that no expenses incurred by
accoun'tin?!!" any clerk of the peace under this Act shall be so
paSm'e'ili" ° defrayed unless the account shall be laid before the
justices of the peace at the next quarter sessions after
such expenses shall have been incurred, and allowed
by the Court,
Remunera- LVII. That every barrister appointed to revise
barristers for ^^y ^^^^^ ^^ voters under this Act shall be paid at the
revising the rate of five guineas for every day that he shall be so
'**^' employed, over and above his travelling and other
expenses : and every such barrister, after the termi-
nation of his last sitting, shall lay or cause to be laid
before the lords commissioners of his majesty's trea-
sury for the time being a statement of the number
of days during which he shall have been so em-
ployed, and an account of the travelling and other
expenses incurred by him in respect of such employ-
ment ; and the said lords commissioners shall make
an order for the amount to be paid to such barrister.
[See Commentary, p. 79.]
QUESTIONS TO BE PUT AT POLL OATH. xlix
LVIII. That in all elections whatever of members 2 w. 4, c. 45 .
to serve in any future Parliament no inquiry shall be ^r^ .
permitted at the time 01 polling, as to the right of at the time
any person to vote, except only as follows ; that is except' a^to
to say, that the returning officer or his respective the identity
deputy shall, if required on behalf of any candidate, uie'coilulfu-'
put to any voter at the time of his tendering his vote, »"ce of his
and not afterwards, the following questions, or any and whe"he"r
of them, and no other : J^'^^^ vote**
' before at
1 . Are you the same person whose name appears j?™^ ^'®*^'
as A. B. on the register of voters now in po^j of
force for the county of \^or for questions as
the riding, parts, or division, poimt?
Src. or for the city, Sfc. as the case may be] ?
2. Have you already voted, either here or else-
where, at this election for the county of
[or for the riding, parts,
or division of the county of , or
for the city or borough of as the
case 7nay be~\ ?
3. Have you the same qualification for which
your name was originally inserted in the re-
gister of voters now in force for the county
of, SfC. [or for the riding, ^c,
or for the city, SfC, as the case may be, speci-
fying in each case the particulars of the qualifica-
tion as described in the register] 1
And if any person shall wilfully make a false answer False answer a
to any of the questions aforesaid, he shall be deemed
guilty of an indictable misdemeanor, and shall be
punished accordingly ; [See Commentary, p. 116.]
and the returning officer or his deputy, or a com- Oath to be
missioner or commissioners to be for that purpose by fj'^j'jj^red^**
him or them appointed, shall (if required on behalf
of any candidate at the time aforesaid) administer an
oath (or, in case of a Quaker or Moravian, an affirma-
tion) to any voter in the following form ; (that is to
say,)
' You do swear, [or being a QuaJcer or Moravian, do Form of oath.
* affirm,] That you are the same person whose name
d
FORM OF OATH — TENDER OF VOTES.
No other
oath as to
qualification
2W.4, C.45. * appears as A. B. on the register of voters now in
' force for the county of [or for the
* riding, parts, or division of the county of
* or for the city or borough of as the case
* may be], and that you have not before voted, either
* here or elsewhere, at the present election for the said
* county [or for the said riding, parts, or division of
* the said county, or for the said city or borough, as
' the case may be]. So help you God.'
And no elector shall hereafter at any such election
be required to take any oath or affirmation, except
as aforesaid, either in proof of his freehold or of his
residence, age, or other qualification or right to vote,
any law or statute, local or general, to the contrary
notwithstanding; [See Commentary, 97, 116.]
and no person* claiming to vote at any such elec-
tion shall be excluded from voting thereat, except
by reason of its appearing to the returning officer
or his respective deputy, upon putting such ques-
tions as aforesaid, or any of them, that the person
so claiming to vote is not the same person whose
name appears on such register as aforesaid, or that
he has previously voted at the same election, or
that he has not the same qualification for which
his name was originally inserted in such register, or
except by reason of such person refusing to take
the said oath or make the said affirmation or to
take or make the oath or affirmation against bribery,
or any other oath or affirmation now required by
law, and not hereby dispensed with ;f
No scrutiny and no scrutiny shall hereafter be allowed by
officer"*^"^"^ or before any returning officer with regard to any
votes given or tendered at any election of a member
or members to serve in any future Parliament ; any
law, statute, or usage to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. [See Commentary, p. 97, 109, 116, 117, 118.]
* i. e. Semble, no person in the register, or omitted by deci-
sion of revising barrister.
t The first of these is not properly exclusion, and the two
others cannot apply to persons tendering votes.
REGISTER NOT QUESTIONABLE BUT BY HOUSE. li
LIX. Provided always, That any person whose 2 w. 4, c. 45.
name shall have been omitted from any register of Persons ex
voters in consequence of the decision of the barrister , eluded from
[See Commentary, p. 109, 125 to 128,] who shall iy'tiTS"^,.
have revised the lists from which such register t^r may ten-
shall have been formed may tender his vote at any votes'^arciec-
election at which such register shall be in force, "**"«•
stating at the time the name or names of the
candidate or candidates for whom he tenders such
vote, and the returning officer or his deputy shall Tender to be
enter upon the poll book every vote so tendered, '^^*^^'<^«**-
distinguishing the same from the votes admitted and
allowed at such election. [See Commentary, p. 109.]
LX. Provided also,* That upon petition to the Correctness
House of Commons, complaining of an undue elec- JlJ^te qnlt!*^*^
tion or return of any member or members to serve tionabie be-
in Parhament, any petitioner, or any person defend- SuteVoT^he
ing such election or return, shall be at liberty to House of
impeach the correctness of the register of voters in **™™*'°'*
force at the time of such election, by proving that
in consequence of the decision of the barrister who
shall have revised the lists of voters from which
such register shall have been formed the name of
any person who voted at such election was impro-
perly inserted or retained in such register, or the
name of any person who tendered his vote at such
election improperly omitted from such register ; and
the select committee appointed for the trial of such
petition shall alter the poll taken at such election
according to the truth of the case, and shall report
their determination thereupon to the House, and
the House shall thereupon carry such determination
into effect, and the return shall be amended, or the
election declared void, as the case may be, and the
register corrected accordingly, or such other order
* This, which is one of the most material and important prac-
tical provisions of the act, is much too vaguely expressed for so
pregnant a clause ; and is the most serious semblance of failure
in the whole draft of the bill. [See CoMMENTARy,p. 125 to 130.1
d 2
lii
POLLING FOR COUNTIES — DISTRICTS — BOOTHS.
2W.4, C.45. shall be made as to the House shall seem proper.
[See Commentary, p. 95, 109, 125 to 128.]
Sheriffs of
the divided
counties to
fix the time
and preside
at elections.
LXI. That the sheriffs of Yorkshire and Lincoln-
shire, and the sheriffs of the counties divided by this
Act, shall duly cause proclamation to be made of the
several days fixed for the election of a knight or
knights of the shire for the several ridings, parts,
and divisions of their respective counties, and shall
preside at the election by themselves or their lawful
deputies. [See Commentary, p. 106, 107, 108.]
Commence-
ment and
continuance
of polls at
county
elections.
Termination of
poll.
LXII. That at every contested election of a
knight or knights to serve in any future Parliament
for any county, or for any riding, parts, or division
of a county, the polling shall commence at nine
o'clock in the forenoon of the next day but two after
the day fixed for the election, unless such next day
but two shall be Saturday or Sunday, and then on
the Monday following, at the principal place of elec-
tion, and also at the several places to be appointed
as hereinafter directed for taking polls ; [See Com-
mentary, p. 109, 119.]
and such polling shall continue for two days only,
such two days being successive days ; that is to say,
for seven hours on the first day of polling, and for
eight hours on the second day of polling ; and no
poll shall be kept open later than four o'clock in
the afternoon of the second day ; any statute to
the contrary notwithstanding. [See Commentary,
p. 119, 120.]
Counties to LXIII. That the respective counties in England
intomstricts and Wales, and the respective ridings, parts, and
b''^ ettiiSd divisions of counties, shall be divided into con-
venient districts for polling, and in each district
shall be appointed a convenient place for taking the
poll at all elections of a knight or knights of the
shire to serve in any future Parliament, and such
districts and places for taking the poll shall be
settled and appointed by the Act to be passed in this
marked out
by a future
Act.
POLLING COUNTIES — CLOSE OF Ku
present Parliament for the purpose of settling and 2W.4, c.45.
describing the divisions of the counties enumerated
in the Schedule marked (F.) to this Act annexed;
provided that no county, nor any riding, parts or
division of a county, shall have more than fifteen
districts and respective places appointed for taking
the poll for such county, riding, parts, or division.
[See Commentary, p. 107.]
LXIV. That at every contested election for any as to booths
county, or riding, parts, or division of a county, the ^^^^^^ for^*°^
sheriff, under-sheriff, or sheriff's deputy shall, if counties,
required thereto by or on behalf of any candidate,
on the day fixed for the election, and if not so
required may, if it shall appear to him expedient,
cause to be erected a reasonable number of booths
for taking the poll at the principal place of election,
and also at each of the polling places so to be ap-
pointed as aforesaid, and shall cause to be affixed on
the most conspicuous part of each of the said booths
the names of the several parishes, townships and
places for which such booth is respectively allotted ;
and no person shall be admitted to vote at any No voter to
such election in respect of any property situate in {h "distrkt
any parish, township, or place, except at the booth where his
so allotted for such parish, township, or place ; and P'"**?*'^^
if no booth shall be so allotted for the same, then at
any of the booths for the same district ;
and in case any parish, township, or place shall where no
happen not to be included in any of the districts cfpli place!""
to be appointed, the votes in respect of property
situate in any parish, township, or place so omitted
shall be taken at the principal place of election
for the county, or riding, parts, or division of the
county, as the case may be. [See Commentary,
p. 109 to 112.]
Provision as
LXV. That the sheriff shall have power to ^^^^Jti^sT'the
appoint deputies to preside and clerks to take the cnston8?nay tot ^f knights or a knight of the shire to serve in any
in places of future Parliament for any county, or for any riding,
exclusive -■••• *^ *-^
jurisdiction, parts, or division of a county, the sheriff of the
county, his under-sheriff, or any lawful deputy of
such sheriff, shall have power to act in all places
having any exclusive jurisdiction or privilege what-
. soever, in the same manner as such sheriff, under-
sheriff or deputy may act within any part of such
sheriff's ordinary jurisdiction. [See Commentary,
p. 107.] t
POLLING — BOROUGHS. Iv
LXVII. That at every contested election of a 2 W.4, c.45.
member or members to serve in any future Parlia- commence-
ment for any city or borough in England, except "««* a"^
the borough of Monmouth^ the poll shall commence of pofirat"
on the day fixed for the election, or on the day next borovs*^
following, or at the latest on the third day, unless in England,
any of the said days shall be Saturday or Sunday,
and then on the Monday following, the particular
day for the commencement of the poll to be fixed
by the returning officer ; and such polling shall
continue for two days only, such two days being
successive days, (that is to say), for seven hours on
the first day of polling, and for eight hours on the
second day of polling ; and that the poll shall on ciose.
no account be kept open later than four o'clock in
the afternoon of such second day ; any statute to
the contrary notwithstanding. [See Commentary,
p. 119, 120.]
LXVIII. That at every contested election of a Polling for
member or members to serve in any future Parlia- jfngfito
ment for any city or borough in England, except the be at several
borough of Monmouth, the returning officer shall, if more a"?
required thereto by or on behalf of any candidate, on eoo voting at
the day fixed for the election, and if not so required partment in
may, if it shall appear to him expedient, cause to be * booth,
erected for taking the poll at such election different
booths for different parishes, districts, or parts of
such city or borough, which booths may be situated ,
either in one place or in several places, and shall be
so divided and allotted into compartments as to the
returning officer shall seem most convenient, so that
no greater number than six hundred shall be re-
quired to poll at any one compartment; [See Com-
mentary, 114.]
and the returning officer shall appoint a clerk to cierks for
take the poll at each compartment, and shall cause *^*""''*'
to be affixed on the most conspicuous part of each
of the said booths the names of the several pa-
rishes, districts, and parts for which such booth is
respectively allotted ;
Ivi POLLING — BOROUGHS — CLOSING.
2W. 4, C.45. and no person shall be admitted to vote at any
Each person ^^^^ election, cxccpt at the booth allotted for the
to vote at the parish, district, or part wherein the property may be
booth ap- ^v X • . £• 1-11 1 • ^ ^ . ^ '
pointed for Situate m respect ot which he claims to vote, or m
his parish or case he does not claim to vote in respect of property,
then wherein his place of abode as described in the
register may be ;
boothl"". ^^ "° ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^ booth shall happen to be provided
pointed. for any particular parish, district, or part as afore-
said, the votes of persons voting in respect of pro-
perty situate in any parish, district, or part so
omitted, or having their place of abode therein,
may be taken at any of the said booths, and
the votes of freemen residing out of the limits of
the city or borough may be taken at any of the said
booths ;
Notice of post- and public notice of the situation, division, and
pHatlon oP'°" allotment of the different booths shall be given
booths. ^^^ ^^yg before the commencement of the poll by
the returning officer ;
If the booths and in case the booths shall be situated in dif-
ferent places, ferent places, the returning officer may appoint a
a deputy to deputy to preside at each place ;
each place. ^^^ at every such election the poll clerks at the
As to cus- close of each day's poll shall enclose and seal their
bookrand** several poll books, and shall publicly deliver them,
final deciara- SO eucloscd and Sealed, to the returning officer or
for'boro'ughs ^^^ ^l^P^^yj who shall givc a receipt for the same, and
shall, on the commencement of the poll on the se-
cond day, deliver them back, so enclosed and sealed,
to the persons from whom he shall have received
the same;
Si^Siafdose'^ ^^^ every deputy so receiving any such poll
of poll. books, on the final close of the poll shall forth-
with deliver or transmit the same, so enclosed and
sealed, to the returning officer, who shall receive
and keep all the poll books unopened until the fol-
lowing day, unless such day be Sunday, and then till
the Monday following, when he shall openly break
the seals thereon, and cast up the number of votes
as they appear on the said several books, and shall
ADJOURNING POLL. Ivil
openly declare the state of the poll, and make pro- 2W. 4, c.45
clamation of the member or members chosen, not Declaring
later than two o'clock in the afternoon of the said amS^Jda!.''
day : provided always, that the returning officer, or be*rs choS."*"
his lawful deputy, may, if he think fit, declare the
final state of the poll, and proceed to make the re-
turn immediately after the poll shall have been
lawfully closed: [See Commentary, 112 to 114,
119, 120.]
provided also, that no nomination shall be made
or election holden of any member for any city or
borough in any church, chapel, or other place of
public worship. [See Commentary, p. 108.]
LXIX. Provided always. That so far as relates Polling dis-
to the several boroughs of New Shoreham, Cricklade, appoimed^for
Aylesbury, and East Retford, as defined by this Shoreham,
Act,* the said several boroughs shall be divided AySury'.
into convenient districts for polling, and there shall and East
be appointed in each district a convenient place for
taking the poll at all elections of members to serve
in any future Parliament for each of the said
boroughs, which districts and places for taking the
poll shall be settled and appointed by an Act to be
passed in this present Parliament. [See Com-
mentary, p. 115.]
LXX. That nothing in this Act contained shall When return-
prevent any sheriff or other returning officer, or the mfy^'cios" he
lawful deputy of any returning officer, from closing po'' before
the poll previous to the expiration of the time fixed of the time
by this Act, in any case where the same might have *''^^-
been lawfully closed before the passing of this Act; of^cJur"*
and that where the proceedings at any election shall case of riot.
be interrupted or obstructed by any riot or open
violence, the sheriff or other returning officer, or
the lawful deputy of any returning officer, shall not
for such cause finally close the poll, but, in case the
proceedings shall be so interrupted or obstructed at
any particular polling place or places, shall adjourn
• See Sect. 5.
d5
Iviii
AWournInG poll— expense of booths.
And that day
or days not to
be one of the
two polling
days.
Notice of the
2W.4, c. 45. the poll at such place or places only until the fol-
lowing day, and if necessary shall further adjourn
the same until such interruption or obstruction shall
have ceasfed, when the returning officer or his deputy
shall again proceed to take the poll at such place or
places; and any day whereon the poll shall have
been so adjourned shall not, as to such place or
places, be reckoned one of the two days of polling
at such election within the meaning of this Act ; and
be^gjve^to re*^ wherevcr the poll shall have been so adjourned by
turning o cer. ^^^ deputy of any sheriff or other returning officer,
such deputy shall forthwith give notice of such ad-
journment to the sheriff or returning officer, who
shall not finally declare the state of the poll, or
make proclamation of the member or members
chosen, until the poll so adjourned at such place or
places as aforesaid shall have been finally closed,
and delivered or transmitted to such sheriff or other
returning officer ; any thing herein-before contained
to the contrary notwithstanding. [See Commen-
tary, p. 119.]
Candidates,
or persons
proposing a
candidate
without his
consent, to
be at the
expence of
booths and
poll clerks.
Limitation of
expence.
Not more than
40C. for booths
at one polling
place for coun-
ties i Sdl. for
such for citiesj
*c.
LXXI. That from and after the end of this pre-
sent Parliament all booths erected for the conveni-
ence of taking polls shall be erected at the joint
and equal expence of the several candidates, and
the same shall be erected by contract with the
candidates, if they shall think fit to make such
contract, or if they shall not make such contract,
then the same shall be erected by the sheriff or
other returning officer at the expence of the seve-
ral candidates as aforesaid, subject to such limi-
tation as is herein-after next mentioned; (that is
to say,) that the expence to be incurred for the
booth or booths to be erected at the principal place
of election for any county, riding, parts, or division
of a county, or at any of the polling places so to be
appointed as aforesaid, shall not exceed the sum of
forty pounds in respect of any one such principal
place of election, or any one such polling place ; and
that the expence to be incurred for any booth or
POLLING — BOOTHS — OATHS. lix
l)ooths to be erected for any parish, district, or part 2 W. 4, c. 45.
of any city or borough shall not exceed the sura of
twenty-five pounds in respect of any one such
parish, district, or part; and that all deputies ap- J^^PI'^^'^^y
pointed by the sheriff or other returning officer shall per day as the
be paid each two guineas by the day, and all clerks o°f the^Si-''*
employed in taking the poll shall be paid each one
guinea by the day, at the expence of the candidates
at such election: Provided always, that if any per-
son shall be proposed without his consent, then the
person so proposing him shall be liable to defray his
share of the said expences in like manner as if he
had been a candidate ; provided also, that the sheriff Houses may
or returning officer may, if he shall think fit, instead Joiungtnf'
of erecting such booth or booths as aforesaid, pro- instead of*
cure or hire and use any houses or other buildings ^^ ^'
for the purpose of taking the poll therein, subject
always to the same regulations, provisions, liabili-
ties, and limitations of expence as are herein-before
mentioned with regard to booths for taking the
poll. [See Commentary, p. 107.]
LXXII. That the sheriff or other returning Certified co-
officer shall, before the day fixed for the election, fegL^^eVof
cause to be made, for the use of each booth or other voters for
polling place at such election, a true copy of the re- ^^^ *** *
gister of voters, and shall under his hand certify
every such copy to be true. fSee Commentary,
p. 107.]
LXXIII. That every deputy of a sheriff or other Powers of
returning officer shall have the same power of ad- re^turnhig**
ministering the oaths and affirmations required by officers to
1 1 r. ' ^' • • /> 1 • • administer
law, and 01 appomtmg commissioners for admims- oaths,
tering such oaths and affirmations as may by law be
administered by commissioners, as the sheriff or
other returning officer has by virtue of this or any
other Act, and subject to the same regulations and
provisions in every respect as such sheriff or other
returning officer. [See Commentary, p. 116.]
POLLING OATHS — MONMOUTH.
2 W. 4, c. 45.
Regulations
respecting
polling, &c.
for the bo-
rough of
Monmouth,
and for the
contributory
boroughs in
Wales.
LXXIV. That from and after the end of this
present Parliament, every person who shall have
a right to vote in the election of a member for
the borough of Monmouth, in respect of the tovi^ns
of Newport or Usk, shall give his vote at Newport
or Usk respectively before the deputy for each of
such towns, whom the returning officer of the
borough of Monmouth is hereby authorized and
required to appoint ; and every person who shall
have a right to vote in the election of a member for
any shire-town or borough, in respect of any place
named in the first column of the schedule marked
(E.) to this Act annexed, shall give his vote at such
place before the deputy for such place whom the
returning officer of the shire-town or borough is
hereby authorized and required to appoint; and
every person who shall have a right to vote in the
election of a member for the borough composed of
the towns of Swansea, Loughor, Neath, Aberavon, and
Ken-Jig shall give his vote at the town in respect of
which he shall be entitled to vote, (that is to say,)
at Swansea before the portreeve of Swansea, and at
each of the other towns before the deputy of such
town whom the said portreeve is hereby authorized
and required to appoint; and at every contested
election for the borough of Monmouth, or for any
shire-town or borough named in the second column
of the said Schedule (E.), or for the borough com-
posed of the said five towns, or for the borough of
Brecon, the polling shall commence on the day next
after the day fixed for the respective election, unless
such next day be Saturday or Sunday, and then on
the Monday following, as well at Monmouth as at
Newport and Usk respectively, and as well at the
shire-town or borough as at each of the places
sharing in the election therewith respectively, and
as well at Swansea as at each of the four other towns
respectively; and such polling shall continue for
two days only, such two days being successive days,
(that is to say,) for seven hours on the first day of
polling, and for eight hours on the second day of
POLLING BOROUGHS. : 1x1
polling, and that the poll shall on no account be 2 w. 4, c. 45.
kept open later than four o'clock in the afternoon
of such second day ; and the returning officer of the
borough of Monmouth shall give to the deputies for
Newport and Usk respectively, and the returning
officer of every shire-town or borough named in the
second column of the said Schedule (E.) shall give to
the deputy for each of the places sharing in the
election for such shire-town or borough, notice of the
day fixed for such respective election and shall be-
fore the day fixed for such respective election cause
to be made, and to be delivered to every such deputy,
a true copy of the register of voters for the borough
of Monmouth, or for such shire-town or borough, as
the case may be, and shall under his hand certify
every such copy to be true ; and the portreeve of
the town of Swansea shall give notice of the day of
election to the deputy for each of the towns of
LoughoVf Neath, Aberavon, and Ken-Jig, and shall in
like manner cause to be made, and to be delivered
to every such deputy, a true and certified copy of
the register of voters for the borough composed of
the said five towns ; and the respective deputies for
Nexiport and Usk, and for the respective places
named in the first column of the said Schedule (E.)
as well as for the towns of Loughor, Neath, Aber-
avon, and Ken-Jig, shall respectively take and con-
duct the poll and deliver or transmit the poll books
in the same manner as the deputies of the returning
officers of the cities and boroughs in England are
herein-before directed to do, and shall have the
same powers and perform the same duties in every
respect as are respectively conferred and imposed
on the said deputies by this Act: Provided always. As to ap-
that where there shall be a mayor, portreeve, or SepuSn"*^
other chief municipal officer in any town or place for Wales,
which the returning officer or the portreeve of
Swansea is required to appoint a deputy as afore-
said, such returning officer or the portreeve of
Swansea, as the case may be, is hereby required to
appoint such chief municipal officer for the time
Ixii EXISTING LAWS SAVED — ACTION GIVEN.
2 W. 4, c. 45. being to be such deputy for such town or place.
[See Commentary, p. 116 to 119.]
i^ws^uTre" LXXV. That all laws, statutes, and usages now
main in force, in force respecting the election of members to serve
supSeded^'^* in parliament for that part of the United Kingdom
by this Act. called England and Wales shall be and remain, and
are hereby declared to be and remain, in full force,
and shall apply to the election of members to serve
in parliament for all the counties,* ridings, parts,
and divisions of counties, cities, and boroughs, hereby
empowered to return members, as fully and effec-
tually as if the same respectively had heretofore
returned members, except so far as any of the said
laws, statutes, or usages are repealed or altered
by this Act, or are inconsistent with the provisions
thereof.
Penalties on LXXVI. That if any sheriff, returning officer,
breach of*^ barrister, overseer, or any person whatsoever shall
duty. wilfully contravene or disobey the provisions of
this Act or any of them, with respect to any mat-
ter or thing which such sheriff, returning officer,
barrister, overseer, or other person is hereby re-
Liabiiities ro quired to do, he shall for such his offence be
JenTit'^anr liable to be sued in an action of debt in any of his
candidkte'^or*"^' Majcsty's courts of rccord at Westminster for the
"h?Srson penal sum of five hundred pounds, and the jury be-
agrgiieved. j^^.^ whom such action shall be tried may find their
verdict for the full sum of five hundred pounds, or
for any less sum which the said jury shall think it
j ust that he should pay for such his offence ; and
the defendant in such action, being convicted, shall
pa^ such penal sum so awarded, with full costs of
suit, to the party who may sue for the same : Pro-
vided always, that no such action shall be brought
except by a person being an elector or claiming to
be an elector, or a candidate, or a member actually
returned, or other party aggrieved: Provided also,
Jficer^Ha^bie to ^^^^ *^^ remedy hereby given against the returning
other actions.
* See Sect. 33, as to Boroughs.
UNIVERSITIES — CONSTRUCTION OF TERMS. Ixfil
officer shall not be construed to supersede any re- 2 W. 4, c. 45.
medy or action against him according to the law
now in force. [See Commentary, p. 137.]
LXXVII. That all writs to be issued for the Writs, &c.
election of members to serve in all future Parlia- J-onfor^abie
ments, and all mandates, precepts, instruments, pro- to this Act.
ceedings, and notices consequent upon such writs,
shall be and the same are hereby authorized to be
framed and expressed in such manner and form as
may be necessary for the carrying the provisions of
this Act into effect. [See Commentary, p. 106.]
LXXVIII. Provided always. That nothing in This Act not
this Act contained shall extend to or in anywise unWersities"
affect the election of members to serve in Parlia- of Oxford and
ment for the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge^ ^™ " ^^'
or shall entitle any person to vote in the election
of members to serve in Parliament for the city of
Oxford or town of Cambridge in respect of the occu-
pation of any chambers or premises in any of the
colleges or halls of the Universities of Oxford or
Cambridge. [See Commentary, p. 138.]
LXXIX. That throughout this Act, wherever of the sense
the words " city or borough," " cities or boroughs," jJoJ^g^*^n .. ^
may occur, those words shall be construed to in- Act are to be
elude, except there be something in the subject or «°c1tyTr**bo-
context manifestly repugnant to such construction, rough: "
all towns corporate, cinque ports, districts, or
places within England and Wales which shall be en-
titled, after this Act shall have passed, to return a
member or members to serve in Parliament, other
than counties at large, and ridings, parts, and
divisions of counties at large, and shall also include
the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; and the words
*' returning officer" shall apply to every person or "Returning
persons to whom, by virtue of his or their office, o^cef:"
either under the present Act, or under any former
law, custom, or statute, the execution of any writ
or precept doth or shall belong for the election
Ixiv
CLAUSE OF CONSTRUCTION.
" Parish or
township :"
*' Overseers
of the poor :
2 W.4. C.45. of a member or members to serve in Parliament,
by whatever name or title such person or persons
may be called ; and the words " parish or township"
shall extend to every parish, township, vill, hamlet,
district, or place maintaining its own poor ; and the
words " overseers of the poor" shall extend to all
persons who by virtue of any office or appointment
shall execute the duties of overseers of the poor, by
whatever name or title such persons may be called,
and in whatsoever manner they may be appointed,
and that all matters by this Act directed to be done
by the overseers of a parish or township may be.^
lawfully done by the major part of such overseersi ;5
and that wherever any notice is by this Act required^
to be given to the overseers of any parish or town-
ship, it shall be sufficient if such notice shall be
delivered to any one of such overseers, or shall be
left at his place of abode, or at his office or other
place for transacting parochial business, or shall be
sent by the post, addressed by a sufficient direction,
to the overseers of the particular parish or town-
ship, or to any one of them, either by their or his
Christian name and surname, or by their or his
" Justices of name of office ; and that all provisions in this Act
counE^" ^^^ relative to any matters to be done by or with regard
&c. ' to justices of the peace for counties, or sessions of
the peace for counties, or clerks of the peace for
counties, or treasurers of counties, shall extend to
the justices, sessions, clerks of the peace, and trea-
surers of the several ridings of Yorkshire and parts.,**
of Lincolnshire, and that the clerk of the peace for
the time being for the borough of Newport in the
Isle of Wight shall for the purposes of this Act be
deemed and taken to be the clerk of the peace for
the county of the Isle of Wight, and that all the said
respective justices, sessions, and clerks of the peace
shall have power to do the several matters required
by this Act, as well within places of exclusive juris-
diction as without; and that no misnomer or inac-
curate description of any person or place named or
described in any schedule to this Act annexed, or
TEMPORARY PROVISIONS. IxV
in any list or register of voters, or in any notice re- 2W. 4, c 45.
quired by this Act, shall in anywise prevent or Misnomer
abridge the operation of this Act with respect to °ot to vitiate,
such person or place, provided that such person or
place shall be so designated in such schedule, list,
register, or notice as to be commonly understood.
[See Commentary, p. 138.]
LXXX. And whereas it may happen that the in case the
Act or Acts for settling the boundaries of cities, BoTDdalyAct
boroughs, and other places, and the divisions of shall not pass
• • before the
counties, as herein-before mentioned, may not be 20(h of Jnnt,
passed within such time as will allow the several ^^^2, the
^ .. n 1 ' k ^ • t ^• n preparations
provisions 01 this Act relative to the list 01 voters for first regis-
within such respective boundaries and divisions, de*ferr" 1 • * 1 1 /• 1 • rarhament
the passing 01 this Act, and before the passing before the
of the Act or Acts for settling respectively the Sfe'p"r!p'!fsed
boundaries of cities, boroughs, and other places, Boundary
and the divisions of counties, as herein-before men- noJ'to^be^d?
tioned, then and in such case the election of mem- vided.
bers to serve in a new Parliament shall, both as
to the persqns entitled to vote, and otherwise, be
Ixviii
TEMPORARY PROVISIONS.
2 w. 4, c. 45. regulated according to the provisions of this Act,
save and except as herein-after mentioned; (that
is to say,) that as to the several counties enume-
rated in the Schedule (F.) to this Act annexed,
all persons entitled by virtue of this Act in respect
of property therein to vote in the election of knights
of the shire shall be entitled to vote for Four
Knights of the Shire to serve in such new Parlia-
ment for each of the said counties, and not for Two
Knights to serve for any division of the said coun-
S^nrw^o' ^^^^ ' ^"^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^ *^^ several boroughs enume-
roughs de- rated in the Schedules (C.) and (D.) to this Act
fined. annexed, each of the said boroughs shall, for the
purpose of electing a member or members to serve
in such new Parliament, be deemed to include such
places as are specified and described in conjunction
with the name of each of the said boroughs in the
Schedule marked (L.) to this Act annexed; and
oid"b**^ou^h°^ that as to the several cities and boroughs in Eng-
to remain^; * Itmd and Wales not included in the Schedule (A.)
to this Act annexed, and now returning a member
or members to serve in Parliament, and the places
sharing in the election for such cities and boroughs,
each of such cities, boroughs, and places respec-
tively shall, for the purpose of electing a member
or members to serve in such new Parliament as
aforesaid, be deemed to be comprehended within
the same limits as before the passing of this
Act, and not otherwise ; and that no place named
in the first column of the Schedule (E.) to this
Act annexed, which before the passing of this
Act did not share in the election of a member for
any shire-town or borough named in the second
column of the said Schedule (E.), shall share in the
election of a member for any shire-town or borough
to serve in such new Parhament, any thing herein-
before contained to the contrary notwithstanding;
and that the borough composed of the towns of
Swansea, Loughor^ Neath, Aberavon, and Ken-Jig
shall not return a member to serve in such new
Parliament, but shall instead thereof share in the
TEMPORARY PROVISIONS Ixix
election of a member to serve in such new Parlia- aw. 4, c.45.
ment for the borough of Cardiff^, any thing herein-be-
fore contained to the contrary notwithstanding ; and
that in the event of such dissolution of Parliament o? voUn"to**
so taking place as last aforesaid, such persons only take eflFect
shall be entitled to vote in the election of members Jstratlonr
to serve in such new Parliament as aforesaid for the
counties, ridings, parts, cities and boroughs which
in such event shall return members to serve in such
new Parliament, as would be entitled to be in-
serted in the respective lists of voters directed to
be made under this Act if the day of election had
been the day for making out such respective lists ;
and such persons shall be entitled to vote in such
election, although they may not be registered ac-
cording to the provisions of this Act, any thing
herein-before contained to the contrary notwith-
standing ; and the polling at such election for any
county, or for any riding of Yorkshire or parts of
Lincolnshire^ may be continued for fifteen days, and
the polling at such election for any city or borough
may be continued for eight days, any thing herein-
before contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
[See Commentary, p. 138.]
Ixx Schedule A.
SCHED ULES to which the foregoing Act refers.
Schedule (A).
Boroughs.
County.
Boroughs.
County.
Old Sarum
Wiltshire.
Winchelsea ....
Sussex.
Newtown
Isle of Wight.
Tregony
Cornwall.
St. Michael's or ^
Cornwall.
Haslemere ....
Surrey.
Midshall.... S
Saltash
Cornwall.
Gatton
Surrey.
Sussex.
Orford
Suffolk.
Bramber
Callington
Cornwall.
Bossiney
Cornwall.
Newton
Lancashire.
Dunwich
Suffolk.
Ilchester
Somersetshire.
Ludgershall
Wiltshire.
Boroughbridge . .
Yorkshire.
St. Mawe's
Cornwall.
Stockbridge
Hampshire.
Beeralston
Devonshire.
Romney (New)
Kent.
WestLooe
Cornwall.
Hedon
Yorkshire.
St. Germain's
Cornwall.
Plympton
Devonshire.
Newport
Cornwall.
Seaford
Sussex.
Blechingley
Surrey.
Heytesbury
Wiltshire.
Aldborough
Yorkshire.
Steyning
Sussex.
Camelford
Cornwall.
Whitchurch
Hampshire.
Hindon
Wiltshire.
Cornwall.
Wootton Bassett
Downton
Wiltshire.
Wiltshire.
EastLooe
Corfe Castle
Dorsetshire.
Fowey
Cornwall.
Bedwin (Great) . .
Wiltshire.
MilbornePort ..
Somersetshire.
Yarmouth
^ Isle of Wight,
Aldeburgh
Suffolk.
( Hampshire.
Minehead
Somersetshire.
Queenborough . ..
Kent.
Bishop's Castle .
Shropshire.
Castle Rising
Norfolk.
Okehampton . . .
Devonshire.
East Grinstead . . .
Sussex.
Appleby
Westmoreland.
Higham Ferrers . .
Northamptonshire.
Lostwithiel ....
Cornwall.
Wendover
Buckinghamshire.
Brackley
Northamptonshire.
Weobly
Herefordshire.
Amersham
Buckinghamshire.
Schedule B.
Ixxi
Schedule (B).
Boroughs.
County.
Boroughs.
County.
Petersfield
Hampshire.
Shaftesbury ....
Dorsetshire.
Ashburton
Devonshire.
Thirsk
Yorkshire.
Eve
Suflfolk.
Christchurch . . .
Hampshire.
Sussex.
Westbury
Wiltshire.
Horsham
Wareham
Dorsetshire.
Great Grimsby .
Lincolnshire.
Midhurst
Sussex.
Calne..
Wiltshire.
Woodstock ....
Oxfordshire.
Arundel
Sussex.
Wilton
Wiltshire.
St. Ives
Cornwall.
Malmesbuiy . . .
Liskeard
Wiltshire.
Rve
Cornwall.
Clitheroe
Lancashire.
Reigate
Surrey.
Morpeth
Northumberland.
Hythe
Kent.
Helston
Cornwall.
Droitwich
Worcestershire.
North Allerton..
Yorkshire.
Lyme Regis....
Dorsetshire.
Wallingford....
Berkshire.
Laiinceston . . . .
Cornwall.
Dartmouth ....
Devonshire.
Ixxii
Schedule (C).
Principal Places to be Boroughs.
Returning Oflficers.
Manchester (Lancashire) <
Birmingham (Warwickshire)
Leeds (Yorkshire)
Greenwich (Kent).
Sheffield (Yorkshire)
Sunderland (Durham).
Devonport (Devonshire).
Wolverhampton (Staflfordshire) . . j
Tower Hamlets (Middlesex).
Finsbury (Middlesex).
Mary-le-bone (Middlesex),
Lambeth (Surrey).
Bolton (Lancashire) <
Bradford (Yorkshire).
Blackburn (Lancashire).
Brighton (Sussex),
Halifax (Yorkshire).
Macclesfield (Cheshire)
Oldham (Lancashire).
Stockport (Cheshire)
The Boroughreeve and Constables
of Manchester.
The two Bailiffs of Birmingham.
The Mayor of Leeds.
The Master Cutler.
Constable of the Manor of the
Deanery of Wolverhampton.
The Boroughreeves of Great and
Little Bolton.
The Mayor of Macclesfield.
The Mayor of Stockport.
Stoke-upon-Trent (Staflfordshire).
Stroud (Gloucestershire)
Schedule (D).
Principal Places to be Boroughs.
Returning Officers.
Ashton-under-Lyne (Lancashire) . .
Bury (Lancashire).
Chatham (Kent).
Cheltenham (Gloucestershire).
Dudley (Worcestershire).
Frome (Somersetshire).
Gateshead (Durham).
Huddersfield (Yorkshire).
Kidderminster (Worcestershire) . .
Kendal (Westmoreland)
Rochdale (Lancashire).
Salford (Lancashire) , .
South Shields (Durham).
Tynemouth (Northumberland).
Wakefield (Yorkshire).
Walsall (Staflfordshire)
Warrington (Lancashire).
Whitby (Yorkshire).
Whitehaven (Cumberland).
Merthyr Tydvil (Glamorganshire).
The Mayor of Ashton-under-Lyne.
The High Bailiflf of Kidderminster.
The Mayor of Kendal.
The Boroughreeve of Salford.
The Mayor of Walsall.
Schedule E.
Ixxiii
Schedule (E).
Places
sharing in the Election
of Members.
Amlwch
Holyhead, and
Llansrefni . . . .
sharing with
Aberystwith "^
Lampeter, and Ssharing with
Adpar 3
Llanelly sharing with
Pwllheli
Nevin
Conway ^sharing with
I
Bangor
Criccieth .
i
Ruthin "J
Holt Ssharing with
Town of Wrexham . j
Rhyddlan ^
Overton I
Caerwis j
Caergwrley "^sharing with
J
> shaAng with
>sharii
Holywell , . .
Mold
Cowbridge .
Llantrissent
Llanidloes . .
Welsh Pool
Machynlleth ^ sharing with
Llanfyllin .
Newtown .
Narberth ? , . .^,
Fishguard ^sharing with
Tenby ....
Wiston ^ sharing with
Town of Milford
Knighton
Rhayder
Kevinleece ^sharing with
Knucklas
Town of Presteigne
::S
Shire-Towns
or Principal
Boroughs.
Beaumaris .
Cardigan ....
Caermarthen .
Caernarvon . .
Denbigh
Flint
Cardiff.
Montgomery . . ,
Haverfordwest ,
Pembroke . . . . ,
Radnor
County in which
such Boroughs are
situated.
Anglesey.
Cardiganshire.
Caermarthenshire
Caernarvonshire.
Denbighshire.
Flintshire.
Glamorganshire.
Montgomeryshire.
Pembrokeshire.
Pembrokeshire.
Radnorshire.
Ixxiv
Schedule E. 2.
Schedule (E. 2.)
Places sharing in the Elec-
Places therein from which the Seven Miles
tion of Members.
are to be calculated.
Newport
The Market Place.
Usk
The Town Hall.
Aberystwith
The Bridge over the Rheidal.
Lampeter
The Parish Church.
Adpar
The Bridge over the Teivi.
Pwllheli
The Guildhall.
Nevin
The Parish Church.
Conway
The Parish Church.
Criccieth
The Castle.
Ruthin
The Parish Church called St. Peter's.
Holt
The Parish Church.
Rhyddlan
The Parish Church.
Overton
The Parish Church.
Caerwis
The Parish Church.
Caergwrley
The Parish Churgh of Hope.
Cowbridge
The Town Hall.
Llantrissent
The Town Hall.
Tenby
The Parish Church.
Wiston
The Parish Chu?ch.
Knighton
The Parish Church.
Rhayder
The Market Place.
Kevinleece
The Parish Church.
Knucklas
The Site of the ancient Castle of Cnweglas.
Swansea
The Town Hall.
Loughor
The Parish Church.
Ne^th
The Town Hall.
Aberavon
The Bridge over the Avon.
Ken-fig
The Parish Church of Lower Ken-fig.
Schedules F.— F. 2.— G.
l»iv
Schedule (F.)
COUNTIES to be divided.
Cheshire.
Cornwall.
Cumberland.
Derbyshire.
Devonshire.
Durham.
Essex.
Gloucestershire.
Kent.
Hampshire.
Lancashire.
Leicestershire.
Norfolk.
Northumberland.
Northamptonshire.
Nottinghamshire.
Shropshire.
Somersetshire.
Staffordshire.
Suffolk.
Surrey.
Sussex.
Warjvickshife.
Wiltshire.
Worcestershire.
Schedule (F. Q.)
COUNTIES to return Three MEMBifiRs each.
Berkshire.
Buckinghamshire.
Cambridgeshire.
Dorsetshire.
Herefordshire.
Hertfordshire.
Oxfordshire.
Schedule (G.)
Cities and Towns and Counties thereof.
Caermarthen
Canterbury ,
Chester
Coventry ,
Gloucester
Kingston-upon-Hull .
Lincoln
London
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Poole
Worcester
York and Ainsty
Southampton
Counties at large in
which Cities and Towns and Counties
thereof are to be included.
Caermarthenshire.
Kent.
Cheshire.
Warwickshire.
Gloucestershire.
East Riding of Yorkshire.
The Parts of Lindsey, Lincolnshire.
Middlesex.
Northumberland.
Dorsetshire.
Worcestershire.
North Riding of Yorkshire.
Hampshire.
e2
Ixxvi Schedule H. — Nos. 1, 2.
Schedule (H).
FORMS OF LISTS AND NOTICES APPLICABLE TO COUNTIES.
No. 1.
Notice of the making out of the Lists to be given by the Overseers.
We hereby give notice, that we shall, on or before the last day of July in this
year, make out a list of all pei-sons entitled to vote in the election of a knight
or knights of the shire for the county of [or for the riding, parts, or
division of the county of as the case may be,} in respect of property situate
wholly or in part within this parish l_or township] ; and all persons so enti-
tled are hereby required to deliver or transmit to us, on or before the twentieth
day of July in this year, a claim in writing, containing their Christian name
and surname, their place of abode, the nature of their qualification, and the
name of the street, lane, or other like place wherein the property in respect of
which they claim to vote is situated ; and if the property be not situated in any
street, lane, or other like place, then such claim must describe the property by
the name by which it is usually known, or by the name of the tenant occupying
the same ; and each of such persons so claiming must also at the same time
pay to us the sum of one shilling. Persons omitting to deliver or transmit such
claim or to make such payment will be excluded from the register of voters for
this county [or riding, parts, or division, as the case may be]. [In subsequent
years after one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, add the following words,
" But persons whose names are now on the register are not required to make a
fresh claim so long as they retain the same qualification and continue in the
same place of abode as described in the Register."]
(Signed) A. B. ■^ Overseers of the parish
C. D. ^ lor township] of
E. F.->
No. 2.
Notice of Claim to be given to the Overseers.
I hereby give you notice, that I claim to be inserted in the list of voters for
the county of [or for the riding, parts, or division of the county
of as the case may be,] and that the particulars of my place of abode
and qualification are stated below. Dated the day of in the
year
(Signed) John Adams.
Place of abode, ^heapside, London.
Nature of qualification, Freehold house, [or warehouse, stable, land, field,
annuity, rent-charge, &;c. as the case may be, giving such a description of the
property as may serve to identify it].
Where situate in this parish [or township]. King Street. [If the property be
not situate in any street, lane, or other like place, then say. Name of the
property, High Field Farmj or, Name of the occupying tenant, John
Edwards.]
Schedule H. — Nos. 3, 4.
Ixxvii
No. 3.
County of to wit, [or
Riding, Parts, or Division
County of as the case may be.]
7-
of the >
ybe.]3
|The List of Persons entitled to vote in
the Election of a Knight [or Knights] of
the Shire for the County of [or for
the Riding, Parts, or Division of the County of as the case may
fee,] in respect of Property situate within the Parish of [or Township, said parish
E. F. ^ [or township].
No. 4.
Notice of objection to be given to the Overseers.
To the overseers of the parish of [or township, as the case may fee J.
I hereby give you notice, that I object to the name of William Ball being
retained in the List of Voters for the county of [or for the riding,
parts, or division of the county of ]. Dated the day of
in the year
(Signed) A, B. of [Place of abode}.
e3
Ixxviii
Schedule H. — Nos. 5, 6.
No. 5.
Notice of Objection to Parties inserted in the List.
To Mr. William Ball.
I hereby give you notice, that I object to your narae being retained in the
List of Voters for the county of [or for the riding, parts, or
division of the county of ], and that you will be required to prove your
qualification at the time of the revising of the said list. Dated the
day of in the year
(Signed) A. B. of [Place of abode].
No. 6.
List of Persons objected to, to be published by the Overseers.
The following Persons have been objected to as not being entitled to have their
Names retained in the List of Voters for the County of [or for the
Riding, Parts, or Division of the County of ].
Christian
name and sur-
name of each
person ob-
jected to.
Alley, James .
Place of abode.
Long Lane, in this
parish.
Ball, William Market Street, Lan-
caster.
Nature of the
supposed
qualification.
Copyhold field.
Lease of warehouse
for years.
Street, lane, or other
like place in this
parish [or township]
where the property
is situate, or name
of the property, or
name of the tenant.
John Edwards, tenant.
Duke Street.
(Signed) A. B. J Overseere of the parish
C. D. > of [or township,
E. F. ) as the case may be].
Schedule I. — Nos. 1, 2.
Ixxix
Schedule (I).
FORMS OF LISTS AND NOTICES APPLICABLE TO CITIES AND
BOROUGHS.
No. 1.
The List of Persons entitled to vote in the Election of a Member [or Mem-
bers] for the City [or Borough] of in respect of Property occupied
within the Parish [or Township] of by virtue of an Act passed in
the Second Year of the Reign of King William the Fourth, intituled, " An
Act to amend the Representation of the People in England and Wales."
Christian Name and
Surname of each Voter
at full length.
Nature of Qualification.
Street, Lane, or other Place
in this Parish where
the Property is situate.
Ashton, John
Atkinson, William
Bates, Thomas
Bull Thomas
Church Street.
Bolt Court, Fleet Street.
Castle Street.
Lord Street.
Shop
Counting house
(Signed) A. B. ^ Overseers of the
C. D. > said Parish
E. F. ' [or Township].
No. 2.
The List of all Persons (not being Freemen) entitled to vote in the Election
of a Member [or Members] for the City [or Borough] of in respect of
any Rights other than those conferred by an Act passed in the Second Year
of the Reign of King William the Fourth, intituled " An Act to amend the
Representation of the People in England and Wales."
Christian Name and
Surname of each Voter
at full length.
Nature of
Qualification.
Street, Lane, or other Place in this
Parish where the Property is situate.
If the Right of votbis; does not depmd on
I'roperty, then stale the Place of Abode,
1
1
(Signed)
A
C
E. F
B. ■^ Overseers of the Parish of
D. ^ [or Township] within
. -^the said City [oi- Borough].
XXX Schedule I. — Nos. 3, 4, 5.
No. 3.
The List of the Freemen of the City [or Borough] of \_or of
being a Place sharing in the Election with the City [or Borough] of ]
entitled to vote in the Election of a Member [o?- Members] for the said City
[or Borough.]
Christian Name and Surname of each
Freeman, at full length.
Place of his Abode.
A w 5 '^^^^ Clerk of the said City
^ ^ ^ ' '\ [or Borough, or Place.]
No. 4.
Notice of Claim.
To the Overseers of the Parish [or Township] of or to the Town
Clerk of the City [or Borough] of or otherwise, as the case may fee].
I hereby give you notice. That I claim to have my Name inserted in the List
made by you of Persons entitled to vote in the Election of a Member [or Mem-
bers] for the City [or Borough] of and that my qualification consists
of a House in Duke Street in your Parish, or otherwise [as the case may fee] ;
[and in the case of a Freeman, say, and that my qualification is as a Freeman
of and that I reside in Lord Street in this City or Borough]. Dated
the day of one thousand eight hundred and thirty
(Signed) John Allen of [Place of Abode].
No. 5.
Notice of Objection.
To the Overseers of the Parish [or Township] of [or to the Town
Clerk of the City [(/r Borough] of or otherwise, as the case may be].
I hereby give you notice, that 1 object to the name of Thomas Bates being
retained in the List of Persons entitled to vote in the Election of a Member [or
Members] for the City [err Borough] of and that I shall bring forward
such objection at the time of the revising of such List. Dated the
day of in the year
^Signed) A. B. of [Place of Abode].
Schedule I. — Nos. 6, 7.
Ixxxi
No. 6.
List of Claimants to be jnMished by the Overseers,
rhe following Persons claim to have their Names inserted in the List of Per-
sons entitled to vote in the Election of a Member [or Members] for the City
[or Borough] of
Christian Name and
Surname of each
Claimant at full length.
Nature of
Qualification.
Street, Lane, or other Place in this
Parish where the Property is situate.
1/ the Right does not depend on Pro-
perty, state the Place of Abode.
Allen, John,
House.
Duke Street.
(Signed) A . B. -^
CD. ^Overseers of,
From the notices sent in resulting from that public
announcement, they are to make a List ; the following
is the prescribed Form, which describes its nature.
iThe List of Persons entitled to vote in
the Election of a Knight [or Knights] of
the Shire for the County of [or for
the Riding, Parts, or Division of the County of as the case may
be,} in respect of Property situate within the Parish of [or Township, as
the case may &e.]
County of to wit, [or
Riding, Parts, or Division
County of as the case may
it, [or -Jl
•ivision of the >
case may be.] j
Christian name
and surname of
each voter
at full length.
Place of abode.
Nature of
qualification.
Street, lane, or other like
place in this parish [or
township] where the
property is situate, or
name of the property,
or name of the tenant.
Adams, John
Alley, James
Ball, William
Boyce, Henry
Cheapside, London.
Long Lane, in this
parish.
Market Street, Lan-
caster.
Church Street, in
this parish.
Freehold house. King Street.
Copyhold field. 'John Edwards, tenant.
Lease of warehouse Duke Street.
for years. 1
Fifty Acres of Land High Field Farm.
as occupier.
(Signed) A. B. ^Overseers of the
C. D. > said parish
E. F. 3 [or township.]
In future years lists of persons registered must also be made.
[S. 38.]
* See (p. 52.) paragraph on this announcement.
LISTS OF VOTERS (COUNTIES). 27
The duties of the Overseer, under the 37th Sec-
tion, in this particular respect, aided by the forms
prescribed, are so succinctly, plainly, and intelligibly
indicated and pointed out by the specific section of
the Act, as to be incapable of misapprehension, and
therefore need no other or further elucidation, and
cannot be usefully abridged or enlarged on.
So, under the 38th Section, the ministerial duties Preparing
and publish-
. of this officer in preparing, making, and publishing ing lists of
Lists of Voters, as there defined, are clear, compre-
hensive, and conspicuous ; and are practically illus-
trated and instanced in and by the several forms
furnished in the Schedule, in a very satisfactory and
sufficient manner for every purpose of instruction
and direction.
Not so perhaps is the by-far most important pro- Power to ob-
^ ^ •' ^ ^ ject to claim
vision of the same clause, empowering the Overseer of "g^t *<>
to object to the claimant's stated right, by raising
doubts thereto, through the medium of the mar- Mode and
ginal notification of objection to the voter, by the objecting,
simple words " objected to."
Without considering or inquiring whether it would
j not have been more satisfactory and useful, as well
as fair and candid, that the short nature and ground
of the objection should not be stated, it will be suf-
ficient, perhaps, in aid of the officer in the perform-
ance of this the most delicate as well as ungracious
part of his prescribed service, to make some few
suggestions for his guidance on the true legal inter-
pretation of this part of the Statute, with reference
to the other clauses and the objects of the Bill.
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28 DUTIES OF OVERSEERS.
