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 THE COUNTY ELECTOES ACT, 1888.
 
 "y^ THE 
 
 1888: 
 
 WITH NOTES ON THE CHANGES MADE IN THE LAW OP PARLIAMENTARY 
 AND MUNICIPAL REGISTRATION, FOR THE PURPOSE OF FORMING 
 A REGISTER OF PERSONS QUALIFIED TO VOTE AT ELEC- 
 TIONS OP COUNTY AND DISTRICT COUNCILLORS, 
 
 AND 
 
 A CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR 
 THE CURRENT YEAR. 
 
 BEING 
 
 A Practical Guide to all concerned in the Registration of Parliamentary 
 and Local Government Voters, 
 
 BY 
 
 S. G. LUSHINGTON, M.A., B.C.L., 
 
 Of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. 
 
 LONDON : 
 
 SHAW & SONS, FETTER LANE & CRANE COURT, E.G., 
 
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 PEEFACE. 
 
 ,^ rriHE object of this Edition of the County Electors 
 » JL Act, 1888, is to provide Clerks of the Peace, 
 5 Town Clerks, Overseers, and Registration Agents with 
 « a complete view of the effect of the Act upon their 
 ^ respective duties relating to registration, especially in 
 the present year. 
 
 The Act introduces much that is new in substance 
 under the guise of old forms, and incorporates, by 
 reference, much well-known law relating to the qualifi- 
 cation and registration of burgesses for the purpose of 
 ^1 applying it to the qualification and registration of the 
 5 new county electors. A great part, therefore, of the 
 ■^ notes consists in the citation of those enactments 
 ^ relating to burgesses, in full, but with the modifications 
 ^ necessary for applying them to county electors. This 
 has been a laborious, but, it is hoped, an accurate and 
 exhaustive method of arriving at the true efl'ect of the 
 Act. 
 
 A calendar of things to be done in order of date for 
 the present year is prefixed to the body of the work. 
 The Index of Cases contains references to all the 
 :3 reports of each case cited so far as known to the 
 ^ Author. 
 
 3 S. G. L. 
 
 ^* Inner Temple, 
 
 \Wi May, 1888, 
 
 o9l8oG
 
 TABLE OF CASES. 
 
 PAGE 
 Abel i\ Lee (1871), L. R. G C. P. 365 ; 40 L, J. C. P. 15i ; 
 23 L. T. 844 ; 19 W. R. 625 ; 1 Hopw. & Colt. 515 ; 35 
 J. P. 343 11 
 
 Ainsworth v. Creeke (1868), L. R. 4 C. P. 476 ; 38 L. J. 
 C. P. 58 ; 19 L. T. 824 ; 1 Hopw. & Colt. 141 ; 33 J. P. 
 
 ^ I *j »,, ••■ ••• •■• ■■• •«• ••• .«• iO 
 
 Aiitey V. Topham (1843), 5 M. & G. 1 ; 7 Scott, N. R. 
 402 ; 13 L. J. C. P. 39 ; 7 Jur. 995 ; 1 Lutw. R. C, 1 ; 
 Barr. & Am. 1 36 
 
 Baker v. The Town Clerk of Monmouth (1885), 34 W. R. 
 
 64 ; 53 L. T. 668 ; 49 J. P. 776 12 
 
 Beal V. The Town Clerk of Exeter (1887), 20 Q. B. D. 
 300; 57 L. J. Q. B. 128; 36 W. R. 507; Scott Pox, 
 
 OX ■•• •■• ■•• ■•• ■•• ••• ••• ••• */ 
 
 Cook V. Huraber (1861), 11 C. B. (n.s.) 40 ; 31 L. J. C. P. 
 73 ; 5 L. T. 838 ; 10 W. R. 427 ; 8 Jur. (N.S.) 698 ; 
 K. &G. 413 12 
 
 Daking v. Fraser (1885), 16 Q. B. D. 252 ; 55 L. J. Q. B. 
 
 11 ; 34 W. R. 366 ; 1 Colt. 455 35 
 
 Druitt v. The Overseers of Christchurch (1885), 12 Q. B. D. 
 
 365 ; 53 L. J. Q. B. 177 ; 1 Colt. 328 16 
 
 Edwards r. Lloyd (1887), 20 Q. B. D. 302 ; 57 L. J. Q. B. 
 
 121 ; Scott Fox, 54 12 
 
 Flatcher v. Boodle (1865), 18 C. B. (N.s.) 152 ; 34 L. J. 
 C. P. 77 ; 11 L. T. 630 ; 13 W. R. 340 ; 11 Jur, (N.S.) 
 67 ; IIopw. & Phil. 238 10 
 
 Fox V. Davics (1848), 6 C. B. 11 ; 18 L. J. C. P. 48; 12 
 
 L. T. (O.S.) 244 ; 13 Jur. 155 ; 2 Lutw. R. C. 97 ... 10 
 
 Freeman r. Ne\vman (1883), 12 Q. B. D. 373 ; 53 L. J. 
 
 Q. B. 108 ; 51 L. T. 396 ; 32 W. R. 246 ; 1 Colt. 343. 28
 
 viii Tahle of Cases. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Greenway v. Bachelor (^Aldridge's case) (1883), 12 
 Q, B. D, 381 ; 53 L, J. Q. B. 180 ; 50 L. T. 272 ; 32 
 W. R, 319 ; 47 J. P. 792 ; 1 Colt. 317 13 
 
 Hall V. Cropper (1879). 5 C. P. D. 76 ; 49 L. J. C. P. 162 ; 
 
 41 L. T. 472 ; 28 W. E. 896 ; 1 Colt. 29 ; 44 J. P. 179 28 
 
 Hargreaves t'. Hopper (1875), 1 C. P. D. 195; 45 L. J. 
 C. P. 105 ; 33 L. T. 530 ; 24 W. R. 186 ; 2 Hopw. & 
 Colt. 304 ; 40 J. P. 215 9 
 
 Harrison v. Carter (1876), 2 C. P. D. 26 ; 46 L. J. C. P. 
 26; 35 L. T. 511; 25 W. K. 182; 2 Hopw. & Colt. 
 824; 41 J. P. 23 12 
 
 Honeybone v. Hambridge (1886), 18 Q. B. D. 418 ; 56 L. J. 
 Q. B. 46 ; 35 W. R. 520 ; 1 Scott Fox, 26 11 
 
 Luckett V. Gilder (1861), 11 C. B. (n.s.) 1 ; 31 L. J. C. P. 
 
 43 ; 5 L. T. 312 ; 10 W. R. 105 ; K & G. 371 37 
 
 M'Clean v. Prichard (1887), 20 Q. B. D. 285 ; 36 W. R. 
 
 509 ; Scott Fox, 94 9 
 
 Magarill v. The Overseers of Whitehaven (1885), 16 Q. B. D. 
 242; 55 L. J. Q. B. 38 ; 53 L. T. 667; 34 W. R. 275 ; 
 1 Colt. 448 ; 49 J. P. 743 11 
 
 Mashiter v. Dunn (1848), 6 C. B. 30 ; 18 L. J. C. P. 13 ; 
 
 12 L. T. (O.S.) 197 ; 13 Jur. 194 ; 2 Lutw. R. C. 112... 12 
 
 Powell r. Bradley (1864), 18 C. B. (n.s.) 65 ; 84 L. J. C. P. 
 67 ; 11 L. T. 602 : 13 W. E. 272 ; 10 Jur. (n.s.) 1241 ; 
 Hopw. & Phil. 159 9 
 
 Powell V. Guest (1865), 18 C. B. (n.s.) 72 ; 34 L. J. C. P. 
 69 ; 11 L. T. 599 ; 13 W. R. 274 ; 10 Jur. (N.s.) 1238 ; 
 Hopw. & Phil. 165 ; 29 J. P. 424 9 
 
 Reg. V. Allday (1857), 26 L. J. Q. B. 292 ; 7 Ell. & Bl. 799 ; 
 
 3 Jur. (N.S.) 961 49 
 
 Reg. V. Bridgnorth (1838), 10 Ad. & Ell. 66 ; 2 P. & D, 317 ; 
 3 Jur. 384 11 
 
 Reg. r. Harrald (1872), L. R. 7 Q. B. 361 ; 41 L. J. Q. B. 
 
 173 ; 26 L. T. 616 ; 20 W. R. 328 14 
 
 Keg. V. Ireland (1868), L. R. 3 Q. B. 180 ; 37 L. J. Q. B. 
 
 73; 17L. T. 466; 16 W. R. 358; 9B. &S. 19 ... 12
 
 Table of Cases. ix 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Reg. v. King8ton-on-Hull (1) (1853), 2 Ell. & Bl. 182; 22 
 
 L. J. Q. B. 324; 17 Jur. 911 4'J 
 
 Reg. V. mngston-on-IIull (2) (1853), 25 L. T. 197 ... tl) 
 
 Sale, In re (1880), 50 L. J. C. P. 113 ; 43 L. T. C3o ; 1 
 
 Colt. 152 29 
 
 Sherwin v. Whyman (1873), L. K. 9 C. P. 243 ; 43 L. J. 
 C. P. 36 ; 29 L. T. 680 ; 22 W. R. 127 ; 2 Hopw. & 
 Colt. 185 ; 38 J. P. 183 3f> 
 
 Simpson r. "Wilkinson (1843), 5 M. & G. 3 ?*. ; 7 Scott, 
 N. R. 406 ; 13 L. J. C. P. 39 ; 7 Jur, 995 ; 1 Lutw, 
 R. C. 5 ; Barr. & Am, 3 « 86 
 
 Smith V. IloUoway (1865), L. R, 1 C. P. 145 ; 35 L. J. C. P. 
 100 ; 13 L. T, 468 ; 14 W. R. 202 ; 12 Jur. (N.S.) 164 ; 
 Hopw. & Phil. 281 ; 29 J. P. 823 2» 
 
 Tanner v. Carter (1885), 16 Q. B, D, 231 ; 55 L. J. Q, B, 
 27 ; 53 L, T. 663 ; 34 W. R, 41 ; 1 Colt. 435 ; 49 J. P. 
 790 15 
 
 Topham v. Kelleher (1879), L. R. (Ireland), 6 C. L. 285 ... 36 
 
 Wright V. The Town Clerk of Stockport (1843), 5 M. & G. 
 7 Scott, N. R. 561; 13 L. J. C. P. 50; 7 Jui-. 1112; 
 1 Lutw. R. C. 32 ; Barr. & Arn. 39 1 1
 
 A CALENDAE 
 
 OF THINGS TO BE DONE IN ORDER OF DATE 
 IN THE YEAR 1888 UNDER 
 
 THE COUNTY ELECTORS ACT, 1888. 
 
 Clerks of the Peace and Town Clerks immediately to 
 issue Supplemental Precepts and Forms. 
 
 Juno 20. — Overseers to publish notices that non-pay- 
 ment before the 20th July of poor rates 
 made during the twelve months imme- 
 diately preceding the 5th January last 
 wlU disqualify parliamentary ten pounds 
 occupiers and householders, also burgesses 
 and county electors. 
 Notices should state that non-payment of 
 assessed taxes will disqualify ten pounds 
 occupiers for local government franchise 
 and for parliamentary occupation fran- 
 chise in parliamentary boroughs ; and 
 non-payment of county rates will dis- 
 qualify bm'gess occupiers under section 2 
 in counties, and non-payment of borough 
 rates will disquahfy burgesses not being 
 ten pounds occupiers under section 3.
 
 xii A Calendar of Things to 
 
 Juil6 20. — Serve notices as to non-payment where 
 rates have not been previously duly 
 demanded. 
 
 July 20. — -Last day for payment of rates, and in 
 counties last day for claims as parlia- 
 mentary ownership voters. 
 
 July 22, — Second retm'n of deaths is now due to 
 overseers from registrars of births and 
 deaths. 
 
 List of defaulters in payment of assessed 
 taxes is now due to overseers from 
 collectors of taxes. 
 
 Overseers to make out list of persons dis- 
 quahfied for non-payment of rates, and 
 to keep it open for inspection for four- 
 teen days, and deliver copies on payment 
 of fees. 
 
 July 25. — Last day for old lodgers' claims. In coun- 
 ties, overseers to remove published copy 
 ownership portion of parliamentary 
 register, and notice to send in parlia- 
 mentary ownership claims. 
 
 July 31. — Overseers to ascertain from reHeving officer 
 names of persons disqualified by receipt 
 of parochial relief.
 
 he done in the Year 1888. xiii 
 
 July 31. — Overseers in counties to make ont occu- 
 piers' and supplemental occupiers' lists 
 and separate lists of non-residents quali- 
 fied to be county councillors, and lists 
 of parliamentary ownership claimants and 
 old lodgers with marginal objections. 
 
 Overseers in boroughs to make out occu- 
 piers' list in divisions, old lodgers' list 
 with marginal objections, reserved rights' 
 list, if any, aldermen and councillors' list, 
 and parish burgess lists. 
 
 August 1, — Overseers to sign, publish, keep for inspeo 
 tion, and on payment of fees deliver 
 copies of all the above lists. 
 
 Aug. 20. — Last day for notices of objection and for 
 occupiers' and new lodgers' claims. 
 
 Aug. 25. — Overseers to make out claim and objection 
 lists, viz.: — 
 
 General list of claimants both as parlia- 
 mentary occupation voters (other than 
 lodgers) and as county electors or bur- 
 
 gesses. 
 
 List of claimants as parliamentary occupa- 
 tion voters (other than lodgers), but not 
 as county electors or burgesses.
 
 xiv A Calendar of Things to 
 
 Au^t 25. — List of claimants as county electors or 
 burgesses only. 
 
 List of claimants as new lodgers. 
 
 List of claims to be on the separate non- 
 resident list of persons qualified to be 
 county councillors, but not county electors 
 or burgesses. 
 
 List of claims, in boroughs, to be on the 
 separate non-resident Hst of persons 
 qualified to be aldermen or borough 
 councillors, but not burgesses. 
 
 List of persons objected to, in counties, as 
 parliamentary ownership voters. 
 
 List of persons objected to, both as parHa- 
 mentary occupation voters (other than 
 lodgers) and as county electors or bur- 
 
 gesses. 
 
 List of persons objected to as parHamentary 
 occupation voters (other than lodgers) 
 but not objected to as county electors 
 or burgesses. 
 
 List of persons objected to as county 
 electors or burgesses only. 
 
 List of persons objected to as on the 
 separate non-resident Hst of persons 
 quahfied to be county councillors, but 
 not to be county electors or burgesses.
 
 he done in tlie Year 1888. xv 
 
 Aug. 25. — List of persons objected to in boroughs 
 as on the separate non-resident aldermen 
 and borough councillors' list. 
 