Those suggestions are but few, and may be shortly
disposed of, premising only, that they are very
deferentially submitted for the consideration of the
officer, in relief of his responsibility on an anxious
point of necessary duty.
?'J^^*^H?'!k** First, there must be reasonable cause to believe.
voter on the '
overseer^^ This cxcludes surmise and suspicion, and perhaps
officially. involves matter within his own local knowledge as
an official inhabitant and neighbour, aided and as-
sisted by credible and respectable testimony, ob-
tained on diligent inquiry made for the purpose.
The cause itself is matter of evidence, the reason-
able is matter of discretion.
Foundation It should appear, however, that the officer should
by overseers. Confine his objection to factf not law or argument;
as, for instance, that the claimant has actually, to
the Overseer's knowledge or belief, no house where
he describes such as his qualifying property to be
situate, or has not been long enough in possession,
or paid rates, &c. and not that he has no right of
property in the house. This latter ground does not
appear to be strictly within the proper province of
the Overseer, as matter of objection by him as an
officer, and is perhaps the very or principal source
of the right of objection given by the next (the 39th)
Section of the Act to other persons,
instimce. If where a claim is made in right of promotion to
a benefice, the parsonage or vicarage house, or any
dwelling held in virtue of the church preferment, or
barn and glebe land, be situate in a borough, so as
to be capable of being made to give a right of voting
LISTS OF VOTERS (cOUNTIEs). 20
there, it would not entitle the parson, &c. to vote
for the county.
The negative quality of this sort of qualification,
which destroys the right otherwise conferred by it
of voting for county members, is one which must
always be peculiarly within the local knowledge of
the overseer as matter of fact, and it may therefore
be instanced as one of those cases in which it would
be his duty to object, and where he may securely
and safely do so.
It should be noticed that overseers are not per-
emptorily required — they are merely empowered so
to object.
The measures to be adopted by Overseers in
preparing and forming the Lists of Voters for the
several Counties, and in other respects, have been
directed by letter, addressed to them generally,
from the office of the Secretary of State for the
Home Department.
In deference to that high authority, the directions
so furnished for the guidance of the Overseer in
the execution of his duties under the Act, are here
transcribed. They are carefully drawn up, and are
clear, plain, and easily intelligible, for purposes of
practical utility.
" Duties of Overseers roith regard to the Lists of Voters Katies of
•^ o t/ overseers ai
for Counties J Divisions of Counties^ Ridings of **> counties.
Yx)rkshire, and Parts in Lincolnshire,
" The Act directs that lists shall be made out of all
the persons entitled to vote for each county or for
each division of a county, and in Yorkshire for each
30
DUTIES OF OVERSEERS.
Forming lists
of voters.
S. XXXVII.
Notice to be
given of lists
to be made of
the voters of
the parish,
&c.
Transmission
of claims.
A shilling to
be paid there-
with.
riding, and in Lincolnshire for the parts of Lindsey
and for the parts of Kesteven and Holland :
" Now the Overseers of every parish or township
in any county or division of a county, or in
any riding of Yorkshire, or in either of the
above-named parts of Lincolnshire, must per-
form the following duties with regard to the
Lists of Voters for such county, division,
riding, or parts :
" They must first prepare a notice according to the
form numbered (1), in the Schedule (H.) an-
nexed to the Act ;* but in this [year's] notice they
must take care to insert the last day of August
instead of the last day of July, and the 20th day
of August instead of the 20th day of July. The
Overseers of every parish or township must
also procure a sufficient number of copies of
this notice to be written or printed, and must
cause a copy to be fixed on or near the door of
every church and chapel within their parish or
township on the 25th day of July.
" In consequence of this notice, all persons who
wish to be registered as voters for any county, or
for any division of a county, or for any riding or
parts, as the case may be, will deliver or transmit
their claims on or before the 20th day of August
[henceforth July] to the overseers of the parish or
township in which their qualifying property is wholly
or in part situate.
*' No such claim, however, will be valid until a
shilling has been paid by or on account of the
• See Form, supra, p. 25.
LISTS OP VOTERS (COUNTIES). 31
claimant to the overseers of such parish or town-
ship ; and all money arising from these payments
must be accounted for by the overseers in their ac-
counts. (See clause 56 in the Act.)
" The next step to be taken by the overseers of Lists of
claims to be
each parish or township is to make out (accordmg made out by
overseers.
to the form numbered (3), in the Schedule (H.),
annexed to the Act) an alphabetical list of all per-
sons sending in their claims to them; in making
out which list the overseers will copy into the dif-
ferent columns of the list the particulars applicable
to each person from his claim as sent into them.
" The overseers of each parish or township must Marginal note
insert in their list the name of every person who has to be made by
sent in a claim and paid a shilling to them by the *'^®"^^"*
20th day of August; but if they have any reason-
able cause to believe that any person so claiming is
not entitled to vote, the overseers are empowered to
add the words " objected to" opposite to the name
of every such person on the margin of their list.
" The Overseers must complete this list by the last Preparing
day of August [hereafter July]; and they will I^endiuon!)'
therefore probably find it convenient to begin to
make it out before the 20th day of that month,
which is the last day for sending in claims.
" The Overseers of each parish or township, having copies of lists
completed their list, and signed it, must procure a and sow*. *
sufficient number of copies of it to be written or
printed, both for the purpose of publication and of
sale.
" They must then publish it, by causing a copy of
32
DUTIES OF OVERSEERS.
onut*^*"**" it to be fixed on or near the door of every church
and chapel in their parish or township on the two
first Sundays in September.*
?ervld%r " "^^^7 ^^^^ ^^so keep a copy of the list, which
public inspec- they must allow all persons to inspect, without pay-
ment of any fee, at all reasonable hours during the
two first wrecks after the list has been made.
Sd'ln? ro- " -^^^y ^^® ^^^° bound to sell copies of the list at
co^'teTfor ^ reasonable price to all persons applying for them ;
and they are to account for the proceeds of the sale
in their accounts as overseers. (See clause 55 of
the Act.)
Duties as to Objections.
f^l^objSfg. " "^^^ ^^^^ ^^' ^^^^ parish or township being pub-
lished, a certain period is allowed, viz. till the 25th
of September, [in all future years August,] for par-
ties to give notice of objection to any of the persons-
inserted in the list.
jSontob^' "^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ persons being objected to, the
overseers of the parish or township will receive, on
or before the 25th of September, [hereafter August,]
a notice from the party objecting, according to the
form numbered (4) in the Schedule (H.).f
*' On the 29th of September [August hereafter]
of^u^ndred on ^^^ ovcrsccrs of cvcry parish or township must
ber! ^*P**™' deliver the list of voters which has been made out
by them, together with a written statement of the
number of persons objected to by the overseers and
* Hereafter on the two Sundays next after such list shall have
been made. S. 38, p. xxiv.
t See Chapter on Objecting to Voters, p. o9»
received.
Lists to be
delivered to
LISTS OF VOTERS (COUNTIES). 33
by others, to the high constable of the hundred, who
is to deliver this list and statement to the clerk of
the peace. This statement will merely contain the
number of persons objected to, without any parti-
culars of names, &c. ;
" but the overseers of every parish or township Alphabetical
. list of persons
must also make out an alphabetical list (according to objected to
^ ^ ° to be pub-
the form numbered 6 in the Schedule (H.) annexed Ushed.
to the Act) of all the persons as to whom they have
received notice of objection; and they must cause a
copy of this list to be fixed on or near the door of
every church and chapel in their parish or town-
ship,* on the two Sundays next preceding the 15th
of October ;-|'
" and they must likewise keep a copy of this list. Copy to be
which they must allow all persons to inspect, without iic inspection,
payment of any fee, at all reasonable hours, during
the ten days next preceding the 15th of October.^
" When the barrister holds his court for revising Attending
Barrister's
the lists of voters for any county, or for any division Courts of re-
of a county, or for any riding, or parts, as the case
may be, (of the time and place of holding which
court notice will be given both in the newspapers
and at the principal place of election,) the overseers
of every parish or township in such county, division, overseers' bu-
riding, or parts, must attend the court during the ""^^' ^^^'^^'
* Or if there be no church or chapel there, in some other
public situation.
t That is, in this year, 1832, but in every future year it must
be in the month of September.
c 5
34
DUTIES OF OVERSEERS.
Expenses
provided for.
time when their list of voters is under the revision
of the barrister; and they must deliver to him a
copy of the alphabetical list of persons objected to ;
and they must answer, upon oath, all such questions
as the barrister may put to them, as to any matter
upon which he may require information for revising
their list, (see clause 42 of the Act,) and they must
produce the rate-book before him, in case he should
demand it. (See clause 51 of the Act.)
" All the expenses incurred by the overseers of
any parish or township, in making out, printing,
and publishing the lists and notices, and in carrying
into effect the other provisions of the Act, with
regard to the voters for any county, division, riding,
or parts, will be defrayed out of the poor rate for
such parish or township. (See clause 56 of the Act.)
Pabiication « jf there happens to be no church or chapel in a
of notice . . 1 • 1 • 1
when in parish or township, the overseers must, m that case,
fix the respective lists and notices in some public
and conspicuous situation in the parish or township.
" Every precinct or place which has no overseers
of its own, must be treated as if it were within the
parish or township adjoining to it in the same
county, division, riding, or parts ; and if any such
precinct or place should adjoin two or more parishes
or townships in the same county, division, riding,
or parts, then it must be treated as if it were within
the least populous (according to the last census) of
such adjoining parishes or townships ; and the over-
seers of the parish or township of which such pre-
cinct or place is to be treated as part, must include
in their list the names of all persons sending in
claims to them as voters for their county, division,
riding, or parts, (as the case may be,) in respect of
property situated in such precinct or place. (See
the Provision at the end of clause 38 of the Act.)
" parish" u By ti^e 79th clause of the Act it is expressly
and " town- • i i i i i • i i • >> i ii
ship" defined, provided, that the words, " parish or township shall
extend to every parish, township, vill, hamlet, dis-
Chnrch.
Places witli-
ont overseers
assigned to
overseers of
adjoining
parish, &c.
LISTS OF VOTERS (bOROUGHs). 35
trict, or place maintaining its own poor, and that all
the duties imposed by the Act upon overseers may be
lawfully executed by the major part of the overseers,
" The foregoing duties are to be performed Exception of
by overseers in every part of England and i^n'^Engiand?*
Wales, except Bristol, Exeter, Haverfordwest,
Lichfield, Norwich, and Nottingham."
The lists of voters for counties thus directed to be
made by the overseers, are to be delivered by them
to the high constables of the several hundreds of
each county, with a statement of the total number
of persons objected to by the overseers.
The high constables are to deliver such lists and
statements to the clerks of the peace ; — and
The clerks of the peace must make an abstract
therefrom of the number of persons objected to in
each parish and township, and transmit it to the ap-
pointed revising barristers for the corresponding
district, in order to enable them to fix the times and
places of holding courts.
Section 2.
Borough Lists to be made by Overseers and
Town Clerks.
The borough lists are required to contain each. Borough lists.
one of three classes of persons entitled to vote in
respect of three distinct species of qualification.
First, the newly-qualified electors under the Re- s. xliv.
form Act, that is, the 10^. householders.
Secondly, the persons (not being freemen) entitled s. xliv.
to vote in respect of qualifications other than those
conferred by the Reform Act.
Lastly, the freemen of the borough or city enti- s. xlvi.
tl^d to vote.
All to be alphabetically named therein.
36
DUTIES OF OVERSEERS AND TOWN-CLERKS.
S. XLIV.
S. XLVI.
Scliedule I.
No. I.
Overseers*
list for bo-
roughs of
voters in re-
spect of pro-
perty, under
2 W. 4, c. 45.
The two former are to be prepared by the over'
seers of the particular parish or township, the last
by the town clerk or corresponding civil officer of
the city, or borough, or place.
The following are forms of such three lists suc-
cessively prescribed by the Reform Act.
The first is the form of the list to be made out by
the overseers of voters entitled under the statute,
headed as it ought to be, in fact, and instanced by
fictitious names, &c. p. Ixxviii.
The List of Persons entitled to vote in the Election of a Mem-
ber [or Members] for the City [or Borough] of in
respect of Property occupied within the Parish [or Township]
of by virtue of an Act passed in the Second Year of
the Reign of King William the Fourth, intituled " An Act
" to amend the Representation of the People in England and
*• Wales,"
Christian Name and
Surname of each Voter
at full Length.
Nature of Qualifi-
cation.
Street, Lane, or other Place
in this Parish, where the
Property is situate.
Ashton, John
Atkinson, William
Bates, Thomas . .
Bull. Thomas
House
Warehouse . .
Shop
Counting-house
Church Street.
Bolt Court, Fleet Stieet.
Castle Street.
Lord Street.
(Signed) A. B. "^Overseers of the
C. D. > said Parish [or
E. F. 3 Township.]
The second is the form for the neutral list of
persons entitled to vote in cities and boroughs,
although neither qualified in respect of property or
as freemen, p. Ixxviii.
LISTS OF VOTERS (bOROUGHs).
37
Overseers^ Second List. Sch.L. No. 2.
s. 44.
The List of all Persons (not being Freemen) entitled to vote Overseers'
in the Election of a Member [ixr Members] for the City [or fn'ot^'bdng"
Borough] of in respect of any Rights other than freemen) en-
those conferred by an Act passed in the Second Year of the spect of rights
Reign of King William the Fourth, intituled " An Act to JyVw.T^
" amend the Representation of the People in England and c. 45.
" Wales."
Christian Name and
Surname of each Voter
at fall Length.
Nature of Qnalifi-
cation.
Street, Lane, or other Place
in this Parish, where the
Property is situate.
Jfthe Right of Voting does
not depend on Property,
then state the Place of
Abode.
(Signed) A. B.
C
E
.B.-l
.D.J
.F.J
Overseers of the Parish of
[or Township] within the said
City \or Borough],
The last is the form furnished for the heading of
the list and the columns of the list of freemen to
be made by the Tov^^n Clerk, p. Ixxix.
Town Clerk's List of Freemen for Boroughs.
The List of the Freemen of the City [or Borough] of
[or of being a Place sharing in the Election with the
City [or Borough] of ] entitled to vote in the Election
of a Member [or Members] for the said City [or Borough].
Christian Name and Snrname of
each Freeman at fall Length.
Place of his Abode.
(Signed A. B. \ ^T ° ^^^'^ '^ '^^ S.'"^ S''^
^ ° i [or Borough, or Place].
38 DUTIES OP OYERSEERS AND TOWN-CLERKS.
The town-clerk's list is to be fixed on or near the
door of the town-hall on the two following Sundays
after it is made.
The acts and conduct of Overseers in respect of
their duties in making borough lists, have, as in the
case of county lists, been also directed and pre-
scribed by official authority. The directions from
the office of Secretary of State are as follows :
"Duties of Overseers with regard to the Lists of Voters
for the Nerv Boroughs, and for those Old Boroughs
(not disfranchised) where none but Freemen used to
vote,
ovemera as " The oversecrs of every parish or township situ-
oM boroughs, ated either wholly or in part within any new bo-
rough, or within any old borough where none but
freemen have hitherto had a right to vote, or witjiin
any place sharing in the election for any such new
or old borough, must perform the following duties
with regard to the lists of voters for such borough :
List of 1st " They must first make out (according to the form
class of voters. . riiiiTjn
numbered 1 m the Schedule I.* annexed to the
Act) an alphabetical list of all persons having
the 10/. qualification in any such borough, or
in the place sharing with it, in respect of pre-
mises situated wholly or in part within their
parish or township. (The 10/. qualification is
created by the 27th clause of the Act, and is
further explained by the 28th and 29th clauses.
See also the 30th and 36th clauses of the Act.)
* See form above, p. 36.
LISTS OF VOTERS (bOROUGHS). TiJilI 39
** The overseers must complete this list by the last To be com-
pleted and
day of August [July] ; and, having signed it> published.
must procure a sufficient number of copies of
it to be printed, both for the purpose of publica-
tion and of sale. They must then publish it, by
causing a copy of it to be fixed on or near the
door of every church and chapel in their parish
or township on the two first Sundays in Sep-
tember [August],
" They must also keep a copy of this list, which Copy to be
^ r r J » ^gpj for pui,.
they must allow all persons to inspect, without Uc inspection,
payment of any fee, at all reasonable hours
during the two first weeks after the list has
been made.
" They are also bound to sell copies of this list ftJS^and** ro-
at a reasonable price to all persons applying co^ntg^'^for
for them, and they are to account for the pro-
ceeds of the sale in their accounts as over-
seers. (See clause bb of the Act.)
" The list for each parish or township being pub- Time for
c Isiiuii D fir'*
lished, a certain period is allowed, viz. till the 25th
of September, for parties who have been omitted
to give notice of their claim to be inserted in such
list, and also for parties to object to any persons for objecting.
inserted in such list.
" In all cases of claims, the overseers of the parish Notice of
or township will receive, on or before the 25th of recewV; *
September, a notice of claim according to the form
numbered 4, in the Schedule I.* and in all cases of
-...,„. 1 /> , *°<^ notices of
objections they will receive, on or before the same objections.
* See Objecting to Borough Voters, p. 55.
40 :
DUTIES OP OVERSEERS AND TOWN-CLERKS
Lists of claims
made,
and of ob-
jections
taken.
Copy of each
to be pub-
lisbed.
Copy to be
kept for pub-
lic inspection.
day, a notice of objection according to the form
numbered 5, in the Schedule I.*
" They must then make out a list (according to the
form numbered 6, in the Schedule I.)f of all the per-
sons so notifying their claims to them, and another
list (according to the form numbered 7, in the Sche-
dule I.) J of all the persons as to whom they have re-
ceived notice of objection ; and they must cause a
copy of each of these lists to be fixed on or near
the door of every church and chapel in their parish,
or township on the two Sundays next preceding the
15th of October [hereafter September] ;
" and they must likewise keep a copy of each ol
these lists, which they must allow all persons to in-
spect, without payment of any fee, at all reason-
* See Objecting to Borough Voters, p. 61.
t These two lists are those corresponding with the two first of
the foregouig lists of voters to be made by the overseers.
X The following is the form of the overseers' list of claimants : —
The following Persons claim to have their Names inserted in the
List of Persons entitled to vote in the Election of a Member
[or Members] for the City [or Borough] of
Christian Name and
Surname of each
Claimant at full length.
Nature of
Qualification.
Street, Lane, or other Place
in this Parish where the
Property is situate.
If the Right does not depend
on Property, state the Place
of Abode.
Allen, John.
House.
Duke Street.
'ip*»
(Signed) A. B. ^
C. D. >Overseersof,&c.
E. F. y
LISTS OF VOTERS (bOROUGHs). 41
able hours during the ten days next preceding the
15th of October [hereafter September].
" They must also sell a copy of each list to any Copies to be
person requiring it, at the price of 1*. ; and all sums
thus received by them are to be accounted for in
their accounts as overseers.
" When the barrister holds his court for revising To attend to
the lists of voters for any new borough, or for any vising Bar-
old borough where none but freemen used to vote
(of the time and place of holding which court notice
will be given on the doors of the churches and
chapels), the overseers of every parish or township
in any such new or old borough, or in any place
sharing in the election for it, must attend at the Duty there.
opening of the first court to be held for such bo-
rough or place, and must deliver to the barrister
their list of voters, and a copy of the list of the
persons objected to ; and they must also attend the
court during the time when their list of voters is Business of
under the revision of the barrister, and they must clurts^of re-
answer upon oath all such questions as the barrister j'smg bams-
may put to them as to any matter upon which he
may require information for revising their list, (see
clause 50 of the Act,) and they must produce the
rate book before him, in case he should demand it.
(See clause 51 of the Act.)
" The word ' Borough' throughout the foregoing
instructions must be understood to extend to every
city and borough, and county of a city or town in
which none but freemen used to vote.
42
DUTIES OF OVERSEERS AND TOWN-CLERKS.
List to be
made of the
persons quali-
fied according
to the 31st
and 32d
clauses.
" Duties of Overseers with regard to the Lists cf Voters
for those Old Boroughs (not disfranchised) where
Freemen did not vote, or where others voted as well
as Freemen.
" The Overseers of every parish or township situ-
ated either wholly or in part within any old borough
where freemen did not vote, or where others voted
as well as freemen, or within any place sharing in
the election for any such borough, must perform
the following duties with regard to the lists of voters
for such borough : —
" They must first make out (according to the form
numbered 1. in the Schedule I., annexed to the
Act,) an alphabetical list of all persons having
the \0l. qualification in any such borough, or
in the place sharing with it, in respect of pre-
mises situated wholly or in part within their
parish or township. (The 10/. qualification is
created by the 27th clause of the Act, and is
further explained by the 28th and 29th clauses.
See also the 30th and 36th clauses of the Act.)*
" They must likewise make out another list of all
persons not having the 10/. qualification, but
entitled to vote in respect of any right reserved
by the 31st or 32d clauses of the Act, accord-
ing as either or both of those clauses may ap-
ply to their borough, or to the place sharing in
the election for their borough. (See also the
35th clause of the Act). This latter list must
be made out according to the form numbered
2 in the Schedule I.
* See qualification, p. 20.
LISTS OF VOTERS (bOROUGHs).
43
"The overseers must complete both of these lists Timeforcom-
. . , pleting lists,
by the last day of August, and, havmg signed &c.
each of them, must procure a sufficient number
of copies of each to be printed, both for the
purpose of publication and of sale.
" They must then publish them by causing a copy Time for pub-
of each list to be fixed on or near the door of *^* *°°'
every church and chapel in their parish or town-
ship on the two first Sundays in September.
" They must also keep a copy of these lists, which Copies to be
they must allow all persons to inspect, without spection.
payment of any fee, at all reasonable hours
during the two first weeks after the lists have
been made.
"They are also bound to sell copies of each of Copies to be
sold, and pro-
these lists at a reasonable price to all persons duce to be ac-
applying for them, and they are to account for
the proceeds of the sale in their accounts as
overseers. (See clause 55 of the Act.)
" The lists for each parish or township being pub- Time limited
lished, a certain period is allowed — viz. till the 25th objections.
of September, for parties who have been omitted to
give notice of their claim to be inserted in either of
such lists, and also for parties to object to any per-
sons inserted in either of such lists.
" In all cases of claims the overseers of the parish Time for lists
or township will receive, on or before the 25th of from the no-
September, a notice of claim according to the form Jo ^^ over°
numbered 4, in the Schedule I., and in all cases of ^^^"•
objections they will receive, on or before the same
day, a notice of objection according to the form num-
/ 44 DUTIES OF OVERSEERS AND TOWN-CLERKS.
bered 5 in the Schedule I. They must then make out
a list (according to the form numbered 6 in the Sche-
dule I.) of all the persons so notifying their claims
to them, and another list (according to the form
numbered 7 in the Schedule I.) of all the persons
as to whom they have received notice of objection ;
Posting lists. and they must cause a copy of each of these
lists to be fixed on or near the door of every
church and chapel in their parish or township on
the two Sundays next preceding the 15th of Octo-
Copies to be bcr ; and they must likewise keep a copy of each of
these lists, which they must allow all persons to in-
spect, without payment of any fee, at all reasonable
hours during the ten days next preceding the 15th
of October.
Sale and price "They must also scll a copy of each list to any
of copies of ... 1 • n ■, in
lists. person requiring it, at the price oi 1*. ; and all
sums thus received by them are to be accounted for
in their accounts as overseers.
Duty of at- *' When the barrister holds his court for revising
by overseers the lists of votcrs for any old borough where free-
Courtof Re- ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ votc, or wherc others voted as well as
visai, freemen, (of the time and place of holding which
[See court of ' \ *^ °
revising bar- court uotice wiU be givcu on the doors of the
churches and chapels,) the overseers of every parish
or township in any such borough, or in any place
sharing in the election for it, must attend at the ■
opening of the first court to be held for such bo-"i
rough or place, and must deliver to the barrister
their lists of voters, and a copy of the list of the
persons objected to. They must also attend the
rister.]
LISTS OF VOTERS (bOROUGHs). 45
court during the time when their lists of voters are
under the revision of the barrister, and they must
answer upon oath all such questions as the barrister
may put to them as to any matter upon which he
may require information for revising their lists, (see
clause 50 of the Act,) and they must produce the
rate book before him, in case he should demand it.
(See clause 51 of the Act.)
" The word ' borough' throughout the foregoing
instructions must be understood to extend to
every city and borough, and county of a city or
town where freemen did not vote, or where others
voted as well as freemen.
Addressed to all Overseers with regard to Lists of
Voters for Boroughs.
" The word * borough' throughout the following Expenses of
instructions must be understood to apply to all cities, frayed from
boroughs, and counties of cities and towns. poor-rate.
" All the expenses incurred by the overseers of any
parish or township within any borough, or within
any place sharing in the election for any borough, in
making out, printing, and publishing the lists and
notices, and in carrying into effect the other provi-
sions of the iVct with regard to the voters for such
borough, will be defrayed out of the poor-rate of
such parish or township. (See clause 56 of the Act.)
" After the registration is completed, each voter on charge on re-
the register will be liable to the payment of 1*., boroughs! "
which is to be collected from him as a part of his
contribution to the poor rate, and is to be applied to
the same purposes as the poor rates. (See clause 56.)
46
DUTIES OF OVERSEERS AND TOWN-CLERKS.
Where lists « If there happens to be no church or chapel in a
and notices to . ■* . ^
be posted, parish or township, the overseers must in that case
fix the respective lists and notices in some public
and conspicuous situation in the parish or township.
" The official directions then repeat the provi-
sion, S. 38, (adapting it from S. 45, to boroughs)
before stated as to counties in p. 34.
.,i
" By the 79th clause of the Act it is expressly pro- '
vided, that the words " parish or township" shall
extend to every parish, township, vill, hamlet, dis-
trict, or place maintaining its own poor, and that
all the duties imposed by the Act upon overseers
may be lawfully executed by the major part of the
overseers.
Power to " By clause 51, the overseers of every parish or
overseers to
inspect assess- towuship are empowered to inspect and make ex-
tracts from the tax assessments for such parish or
township,* on making a request for that purpose to
the officers having the custody of those assessments.
" The period for such inspection in the present
year, as altered by the Order in Council, is from the
12th day of July to the last day of August." ^*«y
It is almost unnecessary to state, that many of
the duties to which the foregoing directions relatei^,
are, in cities and boroughs, to be participated in by
the Town Clerks or (by proviso, section 46,) the
civil officer acting in his stead.
Where a party requiring to be inserted in a bo-
rough list, claims as freeman^ he must address his
* Between the 1st of June and the 31st July.
LISTS OF VOTERS (lONDOn). 47
notice to the t(nvn clerk, who must thereupon make
out for posting on or near the door of the town-hall,
a list headed and columned in this form :
The following Persons claim to have their Names inserted in the
List of the Freemen of the City [or Borough] of [or of
being a Place sharing in the Election with the City [or
Borough] of ], entitled to vote in the Election of a
Member [or Members] for the said City [or Borough].
Christian Name and Surname
of each Claimant at full length.
Place of Abode.
/o- j\ A T> > Town Clerk of the said City
(Signed) A. B. J ^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ p,^^^ -j
Section 3.
Framing the London List of Voters.
In London (in respect of liverymen) the duties s. xlviii.
which, in other cities, &c. devolve on the overseers cierkTof
and town clerks, in giving effect to list-making, are plnfes.^*""
cast upon the several clerks of the respective livery
companies, subject to the mandate of the returning
officer of tfee city.
By the 48th section it is provided that the return- Dmies of
ing officer or officers of the city shall, on or before oSs?^
the last day of July yearly, issue precepts to the clerks
of the livery companies, requiring them forthwith to
make out, or cause to be made out, at the expense
of the respective companies, an alphabetical list,
according to the form in the Schedule (K.), of the
freemen of London, being liverymen of the said respec-
tive companies and entitled to vote in the election of
members of parliament for London.
The form of heading of that list, and of the heads Form of list.
48
Form of list
for London.
Sched. K.
Sect. 48.
DUTIES OP LIVERY CLERKS (lONDOn).
of the two columns of which it is to be composed,
are given as dictated (p. Ixxxii.) below.
Every livery clerk must sign such list, and trans-
mit it with two printed copies to the returning officer
or officers, who shall forthwith fix one such copy in
the Guildhall and one in the Royal Exchange of the
city, for fourteen days in every year.
Clerks of livery companies shall cause a sufficient
number of such lists to be printed at the expense of
the companies, and keep them, to be perused by any
person, without payment of fee, during the two first
weeks such lists shall have been printed.
A List of such of the Freemen of London as are Liverymen
of the Company of entitled to vote at the Election of
Members for the City of London.
Christian Name and Surname of
the Voter, at full length.
Street, Lane, or other Description
of his Place of Abode.
(Signed) A. B. Clerk.
The List of Claimants to be published by the re-
turning officer of London is similar to that of town
clerks in principle, but it is not signed. The
form is this —
The following Persons claim to have their Names inserted in the
List of Persons entitled to vote as Freemen of the Citj? of
London and Liverymen of the several Companies therein
in the election of Members for the City of London.
Christian Name and Surname
of Claimants at full length.
Place of Abode.
CLAIMING REGISTRATION. 49
CHAPTER VI.
Of the Proceedings necessary to effect the
Voter's Registration. — S. 38.
Section 1.
Registration is the principal act required by the ^j^.^
new Law on the part of the voter, in support of his Registration.
right of voting. All other acts and precautions are
merely preliminary to this.
It is also the first duty demanded of persons re-
quired to give effect to the statute by acting minis-
terially and officially in promotion of its provisions.
It is made in effect a foundation of the enjoyment
of the elective franchise, and it should be the first
care both of candidate and elector. It may be con-
sidered in many respects as being the very basis of
the Bill itself, with reference to its objects in new
modelling the practice of election proceedings.
. This prominent object of the Act, therefore,
merits, and must be given in an emphatic and con-
spicuous position in any well arranged treatise on
the subject of the new Election Law.
Vitally important, however, as this momentous
topic on the subject of Election Law is, yet, to avoid
repetition and redundancy, the reader is referred
to those portions of this work which point out
and treat of the duties of the various officers and
others, on whom such duties devolve, for much of
D
50 CLAIMING REGISTRATION.
Claim of the information, as to the time, means, mode, manner.
Registration. j , » 7 7 j
and general practice of eflPecting registration of
electoral rights attempted to be furnished in this
compendium.
Basis of light The foundation of the right of registration is the
toberegis- . , i./» • . ,
tered, title to qualification ; in other words, to be entitled
to be registered as an elector, the claimant must
have a right to a qualification to vote : he must also
place himself, by observing certain conditional preli-
minaries, in a condition entitling him to be registered.
The nature of the various qualifications confer-
ring a right to vote at county elections, has been
already very fully and carefully, but plainly and
synoptically stated and explained in the Section on
that subject.
Either and each of such qualifications as there
stated, with the necessary incidents creating a claim
to vote, establishes a right to register. The word
registered is there used to attract attention to the
necessity of registration, and as completing the e^ec'
tive title to exercise the right of voting.
For the same reason, where possession, occupa-
tion, or other beneficial enjoyment of the property
is made necessary to a right to be registered, it is
there stated as part of the qualification, because it
is essential to its perfection for conferring a vote.
Registration is made necessary in all cases without
any exception, by the qualifying Sections of the Act.
It will be useful to parties to know precisely and
distinctly what it will be necessary for them to do
ACTS FOR EFFECTING REGISTRATION.
51
to procure the insertion of their names and qualifi- EfiFecting
^ . , . Registration.
cations on the register, and it will be convenient
that the proceedings for that purpose should be
stated singly without reference to other topics or
the acts of other persons.
Section 2.
Acts of Parties necessary (in prosecuting their claim
to vote) for effecting the registration of their names
and qualifications.
Registration must be effected by the party claim- Claim to vote
. , . n 1-n • ^^^ counties,
ing a right to vote m respect of qualification, by and notice to
. be enlisted.
taking certain prescribed steps on notice by the
overseers of the lists of voters being about to be
made up for counties, or on publication, by posting
of the lists actually prepared and published by the
overseers and town clerks for cities and boroughs.
The first step to be taken by the party himself
towards his being inserted in the register, is to pro-
cure his name to be inserted in one of the several
lists of voters, by making claim of enlistment.
In listing the voters for counties, the overseers
take the names which form the list, and the address
or place of abode, the nature of the qualification,
and the local situation, from the voter himself, to be
accurately furnished by him in the notice of claim
required to be sent in to the overseer by the claimant.
To entitle the claimant, therefore, to vote in County
elections, he must, on or before the 20th of July,
require his name to be inserted in the forthcoming
list, of whieh notice shall have been given by the
D 2
52
ACTS TO EFFECT REGISTRATION — COUNTIES.
EflFecting
RegistxatioQ.
Notice of
claim to be
put in list.
Form of
notice.
S. XXXVI.
Payment of a
shilling.
Piln of exclu-
sion from re-
gister.
overseers, or persons acting as overseers by office or
appointment.
This is to be done by delivering or transmitting
to the overseers, or persons acting as such, on or
before the 20th of every July, a notice of their claim
in the following terms, which are those prescribed
by the Act, Schedule H. No. 2, p. Ixxv.
I hereby give you notice, that I claim to be inserted in the
list of voters for the county of [or for the
riding, parts, or division of the county of as the case
may be,'] and that the particulars of my place of abode and
qualification are stated below. Dated the day of
in the year
(Signed) John Adams.
Place of abode, Cheapside, London.
Nature of qualification, freehold house, [or warehouse, stable,
land, field, annuity, rent-charge, &c. as the case may be, giving
such a description of the property as may serve to identify it.]
Where situate in this parish [or township,] King-street. [If
the property be not situate in any street, lane, or other like place,
then say, " name of the property, Highfield Farm," or, ** name
of the occupying tenant, John Edwards."]
To render such claim effectual, it is expressly
made necessary that the person so claiming shall,
upon giving the required notice, pay, or cause to be
paid, to the overseers the sum of one shilling. It
does not, however, seem to be necessary that the
shilling should be paid at the time, as it is immedi-
ately afterwards provided, that the notice of claim
shall not be deemed valid until such sum shall have
been paid.
Omitting so to make claim by such notice and
payment will exclvde from ^Ae Register. The ex-
clusion is probably not to be permanent but for the
ACTS TO EFFECT REGISTRATION — COUNTIES. 53
particular year only. The clause does not contain EflFecting
-,• I'n • - n Registration.
this important disqualiiymg enactment, it forms
part of the notice, p. 25, merely, which falls short
in this material respect.
In case the overseers should not insert in the list
the name of the party so having given notice of his s. xliii.
claim, it is expressly provided by the 43d Section, to^revising'^
that the revising barrister shall have power to sup- ^ng^J.^Jo^^"'^
ply the omission on proof of notice, and the right
of the party to have been enlisted as a voter for a
county on the last day of the preceding July.
One mode of redress, therefore, furnished to the
qualified person omitted from the list by the over-
seer, is by application to the revising barrister at
one of his public sittings, or courts for the revisal
of lists, requiring of him that the applicant's name
may be inserted therein.
For that purpose the Act requires proof to the satis- preliminary
faction of the barrister, that the complainant gave due Soti'ce^and
notice of his claim to the overseers, and that he
was, on the last day of the preceding July, entitled
to have his name placed on the list of voters in the
election of a knight or knights of the shire, for the
county, or part of county, within which the particu-
lar overseer's parish (&c.) is situate, in respect of
qualifying property within the particular parish.
The party should also prove that the sum of one s. se.
shilling was paid, or caused to be paid, to the over- payment of
, p , . . .the exacted
seer on the part ot the person giving notice oi his shilling.
claim upon delivering or transmitting the notice on
or before the expiration of two weeks after the lists s. 38.
54
ACTS TO EFFECT REGISTRATION COUNTIES.
S. 38.
S. 40.
shall have been made, or at the farthest, before
the 29th of August in each year, the day on which
the overseers are required by the 40 th Section of
the Act, to deliver up the lists to die high constable
of his hundred, or other like district.
The Act expressly requires that the shilling shall
be paid or be caused to be paid, and does not pro-
vide that a tender shall be sufficient; but actual
proof of a legal tender would be matter for the con-
sideration of the barrister, as whatever might be the
penalty on the overseer, the elector might otherwise
be ousted of his right by the perverseness or more
culpable conduct of that officer.
Proof of
claim.
Claim.
New axiom
of election
law.
Policy of
provision-.
The next condition, having proved his claim duly
madef expressly required by the Act is, that the
claimant prove his claim, that is, that he prove him-
self to have been entitled on the day mentioned to
have been put in the county voters' list.
This seems to involve that he must prove a qua-
lification in respect of property which would consti-
tute a title to vote for the county, and would not then
have given him a right to vote for any borough.
The latter negative quality of the county qualifica-
tion is now become a necessary essential to a right
of voting in the choice of knights of shires for Par-
liament, because it is a new axiom of the present
Election Law, that a title to vote at county elections
will be defeated by a possible right being conferred
thereby to vote for borough representation.
This appears to be founded on the policy of
restraining certain landholders to qualify as of the
ACTS TO EFFECT REGISTRATION BOROUaHS. 55
trading class of the people amongst whom they dwell,
and so unite on an old principle of balancing ascen-
dancies.
Generally speaking (with the above exception) a
title to vote, or a qualification as a voter, gives a
right to registration, and entitles the voter to demand
to be registered.
The party aggrieved by the omission from the
list of the overseer, having proved to the reasonable
satisfaction of the revising barrister his having
made claim and possessing title, is in a condition to
insist on insertion in the list, a right demandable
from the barrister ex dehito justitice at his pecuniary
peril.
Section 3.
In Boroughs.
In boroughs, on the contrary, the lists being made I'irftstep to
out arbitrarily by the officers, the claimant must borough lists.
inspect them, in order to ascertain whether his name
be inserted or omitted. If omitted, the first step to s. 47.
be taken by the party desirous of claiming a right
to vote is to give, on or before the 25th day of
August following the affixing the lists to the church
or chapel doors, the prescribed, (p. Ixxix),
Notice of Claim to be put into the List. Notice of
claim of in-
To the Overseers of the Parish [or Township] of sertion.
or to the Town Clerk of the City [or Borough] of Form of
or otherwise, as the case may 6e.] notice.
I hereby give you notice, that I claim to have my name in-
serted in the list made by you of persons entitled to vote in the
election of a member [or members] for the city [or borough] of
, and that my qualification consists of a house in Duke
56 ACTS TO EFFECT REGISTRATION — BOROUGHS.
Street in your paiish, or otherwise [as the case may be] ; [and i«
the case of a Freeman, say, and that my qualification is as a
freeman of , and that I reside in Lord Street in this city
or borough]. Dated the day of one thousand
eight hundred and thirty.
(Signed) John Allen of [place of abode].
Demanding If the claimant have not been rated for relief of
to be rated to .... _ i • i /.
the relief of the poor, which IS made necessary to the right of
the poor, and , , ^ ^
paying or voting in boroughs, in respect of property therein,
amount due. by the 27th Section, he should (as empowered by
the 30th Section) demand or claim to be rated
thereto in respect of his qualifying premises, and
pay or tender the full amount of the rate or rates
then due in respect of the property.
If the requisition to be inserted in the list be
founded on the ground of the claimant being an occu-
pier of a house, &c. of the real value of 10/. he must
have paid his poor rates and assessed taxes to the
6th of April.
Section 4.
In London.
London. In London, by special provision of the 48th Sec-
tion of the Act, the notice of claim of insertion in
the list of freemen being liverymen of companies, he
must give or cause to be given a notice of his claim
both to the returning officer of the city and to the
clerk of the particular livery company, in the list of
which he claims the insertion of his name.
The form of such notice is like that of all the
others given by the Act, p. Ixxxii, but notice to the
same effect is made sufficient.
ACTS TO EFFECT REGISTRATION — BOROUGHS. 57
This is the form furnished by the Statute : —
To the Returning Officer or Officers of the City of London
lor to the Clerk of the Company of .]
I hereby give you notice, that I claim to have my name in-
serted in the list made by the clerk of the company of
[or, in case of notice to the clerk, say, made by you] of the livery-
men of the said company [^or, in case of notice to the clerk, say,
of the liverymen of the company of ] entitled to vote in
the election of members for the city of London. Dated the
day of
/c- j\ A -D i Place of abode.
(Signed) A. B. < -^
' Name of company.
Persons claiming insertion in the lists of voters
for cities and boroughs, are not required, by the
56th Section, to pay a shiUing to the overseers on
giving notice of claim, because it is by the same
Section provided, that the having given notice of
claim shall render him subject to be annually charged
in the po9r's rate with an additional shilling, as part
of the contribution to the rate payable by him, and
as such to be collected or levied, and to be applied
to the purposes of the rate for the relief of the poor.
It is made a consequence of registration by express
provision of the act, [Prov. S. 37,] that once regis-
tered the voter, whilst retaining the same description,
shall not be put to further claim.
The consideration of the mode and course of pro-
ceeding, in prosecuting objections to parties claiming
to vote, properly follows the matter of this chapter
on claiming to be registered, and will be the subject
of the next.
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58 OBJECTING TO VOTERS — COUNTIES.
CHAPTER VII.
Objecting to Enlistment Voters by Claimants
OF Right of Voting — (Counties).
Section 1.
Objecting by Persons claiming or listed as Voters to
the Title of others to vote or be enlisted amongst
Voters.
Subject of HAVING shown the practical means of prosecuting
this Chapter. , . -r. • • i .
claims to Registration, the practical measures for
instituting and pursuing objections to such claims
are now next to be stated.
This, like the former, is a very important matter
to the parties entitled to avail themselves of the
provisions of the law in this respect. It therefore
requires clear and explicit directions for their
guidance.
Objecting to County Voters.
s. XXXIX. Persons having or claiming a right of voting for
j^lfti'on^^tJ'^ any county or other place are given by the new law
voters. ^^ a right of objecting to the title to enlistment or to
vote for the same county or place of any other per-
son enlisted or claiming to be enlisted as a voter
there.
Differs in The sitiiatiou of the person entitled to object and
counties and i i /» i • •
boroughs. the matter and mode of objection, are made by the
Objecting to voters — counties. 59
warding of the various sections on this subject to
vary very materially and essentially.
In the case of objection to voters for counties, or Objectors and
... •11 1 1 • objections in
parts of counties, it is required that the objector respect ot
COUNTY
must either actually he upon the Register for the voters.
time being of voters for the county, &c. or he must obje*ct?^^
have claimed to he inserted in the list for the then
current year.
The objection to be made by this class of objec- General na-
1 • 1 • 11 ^"'^^ *^^ objec-
tors must be, that the person whose right is so chai- tion.
lenged was not entitled on the last day of July then
next preceding to have his name inserted in any list
of voters for the county, riding, parts, or division, to
he made out by the overseers as directed by the Act.
Every person so obiectinff must, on or before the Notice oi
'' ^ JO' objecting to
25th day of August, (in this year, September,) for ^^ given to
the purpose of giving effect to his objection, give or madeont the
cause to be given to the overseers who shall have
made the list containing the name of the person
whose title is impeached, a written notice in the fol-
lowing words, or in terms of similar import, p. Ixxvi.
To the Overseers of the parish of [or township, a$
the case may he],
I hereby give you notice, that I object to the name of William
Ball being retained in the list of voters for the county of
[or for the riding, parts, or division of the county
of ]. Dated the day of in the year
(Signed) A. B. of [Place of abode].
The person so objecting must also, on or before fnd in what
the 25th day of August, give to the person objected nce'io\T'
served.
GO
OBJECTING TO VOTERS — COUNTIES.
Lists to be
made and
published.
to, or leave at his place of abode as described in such
list J or personally deliver to his tenant in occupation
of the premises described in such list, a written notice
in the following terms or tenor, p. Ixxvii.
To Mr. William Ball.
I hereby give you notice, that I object to your name being
retained in the list of voters for the county of \m- for the
riding, parts, or division of the county of J, and
that you will be required to prove your qualification at the time of
the revising of the said list. Dated the day of
in the year
(Signed) A . B. of IPlace of abode'].
The overseers must make lists of the names of
all persons so objected to, and cause copies to be
fixed on the doors of the churches and chapels
within their parish, in the manner and form before
stated in treating of their duties, page 33, in the fol-
lowing form, p. Ixxvii.
The follovi'ing Persons having been objected to as not being
entitled to have their Names retained in the List of Voters for
the County of [or for the Riding, Parts, or Divisions of
the County of .]
Christian
name and sur-
name of each
person ob-
jected to.
Alley, James .
Ball, William
Place of abode
Long Lane, in
this parish.
Market Street,
Lancaster.
Nature of the
supposed
qualification.
Copyhold field.
Lease of ware-
house for years.
Street, lane, or other like
place in this parish [or
township] where the
property is situate, or
name of the property,
or name of the tenant,
John Edwards, tenant.
Duke Street.
(Signed) A. B."i Overseers of the parish
C. D. > of [or township, as
E. F. J the case may be,]
OBJECTING TO VOTERS — CITY AND BOROUGH, 61
Section 2.
Objecting to City and Borough Voters generally.
In the case of city and borough voters objected s. xlvii.
to, the persons entitled to object by the 47th section ^j'J^™^^
of this Act are, every person whose name shall have
been inserted in any list of voters for any city or
borough.
Such persons may object to any other person General na-
as not having been entitled on the last day of July jecUon.
then next preceding, to have his name inserted in any
list of voters for the same city or borough.
All persons so objecting must, as in the case of Notice of
voters for counties, on or before the 25th day of
August, give, or cause to be given, a notice in writing
to the overseers who shall have made out the list in
which the name of the person so objected to shall
have been inserted; or if the person objected to
shall have been inserted in the list of freemen of
any city, borough, or place, to the town clerk of such
city, borough, or place.
Such notice is prescribed by the Act, and must Form or tenor
^ . of notice.
be m the following form, or to the like effect.
To the Overseers of the Parish ^or Township] of [or
to the Towa Clerk of the City ^or Borough] of [or
otherwise, as the case mag be.']
I hereby give you notice, that I object to the name of Thomas
Bates being retained in the list of persons entitled to vote in the
election of a member [or members] for the city [or borough] of
and that I shall bring forward such objection at. the
«2
OBJECTING TO VOTERS — CITY AND BOROUGH.
time of the revising of such list. Dated the day of
in the year
(Signed) A. B. of [Place of Abode. ;\
Overseers' The oDersecTS must also make a list of all persons
lists of per- i • j t i t •
sons objected SO Objected to, according to the directions of the
Sjg Act, and cause copies to be fixed on or near the
doors of the churches and chapels within their pa-
rish or township, or if no church or chapel, in some
public and conspicuous situation, on the two Sun-
days next preceding the 16th day of September, in
the following form, (p. Ixxx).
The following Persons have been objected to as not being entitled
to have their Names retained in the List of Persons qualified to
vote in the Election of a Member [or Members] for the City
[or Borough] of
Christian name and
Surname of each Per-
son objected to.
Nature of
the supposed
Qualification.
Street, Lane, or other Place in this
Parish where the Property is situate.
// the Right does not depend on Pro-
perty, state the Place of Abode.
Bates, Thomas.
Shop.
Castle Street.
(Signed) A, B.-)
C. D. V
E. F.j
Overseers of, Sf.c.
Every town clerk must make a similar list of the
names of all persons so objected to as freemen in a
list according to the Form in Schedule (I.),* p. Ixxxi,
* That list is to be headed and framed thus : —
Form of list
of persons ob- Tpjjg following Persons have been objected to as having no right
be made and to be retained in the List of the freemen of the City [or Bo-
pablished by ,
town clerk. rough] of [or of being a place sharing in the
OBJECTING TO VOTERS— LONDON. 63
and cause copies of such lists to be fixed on or near
the door of the Town Hall, or in some public or con-
spicuous situation, within his city, borough, or place,
on the same days as in the case of the lists to be
pubhshed by the overseers, and both are to likewise
keep a copy of the names of all the persons claiming,
and of all persons objected to, to be perused by any
person, without payment of any fee, at all reasona-
ble hours during the ten days next preceding the
15 th day of September, in every year, and they are
required to deliver a copy of each of such lists to
any person requiring it, on payment of one shilling
for each copy.
Section 3.
Objecting in London to Parties in Livery Lists.
There are some material distinctions in the provi- Difference in
sions respecting objections in the city of London, objectlnrto
which make considerable difference in the practice ters.
as to the mode of conducting objections to the en-
listment of liverymen.
Election with the City [or Borough] of ], entitled to
vote in the Election of a Member [or Members] for the said
City [or Borough.]
Christian Name and Surname of
each Person objected to.
Place of his Abode.
(Signed) A.B.
^ Town Clerk of the said City
I [or Borough or Place.]
64
OBJECTING TO VOTERS — LONDON.
Form of no-
tice of objec-
tion.
s. xLviii. The 48th section provides (the 47th section hav-
Notice of ing declared who shall be entitled to object) that
objection and ° '' ' .
service. every person (that is, every person entitled to have
his own name inserted) who shall object to any
other person as not having been entitled on the last
day of July then next preceding to have his name
inserted in any such livery list, shall, on or before
the 25th day of August in the present and in every
succeeding year, give to such other person, or leave at
his usual place of abode, a notice in writing according
to the form dictated, or to the like effect, (p. Ixxxiii).
The form is this : —
To Mr. William Baker.
I hereby give you notice, that I object to your name being
retained in the list of persons entitled to vote as freemen of the
city of London and liverymen of the company of in the
election of members for the said city, and that I shall bring for-
ward such objection at the time of revising the said list. Dated
the day of
(Signed) A. B. IP lace of Abode.']
The form of the notice is necessarily essentially
different from that required in the case of other
cities, &c.
The service is as in the case of counties to be
served on the person objected to, but differing again
from the service required as to county notices. This
provision exacts that the service, if not personally
effected, shall be by leaving the notice not at the
place of abode as described in the list, but at his usual
place of abode.
The party objected to, again, being to be served,
and not the officer making the lists, is another nota-
ble difference, which must be borne in mind.
Service of
notice.
Party to be
served with
notice.
OBSERVATIONS ON FORMS OF NOTICE. 6^
Observation (general) on the Forms of Notice.
It may be permitted to make one observation here
which is applicable to all the notices of which forms
are given above.
There is a very material discrepancy between
the terms of the notice and the sections which give
the right of objection and those used in the forms
of notice which those sections prescribe as the media
of objecting, with reference to the matter and nature
of the objection, which it may be worth while to point
out.
It is, that whilst the objection is in every case to
be taken to the insertion of the name in the list, the
notice goes to the name being retained therein. This
makes the notice assume that the person considered
objectionable is actually on the list, and such a no-
tice would clearly be at least informal where the
person to be objected to is as yet only a claimant for
enlistment. His name, moreover, can never be on
the list in such case until the last moment,, when it
is dismissed completed by the revising barrister for
enrolment amongst the county records, when objec-
tion would be too late ; a voter not entitled might
thus escape the more searching ordeal of an active
objector in possession of a decisive objection to the
right of voting then no longer impeachable.
Whenever, therefore, the objectionable voter is
not on the list, the notice should substitute the
word " inserted" for the word " retained," and it must
be served.
m
OBJECTIONS TO VOTERS.
CHAPTER VIII.
Objection to Voters on ground of Personal
Incapacity or Incompetency.
Incapacity OBJECTIONS on the part of votCTS to the right of voting,
and incompe- . i ■• i /» • i-n
tency to vote, throwing at once the burthen oi proving a quahnca-
tion on the claimant, or person objected to, if qua-
lification should be proved, and all the affirmative
or positive requisites made necessary to perfect the
claimant's right to registration be thereby so far sup-
ported and established, it will be incumbent on the
objecting party in that case to prove some incapacity
or incompetency to exercise the elective franchise,
or enjoy the right of voting, in answer to the fact of
qualification, in order to defeat the right to vote, if
he cannot counteract the proof of qualification, or
the title to be inserted in the list of voters.
It therefore becomes very material to know what
constitutes incapacity or incompetency to vote, or
what may be termed the personal disqualifications
for the condition of electors of parliamentary repre-
sentatives.
Grounds of
both.
Distinguish-
ed.
The grounds of incapacity and of incompe-
tency to vote are various in substance, nature, and
degree.
Incapacities are personal and legal, destroying
and utterly extinguishing altogether the right, or
rather the faculty and power, of voting.
INCAPACITY TO VOTE. 67
Such as are merely personal, are the natural inca- Personal per-
. manent inca-
pacities of idiocy or permanently unsound mmd and padties de-
sex. Insane persons, idiots, and women therefore to'^vote^ "^
can never have a right to vote. idiots,
Tt • • 1 ' T • t ' • • Women.
British peerage is a political incapacity to voting
at elections for members of Parliament. Peerage.
Those founded in common sense and usage are
incapacities by common law.
Some incapacities are merely legal, and declared ^^^^^ mcapa-
by Statute.
All persons convicted, in courts of law, of per-
jury, or subornation of perjury, or of bribery at
elections, are rendered incapable of voting by the
2 Geo. 2, c. 24, s. 6, 7, and 1 1 ; and 9 Geo. 2,
c. 28.
All offences inducing infamy incapacitate.
Wilful omission from the registry of voters for the
space of two years, incapacitates persons having old
qualifications for voting in boroughs from ever
voting. 2 W. 4, c. 45, s. 33.
These are permanent, and apply generally.
Incompetency to vote is founded on legal or po- incompeten-
litical temporary disability, which does not destroy the right" "^
the capacity of the party to vote, but merely sus-
pends the privilege in his person until he shall be-
come competent, or his competency shall be re-
stored to him.
Gf these, some are general, and apply to all
voters ; others are particular, and apply some to
voters for counties, and some to voters for cities or
boroughs.
OBJECTIONS TO VOTERS.
Alien birth.
Foreign
allegiance.
Exceptions to
disqualifica-
tion of alien
birth.
The general grounds of incompetency are,
1. Lunacy is only an incompetency, because it
does not apply at lucid intervals.
2. Alien birth and duty of foreign allegiance, is a
common law ground of political incompe-
tency ; but this may be removed in various
ways and by several means, as tiie objection
is subjected by Statutes to the following
Exceptions.
Denization by letters-patent.
Naturalization by Act of Parliament.
Service for two years on board British
ships, 13 Geo. 2, c. 3, by virtue of royal
proclamation, " all foreign Jews and
Protestants, upon residing seven years
in any of the American colonies, with-
out being absent above two months at a
time,
and all foreign Protestants serving
two years in a military capacity there,
or being three years employed in the
whale fishery, without afterwards ab-
senting themselves from the king's do-
minions for more than one year," and
none within the capacities declared by
4 G. 2, c. 21, shall be (upon taking the
oaths of allegiance and supremecy, or
in some cases, making an affirmation to
the same effect,) " naturalised, to all
intents and puposes as if they had been
born in this kingdom;" except as to
INCOMPETENCY TO VOTE. 6^
sitting in Parliament, or being of the
Privy Council, and holding offices or
grants of land, &c. from the crown.
13 G. 2, c. 7, 20 G. 2, c. 44, 22 G. 2,
c. 45, 2 G. 3, c. 25, and 13 G. 3, c. 25."
Every foreigner and his family esta-
blished in Great Britain, carrying on
the Southern whale fishery, and im-
porting the produce thereof for the
space of five years successively, is de-
clared to be entitled to all privileges of
a natural born subject. 9>Q G. 3, c. 50,
s. 24, 27, 28, and 28 G. 3, c. 20, s. 15.
3. Nonage, or minority, renders every person Minority.
under the age of twenty-one incompetent
to vote till the day before the twenty-first
anniversary of his birth-day. 7 & 8 W. 3,
c. 25, s. 3.
4. Commissioners, collectors, supervisors, gau- Officers of,
and employed
gers, or other omcer or persons whatsoever, in Excise.
concerned or employed in the charging, col-
lecting, levying, or managing the duties of
excise, or any branch or part thereof.
5. Commissioner, collector, comptroller, searcher, customs.
or other officer or person whatever concerned
or employed in the charging, collecting, levy-
ing, or managing the customs, or any branch
or part thereof.
6. Commissioner, officer, or other person em- Distribution
ployed in collecting, receiving, or managing ° "'^^p'-
w»
OBJECTIONS TO VOTERS.
Persons em-
ployed in re-
spect of salt
duties.
any of the duties on stamped vellum,
parchment, and paper.
7. Any person appointed by the commissioners
for distributing of stamps; commis-
sioner, officer, or other person employed
in collecting, levying, or managing any
of the duties on salt.
Surveyors,
&c. of win-
dow and
house duty,
8. Surveyor, collector, comptroller, inspector,
officer, or other person employed in col-
lecting, managing, or receiving the duties
on windows or houses.
Postmasters,
&c. and per-
sons in their
employ.
9. Postmaster, postmasters -general, or his or their
deputy or deputies, or any person em-
ployed by him, or under him or them, in
receiving, collecting, or managing the
- revenue of the post-office, or any part
thereof.
Captains, &c.
of foreign
post-office
packets.
10. Captain, master, or mate of any ship, packet,
or other vessel employed by or under
the postmaster or postmaster-general in
conveying the mail to and from foreign
ports.
1 1 . Any person who shall either during any elec-
tion, or within six months previous to such
election, or within fourteen days after it
shall have been completed, be employed
at such election as counsel, agent, attor-
ney, poll-clerk, flagman, or in any other
INCOMPETENCY TO VOTE. 71
capacity, for the purpose of such elec-
tion, and shall at any time, either before,
during, or after such election, accept or
take from any such candidate or candi-
dates, or from any person whatever, for,
or in consideration of, or with reference
to such employment, any sum or sums
of money, retaining fee, office, place, or
employment, or any promise, or any se-
curity, for any sum or sums of money,
retaining fee, office, or emplojrment. 7
and 8 G. 4, c. 37, s. 1.
12. Justice, receiver, or person belonging to the justices, re-
poUce force, appointed by virtue of that persons be-
. 1 . 1 • 1 1 n . ■ longing topo-
Act, durmg the time he shall contmue Uce force.
in such office, or within six months after
he shall have quitted the same, rendered
\ incapable of voting for Middlesex,
Surrey, Hertford, Essex, or Kent, or for
any city or borough within the metropo-
litan district ; subject to a penalty of
100/. 3 G. 4, c. 56, s. 14, continued
' by 10 G. 4, c. 45, to the 5th July, 1832.
13. Justice, receiver, surveyor, or constable, ap- justices, re-
pointed by that Act (at one of the eight vtyor or"con.
metropolitan offices) during the time he poUce."*"*^
shall continue in his office, or within six
months after he shall have quitted the
same, rendered incapable of voting for
Middlesex, Surrey, Westminster, or South'
7^ OBJECTIONS TO VOTERS.
warA;; subject to a penalty of 100/. 10
G. 4, c. 44.
Section 2.
Objections from other incidental Causes denying to
Parties the Right to Registration for Counties
only.
s. 24. 1. The qualifying property being a house, &c. in
a city or borough, capable of conferring a vote for
the city or borough.
s. 25. 2. Having a tenant in occupation of the property
in respect of which the qualification is set up, if it be
of copyhold or other tenure than freehold, and be
situate in a city or borough, and be of such value
as would entitle the tenant to vote for such city or
borough.
3. Non-residence for the whole time before regis-
tration, where any such residing is made necessary
to the right to be registered.
4. Omitting to give notice of claim, or non-pay-
ment thereupon of the required shilling.
Section 3.
Objections on Incompetency to vote for Counties
from incidental Causes^ where Party is already
registered.
s. 18. 1 . House, &c. in city or borough.
37 Prov. ' 2. That the qualification is not the same as that
in respect of which the party is already registered.
3. That the party no longer resides at the place
of abode where he is described as living in a former
register.
INCOMPETENCY TO VOTE. Jf
In both the above cases the party, although
registered, must make fresh claim, and become
registered anew.
Section 4.
Objections of personal Incompetency to vote for Cities
and Boroughs for want of Right to Registration.
1. Not being rated to the poor or church, or non-
payment of rates due, in places where the old bo-
rough and city qualifications have effect.
Where the new qualification is the foundation
of the right claimed, non-payment before the
6th of April, of all poor's rates and assessed ^' '^^'
taxes duCf is also an incompetency.
Rates to be due must be demanded; the s. 32.
King's taxes are due when demandable, as due
by virtue of the prerogative priority which
protects the revenue duties, and these being
imposed by act of parliament, and being a pub-
lic impost, must be taken to be known to the
party as to amount of sum and time of payment.
2. Non-residence for the whole time required by
the statute.
3. Receipt of parish relief or other disqualifying s. ae.
alms.
This is a disability for twelve months after
the receipt only.
Section 5.
Objections to Voting distinguished, from Objections to
being registered*
^?The proof required in support of claims " to be
74 OBJECTING TO VOTERS.
entitled to vote," [S. 37,] is, " that the party claim-
ing (for shires) is (according to his notice) entitled to
have his name inserted in the list of voters, [S. 38].
s.xxxviii. The ground of objection to be made by the Over-
claim of right *^^^* ^° parties claiming to vote for Counties is, that
to vote, by ^jig party claiming insertion on the List is not entitled to
overseers- . .
VOTE, and it is to be made by marginal note against
his name, after having been first inserted in the list,
s. XXXIX. The ground of objection to be taken to voters for
sons*to7«f^" Counties, by other persons entitled to object by rea-
ttonqfmme. g^jj Qjp bejng on the register, or oi having claimed to
he inserted in the list of voters for a specific shire,
is, that the party objected to was not, on the last
day of the preceding July, entitled to have his name
inserted in any list for the same County.
In boroughs. The ground of objection to be taken by persons en-
titled to object to any other person having his name
inserted in the same list with his own, for any City
S. 4y. or Borough, by reason of the objector having been
inserted in any list of voters for the same City or Bo-
rough, is precisely the same as in the case of Shires.
Form. The form of objection, in both cases, is to Re-
tainer of the Name on the List.
Course of fjjg coursc of supporting objections will therefore
supporting X A o J
objections be by stages.
before the rr^^ n • • i i /> • • i
revising bar The first qucstiou raised before the revising bar-
rister will be, whether the party objected to by the
Question as . .„ .
to right to overseers is entitled to vote. That question will in
all such cases be resolved into another, and the
inquiry to be prosecuted will be in effect whether
the objected party is entitled to be registered. If
OBJECTING TO VOTERS. '76
he is, his name must be retained ; if not, it must be
struck out or expunged.
The first point on the other hand to be deter- Preliminary
mined, in the matter of objection by third persons, ?" right^r
will be, whether the objector himself have claimed °^J^^'*
:■'. to be inserted in the list, if it be a county case ; or
IZiWhether he be actually on the list, if it be a city
4tGr borough case.
w The second will be, whether the person objected Question of
f to was, on the last day of the preceding July, enti- on last day
tied to be inserted in the list. ""^ •^"'^'
The affirmative of that position is first to be Oms on
made out on the part of the claimant by positive '^ **™*" *
^, proof of the necessary title to be enlisted, that is,
a qualification on the last day of July.
If that be proved, the claimant stands rightly in Primd/ade
. y, r ' 'o 1 • case.
court on a prima Jacte case ; it not, he is at once put
out of court.
The right being shown, if it cannot be disproved To be rebut-
by adverse testimony, it becomes the business of of incompe.
the objecting party to make out a case of incapacity '^"*^^'
[or incompetency] to vote at that time, (i. e. on the
last day of July,) by law or statute.
Such incapacity will be either some or one of the incapacities.
negative disabilities to vote in the election of mem-
bers to serve in parliament, in consequence of some
^iOr one of the requisitions made necessary to regis-
0jtration being wanting, as if any of the preliminary or
Sfprecedent conditions have not been complied with,
?' which will extinguish, either for the time or for ever,
the right in respect of the fwirticular qualification.
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76 OBJECTING TO VOTERS.
Or such incapacity may be the existence of some
personal disability, depriving the person, who, though
qualified in respect of estate or otherwise, and in
all other regards entitled to be inserted in the list,
and to be registered, is yet not in a condition to
exercise the right of voting, which his title thereto
or qualification would give him.
Instance. The effect and pressure of such an objection will
be this — that, admitting the party claiming the right
to vote to have been then qualified in other respects,
as that he was then possessed of the requisite quali-
fying property, &c. it must be contended that still
he ought not to be admitted to vote, inasmuch as
he then (on the last day of July preceding) was in-
capacitated from voting for some incapacitating
reason then existing and in force ; as that he had
been at that time convicted of perjury in a court of
law, &c. &c.
Effect. It should seem that if the claimant had been then
(on that day) incompetent, from any of the various
causes of even temporary incom]^etency hereinbe-
fore enumerated, the objection must be allowed to
prevail against him, although he may have since
acquired or have been restored to competency ; as
if he had been then a minor, but had since attained
his full age ; or had held an office, &c. which he
had since resigned.
There may perhaps, in certain cases, be some
hardship in this provision of the new law.
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CHAPTER IX.
Revisal of Lists of Voters, Appointment and
Business of Revising Barrister, and the
Holding of his Courts.
Section 1.
Revising Barristers — Objects^ Course, and Business
of Revisal. .
To perfect the Lists of Voters for enrolment as re- Revisal of
cords at the Quarter Sessions of the peace for coun- by revising
, 1 1 • 1 1 • n 1 baristers.
ties, they must be subjected to the scrutiny oi the
various revising Barristers who have been favoured
with the honour of fulfilh'ng the very arduous and
hazardous duties of that important and serious ap-
pointment. This scrutiny is the business of each at scrutiny.
his courts of revisal within the circuit of his autho-
rity.
By those revising Barristers, all questions respect- to be final.
ing votes are to be determined finally ; all doubts to
be finally solved, and all difficulties for once and all
are to be decisively obviated in the first instance,
by anticipation, and before election.
They are to adjudicate between parties claiming Objects of the
.... - revisal of lists,
and parties objecting to votes : they are to supply and estabiish-
... , 1 1 /. 1 mentofregis-
the omissions, correct the errors, and defeat the try, and the
importance
machinations, and repress the abuses in their office <*f functions
of revising
of all the officers whose duty it is to administer to barrister.
the due formation of a true and complete Registeif
of actual legal voters in the choice of members to
78^ APPOINTMENT OF BARRISTERS
represent the people in Parliament throughout Eng-
land and Wales.
They are to preserve to the true elector the un-
doubted enjoyment of his legitimate franchise — to
protect that franchise from invasion by the admis-
sion of spurious votes — to surround the candidate
with the security of a pure constituency — and assure
to the Country a duly elected representacion in the
Commons House of Parliament.
These are the proposed results of the simple sys-
tem of well-ordered and well-investigated regis-
tration, prosecuted with zealous honesty by well-
informed Officers, and consummated by the con-
trolling judgment of able and experienced Barris-
ters.
Sect. 2.
Power of Appointment in the Chief Justices and
Senior Judges on Circuits.
Power, mode. The Tcvising Barristers are to be appointed an-
appointraent nually by the Chief Justice of the Court of King's
of Revisers of "^ "^ °
lisu of voters. Bench for Middlesex, London, and Westminster,
and the new boroughs in Middlesex, sometime in
July or August ; and by the senior judge for the time
being on the several circuits, for all other counties
and boroughs, whilst travelling the summer circuit.
The appointment is to be in the discretion of the
judges, in whom the power is vested, subject only
to the condition that no barrister, being a member
of parliament, or holding any office or place of
s. Liii. profit under the crown, shall be appointed.
c^angenames, The Chief Justicc, and other appointing judges,
ply oSIers!"*' are given power to appoint the same barrister for
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two or more counties and boroughs therein [S. 49];
and to change, to add to, or supply vacancies in
the original appointments, as they shall see fit, or as
occasion or necessity may require or demand.
The object of the Court of Revisal being the ad-
judication, by the revising Barrister, of the contested
or challenged rights of persons enlisted as voters,
or claiming so to be, the barrister, the legal person
appointed to that judicial duty, is invested with con-
siderable facilities for the performance of his duties ;
and the statute has amply provided that all the aid
which he can be supposed to require, shall be af-
forded him by all parties capable of rendering him
assistance or service.
Members of Parliament, and barristers holding
office or place of profit under the crown, cannot be
appointed. [S. 41.]
His powers and authority are made expressly
commensurate with those of returning officers.
His remuneration and reimbursement are spe-
cially provided for by the 57th Section.
The appointment disqualifies the barrister for
Parliament, during office and for eighteen months
after his appointment (». e» office).
Section 3.
Establishment of Courts ^ Duties and business of revising
Barristers therein as to Lists of Voters for Counties^
The sections of the statute which constitute, regu- Sections pro-
° viding for re-
late, and provide for the Court of revisal, are as ^»sai "^ ''sts
^ ' of voters.
follows :
80 COURTS OF BARRISTERS.
The appointment, change, and adding to number
of revising barristers for counties, and their duties,
and the assignment of their business, are provided
for by the 41st, 42d, 43d, and 53d Sections.
Those which relate to the revisal of the lists for
cities and boroughs are the 49th, the 53d, the 50th,
the 51st, and 52d. These Sections direct and
authorize the appointment to the office, confer and
declare its authority and powers, prescribe its duties
and business, and dictate and describe much of their
nature, execution, and performance, by the barrister
appointed to it.
Other Sections also mention incidentally some of
the minor business of the revisor's duty.
First act of The revising barrister having been duly appointed,
which is merely by nomination, without other for-
mality of appointment, his first duty is to announce
his public sittings for the business of revising the
lists made within his district.
For that purpose he is required by the 41st Sec-
tion to give notice of the holding (that is, of the
times and places of his circuit, and of holding) his
several courts, which must be on certain days be-
tween the 15th of September and the 25th of Octo-
ber* in each year.
Courts for the Preparatory to the business of the revising bar-
business of re- . 'in • 1 r- •
visai of lists rister appomted lor counties, and parts oi counties,
of voters for . , . . i, , 7
connties. he IS required to give public notice, as well by adver-
tisement in some of the newspapers circulating within
* In this first year of the operation of the Act, the tirae is
changed by order of the King in Council, to the same day in
the following months.
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the county, riding, parts, or division, as also hy a
notice to be fixed in some public and conspicuous
situation at the principal place of election for the
county, and to be given [put up] three days at the
least before the commencement of his circuit, that
he will make a circuit of the county, riding, parts,
or division for which he shall be so appointed, and s. 4i.
the notice must specify the several times and places
at which he will hold courts for that purpose, such N?f^<^« ^,*' ."'"-
^ t ' cult, ana time
times being between the 15th day of September in- JoJjjf^gconns
elusive, and the 25th day of October inclusive in
every year, in which he will be directed by the ab-
stract required to be furnished to him for that pur-
pose by the clerk of the peace.
Where more than one barrister shall be appointed Sitting of re
• 1 n 1 1 • n ^ vising Barris-
for the revisal oi the lists for the same county, ters.
riding, part, or divison of a county, the Statute re-
quires that they shall attend together at the same
time and place, and that they shall hold their courts
simultaneously, but severally, at such same place ;
in other words, they are to sit at one and the same
time and place, but not together.
Section 4.
Revising Barrister' s first Court for Counties.
At the commencement of the first public sitting s. xlii.
by each revising Barrister, or in the more digni- SJUjin" **
fying language of the Statute, at the opening of the
first court to be held by him for his particular ^'^J.^ J''[ *'j^
county, or part of county, the clerk of the peace is vmerl'before
required to produce or cause to be produced before Jfsle^'"^ ^^^'
E 5
courts
of revisal.
82 COURTS OF BARRISTERS
him, the several lists of voters for the same county,
&c. received by him from the overseers through the
s. 40. high constable of the hundred, and to lay such lists
before the Barrister for revision,
parhhes'^to**^ The oversccrs of each parish and township who
attend, &c. j^ade the lists of voters, are also required at the
same time to attend the court and deliver to the
barrister a copy of the lists of persons objected to,
as made out by such overseers.
It is then provided that the overseers shall answer
upon oath questions put by the barrister.
Examination This sccms obviouslv to imply that the barrister
of overseers. '' ^ •'
is to examine the overseers strictly as to the due
performance of their duty, and the result. This,
therefore, is an imperative and important part of his
duty. In order to check the statements of the over-
seers, the reviser should have the assessor, or other
officers having custody of the duplicates, or tax as- .
sessments, and the overseers having custody of the
poor's rate, present before them with those assess-
ments and rates ready to produce to him in court,
according to the power given to him by the 51st
Section of the Statute,
s. xLiii. Omissions, by overseers, from the lists of voters
for knights of the shire, it should appear, are first to
be disposed of, on proof of due notice of claim given.
Where the overseer has not objected, it may per-
haps be taken that he has no knowledge of cause of
objection. He will, of course, be able to say whether
many acts within his own local and personal means
of information necessary to give the right of voting
have been satisfied, as residence, &c.
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There may be various causes of objection within
the knowledge of the overseer at the time when he
is attending the Barrister's Court, of which he was
not aware, or which did not exist when in the earlier
stage of his duty he would have been required to
make a marginal note of objection on the lists which
he had made.
This will be the object of some of the earliest of
the questions which the revising barrister should
put to the overseer, in order to prepare himself for
the discussion of objections and claims.
Section 5.
Objections by Electors, and Adjudication thereon.
The next duty of the barrister revising the lists, investigation
,. , , p ,. i-TT of objections.
accordmg to the order ot proceedmg to be implied
from the collocation of progressive duties adopted
by the 42d clause of the statute, will be to examine
the list of objections, and cite the party objecting
to support and make good his objection, either in
person or by proxy. He must then require it to be
proved to his satisfaction, that the person objected
to was entitled on the last day of the preceding July
to have his name inserted in the list of voters in
respect of the very qualification therein described.
This requisition of the Act involves three propo- onus of
sitions. The onus of proof is thrown, by the fact of KSote''iie?on
the objection made, on the voter to prove his claim;
he must also prove it to be supported by and ^^^^ •** '* *°
grounded on the particular qualification expressed
in the list, which will have been transcribed from
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COURTS OF BARRISTERS
Future
ground of
objection.
his own notice ; and, lastly, that it was a subsisting,
valid, unobjectionable, and perfected qualification on
the last day of July, so as to give him a title then
to be inserted in the list.
Objector then The qualification having been fully proved to the
to substantiate ^ ° "^ ^
objection. satisfaction of the revising Barrister, the person who
has to sustain his objection to the claimant's right
to vote may then prove that the claimant was not
entitled then to be inserted in the list, or that he
was then, or has since become either personally or
legally incapacitated by some law or statute from
voting.*
It will in aftertimes probably become a frequent
source of successful objection, that the voter, though
qualified, is not qualified as registered; or that
though so qualified, he is no longer resident as
there described, having since changed his place of
abode ; and in either case he is no longer entitled
to vote until he shall have made fresh claim to be
registered anew. [S. 37. (Prov.)]
* See chapter on incapacity and incompetency to vote.
It would perhaps be an advantageous amendment, that the
reviser of the lists should be required to state the short nature
or at least general ground of the objection, and reason of his
decision with reference to the right of petitioning, — as whether
the claim or objection were allowed or disallowed by reason of
property or competency, qualification or registration, and whe-
ther the determination was founded on proof or absence of
proof, on fact or on law, all of which may be done in three words,
thus — Freehold not proved, or disproved — House in Borough —
unsound mind — Collector of Customs, 6cc. &c. — not registrable
(rates not paid), or on any other of the several objections to com-
petency enumerated, distinguishing the ground of qualification
from that of. registration.
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It is the duty of the reviser to retain on the lists s. xlii.
the names of all persons who have not been ob- names!^^ °
jected to by any persons other than overseers en-
titled to object to the retainer of names ; and also
the names of all persons against whom the objectors
do not appear, or if the objections made have not
been supported by proof, where the objector attends
or appears to substantiate them, and fails.
If the objecting party establish his objection, or s. xlii.
the claimant do not support his claim by evidence, nrmes!^'"^
it then becomes the duty of the revising barrister,
after notice given to the party, or left at his place
of abode, or delivered to his tenant, to strike out,
or, as it is termed in the 42d and 50th Sections of
the Act, expunge the claimant's name from the list,
and place his initials in the margin of the list against
the rejected name. By this SiCto? expunging, what-
ever it is, or in whatever manner it is to be per-
formed — whether by line drawn through it, or by the
word expunged written against it, the name will be
made to appear to have been improperly inserted.
The reviser of the list will next have to inquire Names of
and ascertain whether any of the persons whose deadTto be"*^^
names have been enlisted are since dead, and he from lists,
must mark and obscribe with his initials the names
of all such persons upon the list.
Section 6.
Correcting Mistakes in supplying Omissions of matter
from County Lists.
There is a special power given by the 4.2d Sec- s. xlii.
tion of the Act to the reviser during his revisal, but mSe's"fn
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COURTS OF BARRISTERS
pfying^omlf-' "°^ afterwards, to correct mistakes in the lists, and
tedparticu- to Supply palpable omissions, not of names and per-
sons, but of matter necessary to perfect an imperfect
insertion of an inserted name or person, on proof of
such material mistakes, and on view of such omis-
sions in respect of any of the particulars required
by the Act to he inserted. Against the parts of
the lists so corrected he must write his initials.
If any omission of either of the necessary parti-
culars required to be inserted in the lists, such as
the Christian name or place of abode, nature of
the qualification or local or other description of
property, or name of occupying tenant, be omitted,
and be not satisfactorily supplied, the reviser must
strike out the name so informally and objec-
tionably inserted, and write in open Court his ini-
tials against the cancel,
s. 52. These mistakes may be corrected and the omis-
sions supplied, it seems, from information furnished
by the party, upon oath or affirmation, to be ad-
ministered by the barrister, at any time during his
public sittings.
Section 7.
Adjudication of Claims of Persons omitted,
s. xLiii. The objections to and mistakes in the insertion
of claims of" of namcs being thus disposed of, the barrister re-
rig t to vote, y-g^g ^^j jj^^g jQ determine on the validity of
claims to the insertion in the lists of the names of
claimants wholly omitted, i. e. of persons not in any
manner inserted.
The claimant must attend, or some person must
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appear for him, in support of his claim, before the
barrister, but he must not be attended by counsel.
The requisite proof of the right in such case will Proofs,
be precisely the same as that upon sustaining the
right to be retained upon the list against the objec-
tion of objecting parties or of overseers.
Such proof must, however, be preceded in the
cas6 of claims by preliminary evidence of due no-
tice of claim, and the payment to the overseer of
one shilling.
If the claim be allowed, the barrister must insert Authenti-
' catmg mser-
the name of the claimant in the list, and authenti- tions in lists,
cate the insertion by wTiting his initials against the
inserted name (Section 52d) in open Court.
For disposal of settled lists, see p. 92.
The foregoing summary of the appointment, busi-
ness, and duties of the judicial revisers of lists of
county voters will be in great part applicable to a
statement of their duties in the revisal of lists for
cities and boroughs.
Section 8.
Duties of Revising Barristers and Business of Cowrts
for Boroughs.
The revising barristers are required by the 50th s. l.
Section to hold similar courts, for the same purposes, HstJ of voters
. , . 1 . 1 1 for cities and
Within each city or borough. boroughs.
The same notice of three days is to be given of Notice of
,-.,,. n , 1 . , ^ holding courts
the holding of courts ; but such notices are not to to be pub-
. . , lished on
be advertised, nor are the places where they are to church doors
in city or
be affixed or posted left to discretion, as it is ex- borough.
pressly provided that they shall be published by
88 REVISAL OF LISTS OF VOTERS.
fixing them on the church and chapel doors, if there
be any in the city or borough ; but if not, they are
to be posted in some public and conspicuous situa-
tion in the city or borough.
The overseers and town clerks of cities and bo-
roughs, and the returning officers of London, and
clerks of livery companies there, are to attend the
courts of revisal, as in the case of the overseers of
parishes in respect of county courts of revisal ; and
the barrister is to proceed precisely in the same
manner in the borough courts of revisal as to bo-
rough and city lists as it has been shown he should
proceed in the county courts in respect of the county
lists of voters, as the two sections (42 and 50) are
framed in precisely the same terms.
Section 9.
Power of Adjournment^ 8^-c. (general).
s. Lii. By the 52d Section the barrister is empowered
be adjourned generally to adjourn his courts from time to time,
September to and from place to place, whether countv or city or
25th October. , , , , J J
borough courts, between the 15th day of September
and the 25th day of October, but not after the latter
day in any year.
Authority to jjg jg also bv the Same section empowered to ad-
admimster •' ^
oaths. minister oaths or affirmations, on peril of perjury,
to all objectors to and claimants to be voters, and
persons requiring to be enlisted, or to have mistakes
corrected or omissions supplied in favour or ad-
vancement of their claims, and to the witnesses of
such persons.
SitneTser"^ From this section, and the total omission in the
REVISAL OF LISTS OF VOTERS. 89
Act of any power to compel the attendance of per-
sons to give testimony, it should seem that the
whole investigation is to proceed on the evidence of
the persons themselves objecting to or claiming to
be voters, and their voluntary witnesses, and that of
the overseers and other officers compellable to be
present, who may be examined on such points as may
be within their knowledge or means of information.
It is made the subject of an express enactment by Parties not to
•1 iiiTni .be attended
the same section, that at the holding of the respective by counsel,
courts the parties shall not be attended by Counsel.
It may be suggested here, that a question will Extent of
, , . , 1 . , eflfectofthat
arise whether it was meant by this enactment, that provision or
. iii/» 1 •• enactment.
the parties shall not be attended before the revising
barrister at all by any adviser or counsel^ using that ^^^^l of^any
word in its wide and proper sense, not in its con- JdmissiWe'lf*
fined and convential application, as indicating the <^""'^*^'-
members of the bar ; and this mainly and princi-
pally because the reason and object of the provision
are obviously to save the time of the revising bar-
rister and the consequent expense to the country,
without regard or as paramount to the interests of
the parties. If, as some will urge, the exclusion of
barristers permits the admission of attornies, &c. to
attend the parties before the reviser as their counsel,
that object would be at once frustrated and de-
feated, at least, if indeed the evil to be remedied
would not be also greatly aggravated. The pro-
vision so limited has the appearance of absurdity,
and would be really a strange anomaly without* rea-
son. Probably it was considered that it might be
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supposed that counsel at the bar (that is, barristers)
would have a right to attend, and that exclusively;
and therefore, if counsel must be taken to mean
barristers, they were to be excluded by a specific
declaration.
Those who shall be of opinion that the wordci.
** counsel," expressed in the clause, is so confined,in
must found the notion on the principle that counseliv/
being named operates to exclude from the inhibitionns
those members of the other branch of the law who^sq
are not named, on the axiom expressio unius est ex^h
ckisio alterius. The answer to that is, the privilege
of the attorney to represent parties is not alter but
idem, differing only in degree, being the lesser and
more limited right of the same kind, and founded
on the same title ; and if so, another rule of con-
struction applies — omne magis continet in se minus.
And this argument is used h3rpothetically. —
Parties are at present, in practice, attended and
supported by counsel, on petitions against returns,
before select committees of the House of Commons ;
yet if a clause were introduced into the 60th Section
of this Act, enacting that parties should not be
attended by counsel, it would clearly exclude bar*«iff
risters : but would it therefore admit attornies ?
It is necessary in a work of this sort to point out
for consideration each doubtful part of the subject :
and without the minutest iota of regard for or value
of either privilege, the doubt raised that all persons
(whether law-men or laymen) being or professing to
be of counsel with the party claiming the right of
elector before the revising barrister, may be ex-
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eluded, is here expressed, because it is one of the
first which will arise, and because in principle there
is no pretence for limiting the exclusion to barris-
ters, who are at least supposed or assumed to be more
decorous, competent, and less intrusive than other
assistants in discussion, whether they be the attorney
of the parish or the schoolmaster of the village, to
whom all the sound reasons for exclusion will apply,
and from whom none of the objects of attendance on
parties by counsel^ that is, at the bar,* are so reason-
ably to be expected, namely, the exhibiting the legal
rights of the claimant, and sparing labour and re-
search to the barrister who is to adjudicate.
At the same time it is not meant to be asserted
that there are not amongst the very numerous and
(individually) infinitely variable classes of attornies
at law, intelligent persons, in all respects, fully as
competent to such business and duty as most of the
members of the bar, and it may even be admitted,
that some of them are much more so than many of
that forensic degree. That consideration, however,
does not affect this question.
It will be a matter to be settled between the
barrister revising and the party attending as counsel,
the former being placed between the horns of un-
justifiable delay and an action for the exclusion.
The only excuse to be found for giving so much
space and time to this point is, that it is a matter of
much importance both to the parties, to the legal
• It should not be overlooked in a question of this nature, on
such a subject, that the word " barrister" is always used in the
Act where counsel at the bar are intended to be expressed.
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profession, and to the court, and will be a subject of
dispute, if not cause of error.
Parties may Althouffh, however, parties may not be attended
perhaps at- . ^ *^
tend or ap- by counscl, there is no provision that counsel shall
counsel. not appear for them, but without them, before the
reviser, for the purpose of supporting objections or
claims. It seems, therefore, that the party may be
represented at the hearing, (though he cannot be
attended) by counsel, or attornies, or any other
person, whether at the bar or not.
s. Lii. It is ultimately expressly enacted by the con-
decision to be eluding clause of the 52d Section, that upon every
hearing in open court, whether of claim or objection,
the barrister shaW Jinally determine upon its validity.
His powers. He is for that purpose invested with the like
powers as returning officers had by law, and is
authorised to proceed in the same manner (except
where otherwise directed by the Act).
Attesting In Order in some measure to solemnize and give
authentic sanction to the proposed lists, this Section
requires that the revising barrister shall, in open
court, write his initials against the names struck out
or inserted.
Lists of per- There is no provision for disposal of the lists of
sons objected
to.
names of persons objected to.
Completion The last act required of the revising barristers is,
and disposal
of revised that they shall identify and authenticate the perfected
lists, by signing each page of the several lists, so
settled by them, with their names; all the correc-
tions having been verified and marked as genuine by
the initials of the barrister's name duly set against
each part of the lists which contains any alteration.
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CHAPTER X.
Result of Revisal and Effect of Decision.
It appears from the preceding summary of his
duties, that the revising barrister will have had to
determine, first, what persons, that is, names, should
be expunged from, or retained on, the lists, and what
names should be inserted or remain omitted.
There will have been made before him four dis-
tinct classes or orders of questions for the consider-
ation and conduct of the revising barrister, with
respect to the rights of persons claiming, or objected
to as voters, on which will depend the adjudication.
The first and third are to be recorded by the act of
expunging, (or striking out^ see Sect. 52,) or insert-
ing ; each of which will be matter of act and fact
apparent on the lists themselves, and will be further
solemnized by the act of the formal attestation of
the barrister, in obscribing against the still legible
name the initials of his own. This ostensibility was
necessarily and wisely, and is obviously the advised
object of the legislature in dictating the means and
progress of making, amending, correcting, revising,
and completing, the lists of voters ; and the prudence
and precaution of the required course will ensure
the fairness of the proceedings, by guarding against
fraudulent acts and the security of concealment.
The second and fourth, however, that is, adjudi-
cated omissions and retainers, will not appear ; for
the only mode of effecting the decision — that a name
94 EEVISAL OF LISTS OF VOTERS.
has been rightly and properly omitted or inserted,
is by refusal to insert or expunge it.
This necessary exception, from the advantageous
regulation requiring visible traces of the determina-
tion and performance of a positive act to appear on
the face of the record, in proof of its authenticity,
will be found to lead to some difficulty with refe-
rence to the 60th Section of this Statute, which will
be pointed out when it shall come under considera-
tion in the chapter on Petitions,
s. Liv. AH the lists so corrected, " settled," signed, and
authenticated, are required to be disposed of by the
revising barrister, according to the provisions in
that respect of the 54th Section of the Act.
Couuty lists Thus the lists of voters for counties are, when so
mitted to perfected in substance and in form by the barrister
clerks of ^g above described, to be by him forthwith trans-
records. MITTED to the clerk of the peace for the particular
county or part of county for which such barrister
shall have been appointed [Section 54], for the pur-
pose of being enrolled or deposited and preserved
amongst the records of the sessions, arranged ac-
cording to hundreds, in alphabetical order.
Borough lists The lists of voters for cities or boroughs the re-
ed to retum-'^ vising barrister is required to deliver forthwith to
mg officers, ^jjg returning officers for the particular city or bo-
rough to which each belongs.
Registers. From those lists the clerks of the peace for
counties and divisions of counties, and the returning
officers for cities and boroughs, are to make the
books which are to be the registers of the electors
to vote in the choice of members of Parliament.
THE REGISTERS* 95
CHAPTER XI.
The Registers.
n
-9
Tormation of Registers of Electors to vote at Elections
in the Choice of a Member or Members to serve in
Ui .
Parliament for Counties^ and Divisions of Counties,
Cities and Boroughs.
cuf^H-E clerks of the peace for counties, and the s. liv.
returning officers for cities and boroughs, having f^^^m^^
received the lists of voters, signed by the barrister, f opj^^ into
° •' books.
are thereupon required forthwith to cause them to
be fairly and truly copied* in the same order, in
• It is to be regretted that there should have been any doubt
suffered to obtrude on this point, but some difficulty will be
generated by the absence of more explicit instruction to clerks
of the peace, on the subject of making the books to be the Regis*
ters of Electors. Although they are expressly directed to cause
the Lists to be fairly and truly copied into the books, yet the
general tenor and apparent objects of the clauses prescribing the
use and application, and declaring the effect of the Registers,
induce an implied assumption that they are to contain the Names
inserted and retained, and those alone. The books are declared
in all the clauses which speak of them, to be designed to be the
Registers of Persons entitled to vote, not of persons claiming or
having claimed a right to vote, and having a right to tender
votes, and some of the sections provide for omissions from the
Registers.
An advantage of much importance would accrue from the
Registers being full and true copies of the Lists (or at least that
such copies should accompany the production of the Register)
in this — that the returning officer would be enabled, to a certain
extent, to know what persons might lawfully tender votes,
(though not registered, and therefore could not actually vote,)
for the purpose of challenging the registration, or " impeaching
the Register." He would, it is true, not see there the con-
firmed omissions, and this is an obvious disadvantage of suffer*
ing anj names to be omitted, in not furnishing the names of
96
THE REGISTERS.
To be deliver-
ed to the
sheriff.
Such books
to be the
Kegisters.
books to be by them provided for that purpose,
prefixing to every name so copied out its proper
number, beginning the numbers from the first name,
and continuing them in a regular series down to the
last name : and they are required to complete such
books on or before the last day of October in every
succeeding year.
The clerks of the peace must deliver the books
so made out by them to the sheriff of the county,
or his under-sheriff, who is safely to keep the same,
and at the expiration of his office to deliver them
over to the succeeding sheriff or his under-sheriff.
The returning officers for cities and boroughs are
required to deliver over the books, (being their
Registers,) together with the lists, at the expiration
of their office, to the person succeeding to their duty.
It is then enacted and declared, that every such
book to be so completed, shall be deemed the Re-
gister of the electors to vote,* after the end of the
present Parliament, in the choice of a member or
members to serve in Parliament for the county,
riding, parts, or division of a county, city or bo-
rough, to which such register shall relate, at any
election which may take place after the said last
day of October in the present year, and before the
first day of November in the year one thousand
persons entitled to make tender for that raost consequential pur-
pose, which would enable him to exclude impertinent attempts
to embarrass the polling, by fictitious objectors causing unr
founded anxiety.
This would also be of considerable service on subsequent re-
visals in case of future claims by the same persons.
* i. e. entitled to vote.— See Sect. 37.
THE REGISTERS. D7
eight hundred and thirty-three; and every such
book to be so completed on or before the last day
of October in the year one thousand eight hundred
and thirty-three, and in every succeeding year, shall
be the register of electors to vote at any election
which shall take place between the first day of No-
vember, inclusive, in the year wherein such respec-
tive register shall have been made, and the first day
of November in the succeeding year.
By Section 55 these officers are to procure copies s. lv.
to be printed for public sale.
Thus is to be formed the several Registers of
Electors for the various counties and divisions of
counties, cities and boroughs of England and Wales,
being Volumes made up of transcripts of the Lists
of Voters, as revised and adjudicated by the revising
Barrister, and so moulded and matured by such
revisal into Records of Electors formally adjudged
and determined to be qualified to vote, so long as
they shall retain the very qualification, and reside at
the same place of abode.
Such books may be aptly entitled " Register of Title of regi»-
Electors to vote in the Choice of a Member [or Mem-
bers] to serve in Parliament for the County of
[or Division, &c. or City or Borough of ]
&c. as the case may be, with reference to the place
for which it has been compiled,] for the Year, (&c.)
Written or printed copies of these books are to
be made by the clerks of the peace for counties,
and by returning officers for cities and boroughs,
for sale to all persons applying to purchase them.
^' THE REGISTERS.
Register con- The names which each register shall contain will
elusive. ijg ^Yie nomenclature of all persons entitled to vote
for the place to which it belongs, without impeach-
ment or other question at the time of polling than
as to the identity of name and person, singleness
of vote, and retainer of qualification. A very im-
, '' portant consequence of the insertion of names in
the register is, that no person whose name shall
appear there, shall be subject to any scrutiny by or
' before any returning officer, with regard to his vote
given or tendered by him at any electionof mem-
bers to serve in any future Parliament.
s. Lx. The several registers, however, may be brought
of register i^to question and subjected to revision by a select
bXretefect Committee of the House of Commons, upon Petition
Committee to that House, complaining of an undue election or
on complaint .
or defence of retum of a representative of the people to serve in
election or -n t
return to the Parliament.
CommonL ^^ ^"^h casc, either the petitioner or the defender
of the election or return will be at liberty to impeach
the correctness of the register of votes in force at the
time of the election, by proving that in consequence
of the decision of the revising barrister, either as to
the insertion or the retainer of persons' names on the
register, or that the omission therefrom of a vote ten-
s. 69. dered at the election (under the 59th Section) was
improper, to abide the determination and report of
the committee, as to amendment by the House.
In the mean while, the right of voting is made per-
fect by the fact of registration, conclusively evi-
denced by the Register.
CANDIDATES FOR REPRESENTATION. 9ft
CHAPTER XII.
Candidates for Representation of the People
IN Parliament, and their Qualification.
Section 1.
Candidates.
The Reform Act relates wholly to the rights and Candidates
privileges of such of the people as are entitled to sentation of
. , , . ^ , the people as
vote in the election of members to serve the Coun- members of
I the House of
try in Parliament. Commons,
It also professes to prescribe very briefly some
of the leading forms and ceremonies to be used and
observed at the election of representatives from
amongst the candidates for representation, and dic-
tates the proceedings to a certain extent, and the
places and positions for conducting the polling of
the electors and taking their votes.
It leaves untouched as it found them, the laws
respecting candidates for representation, and the
persons to be delegated by the people for perform-
ance of that duty which their interests and the
popular proportion of the legislative business of
Parliament demand.
The persons desirous of the honour of serving
their country in Parliament, or anxious to promote
F 2
100
CANDIDATES FOR REPRESENTATION.
by their aid the prosperity of the public affairs in
the capacity of members of the House of Commons,
usually solicit from constituents the position of a
seat in that national assembly. A few also, on the
other hand, in whose competency and integrity large
or entire bodies of any particular constituency have
confidence and faith, are sometimes successfully
solicited to take on themselves the duties and re-
sponsibilities of that station, by the acceptance of
their suffrages in effecting the return of the indivi-
dual so selected by the electors.
These persons are candidates for the counties,
cities, and boroughs of the country.
Qualifica-
tion.
Property.
Amount of
qualification.
Section 2.
Qualijication of Candidates.
To be a candidate for a place returning members
to Parliament, legal qualification is indispensably
necessary.
The qualification required by law to constitute
a candidate for a seat in the House of Commons
consists rather of negative than positive predica-
ments, or what such persons should not be, rather
than what they are required to be, in order to be
fit and proper persons for popular representatives.
The only positive requisite of qualification in
members of Parliament is that of property.
To be qualified to represent a county or shire,
that is, to be a knight of a shire, in the phrase of
CANDIDATES FOR REPRESENTATION, 101
Election Law, it is expressly made necessary by the
9th of Anne, c. 5,* that every knight of a shire shall
have a clear estate of freehold or copyhold of the
value of 600Z. per annum, and every citizen and
burgess to the value of 300/., except the eldest sons
of peers and of persons qualified to be knights of
shires, and except the members for the two Uni-
versities.
The possession of such a qualification must be
verified on oath by the candidate when returned,
according to particulars thereof in writing, to be
delivered in by him at the time of taking his seat.
• The words of the statute are negative, — " That no person
shall be capable to sit or vote as a member of the House of
Commons for any county, city, borough, or cinque port within
that part of Great Britain called England, the dominion of
Wales, and town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, who shall not have
an estate, freehold or copyhold, for his own life, or for some
greater estate either in law or equity, to and for his own use and
benefit, of or in lands, tenements, or hereditaments over and
above what will satisfy and clear all incumbrances that may
affect the same, lying or being within that part of Great Britain
called England, the dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, of the respective annual value hereafter limited,
viz. the annual value of 6001. above reprizes, for every knight of
a shire, and the annual value of 3001. above reprizes, for every
citizen, burgess, or baron of the cinque ports ; and that if any
person who shall be elected or returned to serve in any Parlia-
ment as a knight of a shire, or as a citizen, burgess, or baron of
the cinque ports, shall not at the time of such election and re-
turn be seised of or entitled to such an estate in lands, tene-
ments, or hereditaments, as for such knight, or for such citizen,
burgess, or baron respectively, is hereinbefore required or limited,
such election and return shall be void."
102 {TAISrDIDATES FOR REPRESENTATION.
Provided he have this qualification of property,
every subject of the realm is eligible as a member
of Parliament of common right, so that he come
not within any of the restrictions, and be obnoxious
to none of the disabilities about to be enumerated
as disqualifications for a seat in the House of Com-
* It may at least amuse the curious reader, to learn that
certain moral qualities, indeed, or properties, are stated to be
necessary to Parliament men upon the high authority of the
rolls of Parliament, which have elicited the grave approbation of
Lord Coke,t who cites the roll, adding something of his own
thereto, with much appearance of satisfaction and considerable
quaintness and solemnity. His words are,
" It appeareth in a Parliament roll, that the Parliament being
as hath been said, called commune concilium, every member of
the House being a counsellor, should have three properties of the
elephant j first, that he hath no gall ; secondly, that he is inflexi-
ble and cannot bow ; thirdly, that he is of a most ripe and perfect
memory ; which properties, as there it is said, ought to be in
every member of the great councell of Parliament. First, to
be without gall, that is, without malice, rancor, heat, and envy j
in elephante melancholia transit in nutrimentum corporis. Every
gallish inclination (if any were) should tend to the good of the
whole body, the common wealth. Secondly, that he be constant,
inflexible, and not to be bowed, or turned from the right, either
for fear, reward, or favor, nor in judgment respect any person.
Thirdly, of a ripe memory, that they remembering perils past,
might prevent dangers to come, as in the roll of Parliament it
appeareth. Whereunto we will adde two other properties of
the elephant, the one that, though they be maximae virtutis, et
maximi intellectus, of greater strength and understanding, taraen
t 4th Inst.
DISQUALIFICATION OF MEMBERS. 103
Section 3.
Disqualifications for sitting in Parliament as Members
of the House of Commons.
The various causes, sources, and incidents of dis- Disqualifica-
tions.
qualification of persons otherwise qualified to sit as
members in the Commons House of Parliament, are
founded on and proceed from the law and custom
of Parliament, or the several statutory enactments
from time to time made for the regulation of the
law in this respect.
It will very much shorten this enumeration to state All the inca-
. . . pacities and
m one sentence that all the mcapacities and mcom- incompeten-
. cies ennme-
petencies which are set forth as disqualifymg elec- rated in p. 68.
tors, are disqualifications for a seat in the House of
Commons as a Member of Parliament.
To those may be added the following disqualifi-
cations : —
1. Appointment as revising Barrister, 2 W. 4, c. other dis-
45, ss. 41, 49 ; and for eighteen months from the Jrediwments.
time [duration] of his appointment, 2 W. 4, c. 45, s. 41'.
ss. 41, 49.
gregatim semper incedunt, yet they are sociable, and goe in
companies : for animalia gregatia non sunt nociva. Sociable
creatures, that goe in flocks or beards, are not hurtfull, as deer,
sheep, &c. but beasts that walk solely, or singularly, as bears,
foxes, &c. are dangerous and hurtfull. The other, that the ele-
phant is philanthropos, homini erranti viam ostendit, and these
properties ought every parliament man to have."
104
CANDIDATES FOR REPRESENTATION.
2. Appointment of Assistant Barrister in Ireland,
'36 G. 3, c. 25, s. 8.
3. Appointment as Architect to superintend
works, by Lord Lieutenant, 3S G. 3, c. 34, s. 21.
4. Appointment of Surveyor General of the
King's Works, 54 G. 3, c. 157, s. 2.
5. Commission for examining and auditing pub-
lic accounts, 46 G. 3, c. 157, s. 2, 45 G. 3, c. 91,
s. 7.
io^-*»c-5o, 6. Commission for woods and forests, except one
being a member, 10 G. 4, c. 50, s. 21.
7. Contract, agreement, or commission with,
under, or from the Commissioners of Treasury,
Navy, or Victualling Offices, Attorney-General, or
Board of Ordnance ; or any person or persons for or
on account of public service, 22 G. 3, c. 45, s. 1.
Exception as to contracts with incorporated
trading companies — where contracts are to end after
a year's notice, limited to one year after notice —
where contracts to be completed devolve by descent
(&c.) not to disqualify till after twelve months from
accrual or possession of contract.
8. Dignity of Lord Chancellor, Master of the
Rolls, Twelve Judges, and Masters in Chancery in
Ireland, 1 and 2 G. 4.
9. Government (or office of Deputy Governor)
of any settlement (&c.) of East India Company
during office, 10 G. 4, c. 62, s. 63.
10. New office or place of profit under the Crown
since the 25th October, 1705, 6 Anne, c. 7, s. 25.
11. Office or place of profit by nomination of
DISQUALIFICATION.
Lord Lieutenant, Lord Deputy, Lords Justices, or
other Governor of Ireland created since 33 G. 3,
41 G. 3, c. 52.
12. Priest's or Deacon's orders in English or
Irish Church, and Ministry in Church of Scotland,,
41 G. 3, c. 63.
IS. Roman Catholic priesthood, 10 G.4, c.7, s. 9.
14. Vice-Presidency of Board of Trade, 57
Geo. 3, c. 66.
15. Pensions from Crown during pleasure. lb.
and 1 G. 1, s. 56.
16. Governors, Deputy-Governors, Directors,
Managers, and Members of Bank of England are
disqualified by statute 15 G. 2, c. 18, s. 8.
These are the principal statutory disqualifications.
17. Sheriffs are disqualified for the most part for
sitting as members in Parliament.
Having described the necessary qualification for
candidates, and disqualifications of sitting members,
it becomes the due time and place for treating of
the mode of proceeding at elections, and of the
business and duties of the various officers having
functions to fulfil for effecting the return of mem-
bers.
105
v5
106
PRELIMINARIES TO GENERAL ELECTION.
Issuing of
writs under
warrant of
King in
Council.
CHAPTER XIII.
Authority for and Preliminaries to General
Election.
A general election proceeds upon the authority of
the King in Council, signified by order addressed
to the Lord Chancellor, for issuing the accustomed
writs to the sheriffs of counties for the election of
members for their several shires and the cities and
boroughs therein. The Clerk of the Crown in Chan-
cery is thereupon ordered, by the Lord Chancellor's
warrant, to send out the general process, which must
be returnable in forty days.
The writs, framed and expressed as occasion may
render necessary, [S. 77] are delivered or forwarded
to the different sheriffs by post, under the very mi-
nute provisions for that purpose of the 53 G. 3, c. 89.
It is the sheriff's duty, within two days after the
receipt of the writ, to cause proclamation to be made,
25 G. 3, c. 84- [between the hours of eight and four,] at the place
where the election ought to be held, that is now
where it is fixed by the Boundary Act, that a special
county court will be holden there for the sole pur-
pose of the election, on a certain day to be named,
not being Sunday, between the 10th and the 1 6th day
from the day of the proclamation ; which must state
that he will then and there proceed to the election.
The sheriff must also, by 7 & 8 W. 4, c. 25, 18
G. 2, c. 18, and 19 G. 2, c.28, allow a checque book
for every poll book for each candidate, and appoint,
Sheriff to pro
claim elec-
tion.
FOR COUNTIES. 107
on the nomination of each candidate for shires and
corporate counties, an inspector of poll clerks ; and
by 9 G. 4, c. 50, the returning officer must appoint
for each compartment an agent and checque book.
The 61st Section provides for making such pro- §. lxi.
clamation in the several parts of the divided counties, Proclaiming
^ court and
and that the sheriffs shall preside there by them- presiding.
selves or their lawful deputies.
The sheriffs are empowered [S. 65"] to appoint s. lxv.
deputies to preside at taking the polls at the princi- dijfuties by
pal place of election, and at all other places assigned '^^"'^°i°g
to the business of polling: and such deputies are
authorized by Section 66, to act as sheriffs may,
and with co-extensive jurisdiction in all places within
counties whether privileged or not.