 List of persons objected to as on the old 
 lodgers' list. 
 
 Overseers to sign, publish, keep for in- 
 spection, and on payment of fees deliver 
 copies of all these claim and objection 
 lists. 
 
 Overseers in municipal boroughs to send to 
 the clerk of the peace for the county, 
 and to the town clerk — 
 
 (a) Two copies of the occupiers' and 
 old lodgers' lists ; and 
 
 (h) A copy of each of the occupiers' 
 
 and lodgers' claim and objection 
 
 lists. 
 
 And if such municipal borough is not in 
 
 a parliamentary borough, send also to the 
 
 clerk of the peace — 
 
 (<x) The Kst of parliamentary ownership 
 claimants ; 
 
 (l)) Copy ownersliip portion of parlia- 
 mentary register, with marginal 
 additions ; 
 
 (c) Copy list of parliamentary owner- 
 ship voters objected to.
 
 xvi A Calendar of Things to he done in the Year 1888. 
 
 Aug. 25. — But if such borough is in a parliamentary 
 or merged parliamentary borough, send 
 also to the town clerk two copies of the 
 reserved rights' list, if any. 
 Overseers in counties but not in boroughs 
 to send to the clerk of the peace — 
 
 (a) The list of parhamentary owner- 
 ship claimants. 
 {h) Copy ownership portion of parlia- 
 mentary register, with marginal 
 additions. 
 
 (c) Copy list of parliamentary owner- 
 
 ship voters objected to. 
 
 (d) Two copies of the occupiers' and 
 
 supplemental occupiers' and old 
 lodgers' lists ; and 
 
 (e) A copy of each of the occupiers' and 
 
 lodgers' claim and objection lists. 
 
 S6pt. 5. — Last day for sending in declarations of 
 change of abode to clerks of the peace, 
 and declarations as to misdescription to 
 town clerks. 
 
 Sept. 8. — First day for holding revision courts. 
 
 Oct. 27. — Last day for entering notices of appeal at Cen- 
 tral Office, Royal Courts of Justice, Strand. 
 
 Oct. 28. — First day for hearing appeals from revising 
 barristers. 
 
 Oct, 31. — Last day for holding revising barristers' courts.
 
 THE COUNTY ELECTORS ACT, 1888 
 
 51 VICT. c. 10. 
 
 AN ACT to provide for the Qualification and 
 Registration of Electors for the j^urposes of 
 Local Government in England and Wales. 
 
 [16th May, 1888.] 
 
 Whereas it is expedient to make provision with 
 respect to the qiiahfication and registration of 
 electors of any representative bodies (in this Act 
 referred to as "county authorities") which may 
 be estabhshed under any Act of the present session 
 of Parhament for the purposes of local govern- 
 ment in counties in Enoland : 
 
 Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most 
 Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and 
 consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and 
 Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, 
 and by the authority of the same, as follows : 
 
 [ITie representative bodies here referred to are the county 
 and district councils intended to be established for the 
 purposes of local government under the Local Govenunent 
 Bill now under the consideration of Parliament.] 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the County short title 
 
 •^ •' and con- 
 
 Electors Act, 1888. structiou 
 
 The Kegistration Act, 1885, and the Parliamen- 46&49 vict. 
 
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 tary Registration Acts within the meaning of that 
 
 B
 
 2 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Sect. 1. Act, are in this Act referred to as the Registra- 
 tion of Electors Acts, and together with this Act 
 may be cited as the Registration of Electors Acts, 
 1843 to 1888. 
 
 This Act shall be construed as one with the 
 Registration of Electors Acts. 
 
 "The Par- By the nineteenth, section of tlie Registration Act, 1885 
 
 litiiiiGntn.rv 
 
 Registra- (48 Vict, c. 15), the expression " Parliamentary Registration 
 
 tionActs." _^cts" means the Parliamentary Registration Act, 1843 
 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 18), and the Parliamentary and Municipal 
 Registration Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 26), inclusive 
 of any Acts and enactments amending the said Acts, or 
 otherwise relating to revising barristers or to the registra- 
 tion of voters, and of any Acts or enactments relating to 
 rating so far as they are auxiliary to or deal with the 
 registration of voters. 
 
 "c 
 
 " The Regis- The following Acts and enactments, therefore, are in this 
 Electors Act included in the expression the Registration of Electors 
 ^<^^'-" Acts:— 
 
 The Parliamentary Registration Act, 1843, 6 & 7 Vict, 
 c. 18. 
 
 An Act relating to Payment of Rates and Taxes, 1848, 
 11 & 12 Vict. c. 90. 
 
 Compound Householders Act, 1851, 14 & 15 Vict. c. 14. 
 
 County Voters Registration Act, 1865, 28 Vict. c. 36. 
 
 Revising Barristers Act, 1866, 29 & 30 Vict. c. 54. 
 
 Vaccination Act, 1867, 30 & 31 Vict. c. 84, s. 26. 
 
 Representation of the People Act, 1867, 30 & 31 Vict* 
 c. 102. 
 
 Parliamentary Electors Registration Act, 1868, 31 & 32 
 Vict. c. 58. 
 
 Revenue Officers Disabilities Removal Act, 1868, 31 & 32 
 Vict. c. 73. 
 
 Customs and Inland Revenue Duties Act, 1869, 32 & 33 
 Vict. c. 14, s. 8.
 
 Extension of Burgess Franchise. S 
 
 Poor Rate Assessment and Collection Act, 1809, 32 & 33 Notes to 
 Yict. c. 41. Sect. 1. 
 
 Elementary Education Act, 1870, 33 & 34 Vict, c. 75, 
 8. 91. 
 
 Parliamentary and Municipal Elections Act, 1872, 
 35 & 36 Vict. c. 33. 
 
 Revising Barristers Act, 1873, 36 & 37 Vict. c. 70. 
 
 Revenue Officers Disabilities Removal Act, 1874, 37 & 38 
 Vict. c. 22. 
 
 Revising Barristers Act, 1874, 37 «& 38 Vict. c. 53. 
 
 Rating Act, 1874, 37 & 38 Vict. c. 54. 
 
 Elementary Education Act, 1876, 39 & 40 Vict. c. 79, 
 s. 10. 
 
 House Occupiers Disqualification Removal Act, 1878, 41 
 Vict. c. 3. 
 
 Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act, 1878, 
 41 & 42 Vict. c. 26. 
 
 Assessed Rates Act, 1879, 42 Vict. c. 10. 
 
 Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1881, 44 & 45 Vict. 
 c. 68, s. 14. 
 
 Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, 45 & 46 Vict c. 50. 
 
 Diseases Prevention (Metropolis) Act, 1883, 46 & 47 
 Vict. c. 35, s. 7. 
 
 Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act, 1883, 
 46 & 47 Vict. c. 51. 
 
 Municipal Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Practices) Act, 
 1884, 47 & 48 Vict. c. 70. 
 
 Representation of the People Act, 1884, 48 Vict. c. 3. 
 
 Munici^ial Voters Relief Act, 1885, 48 Vict. c. 9. 
 
 Registration Act, 1885, 48 Vict. c. 15. 
 
 Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885, 48 & 49 Vict. c. 23. 
 
 Medical Relief Disqualification Removal Act, 1885, 
 48 & 49 Vict. c. 46. 
 
 Revising Barristers Act, 1886, 49 & 50 Vict c. 42. 
 
 Police Disabilities Removal Act, 50 Vict. sess. 2, c. 9. 
 
 2. — (1.) For the iiurpose of the election of Extension 
 
 ' ^ ^ of bnrgcss 
 
 county authorities in England, the burgess quali- J^^^*^u^ 
 
 b2
 
 4 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Sect. 2. flcation, that is to say, the qualification enacted 
 outside by section nine of the Municipal Corporations 
 
 mimicipal 
 
 boroughs Act, 1882, shall extend to every part of a county 
 
 45 & 46 Vict. ' _ ' -^ ^ "^ 
 
 *• ^0. not within the limits of a borough, and a person 
 
 possessing in any j^art of a county outside the 
 limits of a borough such burgess quahfication, 
 shall be entitled to be registered under this Act a? 
 a county elector in the parish in w'hich the quali- 
 fying property is situate. 
 
 (2.) Sections nine, thirty-one, tliirty-three, and 
 sixty-three of the Municipal Corporations Act, 
 1882, and any enactments of that or any other 
 Act affecting the same, shall extend to so much of 
 every county as is not comprised within the limits 
 of a municipal borough in like manner as if they 
 were herein re-enacted, with the substitution of 
 " county " for " borough " and of " county 
 elector " for " bm-gess," and with the other neces- 
 sary modifications. 
 
 Meaningof " Every part of a coimty not witHn tlie limits of a 
 and"" ^ borougli." " A county " means an area for which, a sepa- 
 '• borough." jg^i-g county council is to be elected under the Local 
 Government BUI, but does not include any borough made 
 a county of itself for the purposes of that Bill. "A 
 borough " includes every city or town to which the Muni- 
 cipal Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), applies, 
 and also the city of London. 
 Boundary The first council elected under the Local Government 
 foi^first ^ Bill for any county (save for the county of London or for 
 electiou. g^^y borough made a county of itself under the Act) is to 
 be elected for the county as bounded at the j^assing of the
 
 Extension of Burgess Franchise. 5 
 
 Act for the purpose of the election of members to serve in Notes to 
 Parliament for the coimty, with this qualification, that Sect. 2. 
 where any urban sanitary district is situate partly within and 
 partly without the boundary of such county, the district is. 
 to be deemed to be within that county which contains the 
 largest portion of the population of the district according 
 to the census of 1881. And if any difference arises as to 
 the county which contains the largest portion of the popu- 
 lation of any such district, such difference is to be referred 
 to the Local Government Board, whose decision is to be 
 final. (L. G. B., Part IV., s. 51.) 
 
 The county of London under the Local Government Bill County of 
 • 111- f -[ 1 -, 1 • 1 11 ■ London, 
 
 includes the city oi London and the jianshes and places m 
 
 schedules A., B., and C. to the Metropolis Management 
 
 Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 120). 
 
 Boroughs made counties of themselves under the Bill Borougbs 
 
 niJXuG 
 
 are Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, counties of 
 Bristol, Bradford, Nottingham, Kingston-on-Htill, and ^''^"'''''^*''- 
 Newcastle-ou-Tyne. (L. G. B., sched. 4.) The Govern- 
 ment have also agreed to add Salford, West Ham, Ports- 
 mouth, Leicester, Sunderland, Oldham, Brighton, Bolton, 
 and Blackburn. 
 
 Private amendments further suggest the following 
 ancient counties of cities and counties of towns, viz., York, 
 ■Chester, Lincoln, Worcester, Gloucester, Exeter, Norwich, 
 and Southampton, and also Cardiff, Burnley, Preston, 
 Walsall, Derby, Northampton, Swansea, Rochdale, Croy- 
 don, St. Helen's, Huddersfield, Bath, Stockport, Wigan, 
 Birkenhead, and Warrington, 
 
 " Parish in which the qualifying property is situate." Meaning of 
 At the common law a parish is said to be the place in " i^'^"*''- 
 which the congregation of any church is resident, but if a 
 place has not a church, churchwardens, and sacramentalia, 
 it is not properly a parish, though it has a district overseer 
 and maintains its own poor, and also has a chapel warden 
 by whom the rates are collected and paid to another parish. 
 (Com. Dig. Tit. Parish, B.) 
 
 But in tlie Parliamentary and Municipal Registration 
 Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 2C, s. 4), the word "paiish" is
 
 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Notes to defined as " a place for whicli a separate poor rate is or can 
 
 Sect. 2. 
 
 DiTlded 
 
 parishes. 
 
 Places 
 formerly 
 extra- 
 parocliial. 
 
 be made, or for whicli a separate overseer is or can be 
 appointed," and in tbe Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 
 (45 & 46 Vict, c, 50, s. 7), as " any place for -whicb a sepa- 
 rate poor rate is or can be made." In the other Parlia- 
 mentary Registration Acts the word is not defined, or is 
 used always in conjunction with the words " or township." 
 In the Eegistration Act, 1885 (48 Vict. c. 15, s. 19), it is 
 enacted that in this Act, unless the context otherwise 
 req[uires, other expressions (after specifying certain expres- 
 
 the word " parish ") have the same 
 
 sions, not 
 
 including 
 
 meaning as in the Parliamentary Registration Acts. 
 
 The expression " parish " in this sub-section and gene- 
 rally throughout the Act, where a parish is situate partly 
 within and partly without the boundary of a parliamentary 
 borough, or of a mu^nicipal borough, must be taken to 
 include any part not within the boundary of such parlia- 
 mentary or municipal borough, as if it were a separate 
 parish (see section 9 of the Eegistration Act, 1885, 48 Vict, 
 c. 15), and the overseers of the entire parish must act in 
 each such part as if it were a separate parish. 
 
 Formerly, a number of places tliroughout England were 
 extra-parochial, but at the common law there never was 
 any place in England out of some county, though it might 
 be extra-parochial. (Per Holt, C.J., Skinner's Rejp. 685.) 
 
 For these places provision was made by the twenty- 
 second section of the Parliamentary Registration Act, 1843 
 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 18), as follows, viz. : — "Every j)reciiict or 
 place, whether extra-parochial or otherwise, which shall 
 have no overseers of the poor shall, for the purposes of 
 making any claim, and making out any list directed by 
 this Act, be deemed to be within the parish or township 
 adjoining thereto, and sharing in the right of election ta 
 which such claim or list may relate, and if such parish 
 or place shall adjoin two or more parishes or townships as 
 aforesaid, it shall be deemed to be within the least popidous 
 of such parishes or townships, according to the last census 
 for the time being." 
 
 But although this enactment stands unrepealed, there
 
 Extension of Burgess Franchise. 7 
 
 are now no such extra-parochial pLaces, for by section one Notes to 
 of the 20 Vict, c. 19, it is enacted that after the 31st day of Sect. 2. 
 December, 1857, every place entered separately in the 
 report of the Registrar-General which then was, or was 
 reputed to be extra-parochial, and wherein no rate was 
 levied for the relief of the poor, shall for all purposes, 
 including amongst others the registration of parliamentary 
 and municipal voters, be deemed a parish for such purposes 
 and designated by the name assigned to it in such report, 
 and the justices having jurisdiction therein shall appoint 
 overseers. And by section twenty-seven of the Poor Law 
 Amendment Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. 122), it was further 
 enacted that from the 25th of December, 1868, every place 
 wliich was or is reputed to be extra-parochial, whether 
 entered by name in the report upon the census for the year 
 1851 or not, for which any overseer had not been then 
 appointed or was not then acting, or which had not been 
 then annexed to andincorjjorated with an adjoining parish, 
 shall for all civil parochial purposes be annexed to and 
 incorporated with the next adjoining parish with which it 
 has the longest common boundary, and in case there shall 
 be two or more parishes with which it shall have boun- 
 daries of equal extent, then with that parish which at the 
 date of the passing of the Act contained the lowest amount 
 of rateable value. 
 