The several counties and entire parts of counties s. lxiii.
are to be divided into districts for polling, so that ^'f,-"*''^ ^°'"
there be not more than fifteen in each, with a fixed
place in each for taking the poll.
The next step to be taken is to erect, at the joint s. lxxi.
expense (limited to £40 at the principal and £25 booths"or
at the subordinate places) of the candidates, (in- ^'^""g *io"«<^^'
eluding as contributors any persons proposing a
candidate without the consent of the person pro-
posed,) a reasonable number of booths, or hire a
sufficient number of houses, for the poll, at the
principal place of election, and at the several poll-
ing places appointed; the booths to be severally
assigned to parishes, &c., and so marked conspicu-
ously, according to the provision of the 64th Section,
and furnished with copies of the Register, certified
under the hand of the returning officer. [S. 72.]
108 POLLING ELECTORS FOR COUNTY MEMBERS.
CHAPTER XIV.
Polling Votes.
Section 1.
Commencement and Conduct of Polls for Election of
Members for Counties.
The day fixed for the election having arrived, and
the sheriff having opened the court with the usual
formalities, and required the electors present to
nominate* qualified persons as candidates, the elec-
tion is either determined upon the view, or a poll is
demanded on behalf of one of two or more candidates,
s. Lxiv. In the latter case, " a reasonable number of poll-
atpoiuul iiig booths," as required by Section 64, having been
places. erected at the " principal place of election and poll-
ing places," and the names of the several parishes
(&c.) conspicuously affixed to each, the returning
officer must attend in person or by his appointed
deputy, [Sect. 65,"] and a sufficient number of poll
clerks, to take the poll at the several booths
appointed for the different districts, each properly
furnished with certified copies of registers of voters
required by Section 72.
Timeforcom- The polling for couuty members, throughout the
mencing poll- ^ . » i i • i
ing for county coutttry, must commcuce at nine o clock in the morn-
S.62. ing of the third day after that fixed for the election,
or the Monday following, if such third day should
be Saturday or Sunday. [Section 62.]
* There is a provision at the end of Sect. 68, that no nomi-
nation for boroughs shall be made in any place of public worship.
POLLING ELECTORS FOR COUNTY MEMBERS. 109
Each of the persons entitled to vote must proceed Tender of
to the appointed booth (if any, otherwise at either)
[Section 64] allotted to the parish or township, and
there make tender to the sheriff's deputy of his
suffrage on behalf of the candidate whom he would
support.
The deputy of the sheriff must thereupon make g. lix.
an entry of the vote in the poll book, either gene- ,^p'^i''bJ[)k^
rally, as a vote admitted and allowed, and so inserted geneS Mid
or retained in the register — or specially, as the vote ^P«"*'-
of a person whose name has been omitted [or ex-
punged] therefrom by consequence of the decision of
the revising barrister at a court of revisal [Section
59], and so distinguished and recorded in the poll gj^i ^^^^
book for the purpose of bringing the registered de- iSngn^fhed
cision under the consideration of a Select Committee corded/*
of the House of Commons [Section 60].
All votes hereafter tendered at elections, whether s. lviii.
admissible or not, must be received, with one single
exception alone, that is, where the claimants to
vote do not satisfactorily answer all and each of the
three questions put to them under the 58th Section,
or shall refuse to take the oaths required by law.
In future there will be or may be at every elec- Two classes
tion, two classes of persons presenting themselves fatSre^voting,
to the notice of the poll clerks, as voters claiming to voteTarSfc-
be entered on the poll book,
Persons registered,
And Persons not in the Register — being persons
"whose names have been omitted, expunged, or struck
out by the revising barrister, p. li., and therefore not
registered by the clerk of the peace.
1X0 POLLING ELECTORS FOR COUNTY MEMBERS.
Registered The former class will be entitled to be entered as
persons and , . . , .
persons not Competent voters, havmg given conclusive and un-
questionable votes, and as such not only received
but entered as admitted and allowed.
Distinguished The latter class must be entered as persons not
in entry. . ...
s. Lix. registered, whose votes are received but are neither
admitted nor allowed.
Means of Both classes of persons must be distinguished, by
distinction. , ^ , » ' J
the returning officer or his deputy, by some conve-
nient means to be adopted for that purpose; as by
separate books, or at least by marginal annotation
against their several names individually set, together
with the name of the candidate on whose part such
votes are tendered and disallowed.
No precise mode of preserving the required dis-
tinction having been dictated by the statute, this
must be left to the discretion and judgment of the
returning officers, who will direct their deputies as
to the course to be pursued.
Place of ap- Registered persons will have no difficulty in ob-
plying to be
polled at by taining entry of their votes, as the booths at which
registered
persons. such voters should present themselves are indicated
by their several allotments of parish, &c. as affixed,
and are with reference to the residence of the voter,
according to the description of his qualifying prO'
perty in the register, as furnished by himself; or in
boroughs, &c. where the voter does not poll in
respect of property, according with his place of
abode, as given and described in the register ; or if no
booth be so expressly assigned to the particular place,
he may vote and be polled at either of the booths.
POLLING ELECTORS FOR COUNTY MEMBERS. Ill
The entry of such persons' names in the poll Form of
books, by the poll clerk, will be merely a transcript
of the register, with the name of the candidate for
whom the vote is given attached.
Persons, on the other hand, whose names have Place at
• 1 /» 1 -1 which the
been omitted from the county register, have no tender of
votes by per-
place prescribed or booth assigned by the Act, at sons omitted
^ r & J ' from the lists
which they are required or entitled to make tender and the regis-
•^ ^ ter, is to be
of their votes. or may be
made doubt-
However this may be, in point of right, it may be f"'-
safely recommended to them to tender their votes The principal
•' _ place of elec-
for counties, by offering themselves at the ©rmcma/tion suggested
■^ ° ^ -* ^ and recom-
place of election for the county, riding, part, or divi- mended.
sion of the county, where they claim the right of
voting.
The language of the Section (64) appropriating
booths, apply distinctly and exclusively to persons
admitted to vote,, overlooking altogether persons
permitted to make tender of inadmissible votes.
The want of some express distinct provision in
this important respect, becomes a very material
omission with reference to the peremptory requisi-
tion, that persons who are admissible " to vote"
shall not be so " admitted,'' except at the particular
booth allotted for the particular parish, &c.
This will be probably one of the omitted consider-
ations in the detail of the Act, which will be supplied
when the statute shall be reviewed.
[See Sections 5, 6. 7.]
11^ polling electors in boroughs.
Section 2.
Commencing and Conduct of Poll at Elections for
Corporate Counties^ or Cities and Towns being
Counties and Corporate Towns, or other Cities and
Boroughs.
s. Lxviii. The course of polling or taking the votes of elec-
poiungfor tors at the election of a candidate for cities and
cities, &c. boroughs, is mainly and materially the same as that
directed to be pursued at elections for county mem-
bers.
There are, however, some differences which must
be noticed, between counties and incorporate coun-
ties and boroughs, and between each of them, in
respect of the time of giving notice of the election.
In counties In corporate counties, or cities and towns being
corporate . . i i i /-><
and boroughs, counties, the regulations enacted by the 1 9 Geo. 2,
upon writ re-
ceived with- c. 28, are still in force, and must be observed. By
out precept,
the sheriff Soct. 7, the sheriff is himself required, upon receipt
must give
notice of of the Writ, without precept, to cause public notice
election and -^ ■* *• ^
proceed with- to be givcu of the time and place of election, and
in eight days. '^ ^
See S.6. sball proceed thereupon within eight days after the
day of delivery of the writ, giving three days' notice
at least, including the day of the receipt of the writ.
Duty of In cities and boroughs the sheriff must, immedi-
w. 3/c. 25, ately upon receipt of the writ, indorse the day of
to issue his ,. iit i
precepts in delivery, and issue his precepts, to be delivered to
to officers of the proper officers (personally) of the several bo-
roughs, towns corporate, parts or places, within his
jurisdiction, to whom the execution belongs, and to
no other person, by himself or proper agent, within
three days after receipt of the writ of election.
POLLING ELECTORS IN BOROUGHS. 113
By the 10 & 11 W. 3, c. 7, s. 2, the time for Officer of
issuing his precepts by the officer of the cinque in six days.
ports is expressly extended to six days.
It is the duty of such borough officer to indorse Duty of bo-
,, f, .. , . T-i-1 roagh officer.
the day ot receiving the precept immediately, in the
presence of the person by whom it was delivered,
and he must forthwith give notice of the time and Notice of
'^ ° time and
place of election, and proceed thereon to the elec- P>ce of elec-
tion, within eight days after his receipt of the pre-
cept, and also give at least /owr days' Tuotice at least
of the day appointed for the election.
The notices in general should be given in the Notice in
° ° . general.
most public manner, and at the most public places.
In some boroughs, however, the place is appointed in particular
places.
by statute.
In New Shoreham, the market houses or church
doors, 11 Geo. 3, c. 55, s. 5. So in Cricklade,
Highworth, Malmesbury, and Swindon, 22 Geo. 3,
c. 31, s. 5; Aylesbury, Great Missenden, and Had-
denham, 44- Geo. 3, c. 60, s. 4.
In all those places the time for proceeding with
the election is within twelve days, and not less than
eight.
The same provision for erecting booths, compart- s. lxviii.
ments for voting, &c. is made for boroughs, &c. as
for counties, [p. 100 to 107] except that the duties
of the sheriffs of counties are to be performed by
returning officers in boroughs, &c. and eveiy booth
is to be divided into compartments, [S. 68,] and
notice to be given of the situation and appropriation
of each booth and compartment.
114 ' POLLING (MONMOUTH.)
Not more than 600 voters are to be required to
poll at any one such compartment. [S. 68.]
In London the returning officer is not required
to provide any booth or compartments, [S. 48,] but
must appoint or take one poll for all the liverymen
at the same place.
In boroughs, &c. (where there is no principal place
provided or established,) there may be some doubt
as to the proper place at which persons not in the
register are to tender their votes ; and this may
cause such persons some difficulty in all boroughs
< except London, where there is only one polling
place — the Guildhall.
It may be that they are virtually entitled to pre-
sent themselves where the property in respect of
which they claim may be situate, or at the booth
and compartment allotted to the place at which
they reside, or they may perhaps tender them at
any booth, or should make tender at each.
Section 3.
Exception of Monmouth and contributory Boroughs of
Wales, and Special Provisions respecting.
s. Lxxiv. The special regulations for taking the poll of
voters at the election of the borough of Monmouth
and the contributory boroughs in Wales, are as fol-
lows : —
s. VIII. The towns of Newport and Usk, in Monmouth-
Usk',^and shire, have, by Sect. 8, a share with the shire town
Monmouth, ^f Moumouth, in the election of a member ; and by
the 73d Section it is provided, that the voters at
each of those places — that is, those residing within
POLLING (SWANSEA.) 115
seven miles of the market-place at Newport and s. a.
of the town-hall at Usk [S. 32] — shall give their
votes at those places respectively, before the deputy
to be ap'pointed by the returning officer of Mon-
mouth to take the poll at each of those towns. Commence-
The polhng at each of those places and at Brecon of polling at
is to commence on the day next after the day of ^^^^^ p'^*^®-
election, unless it be Saturday or Sunday, when it
must begin on the Monday following, at all three
towns ; to be continued for two successive days, for
se'cn hours on the first and eight on the second day ;
to end definitively at four o'clock on the second day.
The day of election must be fixed, and notice Fixing aud
thereof given to the deputies for Newport and Usk, to deputies of
by the returning officer of Monmouth, who must, tionfor^the
before the day of election, cause to be delivered to contributory
*' towns, and
such deputies copies of the register for the borough delivering
copies of re-
of Monmouth, certified under his hand to be true, gisteitoeacb.
Swansea and contributory Places »
The same regulations are made for the county
town of Swansea and the contributory towns,
Lougher, Neath, Aberavon, and Kenfig, under the
superintendence of the Portreeve of Swansea.
So also in each of the other towns or boroughs in
Schedule E.
Section 4.
Provisions as to certain Boroughs.
Certain boroughs named in Section 69, New Shore- s. lxix.
ham, Cricklade, Aylesbury, and East Retford, as f;7;;4°°' ^
defined by the 5th Section of the Act, are directed boroughs.
to be divided into convenient districts for polling,
116
S, XXXIV.
POLLING (generally).
with a convenient place in each for taking the poll,
to be settled by the Boundary Act.*
The 34th Section provides specially for saving
the rights of voting in those places in respect of
freeholds giving qualifications at the time of passing
the Act, subjecting them to registration, and regis-
tration to condition of residence within seven miles
of the boroughs, and insertion in the lists of voters
to be made by particular overseers with reference
to the boroughs of Horsham and Malmesbury and
the Boundary Act.
Sect. 5.
Polling (generally) — Oaths under Reform Act and
other Statutes to he administered to Electors,
s. LViii. The returning-officer (if required on the part of
Three interro- i • i n • i
gatoriestobe a Candidate) or his deputy must put to the party
put by officer . / r .7 r r j
to voter and tendering his vote and at the time of the tender, the
on other *^
questions. thrcc siuglc qucstious, the tenor and form of which
are prescribed by the 58th Section (and those only),
as to identity of person, singleness of vote, and con-
tinued retainer of the registered qualification.
A false answer to these questions, though not on
oath, is made an indictable misdemeanor.
If the officer be required, he may exact the depo-
sition of the elector so voting to the three questions
put to him: and he [or a commissioner] is for that
purpose authorised by the statute (Section 73) to
administer an oath or affirmation to the voter.
votS?n- The sheriff (&c.) cannot now put any other than
swers.
• See Act, Sect. 32, Sched. N. 2.
OATHS TO BE ADMINISTERED TO ELECTORS. 117.
the three prescribed questions to the voter ; and his
vote must be taken and entered, if he answer the
first and third questions in the affirmative and the
second in the negative.
That section confines the prohibition from putting Test oaths to
^ _ '^ ° be taken :
the voter on his oath to the questions which are the allegiance,
^ _ ^ supremacy,
subject of it, that is, as to the right of voting, but it abjuration.
does not dispense with the necessity of administer-
ing the usual political test oaths of allegiance, su-
premacy, and abjuration, or the oath substituted for
those in the persons of Roman Catholic electors, by
10 G. 4, c. 7, s. 2, 5. These are therefore still to
be taken and subscribed by the elector, if it shall
be required of him, or his vote will not be taken.
The oath of abjuration may be insisted on, not only
by a candidate, but by any person present, 6 G. 3,
c. 53, s. 1.
The oath negativing bribery and corruption, and Oath against
n 1 1 • • 1 1 ^ . bribery and
previous poll at the election, is, by the 2 G. 2, c. 24, corruption,
and second
s. 1, required to be taken by persons coming to vote, polling.
before they are admitted to poll, if demanded by
a candidate, or any two electors. This oath (43 G.
3, c. 74) must be administered by the officers pre-
siding [at] or taking the poll (the returning officer) ;
and no person is to be admitted to poll till he has
taken this oath (if demanded) in a public manner
before the returning officer.
By the 34 G. 3, c. 73, to prevent delays at elec- commis-
tions, the returning officers [and by 2 W. 4, c. 45, mSeroathi
s. 73, their deputies] are required, after poll de- ed by retum-
manded, and before further proceedings, at the *"^ **
rvritten request of any candidate, under his hand, to
1^
OATHS TO ELECTORS.
appoint two or more persons (as commissioners) to
administer the above oaths of allegiance, supremacy,
the declaration of fidelity, the oath of abjuration,
and declaration of effect thereof, and the substituted
oath ; and they are to certify the names of electors
having taken and subscribed those oaths, &c. They
are also themselves required to be sworn. i
All these oaths, except that denying bribery, &e.v
which must be taken before the returning officer at
the poll, may be administered by and taken and
subscribed before the substituted commissioners, at
any other appointed place during the progress of
the election.
These ceremonies with the administering, as here-
tofore, the oath against bribery, form the whole of the
proceedings now necessary for the polling of voters.
No scrutiny Scrutiny at the time of polling is no longer al-
eiection. lowcd [Scction 58], and the officer (and candidate)
at the time are concluded by the register on the
tender of suffi-age, with the positive answers re-
turned to the preliminary questions, by the party
claiming a right to vote.
A result of great importance and advantage aris-
ing out of these salutary alterations in the course of
election business, by the anticipation of the primd
facie investigation and adjudication of qualification
and right of voting by the court of revisal, and the
consequent obviation of interruption by unreason-
able and intemperate scrutiny pending the heat and
excitement of a contested election is, that the legis-
lature has been enabled to limit the period of poll-
ADJOURNING POLL. 11S>
ing to the hour of four in the afternoon of the second
day after the commencement of the poll ; one of the
most important and beneficial changes in the prac-
tice of election proceedings effected by this efficient
Bill, conferring a signal benefit on the public by the
preservation of the peace, causing a saving of ex-
pense to all parties, and conducing to order and
accommodation without detracting from openness
and publicity in a proceeding of such great public
interest.
This curtailment of the period of polling — once Abridgment
» . , . of time of
a degradmg and disgraceful scene of contmued not, polling from
, , f , n r. . 15 days to 15
drunkenness, tumult, and outrage — from fifteen hoars by
days to fifteen hours (during the early part of two
successive days,) is effected by the 62d Section of the
Act, whereby it is provided that such polling shall
continue for two days only, allowing seven hours
for the first day, and eight for the second day, the
poll to be closed by four o'clock of the afternoon of
second day ; or it may still be closed before that time.
At the close of each day's poll the poll clerks Giving
must publicly render up their poll books, inclosed vering the
. poll books
and sealed, to the sheriff, or his deputy presiding at on each day
^ -^ ^ ° of the polling,
the poll, taking his receipt. At the commencement s.es.
of the second day's poll the books must be redelivered
to the person from whom they were so received.
Section 6.
Adjourning the Poll in case of violent Obstruction
of Proceedings.
The returning officer or his deputy is authorized s. lxx.
to close the poll before the time for closing fixed
100 FINAL CLOSE OF POLL.
by the act, where he might, before the statute, have
lawfully closed the poll ; but it is expressly declared
that he shall not close it finally by reason of inter-
ruption or obstruction by riot or open violence. In
such case he is required to adjourn the poll from
day to day or from time to time, giving, if a deputy,
to the returning officer, due notice of each adjourn-
ment, till the cause of adjournment is at an end, and
then he must proceed.
Section 7.
^ Final Close of Poll, Declaring State of Poll, and
Proclaiming Members chosen.
s. Lxviii. On the final close of the poll, the returning officer
ma c ose o ^^^^ ^^ oiice declare the state of the poll [S. 68] and
make his return, if he will ; or he may not ; but if
he do not, the deputies, having received the poll
books from the poll clerks, must deliver or transmit
them, still so inclosed and sealed as before, to the
returning officers.
Declaring The returning officer is to receive and keep them
and proclaim- ... i -n i i t ^ ■ i>
ing members m his custody till the next day, or that being bun-
c osen. ^^y.^ ^jjj Monday. He is then openly to break the
seals, cast up the books of votes, and declare the
state of the poll, and proclaim the elected candi-
dates before two o'clock in the afternoon.
That official act terminates the proceedings at
the election.
The sheriff or returning officer thereupon makes
his Return to the writ of the result of the Poll.
K£TURN TO BE MADE BY SHERIFFS, &C. 121
CHAPTER XV.
Return to be made by Sheriffs and their Depu-
ties, AND other Returning Officers, of Mem-
bers TO SERVE in Parliament.
Section 1.
Returning Officers,
The returns to the various writs of election must Returns of
be made officially by the sheriffs to whom they are "turnTn^^
addressed, and to them must be the precepts o^^^ers.
returned by the returning officers of the several
boroughs within their shire to whom they were
respectively addressed, and whose duty it was
thereby made to preside at elections of members to
serve in Parliament.
Officers for the return of members to serve in constitution
Parliament, are persons so constituted either by offi7ere"^°'°^
virtue of office, or others deputed to the duty by
appointment.
Sheriffs, [of counties (or shires,) and cities or who are le-
towns being counties, 19 G. 2, c. 28, s. 7,] and ^^™;"y%°^;,.
mayors, bailiffs, headboroughs,* [or other chief
municipal officer for the time beingf ] of boroughs
and corporate cities and towns, are constitutionally
and virtute officii the proper returning officers of
members to serve in Parliament for the particular
county or place for which each is in office.
• 2 G. 2, c. 24, s. 3. t 1 W. 4, c. 45, s. 11.
jG — H
122 RETURN TO BE MADE BY SHERIFFS, &:C.
s. 11. For many of the new boroughs, or places erected
rou hr ^° ^"'^ boroughs, by the 2 W. 4, c. 45, for the purpose
of sending members to Parliament, the statute has
provided that certain existing chief municipal officers
in each of the places enumerated in Schedules C. and
D., shall be the returning officers for such places
until incorporation shall give them permanent muni-
cipal officers.
Where to be For those placcs to which no such officers have
appointed by
sheriffs. been thereby assigned or nominated, the sheriffs of
the counties wherein they are situate are to nomi-
* nate and appoint annually in March, by writing
under hand, fit persons resident in the place to per-
form the business and the duties of the office of
returning officer of the borough, for the year. The
sheriffs may also in the same manner substitute one
person in the place of another if there should be
necessity for so doing.
Qualification. The solc qualification for this temporary office is
residence.
Persons in holy orders, churchwardens and over-
seers, are excluded from this office ; and all persons
qualified to serve as a member in Parliament are
entitled to exemption, if claimed by them within
one week after notice of nomination, by notice to
the sheriff, upon his own oath, before a magistrate,
that he is so qualified. [S. 11.]
The duties of returning officers are, having read
his writ or precept in court, and taken the oath
against bribery, as required by the 2 Geo. 2, c. 24,
to call upon the electors to nominate a candidate.
RETURN TO BE MADE BY SHERIFFS, &C. 123
He is then, if required, to administer to each candi-
date the oath of qualification. If a poll should be
demanded, the conduct of the poll devolves upon
him, as before stated in the Chapter on that subject,
where his duties thereon have been already shown.
If no poll be demanded, or no votes, the officer
must declare the election of the candidates nomi-
nated on what is termed the View.
Section 2.
The Return.
The return to be made at the close of the poll to The return.
the writ of election of knights of the shire as mem-
bers of Parliament, is effected by indenture pur-
porting to be made between the sheriff or other re- Made by
turning officer of the one part, and certain of the
electors, with many other persons of the county of
the other part, witnessing the free choice by the
parties and the major part of the electors, granting
the chosen knights power to do and consent to those
things on the behalf of themselves and the com-
monalty of the county, to be ordained as in the
writ of election specified.
This is a very ancient course of announcing the
result of performance of their duty by sheriffs and
other officers, in obedience to writ by indenture
made, signed, and sealed by the officers and the
body whom he directs in the matter.
These indentures (or the indenture and precept indenture of
in borough returns made by the returning officer '^®'""'
G— H 2"
124
RETURN TO BE MADE BY SHERIFFS, &C.
Special re-
turn.
Amendable
by order of
House.
thereupon to the sheriff,) appended to the writ, are
remitted by the sheriff to the officer who issued the
writ, and this is the return.
If any thing should occur to prevent a general
return being fairly made by the officer, he may
avail himself of the protection of a special return,
by stating therein the particular facts which qualify
and make necessary such return.
If there should be any corrigible mistakes in the
return, it may be amended by order of the House
of Commons.
PETITIONING AGAINST RETURN. 125
CHAPTER XVI.
Of Petitioning against Return or Election of
Members.
Section 1.
Right of Petition conferred or reserved by the
QOth Section of the 2 W. 4, c. 45.
This statute of the 2d of William the 4th has given, s. lx.
by the 60th clause, which takes the form of proviso, Remedy for
wrongful ex-
a mode of redress to persons who may be, or may elusion from
deem themselves aggrieved by the decision of the Tuitiaghom
revising barrister of his district. b^ittere °^
The means of remedy there provided is, by pe- Petition to
tition to the House of Commons, complaining of commons.
the undue election or return of a member or mem-
bers to serve in Parliament.
This very important clause, however, is perhaps
not so carefully and accurately drawn and worded
as the great importance of its object — the impeach-
ment of the register, by appeal from the courts of
revisal and the adjudication of revising barristers —
most especially demanded. The course, and the only
course of proceeding to reverse the judgment of
that court and the conclusive promulgation of its
decisions, the contents of the register, the result of
126 PETITIONING AGAINST RETURNS.
a scrutiny wherein the parties and the courts have
not had the aid or assistance of counsel in the law,
seems to have merited more attention in the framing
as explicitly as possible the objects of complaint to
be redressed, the measures, mode, and means of the
given remedy, and the parties entitled to adopt and
prosecute them, or to defend the election and sup-
port the register; but these are all very indistinctly
defined.
Permitting It is thereby provided that upon petition to the
impeachment . . .
of register. House Complaining of any undue election or return,
any petitioner, or any person defending any suck
election or return, shall be at liberty to impeach the
correctness of the Register of votes (not the Lists)
in force at the time of such election.
The first proposition of the provision makes the
subject-matter of complaint the undue election or
return, gives a remedy by petition, and entitles to
the prosecution of that remedy any person petition-
ing against, and any person defending such return
or election, but who shall be entitled to be such pe-
titioner or defendant is not expressed, and by no
means to be clearly or plainly inferred by the aid of
necessary or fair implication ; nor does it appear
whether the register is to be impeachable generally,
or whether the impeachment is to be confined to
particular charges, to which alone the right of the
petitioner applies, and to his particular case of com-
Not distinctly plaint.
are totfen- The words " any petitioner" would be sufficiently
titled to comprehensive to admit all persons to petition, whe-
PETITIONING AGAINST RETURNS. 127
ther they had or had not any interest in or connection
with the particular election, or whether they should
be or should not be on the lists or registers of voters
for the particular places.
The mode of impeachment prescribed involves Mode of ob-
also the matter of objection permitted to be taken, agaiustregis-
and the nature and ground of the complaint to be J^r of o^ec-
made as the prescribed foundation of the petition. ^°^'
The mode of substantiating the ground of im- improper in-
- -11 • 1 • sertion or
peachment is to be by provmg, that m consequence retainer of
of the decision of the barrister who shall have re-
vised the lists of voters from which such register
shall have been formed the name of any person who
has voted at such election was improperly inserted
OR retained in such regiiiterf or the name of any
person who tendered his vote at such election impro-
perly omitted from such register.
The matter of objection to the register, therefore, improper
must be insertion or retainer of an inserted name, or
the OMISSION from the Register (not the expunging)
of the name of any person who tendered his vote ;
and the nature and ground of the objection in either
case is made to be such omission or insertion or re-
tainer (for insertion without retainer, which must
often occur, would be no objection) of name or
names, " in consequence of the decision of the re- Result of
decision of
vising Barrister." barrister.
Now, as to the first class of objections, it is diffi- Difficulties of
„,..„. construction
cult to say whether the " consequence oi decision is and appUca-
to be the consequence of the actual and express de- provisions of
cision, marked in the Lists by initials, in any parti- ^^^ clause.
128 PETITIONING AGAINST RETURNS.
cular case, or of the virtual decision on the whole of
the names generally, by the fact of retainer, which
is a deciding consequence or result of the revisal —
a consequence resulting from the actual determina-
tions — a negative adjudication, applying both to
retainer and omission.
Objections to This would make all improper omissions, whether
the wording . , .
of the clause, actually brought under consideration or not, impro-
per omissions in consequence of or following upon the
decision of the Barrister : and would make all re-
tainers, whether the insertion should have been
challenged and objected to or not, equally the con-
sequence of the implied and tacit adjudication.
Otherwise if the objections to the correctness of
the register are to be limited and confined to the omis-
sions and insertions, which are express consequences
of actual adjudication thereupon, that is, upon each
omission or insertion, as the words qualifying the
grounds of objection distinctly import, it would pre-
,clude all objection, by petition of candidate or voter,
to names in the register inserted by overseers^ if not
objected to before the revising barrister, however
objectionable they may be, and on whatever ground,
because such are not direct insertions in consequence
of decision. The appeal would thus apply to inser-
tion by the barristers alone, and to retainer where
the word retainer imports objection not supported,
and to omissions adjudicated on after application to
the barrister for insertion.
To instance this: — If the overseer should have
put into his list 1 00 voters not qualified, or in any
PETITIONING AGAINST RETURNS. 129
Other respect objectionable, and the insertion should
not be brought under the cpnsideration of the
revising barrister, they may vote as registered elec-
tors, and their votes will not be subject to correc-
tion on petition to the House against a return for
the reason assigned by the clause ; because the titles
of such persons to vote would not be within the
occasion of appeal.
Then the term so often used in the Act, the word Expunged
" expunged," is not to be found in the clause, and provided for.
consequently there is in terms no express provision
in case of expunged names, for " omitting" and " ex-
punging" are by no means synonimous and equivocal
or equivalent words. Not to have admitted an omit-
ted name by insertion is a negative proposition, very
distinct and different from the positive predicament
of a name having been inserted and expunged. It
makes this the more important, that it is obviously
meant by the provisions of the Act in that respect, that
the names expunged must appear on the list as having •
been expunged, (or cancelled, or struck out, or what,
ever is meant by that very unusual term,) applied as it
there is to written names. It cannot, therefore, for that
reason, mean that the name should be erased from the
paper or parchment on which it had been inscribed,
as, if so, there would not appear to what object of cor-
rection and revisal the initial letters of the Barrister's
name apply. There has been evidently some con-
fusion in drawing up this clause, of the lists dismissed
from the revising barrister's hands, and the registers
made of the transcripts therefrom by the clerks of
G—H 5
130 PETITIONING AGAINST RETURNS.
the peace. It would have been better if the List
perfected and enrolled and recorded, had been made
the registers, and not the books, which are but ex-
emplifications of that record. Omission from or in-
sertion in the book to be the register, is only a secon-
dary consequence of the barrister's decision on the
same omissions from or insertions in the lists of
which they are copies. They are in that respect
only the consequence of a consequence. To say
the least of it, this is imperfect inditing of so im-
portant a part of an Act of Parliament of such vital
import in matters of election of a House of Com-
mons. It could not be too full, lucid, clear, and
certain, freed from all doubt and ambiguity, and
using no loose or equivocal terms, but stating, in
reference to the phraseology of its other clauses, the
matters and things to which this Section was meant
to apply, in the same terms, or in terms of undoubt-
edly similar import and signification.
Without, however, discussing too minutely what
this or any other section of the Act has not ex-
pressed, or what it might have been intended to enact
or provide, it is sufficiently clear that this 60th
clause gives very largely the remedy by petition
against undue registration and exclusion from the
register.
Reference of ^^ is Sufficiently obvious also, from the terms
to^the q G^l employed in the section, and the use and application
<^' 22. of those terms there, that the right of petition is
here given with reference to the existing objects and
practice of petition, as consolidated and amended by
the statute of 9 G. 4, c. 22. That Act will, there-
PETITIONING AGAINST RETURNS. 131
fore, serve in some measure to explain and eluci-
date some of the imperfect and obscure provisions
of this appellate jurisdiction, preserved by the 60th
section of the Reform Act, and must be considered
as incorporated therewith.
The 9 G. 4-, c. 22, for example, describes what some defects
persons are entitled to petition, as being either can- supplied and
didates or electors, that is, persons claiming to have ^^^^.^^ ''^^
been duly elected, or persons claiming to have had a
right to vote. This latter class of persons is now
very distinctly pointed out and designated by the
Reform Law as unregistered persons tendering their
votes at the election, for the purpose of bringing
their right to be registered under consideration of
the House of Commons ; a new class of claimants
to a right to vote not in existence before the 2 W.4.
The statute of the 9th of George the Fourth then
proceeds to digest and explain in detail the course
of proceeding to be pursued by all petitioners ; and
the substance of its various provisions in that re-
spect will form the subject of the following section
of this chapter.
Section 2.
Nature and Ground-work or Foundation of Petitions
to the House of Commons against undue Returns,
Petition to the House of Commons is a remedy Petitiouing
or mode of seeking redress permitted by statute commo"nT °
law, where a member has been or is considered by ^^^^^^^
' J turns.
the opposite candidate to have been unduly or im-
properly elected or returned.
re-
turns.
132
PETITIONING AGAINST RETURNS.
Consolida-
tion of prac-
tice of peti-
tions by 9
G. 4, c. 28.
Grounds of
petition
against elec-
tions or re-
turns of
members.
There are four sorts of petition presentable to
the House : —
1 . Petitions of complaint or original petitions.
2. Petitions to defend return.
3. Petitions for admission to oppose report.
4. Petitions of defence for admission to sustain
report.
The then existing laws on this very important
subject, or rather the practice and mode of pro-
ceeding in case of complaint of undue return, had
been consolidated into one general system by the
single act of repeal and remodification, the 9 G. 4,
c. 22,
The various bases or objects of petitioning by
petition of complaint are succinctly expressed and
defined, by the 2d Section of the statute 9 Geo. 4,
to be, at that time, as follows : —
1 . Undue election of members.
2. Undue return of members.
3. Nonreturn [by sheriff or returning officer] of
writ issued for the particular election on or before
the return day.
4. Not returning writ where issued during a ses-
sion or prorogation within fifty-two days after date.
5. Return not according with the requisition of
the writ.
6. Complaint of any specific matter stated in
the return. [See Section 1.]
7. To be admitted to defend return. [See S. 51.]
By the 2 W. 4, c, 45, an eighth ground of original
petition is allowed on the complaint of
8. Undue election by reason of the alleged incor-
PETITIONING AGAINST RETURNS. 133
rectness of the register in respect of insertions or
omissions
*
This ground of petition or complaint will become
by far the most important subject-matter of petition,
and will be in future perhaps the most fruitful,
certainly the most considerable, source of such appli-
cation to the House.
The words " upon petition," it must be observed,
imply that all existing grounds of petition are still
in force ; and this section, first assuming that peti-
tions will be presented on other grounds than that
of undue registration or omission from register,
provides that in all cases the correctness of the re-
gister may be impeached. It may be questioned,
therefore, directly, by and as a consequence of ob-
jection taken to voting, under an incorrect registry,
or incidentally and collaterally, on petitions founded
upon any other objection, as cause of petition before
the passing of the Reform Act.
Section 3.
Summary of Course of Practice in Proceeding on
Petitions,
The course of proceeding by way of petition 9 g. 4, c. 22.
against returns is fully provided in detail by the 9
G. 4, c. 22.
* There are also two other grounds of petition —
Petition of appeal against right reported by Committee, and
Petition to defend such rights.
134
PETITIONING AGAINST RETURNS.
Ey whom The petition must be subscribed by some person
scribed. or persons claiming to have had a right to vote, or
to be returned at the particular election, and it must
allege that ground. S. 4.
Time for pre- gy ^ current Order of the House, passed at the
senting peti-
tions, commencement of every session, it is required that
petitions on the first three grounds enumerated
above, shall be presented within fourteen days from
the date of the order ; or upon either of the other
grounds within the same time after the return be
brought in, unless the time limited should be inter-
cepted by a recess, in which case the petition may
be presented on the first day of the following sitting.
A day and hour is thereupon appointed for con-
sidering the petition, [S. 5.] and notice must be
given to all parties. [S. 2.]
Recogni- After a petition has been presented, before it can
be proceeded on, the first step to be taken on the
part of the petitioner, is to enter into a recognizance
in a 1000/. and 500/. sureties, and to pay costs, &c.
[S-S-]
The mode of entering into the recognizance is by
first delivering to the clerk of the House the names
and addresses in writing, on the day after the peti-
tion is presented, of the proposed sureties, who are
to be enquired after seven days from the entry of
sureties names by the clerk of the House in his re-
cognizance book, or by two persons to be appointed
by the Speaker from amongst the Masters in Chan-
cery, the clerks in court of the King's Bench, and
Exchequer and Prothonotaries of the Common
zance.
PETITIONING AGAINST RETURNS. 135
Pleas, upon whose report of sufficiency of sureties
the recognizance is entered into before the Speaker,
[S. 7.] or if forty miles from town, before a justice
[S. 8.] of the peace.
If such recognizance be not entered into within
fourteen days, or the time be enlarged, as it may be
once for not exceeding thirty days, on special ap-
pearance to the House, founded on affidavit, the
order for reading the petition will, on the Speaker's
report of no recognizance, be discharged.
The recognizance having been entered into, if the
time for considering the petition be not changed, as
it may be by application, the House proceeds to ap-
point a committee for taking into consideration the
matter and merits of the petition.
At the time appointed for taking the petition into Ballot for
consideration, one hundred members must be pre- miitee.
sent, [S. 17.] of whom thirty-three are to be drawn
by ballot. [S. 18.] A list of those members is to be
given to the parties, who are thereupon to withdraw,
and reduce the number to eleven by striking off one
each alternately ; [S. 30.] or if no opposing party
appear, the petitioner and clerk of the House to
reduce the list.
Section 4.
Select Committee.
The select committee being thus nominated, are Appointment
to be sworn, and they are then considered duly ap-
pointed, when they adjourn till next day for the elec-
tion of chairman, " in likeness of the Speaker," which
136 PETITIONING AGAINST RETURNS*
is done by the majority, the first drawn member
being invested with the casting voice.
Section 5.
Trial of Petition,
Time for trial They then appoint a time for meeting to try the
^^^ '° * petition, which on their first assembhng is read to
them by the clerk of the House of Commons.
Statement. jf {^ involve the question of the right of election,
or appointment of the returning officer, a statement
must be delivered to the clerk of the House by the
parties.
Section 6.
Hearing.
Matters of Prcvious to the discussion of merits all prelimi-
poJed of* '* nary objections of form to the right to proceed
must be disposed of.
Opened by The petitioner's case is then opened by his lead-
counse . -^^ couuscl, who is Considered bound in point of
proof by the statements opened to guard against
surprise.
Lists of voters The parties objecting to voters must, for the same
and^objec°' rcasou, deliver lists of the objected persons to the
'*°"*' clerk of the House ; and the objections are to be kept
by him in his office for inspection by the parties who
support the votes, and such lists must be delivered
ten days before the day for considering the petition
in case of county elections, and five days in case of
other elections ; and counsel and the evidence are
confined to objections in the list. [S. 14.]
PETITIONING AGAINST RETURNS. 137
Witnesses are called and evidence given on both Evidence,
sides.
Only two counsel are heard upon each side, but Hearing
parties interested other than candidates or electors
may be heard by one counsel.
The committee determine by a majority. Majority
-3/ decide.
Section 7.
Report.
The select committee having heard the petition, Determina-
report thereon to the House their final determina-
tion on the merits.
The report is to be made on three points ; either '^^^^^ of
report.
upon the merits of the petition, the merits of the
return, or the merits of the case ; that is, the com-
mittee either condemn or justify the proceeding of
the petitioner, or the opposition of the defendant,
by declaring the petition on the opposition to have
been frivolous or vexatfous, or both, or if no party
appeared to oppose the petition, whether the return
or non-return was vexatious and corrupt, or after
full discussion, on a well-founded petition fairly
opposed, the right of election and the validity of the
return were established or not supported.
If the petition or the opposition be reported ^«po't on
^^ ^ petition.
frivolous and vexatious, the party against whom the
report is made, is fixed with all the costs without
appeal.
A determination on the merits of the case on the on the merits.
right of election and validity of the return, deter-
13S PETITIONING AGAINST RETURNS.
mines the right of the member returned to a seat
in the House.
Entry of de- That determination is then entered on the jour-
termination. _ _
nals of the House and is conclusive till appealed
from ; and if not appealed from within six months,
or in case of dissolution or recess during that time,
within fourteen days after the next meeting of the
House, is final.
Such is the nature and course of a Petition to the
House of Commons against a Return to Parliament.
As the determinations of returning officer and
assessors were heretofore thus brought under the
revising consideration of the House, so will now
the decisions of the revising barrister, and the
merits of the electors' claims, whether brought for-
ward by the voters for election, or the candidates
for Parliament.
The ultimate appeal therefore is still as hereto-
fore, to the House itself, and the Representatives of
the People are yet to decide in the last resort upon
the legitimacy of the Representation.
PENAL CLAUSE. 139
CHAPTER XVII.
Penalty of £500 by Action against all Persons
HAVING Acts to do or Duties to perform under
this Statute contravening its Provisions —
Exceptions from Statute — Clause of Inter-
pretation— Concluding Sections.
Section 1.
Penal Clause.
By the 76tli Section a right of action of debt is Action of
given, to be brought in any Court at Westminster, a^^infr^e"-
fpr recovery, with full costs, of a penal sum of £500 ^ons contra-
vening the
(subject to reduction by the jury) against any she- act.
riff, returning officer, barrister, overseer, or any
person w^hatsoever who shall wilfully contravene or
disobey the provisions of the Act or any of them,
with respect to any matter or thing which such she-
riff, returning officer, barrister, overseer, or other
person is thereby required to do.
The right of suing is thereby limited by proviso To parties
to persons aggrieved, electors, candidates, and mem- '^^"^^^ *
hers returned; and it is also provided that as to the
returning officer the remedy given shall not super-
sede any other remedy or action against him under
any existing law.
It is observable, in passins', that the officers, &c. ^^'^.'^"'*'
^ ^ ' omission id
subjected by this section to the penal consequences '^e penal
140
CONCLUDING SECTIONS.
of their conduct, are not surrounded by any of the
usual provisions for their protection, either by re-
quiring notice of action to be given to the defendant,
to afford opportunity of redress or tender of amends,
or repressing vexatious or unfounded proceedings
by the ordinary amercement of treble costs, &c.
which, whether casual or designed, is an unusual
omission of material importance.
Section 2.
Exceptions from Operation of Act,
s.Lxxviii. 'T^® *w^ Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
Rights iu are expressly excepted out of the provisions of the
Universities . .
of Oxford Act, whether qualifying or disqualifying, both with
bridge not to rcspcct to the clcction of members, and the voting,
the^acrwhe? as clcctors, by persons in respect of occupation of
ther of mem- chambers, &c. in halls and colleges.
bers or voters. °
Section 3.
Interpreting Proviso and concluding Clauses,
s. Lxxix. This clause is followed by Section 79, providing
dauses!^ °^ for the usc and signification of certain terms em-
ployed throughout the Act.
On this clause an observation occurs, which it
may be of use to make, that the attention of the
Legislature may be drawn hereafter to the subject,
and that, if necessary, it may be explained or altered.
It is questionable whether the words city or borough
there made to include all towns corporate are also
made to include the corporate counties. This is the
CONCLUDING SECTIONS. 141
more important as it will be found that several of
the provisions, affecting boroughs or corporate
towns, will be repugnant to such a construction as
should embrace those corporate counties.
Three temporary Sections, contingent on the then
future passing of the Act for settling the Boundaries
of Counties and Places, and now therefore become
functi officio, follow: and thus concludes this im-
portant Statute for amending the Representation of
the People in the Parliaments of Great Britain.
THE BOUNDARY ACT,
2 & 3 Wm. IV. Cap. 65.
THE
BOUNDARY ACT.
2 & 3 WM. IV. CAP. LXIV.
An Act to settle and describe the Divisions of
Counties, and the Limits of Cities and Boroughs,
in England and Wales^ in so far as respects the
Election of Members to serve in Parliament.
[July 11, 1832.]
Whereas by an Act passed in this present
Session of Parliament, and intituled An Act to amend 2 w. 4, c 45.
the Representation of the People in England and
Wales, it is (amongst other things) provided, that
each of the counties enumerated in the Schedule
marked (F.) thereto annexed should be divided into
Two Divisions, which Divisions should be settled
and described by an Act to be passed for that pur-
pose in this present Parliament, which Act, when
passed, should be deemed and taken to be part of
the Act now in recital as fully and effectually as if
incorporated therewith ; and that Two Knights of
the Shire should be chosen for each Division of the
said Counties ; and that the Court for the election
of such knights of the shire should be held at the
place to be named for that purpose in the Act so to
be passed for settling and describing the divisions
of the said counties : And whereas the Act so to be
passed for settling and describing the Divisions of
the said Counties, as in the said recited Act is men-
tioned, is this present Act: And whereas the several
Counties enumerated in the said Schedule marked
(F.) to the said recited Act annexed are the several
Counties whereof the Divisions are herein-after set-
148
The Boundary Act,
Divisions of
Cheshire. .
tied and described: Be it therefore enacted by
the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the
advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and tem-
poral, and Commons, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same. That
the Two Divisions of the county of CHESTER shall
respectively be called the Northern Division and the
Southern Division ; and that such Northern Division
shall include the whole of the respective hundreds of
Macclesfield and Bucklow ;
and that such Southern Division shall include the
whole of the several hundreds of
Broxton, Northwich,
Eddisbury, and
Nantwich, Wirrall ;
and also the city and county of the city of Chester ;
and that the Court for the election of knights of the
shire shall be held for such Northern Division at
the town of Knutsford, and for such Southern Di-
vision at the city of Chester.
Divisions of
Cornwall.
II. And be it enacted, That the Two Divisions
of the county of CORNWALL shall respectively be
called the Eastern Division and the Western Division ;
and that such Eastern Division shall include the
whole of the several hundreds called
East,
Stratton,
West,
and
Lesnewth,
Trigg ;
and also the following
; parishes and places in the
hundred of Powder ;
(that is to say,)
St. Austell,
Luxulion,
St. Blazey,
Mevagissey,
St. Denis,
St. Mervan,
St. Ewe,
St. Michael Carhaise,
Fowey,
Roach,
Gorran,
St. Sampson's,
Ladock,
St. Stephen's in Brannel,
Lanlivery,
and
Lostwiihiel,
Tyrvardreth.
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64. 149
together with all such part of the hundred of
Pydar as will not be included in the Western Di-
vision of the county of Cornwall next hereinafter
described ;
and that such Western Division shall include the
whole of the respective hundreds of
Kerrier and Penwith ;
all such part of the hundred of Powder as will
not be included in the Eastern Division of the
county of Cornwall, hereinbefore described ;
the following parishes in the hundred of Pydar,
(that is to say,)
St. Agnes, Newlyn,
Crantock, St. Enoder, and
Cubert, Perranzabuloe,
and the Scilly Islands ;
and that the Court for the election of knights of the
shire shall be held for such Eastern Division at the
borough of Bodmin, and for such Western Division
at the borough of Truro.
III. And be it enacted. That the Two Divisions Divisions of
of the County of CUMBERLAND shall respec <^'^">''«'^»'»°d.
tively be called the Eastern Division and the West-
ern Division; and that such Eastern Division shall
include the whole of the several wards of
Cumberland, and
Eskdale, Leath ;
and that such Western Division shall include the
whole of the respective wards of
Allerdale above Derwent, and
Allerdale below Derwent ;
and that the Court for the election of knights of the
shire shall be held for such Eastern Division at the
city of Carlisle, and for such Western Division at
the borough of Cockermouth.
IV. And be it enacted, That the two Divisions Divisions of
1 2 ^^'^•'y-
150 The Boundary Act,
of the County of DERBY shall respectively be
called the Northern Division and the Southern Divi-
sion; and that such Northern Division shall include
the whole of the respective hundreds of
High Peak, and Scarsdale ;
and also so much of the wapentake of Wirksworth
as, by virtue of the Order made at the Quarter
Sessions of the Peace for the county of Derby
held at the borough of Derby on the twenty-
eighth day June one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-one, is comprised in the Bakewell Divi-
sion, as established by such Order ;
and that such Southern Division shall include the
whole of the several hundreds of
Appletree, Morleston and Litchurch, and
Repton and Gresley;
and all such parts of the wapentake of Wirks-
worth as will not be included within the North-
ern Division of the County of Derby last herein-
before described ;
and that the Court for the election of knights of the
shire shall be held for such Northern Division at
the town of Bakewell, and for such Southern Divi-
sion at the county hall in Derby.
Divisions of V. And be it enacted, That the Two Divisions of
Devon. ^jjg County of DEVON shall respectively be called
the Northern Division and the Southern Division;
and that such Northern Division shall include the
whole of the several hundreds of
Bampton, North Tawton and
Black Torrington, Winkleigh,
Braunton, Shebbear,
Crediton, Sherwill,
Fremington, South Molton,
Halberton, Tiverton,
Hartland, Witheridge,
Hayridge, and
Hemyock, West Budleigh;
2 & a William IV. Cap. 64. 151
and that such Southern Division shall include the
whole of the several hundreds of
AXMINSTER, HaYTOR,
Clyston, Coleridge,
COLYTON, StANBOROUGH,
Ottery St. Mary, Ermington,
East Budleigh, Plympton,
LiFTON, Roborouh, and
ExMiNSTER, Tavistock;
t Teignbridge,
and also the Castle of Exeter;
and the hundred of Wonford, except such parts
of that hundred as are included in the limits of
the city of Exeter, as hereinafter described ;
and that the Court for the election of knights of the
shire shall be held for such Northern Division at
the town of South Molton, and for such Southern
Division at the city of Exeter.
VI. And be it enacted, that the Two Divisions Divisions of
of the County of DURHAM shall respectively be o^rham.
called the Northern Division and the Southern Divi-
sion; and that such Northern Division shall include
the whole of the respective wards of
Chester and Easington;
and that such Southern Division shall include the
whole of the respective wards of
Darlington and Stockton;
and that the Court for the election of knights of the
shire shall be held for such Northern Division at
the city of Durham, and for such Southern Division
at the town of Darlington.
VII. And be it enacted, that the Two Divisions Divisions of
of the County of ESSEX shall respectively be called ^"*''-
the Northern Division and the Southern Division;
and that such Northern Division shall include the
whole of the several hundreds of
152 The Boundary Act,
Clavering, Tendring,
DuNMOw, Thurstable,
Freshwell, Uttlesford,
HiNCKFORD, Winstree, and
Lexden, Witham.
and that such Southern Division shall include the
whole of the several hundreds of
Barstable, Harlow,
Becontree, Ongar,
Chafford, Rochford,
Chelmsford, and
Dengie, Waltham;
and of the liberty of Havering ;
and that the Court for the election of knights of the
shire shall be held for such Northern Division at
the town of Braintree, and for such Southern Divi-
sion at the town of Chelmsford.
Divisions of VHI. And be it enacted, that the Two Divisions
Gloucester, ^f ^-^^ County of GLOUCESTER shall respectively
be called the Eastern Division and the Western Divi-
sion; and that such Eastern Division shall include
the whole of the several hundreds of
Crowthorne and Westminster,
MiNETY, DeERHURST,
Brightwell's Bar- Slaughter,
row, Cheltenham,
Bradley, Cleeve,
Rapsgate. Tibaldston,
BisLEY, Tewkesbury,
LoNGTREE, and
Whitstone, Dudstone and King's
KiFTSGATE, Barton ;
and also the city and county of the city of Glou-
cester,
and the borough of Cirencester ;
and that such Western Division shall include the
whole of the several hundreds of
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64. 15S
Berkley, Lancaster Duchy,
Thornbury, Botloe,
Langley and St. Briarvel's,
SWINESHEAD, WeSTBURY,
Grumbald's Ash, and
PucKLE Church, Blidesloe ;
and the hundreds of Henbury and Barton Regis,
except such parts of those hundreds as are in-
cluded in the limits of the city of Bristol as here-
inafter described ;
and that the Court for the election of knights of the
shire shall be held for such Eastern Division at the
city of Gloucester, and for such Western Division
at the town of Dursley.
IX. And be it enacted, That the Two Divisions Divisions of
of the County of HANTS shall respectively be i^«»'«-
called the Northern Division and the Southern Divi-
sion ; and that such Northern Division shall include
. the whole of the several now existing Divisions of
Alton, Droxford,
Andover, Odiham,
Basingstoke, Petersfield, and
King's Clere, Winchester,
as the same are now established by virtue of an
Order made by his Majesty's justices of the peace
for the county of Hants at the Midsummer Quar-
ter Sessions for the said County held at Win-
chester on the twenty-eighth day of June, one
thousand eight hundred and thirty-one ; and also
all such other places, if any, in the said county of
Hants, as are locally situated within or are sur-
rounded by the said sessional divisions or any of
them, and are not mentioned in the said order.
and that such Southern Division shall include the
whole of the several now existing Divisions of
Fareham, Romsey,
Lymington, and
RiNGwooD, Southampton,
154
The Boundary Act,
Divisions of
Kent.
as the same are now established by the Order
aforesaid ; and also all such other places, if any,
in the said county of Hants, as are locally si-
tuated within or are surrounded by the said four
last-mentioned sessional divisions of the said
county or any of them, and are not mentioned in
the said Order ;
and also the town and county of the town of
Southampton ;
and that the Court for the election of knights of the
shire shall be held for such Northern Division at the
city of Winchester, and for such Southern Division
at the borough of Southampton.