 " Qualifying property " is the expression used in the Alcanlng of 
 Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50, s. 9), property!" 
 to denote any house, warehouse, counting-house, shop, or 
 other building in respect of the occupation of which any 
 person is entitled to be enrolled as a burgess, and so here 
 in, this Act it is used to denote any house, warehouse, 
 counting-house, sliop, or other building in respect of the 
 occupation of wluch any person is under this Act entitled 
 to be registered as a county elector. 
 
 Section 9 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 
 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), as applied by this sub-section, will 
 read as follows, viz. : — 
 
 (1) A person shall not be deemed a county elector for any Quaiiflcntion 
 purpose unless he is registered as a county elector, elector.
 
 8 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Notes to (2j A person shall not be entitled to be registered as a 
 Sect. 2. county elector unless lie is qualified under section 3 
 
 of tlie County Electors Act, 1888, or as follows, 
 viz. : 
 («) Is of full age ; and 
 
 (6) Is on tlie 15th July iu any year, and has been. 
 during the whole of the then last preceding 
 twelve months, in occupation, joint or several, 
 of any house, warehouse, counting-house, shop, 
 or other building (in this Act referred to as the 
 qualifying property) in the county ; and 
 (c) Has dui'ing the whole of those twelve months 
 resided in the county, or -within seven miles 
 thereof J and 
 {d) Has been rated in respect of the qualifying pro- 
 perty to all poor rates made during those twelve 
 months for the parish wherein the property is 
 situate ; and 
 (t) Has on or before the twentieth of the same July 
 paid all such rates, including county rates (if 
 any), as have become payable by him in respect 
 of the qualifying property up to the then last 
 preceding fifth of January. 
 (3)^Every person so qualified shall be entitled to be 
 registered as a county elector in the parish in ichich 
 the cjualifying property is situate, unless he 
 (ft) Is an alien ; or 
 
 (b) Has ^\■ithul the twelve months aforesaid received 
 
 union or parochial relief or other alms ; or 
 
 (c) Is disentitled iinder any Act of Parliament. 
 
 ■" With regard to this enactment it is to be noted 
 that- 
 Full age, A man attains his full age in law on the day before his 
 twenty-first birthday, and the law in general takes no 
 notice of fractions of a day, so that if a man is born on the 
 first of January he is of full age on the morning of the 
 thirty-first of December in the twenty-first year afterwards 
 In order to entitle a person to be registered as a county 
 elector, it is sufficient if he attains his full age of twenty-
 
 Extension of Burgess Francliise. ^ 
 
 one years on the fifteenth of July in the year in whicli he Notes to 
 is to be registered {Potvell v. Bradley (1864), 18 C. B. (n.s.) Sect. 2. 
 65) ; but it is not sufficient if he only attains his full age 
 after that date, but before an election can take place. 
 {Hargre%vcs v. Hojtpcr (1875), 1 C. P. D. 195.) 
 
 An occupation by virtue of any office, service, or employ- occupation 
 ment, that is to say, where a person is not merely per- ^^ service. 
 mitted to occupy as a reward in the performance of his 
 employer's contract to pay him, but required to occupy in 
 the performance of his own contract to serve, is not suffi- 
 cient to qualify for registration as a county elector. (M^Clean 
 -V. Prichard (1887), 20 Q. B. D. 285.) 
 
 It is not very easy accurately to define what is a sufficient Kesidcnce. 
 residence for the purposes of registration. The rule upon 
 this subject may, however, perhaps be stated thus. That 
 in order to constitute residence, a party must possess at the 
 least a sleeping-apartment ; but that an uninterrupted 
 abiding at such dwelling is not requisite. If there be the 
 liberty to return at any time (except as hereinafter noted 
 with reference to the letting of a furnished house), and no 
 abandonment (subject to that exception) of the intention to 
 return whenever it may suit the party's pleasure or con- 
 venience to do so, a sufficient legal residence may be 
 inferred. But if, save as aforesaid, a party by his own act 
 or by the force of law is debarred from returning at any 
 such time, he cannot be said to have even a constructive 
 residence. As, for instance, if the party has contracted to 
 give his personal services daily at such a distance from the 
 qualifying property as practically to prevent his returning 
 thereto without a breach of the contract during the term of 
 the service (Beal v. The Town Clerk of Exeter (1 887), 20 
 Q. B. D. 300) ; or if he were imprisoned during the quali- 
 fying period at a distance of more than seven miles from 
 the county {Poxccll v. Guest (1864), 18 C. B. (N.s.) 72.) 
 
 By the seventeenth section of the Poor Rate Assessment natinp and 
 and Collection Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 41), a poor rate rater'"' "^ 
 shall be deemed to be made on the day on which it is allowed 
 by the justices, and if the justices sever in their allowance 
 then on the day of their last allowance.
 
 10 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Uotes to It is the bounden duty of the overseers to enter the 
 Sect. 2. name of the occupier of every rateable hereditament in the 
 rate book in all cases whatsoever without regard to the 
 person from whom the rate is collected, but if any name is 
 entered in the rate book as that of the . person rated in 
 resj)ect of the premises, it is a sufficient rating of the occu- 
 pier for the purposes of his qualification as a county elector. 
 (Poor Eate Assessment and Collection Act, 1869, 32 & 35 
 Vict, 41, s. 14 ; Parliamentary and Municipal Registration 
 Act, 1878, 41 & 42 Vict. c. 26, s. 19.) 
 
 But if no name at all of any person whatever is entered 
 in the rate book as that of a person rated in respect of the 
 premises, then the occupier ought to make claim to be 
 rated and tender payment of rates due as hereinafter 
 mentioned. 
 
 A poor rate does not become payable unless it appears 
 to be valid on the face of it, and there is nothing more to be 
 done which the law requires to be done in order to bring 
 home his liability to the party liable for the payment of it. 
 For instance, a rate not signed by two justices as required 
 by 43 Eliz. c. 2, is not valid on the face of it, and does not, 
 therefore, become payable at any time. {Fox v. Davies 
 (1848), 6 C. B. 11.) Or, if an outgoing tenant has not paid 
 a rate, and the incoming tenant has never been called upon 
 to make good his default, that rate is not one which has 
 become payable from the incomer. {Flatcher v. Boodle 
 (1865), 18 C. B. (N.s.) 152.) 
 
 The rates which must have been paid in order to entitle 
 a person to be registered as a county elector include all sums 
 due in respect of the qualifying property on account of any 
 poor rate made and allowed, or any county rate made during 
 the twelve months immediately preceding the 5th of 
 January in the year of registration, and all such sums must 
 have been paid on or before the twentieth of July in the 
 same year. 
 
 County rates are assessed upon property rateable to the 
 poor rate, and are levied under the 15 & 16 Vict. c. 52, and 
 the Acts and enactments amending and affecting that 
 Act, and in the great majority of parishes are levied 
 together with the poor rates.
 
 Extension of Burgess Franchise. 1 ^ 
 
 Payment of rates may he made on behalf of a voter, and Notes to 
 will hold good for the purposes of liis qualification if made Sect. 2. 
 for him by those Avhom he has procured to do so by giving 
 them value for it, as payment by his landlord in considera- 
 tion of higher rent. {WrUjU v. Stockport (1843), 5 M. & G. 
 33.) But excusal fi'om i)ayment on the ground of poverty 
 is not equivalent to payment for the jnirposes of the 
 (lualificatiou {Ahd v. Lee (1871), L. R. 6 C. P. 365) ; and 
 a purely voluntary payment by a stranger is not sufficient. 
 {Reg. V. The Mayor of Bridgnorth (1839), 10 Ad. & Ell. 66. j 
 
 Parochial relief so as to disqualify does not include P.-ipriiiai 
 vaccination, or the surgical or medical assistance incident 
 to vaccination performed or rendered by a public vaccinator 
 (Vaccination Act, 1867, 30 & 31 Vict. c. 84, s. 26) ; or the 
 payment of school fees by the guardians for the child of any 
 person not being a pauper (Elementary Education Act, 
 1876, 39 & 40 Vict. c. 79, s. 10) ; or the admission of any 
 person suffering from an infectious disease into any hospital 
 provided by the Metropolitan Asylum Managers (Diseases 
 Prevention (Metropolis) Act, 1883, 46 & 47 Vict. c. 35, s. 7) ; 
 or the receipt of medical relief at the expense of the parish 
 (Medical Relief Disqualification Removal Act, 1885, 48 & 49 
 Vict. c. 46), and this has been held to include a payment 
 made by the relieving officer, in accordance witli a 
 resolution of the guardians, in respect of the attendance 
 of an uncertificated midwife upon the voter's wife. 
 (Honcyhone v. Hambridge (1886), 18 Q. B. D. 418.) But 
 parochial relief so as to dis(|ualify generally includes any 
 payment made out of the parish funds for the relief of a 
 voter, or those whom he is by law bound to support, even 
 though there may be some consideration in return for it. 
 For instance, it includes a payment for work done made out 
 of the parish funds, but at more than the value of the work 
 to the guardians. {Magarill v. The Overseers of Whitehaven 
 (1887), 16 Q. B. D. 242.) Those whom a voter is by law 
 boiuid to support are his wife, and his children under the 
 age of sixteen (Poor Law Act, 4 & 5 WUl. 4, c. 76, s. 56); 
 but he is not bound to support his parents, except on an 
 order of justices, and so relief to his parent doe.s not dis- 
 (lualify a voter. {Reg. v. Ireland (1868), L. R. 3 Q. B. 130.)
 
 12 ■ County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Notes to Excusal from payment of poor rate on tlie ground of 
 Sect. 2. poverty does not disqualify. (Mashiter v. Dunn (1848), 
 6 C. B. 30.) Other alms disqualify in any case where 
 there are present the three elements of poverty, the receipt 
 of alms, and the absence of that independence which is 
 essential to the qualification of a voter, all of wliich must 
 co-exist in the particular case. {Harrison v. Carter (1876), 
 2 C. P. D. 26.) For instance, if a local charity provides 
 aged and infirm inhabitants, not being able to maintain 
 themselves by their own exertions, with lodgings in alms- 
 houses and a weekly allowance, they would be disqualified 
 thereby. (Baker v. TJie Tov-n Clerk of Monmouth (1885), 34 
 W. R. 64 ; Edwards v. Lloyd (1887), 20 Q. B. D. 302.) 
 Section 31 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 
 
 of part of"^ (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), as applied by this sub-section, wiU read 
 
 house. as follows, viz. : — 
 
 In and for the purposes of this Act, — 
 
 (a) The terms "house," "warehouse," "counting- 
 house," "shop," "or other building," include 
 any part of a house, where that part is separately 
 occupied for the purposes of any trade, business, 
 or profession ; and any such part may, for the 
 purpose of describing the Cjualification, be de- 
 scribed as office, chambers, studio, or by any 
 like term applicable to the case. 
 (])) "Where an occupier is entitled to the sole and 
 exclusive use of any part of a house, that part 
 shall not be deemed to be occupied otherwise 
 than separately, by reason only that the occupier 
 is entitled to the joint use of some other part. 
 Apart from this enactment, part of a house, though 
 called by itself a house in the common understanding of 
 the word, does not become a house in law unless there is an 
 actual structural severance of such part from the rest of the 
 building {Cook v. Humher (1861), 11 C. B. (n.s.) 33) ; but 
 it was held in Aldridge's case that from the wording of 
 sub-section (6) above cited, the term "house," as used in 
 ihe Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, includes any part of
 
 Extension of Burgess Franchise. 13 
 
 a house not structurally severed from the rest of a building, Notes to 
 
 where such part is separately occupied for the purposes of »j6Ct. A. 
 
 residence (Greemvay v. Batchdor {Aldridcje's case) (1883), 
 
 12 Q. B. D. 381), the same point haWng been provided for 
 
 in respect of the parliamentary franchise, by the fifth 
 
 section of the Parliamentary and Municipal Registration 
 
 Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 26). 
 
 Section 33 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 ^"'f.s as ;*> 
 
 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), as applied by this sub-section, will of county 
 
 1 nil • electors oa 
 
 read as follows, viz. :— succession, 
 
 &c. 
 
 (1) Where a person succeeds to f[ualifying property by 
 
 descent, marriage, marriage settlement, devise, or 
 promotion to a benefice or office, then, for the 
 purposes of qualification, the occupancy of the 
 property by a predecessor ui title, and the rating 
 of the predecessor in respect thereof, shall be 
 equivalent to the occupancy and rating of the 
 successor ; and rating in the name of the prede- 
 cessor shall, until a new rate is made after the 
 date of succession, be equivalent to rating in the 
 name of the successor; and the successor shall 
 not be required to prove his own residence, occu- 
 pancy, or rating before the succession. 
 
 (2) The qualifying property need not be throughout the 
 
 twelve months constituting the period of qualifi- 
 cation the same property, or in the same parish. 
 
 (3) Where by law a county rate is payable by instal- 
 
 ments, payment by any person of any such instal- 
 ment shall, as regards his qualification to be 
 registered as a county elector be deemed a payment 
 of the county rate in respect of the period to 
 which the instalment applies. 
 
 (4) A person shall not be disentitled to be registered as 
 
 a county elector by reason only — 
 
 (a) That he has received medical or surgical assistance 
 from the trustees of the county charities, or has 
 been removed by order of a justice to a hospital
 
 14 
 
 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Notes to 
 Sect. 2. 
 
 Eight of 
 women to 
 vote. 
 
 ■Claim to be 
 ratf (1 and 
 tender of 
 rates. 
 
 or place for reception of the sick at the cost 
 of any local authority ; or 
 (b) That his child has been admitted to and taught in 
 any public or endowed school. 
 
 Section 63 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 
 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), as applied by this sub-section will 
 read as follows, viz. : — 
 
 For all purposes connected with and having reference to 
 
 the right to vote at county {local government) electionSf 
 
 words in this Act importing the masculine gender 
 
 include women. 
 
 This section, as applied, does not entitle a married 
 
 woman to be registered as a county elector, although she 
 
 may be living separately from her husband and, but for 
 
 the fact of the marriage, may be otherwise duly qualified 
 
 by occupation and rating to be registered as a county 
 
 elector, because a married woman is not in law " a person " 
 
 within the meaning of the ninth section as applied, her 
 
 legal existence being merged on the marriage in that of 
 
 her husband so long as he continues alive and the marriage 
 
 is not dissolved by the decree of a competent court. {Reg. 
 
 v. Earmld (1872), L. R. 7 Q. B. 361.) 
 