X. And be it enacted. That the Two Divisions of
the County of KENT shall respectively be called
the Eastern Division and the Western Division ; and
that such Eastern Division shall include the whole
of the respective lathes of
St. Augustine and Shepway,
(including the liberty of Romney Marsh,)
and of the Upper Division of the lathe of Scray ;
and that such Western Division shall include the
whole of the respective lathes of
Sutton-at-Hone and Aylesford,
and of the Lower Division of the lathe of Scray ;
and that the Court for the election of knights of the
shire shall be held for such Eastern Division at the
city of Canterbury, and for such Western Division
at the borough of Maidstone.
Divisions of
Lancaster.
XI. And be it enacted, That the Two Divisions
of the County of LANCASTER shall respectively
be called the Northern Division and the Southern
Division; and that such Northern Division shall
include the whole of the several hundreds of
Lonsdale,
Amounderness,
Leyland, and
Blackburn j
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64. 155
and that such Southern Division shall include the
whole of the respective hundreds of
Salford and West Derby;
and that the Court for the election of knights of the
shire shall be held for such Northern Division at
the borough of Lancaster, and for such Southern
Division at the town of Newton.
XII. And be it enacted, That the Two Divisions Divisions of
of the County of LEICESTER shall respectively i^«i^*^«'^"--
be called the Northern Division and the Southern
Division; and thai such Northern Division shall
include the whole of the several hundreds of
West Goscote, and
East Goscote, Framland ;
and also those two detached portions of the hun-
dred of Gartree which are situated on the east
of the hundred of East Goscote ;
and that such Southern Division shall include the
whole of the several hundreds of
Gartree (except as before-mentioned),
Sparkenhoe, and Guthlaxton ;
and also the borough of Leicester and the liber-
ties thereof;
and that the Court for the election of knights of the
shire shall be held for such Northern Division at
the town of Loughborough, and for such Southern
Division at the borough of Leicester.
XIII. And be it enacted, That the Two Divisions Divisions of
of the County of NORFOLK shall respectively be ^^'^'■*^"^-
called the Eastern Division and the Western Divi-
sion ; and that such Eastern Division shall include
the whole of the several hundreds of
Blofield, Earsham,
Clavering, North Erpingham,
Depwade, South Erpingham,
Diss, Eynesford,
i5
156 The Boundary Act,
East Flegg, Humbleyard,
West Flegg, Loddon,
FOREHOE, TaVERSHAM,
Happing, Tunstead, and
Henstead, Walsham ;
and that such Western Division shall include the
whole of the several hundreds of
Freebridge Marsh- Launditch,
land, South Greenhoe,
Smithdon, Grimshoe,
Freebridge Lynn, North Greenhoe,
Clackclose, Wayland,
Brothercross, Shropham,
Gallow, Gilt Cross, and
Holt, Mitford ;
and that the Court for the election of knights of the
shire shall be held for such Eastern Division at the
city of Norwich, and for such Western Division at
the town of SwafFham.
Divisions of XIV. And be it enacted, That the Two Divisions
Northampton ^f ^^g County of NORTHAMPTON shall respec-
tively be called the Northern Division and the
Southern Division; and that such Northern Division
shall include the whole of the liberty of
Peterborough,
and of the several hundreds of
Willybrook, Higham Ferrers,
Polebrook, Rothwell,
Huxloe, Hamfordshoe,
Navisford, and
Corby, Orlingbury ;
and that such Southern Division shall include the
whole of the several hundreds of
King's Sutton, Fawsley,
Chipping Warden, Wymersley,
Green's Norton, Spelhoe,
Cleley, Nobottle Grove, and
TowcESTER, Guilsborough ;
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64. 157
and that the Court for the election of knights of the
shire shall be held for such Northern Division at the
town of Kettering, and for such Southern Division
at the borough of Northampton.
XV. And be it enacted, That the Two Divisions Divisions of
of the County of NORTHUMBERLAND shall ^^yhumber-
respectively be called the Northern Division and the
Southern Division; and that such Northern Division
shall include the whole of the several wards of
Bamborough, Glendale, and
COQUETDALE, MoRPETH,
and of the Berwick Bounds ;
and that such Southern Division shall include the
whole of the respective wards of
Tynedale and Castle,
and also the town and county of the town of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne ;
and that the Court for the election of knights of the
shire shall be held for such Northern Division at the
town of Alnwick and for such Southern Division at
the town of Hexham.
XVI. And be it enacted. That the Two Divisions Divisions of
of the County of NOTTINGHAM shall respec- Nottingham.
tively be called the Northern Division and the
Southern Division ; and that such Northern Division
shall include the whole of the respective hundreds of
Bassetlaw and Broxstow ;
and that such Southern Division shall include the
whole of the several hundreds of
RusHCLiFFE, Newark, and
Bingham, Thurgarton;
and that the Court for the election of knights of the
shire shall be held for such Northern Division at the
town of Mansfield, and for such Southern Division
at the borough of Newark.
XVII. And be it enacted. That the Two Divi- Divisions of
sions of the County of SALOP shall respectively be ^*'**p-
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called the Northern Division and the Southern Divi-
sion ; and that such Northern Division shall include
the whole of the several hundreds of
Oswestry, North Bradford, and
PiMHiLL, South Bradford,
and of the liberty of Shrewsbury ;
and that such Southern Division shall include the
whole of the several hundreds of
Brimstrey, Overs,
Chirbury, Purslow, including Clun,
Condover, and
Ford, Stoddesdon,
MuNSLOW,
and of the franchise of Wenlock ;
and that the Court for the election of knights of the
shire shall be held for such Northern Division at the
borough of Shrewsbury, and for such Southern
Division at the town of Church Stretton.
Divisions of XVIII. And be it enacted. That the Two Divi-
Somerset. gions of the County of SOMERSET shall respec-
tively be called the Eastern Division and the Western
Division ; and that such Eastern Division shall in-
clude the whole of the several hundreds or liberties
of
Bath Forum, Hampton and Cla-
Bempstone, verton.
Brent and Wring- Horethorne,
ton, Keynsham,
Bruton, Kilmersdon,
Catsash, Mells and Leigh,
Chew and Chewton, Portbury,
Norton Ferris, Wellow,
Frome, Wells Forum,
Glaston Twelve Whitstone,
Hides, Winterstoke, and
Witham Friary ;
and also the hundred of Hartcliffe with Bed-
minster, except such parts of that hundred as
are included in the limits of the city of Bristol as
herein-after described ;
2&3 William IV. Cap. 64. 159
and that such Western Division shall include the
whole of the several hundreds of
AbDICK & BULSTONE, MiLVERTON,
Andersfield, North Petherton,
Cannington, South Petherton,
Carhampton, Pitney,
Crewkerne, Somerton,
North Curry, Stone,
HouNDSBORouGH, Taunton and Taunton
Berwick, &CoKER, Dean,
HuNTSPiLL andPuRi- Tintinhull,
TON, Whitley, and
Kingsbury, East, Williton and Free-
KiNGSBURY, West, manors ;
Martock,
and that the Court for the election of knights of the
shire shall be held for such Eastern Division at the
city of Wells, and for such Western Division at the
borough of Taunton.
XIX. And be it enacted. That the Two Divisions Divisions of
of the county of STAFFORD shall respectively be Stafford.
called the Northern Division and the Southern Divi-
sion; and that such Northern Division shall include
the whole of the several hundreds of
PiREHiLL, North Offlow ;
ToTMONSLow, and
and that such Southern Division shall include the
whole of the respective hundreds of
South Offlow, Cuttlestone ;
Seisdon, and
and that the Court for the election of knights of the
shire shall be held for such Northern Division at
the borough of Stafford, and for such Southern Di-
vision at the city of Lichfield.
XX. And be it enacted, That the Two Divi- P'p'';^"'' ^*
sions of the county of SUFFOLK shall respectively
be called the Eastern Division and the Western Divi-
sion; and that such Western Division shall include
the whole of the liberty of
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Divisions of
Surrey,
Bury St. Edmund's
and of the respective hundreds of
Hartesmere and Stow;
and that such Eastern Division shall include
all such parts of the county of Suffolk as are not
comprised in the liberty of Bury St. Edmund's, or
in either of the hundreds of Hartesmere and Stow ;
and that the Court for the election of knights of the
shire shall be held for such Western Division at the
borough of Bury St. Edmund's, and for such Eastern
Division at the borough of Ipswich.
XXI. And be it enacted, That the Two Divisions
of the county of SURREY shall respectively be
called the Eastern Division and the Western Division;
and that such Eastern Division shall include the
whole of the several hundreds of
Brixton, Tandridge,
Kingston, and
Reigate, Wallington;
and that such Western Division shall include the
whole of the several hundreds of
Blackheath, Godalming,
Copthorne, Godley and Chertsey,
Effingham, Woking, and
Elmbridge, Wotton ;
Farnham,
and that the Court for the election of knights of the
shire shall be held for such Eastern Division at the
town of Croydon, and for such Western Division at
the borough of Guildford.
Divisions of
Sussex.
XXII. And be it enacted, That the Two Divisions
of the county of SUSSEX shall respectively be
called the Eastern Division and the Western Division ;
and that such Eastern Division shall include the
whole of the several rapes of
Lewes, Pevensey;
Hastings, and
and that such Western Division shall include the
whole of the several rapes of
2& 3 William IV. Cap. 64. 161
Arundel, Chichester;
Bramber, and
and that the Court for the election of knights of the
shire shall be held for such Eastern Division at the
borough of Lewes, and for such Western Division at
the city of Chichester.
XXIII. And be it enacted, That the Two Divi- Divisions of
sionsofthecounty of WARWICK shall respectively ^^^•■^'*^'^-
be called the Northern Division and the Southern
Division; and that such Northern Division shall in-
clude the whole of the hundred of
Hemlingford,
and of the county of the city of
Coventry,
and the Rugby Division, and the Kirhy Division
of the hundred of Knightlow ;
and that such Southern Division shall include the
whole of the respective hundreds of
Barlichway and Kington,
and the Kenilrvorth Division, and the Southam
Division of the hundred of Knightlow ;
and that the Court for the election of knights of the
shire shall be held for such Northern Division at
the town of Coleshill, and for such Southern Divi-
sion at the borough of Warwick.
XXIV. And be it enacted, That the Two Divi- Divisions of
sions of the county of WILTS shall respectively be ^''"•
called the Northern Division and the Southern Divi-
sion; and that such Northern Division shall include
the whole of the several hundreds of
Chippenham, Ramsbury,
North Damerham, Whorwelsdown,
Bradford, Swanborough,
Melksham, Highworth,Cricklade,
Potterne and Can- and Staple,
NINGS, KiNGSBRIDGE,
Calne, and
Selkley, Malmsbury ;
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and that such Southern Division shall include the
whole of the several hundreds of
KiNWARDSTONE, DoWNTON,
Heytesbury, Chalk,
Branch and Dole, Dunworth,
Elstub and Ever- Cawden and Cadworth,
ley, Frustfield,
Amesbury, Alderbury,
Warminster, Underditch,
Mere, and
South Damerham, Westbury;
and that the Court for the election of knights of the
shire shall be held for such Northern Division at
the borough of Devizes, and for such Southern Di-
vision at the city of Salisbury.
Divisions of XXV. And be it enacted, That the Two Divi-
worcester. ^j^^^ ^^ ^j^^ ^^^^^ ^^ WORCESTER shall respec-
tively be called the Eastern Division and the Western
Division ; and that such Eastern Division shall in-
clude the whole of the several now existing divisions
Stourbridge, Northfield,
Dudley, Blockley, and
Droitwich, Pershore,
as the same are established by an order made by
his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the county
of Worcester at the Epiphany Quarter Sessions
for the year one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-one ;
and also the borough of Evesham : and also
all such other places, if any, in the said county
of Worcester, as are locally situated within or
are surrounded by the herein-before mentioned
sessional divisions thereof, or any of them, and
are not mentioned in the said order ;
and that such Western Division shall include the
whole of the several now existing divisions of
Upton, Hundred House, and
Worcester, Kidderminster,
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64. I63
as the same are established by the last-mentioned
order ;
and also the city and county of the city of
Worcester ; and also all such other places, if
any, in the said county of Worcester, as are
locally situated within or are surrounded by the
four lastly herein-before mentioned sessional
divisions thereof, or any of them, and are not
mentioned in the said order ;
and that the Court for the election of knights of
the shire shall be held for such Eastern Division at
the borough of Droitwich, and for such Western
Division at the city of Worcester.
XXVI. And be it enacted. That the isolated Provision for
parts of counties in England and Wales which are pai^g'^o?
described in the Schedule to this Act annexed, countiea.
marked (M.) shall, as to the election of members to
serve in Parliament as Knights of the Shire, be
considered as forming parts of the respective coun-
ties and divisions which are respectively mentioned
in the fourth column of the said Schedule (M.) in
conjunction with the names of such isolated parts
respectively ; and that every part of any county in
England or Wales which is detached from the main
body of such county, but for which no special pro-
vision is hereby made, shall be considered, for the
purposes of the election of members to serve in
Parliament as Knights of the Shire, as forming part
of that county, (not being a county corporate,) and
of that division, riding, or parts, whereby such de-
tached part shall be surrounded ; but if any such
detached part shall be surrounded by two or more
counties, or divisions, ridings, or parts, then as
forming part of that county, or division, riding, or
parts, with which such detached part shall have the
longest common boundary.
XXVII. And be it further enacted. That as re- Provision for
spects the counties of York and Lincoln, and also *art3*?h'*'*
the counties herein-before divided, except the coun- dreds,**&c.""*
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ties of Hants and Worcester, every portion of any
hundred, ward, wapentake, rape, lathe, or liberty of
any such county which is detached from the main
body of such hundred, ward, wapentake, rape, lathe
or liberty, and is also locally separated from that
division of the county to which such main body is
to belong under the provisions contained in this Act,
or in the herein-before recited Act, but which is not
subject to the provisions lastly herein-before con-
tained, shall, for the purpose of the election of
members to serve in Parliament as Knights of the
Shire, be considered as forming part of that division,
parts, or riding of the same county by which such
detached portion is surrounded or to which it
adjoins.
Provisiou for XXVIII. And be it enacted, That all liberties,
liberties, &c. n , • , i , . ..,..'
iranchises, and places havmg a separate jurisdiction,
which are not herein-before expressly mentioned,
(except the several cities and towns, and counties
thereof respectively, of Bristol, Exeter, Lichfield,
Norwich, and Nottingham, and except the several
places by this Act comprised within the boundaries
thereof respectively,) shall, as to the election of
members to serve in Parliament as Knights of the
Shire, respectively be considered as included within
the respective divisions hereby established in which
such liberties, franchises, and places having a sepa-
rate jurisdiction shall be locally situated.
County poll- XXIX. And whereas by the herein-before recited
shaifbe*^such ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^ provided, that the respective counties
as are men- in England and Wales, and the respective ridings,
Schedule (N.) parts, and divisions of counties, should be divided
to this Act. into convenient districts for polling, and that in each
district should be appointed a convenient place for
taking the poll at all elections of a Knight or Knights
of the Shire to serve in any future Parliament, and
that such districts and places for taking the poll
should be settled and appointed by the Act to be
passed in this present Parliament for the purpose of
settling and describing the divisions of the counties
2 & 3 WiLLiAivf IV. Cap. 64. 165
enumerated in the Schedule marked (F.) to the said
recited Act annexed, provided that no county, nor
any riding, parts, or division of a county, should
have more th^n fifteen districts and respective places
appointed for taking the poll for such county, riding,
parts, or division ; and by the said recited Act it
is also provided that the several boroughs of New
Shoreham, Cricklade, Aylesbury, and East Retford,
as thereby defined, should be divided into conve-
nient districts for polling, and that there should be
appointed in each district a convenient place for
taking the poll at all elections of members to serve
in any future Parliament for each of the said bo-
roughs, which districts and places for taking the
poll should be settled and appointed by an Act to
be passed in this present Parliament ; be it therefore
enacted. That the poll for election of Knights of
the Shire shall be taken at such places as in the
Schedule to this Act annexed, marked (N.) are
mentioned in conjunction with the names of the
counties, and of the ridings, parts, and divisions of
counties, in which such places are respectively
situated.
XXX. And be it enacted, That the Justices of Polling
the Peace for every county in England and Wales, J^Jn^^ls to'^be
and for each of the ridings of Yorkshire, and for settled by
the parts of Lindsey, and for the parts of Kesteven ^"^^**^*^-
and Holland, in Lincolnshire, assembled at the
Quarter Sessions to be holden in the month of
October in the present year, or at some Special
Sessions to be appointed by them so assembled as
aforesaid which shall be holden on or before the
last day of October in the present year, shall divide
their respective counties, and ridings, parts, and
divisions of counties, into convenient districts for
polling, and shall assign one of such districts to
every polling place mentioned in the said Schedule
marked (N.) to this Act annexed ; and that a list
describing the districts named in every such assign-
ment, and naming the polling places to which such
districts are respectively assigned, shall be lodged
166 The Boundary Act,
with the Clerk of the Peace of the county, riding,
or parts, who shall forthwith cause copies of such
list to be printed, and shall deliver a copy of such
list to every person who shall apply for the same
upon payment of one shilling for each copy.
lu what XXXI. Provided always, and be it enacted. That
piaces^having ^^r the purposc of assigning such districts to every
separate polling placc as aforesaid, every liberty, franchise,
ar"to beacon- and placc having a separate or exclusive jurisdiction
sifiered. shall be considered as being within that county, and
within that division, riding, or parts, in which such
liberty, franchise, or place is placed by this Act, or
by the Act herein-before recited, or in which the
same is locally situated : Provided nevertheless,
that the Justices of the Peace for the Isle of Ely,
assembled at the Quarter Sessions for the said Isle
of Ely to be holden in the month of October in the
present year, or at some Special Sessions to be ap-
pointed by them, so assembled as aforesaid, which
shall be holden on or before the last day of October,
in the present year, shall divide the said Isle of Ely
into convenient districts for polling, and shall assign
one of such districts to every polling place within
the said Isle of Ely mentioned in the said Schedule
(N.) ; and that a list, describing the districts named
in such assignment, and naming the polling places to
which such districts are respectively assigned, shall
be lodged with the Clerk of the Peace for the said
Isle of Ely, who shall allow the same, or a copy
thereof, to be inspected at his office at all times.
Poiiingpiaces. XXXII. And be it enacted. That the poll for the
Shoreham election of members to serve in Parliament for the
&c. ' said several boroughs of New Shoreham, Cricklade,
Aylesbury, and East Retford shall be taken at the
place or places which in the Schedule to this Act
annexed, marked (N. 2,) is or are mentioned in
conjunction with the names of such several boroughs
respectively.
Polling dis- XXXIII. And be it enacted. That the Justices
Shorebam,^^ of the Peace for the respective counties in which
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64. 167
:he boroughs of New Shorehara, Cricklade, and &c. to be
East Retford are situated, shall, at the Quarter Jus^/fcts^
Sessions to be holden in the month of October in
the present year, divide the said boroughs of New
Shoreham, Cricklade, and East Retford into con-
venient districts for polling, and shall assign one
of such districts to every polling place for the
said boroughs of New Shoreham, Cricklade, and
East Retford, mentioned in the said Schedule
to this Act annexed, marked (N. 2.) ; and that
a list describing the districts named in such as-
signment, and naming the polling places to which
such districts are respectively assigned, shall be
lodged with the returning officer of the respective
borough, who shall forthwith cause copies of such
list to be printed, and to be fixed on the doors of
the several churches and chapels within the borough
for which such districts are assigned.
XXXIV. And be it enacted. That, if it shall seem Election or
fit to the Sheriff, the Court for the election of Pg;,'"^^ /^^'^/^
Knights of the Shire may be held, or the poll may in the neigh-
be taken, at any place or spot in the neighbourhood JbTe^named
of any place appointed by this Act for holding such »» this Act.
Court or taking such poll respectively, at which such
Court or poll may have heretofore been held or
taken, or which may be convenient for either of
those purposes ; any thing herein contained not-
withstanding.
XXXV. And whereas by the Act herein-before Contents and
recited it is also provided that each of the places sSfbT^ruch
enumerated in the Schedules thereto annexed re- asaresetfonh
spectively marked (C), (D.), and (E.), and that JootlSls
every city and borough in England which before the ^c^*
passing of the said recited Act was entitled to re-
turn a member or members to serve in Parliament,
(except the several boroughs enumerated in the
Schedule thereto annexed, marked (A.), and except
the several boroughs of New Shoreham, Cricklade,
Aylesbury, and East Retford,) and that the borough
of Brecon, and each of the towns of Swansea,
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Loughor, Neath, Aberavon, and Ken-fig, should, for
the purposes of the said recited Act, include the
place or places respectively which should be com-
prehended within such boundaries as should be
settled and described by an Act to be passed for
that purpose in this present Parliament, which Act
when passed should be deemed and taken to be
part of the said recited Act as fully and effectually
as if incorporated therewith : And whereas the Act
so to be passed for settling and describing the boun-
daries of cities, boroughs, and places as in the said
recited Act is mentioned in this present Act : And
whereas the several cities, boroughs, and places
whereof the boundaries were so to be settled and
described as in the said recited Act is mentioned are
the several cities, boroughs, and places which are
specified in the Schedule to this Act annexed marked
(O.); be it therefore further enacted and de-
clared. That the several cities, boroughs, and places
specified in the said Schedule to this Act annexed
marked (O.) shall, as to the election of members or
a member to serve in Parliament, respectively in-
clude the places and be comprised within the boun-
daries which in such Schedule are respectively spe-
cified and described in conjunction with the names
of such cities, boroughs, and places respectively.
Rules for the XXXVI. And be it enacted, That, subject to any
oflhed?-^^" direction to the contrary, the following rules shall be
scriptions observed in the construction of the several descrip-
SchedSfe (O) tions of boundaries contained in the said Schedule
to this Act. hereto annexed marked (O.) ; (that is to say,)
1. That the words "Northward," "Southward,"
" Eastward," "Westward," shall respectively
be understood to denote only the general
direction in which any boundary proceeds
from the point last described, and not that
such boundary shall continue to proceed
throughout in the same direction to the point
next described :
2. That when any road is mentioned merely by
the name of the place to which such road
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64. 169
leads, the principal road thither from the city,
borough, or place of which the boundary is in
course of description shall be understood :
3. That whenever a line is said to be drawn from,
to, or through an object, such line shall, in
the absence of any direction to the contrary,
be understood to be drawn from, to, or
through the centre of such object, as nearly
as the centre thereof can be ascertained :
4. That every building through which or through
any part whereof any boundary hereby esta-
blished shall pass shall be considered as
within such boundary : provided always, that
if the boundaries of any two or more of the
cities, boroughs, and places whereof the con-
tents and boundaries are hereby settled and
described shall pass through the same build-
ing or any part thereof, such building shall be
considered as within that one of such two or
more of the said cities, boroughs, and places
which was before the passing of ^the herein-
before recited Act entitled to return mem-
bers or a member to serve in Parliament, or
if neither or more than one of such two or
more of the said cities, boroughs, and places
shall have been so entitled, then within that
one of them whereof the area as hereby esta-
blished is the smallest :
5. That whenever any boundary by this Act esta-
blished is said to pass along any other boun-
dary, or along any road, lane, path, river,
stream, canal, drain, brook, or ditch, the
middle (as nearly as the same can be ascer-
tained) of such other boundary, or of such
road, lane, path, river, stream, canal, drain,
brook, or ditch, shall be understood :
6. That the middle of any road or lane shall be
understood as the middle of the carriageway
along the same :
7. That when any boundary by this Act esta-
blished is said to proceed along a road, lane,
path, river, stream, canal, or drain, from or
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to an object, such boundary shall be under-
stood to proceed from or to that point in the
middle of such road, lane, path, river, stream,
canal, or drain from which the shortest line
would be drawn to the centre of such object,
as nearly as the centre thereof can be ascer-
tained :
8. That the point at which any fence, hedge, wall,
boundary, road, lane, path, river, stream,
canal, drain, brook, or ditch is said to cut,
meet, join, cross, reach, or leave any fence,
hedge, wall, boundary, road, lane, path,
river, stream, canal, drain, brook, or ditch,
shall be understood as that point at which a
line passing along the middle of the fence,
hedge, wall, boundary, road, lane, path,
river, stream, canal, drain, brook, or ditch
so cut, met, joined, crossed, reached, or left,
would be intersected by a line drawn along
the middle of the fence, hedge, wall, boun-
dary, road, lane, path, river, stream, canal,
drain, brook, or ditch so cutting, meeting,
joining, crossing, reaching, or leaving, if such
line were prolonged sufficiently far :
9. That when a line is said to be drawn to a road,
lane, river, stream, or canal, such line shall
be considered as prolonged to the middle of
such road, lane, river, stream, or canal :
10. That by the words "sea" and "sea coast"
shall be understood the low-water mark :
11. That if any deficiency shall be found to exist
in the line of any boundary described in the
said Schedule to this Act annexed marked
(O.), by reason of the intervention of any
space between any two immediately conse-
cutive points, such deficiency shall be sup-
plied by a straight line to be drawn from the
one to the other of such two immediately
consecutive points.
Provision as XXXVII. And be it further enacted, That, not-
pam of ''^'^ withstanding the generality of any description con-
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64. 171
:ained in the said Schedule to this Act annexed parishes, &c.
inarked (O.), no city, borough, or place, the con- parochlai"^'^'*
tents whereof are specified in such schedule, shall places,
include any part of any parish, township, hamlet,
chapelry, tithing, manor, or liberty which is detached
from the main body of such parish, township, ham-
let, chapelry, tithing, manor, or liberty, if, by reason
of including such detached part, the boundary hereby
established of such city, borough, or place would
not be continuous, unless such detached part shall,
before the passing of this Act, have formed part of
such city, borough, or place for the purpose of the
election of members to serve in Parhament ; but
that all places, parochial or extra-parochial, which
are surrounded by the contents of which any city,
borough, or place is said, in such schedule marked
(O.), to consist, but for which no provision is made
in such Schedule (O.), shall be considered as in-
cluded within such city, borough, or place, for the
purpose of the election of members to serve in
Parliament.
XXXVIII. Provided always, and be it enacted. Misnomer
That no misnomer or inaccurate description contained "nd^hrde-*^'
in this Act, or in any of the schedules hereto an- scripuons in
nexed, shall in anywise prevent or abridge the ope- to^be conL '*
ration of this Act with respect to the subject of such ^^^.^'^ ^^
description, provided the same shall be so designated uTJVs" Cku
as to be commonly understood ; and that for the ^^^*-
purpose of identifying the descriptions contained in
the said schedule (O.) with the subjects of such de-
scriptions respectively, such descriptions shall, if now
inapplicable, be held to apply to such subjects as
they existed on the first day of October One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.
XXXIX. Provided always, and be it enacted, Act may be
amendec"
Session.
That this Act may be amended or altered by any '''"^"f^^^ ^i"»
Act or Acts to be passed during this present Session
of Parliament.
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SCHEDULE (N.)
Counties. Divisions. Polling Places.
ENGLAND. Bedford.
1 Luton.
Bedfordshire JLeighton.
j Ampthill.
f Biggleswade.
Sharnbrooke.
'"Abingdon.
Reading.
Newbury.
Berkshire j Wantage.
Wokingham.
Maidenhead.
Great Faringdon.
^East Ilsley.
C Aylesbury.
Buckinghamshire ) Buckingham.
* j Newport Pagnel.
(^ Beaconsfield.
Cambridgeshire -| Newmarket.
( Roys ton.
I^^eofEly jwfsbeach.
t Whittlesey.
!Knutsford.
Stockport
Macclesfield.
Runcorn.
! Chester.
Nantwich.
Northwich.
Sandbach.
Birkenhead.
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64.
181
Counties.
Cornwall
Cornwall . .
Cumberland
Divisions.
Polling Places,
Cumberland .
Derbyshire .
Derbyshire , .
/"Bodmin.
1 Launceston.
Eastern Division < Liskeard.
J Stratton.
V.St. Austell.
r Truro.
WesternDivision ^ HektoT'
(Redruth,
/"Carlisle.
1 Brampton.
< Wigton.
i Penrith.
VAldstone.
Eastern Division
/"Cockermouth.
\ Aspatria.
Western Division < Keswick.
i Bootle.
^Egremont.
SBakewell.
Chesterfield.
Chapel-en-le-Frith.
Alfreton.
Glossop.
n
Derby.
Ashbourn.
Southern Division^ Wirksworth.
J Melbourn.
V.Belper.
Devonshire . . . Northern Division
1
South Molton.
CoUumpton.
Barnstaple.
Torrington.
Holsworthy.
Crediton.
182
The Boundary Act,
Counties.
Devonshire .
Dorsetshire
Durham
Divisions. Polling Places.
r Exeter.
\ Honiton.
1 Newton Abbot.
Southern Division/ Kingsbridge.
j Plymouth.
' I Tavistock.
V Okehampton.
Dorchester.
Wimborne.
Wareham.
Beaminster.
Sherborne.
Shaftesbury.
Blandford.
Chesilton.
fDurham.
Sunderland.
Northern Division^ WkkhTm"''
Chester-Ie-Street.
South Shields.
r Darlington.
I Stockton.
Durham
„ - XN- . . 1 Bishop's Auckland
. Southern Division^ Stanhope.
i Middleton Teesdale.
f Barnard Castle.
V Sedgefield.
Essex
Essex
Northern Division
Southern Division
Braintree.
Colchester.
Saffron Walden.
Thorpe.
Chelmsford.
i Billericay.
/Romford.
Epping.
Rochford.
Maldon.
/
2&3 William IV. Cap. 64.
183
Counties.
Gloucestershire . Eastern Division
Gloucestershire .
Hampshire
Northern Divisioni
Hampshire
Herefordshire
Hertfordshire
Divisions. Polling Places.
Gloucester.
Stroud.
Tewkesbury,
Cirencester.
Campden.
Northleach.
Cheltenham.
z' Wotton-under-Edge.
I Newent.
1 Newnham.
Western Division/ Coleford.
I Sodbury.
I Thornbury.
^^Dursley.
Winchester.
Alton.
Andover.
Basingstoke.
Kingsclere.
Odiham.
Petersfield.
Bishop's Waltham,
Southampton.
i Fareham.
Southern Division< ^^""^"^^7/
\ Portsmouth.
/ Ringwood.
^ Romsey.
Hereford.
Leominster.
Bromyard.
Ledbury.
Ross.
Kington.
Hertford.
Stevenage.
Buntingford.
Bishop's Stortford.
Hoddesdon.
Hatfield.
.Hemel Hempstead
184
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Counties. Divisions, Polling Places.
Huntingdonshire ^ Sti'ko'^^'^^"*
/" Canterbury.
\ Sittingbourne.
Kent Eastern Division < Ashford.
/ New Romney.
(.Ramsgate.
^Maidstone.
i Bromley.
Kent Western Division -?^^^^^^^^^> ,
J (jrravesend.
I Tonbridge.
^ Cranbrooke.
Lancashire
Lancashire
Leicestershire .
Leicestershire .
Southern Division
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Lincolnshire . . Parts of Lindsey
Lancaster.
Hawkeshead.
Northern Division^ P^ZZT'
/ Preston.
^ Burnley.
Newton.
Wigan.
Manchester.
Liverpool.
Ormskirk.
Rochdale.
C Loughborough.
Northern Division^ Melton Mowbray.
I Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
r Leicester.
Southern Division < Hinckley.
(^ Market Harborough.
'Lincoln.
Gainsborough.
Epworth.
Barton.
Brigg.
Market Raisin,
Great Grimsby.
Louth.
Spilsby.
Horncastle.
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64.
185
Counties.
Lincolnshire
Divisions.
{Parts of Kesteven^
and Holland
Middlesex
Monmouthshire
Norfolk . .
Norfolk
Polling Places,
fSleaford.
Boston.
Holbeach.
Bourn.
Donington.
Navenby.
Spalding.
Grantham.
Brentford.
Enfield.
King's Cross, or with-
in half a mile thereof.
-^ Hammersmith.
Bedfont.
Edgware.
Mile End.
^Uxbridge.
' ^ Monmouth.
\ Abergavenny.
^Usk.
1 Newport.
/ The Rock Inn, in the
parish of Bedwelty.
/"Norwich.
1 Yarmouth.
Eastern Division < Reepham.
i North Walsham.
V.Long Stratton.
SwafFham.
Downham.
Fakenham.
Lynn Regis.
Thetford.
East Dereham.
Western Division
/"Kettering.
1 Peterborough.
Northamptonshire Northern Division < Oundle.
J Wellingborough.
vClipston.
186
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Counties.
Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire
Northumberland
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire
Oxfordshire
Divisions. Polling Places.
C Northampton.
Southern Division < rp / *
j lowcester.
(^ Brackley.
/'Alnwick.
1 Berwick.
Northern Division < Wooler.
J Elsdon.
(.Morpeth.
r Hexham.
1 Newcastle uponTyne
Southern Division < Haltwhistle.
J Bellingham.
V,Stamfordham.
r Nottingham.
Northern Division < Mansfield.
(East Retford.
( Newark upon Trent.
Southern Division < Bingham.
I Southwell.
r Oxford.
J Deddington.
J Witney.
^Nettlebed.
Rutlandshire Oakham.
Shropshire
Shropshire
C Shrewsbury.
Northern Division } whTSch.
(^ Wellington.
r Church Stretton.
\ Bridgnorth.
Southern Division < Ludlow.
i Bishop's Castle.
CWenlock.
2 & 3 William IV. Cap.
187
Counties.
Somersetshire
Somersetshire .
Staffordshire
Staffordshire
Suffolk
Suffolk . . .
Surrey
Divisions.
Eastern Division
Polling Places.
Wells.
Bath.
7 Shepton Mallet.
\ Bedminster.
/ Axbridge.
Wincanton.
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r Taunton.
WT . r\- • ■ J Bridgwater.
Western Division ^Ij^j^°^^^^
(Williton.
Stafford.
Leek.
Newcastle-under-
Lyme.
Cheadle.
Abbots Bromley.
r Walsall.
1 Lichfield.
Southern Division-^ Wolverhampton.
Penkridge.
King's Swinford.
Ipswich.
Needham.
Woodbridge.
Eastern Division -^ Framlingham.
Saxmundham.
Halesworth.
^Beccles.
'Bury St. Edmund's
Wickham Brook.
Lavenham.
Western Division ^ Stowmarket.
IBotesdale.
Mildenhall.
l^Hadleigh.
C Croydon.
Eastern Division ) Camberwell.
(^ Kingston.
188
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Counties.
Divisions. Polling Places.
C Guildford.
Surrey . . .
. Western Division < Dorking.
( Chertsey.
r Lewes.
Sussex . . .
T^ ^ T^- • • 1 East Grinstead.
. Eastern Division ^ battle.
CMayfield.
r Chichester.
Sussex . . .
1 Steyning.
. Western Division < Petworth.
J Horsham.
V,Arundell.
rColeshill.
\ Nuneaton.
Warwickshire .
. Northern Divisions Coventry.
J Birmingham.
(.D unchurch.
/"Warwick.
1 Kineton.
Warwickshire .
. Southern Division < Stratford.
) Henley.
(.Southam.
^Applehy.
i Kirkby-Stephen.
Westmoreland ,
1 Shap.
\ Ambleside.
/ Kendal.
^ Kirkby-Lonsdale.
Isle of Wight .
' 1 Newport.
I West Cowes.
Wiltshire
Wiltshire
! Devizes.
Melksham.
Malmsbury.
Swindon.
r Salisbury.
ci .1. -n- • • J Warminster.
Southern Division^ j.^^^ g^^^i^y^
(^Hindon.
2& 3 William IV. Cap. 64.
189
Counties.
^ Worcestershire
Worcestershire
Divisions,
Polling Places.
. Eastern Division
Yorkshire .
North Riding
Yorkshire
East Riding .
k^orkshire .
West Riding
Droitwich.
Pershore.
Shipston.
Stourbridge.
r Worcester.
Western Division < cF ^^' ^
j btourport.
(^ Tenbury.
rYork.
Malton.
Scarborough.
Whitby.
Stokesley.
Guisborough.
Romaldkirk.
Richmond.
Askrigg.
Thirsk.
Northallerton.
l< Kirby Moor Side.
Beverley.
Hull.
Driffield.
Pocklington.
Bridlington.
Howden.
Hedon.
Settrington.
r Wakefield.
Sheffield.
Doncaster.
Snaith.
Huddersfield.
Halifax.
Bradford.
Barnsley.
Leeds.
Keighley.
Settle.
Knaresborough.
Skipton.
] Pately Bridge.
LDent.
190 The Boundary Act,
WALES.
Counties. Divisions. Polling Places.
C Beaumaris,
Anglesea < Holyhead.
( Llangefni.
Brecknockshire Brecon.
Llandilo Vawr.
Caermarthen.
. Llandovery. ^. „
Caermarthenshire N Newcastle Emlyn/
Saint Clears.
Llanelly.
Llansawel.
t Cardigan.
t^ V ,. J Aberystwith.
Cardiganshire -j Lampeter.
( Tregaron.
r Carnarvon.
^ , . 1 Conway.
Carnarvonshire ^ Capel Cerrig.
C Pwllheli.
r Denbigh.
\ Wrexham.
Denbighshire -^Llanrwst.
J Llangollen.
(.Ruthin.
f Flint.
Flintshire < Rhuddlan.
. ( Overton.
Bridgend.
Cardiff.
Glamorganshire ^ Swansea.
J Neath.
(.Merthyr-Tydvil.
( Harlech.
\ Bala.
Merionethshire ^Dolgelly.
Towyn.
Corwen.
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Counties. Divisions. Polling Places.
r Montgomery.
1 Llanidloes.
Montgomeryshire ^Machynlleth.
i Llanfyllin.
(.Llanvair.
Haverfordwest.
Pembroke.
Narberth.
Pembrokeshire ^ Fishguard.
Newport.
Tenby.
Mathry.
New Radnor.
Presteign.
T, , , I I^haydr.
Radnorshire ^ Painscastle.
Colwyn.
Knighton.
Pen-y-bont.
SCHEDULE (N. 2.)
Boroughs. Polling Places.
NewShoreham .... f New Shoreham.
( Cowfold.
r Cricklade.
Cricklade ...... J Brickworth.
( Swindon.
Aylesbury Aylesbury.
r East Retford.
East Retford ,,.,,} ^Herton.
j Worksop.
t Gringley-on-the-Hill.
192 The Boundary Act,
SCHEDULE (^O.)
1.— COUNTY OF BEDFORD.
Bedford. — The old borough of Bedford.
2._C0UNTY OF BERKS.
Abingdon. — The old borough of Abingdon.
Reading. — The old borough of Reading.
Wallingford. — The old borough of Wallingford ; the
several parishes of Brightwell, Sotwell, North Moreton,
South Moreton, Bensington, Crowmarsh, and Newnham
Murren ; the liberty of Clapcot, and the extra-parochial
precinct of the castle ; and also all such parts of the several
parishes of Cholsey, Aston Tirrel, and Aston Upthorpe as
are situate on that side of the line next herein-after described,
on which the town of Wallingford lies ; (that is to say,)
From Blewberry, along the road called " The Icknield
Way," to the point on King's Standing Hill at which the same
meets the boundary of the parish of Cholsey ; thence, east-
ward, along the boundary of the parish of Cholsey to the
point at which the same reaches the River Thames.
New Windsor. — The old borough of New Windsor, the
lower ward of the Castle, and so much of the parish of
Clewer as is situated to the east of the following boundary ;
(that is to say,)
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64. 193
From the point at which the Goswell Ditch joins the River
Thames, along the Goswell Ditch to the point at which the
same meets Clewer Lane; thence, westward, along Clewer
Lane to a point twenty-five yards distant from the point last
described ; thence in a straight line to the north-western
corner of the enclosure wall of the Cavalry Barracks ; thence
along the Western Enclosure Wall of the Cavalry Barracks
to the point at which the same cuts the boundary of the
parish of New Windsor.
3.— COUNTY OF BUCKINGHAM.
Buckingham. — The several Parishes of Buckingham,
Maidsmorton, Thornborough, Padbury, Hillesden, Preston
Bissett, Tingewick, and Radclive-cum-Chackmore.
Great Marlow. — The several Parishes of Great Marlow,
Little Marlow, Medmenham, and Bisham.
Chipping Wycombe. — The Parish of Chipping Wycombe.
4._C0UNTY OF CAMBRIDGE.
Cambridge. — The old borough of Cambridge.
5.— COUNTY OF CHESTER.
NORTHERN DIVISION.
Macclesfield. — From the point at which the boundary of
the borough of Macclesfield meets the Leek Road near Moss
Pool, southward, along the Leek Road to the bridge over the
Macclesfield canal ; thence, eastward, along the Macclesfield
Canal to the point at which the same meets the boundary of
the Borough ; thence, eastward, along the boundary of the
Borough to the point at which the same is again met
by the Macclesfield Canal; thence, northward, along the
Macclesfield Canal to the point at which the same crosses
Shore's Clough Brook; thence, westward, along Shore's
Clough Brook to the point at which the same meets the
boundary of the township of Hurdsfield ; thence, southward,
194 The Boundary Act,
along the boundary of the township of Hurdsfield to
the point at which the same meets the boundary of the
Borough of Macclesfield; thence, westward, along the
boundary of the borough of Macclesfield to the point first
described.
Stockport. — The township of Stockport, and the re-
spective hamlets of Brinksway and Edgeley, together with
those parts of the respective townships of Brinnington and
Heaton Norris which are included within the following
boundaries respectively (that is to say,)
Brinnington. — From the point at which the boundary of the
township of Stockport would be cut by a straight line to
be drawn from the bridge over the River Mersey on the
Bredbury and Hyde Road to the Corn Mill on the
township of Heaton Norris, between the Manchester
and Stockport Canal and the Reddish Road, and now in
the occupation of Mr. Walmsley, along such straight
line to the point at which the same cuts the River Tame ;
thence along the River Tame to the point at which the
same meets the boundary of the township of Stockport ;
thence, eastward, along the boundary of the township of
Stockport to the point first described.
Heaton Norris. — From the point at which the boundary of
the township of Heaton Norris meets the Manchester
Road, between a public house called the Ash, and
Danby Lane, along the Manchester Road to the point
at which the same meets Danby Lane ; thence along
Danby Lane to the point at which the same is cut by a
straight line drawn thereto from the first mile stone on
the Altringham Road through the western angle of the
public house called the Heaton Norris Club House ;
thence along the said straight line to the point at which
the same meets the Southern Boundary of the township
of Heaton Norris ; thence, eastward, along the boundary
of the township of Heaton Norris to the point first
described.
SOUTHERN DIVISION.
Chester. — The old city of Chester, and also the space
included within the following boundary ; (that is to say,)
From the second city boundary stone in Boughton Ford
Mead, and on the eastern bank of the River Dee, in a
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64. 195
straight line to the western extremity of a lane which leads
from Stock Lane to Boughton Heath ; thence in a straight
line to the southern extremity of Heath Lane ; thence along
Heath Lane to the point at which the same joins the Christie-
ton Road ; thence along the Christleton Road to the point at
which the same is joined by New Lane ; thence along New
Lane to the point at which the same meets Filkin Lane ;
thence along Filkin Lane to the point at which the same
joins, at Asp Tree Turnpike Gate, the Tarvin Road ; thence
along the Tarvin Road to Tarvin Bridge ; thence along the
Nantwich Canal to the point at which the same meets the old
City Boundary ; thence. Southward, along the old City Boun-
dary to the Second City Boundary Stone aforesaid.
6._COUNTY OF CORNWALL.
EASTERN DIVISION.
Bodmin. — The several parishes of Bodmin, Lanivet,
Lanhydrock, and Helland.
Launceston. — The old borough of Launceston and the
parish of St, Stephen, and all such parts of the several
parishes of Lawhitton, St. Thomas the Apostle, and South
Petherwin as are without the old borough of Launceston.
LisKEARD. — The parish of Liskeard, and also all such
parts of the old borough of Liskeard as are without the
parish of Liskeard.
WESTERN DIVISION.
Helstone. — The old borough of Helstone, the parish of
Sithney, and also the space included within the following
boundary ; that is to say,
From Coverack Bridge, over the River Loo, in a straight
line across the Wendron Road to the western extremity of a
lane leading by Wheal Ann to Graham Mine ; thence along
the said lane to the point at which the same meets a small
stream ; thence, southward, along the said stream to the
point at which the same meets a lane leading from Wendron
to Trecoose and Constantine : thence, eastward, along the
said lane to Trecoose and Constantine, to the point at which
the same meets the boundary of the parish of Wendron ;
thence, southward, along the boundary of the parish of
Wendron to Coverack Bridge.
196 The Boundary Act,
St. Ives. — The old borough of St. Ives, and the respective
parishes of Lelant and Towednack.
Penryn and Falmouth. — From the point, on the north
of Penryn, at which the boundary of the old borough leaves
the boundary of the parish of Mylor, westward, along the
boundary of the old borough to the point at which the same
meets the road from Penryn to Helstone; thence in a
straight line to the point, called Hill Head, at which the
road to Penryn from Budock joins the road to Penryn
from Constantine; thence in a straight line to the nearest
point of the boundary of the parish of Falmouth ; thence,
southward, along the boundary of the parish of Falmouth
to the point at which the same meets the boundary of the
detached portion of the parish of Budock; thence in a
straight line to the northern point at which the boundary
of the detached portion of the parish of Budock leaves the
boundary of the parish of Falmouth ; thence, westward,
along the sea coast to the point at which the same is met
by the boundary of the parish of St. Gluvias ; thence,
eastward, along the boundary of the parish of St. Gluvias to
the point first described.
From Bosvigo Bridge over the Kenwyn River, and on the
boundary of the old borough, along Bosvigo Lane, to the
point at which the same joins the Redruth Road; thence
along the Redruth Road to the point at which the same is
joined, near Chapel-Hill Gate, by Green Lane ; thence along
Green Lane to the point at which the same joins the Falmouth
road; thence along an occupation road leading through
Ne wham-Farm Land to the point at which such occupation
road meets Newham-Farm Lane ; thence along a fence
which proceeds from Newham-Farm Lane, and is the south-
western boundary of two fields respectively called Great Beef
Close and Little Beef Close, to the point at which such fence
meets the north-western fence of a field called Bramble
Close ; thence, eastward, along the fence of Bramble Close
to the point at which the same reaches the shore of Calenick
Creek ; thence along the shore of Calenick Creek to Lower
Newham Wharf; thence in a straight line across the Truro
and Falmouth River to the south-eastern extremity of Sunny-
Corner Wharf; thence in a straight line to Sunny Corner;
thence in a straight line to the point at which Trenack Lane
would be cut by a straight line to be drawn from the eastern
extremity of Newham-Farm Lane to the point called Hill
Head, at which St. Clement's Lane meets the St. Austell old
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turnpike road ; thence in a straight line to Mitchell-Hill
Gate, on the old London Road ; thence in a straight line to
the point at which the boundary of the old borough would be
cut by a straight line to be drawn from Mitchell-Hill Gate to
Kenwyn Church; thence, northward, along the boundary of
the old borough to Bosvigo Bridge.
7.— COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND.
EASTERN DIVISION.
Carlisle. — The ancient city of Carlisle, and the respective
townships of Botchergate and Rickergate, and also all such
part of the township of Caldewgate as is comprised within
the boundary hereafter described ; (that is to say,)
From the bridge over the River Caldew uniting the town-
ship of Caldewgate with the old city of Carlisle, southward,
along the River Caldew to the point at which the same leaves
the boundary of the township of Caldewgate ; thence, west-
ward, along the boundary of the township of Caldewgate to
the point at which the road from the Kell Houses to Carlisle
joins the Wigton Road ; thence in a straight line to the point
at which the bye road from Stainton, over the Summer
House Ford in the River Eden, and across the canal from
the Solway to Carlisle, meets the road from Great and Little
Orton to Carlisle at a place called New Town ; thence along
the said road from Stainton to the point at which the same
reaches the Summer House Ford ; thence along the boundary
of the township of Caldewgate to the bridge first described.
WESTERN DIVISION.
^^ocKERMouTH. — The several townships of Cockermouth,
Eaglesfield, Brigham, Papcastle, and Bridekirk ; and also
; that detached portion of the township of Dovenby which
1 lies between the respective townships of Papcastle, Bridekirk,
and Cockermouth.
Whitehaven. — From the point on the sea coast, north
of Whitehaven, at which the boundary of the township
of Preston Quarter meets the boundary of the township
of Moresby, eastward, along the boundary of the township
of Preston Quarter, to the point at which the stream which
flows through the village of Hensingham falls into the Poe
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Beck ; thence in a straight line to the point on the sea coast at
which the boundary of the township of Preston meets the
boundary of the township of Sandwich ; thence along the
sea coast to the point first described.
8.— COUNTY OF DERBY.
SOUTHERN DIVISION.
Derby. — The old borough of Derby.
9.— COUNTY OF DEVON.
NORTHERN DIVISION
Barnstaple. — From the new bridge over Braddiford
Water, on the new Braunton Road, along the hedge which
is the eastern boundary of the East Pillow March Field, to the
point at which the same cuts Poleshill Lane ; thence along
Poleshill Lane to the point at which the same meets Hall's Mill
Lane ; thence along Hall's Mill Lane to the point at which
the same meets the Mill Leat ; thence along the Mill Leat to
the point at which the same meets Shearford Lane ; thence
along Shearford Lane to the point at which the same joins the
Roborough Road ; thence along the Roborough Road to the
point at which the same is met by Smoky House Lane ; thence
along Smoky House Lane to the point at which the same is
cut by a hedge which divides the field called Great Mill Close
from the field called Little Mill Close ; thence along the last-
mentioned hedge and in a line in continuation of the direction
thereof, to the point at which such line cuts the River Yeo ;
thence, eastward, along the boundary of the old borough of
Barnstaple to the point at which the same meets, in Cooney
Cut, the south-eastern fence of a field called" Ham ;" thence
along the last-mentioned fence to the point at which the same
cuts Land Key Road ; thence in a straight Line to the point
on Rumson Hill at which Windy Ash Lane meets the Brindon
Cross Road ; thence along Windy Ash Lane to the point at
which Wood Street Water crosses the same ; thence along
Wood Street Water to the point at which the same joins the
River Taw ; thence along the River Taw to the point at
which the same is joined by the River Yeo ; thence along the
River Yeo to the Swing Bridge on the new Braunton Road ;
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thence along the new Braunton Road to the new bridge first
described.
Tiverton. — The parish of Tiverton.
SOUTHERN DIVISION.
AsHBURTON. — The parish of Ashburton.
Dartmouth. — From the point on the sea coast at which
the boundary of the parish of Townstall meets the boundary
of the parish of Stoke Fleming, northward, along the
boundary of the parish of Townstall, to the point at which
the same meets the Stoke Road ; thence along the Stoke
Road, passing Swallaton Cross and Swallaton Gate, to the
point at which the Stoke Road meets the Milton Road ;
thence along the Milton Road to the point at which the same
is met by the boundary of the parish of Townstall ; thence,
westward, along the boundary of the parish of Townstall
to the point at which the same reaches Old Mill Creek ;
thence along the low-water mark to the point first de-
scribed.
Devonport. — The parish of Stoke Damerill, and the
township of Stonehouse.
Exeter. — From the turnpike gate on the Morton Road,
southward, along Cowick Lane to the point at which the
same meets Stone Lane ; thence along Stone Lane to the
point at which the same meets the road from Exeter to
Alphington ; thence, southward, along the road from Exeter
to Alphington to the point at which the same is joined by
Marsh Barton Lane ; thence along Marsh Barton Lane to the
point at which the same reaches the western branch of the
River Exe ; thence in a straight line to the point at which
Abbey Lane meets the Eastern Branch of the River Exe ;
thence, southward, along the Leat to the point at which the
same is joined by the brook which runs down through East
Wonford ; thence along the said brook to the point at which
the same crosses the old Stoke and Tiverton Road near the
road to Mincing Lake Farm ; thence along the old Stoke and
Tiverton Road to the point at which the same meets the bound-
ary of the County of the City ; thence, northward, along the
boundary of the County of the City to the point near
Foxhays at which a branch of the River Exe, flowing
through Exwick, joins the main stream thereof; thence
in a straight line to the point at which the road from
Exwick to tl^e turnpike gate on the Morton Road is joined
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by a road leading from Foxhays to Cleave ; thence along the
said road from Exwick to the turnpike gate on the Morton Road
to the point at which the same reaches such turnpike gate.
HoNiTON. — The parish of Honiton.
Plymouth. — From the north-eastern boundary stone in a
straight line to the nearest point of the line of the Embank-
ment ; thence, southward, along the line of the Embankment
to the point at which the same meets the boundary of the old
borough ; thence, southward, along the boundary of the old
borough to the point first described.
Tavistock. — The parish of Tavistock, except the Manor
of Cudliptown.
ToTNES. — The parish of Totnes, and the Manor of
Bridgetown.
10_COUNTY OF DORSET.
Bridport. — From the Toll Bar on the Exeter Road in a
straight line to the northern extremity of the fence which se-
parates the field called " Marland Five Acres" from the field
called " Higher Girtups and Dogholes ;" thence along the
western Fence of the Field Higher Girtups and Dogholes to
the point at which the same reaches a lane leading into Mead
Lane ; thence along the said lane leading into Mead Lane to the
point at which the same reaches Mead Lane ; thence along
Mead Lane to the point at which the same joins the Chard
Road ; thence, northward, along the Chard Road to the point
at which the same is joined by the first lane on the right
called " Green Lane ;" thence in a straight line to AUington
Mill ; thence in a straight line to the point at which Coney-
gere Lane joins the Pymore Road ; thence along Coneygere
Lane to the point at which the same joins the Beaminster
Road ; thence in a straight line to the Bridge over the River
Asher close by the Flood Houses ; thence along the River
Asher to the point at which the same would be cut by a
straight line to be drawn from the eastern extremity of Coney-
gere Lane to the Turnpike Gate on the Dorchester Road ;
thence along the said straight line to the Turnpike Gate on
the Dorchester Road; thence, southward, along the Dor-
chester Road to the point at which the same is joined by
Bothenhampton Lane; thence along Bothenhampton Lane
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to the point at which the same is met by the stream which
forms the boundary between the respective parishes of Wal-
ditch and Bothenhampton ; thence along the said stream to
the point at which the same falls into the River Asher ; thence
down the River Asher (following the easternmost branch
thereof at the points at which the same divides into two
branches) to Squib's Bridge ; thence in a straight line to the
south-eastern corner of Keemy Cottage on the Bothenhamp-
ton Road; thence in a straight line to the eastern extremity
of Wonderwell Lane ; thence, westward, along Wonder-
well Lane to the point at which the same joins the Burton
Bradstock Road ; thence, southward, along the Burton Brad-
stock Road to Wich Gate ; thence in a straight line through
the Bombardier's House to the Sea Coast ; thence along the
Sea Coast to the eastern extremity of West Cliff; thence,
northward, along West Cliff, and along the western bound-
ary of the Ship Yard of Messieurs Matthews and Company,
to the point at which the same meets the boundary of the
field called Pitfield Marsh ; thence, northward, along the
boundary of Pitfield Marsh to the points at which the same
meets the River Brit at Ire Pool ; thence up the River Brit
to the point at which the same is joined by the stream which
forms the boundary between the respective parishes of
Symondsbury and Allington ; thence along the last-mentioned
stream to the point at which the same meets the fence which
runs down thereto from the Toll Bar at the Exeter Road ;
thence along the last-mentioned fence to the Toll Bar on the
Exeter Road.
Dorchester. — From the second or middle Bridge on the
Sherborne Road, along the northern branch of the RiverFrome,
passing under Grey's Bridge, to the point at which such
northern branch is met, near Stanton's Cloth Factory, by the
boundary of the parish of Fordington ; thence, southward,
along the boundary of the parish of Fordington to the point
at which the same meets the Wareham Road ; thence, west-
ward, along the Wareham Road to the Turnpike Gate ; thence
in a straight line to the centre of the barrow called "Two
Barrows;" thence in a straight line to the centre of the am-
phitheatre called Maumbury Ring; thence in a straight line
to the centre of the barrow called Lawrence Barrow, near the
Exeter Road ; thence in a straight line to the south-western
corner of the Barrack Wall; thence northward, along the
Barrack Wall and Palisade to the point at which such Pali-
sade meets the southern branch of the River Frome ; thence
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in a straight line to the second or middle bridge on the Sher-
borne Road.
Lyme Regis. — The respective parishes of Lyme Regis
and Charmouth.
Poole. — The county and town of Poole, the parish of
Hamworthy, and the respective tithings of Parkstone and
Longfleet.
Shaftesbury. — The old borough of Shaftesbury; the
several out-parishes of Holy Trinity, St. James, and St. Peter ;
the several parishes of Cann, St. Rombald, Motcomb, East
Stower, Stower Provost, Todbere, Melbury Abbas, Compton
Abbas, Dowhead St. Mary, and St. Margaret's Marsh and
the chapelry of Hartgrove.
Wareham. — The old borough of Wareham ; the parishes
of Corfe Castle and Bere Regis ; the several out-parishes
of Lady Saint Mary, Holy Trinity, and St. Martin ; and
the chapelry of Arne ; that part of the parish of East Stoke
which adjoins the eastern boundary of the old borough of
Wareham ; and also such part of the parish of East Morden
as is comprised within the following boundary ; (that is to
say,)
From the point at which the boundary of the parish of
East Morden meets the southern boundary of Morden Park
Wood, southward, along the boundary of Morden Park Wood,
to the point at which the same meets the Sherford Lake ;
thence, eastward, along the Sherford Lake to the point at
which the same meets the boundary of the parish of East
Morden ; thence, southward, along the boundary of the parish
of East Morden to the point first described.
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis. — From the old Sluice
on the Wareham Road in a straight line to the point at
which the northern wall of the old Barrack Field meets the
Porchester Road ; thence along the said northern wall, and
in a line in the direction thereof, to the point at which such
line meets the boundary of the old borough ; thence, north-
ward, along the boundary of the old borough to the point
at which the same meets the Upper Wyke Road, thence,
westward, along the Upper Wyke Road to the point at which
the same is joined by a cross road leading to the Lower
Wyke Road, otherwise called Buxton's Lane ; thence along
the said cross road to the point at which the same joins the
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64?. 203
said Lower Wyke Road ; tlience along the said Lower Wyke
Road to the point at which the same joins the Sandsfoot
Castle Road ; thence, northward, along the Sandsfoot Castle
Road to the point at which the same is met by the Footpath
leading by Lovel's Farm to Bincleves ; thence along the
said Footpath to the point at which the same reaches the edge
of the Cliff at Bincleves ; thence along the Sea Coast to the
old sluice aforesaid.
11.— COUNTY OF DURHAM.
NORTHERN DIVISION.
Durham. — From Shincliffe Bridge over the River Wear, on
the Stockton Road, along the Stockton Road, to the point at
wliich the same is met by a lane leading into the Darlington
Road ; thence along the said lane to the point at which the
same joins the Darlington Road ; thence along the Darlington
Road to the point at which the same is met by Potter's Lane ;
thence along Potter's Lane to the point at which the same
meets Quarry Head Lane ; thence along Quarry Head Lane
to the point at which the same meets Margery Lane ; thence
along Margery Lane to the point at which the same meets
Flass Lane ; thence along Flass Lane to the point at which
the same meets a lane leading into the newly cut Turnpike
Road which forms the commencement of the Newcastle
Road ; thence along the last mentioned lane to the point at
which the same joins the said newly cut road; thence, north-
ward, along the said newly cut road to the point at which
the same joins the old line of the Newcastle Road ; thence in
a straight line through the northernmost of the two out-
buildings attached to Kepier's Hospital to the River Wear ;
thence along the River Wear to the point at which the same
meets Kepier Lane ; thence along Kepier Lane, passing
under the old arches of the hospital, to the point at which the
same lane is joined, on the south-west of High Grange Farm,
by a lane leading into the Loaning Head Road ; thence along
the last mentioned lane, crossing the Sunderland Road, to the
point at which the same lane joins the Loaning Head Road ;
thence along the Loaning Head Road to the point at which
the same is met by a Beck running close to the north of Pel-
law Wood and to the south of Gilesgate Church; thence
along the said Beck to the point at which the same falls into
the River Wear ; thence along the River Wear to Shincliffe
Bridge.
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Gateshead. — The parish of Gateshead, and also all such
part of the chapelry of Heworth in the parish of Jarrow as
is situated to the west of a straight line to be drawn from
Kirton Toll Gate House to Blue Quarry Mill, and prolong-
ed each way to the boundary of the parish of Gateshead.
South Shields. — The respective townships of South
Shields and Westoe.
Sunderland. — The parish of Sunderland, and the several
townships of Bishop Wearmouth, Bishop Wearmouth Panns,
Monk Wearmouth, Monk Wearmouth Shore, and Southwick.
12.— COUNTY OF ESSEX.
NORTHERN DIVISION
Colchester. — The old borough of Colchester.
Harwich. — The old borough of Harwich.
SOUTHERN DIVISION.
Maldon.— The old borough of Maldon, and the parish of
Heybridge.
13.— COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER.
EASTERN DIVISION
Cheltenham. — The parish of Cheltenham.
Cirencester. — The parish of Cirencester.
Gloucester. — From the old City Boundary Stone on the
western side of the lane called Castle Lane, leading from
Westgate Street to the County Gaol, northward, along the
old City Boundary to the Boundary Stone, south of the Lon-
don Road, which marks the easternmost point of the old City
Boundary; thence in a straight line through the eastern
corner of the Mill upon the River Twiver, between the old
City Boundary and the Tramroad from the Gloucester and
Berkeley Canal to Cheltenham, to the said Tramroad ; thence
along the said Tramroad to the point at which the same is
met by Barton Lane ; thence along Barton Lane to the point
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64. 205
at which the same crosses the Sud Brook ; thence along the
Sud Brook to the point at which the same falls into the Glou-
cester and Berkeley Canal ; thence along the Gloucester and
Berkeley Canal to the point at which the same is met by the
old City Boundary ; thence, westward, along the old City
Boundary to the point first described.
Stroud. — The several parishes of Stroud, Bisley, Pains-
wick, Pitchcomb, Randwick, Stonehouse, Leonard-Stanley,
King's-Stanley, Rodborough, Minchinhampton, Woodchester,
Avening, and Horseley, except that part of the parish of
Leonard-Stanley which is called Lorridge's Farm, and is sur-
rounded by the parish of Berkley.
Tewkesbury. — The parish of Tewkesbury.
14.— COUNTY OF HANTS.
NORTHERN DIVISION.
Andover. — The respective parishes of Andover and
Knights Enham, and the tithing of Foxcot.
Petersfield. — The old borough of Petersfield, and the
tithing of Sheet ; the several parishes of Buriton, Lyss, and
Froxfield ; the several tithings of Ramsden, Langrish, and
Oxenbourn, in the parish of East Meon ; and also the parish
of Steep, except the respective tithings of North and South
Ambersham.
Winchester. — From St. Winnal's Church in a straight line
to the Cottage on the new Alresford Road, which is north-
west of the White House on St. Giles's Hill ; thence in a
straight line to the Turnpike Gate at Barr End ; thence in a
straight line to the point at which the Gosport Road joins the
Southampton Road ; thence in a straight line to the point
at which an angle is made in the northern bank of the
lane leading from St. Cross to Compton Down, perpendi-
cularly above the deep hollow in the said lane ; thence in a
straight line to the Cock Lane Turnpike Gate ; thence in a
straight line to the Three Horse Shoes public house on the
Week Road ; thence in a straight line to the house on the
Andover Road which is immediately north-west of the point
at which the boundary of the City of Winchester crosses the
same road ; thence in a straight line to the south-eastern
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corner of the Fir Plantation on the western side of the Ba-
singstoke Road ; thence in a straight line to St. Winnal's
Church.
SOUTHERN DIVISION.
CiiRisTCHURCH. — The parish of Christchurch, and the
chapelry of Holdenhurst, except such part of the tithing of
Hurn in the parish of Christchurch as is situated to the north
of the following boundary ; (that is to say,)
From the point at which the western boundary of the
parish of Christchurch crosses the road from Dudsbury to
Hurnbridge, in a straight line to the south-western corner of
Merritown Common ; thence along the southern boundary of
Merritown Common and of Hurn Common to the point at
which the southern boundary of Hurn Common reaches the
Moor's River ; thence in a straight line to the southern
boundary post of the parish of Christchurch on the Ringwood
Road, close by Fillybrook Plantation.
Lymington. — The parish of Lymington, and also such part
of the parish of Boldre as is comprised in the following
boundary ; (that is to say,)
From East-end Bridge, on the eastern boundary of the
parish of Boldre, in a straight line through Boldre Church to
the western bank of Lymington River ; thence, southward,
along the western bank of Lymington River to the point at
which the same meets the boundary of the parish of Boldre ;
thence, southward, along the boundary of the parish of Boldre
to East-end Bridge aforesaid.
Portsmouth. — The old borough of Portsmouth, and the
parish of Portsea.
Southampton. — The town and county of the town of
Southampton.
15.— COUNTY OF HEREFORD.
Hereford. — The whole space contained within the bound-
ary of the liberties of the City of Hereford, including Castle
Green.
Leominster. — The parish of Leominster.
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16.— COUNTY OF HERTFORD.
St. Alban's. — From the Turnpike Gate on the London
Road east of St. Alban's, called St. Alban's Gate, in a straight
line to the point at which the boundary of the old borough
crosses the river at the bottom of the Cotton Mill Lane ;
thence, southward, along the boundary of the old borough to
the point at which the western boundary of the parish of St.
Alban leaves the river ; thence in a straight line, through the
south-eastern corner of St. Michael's Churchyard, to the
Hempstead Road ; thence, northward, along the Hempstead
Road to the point at which the same meets the road leading
to Gorehambury, formerly the Redbourn Road ; thence in a
straight line to the western extremity of the tongue of
land in the river just above Kingsbury Fishpond ; thence in
a straight line to the side bar belonging to Kingsbury Turn-
pike Gate, by the side of the new Redbourn Road ; thence
eastward, in a straight line to the point at which the boundary
of the old borough meets Luton Lane ; thence, eastward,
along the boundary of the old borough to the point at which
the same crosses Sweetbriar Lane ; thence in a straight line
to St. Alban's Turnpike Gate aforesaid.
Hertford. — From the Corporation Post at the bottom of
Port Hill, along the Bengeo Road to the point at which the
same is cut by the northern fence of Port Hill Field ; thence
along the northern and western fences of Port Hill Field to the
point at which such western fence cuts the Mole Wood Mill
Road ; thence in a straight line through Sele Farm Bridge to
the Stevenage Road ; thence in a straight line to the point at
which the Hertingfordbury Road is crossed by the boundary
of the Out-borough of Hertford; thence, southward, along
the boundary of the Out-borough of Hertford to the corpora-
tion post at the bottom of Port Hill.
17.— COUNTY OF HUNTINGDON.
Huntingdon. — The old borough of Huntingdon, and the
parish of Godmanchester.
18.— COUNTY OF KENT.
EASTERN DIVISION.
Canterbury. — From the westernmost point, near St.
Jacob's, at which the boundary of the City Liberties meets
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the Ashford Road, in a straight line to the point at which the
respective boundaries of the parishes of Harbledown, St.
Dunstan, and Holy Cross Westgate meet ; thence, northward,
along the eastern boundary of the parish of Harbledown to
the point at which the same turns north-westward near the
Whitstable Road, thence, in a straight line, in the direction of
St. Stephen's Church, to the point at which such straight line
cuts the boundary of the parish of St. Stephen ; thence, east-
ward along the boundary of the parish of St. Stephen to the
point at which the same meets the boundary of the parish of
Holy Cross Westgate ; thence in a straight line, through the
point at which the road to St. Stephen's Church meets the road
to Sturry, to the nearest branch of the River Stour ; thence
along the said branch of the River Stour to the Corporation
Stone, Number 5 ; thence, eastward, along the boundary of the
City Liberties, including the whole of the borough of Longport,
to the point first described.
DovoR. — From the Jetty, along the boundary of the Liber-
ties of the Town and Port of Dovor, on the eastern side of
the Castle, and through the parish of Charlton to the Bound-
ary Stone at which the boundary of the said liberties meets
the boundary of the parish of Buckland in Back Lane ; thence
along Back Lane to the point at which the same meets the
road leading down to Crabbe Turnpike Gate on the London
Road ; thence in a straight line, in a westerly direction, to
the point at which the boundary of the parish of Buckland
crosses the London Road ; thence along the boundary of the
parish of Buckland to the point at which the same crosses the
river ; thence in a straight line to the point at which the
boundary of the parish of Buckland meets the road Ifeading
to Combe Farm ; thence along the boundary of the parish of
Buckland to the point at which the boundary of the parish of
Hougham is intersected by the boundary of the liberties
aforesaid ; thence along the boundary of the said Liberties
to the Sea Coast ; thence along the Sea Coast to the Jetty.
Hythe. — The old borough of Hythe ; the liberties of the
town of Folkstone ; and the several parishes of West Hythe,
Saltwood, Cheriton, Folkstone, and Newington, except that de-
tached part of the parish of Newington called Marwood Land.
Sandwich. — The several parishes of St. Mary, St. Peter,
and St. Clement ; and the extra-parochial precinct of St.
Bartholomew, Sandwich ; the parish of Deal ; and the parish
of Walmer.
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64. 209
WESTERN DIVISION.
Chatham. — From the easternmost point at which the
boundary of the city of Rochester meets the right bank of
the River Medway, southward, along the boundary of the
city of Rochester to the boundary stone of the said city
marked 5 ; thence in a straight line to the Windmill in the
parish of Chatham on the top of Chatham Hill ; thence in a
straight line to the Oil Windmill in the parish of Gillingham,
between the village of Gillingham and the Fortifications ;
thence in a straight line through Gillingham Fort to the
right bank of the River Medway ; thence along the right
bank of the River Medway to the point first described.
Greenwich. — From the point at which the Royal Arsenal
Canal at Woolwich joins the River Thames, along the said
canal to the southern extremity thereof; thence in a straight
line to the south-western corner of the Ordnance Store-
keeper's house ; thence in a straight line, in the direction of
a stile in the Footpath from Woolwich to Plumstead Common,
over Sand Hill, to the boundary of the parish of Woolwich ;
thence, southward, along the boundary of the parish of
Woolwich to the point at which the same meets the boundary
of the parish of Charlton ; thence, westward, along the
boundary of the parish of Charlton to the point at which the
same turns southward near the Dovor Road; thence along
the Dovor Road to the nearest point of the boundary of the
parish of Greenwich ; thence, westward, along the boundary
of the parish of Greenwich to the point at which the same
turns abruptly to the south, close by the Dovor Road;
thence in a straight line, in a westerly direction, to the
nearest point of the boundary of the parish of Greenwich ;
thence, westward, along the boundary of the parish of
Greenwich to the point at which the same meets the boundary
of the parish of Saint Paul, Deptford ; thence, southward,
along the boundary of the parish of Saint Paul, Deptford, to
the point at which the same meets the River Thames ; thence
along the River Thames to the point first described.
Maidstone. — The old borough of Maidstone.
Rochester. — The whole space comprised within the bound-
aries of the liberties of the old City of Rochester, and also such
parts of the respective parishes of Strood and Frindsbury as
are situated between the left bank of the River Medway
and the boundary hereafter described ; (that is to say,)
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From the entrance from the River Medway of the
Thames and Medway Canal, along a footpath which
leads up the hill towards Upnor, to the point (on the top of
the hill) at which the same is met by a road or path leading
towards Frindsbury Church ; thence along such road or path
to the point at which the same joins Parsonage Lane ; thence
along Parsonage Lane to the point at which the same joins
the road from Frindsbury to Hoo ; thence in a straight line
to the northernmost angle of the boundary of the parish of
Strood ; thence, westward, along the boundary of the parish
of Strood to the point at which the same meets the London
Road ; thence towards Rochester along the London Road to
the point at which the same is joined by the road from the
Three Crouches ; thence in a straight line to the point at
which the left bank of the River Medway would be cut by a
straight line to be drawn from the point last described to
Fort Clarence.
19— COUNTY OF LANCASTER.
V —
NORTHERN DIVISION.
Blackburn. — The township of Blackburn.
Clitheroe. — The respective Chapelries of Downham and
Clitheroe; and the Four townships of Whally, Wiswall,
Pendleton, and Henshorn, and Little Mitton and Colcoats.
Lancaster. — From the point on the River Lune at which
the respective boundaries of the townships of Lancaster,
Skerton, and Heaton-with-Oxcliffe meet, westward, along the
boundary of the township of Lancaster to the point at which
the respective boundaries of the townships of Lancaster, Bulk,
and Quernmore meet ; thence in a straight line to the
Aqueduct Bridge over the Caton Road ; thence, northward,
along the Canal from Preston to Kendal to the Fourth Bridge
over the same from the Aqueduct ; thence in a straight line
to the point at which Bracken Lane meets Scale Lane ; thence
along Scale Lane to the point at which the same reaches the
River Lune ; thence along the River Lune to the point first
described.
Preston. — The old borough of Preston, and the township
of Fishwick.
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64. 211
SOUTHERN DIVISION.
Ashton-under-Lyne. — The whole space over which the
provisions of an Act passed in the seventh and eighth years
of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth,
and intituled " An Act for lighting, cleansing, watching, and
" otherwise improving the Town of Ashton-under-Lyne in
" the County Palatine of Lancaster, and for regulating the
" Police thereof," at present extend.
BoLTON-LE-MooRs. — The several townships of Great
Bolton, Little Bolton, and Haulgh, except that detached part
of the township of Little Bolton which is situate to the north
of the town of Bolton.
Bury. — From the point in the Hamlet of Starling at
which a boundary stone marks the boundary of the respective
townships of Elton and Ainsworth, along the lane from
Starling to Walshaw Lane, to the point in the hamlet of
Walshaw Lane at which a Boundary Stone marks the bound-
ary of the respective townships of Elton and Tottington
Lower End ; thence, eastward, along the boundary of the
township of Elton to the point at which the same meets the
Woodill Brook : thence in a straight line to the point at
which the Pigs Lea Brook falls into the River Irwell ; thence,
eastward, along the boundary of the township of Bury to the
point at which the same meets the boundary of the township
of Elton ; thence, westward, along the boundary of the
township of Elton to the point first described.
Liverpool. — From the western extremity of Dingle Lane,
on the south of the town, along Dingle Lane, to the point at
which the same meets Ullet Lane ; thence along UUet Lane to
the point at which the same meets Lodge Lane ; thence along
Lodge Lane to the point at which the same meets Smithdown
Lane ; thence along Smithdown Lane to the point at which the
I same is met by the boundary of the township of Wavertree ;
' thence, northward, along the boundary of the township of
Wavertree to that point thereof which is nearest to the south-
eastern corner of the wall of the new Botanic Gardens ;
thence in a straight line to the said south-eastern corner;
thence along the eastern wall of the new Botanic Gardens to
the point at which such wall reaches Edge Lane ; thence,
eastward, along Edge Lane to a point seventy-four yards dis-
tant from the point last described ; thence in a line parallel tQ
212 The Boundary Act,
the new street called Grove Street to the point at which such
parallel line reaches the London Road; thence along the
London Road to the point at which the same is joined by
Deane Street; thence in a straight line to the boundary
stone in Rake Lane, near the southern extremity ofWhitefield
Lane ; thence, northward, along the boundary of the town-
ship of Everton to the point at which the same joins the
boundary of the township of Kirkdale ; thence, northward,
along the boundary of the township of Kirkdale to the point
at which the same reaches the High- water Mark of the
River Mersey ; thence along the High-water Mark of the
River Mersey to that point thereof which is nearest to
the point first described; thence in a straight line to the
point first described.
Manchester. — The several townships of Manchester,
Chorlton Row otherwise Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Ardwick,
Beswick, Hulme, Cheetham, Bradford, Newton, and Harpur
Hey.
Oldham. — The several townships of Oldham, Chadderton,
Crompton, and Royton.
Rochdale. — The space defined in the 101st Section of an
Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty
King George the Fourth, and intituled " An Act for lighting,
*' cleansing, watching, and regulating the town of Rochdale
" in the County Palatine of Lancaster.'*
Salford. — From the northernmost point at which the
boundary of the township of Salford meets the boundary of
the township of Broughton, northward, along the boundary
of the township of Broughton, to the point at which the same
meets the boundary of the township of Pendleton ; thence,
westward, along the boundary of the township of Pendleton
to the point at which the same meets the boundary of the
detached portion of the township of Pendlebury; thence,
southward, along the boundary of the detached portion of
the township of Pendlebury to the point at which the same
meets the boundary of the township of Salford; thence,
westward, along the boundary of the township of Salford to
the point first described.
Warrington. — The respective townships of Warrington
and Latchford ; and also those two detached portions of the
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64. 213
township of Thelwall which lie between the boundary of the
township of Latchford and the River Mersey.
WiGAN. — The township of Wigan.
20.— COUNTY OF LEICESTER.
SOUTHERN DIVISION.
Leicester. — The old borough of Leicester, and the space
over which the magistrates of the old borough of Leicester
at present exercise a jurisdiction concurrently with the
magistrates of the county of Leicester, including the Castle
View.
21.— COUNTY OF LINCOLN.
PARTS OF LINDSEY.
Lincoln. — The old city of Lincoln, the Bail and Close,
and a certain common, belonging to the Freemen of Lincoln,
called Canwick Common, together with all extra-parochial
places, if any, which are surrounded by the old city of
Lincoln the Bail and Close, and the said Common, or any or
either of them, or by the boundaries or boundary of any or
either of them.
Great Grimsby. — The several parishes of Great Grimsby,
Great Coates, Little Coates, Bradley, Laceby, Waltham,
Scartho, Clee, Weelsby, and Cleethorpes.
PARTS OF KESTEVEN AND HOLLAND.
Boston. — The old borough of Boston, the parish of
Skirbeck, and the Hamlet of Skirbeck Quarter, including the
Fen Allotment of the Hamlet of Skirbeck Quarter, but not
the Fen Allotment of the parish of Skirbeck.
Grantham. — The parish of Grantham, (including the
several townships of Spittlegate, Manthorpe with Little
Gonerby, and Harrowby,) and that part of the parish of
Somerby which is contained between the boundary of the
parish of Grantham and High Dyke.
Stamford. — The old borough of Stamford, and such part
of the parish of Saint Martin Stamford Baron as lies between
214 The Boundary Act,
the boundary of the old borough and the following boundary ;
(that is to say,)
From the westernmost point at which the boundary of the
parish of Saint Martin meets the boundary of the old borough,
southward, along the boundary of the parish of Saint Martin,
to the northernmost point at which the same meets the
Woothorpe Road ; thence in a straight line to the southern
Tower, on the London Road, of the Gateway to Burghley
House ; thence, northward, along the Wall of Burghley Park
to the point at which the same meets an occupation road
called the " New Road," which runs from the Barnack and
Pilsgate Road to the River Welland ; thence along the said
occupation road, and in a line in continuation of the direction
thereof, to the point at which such line cuts the boundary of
the old borough.
22.— COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX.
FiNSBURY. — The several parishes of Saint Luke, Saint
George the Martyr, Saint Giles-in-the-Fields, Saint George
Bloomsbury, Saint Mary Stoke Newington, and Saint
Mary Islington ; the several Liberties or Places of Saffron
Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents, Ely Place, the Rolls, Glass
House Yard, and the Charter House ; Lincoln's Inn and
Gray's Inn ; the parish of Saint James and Saint John
Clerkenwell, except that part thereof which is situate to the
north of the parish of Islington ; those parts of the respective
parishes of Saint Sepulchre and Saint Andrew, Holborn, and
of Furnival's Inn and Staple Inn respectively, which are
situated without the Liberty of the City of London.
London. — The whole space contained within the exterior
boundaries of the Liberties of the City of London, including
the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple.
Mary-le-bone. — The several parishes of Saint Mary-le-
bone, Saint Pancras, and Paddington.
Tower Hamlets. — The several divisions of the Liberty
of the Tower, and the Tower Division of Ossulston Hundred.
Westminster. — The old City and Liberties of Westminster,
and the Duchy Liberty.
2& 3 William IV. Cap. 64. 215
23.— COUNTY OF MONMOUTH.
MONMOUTH DISTRICT.
Monmouth. — The parish of Monmouth, and all such parts
of the old borough of Monmouth as lie without the parish of
Monmouth.
Newport. — From the point, on the south of the town, at
which the INIendle Gief Road is joined by a husbandry road
leading to Hundred Acres Gout, along the Mendle Gief
Road, to the point at which the same meets the Cardiff Road ;
thence, westward, along the Cardiff Road to the point at
which the same meets the streamlet from Cwrty-bella Well ;
thence along the said streamlet to the Pool on the western
side of Friar's Garden Wall ; thence along the Watercourse
up from the said Pool to another Pool on the western side of
Bull Field ; thence along the western fence of Bull Field to
the point at which the same fence cuts the road from Stow
to Risca ; thence, westward, along the road from Stow to
Risca to the point at which the same is cut by the fence which
runs northward from the east end of the cottages belonging
to John Ricketts ; thence along the last mentioned fence to
the north-western corner of the field of which it is the western
boundary ; thence, eastward, along the northern fence of the
last mentioned field to the point at which the same is inter-
sected by the fence of the adjoining field ; thence, northward,
along the last mentioned fence to a well head ; thence along
the stream leading therefrom to the point at which the same
meets the boundary of the old borough ; thence, northward,
along the boundary of the old borough to the point at which
the same meets the River Usk at the mouth of Cridan Pill ;
thence along the River Usk to the point at which the same
is joined by a Pill opposite the castle ; thence along the said
Pill to the Gout ; thence along the watercourse, in a direction
nearly due east, to the point at which the same meets the
new road to Caerleon ; thence along the new road to Caer-
leon to the point at which the same joins the old road to
Christ Church ; thence along the New Reen to the point at
which the same meets Liswerry Pill ; thence along Liswerry
Pill to the point at which the same joins the River Usk ;
thence along the River Usk to the point at which the same is
joined by Hundred Acres Gout ; thence along Hundred Acres
Gout to the point at which the same is met by the said hus-
bandry road leading thereto from the Mendle Gief Road ;
216 The Boundary Act,
thence along the said husbandry road to the point first de-
scribed.
UsK. — From the Bridge on the north of the town, called
*' Cym-cayo Bridge," along the brook over which the said bridge
is built, to the point at which the same falls into the River Usk ;
thence down the River Usk, and along the boundary of the
old borough, to the point at which the same cuts the mill
stream ; thence in a straight line to the Farm House of Little
Castle Farm ; thence along the eastern side of the fence of
the farmyard of Little Castle Farm to the north eastern corner
of such farmyard ; thence in a straight line to the Oak Tree
in the wood hedge on the summit of Lady Hill ; thence in a
straight line to the point at which Cwm-cayo Brook would be
cut by a straight line to be drawn from the Tree last described
to Cwm-cayo Bridge ; thence along Cwm-cayo Brook to Cwm-
cayo Bridge.
24,— COUNTY OF NORFOLK.
EASTERN DIVISION.
Norwich. — The city and county of the city of Norwich,
together with all such extra- parochial places as are contained
within the outer boundary of the city and county of the city
of Norwich.
Great Yarmouth. — The old borough of Great Yarmouth
and the parish of Gorlestone.
WESTERN DIVISION.
King's Lynn. — The old borough of King's Lynn.
Thetford. — The old borough of Thetford.
25.— COUNTY OF NORTHAMPTON.
NORTHERN DIVISION.
Peterborough. — The parish of St. John Baptist, Peterbo-
rough, together with the extra-parochial district known by
the name of "The Minster Precincts."
SOUTHERN DIVISION.
Northampton. — The old borough of Northampton.
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64. 217
26.— COUNTY OF NORTHUMBERLAND.
NORTHERN DIVISION.
Berwick-upon-Tweed. — The parish of Berwick, and the
espective townships of Tweedmouth and Spital.
Morpeth. — The several townships of Morpeth, BuUer's
Green, Newminster Abbey, Catchburn with Morpeth Castle
and Stobhill, Hepscott, and Tramwell with High Church, and
the parish of Bedhngton.
SOUTHERN DIVISION.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. — The town and county of the
towTi of Newcastle, and the several townships of Byker,
Heaton, Jesmond, Westgate, and Elswic.
Tynemouth and North Shields. — The several townships
of Tynemouth, North Shields, Chirton, Preston, and Culler-
coats.
27.— COUNTY OF NOTTINGHAM.
NORTHERN DIVISION.
Nottingham. — The county of the town of Nottingham.
SOUTHERN DIVISION.
Newark-upon-Trent. — The old borough of Newark.
28.— COUNTY OF OXFORD.
Banbury. — The parish of Banbury.
Oxford. — From the tree on the east of the city called
"Joe PuUen's Tree," in a straight line to the boundary stone
in the lane called " Mrs. Knapp's Free Board ;" thence along
the said lane to the western extremity thereof; thence in a
straight line to the centre of the island situate at the junction
of the stream called " Harson's Heat" with the River Char-
well ; thence, westward, along the River Charwell to the point
at which the same joins the old city boundary; thence, west-
ward, along the old city boundary to the point at which the
218 The Boundary Act,
River Char well divides into two streams ; thence along the
easternmost of such two streams to King's Mill ; thence in a
straight line to the easternmost part of King's Mill ; thence in
a straight line to " Joe Pullen's Tree."
New Woodstock. — The old borough of New Woodstock ;
the several parishes of Bladon, Begbrook, Shipton-on-Cher-
well, Hampton Gay, Tackley, Wootton, Stonesfield, Coombe,
and Handborough ; the parish of Kidlington, except the re-
spective Hamlets of Gosford and Water Eaton ; the hamlet of
Old Woodstock and Blenheim Park.
29.— COUNTY OF SALOP.
NORTHERN DIVISION.
. Shrewsbury. — From the point at which the River Severn is
joined by a stream or watercourse which flows by the J3og
Kennel, and under Bow Bridge, along the said stream or
watercourse to the point at which the same reaches the road
leading from Old Heath into the Chester Road ; thence along
the said road from Old Heath to the point at which the same
joins the Chester Road; thence along the Chester Road to the
point at which the same is met by a watercourse which runs
round the Corporation Gardens and Round Hill, and joins the
River Severn near the house called "The Flash;" thence
along the last-mentioned watercourse to the point at which
the same reaches the old Baschurch Road; thence along the
old Baschurch Road to the point at which the same is met by
a footpath leading along the wall of Flash House towards the
River Severn; thence along the said footpath to the point at
which the same meets again the last-mentioned watercourse ;
thence along the last-mentioned watercourse to the point at
which the same joins the River Severn ; thence along the
River Severn to the point at which the same is met by the
common boundary of the respective parishes of Saint Chad
and Saint Julian; thence, eastward, along the boundary of the
parish of Saint Chad to the point at which the same reaches a
lane or road which leads from the Montgomery Road into
lands belonging to Mrs. Cartwright ; thence along such lane
or road to the point at which the same joins the Montgomery
Road; thence in a straight line to the point at which the
stream from the Conduit Head joins the Radbrook Stream;
thence along the Radbrook Stream to the point at which the
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64. 219
same reaches Kingsland Lane ; thence along Kingsland Lane
to the point at which the same joins the Bishop's Castle Road;
thence along the Bishop's Castle Road to the point at which
the same is met by the boundary of the parish of Saint Julian;
thence, eastward, along the boundary of the parish of Saint
Julian to the point at which the same meets the boundary of
the parish of Holy Cross ; thence, eastward, along the bound-
ary of the parish of Holy Cross to the point first described.
SOUTHERN DIVISION.
Bridgenorth. — The old borough of Bridgenorth, and the
several parishes of Quatford, Oldbury, Tasley, and Astley
Abbotts.
Ludlow. — From the point on the south of the town at
which Dirty Brook joins the River Teme, north-eastward,
along the boundary of the township of Ludford to that point
thereof which is nearest to the south-western corner of the
piece of land called " Rock Close ;" thence in a straight line
to the said south-western corner ; thence along the western
fence of Rock Close to the point at which the same cuts the
road to the Sheet ; thence towards Ludlow along the road to
the Sheet to the point at which the same is joined by a road
leading by Gallows Bank into Rock Lane ; thence along the
last-mentioned road to the point at which the same reaches
Rock Lane ; thence along Rock Lane to the point at which
the same is joined by a road to the Sandpits Turnpike;
thence along the said road to the Sandpits Turnipike to the
point at which the same is met by the eastern fence of the
garden of the public house called the "Cross Keys;" thence
in a straight line to the point at which Fishmore Brook would
be cut by a straight line to be drawn from the point last de-
scribed to Stanton Lacy House ; thence along the Fishmore
Brook to the point at which the same joins the River Corve ;
thence up the River Corve to the point at which the same
meets the fence which separates the lands occupied by Mr.
William Russell from the lands occupied by Mr. Henry
Lloyd ; thence along the last-mentioned fence to the point at
which the same meets the Shrewsbury Road ; thence along the
fence which separates the two fields respectively called " The
Lease Piece" and " Pike Field" to the point at which such
fence meets the Burway Road; thence, northward, along the
Burway Road to the point at which the same is met by the
fence which separates the two fields respectively called " The
220 The Boundary Act,
Marshes" and " The Ox Pasture ;" thence along the last-men-
tioned fence to the point at which the same meets the River
Teme ; thence in a straight line to the point at which the
fence which divides the lands of the Honourable Robert
Henry Clive from lands of the corporation of Ludlow, in the
occupation of Mr. William Smith, meets the Prior Halton
Road ; thence towards Ludlow along the Prior Halton Road
to the point at which the same is met by the fence which di-
vides the lands of the corporation of Ludlow, occupied by the
late Mr. Johnnes and Mr. George Anderson, from the lands
of the said corporation occupied by the late Mr. Anthony
Jones and Mr. Robert Meyrick ; thence along the last-men-
tioned fence to the point at which the same meets the Brick
House Road ; thence in a straight line to the eastern corner
of WhiteclifF Coppice ; thence, southward, along the north-
eastern fence of WhiteclifF Coppice to the point at which the
same meets the boundary of the township of Ludford; thence,
Southward, along the boundary of the township of Ludford to
the point first described.
Wenlock. — The old borough of Wenlock.
30.— COUNTY OF SOMERSET.
EASTERN DIVISION.
Bath. — The old city of Bath, the respective parishes of
Bathwick and Lyncomb and Wyncomb, and also that part of
the parish of Walcot which lies without the old city of Bath
and adjoins the boundary of the old city of Bath.
Bristol. — From the point on the north-east of the city M ^-
which the eastern boundary of the out-parish of Saint Paul
meets the north-western boundary of the out-parish of St.
Philip and Jacob, eastward, along the boundary of the parish
of Saint Philip and Jacob to that point thereof which is nearest
to the point at which the Wells Road leaves the Bath Road;
thence in a straight line to the said point at which the Wells
Road leaves the Bath Road ; thence along the Wells Road to
the Knowle Turnpike Gate ; thence along the road which
leads from the Knowle Turnpike Gate to Bedminster Church
to the point at which the same is crossed by Bedminster
Brook ; thence along Bedminster Brook to the point at which
the same crosses the road from Locks Mill to Bedminster;
2 & S William IV. Cap. 64. 221
thence along the last-mentioned road, passing the southern
extremity of the village of Bedminster, to the point at which
the same meets the brook at Marsh Pit j thence along the
last-mentioned brook to the point at which the same meets
the boundary of the parish of Clifton \ thence, northward,
along the boundary of the parish of Clifton to the boundary
stone marked (C. P) and (W P) 12), marking the north-
eastern angle of the boundary of the parish of Clifton, and
situate on Durdham Down, east of the Shirehampton Road ;
thence in a straight line to the southernmost point at which
the boundary of the tithing of Stoke Bishop meets Parry's
Lane ; thence, eastward, along the boundary of the tithing of
Stoke Bishop to the point at which the same joins the bound-
ary of the out-parish of St, Paul ; thence, northward, along
the boundary of the out-parish of St. Paul to the point first
described.
Frome. — From Cottle's Oak Turnpike Gate, along Barton
Lane, to the point at which the same meets Green Lane;
thence along Green Lane to the point at which the same meets
the lane to Hellicar's Grave ; thence along the lane to Helli-
car's Grave to the southern extremity thereof; thence in a
straight line through Plaguy House into Grove Lane ; thence
in a straight line to the point at which the road from Tythe-
rington is met by the Lane to Adderwell at a place called the
Mount ; thence along the lane to Adderwell to the eastern
extremity thereof near Bellows Hole ; thence in a straight line
to the point at which Frome River would be cut by a straight
line to be drawn from the point last described to the house
called " Mrs. White's" or "Southfield Farm House;" thence,
northward, along Frome River to the point at which the same
is joined by Rodden Lake Streamlet ; thence along Rodden
Lake Streamlet to Rodden Bridge at the end of Rodden Lane ;
thence along Rodden Lane to the point called Clink Cross-
ways ; thence in a straight line to the Twelfth Mile Stone on
the Bath Road ; thence in a straight line to the north-eastern
corner of Mr. Shepherd's Garden Wall ; thence in a straight
line, through the house of Thomas Ball and Mrs. Slade, to
Frome River; thence along Frome River to the northern-
most part of the buildings of the Dye House, late the pro-
perty of Samuel Button ; thence in a straight line to the cen-
tre of Kissing Batch Pond; thence in astraight line to Cottle's
Oak Turnpike Gate.
Wells. — From the point on the north-east of the city at
M 2
222 The Boundary Act,
which the old city boundary meets Back Lane, along Back
Lane to the point at which the same joins the Bath Road;
thence in a straight line across the Bath Road to the northern
extremity of Drang Lane ; thence along Drang Lane, and
along the footpath across Drang Meadow, to the point at
which such footpath joins the road which leads to the turnpike
on the Shepton Mallett Road; thence, westward, along the
road so joined to the next city boundary stone; thence,
southward, along the old city boundary to the point first
described.
WESTERN DIVISION.
Bridgewater. — From the easternmost point at which the
boundary of Three Elm Field meets the River Parret, west-
ward, along the boundary of Three Elm Field to the point at
which the same meets Reed Moor Pill ; thence, westward,
along Reed Moor Pill to the point at which the same reaches
the southern boundary of the two fields respectively called the
" Pasture Ground ;" thence in a straight line to the point at
which the boundary of the parish of Wembdon would be cut
by a straight line to be drawn from the point last described to
the spire of Bridgewater Church ; thence, southward, along
the boundary of the parish of Wembdon to the point at which
the same meets the Cannington Road; thence, westward,
along the Cannington Road to the point at which the same is
met by the boundary of the field called " Six Acres ;" thence,
westward, along the boundary of the field called " Six Acres"
to the point at which the same meets, near the Horse and
Jockey Inn, the road from West Street; thence, westward,
along the road from West Street to the point at which the same
is met by the western boundary of Matthew's Field ; thence
along the western boundary of Matthew's Field to the point at
which the same meets the Town Mill Leat ; thence along the
Town Mill Leat to the point at which the same reaches the
south-eastern corner of Matthew's Field ; thence in a straight
line to the point at which Hamp Brook meets Hamp Lane ;
thence along Hamp Lane to the point at which the same joins
West Road ; thence along West Road to the point at which
the same is joined by Row's Lane ; thence along Row's Lane
to the point at which the same meets the fence which incloses
-the grounds of the house called " Hamp," belonging to Jolm
Chapman, Esquire; thence, southward, along the last-mei.-
tioned fence to the point at which the same meets a stream at
Barland Lane Bridge; thence along the said stream to the
point at which the same falls into the River Parret at Barlaiul
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64. 223
Clize ; thence, westward, along the River Parret to the point
at which the same is joined by the boundary of the northern-
most of the two contiguous fields respectively called " Five
Acres;'* thence, eastward, along the boundary of the last-
mentioned field to the point at which the same meets the
boundary of the field called "Four Acres;" thence, north-
ward, along the boundary of the field called " Four Acres" to
the point at which the same meets the boundary of a field
called " Five Acres ;" thence, eastward, along the boundary of
the last-mentioned field called " Five Acres " to the point at
which the same meets the Weston Zoyland Road; thence,
eastward, along the Weston Zoyland Road to the point at
which the same is met by an occupation road leading towards
the North; thence along the said occupation road to the
northern extremity thereof; thence along the fence which is
the western boundary of the fields respectively called " Ten
Acres," " Seven Acres," and " Five Acres," formerly belong-
ing to Alexander Popham, Esquire, to the point at which such
fence meets the fence of a field called" The Hundred Acres;"
thence in a straight line to the southern extremity, close by a
penfold, of the fence which divides the two fields respectively
called " Part of the Hundred Acres;" thence, eastward, along
the boundary of the easternmost of the two last-mentioned
fields to the point at which such boundary meets the Bath
Road ; thence, northward, along the boundary of the field
called " Small Croft" to the point at which the same meets
the Bristol Road ; thence, westward, along the boundary of
Great Castle Field to the point at which the same meets the
River Parret ; thence along the River Parret to the point first
described.
Taunton. — From the point on the north-west of the town
at which Mill Lease Stream crosses Greenway Lane, along
Greenway Lane to the point at which the same joins the
Kingston Road ; thence along the Kingston Road to the point
at which the same is joined by the Cheddon Road ; thence
along the Cheddon Road to the point at which the same is
joined by Priors Wood Lane ; thence along Priors Wood
Lane to the point at which the same is met by the Obridge
Stream ; thence along the Obridge Stream to the point at
which the same falls into the River Tone ; thence. Southward,
along the River Tone to the point at which the same is met
by Mill Lane ; thence along Mill Lane to the point at which
the same joins the Bridgewater Road ; thence along the
Bridge water Road to the point at which the same is joined
224 The Boundary Act,
by Bath Pool Lane ; thence in a straight Hne to Stream Plj
Bridge ; thence along the stream over which Stream Plj
Bridge is built, through Holway Bridge, to the point i
which the same stream meets the boundary of the parish (
Wilton at Cuckoo Corner ; thence, westward, along tli
boundary of the parish of Wilton to the point at which tl
same meets Sherford Stream ; thence along Sherford Streas
to the point at which the same meets Sherford Lane ; then(
along Sherford Lane to the point at which the same joii
the Honiton Road ; thence along the Honiton Road to tl
point at which the same is joined by Hoverland Lane ; then(
along Hoverland Lane to the point at which the same mee
Ganton Stream ; thence along Ganton Stream to the point i
which the same meets the boundary of the parish of Wiltor
thence, northward, along the boundary of the parish of W ilt(
to the point at which the same meets the Bishops Hull Roac
thence, northward, along the Bishops Hull Road to the poii
at which the same is joined by Long Run Lane ; thence in
straight line to the Turnpike House on the Staplegrove Roac
thence along the Staplegrove Road to the point at which tl
same is crossed by Mill Lease Stream ; thence along M
Lease Stream to the point first described.
31.— COUNTY OF STAFFORD.
NORTHERN DIVISION.
Newcastle -under-Lyme. — The old borough of Ne>
castle-under-Lyme, and the portion of the parish of Stok
upon-Trent which is surrounded partly by the boundary
the old borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme and partly by tl
boundary of the Township of Knutton.
Stafford. — From the point at which the boundary of tl
old borough is cut by a straight line drawn from the windm:
near the bridge on the Doxey Road to the stile at tl
southern end of the foothpath from the Newport Road in
the Penkridge Road, along the said straight line to the poii
at which the same meets the Penkridge Road ; thence, sout]
ward, along the Penkridge Road to the point at which
stream of water running along the eastern side of that ro2
turns eastward therefrom ; thence along the said stream i
the point at which the same meets Spittal Brook ; thenc
along Spittal Brook to the point at which the same meets tl
River Sow ; thence along the River Sow to the point at whi(
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the same meets the boundary of the old borough ; thence,
northward, along the boundary of the old borough to the
point first described.
Stoke-upon-Trent. — The several townships of PenkhuU
with Boothen, Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Shetlon, Fenton
Vivian, Lane End, Fenton Culvert, and Longton, the vill of
Rushton Grange, and the hamlet of Sneyd.
SOUTHERN DIVISION.
Lichfield. — The county of the city of Lichfield, and the
place called The Close, which is encompassed by the said
county.
Tamworth. — The parish of Tamworth.
Walsall. — The parish of Walsall, except that detached
part thereof which is surrounded by the respective parishes
of Aldridge and Rushall, and the chapelry of Pelshall.
Wolverhampton. — The several townships of Wolverhamp-
ton, Bilston, Willenhall, and Wednesfield, and the parish of
Sedgeley.
32. COUNTY OF SUFFOLK.
EASTERN DIVISION.
Ipswich. — The old borough of Ipswich.
WESTERN DIVISION.
Bury St. Edmund's. — The old borough of Bury St. Ed-
mund's.
Eye. — The several parishes of Eye, Hoxne, Denham,
Redlingfield, Occold, Thorndon, Braisworth, Yaxley, Thran-
diston, Broome, and Oakley.
Sudbury. — The old borough of Sudbury, and the town-
ship or hamlet of Ballingdon cum Brunden ; together with all
or any extra-parochial places or place surrounded by the
boundaries either of the old borough of Sudbury, or of the
township or hamlet of Ballingdon cum Brunden.
226 The Boundary Act,
33.-~COUNTY OF SURREY.
EASTERN DIVISION.
Lambeth. — The Parish of Saint Mary Newington, the
parish of Saint Giles Camberwell, except the manor and
hamlet of Dulwich, and also such part of the parish of
Lambeth as is situate to the north of the line herein-after
described, including the extra-parochial space encompassed
by such part :
From the point at which the road from London to Dul-
wich by Red Post Hill leaves the road from London over
Heme Hill in a straight line to Saint Matthew's Church at
Brixton ; thence in a straight line to a point in the boundary
between the respective parishes of Lambeth and Clapham,
one hundred and fifty yards south of the middle of the car-
riageway along Acre Lane.
Reigate. — The parish of Reigate.
SouTHWARK. — The old borough of Southwark, including
the Mint and manor of Suffolk ; the several parishes of
Rotherhithe, Bermondsey, and Christ Church ; and the Clink
liberty of the parish of Saint Saviour.
WESTERN DIVISION.
Guildford. — From the point on the north of the town at
which a creek leading from Dapdune House joins the River
Wey, in a straight line to the point at which the road called
the New Road joins the Stoke Road ; thence along the New
Road to the point at which the same joins the Kingston Road ;
thence along the Kingston Road to the point at which the
same joins Cross Lane ; thence along Cross Lane to the poir\t
at which the same joins the Epsom Road; thence in a straight
line to the point in Chalky Lane at which the boundary of
Trinity Parish leaves the same ; thence along the southern
boundary of Trinity Parish to the point at which such bound-
ary enters Gaol Lane ; thence in a straight line to the point
at which the River Wey turns abruptly to the north at a
wharf close by the Horsham Road ; thence in a straight line
to the point at which the path from Guildford across Bury
Fields abuts on the Portsmouth Road ; thence in a straight
line to the south-western corner of Cradle Field ; thence
along the western hedge of Cradle Field to the point at which
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the same cuts the old Farnhara Road ; thence in a straight
line towards Worplesdon Semaphore to the point at which
such line cuts the new Farnhatn Road; thence in a straight
line to the point first described.
34.-COUNTY OF SUSSEX.
EASTERN DIVISION.
Brighthelmstone. — The respective parishes of Bright-
helmstone and Hove.
Hastings. — The town and port of Hastings and its liber-
ties, including that detached part of the parish of Saint
Leonard which lies near the town of Winchelsea, and includ-
ing also the liberty of the Sluice, but excluding all such other
parts of the old borough of Hastings as are detached from
the main body thereof.
Lewes. — From the Town Mill on the north-western side
of the town in a straight line to the Smock Windmill, which
is the most southerly of the two windmills called " The King-
stone Mills;" thence in a straight line to the point at which
the boundary of the parish of Southover crosses the Cock-
shut Stream ; thence along the Cockshut Stream to the point
at which the same joins the River Ouse ; thence along the
River Ouse to the point at which the same would be cut by
a straight line to be drawn from the point last described to
the point on the Eastern Cliff known as the site of an old
windmill ; thence in a straight line to the said point on the
Eastern Cliff; thence in a straight line to the windmill called
" Mailing Mill ;" thence in a straight line to the point at which
the stream which turns the paper mill falls into the River
Ouse ; thence in a straight line to the Town Mill.
Rye. — The ancient towns of Rye and Winchelsea, the
several parishes of Rye, Peasemarsh, Iden, Playden, Win-
chelsea, East Guildford, Icklesham, and Udimer, and also
that part of the parish of Brede which lies between the
parishes of Udimer and Icklesham.
WESTERN DIVISION.
Arundel. — The parish of Arundel.