 "Enactments of that or any other Act affecting the 
 same." Probably this refers, amongst other sections which 
 will be noted hereinafter, to section 32 of that Act and to 
 the Mimicipal Voters Relief Act, 1885 (48 Vict. c. 9). 
 
 Section 32 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 
 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), as applied by this sub-section, will 
 read as follows, viz . : — 
 
 (1) If an occupier of any qualifying property, whether 
 the landlord is or is not lial)le to be rated in the 
 poor rate in respect thereof, claims to be rated to 
 the poor rate in respect thereof, and pays or 
 tenders to the overseers of the parish where the 
 property is situate the full amount of the poor 
 rate last made in respect of the property, the 
 overseers shall put the occupier's name on the 
 rate book in respect of that rate.
 
 Extension of Burgess Franchise. 15 
 
 A claim and tender need only he made if the overseers Notes to 
 have altogether refused to rate any person whatever in Sect. Z. 
 respect of the premises to rates made during the required 
 period of occupation, but it is not equivalent to rating and 
 payment unless it is made during the required period of 
 occupation. (Ainsworth v. Creeke (1868), L. R. 4 C. P. 
 476.) There is probably no necessity to repeat the claim 
 and tender every time a fresh rate is made during the 
 required period of occupation, but it may be made once for 
 all so long as the voter remains in occupation of the same 
 premises during that period. (14 & 15 Vict. c. 14.) 
 
 Section 2 of the Municipal Voters Relief Act, 1885 Letting: 
 (48 Vict. c. 9), as applied by this sub-section, will read as ho'S^*'''^ 
 follows, viz.: — 
 
 A man shall not be disqualified from being registered or 
 voting as a county elector at any county {local govern- 
 meyit) election in a county in respect of the occupation 
 of any house by reason only that during a part of the 
 qualifying period, not exceeding four months in the 
 whole, he has, by letting or otherwise, permitted such 
 house to be occupied as a furnished dwelling-house by 
 eome other person, and during such occupation by 
 another person has not resided in or within seven 
 miles of the county. 
 The limit of four months must not be exceeded, or the 
 occupier wiU be disqualified. As, for instance, under- 
 graduates of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 
 who are not allowed to occupy their chambers in college 
 during the vacations, which extend over a period of six 
 months, are thereby disqualified. {Tanner v. Carter (1885), 
 16 Q. B. D. 231.) 
 
 3. Every person who is entitled to be regis- of'^f.^oj" 
 tared as a voter in respect of a ten pounds occu- "Jf. to"**"' 
 pation qualification wdthin the meaning of the '^"'"^'^^^ 
 provisions of the Registration Act, 1885, which 
 are set out in the schedule to this Act, shall be
 
 16 
 
 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Sect. 3. entitled to be registered as a county elector, and 
 to be enrolled as a burgess, in respect of such 
 qualification, in like manner in all resj)ects as if 
 the sections of the Municipal Corporations Act, 
 1882, relating to a burgess qualification included 
 the said ten pounds occupation qualification. 
 
 Effect of 
 section. 
 
 Subject- 
 matter of 
 qualiflca- 
 tion. 
 
 Talue. 
 
 The practical effect of this section will be to qualify 
 every parliamentary ten pounds occupier in a parliamentary 
 borough as a burgess or county elector, as the case may be. 
 But in a parliamentary county it will not be safe to take 
 the list of parliamentary ten pounds occupiers as a list of 
 persons qualified to be county electors or burgesses, as the 
 case may be ; first, because the payment of assessed taxes 
 is no part of the parliamentary ten pounds occupation 
 qualification in a parliamentary county, except within the 
 area of a merged parliamentary borough ; and, secondly, 
 because in a parliamentary county, including the area of 
 any merged parliamentary borough therein, there is a 
 diflerence in the qualification of joint occupiers. 
 
 Generally with regard to this section, it is to be 
 observed — 
 
 That it makes land only, without any building upon it, 
 
 a proper subject-matter of qualification. 
 That a " tenement " within the meaning of the section, 
 must be rateable, or such as but for being CrowTi pro- 
 perty would be rateable, and must be capable of 
 actual occupation. Incorporeal hereditaments, though 
 sometimes rateable, as, for instance, sporting rights, 
 are not considered capable of actual occupation for 
 the purposes of an electoral qualification (Druitt v. TJia 
 Overseers of GJirist Church (1883), 12 Q. B. D. 365), so 
 that a tenement practically means a building, and the 
 occupier will be more likely to qualify under section 2, 
 and not under this section. 
 The principles upon which the clear yearly value is to 
 be ascertained are well known in respect of the parliamen-
 
 Ten Pounds Occupiers. 17 
 
 tary ten pounds occupation qualification, and apply equally Notes to 
 for the purposes of the local government franchise under Sect. 3. 
 this section. They are discussed at length in " Mackenzie 
 and Lushington on Parliamentary and Local Government 
 Registration." 
 
 In the same work will he found full consideration of the Estat«. 
 words " as owner or tenant," which import that the person 
 in physical occupation must have either an estate, in 
 the legal sense of the term, in the land,or else must be a 
 lessee for a term. Occupation by mere permission, or as a 
 guest, servant, lodger, or member of a corporate body will 
 not qualify. 
 
 It will be noticed that the required period of residence Residence, 
 for the purposes of a ten pounds occupation qualification 
 under this section is only six months immediataly preceding 
 the 15th July in the year of registration, as against twelve 
 months, which is the required period for the purposes of a 
 general occupation qualification under section 2. 
 
 What constitutes residence has been already noted under 
 section 2, and the whole subject will be found fully dis- 
 cussed in " Mackenzie and Lushington on Registration," 
 Chapter II., section 2, in treating of the parliamentary ten 
 pounds occupation qualification. 
 
 The principal points as to rating and payment of rates Rating and 
 have been noted under section 2. It may be observed here J-ateTa"i^°^ 
 that payment of county rate is no part of tliis ten pounds taxes, 
 occupation qualification, as it is in the case of a general 
 occupation qualification imder section 2. But payment of 
 assessed taxes, which is no part of the general occupation 
 qualification under section 2, is necessary for a ten pounds 
 occupation qualification. Assessed taxes are such taxes as 
 vary in amount in proportion to the value of the property 
 in respect of which they are imposed, as the property tax, 
 the house tax, and the land tax. By the fourth section of 
 the Property Tax Act, 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. 35), non-pay- 
 ment of property tax will not dis<iualify, so that inhal)ited 
 house duty alone remains to be considered. This tax becomes 
 payable, without any demand made upon the occupier, on 
 or before the 1st of January in every year. (Customs and 
 
 G
 
 18 
 
 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Joint 
 occupiers. 
 
 Notes to Inland Revenue Duties Act, 1869, 32 & 33 Vict. c. 14, s, 8.) 
 Sect. 3. gy tiig twelfth section of the Parliamentary Registration 
 Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 18), the collectors of taxes must, 
 within two days after the 20th July, send in to the overseers 
 a list of defaulters in payment of assessed taxes, which it is 
 the duty of the overseers to keep open for inspection for a 
 fortnight after publication of the lists of occupation voters. 
 Joint occupiers will be entitled to be registered as county 
 electors or as burgesses, if the value of the land or tene- 
 ment is such as to give ten pounds or more for each. 
 occupier, although in a parliamentary county, including 
 the area of any merged borough therein, two only of such 
 occupiers are entitled to be registered as parliamentary 
 voters, unles they derived the property by descent, 
 succession, marriage, marriage settlement, or devise, or 
 unless they are bond fide engaged as partners carrying on 
 trade or business thereon, in any of which cases all may be 
 registered, if the value is sufficient to give ten pounds for 
 each occupier. (Representation of the People Act, 1867, 
 30 & 31 Vict. c. 102, s. 27.) 
 
 Even in a parliamentary borough the list of parliamentary 
 ten pounds occupiers will not be necessarily an exhaustive 
 list of the persons qualified as burgesses or coimty electors 
 under this section, for women and peers may be qualified 
 as ten pounds burgesses or county electors, though not as 
 parliamentary ten pounds occupiers. There will, however, 
 be the same limitation on the right of women to vote 
 as that which has been already pointed out in respect of the 
 general occupation qualification under section 2, \iz., that 
 during coverture they have no legal personality apart from 
 their husbands. 
 
 Rights of 
 women 
 
 and peers. 
 
 ■Registra- 
 tion of 
 county 
 electors. 
 
 4. — (1.) The Eegistration of Electors Acts 
 shall, so far as circumstances admit, apply to the 
 enrolment of burgesses in a municipal borough to 
 41 & 42 Vict, "vvhich the Parliamentary and Municipal Registra- 
 tion Act, 1878, does not apply, and to the regis- 
 
 C. 26
 
 Registration of Electors. 19 
 
 tration of county electors within the meaning of Sect. 4- 
 this Act; and the lists of burgesses, and of county- 
 electors, and of occupation voters for parliamentary 
 elections, shall, so far as practicable, be made out 
 and revised together ; and the Registration of 
 Electors Acts shall accordingly — 
 
 (a) apply to every such municipal borough in 
 like manner as if it were a borough to 
 which sub-section two of section six of 
 the Registration Act, 1885, applied (sub- 
 section one of which section is hereby 
 repealed), and revising assessors for such 
 borough shall not be elected ; and 
 
 '(])) apply to every parish not situate in a muni- 
 cipal borough, in like manner as if such 
 parish were a municipal borough to 
 which the Parliamentary and Municipal 
 Registration Act, 1878, applies, and the 
 said lists of county electors and of occu- 
 pation voters for parliamentary elections 
 in such parish shall be made out in 
 di\'isions, as pro^dded in the said Act: 
 Provided that a person whose name ap- 
 pears in any list of county electors or 
 burgesses in a county may object to the 
 name of any other person on a list of 
 county electors or burgesses for a parish 
 in that county, and may oppose the 
 c2 
 
 y
 
 20 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Sect. 4, claim of a person to have his name ■ 
 
 inscribed in any such list. 
 
 (2.) In the construction of the Registration of 
 Electors Acts for the purpose of their application 
 to a parish not situate in a municipal borough, 
 there shall be made the variations following, and 
 such other variations as may be necessary for 
 carrying into effect the application, that is to say: — 
 
 (a) Where such parish is not within a par- 
 liamentary borough, " parliamentary 
 county" shall be substituted for "par- 
 liamentary borough: " 
 
 (I)) ^Vhere such parish is not within a parKa- 
 mentary borough, the clerk of the peace 
 shall perform the duties of and be sub- 
 stituted for the town clerk; but any notice 
 required to be given to the town clerk 
 by section twenty-seven of the ParHa- 
 mentary and Municipal Registration Act^ 
 1878, relating to the withdrawal and 
 revival of objections, shall be given to 
 the overseers and not to the clerk of the- 
 peace ; 
 
 ((■) County elector shall be substituted for bur- 
 gess; 
 
 (d) Section nine of the Parliamentary and Mu- 
 nicipal Registration Act, 1878, shall not
 
 Registration of Electors. 21 
 
 apply to any parish which is not wholly Sect. 4. 
 situate in an urban district; 
 
 (<•) Where such parish is not within a parlia- 
 mentary borough, section twenty-one of 
 the Parliamentary and Municipal Regis- 
 tration Act, 1878, shall not apply, and 
 the lists and register of voters shall be 
 made out alphabetically, but shall be 
 framed in parts for polling districts and 
 electoral divisions and for urban districts 
 and for wards of urban and rural districts 
 in such a manner that the parts may be 
 conveniently compiled or put together 
 to serve as Hsts for polling districts, and 
 elections in urban districts and as elec- 
 toral division or ward lists; 
 
 ■(/) ^Miere such parish is within a parliamen- 
 tary borough — 
 
 (i.) the overseers shall send to the clerk of 
 the peace for the county two copies 
 of the lists of voters at the same time 
 at which they send copies to the town 
 clerk; and 
 
 (ii.) the town clerk shall cause to be printed 
 such number of copies of the revised 
 lists as the clerk of the peace may 
 require, and shall transmit the same 
 to the clerk of the peace, who shall
 
 22 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Sect. 4, deal with the same as with other lists 
 
 of county electors in his connty; but, 
 
 (iii.) save as aforesaid, the clerk of the peace 
 shall not act in relation to the regis- 
 tration of county electors in the said 
 parish, and the town clerk of the par- 
 liamentary borough shall be the town 
 clerk within the meaning of the Regis- 
 tration of Electors Acts and this Act 
 in relation to such parish, and shall 
 include in his precept to the overseers 
 proper directions respecting the regis- 
 tration of the county electors within 
 the meaning of this Act. 
 
 {g) The lists of occupation voters and county 
 electors shall be revised by the revising 
 barrister for the parliamentary borough 
 or county in which such parish is situate, 
 and the revising barrister for revising 
 the county electors' lists for the whole or 
 any part of an electoral division of any 
 county shall, if so required by the county 
 council, hold a court in that electoral 
 division or at some convenient place in a 
 division adjoining thereto. 
 
 (/t) The guardians of a union which is not 
 wholly comprised in an urban district 
 may, with the consent of the overseers
 
 Registration of Electors. 23 
 
 of any parish or parishes within their Sect. 4. 
 union for wliich an assistant overseer 
 has not been appointed, annually appoint 
 a fit person to act as registration officer 
 for such parish or parishes, and may 
 remove any such person, and fill up any 
 vacancy caused by death, resignation, or 
 otherwise. Such registration officer shall 
 perform all the duties of overseers of the 
 parish or parishes for which he is ap- 
 pointed in respect of the registration of 
 county electors and parliamentary voters, 
 and the provisions of the Registration of 
 Electors Acts relating to overseers, in- 
 cluding those providing for penalties, 
 shall apply to him accordingly: 
 
 Provided that his remuneration shall 
 be fixed and paid by the guardians of 
 the union, and charged on the poor rates 
 of the parish or parishes for wliich he is 
 appointed, and (if he acts for more than 
 one parish) in proportion to the nmnber 
 of persons on the registers made during 
 the year of his appointment of county 
 electors and parliamentary voters for 
 each parish. 
 
 (3.) Notwithstanding anything in this Act con- 
 tained, where a nmnicipal borough or an urban
 
 24 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Sect. 4. district is co-extensive with any electoral division 
 or divisions of a parliamentary county, the lists 
 of voters may he directed hy the county authority 
 to be made out according to the order in which 
 the quahfying premises appear in the rate book, 
 and section twenty-one of the ParKamentary and 
 Municipal Registration Act, 1878, shall apply to 
 such borough or urban district, and where lists of 
 voters are so made out nothing in this Act shall 
 require such part of the county register as consists 
 of these lists to be arranged alphabetically. 
 