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Chichester. — From the eastern extremity of the boundary
of the old city liberty at St. James's Post, northward, along
the said boundary to the point at which the same meets the
old Broill Road : thence in a straight line to the westernmost
point at which the boundary of the parish of Saint Peter the
Great meets the boundary of the parish of Saint Bartholomew ;
thence, southward, along the boundary of the parish of Saint
Bartholomew to the point at which the same crosses the new
road to Fishbourn ; thence in a straight line to the turnpike
gate on the Stockbridge Road ; thence in a straight line to
the canal bridge adjoining the basin ; thence in a straight line
to the southern extremity of Snag Lane ; thence in a straight
line to the southern extremity of Cherry Orchard Lane ;
thence in a straight line to the point at which the Rumbolds-
week Road meets the Oving Road ; thence in a straight line
first to the point described.
Horsham. — The parish of Horsham.
MiDHURST. — The several parishes of Midhurst, Ease-
bourn, Heyshot, Chithurst, GrafFham, DidHng, and Cocking ;
and the tithing of South Ambersham in the parish of Steep ;
that part of the parish of Bignor which is surrounded by the
parish of Easebourn ; those parts of the several parishes of
Wool Lavington, Bepton, and Woolbeding which adjoin the
parish of Midhurst ; that part of the parish of Lynch which
adjoins the said part of the parish of Bepton ; and also that
part of the parish of Lynch in which Woodman's Green is
situate ; all such parts of the respective parishes of Stedham
and Iping as are not situated to the north of the cross road
which runs from Woodman's Green, between North End
Farm and Hobbert's Farm, to Milland Marsh ; the parish of
Trotton, except that part thereof which lies to the north of
the cross road from Vining Common to Home Hill and Cobed
Hall called Lonebeech Lane ; and all such parts of the re-
spective parishes of Sellham and Lodsworth, and of the
tithing of North Ambersham, as are not situated to the north
of the brook which runs from Cook's Bridge on the London
Road to Lickfold Bridge.
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35.— COUNTY OF WARWICK.
NORTHERN DIVISION.
Birmingham. — The respective parishes of Birmingham
and Edgebaston, and the several townships of Bordesley,
Duddeston and Nechels, and Deritend.
Coventry. — The city of Coventry and the suburbs thereof.
SOUTHERN DIVISION.
Warwick. — The old borough of Warwick.
36.— COUNTY OF WESTMORLAND.
Kendal. — The respective townships of Kendal and Kirk-
land, and all such parts of the township of Nether Graveship
as adjoin the township of Kendal.
37.— ISLE OF WIGHT.
Newport. — From the point on the south of the town at
which the footpath to Shide joins the Niton Road at Trattles
Butt, in a straight line to the house in the parishes of Caris-
brooke which belongs to Joshua Spickernell, and is now in
the occupation of Mrs. Stanborough ; thence in a straight
line across the Gatcombe Road to the house which belongs
to James Barlow Hoy, Esquire, and is now in the occupation
of James Dennett ; thence in a straight line in the direction
of West Mill to the point at which such straight line cuts the
Lukeley or Carisbrook Stream ; thence, northward, along
the Lukeley or Carisbrook Stream to the point at which the
same meets the boundary of the old borough ; thence, north-
ward, along the boundary of the old borough to Pan Bridge :
thence in a straight line to the point at which the footpath to
Shide meets Church Litton Lane ; thence along the said foot-
path to the point first described.
38.— COUNTY OF WILTS.
NORTHERN DIVISION.
Calne. — The parish of Calne, and also those parts of the
respective parishes of Blackland and Calstone Willington
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which are surrounded by the parishof Calne, including all
such parts, if any, of the old borough of Calne as are without
the parish of Calne.
Chippenham. — The several parishes of Chippenham, Har-
denhuish, and Langley Burrell, and the extra-parochial space
called Pewisham.
Devizes. — The borough of Devizes, including the respec-
tive parishes of St. John the Baptist and the Blessed Virgin
Mary, and also so much of the chapelry of St. James and of
the parish of Rowde as lies between the boundary of the old
borough and the following boundary ; (that is to say,)
From the point at which the boundary of the parish of St.
John the Baptist would be cut by a straight line to be drawn
from the Dairy Farm House on the Chippenham Road called
Ox House, to the Round Tower of the new County Bride-
well, in a straight line to Ox House ; thence in a straight
line to a house occupied by Mr. Mayo, called Brow Cottage ;
thence in a straight line to the point at which the towing path
of the Kennet Canal meets Dye House Lane ; thence, east-
ward, along the Kennet Canal to the point at which the same
turns northward near London Bridge ; thence in a straight
line drawn due east to a point one hundred yards distant ;
thence in a straight line to Mr. Gundry's house on the
Salisbury Road ; thence in a straight line to a house called
Southgate, occupied by Mr. Slade ; thence in a straight line
to the southernmost point at which Gallows Acre Lane is
met by the boundary of the parish of St. John the Baptist.
Malmsbury. — The old borough of Malmsbury, the re-
spective out-parishes of St. Paul Malmsbury and St. Mary
Westport, and the several parishes of Brokenborough, Charl-
ton, Garsdon, Lea, Great Somerford, Little Somerford,
Foxley, and Bremhilham.
Marlborough. — The old borough of Marlborough and
the parish of Preshute.
SOUTHERN DIVISION.
Salisbury. — From the south-western extremity of the
wall of the Poorhouse at Fisherton Anger, in a straight line
to a point in the Wilton Road which is three hundred and
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thirty yards distant from the point at which the Wilton Road
joins the Devizes Road ; thence in a straight line to a point
in the Devizes Road which is six hundred and fotty yards
distant from the point at which the Wilton Road joins the
Devizes Road ; thence in a straight line to the point at which
the Stratford Road joins the Marlborough Road ; thence in a
straight line to the point called Whipping Cross Tree ; thence
in a straight line to the point at which the road from Salis-
bury to Laverstock joins the road from Salisbury to Claren-
don ; thence in a straight line to the point at which the
eastern boundary of the city meets the River Avon ; thence
along the River Avon to the point at which the same joins
the River Nadder ; thence along the River Nadder to the
point first described.
Westbury. — The parish of Westbury.
Wilton. — The several parishes of Wilton, Fugglestone,
Stratford-under-the-Castle, Great Durnford, Woodford, South
Newton, Wishford, Barford, Burcombe, Netherhampton,
West Harnham, and Britford ; such part of the parish of
Fisherton Anger as will not by the provisions of this Act be
included within the boundary of the city of Salisbury ; and
also all such parts of the several parishes of Bishopston,
Toney Stratford, Combe Bisset, and Humington, as are
situated to the north of a straight line to be drawn from
Odstock Church to the point on Combe Hill at which a fence
dividing the Down from the cultivated land meets the old
road from Salisbury to Blandford, and thence through the
centre of the clump of trees called Fallstone Middle Nursery
to the western boundary of the parishes of Bishopston ; toge-
ther with all such part of the extra-parochial place called
Grovely Wood as is situate to the east of a straight line to
be drawn from the point at which the western boundary of
the parish of Wishford meets the northern boundary of
Grovely Wood, to the point at which the western boundary
of the parish of Barford meets the southern boundary of
Grovely Wood.
39.— COUNTY OF WORCESTER.
EASTERN DIVISION.
Droitwich. — The old borough of Droitwich ; the several
parishes of Dodderhill, Hampton Lovett, Doverdale, Sal warp.
232 The Boundary Act,
Martin Hussingtree, Oddingley, Hadsor, Hindlip, Himble-
ton, and Elmbridge; the Moreway-end Division and the
Broughton Division of the parish of Hanbury ; the extra-
parochial places called Crutch and Westwood Park ; together
with the two parts of the respective parishes of Claines and
Warndon which are surrounded by the respective parishes
of Hindlip and Martin Hussingtree; and also the extra-
parochial place called Shell, and the detached part of the
parish of Inkberrow, which are respectively contained between
the parish of Himbleton and the Broughton Division of the
parish of Hanbury.
Dudley. — The parish of Dudley. I
Evesham.— The old borough of Evesham.
WESTERN DIVISION.
Bewdley. — The parish of Ribbesford, and the several
hamlets of Wribbenhall, Hoarstone, Blackstone, Netherton,
and Lower Mitton with Lickhill.
Kidderminster. — From the point at or near Proud Cross
at which the boundary of the old borough meets the Broom-
field Road, along the boundary of the old borough, to the
point at which the Abberley Road meets the Black Brook ;
thence, westward, along the Abberley Road to the first point
at which the same is met by a hedge running due south there-
from; thence along the said hedge to its southern extre-
mity near a stone quarry ; thence in a straight line to the
said stone quarry ; thence in a straight line to the first mile
stone on the Bewdley Road ; thence, westward, along the
Bewdley Road to the point at which the same is joined by a
footpath leading to the Stourport Road ; thence along the
said footpath to the point at which the same meets the
boundary of the old borough ; thence, southward, along the
boundary of the old borough to the point at which the same
meets the south-eastern fence of a wood called " The Copse,"
situated on the eastern bank of the River Stour ; thence
along the said fence to the point at which the same meets
Hoo Lane ; thence across Hoo Lane, over a stile called
*' Gallows Stile," along a footpath leading from the said
stile to the lane from Hoo Brook to Comberton Hill, to the
point at which the last mentioned footpath meets the lane
from Hoo Brook to Comberton Hill; thence, northward,
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along the lane from Hoo-Brook to Comberton Hill to the
point at which the same meets the boundary of the old
borough ; thence, northward, along the boundary of the old
borough to the point first described.
Worcester. — From the Liberty Post on the Tewkesbury
Road, southward, along the Tewkesbury Road, to the point
beyond the turnpike at which the same road is met by Duck
Brook ; thence along Duck Brook to the point at which the
same crosses the London Road ; thence in a straight line to
the western extremity of the road which leads out of the
London Road to Lark Hill ; thence along the said road to
Lark Hill to the eastern extremity thereof; thence along a
footpath leading to the New Town Road to the point at which
the same reaches the New Town Road ; thence, westward,
along the New Town Road to the point at which the same
is crossed by the footpath leading from the House of Industry
to the Porte Fields Road ; thence along the last-mentioned
footpath to the point at which the same joins the Porte Fields
Road ; thence along a footpath which leads from the Porte Fields
Road, past Rainbow Villa, into the Astwood Road, to the point
at which such footpath joins the Astwood Road; thence along
a road which leads from the Astwood Road to the Whey Tavern
to the point at which such road crosses the Worcester and
Birmingham Canal ; thence along the Worcester and Bir-
mingham Canal to the bridge which is nearest to Gregory's
Mill ; thence along the road leading from the said bridge to
the Birmingham Road to the point at which the same is
crossed by the Barborne Brook ; thence along the Barborne
Brook to the point at which the same falls into the River
Severn ; thence along the River Severn to the point at
which the same is met by the boundary of the parish of St.
Clement; thence, westward, along the boundary of the parish
of St. Clement to the point at which the same meets the
boundary of the township of St. John ; thence, westward,
along the boundary of the township of St. John to the point
at which the same meets the Hereford Road ; thence along
the Hereford Road to the point at which the same is met by
Powick Lane, leading to Powick Bridge ; thence, southward,
along Powick Lane to the point at which the same terminates
in a footpath ; thence in a straight line to the point at which
Cut Throat Lane is met by a footpath leading from Boughton
Fields to the Malvern Road ; thence along the last-mentioned
footpath to the point at which the same joins the Malvern
Road ; thence, northward, along the Malvern Road to the
234 The Boundary Act,
point at which the same meets the boundary of the township
of St. John ; thence, eastward, along the boundary of the
township of St. John to the point at which the same meets the
boundary of the parish of St. Clement ; thence, eastward,
along the boundary of the parish of St. Clement to the point
at which the same meets the River Severn ; thence, south-
ward, along the River Severn to the point at which the same
is met by the old city boundary ; thence, southward, along
the old city boundary to the Liberty Post aforesaid.
40.~COUNTY OF YORK.
NORTH RIDING.
Malton. — The respective parishes of St. Leonard and
St. Michael, New Malton, the parish of Old Malton, and the
parish of Norton.
Northallerton. — The respective townships of Northal-
lerton and Romanby, and the chapelry of Brompton.
Richmond. — The respective parishes of Richmond and
Easby.
Scarborough. — The parish of Scarborough, together with
the Extra-parochial Precinct of Scarborough Castle.
Thirsk. — The several townships of Thirsk, Sowerby,
Carlton Miniott, Sand Hutton, Bagby, and South Kilvington.
Whitby. — The several townships of Whitby, Ruswarp, and
Hawsker-cum-Stainsacre.
York. — From the ancient barn on the Easingwold Road,
two hundred yards beyond the first mile stone on that road, in a
straight line to the Lady or Clifton Mill ; thence in a straight
line to the Pepper or Stray Mill ; thence in a straight line to
the point at which the Stockton Road would be cut by a
straight line to be drawn thereto from the Pepper or Stray
Mill through the New Manor House ; thence along the
Stockton Road to the point at which the same is joined by a
lane leading from the eastern extremity of the village of
Heworth towards the north ; thence in a straight line to the
point at which the Tang Hall Beck would be cut by a
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straight line to be drawn from the point last described to
Heslington Mill ; thence along Tang Hall Beck to the point
at whicl) the same crosses the boundary of the county of the
City of York ; thence, southward, along the boundary of the
county of the City of York to the point at which the same
would be cut by a straight line to be drawn thereto from the
south-eastern corner of the barracks through Lamel Mill ;
thence in a straight line to the south-eastern corner of the
barracks ; thence along the southern wall of the barracks to
the point at which the same cuts the Selby Road; thence
along the Selby Road to the point at which the same is
joined by Fulford Church Lane ; thence along the northern
hedge of Fulford Church Lane to the point at which the same
ceases to be continuous, close by a farm building belonging
to Mr. Ellis ; thence in a straight line, in the direction of the
said hedge, to the River Ouse ; thence along the River Ouse
to the southernmost point at which the same is met by the
boundary of the City Liberty ; thence, westward, along the
boundary of the City Liberty to the point at which the same
again meets the River Ouse ; thence along the River Ouse to
the point at which the same would be cut by a straight line
to be drawn from the barn first described to Acomb Church ;
thence in a straight line to the barn first described.
EAST RIDING.
Beverley — The several parishes of St. Mary, St. Martin,
and St. Nicholas, and also such part of the parish of St. John
as is comprised within the liberties of Beverley.
Kingston upon Hull. — The several parishes of St. Mary,
the Holy Trinity, Sculcoates, and Drypool ; together with
the extra-parochial space called Garrisonside, and all other
extra-parochial places, if any, which are surrounded by the
boundaries of the said parishes of St. Mary, the Holy Trinity,
Sculcoates, and Drypool, or any or either of them ; and also
all such part of the parish of Sutton as is situated to the south
of a straight line to be drawn from Sculcoates Church to the
point at which the Sutton Drain meets the Summergangs
Drain.
WEST RIDING.
Bradford. — The several townships of Bradford and
Manningham and Bowhng, and the township of Horton,
ncluding the hamlets of Great and Little Horton.
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Halifax.— From the point on the north of the town at
which the respective boundaries of the several townships of
Halifax, North Owram, and Ovenden meet, westward, along
the boundary of the township of Halifax, to the point at
which the same meets the road leading from a house called
Shay to Bank Top ; thence along the said road from Shay
to Bank Top to the point at which the same meets the road
leading from South Owram to North Owram ; thence along
the said road from South Owram to North Owram to God
Lane Bridge ; thence in a straight line to the south-eastern
corner of New Town on the Bradford Road; thence in a
straight line to the point first described.
HuDDERSFiELD. — The towuship of Huddersfield.
Knaresborough. — The boundary described in the second
section of an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign ot
His late Majesty King George the Fourth, and intituled
" An Act for paving, lighting, watching, cleansing, and
*' improving the town of Knaresborough in the west riding
" of the county of York, and that part of the township of
'* Scriven-with-Tentergate which adjoins the said town, and
" is called Tentergate."
Leeds. — The parish of Leeds.
PoNTEFRACT. — The old borough and township of Ponte-
fract, and the extra-parochial space called the Pontefract
Park District, the Castle Precincts, and also the several
townships of Tanshelf, Monkhill, Knottingley, Ferrybridge,
and Carleton.
RiPON. — The township of Ripon ; and also such part of
the township of Aismunderby-cum-Bondgate as is situate to
the north of the point on the south of the town of Ripon at
which the Ripley Road meets the Littlethorpe Road, and
which is the southern extremety of the nearly disjointed
portion of the township of Aismunderby-cum-Bondgate.
Sheffield. — The parish of Sheffield.
Wakefield. — From the southernmost point at which the
boundary of the township of Wakefield leaves the River
Calder, along the boundary of the township of Wakefield, to
the point at which the same is intersected by a hedge running
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nearly north close by the western side of Park Gate Farm ;
thence in a straight line to the point at which the footpath
leading to St. Swithin's Well joins the footpath from East
Moor to Old Park ; thence in a straight line to the point at
which the Stanley Road would be cut by a straight line to be
drawn from the point last described to the cupola of the
Lunatic Asylum; thence along the Stanley Road to the point
at which the same is met by the East Moor Road ; thence
along the East Moor Road to the point at which the same
meets the boundary of the township of Wakefield ; thence,
westward, along the boundary of the township of Wakefield
to die point at which the same meets the boundary of the de-
tached portion of the township of Alverthorp which lies north
of the township of Wakefield ; thence, westward, along the
boundary of the said detached portion of the township of
Alverthorp to the point at which the same joins again the
boundary of the township of Wakefield ; thence, southward,
along the boundary of the township of Wakefield to the point
at which the same meets Balne Lane ; thence along Balne
Lane to the point at which the same is met by Humble Jumble
Lane; thence along Humble Jumble Lane to the point at
which the same meets the footpath to Flanshaw Lane ; thence
along the footpath to Flanshaw Lane to the point at which
the same meets Smithson's Railroad ; thence along Smithson's
Railroad to the point at which the same meets the Dewsbury
Road; thence along the Dewsbury Road to the point at
which the same meets the new or occupation road which
unites the Dewsbury and Horbury Roads ; thence along the
said New Road to the point at which the same meets the
Park Wall of Thome's House ; thence, northward, along the
said wall to the point at which the same meets the Road from
Thome's to Horbury ; thence along the road from Thome's
to Horbury to the point at which the same meets the stream
called " The Gilsike ;" thence along the said stream to the
pomt at which the same falls into the River Calder ; thence
along the River Calder to the point first described.
The Boundary Act,
WALES.
41.— COUNTY OF ANGLESEA.
BEAUMARIS DISTRICT.
Amlwch. — From the point on the north-east of the town
at which Rhyd Talog Brook falls into the sea at Forth Aber
Cawell, southward, along the boundary of the parish of
Almwch to the point called Croes Eilian ; thence along the
Plas Dulas Road to the point called Penllaethdy Mawr;
thence along the road leading to Pentre Felin, across the
Llanerchy-y-medd Road, to the point called Pentre Felin
Adda Cross Roads; thence along a road towards Pary's
Farm to the point at which the same is met by the first bye
road on the right leading to Bod-gadfa Farm ; thence along
the said bye road, passing Bod-gadfa Farm, to the point at
which the same bye road is crossed (between Bod-gadfa Farm
and a Cottage called Yr-hen Odyn) by the Lastre Brook ;
thence along the Lastre Brook, crossing the Holyhead
Road, to the point at which the same brook falls into
the river called Afon Park Llechog ; thence along the
Afon Park Llechog to a Ford in the Cemmaes Road
called Rhyd-carreg-cath ; thence along the Cemmaes Road
to the Cottage called Bryn-y-Cyll, at which the same road is
met by the church pathway ; thence along the church
pathway to the stile over a brook which divides the land of
the Marquis of Anglesea from the Coed Helen and Lysdulas
property, and which stile is close by a spring called Ffynnon
Casyris ; thence along the last-mentioned brook to the point
at which the same is met by a boundary fence (a few yards
north of a cottage called Cae-bach) running in the direction of
Mona Mill ; thence along the said fence to the point at which
J the same cuts the Porth Llechog Road; thence, towards
Amlwch, along the Porth Llechog Road to the point at which
the same is met by the Ffynnon-y-Garreg-fawr Pathway ;
thence along the Ffynnon-y-Garreg-fawr pathway to the
spring called Ffynnon-y-Garreg-fawr ; thence along the
stream which proceeds from the said spring to the point at
which the same stream falls into the sea i thence along the
sea to the point first described.
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64. 239
Beaumaris. — The old borough of Beaumaris.
Holyhead. — From that part of the common called " The
Towyn," on the southeast of the town, which is nearest to
Holyhead Common, along the road leading to Penrhos which
adjoins the Towyn, (and is to the east of a cottage called
" Pen-Towyn," occupied by John Davis,) to the point at
which the said road to Penrhos is met by another road
leading to a piece of waste land called " The Cyttir ;" thence
along the said road to the Cyttir to the point at which the
same meets the road which leads across the Cyttir ; thence
along the said road across the Cyttir to the point at which
the same meets the old Post Road to Bangor ; thence along
the old Post Road to Bangor to Pentraeth ; thence along the
road which leads from Pentraeth in a westerly direction, and
south of the new brewery, to the point at which the same
joins another road; thence, northward, along the road so
joined to the point at which the same meets the Penrhos foila
Road ; thence along the Penrhos foila road to the point at
which the same meets the road which leads by the Ucheldre
Windmill to the South Stack ; thence along the said road to
the South Stack, including the messuage, with the offices and
garden thereunto belonging, now in the occupation of
Captain Colin Jones, to the westernmost point (near a
cottage called " Cerrig-y-lloi") at which the same is crossed
by a stream running from the Holyhead Mountain ; thence
along the said stream to the point at which the same falls
into the sea ; thence along the sea coast to that point thereof
which is nearest to the point first described ; thence in a
straight line to the point first described.
Llangefni. — From the point at which the boundary wall
between the property of Admiral Lloyd and the property of
Owen Williams, Esquire, meets the old Bangor Road, east of
a cottage called Min'fford, along the said boundary wall to
the point at which the same reaches a spring and a footpath
called Llwybyr Tregarnedd-bach ; thence along a hedge
which, running from the said spring and footpath, forms a
continuation of the line of the said boundary wall, and runs
through the land of John Hampton Lewis, Esquire, to the
point at which such hedge meets the River Cefni ; thence,
southward, along the River Cefni to the point at which the
same is met by the boundary of the parish of Llangefni ;
thence, westward, along the boundary of the parish of
Llangefni to the point at which the same meets the bye road
240 The Boundaey Act,
called Llidiart-y-Pandy ; thence along the said bye road
Llidiart-y-Pandy to the spot called Croes-lon-pen-y-Nant ;
thence, southward, along the market road to the point at
which the same joins the Rhos-y-meirch road ; thence along
the Rhos-y-meirch road to the first point at which the same
is cut (beyond the road leading to Clai) by hedges running
from each side of the road at right angles ; thence along the
hedge which runs from the last-mentioned point towards
Pencraig to the point at which the same reaches an old
quarry ; thence along a hedge which proceeds from the said
old quarry, and forms a continuation of the hedge last
described, passing Tyn-y-coed Farm, to the point at which
the same hedge cuts the Llanddyfnan Road ; thence along
the Llanddyfnan Road, towards Llanddyfnan, to the point at
which the same meets the boundary of the Pencraig-fawr
Farm ; thence, southward, along the boundary of the Pen-
craig-fawr Farm to the point at which the same meets the old
Bangor Road; thence along the old Bangor Road to the
point first described.
42.— COUNTY OF BRECON.
Brecon. — The old borough of Brecon, and the extra-
parochial districts of the castle and Christ's College.
43.— COUNTY OF CAERMARTHEN.
CAERMARTHEN DISTRICT.
Caermarthen. — The old borough of Caermarthen.
Llanelly. — From the point in Wern-y-Goosy Meadow on
the north-west of the town at which the old course of the
stream, which is the old borough boundary, makes a sharp
turn, in a straight line to the southern extremity of the
western fence of Cae Mawr Issa Field ; thence, northward,
along the fence of the Cae Mawr Issa Field to the point at
which the same meets the wall which is the western boundary
of Furnace Garden ; thence along the said wall to the point
at which the same meets Pen-y-Fai Lane; thence along
Pen-y-Fai Lane to the point at which the same meets the
Caermarthen Road ; thence in a straight line to the north-
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64. 241
western corner of the garden of Cae Mawr Cottage, lately
burnt down ; thence along the fence which divides the garden
of Cae Mawr Cottage and the field Cae Isha from the field
Cae-ycha to the point at which the same meets the fence
which divides the field Cae-ycha from the field Cae-bank ;
thence along the last-mentioned fence to the northern cornier
of the field Cae-bank ; thence in a straight line through the
southern extremity of the north-eastern boundary of the
ifield Cae-bank, across the tram-road, to the old borough
[boundary ; thence, eastward, along the old borough boundary
to the point first described.
44.— COUNTY OF CARDIGAN.
CARDIGAN DISTRICT.
Aberystwith. — From the outermost point of the rock
Grraig-lias on the sea coast visible from the point described,
in a straight line to the northern extremity of the stone wall
which, divides the land called Pant-y-gyrn from the land
jailed Fron ; thence along the said wall to the point at which
he same meets the wall which divides the land Pant-y-gyrn
irom the land Fron-uchaf; thence, eastward, along the
)Oundary of Fron-uchaf to the turnstile at the south-eastern
orner thereof; thence in a straight line to the mill in the
Tanyard near the road leading to Llanbadarn-fawr ; thence
n a straight line to the wooden dam just above Plas-greig ;
hence, southward, along the boundary of the old borough to
he sea coast ; thence along the sea coast to the point first
lescribed.
Adpar. — The old borough of Adpar and the hamlet of
3mlyn in the parish of Cennarth.
Cardigan. — The old borough of Cardigan, and also
Jridgend Hamlet and Abbey Hamlet in the parish of Saint
Dogmel in the county of Pembroke.
Lampeter. — From the point on the Creithin Brook at
hich the northern boundary of the Glebe meets the boundary
)f the old borough, along the northern boundary of the Glebe
o the point at which the same meets again the boundary of
he old borough ; thence, northward, along the boundary of
he old borough to the point first described.
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45.— COUNTY OF CARNARVON.
CARNARVON DISTRICT.
Bangor. — From the point on the north-east of the town
at which the road from the park wall of Penrhyn Castle to
the Menai Straits joins the Menai Straits at the high-water
mark, along the said road to the point at which the same
meets the said park wall ; thence, westward, along the said
park wall to the entrance gate to Lime Grove ; thence in a
straight line across the road to the nearest point in the
boundary wall immediately opposite, which bounds a field
belonging to Lime Grove ; thence along the said boundary
wall to the point at which the River Cegin enters the grounds
of Pennant, Esquire ; thence along the River Cegin
to the bridge across the Shrewsbury Road ; thence in a
straight line to a square brick seat or monument situate on a
knoll in a field called Cae Pant ; thence in a straight line to
the nearest point of the road to Felin Esgob ; thence in a
straight line to the nearest point of the road to Brynniau ;
thence in a straight line to the point at which the road from
Bangor to the Menai Bridge leaves the road from Bangor to
Carnarvon ; thence along the said road to the Menai Bridge,
in the direction of such bridge, to the gate on the right hand
side which opens into an occupation road leading to Penrallt ;
thence in a straight line to the point at which the low-water
mark in the straights of Menai would be cut by a straight
line to be drawn from the gate last described to the windmil
called Llandegfan Mill, which is on the opposite side of the
Straits ; thence along the said low-water mark to the point
thereof which is nearest to the point first described ; thence
in a straight line to the point first described.
Carnarvon. — The old borough of Carnarvon.
' Conway. — The old borough of Conway.
Cricceith— The old old borough of Cricceith.
^ Nevin. — The old borough of Nevin.
Pwllheli. — From the south-western extremity of the
boundary of the old borough on the sea coast, along the
boundary of the old borough (leaving the sea coast) to the
point at which the same is met by a small stream called
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64. 243
"Afongoegen ;" thence along the said stream to the bridge called
" Sam, or Pont-penmaen ;" thence along the southern branch
of the said stream to the point at which the same meets the
boundary of the old borough ; thence, northward, along the
boundary of the old borough to the point at which the same
meets a road leading from Deneio Church into the Carnarvon
Road ; thence along the said road from Deneio Church to
the point at which the same is cut by the fence of a field
called " Cae Fynnow," in the occupation of Hugh Williams
of Bryn Crin ; thence along the last mentioned fence to the
point at which the same cuts an occupation road leading from
Bryn Crin farmhouse into the Carnarvon Road ; thence along
the said occupation road to the point at which the same joins
the Carnarvon Road ; thence, northward, along the Carnarvon
road to the point at which the same is met by a road on the
right leading to Abereirch ; thence along the said road to
Abereirch to the point at which the same meets a road leading
from Pwllheli to Tremadoc ; thence in a straight line to the
sea, at the nearest point: thence, westward, along the sea
coast to the point first described.
46.— COUNTY OF DENBIGH.
DENBIGH DISTRICT.
Denbigh. — The old borough of Denbigh.
Holt.— The old borough of Holt.
Ruthin. — The old borough of Ruthin.
Wrexham. — The respective townships of Wrexham Abbot
and Wrexham Regis ; and also such part of the township of
Esclusam-below as is surrounded by the townships of Wrex-
ham Abbot and Wrexham Regis, or one of them.
47.— COUNTY OF FLINT.
FLINT DISTRICT.
St. Asaph. — From the point on the north-west of the town
at which the boundary of the township of Talar meets the
River Elwy, westward, along the boundary of the township of
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Talar, to the Green Gate Bridge over the brook Nant-y-
franol; thence along the brook Nant-y-franol to the point
at which the same meets the Holyhead Road ; thence, east-
ward, along the Holyhead Road to the point at which the
same is met by the boundary of the township of Talar : thence
eastward, along the boundary of the township of Talar to the
point at which the same meets the boundary of the township
of Bryn Polin ; thence, southward, along the boundary of the
township of Bryn Polin to the point at which the same meets
the Upper Denbigh Road; thence, northward, along the
Upper Denbigh Road to the point at which the same is met
by a road or lane leading to Ysguborgoed ; thence along such
road or lane leading to Ysguborgoed to the point at which
the same meets the River Clwyd ; thence along the River
Clwyd to the point at which the same is met by the southern
boundary of the township of Cyrchynan ; thence in a straight
line to the point first described.
Caergwyle. — The old borough of Caergwyle.
Caerwys. — The old borough of Caerwys.
Flint. — The old borough of Flint.
Holywell. — From the boundary stone on the hill Pen-y-
bryn, and on the western side of the hedge (which is between
the cottage occupied by William Williams and the south-
eastern corner of the plantation of Richard Sankey, Esquire),
in a straight line to the boundary stone of the township of
Holywell which is on the eastern side of the St. Asaph Road ;
thence in a straight line to a bridge (in the lane leading to
and past Greenfield Hall) over a watercourse running into
the River Dee ; thence, eastward, along the said watercourse
to the point at which the same meets the boundary of the
township of Greenfield ; thence, southward, along the bound-
ary of the township of Greenfield to the point at which the
same meets the boundary of the township of Holywell ;
thence along the eastern and southern or exterior boundary
of the township of Holywell to the boundary stone first de-
scribed.
Mold. — The township of Mold.
Overton. — The old borough of Overton.
Rhuddlan. — The old borough of Rhuddlan.
2^& 3 William IV. Cap. 64. S^5
48.— COUNTY OF GLAMORGAN.
Merthyr Tydvil. — From the point on the north of
Merthyr Tydvil at which the northern boundary of the
hamlet of Gellydeg meets the river called the Great TafF,
northward, along the Great TafF, to the point at which the
same is cut by the southern fence of Cilsanos Common ;
thence, eastward, along the fence of Cilsanos Common to the
point at which the same cuts the Brecon Road; thence,
southward, along the Brecon Road to the point at which the
same meets the Vainor Road ; thence, eastward, along the
Vainor Road to the point at which the same meets a bye
road leading to Cefn-coed-y-Cwymner ; thence in a straight
line to the point at which the Little TafF would be cut by a
straight line to be drawn from the point last described to
the southern mouth of a culvert on the eastern side of the
Little TafF; thence, up the Little TafF, along the boundary
of the parish of Merthyr Tydvil to the point at which the
Cwm Bargoed stream is joined by a little brook from the
Coli ravine ; thence in a straight line to the north-eastern
corner of the stone fence of Pen-dwy-cae Vawr Farm ; thence
along the road which passes Pen-dwy-cae Vawr Farmhouse
to the point at which the same meets the mountain track from
Dowlais to Quaker's Yard ; thence, southward, along the
said track, between the farms of Pen-dwy-cae Vach and Pen-
dwy-cae Vawr, to the point at which such track meets a
road running nearly due west, by a stone quarry, to Pen-y-
rhw Gymra Cottage ; thence along the last-mentioned road
to the point at which the same reaches the southern side of
Pen-y-rhw Gymra Cottage ; thence in a straight Ime to the
point at which the southern boundary of Troed-y-rhw Farm
meets the Cardiff Road ; thence along the southern boundary
of Troed-y-rhw Farm to the point at which the same meets
the Great Taff ; thence in a straight line to the bridge over
the Cardiff Canal called Pont-y-nant Maen ; thence, north-
ward, along the CardifF Canal to the point at which the same
is intersected by the Cwmdu Brook ; thence along the Cwmdu
Brook to its source ; thence in a straight line drawn due west
to the boundary of the parish of Aberdare ; thence, south-
ward, along the boundary of the parish of Aberdare to the
point at which the same meets the boundary of the hamlet of
Gellydeg ; thence, eastward, along the boundary of the
hamlet of Gellydeg to the point first described.
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246 The Boundary Act,
CARDIFF DISTRICT.
Cardiff. — The old borough of Cardiff; and so much, if
any, of either or both of the respective parishes of St. John
and St. Mary as lies without the old borough.
CowBRiDGE. — The old borough of Cowbridge.
Llantrissent. — The old borough of Llantrissent.
SWANSEA DISTRICT.
Aberavon. — From the point on the south of the town at
which the River Avon falls into the sea, northward, along the
eastern boundary of the hamlet of Havod-y-Porth, to that
point in a stone fence which is immediately opposite a small
round pool ; thence along the said stone fence to the point
at which the same meets a lane or path leading to a small
cottage ; thence along such lane or path to the ford across a
brook immediately opposite Margam Chapel ; thence along
the road to DyfTrynucha to the point at which the same meets
the railroad from the Tai-bach copper works to Michalston ;
thence, northward, along the said railroad to the point at
which the same crosses a small stream running into the River
Avon ; thence along the said stream to the point at which
the same falls into the River Avon ; thence in a straight
line to the point at which a stream which runs through the
Cwm Bychan ravine falls into the River Avon; thence
along the last-mentioned stream to the point at which the
same meets the boundary of the parish of Baglan ; thence,
southward, along the boundary of the parish of Baglan to the
point at which the same meets the boundary of the parish of
Aberavon ; thence, westward, along the boundary of the
parish of Aberavon to the point at which the boundary of
the old borough leaves the same ; thence along the boundary,
of the old borough to the point at which the same meets the
boundary of the hamlet of Havod-y-Porth ; thence, south-
ward, along the boundary of the hamlet of Havod-y-Porth
to the point first described.
Kenfig. — The old borough of Kenfig.
LouGHOR. — The old borough of Loughor.
Neath. — From the point lowest down the River Neath at
which the boundary of the old borough leaves the River
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Neath, along the boundary of the old borough, leaving the
River Neath, to the point at which Caerfwell Ditch joins the
River Neath ; thence along Caerfwell Ditch to the point at
which the same meets the lane called Heol-morfa ; thence
along the lane Heol-morfa to the point at which the same
joins the high road to Merthyr ; thence along the high road
to Merthyr to the point at which the road to Pontardawey
leaves the same ; thence along the road to Pontardawey to
the point at which the same is joined by a lane called Rheol-
y-glow ; thence along the lane Rheol-y-glow to the point at
which the same meets a brook ; thence along such brook to
the point at which the same meets Rheol-wern-fraith Lane ;
thence along Rheol-wern-fraith Lane to the point at which
the same is cut by a fence forming the north-western boun-
dary of Cae-canddaw Field ; thence along the last-mentioned
fence to the point at which the same meets the brook running
to Nantlyros ; thence along the brook running to Nantlyros
to the point at which the same joins the canal ; thence along
the canal to the point at which the same crosses the stream
Clydach ; thence along the stream Clydach to the point at
which the same joins the River Neath ; thence along the
River Neath to the point first described.
Swansea. — From the point at which the northern boun-
dary of the parish of St John is crossed by the road to Llan-
gefelach Church, northward, along the road to Llangefelach
Church, to the point at which the same is joined by a lane
called Rheol-y-cnap ; thence along the lane Rheol-y-cnap,
and along a lane which is a continuation thereof, and which
joins the turnpike road to Neath opposite the Llandwr
Engine, to the point at which such last-mentioned lane joins
the turnpike road to Neath ; thence, northward, along the
turnpike road to Neath to the point at which the same is
joined, between the Duke's Arms public house and a black-
smith's shop, by a road leading towards Clds Mont Farm ;
thence along the last-mentioned road to the point at which
the same is met, opposite the lane from Pen-Ian commonly
called Pen-Ian Road, by a track leading to a well head ;
thence along the said track to the point at which the same
reaches the said well head ; thence along the stream which
flows from the said well head to the point at which the said
stream falls into the stream called Nant Velin ; thence along
the stream Nant Velin to the point at which the same crosses
the road which leads from Morriston into the road from
Llangefelach Church to the bridge over the River Tawey ;
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248 The Boundary Act,
thence along the said road from Morriston to the point at which
the same joins the road from Llangefelach Church to the
bridge over the River Tawey ; thence along the last-men-
tioned road to the point at which the same reaches the said
bridge over the River Tawey ; thence, eastward, along the
turnpike road to Neath to the point at which the same is met
near the Star public house by a lane which leads from the
southern extremity of the parish of Llansamlet, over Cilfay
Hill and by Bon-y-maen, to Llansamlet Church ; thence
along the last-mentioned lane to the point at which the same
meets the boundary of the hamlet of St. Thomas near
Tregwl ; thence, eastward, along the boundary of the hamlet
of St. Thomas to the point at which the same meets the boun-
dary of the town and franchise ; thence, westward, along the
boundary of the town and franchise to the point at which the
same meets the boundary of the parish of St. John ; thence,
westward, along the boundary of the parish of St. John to
the point first described.
49.— COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY.
MONTGOMERY DISTRICT.
Llanfyllin. — From the southern extremity, on the north-
west of the town, of the private road which leads from the
Llangynog turnpike road to Bodfach Hall, along the said
private road to the point at which the same is met by the
boundary of the field Cae Evan Griffith ; thence, northward,
along the boundary of the field Cae Evan Griffith to the
point at which the same meets the boundary of the field
Maes Ucha ; thence, eastward, along the boundary of the
field Maes Ucha to the point at which the same meets the
boundary of the field Cae-pella Bwlch-y-llan ; thence, north-
ward, along the boundary of the field Cae-pella Bvvlch-y-llan
to the point at which the same meets the Llangedwyn Road ;
thence along the northern fences of the respective fields Cae
D{j, Cae Main, and Cae Dd Mawr, and along the eastern
fence of the field Cae Du Mawr, to the point at which the
last-mentioned fence reaches the Derwlwyn Wood ; thence
in a straight line across the Derwlwyn Wood to the northern
extremity of the eastern fence of Glynie Isa tenement ;
thence along the eastern fence of Glynie Isa tenement to the
point at which the same meets the Brynelldyn Road ; thence
along the Brynelldyn Road to the point at which the same
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readies Green Hall Park ; thence, southward, along the
boundary of the field Caer FrCm to the point at which the
same meets the boundary of the field Caer Gwenithdir ;
thence, southward, along the boundary of the field Caer
Gwenithdir to the point at which the same meets the River
Cain ; thence along the River Cain to the bridge called Pont-
y-Derwlwyn ; thence along Pont-y-Derwlwyn Lane to the
point at which the same meets the Bachie Road ; thence
along the Bachie Road to the eastern corner of Garth Wood ;
thence along the south-western fences of the fields Caer
Garth and Cyfie Ucha, and of the wood Coed Pen-y-Garth,
and, westward, along the southern fence of the field Cae
Gwenith, to the point at which such southern fence cuts the
occupation road to Pen-y-Garth Farm ; thence in a straight
line to the eastern extremity of the southern fence of the field
Llwyn Bricks ; thence, westward, along the boundary of the
field Llwyn Bricks to the point at which the same meets the
fence of the field Cae Bath; thence, westward, along the
fence of the field Cae Bath to the point at which the same
meets the Brook Abel ; thence along the Brook Abel to the
point at which the same is met by the "western fence of the
easternmost of the fields respectively called Lower Meadow ;
thence along the western fence of the last-mentioned field to
the point at which the same cuts the lane to Tynewydd ;
thence, northward, along the boundary of the field Llwyn Hir
to the point at which the same meets the boundary of the
field Cae Mawr ; thence, northward, along the boundary of
the field Cae Mawr to the point at which the same meets the
boundary of the field Cae Bach ; thence, eastward, along the
boundary of the field Cae Bach to the point at which the
same meets the boundary of the field Upper Coed Llan ;
thence, eastward, along the boundary of the field Uppe
Coed Llan to the point at which the same meets the boundary
of the field Lower Coed Llan ; thence, northward, along the
boundary of the field Lower Coed Llan to the point at which
the same meets the occupation road to Pen Coed Llan ;
thence in a straight line to the point first described.
Llanidloes. — From the point on the south-east of the
town at which Cwm Jonathan rill crosses the Rhaydr Road,
southward, along Cwm Jonathan rill, to the point at which
the same is met by the hedge on the right hand which is
nearest to the point at which Cwm Jonathan rill crosses the
cart lane from Ty-coch to Llanidloes ; thence along the said
hedge to the point at which the same meets the Ty-coch
^50 The Boundary Act,
stream ; thence along the Ty-coch stream to the point at
which the same reaches the Llangurig Road ; thence, north-
ward, along the Llangurig Road to the point at which the
same is cut by the nearest hedge on the left hand ; thence
along the last-mentioned hedge to the point at which the
same reaches a water-cut bank ; thence, southward, along
the said water-cut bank to the point at which the same
reaches a hedge running in the direction of the turnpike on
the Pymlymon Road ; thence along the last-mentioned hedge
to the point at which the same reaches the River Severn ;
thence along the River Severn to the point at which
the same is cut by a line drawn thereto in continuation
of the direction of the hedge on the northern end of
Pen-y-Green ; thence along the last-mentioned line, and
along the hedge in continuation whereof it is drawn, to
the point at which such hedge reaches the hedge of Mr.
Price's wood ; thence in a straight line to the point at which
the stream called Cefn Cummere Dingle meets the Pen-y-
bank Road ; thence along the Cefn Cummere Dingle to the
point at which the same joins the Cly wedog River ; thence,
westward, along the boundary of the township of Cilmachallt,
to the point at which the same meets a small watercourse
which runs along the western hedge of Berth Lloyd coppice ;
thence along the said watercourse to the point at which the
same reaches the lane from Llanidloes to Gorn ; thence,
westward, along the lane from Llanidloes to Gorn to the
point at which the same reaches the hedge which runs along
the eastern side of the Chapel House ; thence along the last-
mentioned hedge to the point at which the same reaches
Lletty-coch-y-nant brook ; thence, westward, along Lletty-
coch-y-nant brook to the point at which the same is met on
the left hand by a small stream ; thence along the last-men-
tioned stream to the spring from which the same proceeds ;
thence in a straight line to the nearest point in the road from
Llanidloes to the barn Leasow ; thence, westward, along the
road from Llanidloes to the barn Leasow to the point at
which the same meets the boundary of the borough of Lla-
nidloes ; thence, southward, along the borough of Llanidloes
to the point at which the same meets Cwm Jonathan rill ;
thence along Cwm Jonathan rill to the point first described.
Machynlleth. — The township and liberties of Machyn-
lleth ; and also that detached part of the township of Isygar-
reg which adjoins the north-eastern boundary of the township
and liberties of Machynlleth.
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64. 251
Montgomery. — The old borough of Montgomery.
Newtown. — The parish of Newtown, and the respective
townships of Hendidley and Gwestydd.
Welshpool. — The parish of Pool, and the township of
Gungrog Fechan in the parish of Guilsfield, except that part
of the township of Cyfronnydd in the parish of Pool which
is detached from the main body of such parish.
50.— COUNTY OF PEMBROKE.
HAVERFORDWEST DISTRICT.
Fishguard. — From the point at which the low-water mark
would be cut by a straight line to be drawn thereto from the
gate of the fort, through the eastern extremity of the southern
wall of the fort, in a straight line to the gate of the fort ;
thence in a straight line to the north-western corner of Parc-
y-Morfa meadow ; thence along the western fence of Parc-y-
Morfa meadow to the south-western corner thereof; thence
in a straight line to the highest point of Parc-y-Morfa rock ;
thence in a straight line to the north-western corner of the
fence which divides the Glyn Amel property from the pro-
perty of Mr. Vaughan ; thence, southward, along the said
fence of the Glyn Amel property to the point at which the
same meets the northern stream of the River Gwaine ; thence
up the said stream to the point at which the same meets the
boundary of the old borough : thence, eastward, along the
boundary of the old borough to the point at which the same
meets the low-water mark ; thence, eastward, along the low-
water mark to the point first described.
Haverfordwest. — From the point at which a straight line
drawn from St. Thomas's Church to the gate at the north-
eastern corner of the field called Hill Park cuts the boundary
of the old borough, along such straight line to the said gate ;
thence in a straight line to the gate which crosses the road
leading to Scotch Well House ; thence along the last-men-
tioned road to the point at which the same reaches Scotch
Well House ; thence along the road which leads by Sandpool
into the Cardigan Road to the north-eastern corner of Sand-
pool ; thence in a straight line to the cottage of Philip White ;
thence in a straight line to the left pier of the Weir on the
River Cleddy ; thence along the River Cleddy to the point
252 The Boundary Act,
at which the same would be cut by a straight line to be drawr
from Prendergast Church to the gate leading from the lane
on the north-east of Little Slade Farm into the paddock oJ
Little Slade Farm ; thence in a straight line to the last-men-
tioned gate ; thence in a straight line to the point at which
the boundary of the old borough would be cut by a straight
line to be drawn from the last-mentioned gate to the point at
which the Poorfield Road (otherwise called Jury Lane) leaves
the St. David's Road ; thence, westward, along the boundary
of the old borough to the point first described.
Narberth.— From the southern end of the Turnpike Gate
House on the Redstone Road, westward, along the fence
which abuts on the said house and is the northern boundary
of a field of which George Harris is tenant and Mr. Thomas
Eaton landlord, to the north-western corner of the said field ;
thence in a straight line to the north-eastern corner of a field
belonging to George Devonald, Esquire, and bounded on the
south by the turnpike road to Haverfordwest ; thence along
the private road which runs from the last-mentioned field to
the point at which the said private road meets the said road
to Haverfordwest ; thence in a straight line across the said
road to Haverfordwest to the point at which the same is met
by the western boundary of the Town Moor ; thence, south-
ward, along the western and southern boundary of the Town
Moor to the gate of a lane at the south-eastern corner
thereof; thence along the said lane to the point at which the
same meets the boundary of Narberth Churchyard ; thence,
westward, along the boundary of Narberth Churchyard to
the south-western corner thereof; thence in a straight line
to the point at which the stream from Narberth Bridge would
be cut by a straight line to be drawn from the point last de-
scribed to the point at which the road from the parsonage
meets the road from Pembroke ; thence up the said stream
to the point at which the same is joined by the stream from
Narberth Mill ; thence up the stream flowing from Narberth
Mill to the south-western corner of the field of which Lewis
Watkins is tenant and Baron Retzen is landlord ; thence,
eastward, along the boundary of the last mentioned field to
the point at which the same meets the southern boundary of
the field belong to Mr. Henry Davies, in which there is a
turnstile ; thence, eastward, along the southern boundary of
the said field of Mr. Henry Davies, and the southern and
eastern boundary of the adjoining field belonging to George
Phillips, Esquire, to the point at which the eastern boundary
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64. 253
of the said field of George Phillips, Esquire, meets the occu-
pation road leading to Blackalder ; thence, eastward, alons
the occupation road to Blackalder to the point at which the
same meets the south-eastern boundary of the easternmost of
two contiguous fields of which Mrs. Evans is tenant and
Daniel Thomas landlord ; thence along the boundary of the
last-mentioned field to the point at which the same meets the
Carmarthen Road; thence in a straight line across the Car-
marthen Road to the south-eastern corner of the field belono--
mg to John Lewis ; thence along the eastern boundary Sf
John Lewis s field to the point at which the same cuts the
^ardigan Road; thence in a straight line across the Cardigan
Koad to the south-western corner of Jesse's Well House *
thence m a straight line to the point at which the fence of the
grounds attached to the house called Bloomfield's would be
cut by a straight line to be drawn from the point last de-
cribed tothe house called Bloomfield's; thence, westward,
along the last-mentioned fence to the point at which the same
cuts the Redstone Road; thence along the Redstone Road
to the point first described.
PEMBROKE DISTRICT.
MiLFORD.— From the point at which Prix Pill falls into
the sea, along Prix Pill, to the point at which the same is
met by the lane coming down by Cwm, and sometimes called
Cwm Lane : thence along Cwm Lane to the point at which
the same meets the road from Haverfordwest; thence alono-
the road from Haverfordwest to the point at which the sam?
IS met by Priory Lane ; thence along Priory Lane to the
point at which the same meets, on the left, a road sometimes
called the New Road ; thence along the New Road to the
point at which the same meets a lane sometimes called White
Lady s Lane, leading to a field north of the brewery, some-
times called Haggard Field; thence along White Lady's
Lane to the point at which the same is cut by the fence of
Haggard Field ; thence, northward, along the fence of Hag-
gard Field to the north-western corner thereof; thence in a
straight line in the direction of the northern fence of Haggard
leld to Priory Pill ; thence in a straight line to the White
^Varehouse standing at the head of the Rope Walk in Hub-
Derstone Parish ; thence along Spike Lane which proceeds
rom the said White Warehouse to the point at which the
jame meets Conjwick Lane ; thence along Conjwick Lane to
he point at which the same meets the lane which was lately
254 The Boundary Act,
part of Point Field; thence along the lane lately part of
Point Field to the point at which the same ends on the com-
mon ; thence in a straight line through the westernmost point
of the fort to the sea coast ; thence along the sea coast to the
point first described.
Pembroke. — The respective parishes of St. Mary and St.
Michael, and also the space comprised within the boundary
hereafter described (together with all such parts, if any, of
the old borough of Pembroke as lie without the said boun-
dary) :
From the point on the south-west of the town at which the
brook called the Taylor's Lake meets the boundary of the
parish of St. Mary, northward, along the said brook, to the
point at which the same joins the Pill near Quoit's Mill ;
thence along the said Pill to the point at which the same
meets the boundary of the parish of St. Mary ; thence, east-
ward, along the boundary of the parish of St. Mary to the
point first described.
Tenby. — The In-Liberty of Tenby.
WisTON. — The old borough of Wiston.
51.— COUNTY OF RADNOR.
RADNOR DISTRICT.
Cefn Llys. — The old borough of Cefn Llys.
Knighton.— The old borough of Knighton.
Knucklas. — The old borough of Knucklas.
Presteign. — The ancient lordship, manor, and borough i
of Presteign, together with such parts, if any, of the township
of Presteign, and of the chapelry of Discoyd, as are without
the ancient lordship, manor, and borough of Presteign ; and
also the space included within the following boundary ; (that ;
is to say,) , *|
From the point on the north of the town at which Norton !i
Brook falls into the River Lug, in a straight line to the point
at which the road to Wigmore and Ludlow is met by the road
to Kinsham Village ; thence in a straight line to the point at i
2 & 3 William IV. Cap. 64. 255
which the right-hand branch of the Clatter Brook falls into
the River Lug; thence along the River Lug to the point first
described.
New Radnor. — The old borough of New Radnor.
Rhaydrgwy. — From the point at which the boundary of
the old borough would be cut by a straight line to be drawn
from Rhadyr Church to the bridge over the Gwynllin Brook
on the new road to Aberystwith, in a straight line to the said
bridge ; thence along the Gwynllin Brook to the Weir or
dam head ; thence along the southern bank of the mill
dam to the point at which the same is cut by the eastern
fence of Gwynllin lain Field ; thence, southward, along the
eastern fence of Gwynllin lain Field to the gate leading into
the yard of the Grist Mill and woollen manufactory belong-
ing to David Evans ; thence along the road which crosses
the said yard to another gate at the south-eastern corner
thereof; thence in a straight line to the north-eastern corner
of the farmhouse called Ty-Newidd or New House ; thence
in a straight line to the point at which the boundary of the
old borough would be cut by a straight line to be drawn from
the New House to the bridge over the River Wye ; thence,
southward, along the boundary of the old borough to the
point first described.