 Sub-sect. 1. The Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act, 1878 
 whSrthV° (41 & 42 Vict. c. 26), appHes to any municipal borougli 
 Act of 1878 wliolly or partly comprised within the area of an existing 
 parliamentary borough, or of a former parliamentary 
 borough which ceased after the dissolution of the Parlia- 
 ment existing in January, 1885, to be a parliamentary 
 borough. A list of these former parliamentary boroughs 
 is contained in the first schedule to the Redistribution of 
 Seats Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 23). 
 
 /Application Sub-section two of section six of the Registration Act, 
 
 ^of tiie Act 1885 (48 Vict. c. 15), enacts that where any part of the 
 
 of 1885. area of a municipal borough was immediately before the 
 
 dissolution of the then existing Parliament included in the 
 
 area of a parliamentary borough, and such parliamentary 
 
 borough ceased after such dissolution to be a parliamentary 
 
 \ borough, then the registration of (parliamentary) occupa- 
 
 tion voters and the enrolment of burgesses in a parish in 
 such municipal borough shall be conducted in like manner, 
 so nearly as may be, as heretofore, and the Parliamentaiy 
 and Municipal Registration Act, 1878, shall apply to the 
 said municipal borough in like manner as heretofore, 
 subject, nevertheless, as follows :
 
 . Registration of Electors. 25 
 
 {a) "Parliamentary county" shall, for the purpose of Notes to 
 such application, be substituted for "parliauieu- ^^Ct. l. 
 tary borough." 
 
 {h) The lists and register of voters shall be made out 
 alphabetically in like manner as in the rest of the 
 county, but the lists shall be framed in parts for 
 polling districts and -wards in such manner that 
 the parts may be conveniently compiled or put 
 together to serve as lists for polling districts or as 
 ward lists. 
 
 (c) The overseers of every parish in such municipal 
 borough shall send to the clerk of the peace for 
 the parliamentary county two copies of the lists 
 of voters at the same time at which they send 
 copies to the town clerk, and the lists of voters 
 for a parish in such borough when revised shall 
 be transmitted by the revising barrister to such 
 clerk of the peace, and dealt with by him as \ni\x 
 other lists in his county, but, save as aforesaid, 
 the town clerk of the municipal borough shall, 
 until such transmission, act as and be deemed to 
 be the town clerk within the meaning of the 
 Parliamentary Registration Acts and this Act in 
 relation to such parisli, and the clerk of the peace 
 shall not act in relation to the registration of 
 (parliamentary) occupation voters in such parish, 
 
 {d) The lists of (parliamentary) occupation voters and 
 burgesses sliall be revised by the revising barrister 
 for the parliamentary county in which the 
 municipal borough is situate, and if that borough 
 extends into more pai'liamentary counties than 
 one, then by the revising barrister for the parlia- 
 mentary county in which the greater part in 
 extent of such municipal borough is situate, and 
 such revising barrister shall hold a court in the 
 municipal borough. 
 
 The immediate practical effect of the application of this Effect of 
 «ub-section of the Registration Act, 1885, will be to render ^'"'^ "^ '°"
 
 26 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Notes to it necessary for the town clerk of such a municipal borough 
 Sect. 4. to issue a supplemental precept to the overseers of parishes 
 
 *^'i^5^*^'' ^itl^in, or partly within, the borough relating to the 
 enrolment of burgesses in this present year. In future 
 years the town clerk will issue a precept for the registra- 
 tion both of the parliamentary occupation voters and of the 
 burgesses to the overseers in such municipal boroughs, and 
 the clerk of the peace will confine his precept to parliamen- 
 tary ownership voters. 
 
 The overseers will have to perform the like duties in 
 relation to the preparation and publication of lists of bur- 
 gesses, notices as to payment of rates, and other docu- 
 ments, and other like duties as if the parish were situate 
 in a parliamentary as well as in a municipal borough. 
 
 The lists will be revised by the revising barrister for the 
 parliamentary county as provided for by the last para- 
 graph of the applied sub-section, and not by the mayor 
 and revising assessors under the Municipal Corporations 
 Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), as formerly. 
 
 Abolition of The revising assessors, who are abolished by this sub- 
 
 asJessors in section, were elected annually by the burgesses in every 
 
 non-par- borough of which no part was included in the area of a 
 hamentary » ^ r n t ^ 
 
 boroughs, parliamentary borough, or of a lormer parhamentary 
 
 borough which ceased after the dissolution of the Par- 
 liament existing in January, 1885, to be a parliamentary 
 borough, and their duties were to assist the mayor in the 
 judicial business of revising the liurgess lists. 
 
 The twenty-ninth section of the Municipal Corporations 
 Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), relating to these revising 
 assessors, is therefore impliedly repealed by this sub- 
 section. 
 lasts made The application of the Kegistration of Electors Acts to a 
 parish not situate in a municipal borough is considerably 
 modified by sub-section (2), which will be presently dis- 
 cussed, but it may be noted here that the making out of 
 the occupiers' list " in divisions, as provided by the said 
 Act " (t.c, the Act of 1878), refers to section 15 of that 
 Act, whereby the said list is to be made out in three divi- 
 sions, and, as applied, — 
 
 out in divi-
 
 Registration of Elector's. 
 
 ■21 
 
 Division One will comprise the names of tlie persons Notes to 
 entitled to be registered both as parliamentiiry occu- ^^Cl. 4. 
 pation voters other than lodgers and as county- 
 electors ; 
 Division Two will comprise the names of the persons 
 entitled to be registered as parliamentary occupation 
 voters other than lodgers, but not as county electors ; 
 and 
 Division Three will comprise the names of persons 
 entitled to be registered as county electors, but not as 
 parliamentary occupation voters. 
 The effect of this will be that Division Two will contain 
 the names of service occupiers, and probably of some fifty 
 pounds occupiers who may not be (jualitied as county 
 electors in respect of the same property, and possibly of 
 some ten pounds occupiers of property for which the assessed 
 taxes have not been paid, and who liave not resided for the 
 whole year so as to qualify as burgess occupiers. Division 
 Three will contain the names of women and peers who are 
 occupiers of property qualifying for the local government 
 franchise, and the names of tlie third and others of joint 
 ten poimds occupiers where more than two persons are 
 joint occupiers of property of sufficient value, but not 
 coming within the exceptions in section 27 of the Eepre- 
 sentation of the People Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 102). 
 
 In the present year, where a parish is not within a Suppie- 
 . . , , , •. . 1 ■ T , mental lists, 
 
 mimicipai borough, nor situated in a parliamentary 
 
 borough, the clerk of the peace may, under section 15 of 
 this Act, instead of directing the overseers to make out the 
 occupiers' lists in divisions, direct them to make out 
 supplemental lists containing the names which would 
 other^vise be contained in Divisions Two and Three 
 respectively. The person acting as town clerk of a parlia- 
 mentary borough has no express power to direct the over- 
 seers of a parish in a parliamentary, but not in a municipal 
 borough to follow that course, and must appaiently direct 
 the overseers to make out the occupiers' list in divisions. 
 
 The person objected to Mill have a right to see whether Objections, 
 the conditions imposed by the Kegistration of Electors
 
 -28 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Notes to -A-cts have been fulfilled, and, if they have not, to take 
 Sect. 4. advantage of that fact to defeat the objection. The over- 
 seers, therefore, will have no right to waive the delivery to 
 them in due time of a valid notice of objection. (See per 
 Coleridge, C.J., in Freeman v. Newman (1883), 12 
 Q. B. D. 375.) It will not be necessary, however, that a 
 separate notice of objection should be giv6n to the over- 
 seers in respect of each person objected to, but a single 
 notice with a schedule containing the names of all persons 
 objected to, with their respective places of abode and 
 qualifications as described in the list, will be sufficient, 
 provided that the same grounds of objection apply equally 
 to all. {Smith v. HoUouny (1865), L. R. 1 C. P. 145.) 
 The necessary contents of a notice of objection are fully 
 discussed in " Mackenzie and Lushington on Registration," 
 Chapter V. ; but it may be noted here that the notice 
 .should properly specify the list and division of the list to 
 which the objection refers, and should be properly dated 
 and signed by the objector, and under his signature the 
 objector should state his true place of abode, so as to afford 
 a full and sufficient address if a letter is addressed to him 
 by post. The notice should also specify the list on which 
 the objector's name appears, being a list which under this 
 Act gives him the right to object. In specifying the list 
 and division to which the objection refers, the "division" 
 means either Division One or Division Three of the Occu- 
 piers' List, as noted in the earlier part of the notes to this 
 sub-section (see per Coleridge, C.J., Hall v. Cropper 
 (1879), 5 C. P. D. 81); and where that list is not made out 
 in divisions, but supplemental lists are made out imder the 
 transitory provisions for 1888 under section fifteen of this 
 Act, the notice must specify whether the objection refers 
 to the general list or to the supplemental list corresponding 
 to Division Three. 
 Claims. The overseers must not put the name of any person in. 
 
 the list of claimants as county electors or burgesses unless 
 such person has sent them a proper notice of claim in due 
 time, and the revising barrister will not be bound to allow 
 any such claim unless he is satisfied that due notice was
 
 " Registration of Electors. 2& 
 
 given to the overseers. (In re Sale (1880), 50 L. J. C. P. Notes to 
 113.) Sect. 4. 
 
 This sub-section, which relates to the construction of the Sub-sect. 2. 
 Registration of Electors Acts for the purpose of their appli- 
 cation to a (parish not situate in a municipal borough, 
 consists of three separate portions, the first comprising 
 paragraphs (a) to (e) inclusive, and relating to such a parish 
 when it is not within a parliamentary borough, the second 
 comprising paragraphs (e) to (g) inclusive, and relating to 
 such a parish when it is ■within a parliamentary borough, 
 and the last consisting of paragraph (h), a novel and 
 remarkable enactment. 
 
 As to the first group of paragraphs, in paragraph (h), withdrawar 
 section twenty-seven of the Parliamentary and Municipal of objec- 
 Registration Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 26), relating to the ^''*"'- 
 withdrawal and revival of objections (as applied by this 
 sub-section), provides that an objection may be Avithdrawn 
 by a notice to that effect in writing, signed by the objector, 
 and given to the person objected to, and to the overseers, 
 not less than seven days before the day which shall be 
 appointed for the holding of the first court of rcAdsion of 
 the list to which the objection relates, and any objection 
 by a qualified objector may, after his death, be reAaved by 
 any other person qualified to have made the objection 
 originaliy by a notice to that efi'ect in writing, signed by 
 him, and given to the person objected to, and to the over- 
 seers at or before the time of the revision of the entry to 
 which the objection relates, and a person reviving an objec- 
 tion shall be deemed to have made the objection originally, 
 and he shall be responsible in respect thereof, and the pro- 
 ceedings thereon shall be continued accordingly. Where 
 an objection is made otherwise than by an overseer to any 
 person whose name appears on a list of voters and county 
 electors, and the name is retained on the list, the revising 
 banister shall, unless he is of opinion that the objection 
 was reasonably made either because of a defect or error in 
 the entry to which the objection relates, or because of a 
 difficulty in verifying or identifying the particulars com- 
 prised in such entry, or unless the objection is duly witli-
 
 oO 
 
 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Notes to 
 Sect. 4. 
 
 Polling 
 
 districts. 
 
 Electoral 
 
 •'Jivisions. 
 
 Town 
 clerks. 
 
 drawn, or unless for some other special reason he otherwise 
 determines, order costs, not exceeding forty shillings, to be 
 paid by the objector to the person objected to. 
 
 But, generally, if any correction is made, although the 
 name is retained the barrister will not make an order for 
 costs, because the alteration generally shows good cause for 
 objecting. 
 
 In paragraph (cZ) of this sub-section, section nine of the 
 Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act, 1878, therein 
 referred to, relates to the publication of lists and notices in 
 postal and telegraph offices. In paragraph (e), section 
 twenty-one of the same Act therein referred to relates to 
 the arrangement of the lists and registers according to 
 streets. 
 
 Polling districts for the first election of county councillors 
 are to be settled by the sheriff", as returning officer, or the 
 person appointed as returning ofl&cer in case the sheriff is a 
 candidate (L. G. B. sect. 99), so that the overseers will not 
 be troubled with framing the lists of county electors in the 
 present year Avith reference to polling districts. 
 
 Electoral divisions in boroughs returning more than one 
 county councillor are to be determined by the council of 
 the borough, but any borough returning one county coun- 
 cillor only is to be an electoral division of itself, and m. the 
 rest of the county the c[uarter sessions are to determine the 
 electoral divisions. The Local Government Board will, in 
 the first place, determine the number of elective councillors, 
 and their apportionment between each of the boroughs 
 wliich have sufficient population to return one councillor 
 and the rest of the county. (L. G. B. sect. 3.) 
 
 Urban and rural districts are by section fourteen of this 
 Act defined to mean respectively an urban or rural sani- 
 tary district, also any urban or rural district under the 
 Local Government Bill when it has passed into law. 
 
 As to the second group of paragraphs relating to a parish 
 not within a municipal, but within a parliamentary 
 borough, it may be useful to remember that where a 
 municipal borough forms part of a parliamentary borough 
 the town clerk of the municipal borough is the town clerk
 
 Registration of Electors. 31 
 
 •of the parliamentary borough within the meaninf,' of the Notes to 
 Kegistration of Electors Acts. (Parliamentary Electors Sect. 4. 
 Registration Act, 1868, 31 & 32 Vict. c. 58, s. 18.) In other 
 parliamentary boroughs the returning officer acts as town 
 clerk (Parliamentary Registration Act, 1843, 6 & 7 Vict. 
 c. 18, 8. 101), but in the city of London the expression 
 town clerk means the secondaries, and in the city of West- 
 minster the bailiff, and in the borough of Southwark the 
 high baililf. (Parliamentary Registration Act, 1843, 6 & 7 
 Vict. c. 18, s. 56.) 
 
 The last paragraph of this sub-section may possibly not llciri.stration 
 be taken advantage of in this present year, considering the 
 lateness of the passing of this Act with regard to the dates 
 fixed for carrying its provisions into effect, and possibly by j 
 
 next year the Government may have in hand their pro- 
 mised scheme dealing generally with the subject of regis- 
 tration, in which it is very likely that new registration 
 officers will be created to take over the duties of overseers 
 generally. 
 