INDEX
OF PRINCIPAL MATTERS.
For particular Counties, Borouglis and Places, &c. see Index
LOCORUM.
The Numerals refer to the pages of the Statute, the Figures
to the Commentary,
A (Schedule), Ixx— 3, 4.
[Boroughs disfranchised.]
Enactments effecting disfrancliisement, i, ii — 3, 4.
Abjuration (Oath).
See Oaths.
Abode {of Voter),
[Place of, must be accurately described and stated],
In notice to Overseers, Town Clerks, &c. of claim to
insertion in Lists of Voters, xxv, xxvi, xxxv, xxx^'i —
26, 52, 55, 57.
Omission of, from lists of voters, may be supplied by re-
vising barrister as a corrected mistake, xxxi — 85.
If changed after registry it forms an objection to voting,
xxv— 72, 73, 84.
(o/ Objectors to Voters).
Must be stated in notice of objection,
xxxvi, xxxviii — 59, 61, 62, 63.
Notice of objection to county elector, if not served person-
ally, or delivered to his tenant, must be served at voter's
place of abode, as described in List, xxviii — 60.
o2
55S Abode of Voter — Adjudication,
Abode {of Voter). — {Continued.)
Notice of, in London^ at the usual place of abode of party,
xxxviii — 63.
must state place of abode of objector, xxviii, xxxvi,
xxx\-ii— 59, 60, 61, 73.
See Residence.
Abstract,
of statements of persons objected to, to be made by clerk
of peace for revising barrister to direct his holding of
Courts, xxix — 35.
Accounts {of Officers).
Provision for, xxvi, xlvii, xlviii— 32.
Acts {of Parties).
Necessary to procure enlistment as electors, by overseers^
by insertion of name in the lists of voters.
To institute and prosecute claim of insertion in
lists.
See Claim.
■ To object to claims.
See objecting to Claims.
To be registered, having been omitted from
lists of voters.
See Registration.
Action {against Sheriffs, Returning Officers, and others neg-
lecting duties imposed by the Act.)
Given by penal clause, Ixi, Ixii — 76, 180.
To parties aggrieved only, Ixii — 180.
Adjournment {of Courts ofRevisal).
See Courts of Revisal.
{of Poll).
On account of obstruction by ^^olence.
See Polling.
Adjudication {of Rights of Voters by Revising Barristers).
Grounds, mode, process, and result of, 83 to 85.
Advertisement— Assessed Taxes, 559
At>VERTisEMENT (of Courts and Circuits).
See Courts of Revisal.
Of revising barristers for county lists, xxx —
80.
See Courts of Revisal — Notice.
Age,
Of voters and candidates.
See Disqualification,
Aliens.
See Disqualijication,
Allegiance {Oath of).
See Oaths.
Alms (Receipt of).
See Disqualification.
Annuity {charged on or issuing out of land.)
As qualification to vote for county, 13.
Must be registered for twelve months if title accrued
after 1st June, 1763, 13.
If since, certificate of date of grant must be re-
gistered for same time, 13.
Appeal {from adjudication of Revising Barristers.)
See Petition.
from omission by overseers in county lists.
See Revising Barrister.
Appointment {by Judges).
Of revising barristers, xxix, xxxix — 77, 78.
(% Sheriff-).
Of persons to be temporary returning officers
for boroughs, vii — 122.
Of temporary deputies to preside at polls, liii —
107.
Assessed Taxes.
Payment of, necessary to registration of qua-
lification to vote for boroughs, xvi — 20.
5()0 Assessment — Birth.
Assessment {to Poors Hate).
Necessary to vote in respect of
10/. qualification in boroughs,
xvii — 56.
Voter may demand to be rated
to, xvii — 56.
Attornies.
Whether permitted to attend parties before revising
barristers at Courts of Revisal of Lists— doubted,
89, 92.
Authenticating Lists (corrected bt/ Barristers).
See Revising Barristers.
B. {Schedule), ii, Ixxi.
Enumeration of boroughs in future to return
only one member to parliament, Ixx.
Clause respecting, ii — 3, 4.
Barristers {^for revising Lists of Voters).
Appointment of.
By whom, at what time, xxix — 78.
And on what occasion to be made, xxix, xxxix —
78, 79.
[Duties of].
To hold courts for the business of their office :
To advertise and give notice of circuits :
and holding courts for revisal of lists of voters.
See Courts of Revisal.
Remuneration and reimbursement of, Ixviii— 79 :
[Business and duties of, in courts of revisal.]
See Courts of Revisal — Revising Banister.
Benefice {Title by promotion to, except from necessity/ of
residence to qualify.)
See Qualification.
Birth {freedom by virtue of).
See Qualification — Boroughs.
Books — Candidates, 561
Book {of names of Voters).
See Register.
of rates.
To be produced before revising barristers, xliii — 82.
for checking poll clerks.
See Checque Book.
Booths (Erecting).
Provisions respecting, Ixii, Ixiii — 107.
See Polling.
Boroughs.
Extent and boundaries of.
See Boundary/ Act.
Meaning of word as used throughout, Ixiii.
Distance from as to residence.
See Qualification.
To return two members.
See Schedule C.
To return one.
See Schedule D.
Qualification for voters in.
See Qualification.
Boundaries.
See Boundary Act.
Bribery.
Disqualification of voters and members.
Oath negativing.
When and by whom,
how and where administered.
See Polling.
Building.
See Qualification (new) Borough.
C. Schedule, iii, Ixxi — 2, 3.
Candidates.
See Qualification of, and Disqualification of.
562 Candidates — Ciff/ of London,
Candidates — (continued).
May require three questions to be put to voters,
117.
Petition.
See Petition.
Certificate (of Giant of Title to Annuity having accrued he-
fore 1st June, 1763, being lodged with Clerk of Peace,) 13.
Cestui Que Trust.
See Qualification.
Charges.
Diminishing value of estate, what are, 12.
what are not, xiii — 12.
Checque Books.
To be provided for compartments, 108.
Checque Clerks.
To be appointed by returning officers for
boroughs, 108.
Churchwardens.
Within words " Overseers of the Poor," 24.
Not to be appointed returning officers, vii —
24.
Church.
No nomination of candidates to be in, 108.
Rate.
See Rate.
Cinque Ports.
Returning officer for, allowed six days for delivery of
precepts, 113.
Circuit (of Revising Barristers).
See Courts of Revisal.
Cities and Towns being Counties.
Qualifications for, 13 to 24.
Provisions respecting, x, xviii, xix, xxii.
Cities and Boroughs.
See Qualification.
City of London.
See London.
Claims {instituting) — Clerk, Town, ^^^
Claims {instituting).
[To be inserted in lists of voters for counties.]
Notice of claim to be transmitted to overseers, first
step, XXV — 51, 52.
Form of, 52.
Service of, 52.
Payment thereon of one shilling to overseers,
xlvii— 52, 53.
(prosecuting).
Proof of notice of claim and pa3niient of one shilling at
Court of Revisal, 54, 83, 87.
Proof in support of claim or qualification, ih.
[To be inserted in registers.]
See Registration.
(For Boroughs.)
Notice to overseers or town clerk, xxxv — 55
Forms of, 55, 57.
To be rated and to pay arrears of dues for the relief of the
poor, xvii — 55, 56.
To pay up arrears of assesed taxes in respect of new qualifi-
cation, xvi — 20.
Clerk of Peace.
[Duties of.]
To receive the county lists of voters and statements of
numbers of persons objected to, from the high constable
of hundreds, xxix — 33.
To abstract the statements for transmission to revising
barrister, xxix — 81, 82.
To receive, file, and preserve with the records of liis ofiice,
the appointments by sheriffs of temporary returning oflfi-
cers, vii.
To receive revised lists from barristers and transcribe them
in books as directed, S. 54— xlv— 94, 95.
To dehver the books to the sheriffs, xlv — 95.
To print copies for sale, xl\d — 96.
To keep the original lists among the sessions records*
xlv— 94.
■ OF Poll.
See Poll Clerks.
Clerk, Town.
See Town Clerks.
o5
564 Clerks of Livery Companies— Counsel.
Clerks of Livery Companies
Duties of, xxxvii— -47, 48.
Closing Poll.
See Polling.
Commencement of.
See Polling.
Commissioners.
For administering oaths, 117.
Committee of House of Commons.
See Petition.
Compartments (of Booths), Iv— 108.
Constables of Hundreds.
Duty of, xxviii— 82.
Continuance
Of election.
See Polling.
Construction (of Terms).
Sect. Ixxix.
Contravening Statute.
See Action.
Contributory Boroughs, v, vi— 118, 119.
Copyholds.
See Qualification (Counties.)
Copyholders.
Now entitled to vote.
See Qualification (Counties).
Copies of Lists of Voters.
When, by whom, and why to be furnished.
See Overseers — Town Clerk.
OF Registers.
See Registers.
Correcting Mistakes in Lists.
See Revising Barrister.
Counsel.
Not allowed to attend parties before revising bar-
rister, xhii— 89.
Meaning and application of the enactment, 89—92.
Counties — Courts (for Revisal of Lists, Sfc.) 565
Counties.
(At large.)
See Index of Names of Places.
Divided, ib.
Counting House.
See Qualification — Boroughs.
Courts (for Revisal of Lists of Voters.)
[The Count}/ Courts of Revisal.]
Duty of Revising Barrister in appointing and publishing
the time of holding.
To advertise in country papers, and post public notice
on the principal place of election for the county, &c. of
being about to make a circuit of the county, xxix — 80.
The latter notice to be given (i. e. to be fixed up) three
days at least before the commencement of the circuit, ib.
To announce in a similar manner the several times and
places of holding courts, ib.
Courts to be appointed and holden at certain times be-
tween the 15th of September and 25th of October in-
clusive, ib.
Courts to be open Courts, ib.
Courts to be holden separately by each of the barristei-s
appointed for the same counties, ib. — 81.
Each barrister to attend and hold court at the same time
and place, 81.
Business of the County Courts of Revisal, xxx to xxxii —
81 to 87.
See Revising Barrister.
[Borough Courts (for Revisal of Lists). ^
Sections of the statute providing for, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53,
xxxix, xl, xlii, xliii, xliv. — 79, 80.
Notice of holding Borough Courts is published by affixing
the statement of days appointed for the holding on the
doors of the churches or chapels in the borough; or if
none, in some public place within the borough, xl. — 87.
566 Courts J §•€. — Disqualification of Electors.
Courts (For Revisal), &c. — (continued.)
Adjournment of all the Courts, xliii — 88.
See Barristers — Claims — Objections^— Over-
seers — Registration.
Business of Borough Courts, xl. to xliii.— 81 to 88.
County Court (special, for electing members), 106.
Customs.
Offices in, disqualify.
D, (ScHED.) iv, Ixxi.
Declaration.
Of state of poll of members chosen.
See Polling — Proclamation.
Deputies ( of returning officers presiding at polls).
Sheriffs and returning officer empowered to appoint for
polhng at elections.
Powers and duties of.
See Polling — Returning Officer.
Remuneration of, lix.
Descent.
Title by and effect o£
See Qualification.
Directions, (official, to overseers as to framing Lists, Sfc.) 27
to 48.
Disfranchisement.
Boroughs disfranchised.
See Sched A. and B.
Disqualification (of electors).
Alien birth, 68.
Alms (receiving).
Bribery, conviction of.
British peerage.
Conviction of perjury and subornation ; of infamous of*
fences, 67.
Disqualification^ SfC, 567
Disqualification (of electors).
Customs (office and employment in) 69.
Excise (office and employment in), 69.
Employment by candidates at elections, 71.
Female sex.
House duties (offices for collection of), 70.
Idiocy, 67.
Insanity.
Lunacy, 68.
Nonage, Q9.
Omission from registry for two years, Q7.
Police (officers of) 71 .
Post office (certain officers of), 70.
packets, employment in, 70.
[There are several incidental disqualifications, which are
collected and enumerated in pp. 78, 79,]
• (of candidates or sitting members).
(As above.)
[There are some special disqualifications, which are stated
below.]
Disqualification {of Members,) 99 to 103.
{Candidates.)
Appointment as revising barrister, 103.
of assistant barrister in Ireland, 104.
of surveyor-general of the King's works ib.
as architect to superintend works by Lord
Lieutenant, ib.
Commission for Woods and Forests (except one being
already a member,) 104.
Commission for auditing public accounts, 104.
Government (or office of deputy-governor) of any
settlement of East India Company during office.
Dignity of Lord Chancellor, Master of the Rolls, of
one of Twelve Judges, and Masters in Chancery
in Ireland, 104.
Contract, agreement, or commission with, under, or
from the Commissioners of Treasury, Navy, or
Victalling Offices, Attorney-General, or Board of
568 Disqualification, S^c. — Entry of Voters.
Disqualification (of Members) — {continued.)
Ordnance, or any person or persons for or on ac-
count of public service, 104.
{^Exceptions, ih.']
New office or place of profit under the crown since
the 25th October, 1705, 105.
Office or place of profit by nomination of any mem-
ber of government of Ireland, ib.
Being of government, direction, or management, or
body of Bank of England, ib.
Pension from crown during pleasure, ib.
Office of sheriff (generally), ib.
Distance {from Boroughs).
As to residence.
See Residence.
Districts {for Polling).
See Polling Districts.
Division {of Counties).
See Index of' Names of Places.
{of Subject-matter of Treatise,) 4 to 8.
Election.
Proceedings preparatory to.
See Preliminaries.
Course of and proceedings during.
See Polling.
Elective Franchise,
or electoral title and rights, 1, 2.
Electors ( Titles and Rights of).
Claims — objections.
See Qualification — Registration — Petition.
Enfranchisement {of Places not before i^epresented).
Enactment enfranchising, 11, 111.
Schedules C and D.
Entry {of Voters in Poll-Books,) 109.
Form of, 110.
Of tendered votes by persons not in the register, ii. —
109.
Foundation of petitions.
See Petitions.
Equitable Estate. — Expunging Names, S^c, 569
Equitable Estate.
See Qualification (Counties).
Equity of Redemption.
See Qualification (Counties).
Estate.
What necessarj' to confer the right of voting.
See Qualification (Counties).
To enable members to sit in ParHament.
See Qualification (of Members).
Evidence.
Before revising barrister, 87, 89.
Before select committee, 137.
Exceptions.
To right of voting by reason of old qualification (in bo-
roughs), xxi.
In counties, xi.
To disqualifications for voting, xii.
for sitting.
See Disqualification.
Excise.
Officers of and persons employed in collecting, &c.
See Disqualification.
Exemption.
From office of returning officr, vii.
(Proviso). See Returning Officers.
Excluding Clauses. — xxiv, xxv, xxvi.
Exclusion (from Register).
From voting at time of polling,
Grounds of.
From claim of insertion in lists.
Unsatisfactory answer to either of the three questions
to be put under the 58th sect.
Refusal to take any oath required by law, i. — 114.
Expenses (of Officers, Sfc. how to be defrayed.)
Sect. Ivi.
Expunging (Names from Lists of Voters).
See Revising Barristers.
570 Extra-Parochial Places — hiitials, %c,
Extra-Parochial Places.
Provisions for.
Sect. 48, (proviso at end).
Freedom.
See Borough Qualification.
Freeholds.
See County Qualification.
Freeman.
See Qualification — Boroughs.
H. Schedule, Ixxv.
House of Commons.
See Petitions.
House.
See Qualification — Boroughs.
Householder.
See Qualification — Boroughs.
Hundred (Constable of).
To receive lists of voters, and statements of numbers of
persons objected to from overseers, xxviii. — 82.
To deliver such lists forthwith to clerks of peace, xxix. —
83.
I. Schedule, Ixxviii.
Identity (of Voters).
Incapacities.
See Disqualifications.
Incompetencies.
See Disqualification — Oaths.
Indictment.
See Misdemeanor — Perjury.
Initials (of Barrister's name.)
(to be put to corrections in lists), 84.
Inhabitancy — Liveryman. 571
Inhabitancy, xix. — 23, 85.
See Old Boroughs Qualification.
Interpreting Clause, Ixxxix.
Insertion in Lists.
See Claim — Objections — Overseers — Register — Revis-
ing Barrister.
Inspector (of Poll Clerks), 107.
Joint Occupancy.
See Qualification.
Jurisdiction.
of revising barrister.
See Revising Barrister.
of sheriff and deputies.
See Returning Officers.
K. Schedule, Ixxxii.— 47, 48, 56, 63.
Knights of Shires.
See Qualification — Disqualification.
L. Schedule, Ixvii. Ixxxiv.
Land.
See Qualification — Boroughs.
Landlord.
See Rate.
Land-Tax.
Assessment to, no longer necessary to qualify, xiii.
Laws (of Election).
Existing at passing of Act to be still in force, Ixii.
Leaseholds.
See Qualification.
Lists (of Voters).
To contain the names, &c. of all persons duly claiming to
be inserted therein, xxvi — 26 ; xxxiii — 35 to 37.
See Claims — Notice — Overseers — Revising
Barrister
(o/* Objectors).
See Objecting to Voters.
Liveryman (London).
See London.
572 hiverymen {London) — Naturalisation.
Liverymen (London).
See London.
London.
Framing London lists of liverymen, xxxvii. to xxxix. —
47, 48.
Claiming insertion in, xxxviii. — 56.
Objecting to names in lists, xxxviii. — 63.
Polling-booths not to be provided for London, xxxix. —
114.
Lunacy.
Incompetency, 68.
Marriage.
Title by.
Excepting, effect of.
See Qualification.
Members (of House of Commons).
See Candidates — Qualification — Disqualification.
Minors.
Incompetent to vote.
to be elected.
See Qualification.
Mortgagor.
Title of (in possession).
See Qualification.
Mortgagee.
Title of (in possession).
See Qualification.
Misdemeanor (indictable).
Answering falsely the three questions or either of them,
xUx.— 117.
Misnomers.
provided for by sect. 79.
Mistakes (in Lsit of Voters).
may be corrected at courts of revisal
See Revising Barristers.
Names (of Voters).
See Register.
Naturalization.
See Qualification.
Nomination — Objecting {to Voters), 573
Nomination.
of revising barrister.
See Barrister.
of candidates.
See Polling.
NON OBSTANTE CLAUSES, SS. XXiv. XXV. XXvi.
Notice.
Required to be given by overseers as to preparing lists
of county voters.
See Overseers.
By claimants.
See Claim.
By objectors.
See Objecting.
To be given by revising barrister of being about to make
their circuit of the county, stating the times and
places of holding courts, xxix. — 80, 81.
Of adjourning polls in case of open violence, obstruct-
ing polhng, Ivii. — 119.
By returning officer, of situation and appropriation of
booths and divisions or compartments, Iv. — 114.
By persons omitted from livery lists claiming to be in-
serted, xxxviii. — 56.
[Of expunging names.]
No persons' names (ijf living) to be expimged from
lists, if properly described, without notice to party,
xxxii. xlii. — 85, 88.
Service of.
See Claims — Objecting to Voters.
By returning officer.
See Returning Officer.
Oaths.
The oaths to be put as to the three questions prescribed
by sect. 48, 1.— 114.
Form of, 1.
against bribery, 1.
Other oaths, 114 to 119.
Objecting (to Voters).
By overseers.
See Overseers.
By voters or claimants.
574 Objecting, ^c—Occvpation,
Objecting {to Voters).
Counties.
Title to object, 58, 59.
Ground, and nature and substance, of
objection, 59.
how supported, 83 to 85, 89.
Notice of objection.
must be given to overseers, who
made out the list of voters, 59^
Form of, 59, 65.
Service of, 59.
to parties objected to, 60.
Form of, 60.
Service of, 59, 60.
Time for objecting, 59.
Objecting by, and to City and Borough voters.
Title to object, 61, 64.
Nature and subject of objection, 61, 64.
Time for objecting, 61.
Notice of objection, 61, 63, 65.
Form of, 61, 64, 65.
Service of, 61.
To whom to be given, 61, 62.
In London, 64.
List of objections to voters, how and when to be pub-
lished, 60, 62, 63.
Forms of, 60, 62, 63.
Overseers' hst, 60.
Town clerks' list, 62.
London lists, 62, 63.
Occupation.
What is, 13.
When and where necessary to qualification.
See Qualijication — Borough.
Joint.
Successive.
See Qualijication — Borough.
Office — Overseers. 575
Office.
under crown disqualifies for revising barristers, xxx.
—79.
where a disqualification.
See Disqualification.
Omissions
of names from lists.
of matter of description.
of names from register.
See Revising Barrister.
Provision in case of persons whose names are omitted
from register in consequence of decision of revising
barrister, 1. — 109.
Overseers.
Description of ofiicer.
All persons acting as such by office or appointment,
Ixiii.— 24.
Privileges of.
Exempt from appointment of returning officer for
new boroughs, vii.
Duties of in counties (or shires).
Making lists of voters.
To prepare and make lists of voters in their respec-
tive parishes, xxv. — 24, 29.
Contents of lists.
See Lists of Voters.
To post and pubhsh notice of the time of making
such lists, demanding thereby that claims be sent
in directing the nature of notice of claim, con-
tents, and the consequences of omission, xxv. —
25,30,31.
Form of, Ixxv. — 25.
To make a list of claimants from such notices sent
in, xxiv. xxv.— 26, 29, 31.
The lists to be completed by the last day of July,
xxvi. — 31.
Lists to be signed by overseers, xxvi. — 30.
To procure li-^ts to be printed, and copies to be kept
for sale and for inspection, 32.
Lists to be published by posting on church or chapel
doors, ur, where none, some public place, 34.
576 Overseers — Perjury,
O V E RSEE R8— (continued) .
To make from notices of objecting lists of per
objected to; 33, 40, 62.
To keep copies of either list for public inspection
and sale, 31, 32, 33.
To cause them to be published at certain days and
places, 32, 33.
To deliver their county list with statement of num-
ber of persons objected to, to high constable of
hundreds, xxviii. — 33.
Duties of, at revising barristers' courts of revisal of
lists, XXX. xl. xliii.— 33, 41, 82, 88.
To attend the court and deliver copy of objected
persons, xxx. — 33, 81.
To answer interrogatories on oath, xxxiii — 33.
Overseers ha\'ing custody of the rate- book to pro-
duce it before barrister, 34.
To accoimt for monies received, 41, 44.
Duties of overseers in city and boroughs.
These are set forth in order, plainly and perspicu-
ously, in sect, 2, chap. 5, p. 35 to 40.
General provision respecting overseers.
Overseers of parishes and the least populous ad-
joining places where there are no overseers, to
take the duties for such adjacent places, xxvii. —
34, 46.
Powers of overseers.
To object to names of voters in county lists, xxvi. —
24, 27.
To inspect tax assessments, 46, 31.
Remuneration and reimbursement of, Ivi.
Owner.
Of qualifying property.
See Qualification.
Penal Clauses.
Sections 58, 76.
JPerjurt.
Wilful false swearing to be deemed and punishable as
perjury, xhii — 88.
Poll Clerks— Police. 5T7
Poll Clerks.
Duties of.
To take and enter votes, liii— 108.
To distinguish the votes of registered persons from the
tenders of persons not registered.
To enclose and seal their poll-books at close of each day'
poll, and so deliver them to returning offic r, or deput
presiding, lii. — 107.
Remuneration of, Ixix.
Polling (for Counties).
Districts for, liii— 107.
A reasonable number of polling booths to be provided by
the returning officers at joint expense of candidates, or
persons proposing candidates without their authority',
liii— 108.
Booths to be assigned to parishes, Iv — 108.
Voters to poll at the assigned booth of their respective
parishes, liii — 109.
All votes tendered and received (if the due oaths are
taken) must be entered by the poll clerks, the presiding
officer distinguishing those registered from those not
registered, 1 — 109.
Generally, 116 to 119.
Commencement, continuance, and close of each day's poll,
m— 118, 119.
Adjournment of poll, Ivii — 119.
Administering oaths, 116.
Closing poll first day, liii, Ivi — 119.
Second day (final), liii, Ivi, 120.
May still be closed before the second day where by law it
might before the Act, Ivii — 119.
(for Boroughs), liv. to lix— 112 to 116.
Polling Places.
Boundary Act, 180 to 191.
Petition.
To House of Commons against election or return, 121 to
135. .
Police.
Officers of, disqualified to vote.
See Disqualification (Voters).
278 Possession, — Qualification,
Possession.
What is, 13.
When and for what time necessary to registration.
Post Office,
Office or employment in, disquaHfies.
See Disqualification.
POTWALLER.
A horough qualification temporary and personal, 23.
Precepts for Election.
When to be issued.
See Returning Officer.
Preliminary Proceedings (for General Election), 106, 107.
Proclamation (bi/ Returning Officer).
Of place and time of election for counties, 1. — 106.
Of members elected.
Of days fixed for election of knights of shires for divisions
of counties to be made by sheriffs of counties, li. — 61.
Publication.
Of lists of voters.
objectors.
See Overseers.
QUALIFICATION (of Voters.)
(By estate for counties.)
The qualifications for counties (i. e. shires) have already
been synoptically classified and arranged in the 1st sect,
of the 3d chapter of the Commentary. They are here
arranged alphabetically.
Assignments (of, terms and residences,) Nos. 12, 14, 16 —
xii— 15, 16, 17.
Assignment of, Nos. 14, 11 — ib.
Copyholds.
Of estate in annual quantity and value of, with the ne-
cessary incidents positive and negative, xi. xii — No.
xi, xii — 10, 14.
Equitable estate in property with possession and enjoy-
ment, ib.
Qualification. S79
Qualification— (confinMcJ).
Equity of Redemption.
Where mortgagor is in possession.
Freeholds (of inheritance).
Necessary value and positive and negative incidents of,
Nos. 1, 2—12, 13.
O^ llf^)i X.— Nos. 2 to 9—13, 14.
Other tenures, Nos. 2 to 9, 11 to 18.
Leasehold terms, xii. — Nos. 15 to 1.
Legal estate in trust property, in beneficial possession, ih.
Mortgage where mortgagee is in possession, ih.
Sub-lease of term, Nos. 13, 17, ib.
Tenancy with occupation, xii. — Nos. 19, 17.
Trust estate, in possession and enjoyment, xiii — 17.
for cities and towns being counties, x, xviii.
See Chap. 3. Sect. 2— xix— 18, 19.
See Qualification — Borough — Newly conferred.
Burgage Tenement, xviii, xix — 18, 19.
Incidents of, ib.
Freeholds, xviii — 18.
Incidents of, xviii, xix — 18, 19.
- For cities corporate, and boroughs, xxi. — 20 to 23,
[newly conferred.]
Occupation as owner or comptroUing tenant of habitable
or business premises in the borough (&c.), of the yearly
value of 10/. xv--20.
Incidents of, xv, xvi — 20.
Joint occupation, xvii — 21.
Successive occupation, xxii. — 21.
[Old qualification (permanent.)]
Freedom by birth, xix, xx — 21, 22.
Incidents of, ib.
By ser\'itude, xix, xx — 22.
Incidents of, ib.
280 Qualification — Register of Voters,
Qualification — (continued).
[Old qualifications personal and temporary.]
Inhabitancy or permanent dwelling and abiding in town,
xxii.— 23.
Condition of potwaller, ib.
Inhabitancy and house-holding, ih.
Inhabitancy and scot-paying, and lot-bearing, ih.
Freeholds by descent and between 1st of March, 1831,
and 7th June, 1832, ih.
Questions.
To be put to electors at poll if required, xliv. — 116.
No other questions to be put, 1. — 116.
Rates, xiii.
Poor, xvi, xvii — 73.
assessment to.
necessary to qualification, xvi. — 20.
but landlord still hable if not paid
where payment of assessed, xviii.
Church, not a charge diminishing value or qualification,
xiii.— 12.
County, ditto, ih.
Records.
See Clerk of Peace — Register.
Rent.
See Qualification (counties) — Leaseholds.
Charge-
See Annuity, (same incidents applying).
REGISTER (of voters) in election of Knights of Shires), is,
The book of names of voters taken from the lists cor-
rected by revising barristers, and deposited with clerk
of peace, and to be transcribed by him, xlv.
Sheriff of county to have custody of, xlv. — 96.
Transcript of, to be made annually by overseers on or
before last day of July as a List of Registered Voters
for the time being, xlv. — 95, et seq.
Copies to be kept, xlvi. — 97.
to be written or printed by clerks of peace for
public sale, xlvi.
Correctness of register may be impeached upon petition
Register, 8^c, — Returning Officers. 281
Register — {continued.)
to House of Commons complaining of return at elec-
tion, li.— 125 to 141.
See Exclusion — Petition, ^c.
REGISTRATION of Voters.
Necessity of, in all cases of claim of right of voting.
Indispensable to qualification, xvi. xviii. xxv. — 2, 49, 50.
Acts (by parties) necessary to procure themselves to be
registered as voters for counties, 51 to 55.
— — — . FOR Boroughs, 55 to 56.
London, 56, 57.
See Claim — Clerks of Peace — Courts of
Revisal — Objecting to Claims — Qua-
lification — Returning Officers — Revis-
ing Barristers.
Relief {Parish).
See Disqualification.
Reimbursement.
Of officers.
See Official Appellation.
Remuneration.
Of officers.
See Official Appellation.
Reserved Rights.
See Right of Voting.
Residence.
Necessary to registration in boroughs.
See Qualification.
to qualify for temporary returning officer, xii.
See Abode.
Return {to Writ of Election).
Of elected members, 123, 124,
Returning Officers.
Are so by office or appointment, 121.
Sheriffs and deputies, counties (shires), and county towns,
121.
Other returning officers for boroughs and cities corporate,
122.
p 2
282 Returning Officers — RevisingBarrister.
Returning Officers — {continued).
Duties of.
To execute writs and precepts for elections, 122.
To issue precepts, 121.
To return writs and precepts, 122 to 124.
To erect booths, preside at polls, administer oaths, &c. &c.
108 to 120.
See Foiling.
Expenses of, how to be defrayed, xlvii.
Revenue.
Certain officers of, disqualified.
See Disqualification.
Revisal of Lists {Court of).
See Court of Revisal.
REVISING BARRISTER.
See Barrister — Claims — Clerk of Peace — Courts of
Revisal — Objecting to Claims — Overseers — Regis-
ter — Returning Officers.
Duties and business of at courts of revisal.
As to county lists.
To perfect lists by adjudication of claims and objections,
77.
To make circuits, xxix. — 80, 81.
To fix, advertise, and hold courts, xxix. xxx. — 81, 82.
To examine overseers on oath, xxx. — 82.
To determine cases of objection, xxxi. — 83, 84, 85.
To correct mistakes in and supply omissions of statements,
so as to amend imperfect insertions, xxxi.— 85, 86.
To adjudicate on claims of persons omitted from lists,
xxxi. xxxii. — 86, 87.
As to borough lists.
To insert omitted names of persons entitled to be inserted
on last day of July, xH. — 87.
To retain names properly inserted or unsuccessfully op-
posed, xli.— 85, 87, 88.
To expunge or strike out names not to be retained, xli. —
85 to 88.
To continue omission of names not inserted on failure of
proof of right to insertion, proviso xlii. — 83, 84.
Revising Barrister— Stamp Duties. 283
Revising Barrister — (continued).
To affix the initials of his name in the margin against
each insertion or cancel of a name, and each correction
in the lists, xliv. — 87.
To sign each page of the settled lists when so perfected
and corrected, xliv. — 94.
To transmit settled coimty Ksts to clerks of peace, xliv. —
84.
To deliver borough lists to returning officers, xlv. — 94.
Remuneration and reimbursement of, Iviii.
Right of Voting.
See Qualification — Registration.
Saving.
of existing rights, xi. xix. — 12, 13 — 21, 23.
of existing election laws, Ixii.
Schedules A. B. &c. Ixx. to Ixxxiv.
Scot and Lot Voters.
right reserved.
See Qualification — Boroughs.
Scrutiny.
right of demanding,
extinguished, 1. — 93, 116.
Service (of Notices).
how effected, 25, 52, 59, 59, 61, 63.
Servitude.
freedom obtained through.
See Qualification — Boroughs.
Sharing in Election of Representative.
Places sharing right of returning.
See Index Locorum.
Sheriff.
See Returning Officer.
Shire.
See Index Locorum — Polling.
Shop.
See Qualification — Boroughs.
Signing Lists of Voters.
Revised and perfected by barrister made necessary, xiiii.
—92.
Stamp Duties.
See Disqualification.
^84. State of Poll — Times,
State of Poll.
when and how to be declared.
See PoU'mg.
Sub-lease,
See Qualification.
Succession.
title by.
exempts from.
Taxes (assessed).
payment of, a condition of registration, xvi. — 20, 56,
Tenant.
See Qualification.
Tender (of Vote).
See Polling.
Tenure.
See Qualification.
Times (or dates of Duties) — Appointed by the statute for per-
formance of acts of duty by officers.
June 20. — Notice to be published by overseers of preparing
Lists of Electors, xxv, xxvi — 25.
July 31. — Lists of claimants to be made.
Two Sundays following.- — Lists to be published by fixing
copies on or near the church doors.
Two first weeks after lists made. — Copies in custody of over-
seers may be inspected.
Jidy and August. — Revising Barristers to be appointed,
xxxix — 78.
Lists of county voters and statements of persons
objected to, to be delivered up by overseers to
high constables of hundreds, xxviii — 33, 82.
Two Sundays before 15 th Sept. — Copies of Lists of persons
oljjected to, to be made and published, xxvi.
Ten days before the 15th Sept. — Copy of names of persons
objected to in custody of overseers to be in-
spected at all reasonable hours, xxvii — 33.
13th Sept. to 23d Oct. — Courts of Revising Barristers to be
held during the interval of these days pur-
suant to pubUc notice.
Times, S^c. — Witnesses. 285
Times, &c. {Continued.)
August 30th or forthwith after 29th.— High Constable to
deliver lists of voters and statements of per-
sons objected to, received from overseers by
clerks of peace, xxix — 35.
Clerks of Peace to make and deliver abstracts
of statements of persons objected to, to be
transmitted to revising barristers, ib.
(For acts of parties to obtain or prevent re-
gistration.)
Juli/ 20th. — Notice of claim to be given on or before,
xxvi. XXXV. — 52, 56, 66.
Payment of one shilling to overseers.
August 25th. — Notice of objection to be given on or
before, xxvii, xxviii, xxxv.— 59, 61, 65.
Town Clerk, xxxiv. xxxvi. xl. xli.
duties of, 37, 47, 62, 63.
See also Overseers,
Trustee.
See Qualification.
Under-lease.
See Qualification.
Universities.
Provision excepting, Ixii. — 138.
Value.
of qualification for voters.
for members.
See Qualification.
Warehouse.
See Qualification — Boroughs,
Writ of Election, Ixii. — 106.
Return of, 141 to 124.
Witnesses.
Power of revising barrister to administer oath or affirma-
tion to, xliii.
Persons falsely swearing punishable as for perjury, xliii.
—38.
( 287 )
INDEX LOCORUM.
Abeeavon, sec. 10, p. vi. sec. 74, p. Ixi. sched. E. (2.) — Bound.
Act, 168, 246.
Aberystwith, sec. 8, sched. E. sched. E. (2.) — Bound. Act, 241,
Adpar, sec. 8, sched. E.— Bound. Act, 241, sched. E. (2.)
Ainsty and York, sec, 17, sched. G.
Aldeburgh, sec. 1, sched. A.
Aldborouglj, sec. 1, sched. A.
Allerton (North), sec. 2, sched. B.
Aralwch, sec. 8 and 9, sched. E.
Arnershara, sec. 1, sched. A.
Appleby, sec. 1, sched. A.
Arundel, sec. 2, sched. B. — Bound. Act, 227.
Ashburton, sec. 2, sched. B. — Bound. Act, 199.
Ashton-under-Lyne, sec. 4, sched. D. See also sched. L. — Bound.
Act, 211.
Aylesbury, sec. 5. — Bound. Act, 164 — 166, 167.
B.
Bangor, sec. 8, sched. E. — Bound. Act, 242.
Beaumaris, sec. 8, sched. E. — Bound. Act, 239.
Beeralston, sec. 1. sched. A.
Bedwin, sec. 1, sched. A.
Berkshire, sec. 15, sched. F. (2.)
Beverley, sec. 12. — Bound. Act, 235.
Bishop's Castle, sec. 1, sched. A.
Birmingham, sec. 3, sched. C. See also sched. L. — Bound. Act, 229.
Blackburn, sec. 3, sched. C— Bound. Act, 210.
Blechingley, sec. 1, sched. A.
288 INDEX LOCORUM.
Bolton, sec. 3, sched. C. See also sched. L.— Bound. Act, 211.
Boroughbridge, sec. 1, sched. A.
Bossiney, sec. 1, sched. A.
Brackley, sec. 1, sched. A.
Bradford, sec. 3, sched. C. See also sched. L. — Bound. Act, 235.
Braraber, sec. 1, sched. A., sec. 5.
Brecon, sec. 9, 74. — Bound. Act, 167—240.
Brighton, sec. 3, sched. C, sched. L. — Bound. Act, 226.
Bristol.— Bound. Act, 164.
Bury, sec. 4, sched. D. See also sched. L.— Bound. Act, 211, 225.
Buckinghamshire, sec. 15, sched. F. (2.)
C.
Caerwjs, sec. 8, sched. E., sched. E. (2.)
Caergwrley, sec. 8, sched. E. See also sched. E. (2.) — Bound.
Act, 244.
Carmarthenshire, sec. 15. — Bound. Act, 240.
Carmarthen, sched. E., sect. 17, sched. G. — Bound. Act, 240.
Caernarvon, sched. E. — Bound Act, 242.
Calne, sec. 2, sched. B. — Bound. Act, 229.
Callington, sec. 1, sched. A.
Cambridgeshire, sec. 15, sched. F. (2.)
Camelford, sec. 1. sched. A.
Canterbury, sec. 17, sched. G.
Cardiff, see sched. A. — Bound. Act, 246.
Cardigan, see sched, A. — Bound. Act, 241.
Castle Rising, sec. 1, sched. A.
Chatham, sec. 4, sched. D., sched. L. — Bound. Act, 209.
Cheltenham, sec. 4, sched. D., sched. L. — Bound. Act, 204.
Cheshire, sec. 14, sched. F. — Bound. Act, 193, 194.
Chester, sec. 17, sched. G. — Bound. Act, 148.
Christchurch, sec. 2, sched. B. — Bound. Act, 206.
Clitheroe, sec. 2, sched. B. — Bound. Act, 210.
Conway, sec. 8, sched. E., sched. E. (2.) — Bound. Act, 242.
Corfe Castle, sec. 1, sched. A.
Cornwall, sec. 14, sched. F. — Bound. Act, 148, 195.
Coventry, sec. 17, sched. G. — Bound. Act, 229.
Cowbridge, sec. 8, sched. E. See also sched. E. (2.) — Bound. Act,
240.
Criccrieth, sec. 8, sched. E. See also sched. E. (2). — Bound. Act,
242.
Cricklade, sec. 5.— Bound. Act, 166, 167.
Cumberland, sec. 14, sched. F. — Bound. Act, 149, 197.
Dartmouth, sec. 2, sched. B. — Bound. Act, 199.
Deal, included in Sandwich, sec. 6.
lilDEX LOCORUM. 289
Denbigh, sec. 15, sched. E. — Bound. Act, 243.
Derbyshire, sec. 14, sched. F. — Bound. Act, 150.
Devonport, sec. 3, sched. C. See also sched. L. — Bound. Act, 199.
Devonshire, sec. 14, sched. F.— Bound. Act, 150, 198, 200.
Dorsetshire, sec. 15, sched. F. (2.)— Bound. Act, 201.
Downton, sec. 1, sched. A.
Droitwich, sec. 2, sched. B. — Bound. Act, 231.
Dudley, sec. 4, sched. D. See also sched. L. — Bound. Act, 231.
Dunwich, sec. 1, sched. A.
Durham, sec. 14, sched. F.— Bound. Act, 151, 203.
E.
East Grimstead, sec. 1, sched. A.
East Looe, sec. 1, sched. A.
East Retford, sec. 5.
Essex, sec. 14, sched. F. — Bound. Act, l5l.
Exeter. — Bound. Act, 164.
Eye, sec. 2, sched. F.— Bound. Act, 225.
Finsbury, sec. 3, sched. C. See also sched. L. — Bound. Act, 214.
Fishguard, sec. 8, sched. G. — Bound. Act, 251.
Fowey, seel, sched. A.
Frome, sec. 4, sched. D. See also sched. L. — Bound. Act, 221.
Gateshead, sec. 4, sched. D. See also sched. L. — Bound. Act, 204.
Gatton, sec. 1, sched. A.
Germain's, St. sec. 1, sched. A.
Glamorgan, sec. 15.
Gloucester, sec. 17, sched. G. — Bound. Act, 152, 204.
Gloucestershire, sec. 14, sched. F. — Bound. Act, 152, 204.
Great Grimsby, sec. 2, sched. B. — Bound. Act, 213.
Greenwich, sec. 3, sched. C. See also sched. L. — Bound. Act, 209.
H.
Halifax, sec. 3, sched. C. See also sched. L. — Bound. Act, 236.
Hampshire, sec. 14, sched. F. — Bound. Act, 158, 164, 205.
Haslemere, sec. 1, sched. A.
Haverfordwest, sec. 8, sched. E. — Bound. Act, 251.
Hedon, sec. 1, sched. A.
Helslone, sec. 2, sched. B. — Bound. Act, 195.
290 INDEX LOCORUM.
Herefordshire, sec. 15, sched. F. (2.) — Bound. Act, 21, 207.
Hertfordshire, sec. 15, sched. F. (2.) — Bound. Act, 207,
Heytesburj, sec. 1, sched. A.
Higham Ferrers, sec. 1, sched. A.
Hindoii, sec. 1, sched. A.
Holt, sec. 8, sched. E. See also sched. E. (2.)— Bound. Act, 243.
Holyhead, sec. 8, sched. E.— Bound. Act, 239.
Holywell, sec. 8, sched. E. — Bound. Act, 244.
Horsham, sec. 2, sched. B. — Bound. Act, 228.
Huddersfield, sect. 5. — Bound. Act, ^36.
Hythe, sec. 2, sched. B., sec. 4, sched. D., sched. L. — Bound. Act,
208.
1.
Ilchester, sec. 1, sched. A.
Isle of Wight, sec. 16.— Bound. Act, 229.
Ives, St. sec. 2, sched. B.— Bound. Act, 196.
K.
Kendal, sec. 4, sched. D., sched. L. — Bound. Act, 229.
Kent, sec. 14, sched. F.— Bound. Act, 154, 207.
Ken-fig, sec. 10, 74.— Bound. Act, 168, 240.
Kesteven, sec. 13. — Bound. Act, 165.
Kidderminster, sec. 4, sched. D., sched. L. — Bound. Act, 232.
Kingston-on-Hull, sec. 17, sched. G.
Kevinleece, sec. 8, sched. E., sched. E. (2.) sec. 9.
Knighton, sec. 9, sched. E. See also sched. E. (2.) sec. 9. — Bound.
Act, 254.
Knucklas, sec. 9, sched. E., sched. E. (2.) sec. 9.— Bound. Act, 254.
L.
Lambeth, sec. 3, sched. D. See also sched. L. — Bound. Act, 226.
Lampeter, sec. 8, sched. E. See also sched. L. (2.) — Bound. Act,
241.
Lancashire, sec. 14, sched. F. — Bound. Act, 154, 210.
Llanelly, sec. 8, sched. E. — Bound. Act, 240.
Llanidloes, sec. 8, sched. E. — Bound. Act, 249.
Llanfiyllin, sec. 8, sclied. E. — Bound. Act, 248.
Llantrissent, sec. 8, sched. E. See also sched. E. (2.)— Bound.
Act, 246.
Llangefne, sec. 8, sched. E.— Bound. Act, 239.
Launceston, sec. 2, sched B.
Leeds, sec. 3, sched. C. See sched. L.— Bound. Act, 236.
Leicestershire, sec. 14, sched. F. — Bound. Act, 155, 213.
Liskeard, sec, 2, sched. B.
Litchfield.— Bound. Act, 184.
London, sec. 17, sched. G. — Bound. Act, 214.
INDEX LOCORUM. 291
Lostwithiel, sec. 1, sched. G.
Lougher, sec. 10,74.— Bound. Act, 168, 246.
Ludgershall, sec. 1, sched. A.
Lyme Regis, sec. 2, sched. B. — Bound. Act, 202.
Lincoln, sec. 17, sched. G. — Bound. Act, 163.
Lincolnshire, sec. 13. — Bound. Act, 165, 213.
Lindsay, sec. 13. — Bound. Act, 165.
M.
Macclesfield, sec. 3, sched. C. See sched. L. — Bound. Act, 148,
193.
Machynlleth, sec. 8, sched. E. — Bound. Act, 250.
Malmsbury, sec. 2, sched. B., sec. 5. — Bound. Act, 230.
Manchester, sec. 3, sched. C, sched. L. — Bound. Act, 212.
Marylebone, sec. 3, sched. C, sched. L. — Bound. Act, 214.
Mawe's, St. sec. 1, sched. A.
Merthyr Tjydvil, sec. 4, sched. D. — Bound. Act, 245.
Michael's, St. or Midshall, sec. 1, sched. A.
Melcombe Regis, sec. 6. — Bound. Act, 202.
Middlesex, sec. 41. — Bound. Act, 214.
Midhurst, sec. 2, sched. B. — Bound. Act, 228.
Milbourne Port, sec. 1, sched. A.
Milford, sec. 8, sched. E. — Bound. Act, 252.
Minehead, sec. 1, sched. A.
Mold, sec. 1, sched. G. — Bound. Act, 244.
Monmoutli, sec. 74. sched. E. (2.) — Bound. Act, 2l5.
Montgomery. See sched. E. — Bound. Act, 251.
Morpeth, sec. 2, sched. B. — Bound. Act, 217.
N.
Narbertb, sec. 3, sched. E. — Bound. Act, 252.
Neath, sec. 10, 74.— Bound. Act, 168, 246.
Nevin, sec. 8, sched. E. See also sched. E. (2.) — Bound. Act,
242.
Newcastle-on-Tyne, sec. 17, sched. G. — Bound. Act, 217.
Newport, (I. W.) sec. 1, sched. A. — Bound. Act, 215.
Newport, (Monra.)sec. 16, sched. E. (2.)— Bound. Act, 2!29.
New Shoreham, sec. 5, 69.
Newton, sec. 1, sched. A.
Newtown, sec. 8, sched. E. — Bound. Act, 251.
Newtown (Ise of Wight), sec. 1, sched. A.
Norfolk, sec. 14, sched. F. — Bound. Act, 155, 216.
Northamptonshire, sec. 14, sched. F. — Bound. Act, 156, 216.
Northumberland, sec. 14, sched. F — Bound. Act, 157.
Norwich. — Bound. Act, 164.
Nottingham. — Bound. Act. 164.
Nottinghamshire, sec. 14, sched. F. — Bound. Act, 157, 164, 217.
292 INDEX LOCORUM.
0.
Old Sarum, sec. 1, sched. A.
Oldham, sec. 3, sched. C, sched. L. — Bound. Act, 212.
Okehampton, sec. 1, sched. A.
Orford, sec. 1, sched. A.— Bound. Act, 217.
Overton, sec. 8, sched. E., sched. E. (2.)— Bound. Act, 244.
Oxfordshire, sec. 15, sched. F. (2.)
Oxford University,
Pembroke, sched. E.— Bound. Act, 251 to 254.
Penryn, sec. 6. — Bound. Act, 196.
Petersfield, sec. 2, sched. B.— Bound. Act, 205.
Plympton, sec. 1, sched. A.
Poole, sec. 17, sched. G.— Bound. Act, 202.
Presteign, sec. 8, sched. E.— Bound. Act, 254.
Pwllheli, sec. 8, sched, E., sched. E. (2.)— Bound. Act, 242.
Q.
Queenborough, sec. 1, sched. A.
R.
Ptadnor. — Bound. Act, 254.
Retford, East, &c. sec. 5.— Bound. Act, 165, 166, 167.
Reigate, sec. 2, sched. B. — Bound. Act. 226.
Rhayder, sec. 8, sched. E. See sched. E. (2.)
Rhyddlau, sec. 8, sched. E. See sched. E. (2.)
Rochdale, sec. 3, sched. C. See sched. L.— Bound. Act, S12.
Romney (New), sec. 1, sched. A.
Ruthin, sec. 8, sched. E. See sched. E. (2.) —Bound. Act. 243.
Rye, sec. 2, sched. B.— Bound. Act. 227.
Salford, sec. 4, sched. D. See also sched. L. — Bound. Act, 212.
Saltash, sec. 1, sched. A.
Sandwich, sec. 6.— Bound. Act, 208.
St. Asaph, sec. 8, sched. E.
Seaford, sec. 1, sched. A.
Sleaford, sec. l3.
Shaftesbury, sec. 2, sched. B. — Bound. Act, 202.
Sheffield, sec. 3, sched. C. See also sched. L. — Bound. Act, 230.
Shropshire, sec. 14, sched. F.— Bound. Act, 218 to 220.
INDEX LOCORUM. 293
Somersetshire, sec. 14, sched. F. — Bound. Act, 158, 220.
South Shields, sec. 4, sched. D. See sched. L.— Bound. Act, 204.
Southampton, sec. 17, sched. G. — Bound. Act, 206.
Staffordsliire, sec. 14, sched. F.— Bound. Act, 159, 224.
Stejning, sec. 1, sched. A.
Stockport, sec. 3, sched. C. Sched. L.
Stoke-on-Trent, sec. 3, sched. C. See sched. L. — Bound. Act,
225.
Stroud, sec. 3, sched. C. See sched. L. — Bound. Act, 201.
Suffolk, sec. 14, sched. F.— Bound. Act, 159.
Sunderland (Durham), sec. 3, sched. C. See sched. L.-— Bound.
Act, 204.
Surrey,, sec. 14, sched. F. — Bound. Act, 160.
Sussex, sec. 14, sched. F.— Bound. Act, 160, 227.
Swansea, sec. 10, 74. — Bound. Act, 167, 247.
T.
Tenby, sec. 8, sched. E. See sched. E. (2.)— Bound. Act, 254.
Thiisk, sec. 2, sched. B.— Bound. Act, 234.
Tower Hamlets, sec. 3, sched. C. See sched. L. — Bound. Act,
214.
Tregony, sec. 1, sched. A.
Tynemouth, sec. 4, sched. D. See sched. L. — Bound. Act, 217.
U.
Ubk, sec. 10, sched. E. (2.)— Bound. Act, 216.
W.
Wailingford, sec. 2, sched. B. — Bound. Act, 192.
Walsall, sec. 4, sched. D. See sched. L. — Bound. Act, 225.
Wakefield, (sec. 12,) sec. 4, sched. D. See sched. L. — Bound.
Act, 236.
Warrington, sec. 4, sched. D. See sched. L. — Bound. Act, 212.
Wareham, sec. 2, sched. B. — Bound. Act, 202.
Warwickshire, sec. 14, sched. F. — Bound. Act, 161, 229.
Wendover, sec. 1 , sched. A.
Weoblv, sec. 1, sched. A.
Welch Poole, sec. 8, sched. E.— Bound. Act, 251.
West Looe, sec. 1, sched. A.
Westbury, sec. 2, sched. B. — Bound. Act, 231.
Whitchurch, sec. 1, sched. A.
Whitby, sec. 4, sched. D. See sched. L.— Bound. Act, 234.
Whitehaven. — Bound. Act, 197.
Winchelsea, sec. 1, sched. A.
Wilton, sec. 2, sched. B. — Bound. Act, 231.
294 INDEX LOCORUM.
Wiston, sec. 8, sched. E. See sched. E. (2.)— Bound Act, 254.
Wiltshire, sec. 14, sched. F. — Bound. Act, 161.
Wootton Bassett, sec. 1, sched. A.
Woodstock, sec. 2, sched. B.— -Bound. Act, 218.
Wolverhampton, sec. 3, sched. C. See sched L.— Bound. Act, 225.
Worcestershire, sec. 14, sched. F. — Bound Act, 162, 164.
Worcester, sec. 17, sched. G. — Bound. Act, 233.
Wrexham, sec. 8, sched. E. — Bound. Act, 243.
Y.
Yarmouth, sec. 1, sched. A. — Bound. Act, 216.
York and Ainsty, sec. 12, 17, sched. G.— Bound. Act, 234.
Yorkshire, sec. 12.— Bound. Act, 163, 165, 234.
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