 Assistant overseers are " overseers " within the meaning Aaaistant 
 of the Registration of Electors Acts (see Parliamentary 
 Registration Act, 1843, 6 & 7 Vict. c. 18, s. 101), and are 
 appointed under section seven of Sturgis Bourne's Act (59 
 Geo. 3, c. 12) by warrant of two justices on the nomination 
 of the vestry to do such duties for such salary as the vestry 
 may specify, and they hold office until resignation or the 
 revocation of their appointment by the vestry. 
 
 This paragraph makes no express provision that the "^^^ books, 
 registration officer, if appointed, should have access to the 
 rate books, and it will be absolutely necessary that he 
 should have access to them if he is to do his work properly. 
 But as he cannot be appointed without the consent of the 1 
 
 overseers, it is not likely that any difficulty will arise 
 between them about it. The registration officer will have 
 to produce the rate books, containing rates made during 
 the past two years, at the revision court. 
 
 Section twenty-one of the Parliamentary and [Municipal Sub-sect. 3. 
 Registration Act, 1878(41 & 42 Vict. c. 26), herein referred nwdeont 
 to, as applied, provides that if and so far as the county fo'^n-li'J^
 
 32 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Notes to authority so direct, the lists of parliamentary voters, and 
 beet. 4. register of parliamentary voters, and the burgess and 
 county electors' lists, and hurgess rolls, and the county 
 register, and the lists of claimants and persons objected to, 
 or any of those documents, in any municipal borough or 
 urban district co-extensive with any electoral division or 
 divisions of a county, shall, so far as they relate to persons 
 qualified in respect of the ownership or occupation of pro- 
 perty (including persons qualified in respect of lodgings), 
 be arranged in the same order in which the qualifying 
 premises appear in the rate book for the parish in which 
 those premises are situate, or as nearly thereto as will 
 cause those lists, registers, and rolls to record the qualifying 
 premises in successive order in the street or other place in 
 which they are situate, subject in the case of a municipal 
 borough divided into wards to the division of the burgess 
 roll into ward lists, and subject in the case of a municipal 
 borough or urban district co-extensive with more electoral 
 divisions than one to the division of the county register 
 into division registers. 
 
 Under section fifty-one of the Local Government Bill an 
 electoral division is not to consist of portions of two or 
 more coimty districts, but a county district may be divided 
 into two or more electoral divisions. 
 
 of^i^tfaiid S" -^fter the year one thousand eight hundred 
 thfmetTO-'^ and eighty-eight, in every part of the metropoHs, 
 and in every part of a parliamentary borough, the 
 whole or greater part of which is situate in the 
 metropolis, the lists and registers of parliamentary 
 voters, and of county electors, shall, unless the 
 local authority otherwise direct, be arranged in 
 the same order in which the quahfying premises 
 appear in the rate book for the parish in which 
 those premises are situate, or as nearly thereto as 
 
 polls,
 
 Metropolitan Lists. 33 
 
 will canse those lists and registers to record the Sect. 5. 
 qualifying premises in successive order in the 
 street or other place in which they are situate. 
 
 For the purpose of this section " metropoKs " 
 means the city of London and the parishes and 
 places mentioned in Schedules (A.), (B.), and 
 (C.) of the MotropoHs Management Act, 1855. ^c'm.^^"'' 
 
 This section is practically an application of the twenty- An-ange- 
 i.T- i- c ^^ T^ 1- . T T.r • • 1 rnentof me- 
 
 aeventn section oi the ramamentary and JMunicipal tropoiitaa 
 
 Eegistration Act, 1878 (41 k 42 Vict. c. 26), extended (so as "^'^ "^ 
 
 to include county electors' lists) to the Metropolis, unless 
 
 the local authority otherwise direct, instead of if they so 
 
 direct. The local authority seems to mean in every 
 
 parliamentary borougli, wholly or partly included in that 
 
 area, the authority having power to divide such Lorougli 
 
 into polling districts, and as regards a municipal borough, 
 
 the council, and as regards the city of London, the Court 
 
 of Aldermen. 
 
 The Metropolis as defined in this section is the new 
 county of London proposed to be created under the Local 
 Government Bill. 
 
 voters. 
 
 6. — (1.) The lists of parHamentary voters, Jf.^[^J^j['j "* 
 and of burgesses, and of county electors, shall be '^^^' 
 revised between the eighth day of September and 
 the twelfth day of October both inclusive, and 
 shall be revised as soon as possible after the 
 seventh day of September, and the eighth day of 
 September shall be substituted in the Acts relating 
 to the registration of parliamentary voters for the 
 fifteenth day of September ; and the declarations 
 under section ten of the County Voters Eegis- ^"^^^vict. 
 
 D
 
 34 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Sect. 6. tration Act, 1865, and section twenty-four of the 
 c^og *^ ^'^'■' Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act, 
 1878, shall be sent to the clerk of the peace or 
 town clerk on or before the fifth day of Sep- 
 tember. 
 
 (2.) In sections sixty-two and sixty-three of 
 6 &^7 Vict. {[-yQ Parliamentary Voters Registration Act, 1843 
 (relating to appeals from revising barristers in 
 England), " the Michaelmas sittings of the High 
 Court of Justice " shall be substituted for " the 
 Michaelmas term," and forthwith after the fourth 
 day of the Michaelmas sittings a court or courts 
 shall sit for the purpose of hearing such appeals, 
 and those appeals shall be heard and determined 
 continuously and without delay, and any state- 
 ment by the barrister for the purpose of any such 
 appeal made in pursuance of section forty-two of 
 the said Act may be made at any time within ten 
 days after the conclusion of the revision, so that it 
 be made not less than four days before the first 
 day of the said Michaelmas sittings, and the state- 
 ment need not be read in open court, but shall be 
 submitted to the appellant, who, if he approves 
 the same, shall sign the same as directed by the 
 said section, and return the same to the barrister. 
 
 Sub-sect. 1. This sub-section alters the dates fixed for the holding of 
 
 hoUiinn°re' revision courts under the Parliamentaiy Eegistration Acts, 
 
 vision j^jjj these courts will have in future to be held between the 
 
 8th September and 12th October, both inclusive, as provided
 
 Dates of Appeals. 35 
 
 1)y this sub-section, whereas formerly they might be held Notes to 
 in counties between tlie 15th September and 20th Octolier Sect. 6. 
 (I'arliameutary Registration Act, 1843, 6 & 7 Vict. c. 18, 
 s. 32; County Voters Registration Act, 28 Vict. c. 36, s. 12), 
 and in boroughs between the 15th September and the 
 31st October (Parliamentary Registration Act, 1843, 6 & 7 
 Vict. c. 18, s. 33), the last day for revising a burgess list 
 being the 12th October (Parliamentary and Municipal 
 Registration Act, 1878, 41 & 42 Vict. c. 26, s. 18). 
 
 But under section fifteen of this Act, in the year 1888 
 the time for revising the lists of county electors is extended 
 to the 31st October. 
 
 The declarations under section ten of the County Voters Dates for 
 Registration Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 36), in this sub- ^'^*^''''^''"°n'' 
 ^section referred to, are declarations by county voters, 
 relating to change of abode, or objections founded on the 
 second column of the list, which have to be transmitted to 
 the clerk of the peace ; and the declarations under section 
 twenty-four of the Parliamentary and ]\Iunicipal Registra- 
 tion Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 26), are declarations by 
 borough voters as to misdescription, which have to be 
 transmitted to the town clerk. 
 
 If a declaration is not sent to the clerk of the peace or 
 town clerk, as the case may be, in due time, the revising 
 barrister will have no power to accept it as evidence of the 
 facts declarctl to, althougli the declaration may have been 
 sent to the clerk of the peace or town clerk in time for the 
 holding of the revision court. {Dahing v. Fraser (1885), 
 16 Q. B. D. 252.) 
 
 Tlie Michaelmas sittings of the High Court of Justice snb-scct. 2 
 commence on the 24th October (Order in Council of the iic.iring'of 
 12th December, 1883), so that the court for hearing the ISeaR""" 
 appeals from the revising barristers will commence to sit 
 on the 28th of October. The court for hearing these 
 appeals is a Divisional Court of the Queen's Bench Division. 
 (Rules of the Supreme Court, O. 59, r. 1 (2).) 
 
 The provision tliat tlie case on appeal may be stated at 
 any tin.e within ten days after the conclusion of the revision 
 so that it be made not less than four days before the first 
 
 I) 2
 
 1888. 
 
 36 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Notes to day of the Micliaelmas sittings, and that it need not he 
 Sect. 6. read in open court, disposes of the strict construction of 
 section forty-two of the Parliamentary Voters Registration 
 Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 18), which was so strongly enter- 
 tained by the present Master of the Rolls in Shervnn v. 
 Whyman (Sherwin v. miyman (1873), L. R. 9 C. P. 247), 
 and by others, and is more in accordance \^dth the views 
 of the Irish Court of Appeal upon the corresponding 
 Irish statutes in Toj^ham v. KeUeher {Tophavi v. Kelhher 
 (1879), L. R. (Ireland) 6 C. L. 285); and by implication it 
 must be taken, so it seems, to dispense with the necessity 
 for the revising barrister signing the case and indorsement 
 in open court before the conclusion of the revision as re- 
 quired by the same section. 
 T*^**ais?' ^^^^ dates fixed by this sub-section, when considered 
 
 the year with reference to the transitory provisions for the present 
 year contained in section fifteen of this Act, do not appear 
 to have been well arranged. 
 
 Under section fifteen, the time for the completion of the 
 revision for the present year is extended to the thii-ty-first 
 of October, but the court of appeal from the revising 
 barristers must under this sub-section now under discussion 
 commence to sit on the twenty-eighth of October. Then,, 
 by section sixty-two of the Parliamentary A^'oters Registra- 
 tion Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. 18), as altered by the Judicature 
 Acts and by this sub-section now under discussion, it is 
 absolutely necessary to enter in the Central Office notice of 
 intention to prosecute the appeal within the first four days 
 of the Michaelmas sittings, that is to say, from the twenty- 
 fourtli to the twenty-seventh of October inclusive, and it 
 has been decided that unless this notice is entered in due 
 time the court has no jurisdiction to entertain the appeal 
 {Autey v. Topharn (1843), 5 ]\I. & G. 1; Simpson v. Wilhinson^ 
 ibid. 3)i). Again, rxnder section sixty-four of the Parlia- 
 mentary Voters Registration Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 18), 
 the ajipellant must give to the respondent a notice in 
 writing of his intention to prosecute the appeal at least 
 ten days before the first day appointed for the hearing 
 of the appeals, and if this has not been done the court have
 
 Local Government Registers. 87 
 
 no power to adjourn the hearing where ten clear flays have Notes to 
 olapscd hetween the date of the decision of the revnsing Sect. 6. 
 barrister and the first day fixed for hearing the appeals 
 {Luckett V. GiW«r(1861), 11 C. B. (n.s.) 1), although under 
 the proviso to section sixty-four the court may adjourn the 
 hearing if there were not ten clear days between the date 
 ■of tlie decision of the revising barrister and the first day 
 fixed for the hearing of the appeals. 
 
 All right of ajjpeal, therefore, will be lost in cases where 
 the revising Itarrister postpones his decision after the 27th 
 of October ; and where he postpones it after the 17th of 
 October, unless application is made to the court to adjourn 
 the hearing so as to give time for ten days' notice to be 
 served on the respondent, the court will not adjourn it, and 
 the appeal will be dismissed for want of giving such notice. 
 If, however, the revising barrister gives his decision before 
 the 17th of October, ten days' notice of intention to prosecute 
 an appeal must be served on the respondent on or before 
 the 17th, or the appeal will be dismissed for want of notice, 
 and the court will have no power to adjourn the hearing 
 even though an ajjplication Avere made to them for that 
 object. 
 
 7.— (1.) The clerk of the peace of every Jj;;]}^"* 
 county shall make up a register of all persons °^°°"'*'^ 
 registered as burgesses or county electors in the 
 county, both for the county and for each electoral 
 division into which the county is divided for the 
 purpose of election of the county authority, and 
 such number of copies as the clerk of the peace 
 may require of the list of burgesses as revised 
 shall be delivered by the towTi clerk to such clerk 
 of the peace for the purpose of making up such 
 roirister. 
 
 'O 
 
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 38 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Sect. 7. (2.) The Eegistration of Electors Acts, and 
 sections forty-five, forty-eight, and seventy-one of 
 ^fg^^^s Vict, the Mnnicipal Corporations Act, 1882, shall apply, 
 for the purposes of this section, with the substitu- 
 tion of clerk of the peace for town clerk, and of 
 county register and division register for burgess 
 roll and ward roll respectively, and of electoral 
 division for ward, and of county fund for borough 
 fund. 
 
 (3.) If district councils are established under 
 any Act of the present session of Parliament, the 
 clerk of every such council, not being the council 
 of a borough, shall make up a register of all per- 
 sons registered as county electors in his district, 
 and where there are wards in a district, of all 
 county electors in each ward, and he shall obtain 
 from the clerk of the peace a sufficient number of 
 copies of the lists of the county electors so re- 
 gistered as may be required for the purpose of 
 making up such register and supplying the same 
 to the public, and the above-mentioned Acts and 
 sections shall apply for that purpose, with the 
 substitution of " clerk of the district council " for 
 "town clerk," and of "district register" for 
 "burgess roll" respectively; 
 
 (4.) Provided that nothing in this section shall 
 prevent a county elector from being registered in> 
 more than one division register.
 
 Local Government Rerjisters. 39 
 
 (5.) Where in pursuance of section four of the Sect. 7. 
 Registration Act, 18«5, the revising barrister has ^^i^.''^^'"' 
 power to erase the name of any person as a parlia- 
 mentary voter from division one of the occupiers' 
 list, such barrister, in lieu of erasing the name, 
 shall place an asterisk or other mark against the 
 name, and, in printing such lists, the name shall 
 be numbered consecutively with the other names, 
 but an asterisk or other mark shall be printed 
 against the name, and a person against whose 
 name such asterisk or other mark is placed shall 
 not be entitled to vote in respect of such entry at 
 a parliamentary election, but shall have the same 
 right of voting at an election of a county autho- 
 rity as he would have if no such mark were placed 
 acjainst his name. 
 
 (6.) If under any Act of the present session of 
 Parliament establishing a council for a county any 
 })ortion of another county is added to that county 
 for the purpose of such election, such portion of 
 the county register as relates to the electors 
 having qualifying property in the said part so 
 added shall be deemed to be part of the county 
 register of the county for which such council is 
 elected, and the clerk of the peace and other 
 officers shall take such steps as may be necessary 
 for odvinfif effect to these enactments. 
 
 This section imposes on the clerk of the peace for the County and 
 county a new duty, ^^z., that of making up the county registers.
 
 40 
 
 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Notes to register 
 Sect 7. 
 
 Sub-sect. 1. 
 Electoral 
 
 •livisions. 
 
 County 
 authority. 
 
 .Sub-sect. 2. 
 
 County 
 register. 
 
 after the revising barristers have finished the 
 business of revision ; and, after the present year, if the 
 Local Government Bill passes, it will also impose on the 
 clerks of the new district councils the duty of making up 
 the district register. 
 
 The constitution of electoral divisions has been already 
 noted under section four, sub-section two, of this Act. 
 
 The expression "county authority" is in the preamble 
 stated to mean any representative body which may be 
 established under any Act of the present session of Parlia- 
 ment for the purposes of local government in counties in 
 England, i.e., the county and district councils intended to 
 be established under the Local Government Bill. 
 
 Section forty-five of the Municipal Corporations Act 
 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), as applied by this sub-section, 
 will read as follows, viz. : 
 
 (1) When the parish burgess lists have been re\ised and 
 
 signed, the revising barrister shall deliver them to 
 the clerk of the peace, and a printed copy thereof, 
 examined by him and signed by hini, shall be 
 (together with the revised parish county electors' 
 lists) the county register of the county. 
 
 (2) The county register shall be completed on or before 
 
 the 20th October in each year (the 31st day of 
 December is by section fifteen substituted for the 
 20th of October in the year 1888), and shall come 
 into operation on the 1st of November in that 
 year (the 1st day of January in the year 1889 
 ■ is by section fifteen substituted for the 1st of 
 November, 1888, but not so as to continue the 
 operation of that register beyond twelve months 
 from the 1st November, 1888), and shall continue 
 in operation for twelve months, beginning on that 
 day. 
 
 (3) The names in the county register shall be numbered 
 
 by electoral divisions or by polling districts, unless 
 in any case the county council direct that the
 
 Local Government Rer/isters. 41 
 
 same he numbered consecutively without reference Notes to 
 to electoral divisions or polling districts. °^^^' '• 
 
 (4) Where the county has no electoral divisions, the 
 county register shall be made in one general 
 register for the whole county. 
 
 <5) Where the county has electoral divisions, the county ^'^''^^^^^ 
 register shall be made in separate registers, called 
 division registers, one for each electoral division, 
 containing the names of the persons entitled to 
 vote in that electoral division, and the division 
 registers collectively shall constitute the county 
 register. 
 
 <6) Where a duplicate of a parish burgess list is made J^^'^i^"c*'« 
 under section thirty-one of the Parliamentary and 
 Municipal Registration Act, 1878 (as applied by 
 this Act), it shall have the same effect as the 
 original, and may be delivered instead thereof. 
 
 (7) Every person registered in the county register shall be 
 deemed to be enrolled as a burgess, and every 
 person not registered in the county register shall 
 be deemed to be not enrolled as a burgess. 
 
 <8) No stamp duty shall be. payable in respect of the 
 registration of any person in the county register. 
 
 Section thirty-one of the Parliamentary and Municipal 
 
 Registration Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict, c. 26), as applied 
 
 under this Act, and referred to in section forty-five of the 
 
 Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), as 
 
 applied under this sub-section, will read as follows, viz. : 
 
 The lists, if made out in divisions under the County Delivery of 
 
 ,, , • T 1 1 T 1 X lists luadem 
 
 Electors Act, 1888, shall, when revised, be deuvered to aivisions 
 
 the clerk of the peace or to-wn clerk, to whom, in comuy 
 
 respect of the area to whicli the lists relate, revised Eiectore 
 
 \ ,. T , ,. , Act, 1888. 
 
 paruamentary lists ought to be ilelivered. 
 The revising barrister shall, as part of the business of the 
 revision, at the request of the town clerk of any 
 municipal borough the whole or part of the area of
 
 42 
 
 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Notes to 
 Sect. 7. 
 
 Printing 
 and sale of 
 county 
 register. 
 
 Expenses 
 and receipts 
 where bur- 
 gess lists 
 are revised 
 under the 
 tounty 
 K lectors 
 Act, 1888. 
 
 whidi is included in the area of a parliamentary 
 county, sign and deliver to him a duplicate of the 
 whole or part of any revised list made out in divisions 
 and relating to that municipal borough. 
 
 Every such duplicate shall be prepared by the town clerk 
 at whose request it is so signed, and shall be kept 
 by him for municipal purposes. 
 
 Section forty-eight of the Municipal Corporations Act, 
 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), as applied by this sub-section, 
 will read as follows, viz. : — 
 
 (1) The clerh of the feme shall cause the county electors* 
 
 lists, the lists of claimants and respondents 
 (qy. persons objected to), and the county 
 register, to be printed, and shall deliver printed 
 copies to any person on payment of a reasonable 
 price for each copy. 
 
 (2) Subject to section thirty of the Parliamentary and 
 
 Municipal Registration Act, 1878 (and also subject 
 to that section as applied by the County Electors 
 Act, 1888), the proceeds of sale shall go to the 
 county fund. 
 
 Section thirty of the Parliamentary and Municipal 
 Registration Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 26), as applied by 
 this Act, ■nail read as follows, viz. : 
 
 Where the whole or part of the area of a municipal 
 borough is included in the area of a parliamentary 
 county the expenses of the town clerk (including in 
 his expenses the matters mentioned in section thirty- 
 one of the Representation of the People Act, 1867 
 (30 & 31 Vict. 102), and the expenses properly incurred 
 by the overseers in carrying into eifect the provisions 
 of the County Electors Act, 1888, with respect to the 
 list of parliamentary voters and burgesses' lists, and all 
 moneys received in respect of any of those lists, or in 
 respect of any fine imposed by the revising barrister on
 
 Local Government Registers. 43 
 
 the revision of the lists, shall respectively be paid and Notes to 
 applied as follows : oec . . 
 
 (1) If the whole of the area of the municipal borough is 
 
 included in the area of the parliamentary county, 
 one half of the expenses shall be defrayed in the 
 manner provided by the Parliamentary Registra- 
 tion Acts as expenses incurred thereunder, and the 
 other half shall be defrayed out of the borough 
 fund, and one half of the moneys received shall be 
 applied in the manner directed in tliose Acts, and 
 the other half shall be paid to the borough fund : 
 
 (2) In all other cases the expenses and receipts in respect 
 
 of the area common to the parliamentary county 
 and to the municipal borough be defrayed and 
 applied as expenses and receipts under the Parlia- 
 mentary Registration Acts, and shall, as to the 
 other half thereof, be defrayed out of and paid to 
 the borough fund of such municipal borough : 
 
 And the expenses and receipts of an area exclusively 
 parliamentary shall be defrayed and applied as expenses 
 and receipts under the Registration of Electors Acts, 
 1843 to 1888. 
 
 And the expenses and receipts in respect of an area 
 exclusively municipal, shall be defrayed out of and 
 paid to the borough fund of such municipal borough. 
 
 Any expenses and receipts incurred or arising in respect 
 of more than one such area shall be apportioned 
 between the several areas in respect of which they 
 are incurred or arise, in the proportion as nearly as 
 may be in which the same are incurred and arise in 
 respect of the several areas, regard being had to the 
 number of parliamentary voters or burgesses in each 
 area, or any other circumstances occasioning the ex- 
 pense or giving rise to the receipts : 
 
 The revising barrister shall, as part of the business of 
 the revision, determine, if necessaiy, in respect of
 
 u 
 
 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Extended, 
 operation of 
 county 
 register. 
 
 Notes to wliat area or areas any expenses or receipts are incurred 
 
 Sect. 7. or arise, and liow much thereof is attributable to each 
 
 area: 
 
 Section seventy-one of the Municipal Corporations Act, 
 
 1882 (45 and 46 Vict. c. 50), as applied by this sub-section, 
 
 ■noil read as follows, vi^;. : 
 
 (1) If a parish burgess list is not made or re\T.sed in 
 due time, the corresponding part of the county 
 register in operation before the time appointed 
 for the revision shall be the parish burgess list 
 until a burgess list for the parish has been revised 
 and become part of the county register. 
 
 (2) If a county register is not made in due time, the 
 county register in force before the time appointed 
 for the revision shall continue in force until a 
 new county register is made. 
 
 These provisions obviously cannot come into operation 
 in the present year. 
 
 This sub-section does not apply to boroughs. District 
 councils are dealt -with in Part III. of the Local Govern- 
 ment Bill, and the constitution of the district council in a 
 county district, not being a borough, and the number of 
 councillors and wards in such district are provided for by 
 sections forty -three and forty-four of the bill. The duties 
 of the clerk of such a council under this sub-section will 
 be precisely similar to the duties now performed by the 
 town clerk of a mimicipal borough in making up the 
 burgess roll. 
 
 Under section forty-five of the Municipal Corporations 
 Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), a burgess may not be 
 several divi- enrolled in more than one ward roll, but under this sub- 
 section a county elector may be registered in more than 
 one division register. There seems to be no reason why 
 a person entered in the burgess roll for a mimicipal borough 
 in a county may not be also entered as a county elector 
 in more than one division register in the same county, 
 provided that no such division register is for an electoral 
 division including part of the same municipal borough. 
 
 Sub-sect. 3 
 
 District 
 
 register. 
 
 Sub-sect. 4 
 RegiBtra- 
 tlon in
 
 Local Government Registers. 45 
 
 This sub-section is necessary in order to give effect to Notes to 
 
 the preceding sub-section, for, otherwise, -where the name ^^^^' '• 
 ^ T . 1 . 1 ii • ii Sub-sect. 5. 
 
 of a person appeared to be entered more than once m the 
 
 lists of voters for the same parliamentary county, it woukl entries. 
 
 be the duty of the revising barrister, on proof that such 
 
 entries related to the same person, to erase all such entries 
 
 except one, which was to be selected to be retained as 
 
 provided for by sub-section nine of section four of the 
 
 Registration Act, 1885 (48 Vict. c. 15). 
 
 The rules as to selection of the entrj- to be retained 
 under that sub-section are — 
 
 (1) That the voter may select it by notice in writing to 
 
 be delivered or sent by post to the revising bar- 
 rister at or before the opening of the first court at 
 which he revises any of the lists in which any 
 such entries appear, or by application made by 
 the voter or on his behalf at the time of the revi- 
 sion of the iirst of such lists : 
 
 (2) If no such selection is made, then if only one of the 
 
 entries is on the list of ownership voters, that 
 entry is to be retained ; but if all or none of the 
 entries are on the list of ownership voters, and 
 one of the entries is the place of abode of the 
 voter, the entry in respect of the place of abode is 
 to be retained. In any other case the entry in 
 that one of the lists which is first revised by the 
 revisin" barrister must be retained. 
 
 'o 
 
 This sub-section probably refers to future alterations of Sub-sect. 6. 
 
 11 1 ^ -e Alienitum 
 
 the boundaries of counties and boroiighs under the filty- of boim- 
 
 seventh section of the Local Government BQl. dancs. 
 
 8.— (1.) All expenses properly incurred and Expenses ^^ 
 all sums received in carrpng into effect the pro- 
 visions of this Act and the Registration of Electors 
 Acts with respect to county electors, —
 
 16 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Sect. 8. (a) if incurred or received by overseers, shall 
 be respectively paid and applied as ex- 
 penses and receipts of overseers under 
 the Kegistration of Electors Acts in the 
 case of the lists of parliamentary voters ; 
 and 
 {h) if incurred or received by the clerk of the 
 peace or town clerk, shall be paid out of 
 or into the county or borough fund ; and 
 such expenses shall include all proper 
 and reasonable fees and charges made 
 and charged by him for the trouble, care, 
 and attention of such clerk in the per- 
 formance of the services and duties 
 imposed on him by the said provisions. 
 
 Expenses The expenses and receii^ts of overseers under the Eegis- 
 
 of ovlrseers. tration of Electors Acts in the case of the lists of parlia- 
 mentary voters are paid and applied as follows, viz. : — 
 
 By the fifty-seventh section of the Parliamentary Voters 
 Registration Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. IS), it is provided 
 that an account of all expenses incurred by the overseers 
 of every parish or township in carrying into effect the pro- 
 \dsions of that Act shall be laid before the revising bar- 
 rister at the court at which the list of voters for such 
 parish or township shall be revised ; and the said barrister 
 shall sign and give to the said overseers a certificate of the 
 sum which he shall allow to be due to them in respect of 
 the said expenses ; and it shall be lawful for the said over- 
 seers to receive the sum so certified to be due to them from 
 and out of the first moneys thereafter to be collected for 
 the relief of the poor in the same parish or township. 
 
 By the thirty-first section of the Parliamentary Electors 
 Eegistration Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 68), all expenses
 
 Ea'penses and Receipts. 47 
 
 properly incurred "by an overseer in pursuance of that Act Notes to 
 shall be deemed to be expenses properly incurred by him Sect. 8. 
 in carrying into effect the provisions of the princii)al Act 
 (Parliamentary Voters Kegistration Act, 1843, 6 & 7 Vict, 
 c. 18); and any expense incurred by any relieving officer 
 in attending a revising l)arrister in pursuance of this Act 
 (the amount to be certified by the revising barrister) shall 
 be deemed to be expenses properly incurred by him in the 
 execution of his duty as relieving officer, and shall be 
 defrayed accordingly. 
 
 And by the thirty-second section of the same Act, the 
 certificate to be given to the overseers by the revising 
 barrister under section fifty-seven of the principal Act for 
 the expenses incurred by them in carrying into effect the 
 provisions of the Registration Acts shall be final and con- 
 clusive ; provided nevertheless, that such certificate shall 
 be signed by the revising barrister in open court, and any 
 ratepayer present shall have a right to inspect the account 
 of expenses delivered in by the overseers, and to object to 
 any item or items included therein, before such account is 
 allowed by the revising barrister, who shall hear any such 
 objection and make a decision respecting the same. 
 
 By the tliirtieth section of the Parliamentary and Muni- 
 cipal Registration Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 26), where 
 the whole or part of the area of a municipal borough is 
 co-extensive with or included in the area of a parliamentary 
 borough, the expenses properly incurred by the overseers 
 in carrying into effect the provisions of this Act with 
 respect to the lists of parliamentary voters and burgess lists, 
 and all moneys received in respect of any of those lists, or 
 in respect of any fine imposed by the revising barrister ou 
 the revision of the lists, shall be respectively paid and 
 applied as follows : — 
 
 (1) If the area of the parliamentary borough and the 
 area of the municipal borough are co-extensive, 
 one-half of the expenses shall be defrayed in the 
 manner provided by the Parliamentar)- Registra- 
 tion Acts as expenses incun-ed tliereunder, and the
 
 48 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Notes to other half shall be defrayed out of the borough 
 
 Sect. 8. fund, and one-half of the moneys receivetl as 
 
 aforesaid shall be applied in the manner directed 
 
 by tliose Acts, and the other half shall be paid to 
 
 the borough fund : 
 
 (2) In all other cases, the expenses and receipts in 
 respect of the area common to the parliamentary 
 borough and to a municipal borough shall, as 
 to one-half thereof, be defrayed and applied as 
 expenses and receipts under the Parliamentary 
 Registration Acts, and shall as to the other half 
 thereof be defrayed out of and paid to the borough 
 fund of such municipal borough : 
 
 And the expenses and receipts of an area exchisively 
 parliamentary shall be defrayed and applied as 
 expenses and receipts under the Parliamentary 
 Eecristration Acts: 
 
 And the expenses and receipts of an area exclusively 
 municipal shall be defrayed out of and paid to 
 the borough fund of the municii^al borough com- 
 prising such area : 
 
 Any expenses and receipts incurred or arising in respect 
 of more than one such area shall be apportioned 
 between the several areas in respect of which they 
 are incurred or arise, in the proportion as nearly 
 as may be in which the same are incurred and 
 arise in respect of the several areas, regard being 
 had to the number of parliamentary voters or 
 burgesses in each area, or any other circumstances 
 occasioning the expenses or giving rise to the 
 receipts. 
 
 The revising barrister shall, as part of the business of 
 
 the revision, determine, if necessary, in respect of what 
 
 area or areas any expenses or receipts are incurred or 
 
 arise, and how much thereof is attributable to each area. 
 
 Expenses As regards the payment and application of the expenses 
 
 of'cicrks'of and receipts of the clerk of the peace and town clerk, the
 
 Expenses and Receii^its. ^" 
 
 Eeristration of Electors Acts provide in effect as follows, Notes to 
 
 • beet. 8. 
 
 VIZ. : — Kjv^v" 
 
 Their expenses were by section thirty-one of the Repre- the peace 
 
 i^ •' •' ^ ami town 
 
 sentation of the People Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 102), dcrks. 
 defined to include all proper and reasonable fees and 
 charges for trouble, care, and attention in the performance 
 of the services imposed by these Acts, and by section thirty- 
 eight of the Parliamentary and Municipal Registration 
 Act, 1878 (41 k 42 Vict. c. 20), to include also the expenses 
 properly incurred by a clerk of the peace or town clerk as 
 respondent to an appeal, including any costs which he 
 might be ordered to pay to the appellant. The first of 
 these enactments was passed in consequence of the decisions 
 in Reg. v. Kirujston-ujmi-HuU (1853), 2 Ell. & Bl. 182 ; 
 Beg. V. Kingston-upon-Hull (1853), 25 L. T. 197 ; and Reg. 
 V. Allday (1857), 26 L. J. Q. B. 292, to the effect that 
 " expenses " under the Parliamentary Voters Registration 
 Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 18), only included money actually 
 paid or disbursed by the clerk of the peace or town clerk 
 in respect of his services under that Act ; and that is why 
 the like enactment is contained in the paragraph now 
 under discussion. 
 
 The receipts included the proceeds of sales of copies 
 of the register, and the fines imposed by the revising 
 barrister. 
 
 Of these expenses and receipts it was the duty of the 
 clerk of the peace and town clerk respectively to keep 
 accounts, and the clerk of the peace had to account for or 
 pay over his receipts to the county treasurer, to be applied 
 in aid of the county rate, and the town clerk had to account 
 for or pay over his receipts to the overseers of the various 
 parishes in his borough, to be applied in aid of the poor 
 rate, each parish receiving a share proportionate to the 
 number of its voters, as compared with the number on the 
 lists for the other parishes in the same borough. (Parlia- 
 mentary Voters Registration Act, 1843, 6 & 7 Vict. c. 18, 
 s. 53.) 
 
 The account of the expenses of the clerk of the peace had 
 to be laid before quarter sessions, and such expenses as 
 
 E
 
 50 
 
 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Notes to were allowed by f|iiarter sessions were paid to him on their 
 Sect. 8. order out of the public stock of the county by the county 
 treasurer. (Ibid. s. 54.) 
 
 The expenses of the town clerk were defrayed out of the 
 poor rates, each j^arish contributing in proportion to tbe 
 number of its voters as compared -with the other parishes 
 in the borough ; and an account of the expenses, and of 
 the contributions thereto payable by each parish, had to be 
 laid before the town council, or before the quarter sessions, 
 if the borough was only a parliamentary and not a muni- 
 cipal borough, and such amount as they allowed was paid 
 by the overseers out of the poor rates accordingly. (Ibid. 
 s. 56.) 
 
 The arrangement, however, which is made by the para- 
 graph now under discussion assumes that the Local 
 Government Bill will be passed in its present form, so far 
 as the main outlines are concerned, before the payment 
 and application of the expenses and receipts of this year's 
 registration come to be settled, but by section eleven of this 
 Act provision is made that in case that bill should not be 
 jDassed in time, the expenses and receipts of the clerks of 
 the peace and town clerks shall be paid and applied as 
 formerly. If the bill does pass in time, the particular 
 machinery for the payment of expenses, which is to super- 
 sede the present method of allowance and order, or certi- 
 ficate, will be provided for therein. 
 
 ^e^™era. Q^ Every barrister appointed to revise any list 
 
 iln-TSers of voters Under the Parliamentary Voters Eegis- 
 
 butionby"' tration Act, 1843, shall be paid the sum of two 
 
 authorities, hundred and fifty guineas by way of remuneration 
 
 to him, and in satisfaction of his travelling and 
 
 other expenses, and every such barrister, after 
 
 the termination of his last sitting, shall forward 
 
 his appointment to the Commissioners of Her 
 
 Majesty's Treasury, who shall make an order for
 
 Revisinfj Barristers. 51 
 
 the payment of the above sum to every such Notes to 
 barrister. 
 
 The maximum amount to be paid to an 
 iidJitional barrister in pursuance of the Revising 
 Barristers Act, 1886, shall not exceed the amount ^f 4*'" ^'*^* 
 authorised by this section to be paid to a revising 
 barrister. 
 
 The sums so paid to a revising barrister or an 
 assistant barrister shall be payable partly out of 
 moneys provided by Parliament and partly by the 
 county authorities, as hereinafter mentioned. 
 
 (1.) There shall be annually paid by the county 
 authority of every county out of the county fund 
 into Her Majesty's Exchequer such sum as the 
 Treasury certify to be one-half of the cost in- 
 curred for the payment of revising barristers at 
 the then last revision of the lists of parliamentary 
 electors, burgesses, and county electors in that 
 county. 
 
 (2.) The Treasury shall yearly ascertain the 
 total cost of the revising barristers appointed for 
 all the counties and boroughs on any circuit, and 
 shall divide one-half of such cost amon<x the 
 counties comprised in such circuit in proportion 
 to the number of burgesses and county electors in 
 each county, and certify the amount which under 
 such apportionment is due under this section from 
 each county. The Treasury may vary such certifi- 
 
 e2
 
 52 
 
 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Sect. 9. cate if they think fit, but unless it is so varied the 
 certificate shall be final. 
 
 (3.) So much of any Act as requires a payment 
 cut of the borough fund of any borough to a 
 revising barrister, in respect of the revision of the 
 burgess lists, shall be repealed, without prejudice 
 to any payment or liability previously made or 
 incurred. 
 
 Remunera- 
 tion of 
 revising 
 barristers. 
 
 The salary of a revising barrister was fixed by the fifty- 
 ninth section of the Parliamentary Registration Act, 184S 
 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 18, which is repealed by section ten of this 
 Act), at the sum of 200 guineas, by way of remuneration 
 to him and in satisfaction of his travelling and other 
 expenses ; and by the thirtieth section of the Parliamentary 
 and Municipal Registration Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 26), 
 and the third section of the Municipal Corporations Act, 
 1859 (22 Vict. c. 35, s. 3), which are the enactments 
 repealed by sub-section three of this section, in the case of 
 a municij)al borough of which the burgess lists were 
 revised together with the lists of parliamentary voters, the 
 revising barrister was entitled to be paid out of the borough 
 fund, by way of additional remuneration in respect of his 
 additional work on account of the municipal revision for 
 such municipal borough, a sum of five guineas a day over 
 and above his travelling and other expenses. 
 
 In case of the death, illness, or absence of any revising 
 barrister, the substitute appointed in his place is, iinder the 
 first section of the Revising Barristers Act, 1874 (37 & 38 
 Vict. c. 18), to be paid out of the sum payable to the 
 barrister originally appointed. 
 
 The amount to be paid to additional barristers appointed 
 imder the Revising Barristers Act, 1886, was, by sub- 
 section two of section two of that Act, to be the sum of 
 five guineas a day for every day that the barrister was 
 employed, with three guineas a day for travelling and
 
 Revising Barristers. 53 
 
 ■other expenses. This will now be limited to a maximum Notes to 
 of 250 guineas in all. Sect. 9. 
 
 The financial arrangements made by this section as 
 regards the relative contributions of the Treasury and the 
 county authorities will, of course, be subject to the passing 
 of the Local Government BiD. In case the bill should not 
 pass in time other provision is made under section eleven. 
 
 10.— (1.) Section four of the Revising j;«;T'etua- 
 Barristers Act, 1886, is hereby repealed, and that c.42. 
 Act, as amended by this Act, shall be perpetual, e & 7 vict. 
 
 ' '' ' ^ ^ C. 18, s. 69. 
 
 (2.) So long as a separate commission of assize 
 is issued for the county of Surrey, that county 
 shall be deemed to be a circuit within the meaning 
 of section two, as well as of section one of the 
 Revising Barristers Act, 1886. 
 
 (3.) An application to appoint an additional 
 barrister under the said Act may be made at any 
 time after the first day of September. 
 
 (4.) Section fifty-nine of the Parliamentary 
 Voters Registration Act, 1843, is hereby repealed. 
 
 Section four of the Revising Barristers Act, 1886, pro- Enactments 
 
 rCDCcllCCl DV 
 
 vided for the coutmuance of that Act until the 31st this section. 
 December, 1887. 
 
 Applications to appoint additional barristers under that 
 Act must before the alteration introduced by this section 
 have been made at any time after the 5th September. 
 These applications are made to a Secretary of State, and 
 upon the Secretary notifying the fact to any judge of the 
 High Court then sitting in chambers, the judge appoints 
 the required number of duly qualified barristers. 
 
 Section fifty-nine of the Parliamentary Voters Registra- 
 tion Act, 1843 (6 «S: 7 Vict. c. 18), hereby repealed, provided
 
 54 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Notes to for the remuneration of revising barristers as noted under 
 Sect. 10. the last preceding section. Part of it had been already- 
 repealed, viz. , the part as to payment of additional barristers, 
 by the Kevising Barristers Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 53),. 
 and the remainder, as to payment out of the Consolidated 
 Fund (which was superseded by 17 & 18 Vict. c. 94, pro- 
 viding for such payment out of moneys provided by 
 Parliament for that purpose), was repealed by the Statute 
 Law Eevision Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 96). 
 
 if^TO^Ss 1^" — (-'-•) -^^ *^® event of a county authority 
 xLpecting ^eing established under any Act of the present 
 *ind.^^ session, the provisions of this Act vrith respect to 
 county authority, county, and county fund shall 
 refer to the said county authority and to the county 
 and county fund of such authority, and in case of 
 any borough which, for the purposes of the said 
 Act, is a county of itself, to the council of the 
 borough and to the borough and borough fund. 
 
 (2.) In the event of a county authority not 
 being established under any Act during the present 
 session, the sums directed by this Act to be paid 
 out of and into the county fund shall be paid by or 
 under the direction of the local authority of every 
 county quarter sessional area within the meaning 
 48 & 49 Vict, of the Registration Act, 1885, in Hke manner as 
 expenses or receipts of the clerk of the peace for 
 such area under the Registration of Electors Acts, 
 and by and under the direction of the council of 
 every municipal borough which is also a parlia- 
 mentary borough out of and into the borough fund^
 
 County Authority and Fund. 55 
 
 and the amount to be paid for revising barristers Sect. 11. 
 shall be apportioned between such quarter sessional 
 areas and boroughs upon the principles above 
 mentioned in this Act. 
 
 The expressions " county anthority," " county," and Sub-sect. 1. 
 " county fund," as used in this sub-section, have ah'eady 
 been explained in the notes to the preceding sections with 
 reference to the Local Government Bill. 
 
 The local authority of a county quarter sessional area, Sub-sect. 2. 
 
 within the nieanin'' of the Registration Act, 1885 (48 Vict. Meaning of 
 
 "local 
 
 c. 15), is the court of county quarter sessions as defined by authority." 
 that Act. 
 
 By the nineteenth section of that Act, unless the con- 
 text otherwise reciuires, the expression " court of county 
 quarter sessions" means the justices in general or quarter 
 sessions assembled for any county at large, or riding, or 
 parts of a county at large, having a separate commission of 
 the peace, and a separate court of (|uarter sessions, and 
 includes the ustices in general or quarter sessions assembled 
 for the Isle of Ely. 
 
 The expression "countyquarter sessional area "means the "County 
 area of the jurisdiction as extended by this Act of any si^naUrea." 
 court of county quarter sessions, and includes the Isle of 
 Ely ; an<l save as aforesaid, for the purposes of this Act 
 every liberty, county of a city, and county of a town, 
 which for the pui-poses of parliamentary elections forms 
 part of any county at large, riding, or parts, shall be 
 deemed to be within the jurisdiction of the court of county 
 (l^uarter sessions and clerk of the peace of such county at 
 large, riding, or parts. 
 
 The expression "clerk of the peace for a county quarter "Clerk of 
 sessional area " means the clerk of the peace for such sucll'arca." "^ 
 county at largo, riding, or parts as aforesaid, and includes 
 the clerk of the peace for the Isle of Ely. 
 
 The expenses of the clerk of the peace for such an area Exiicnses 
 are, by tlie fourteenth section ot that Act, where such of suclT 
 expenses were incurred partly in respect of a locality ^^^^^'
 
 56 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Notes to which does, and partly in respect of a locality (whether a 
 Sect. 11. division, liberty, county of a town, or other locality) which 
 does not, contrilmte to the county rate levied by the court 
 of county quarter sessions of such county quarter sessional 
 area, to be apportioned by that court between the localities 
 in the ratio, so nearly as may be, which the number of 
 registered voters in each locality for the time being bear to 
 each other, and the amount apportioned to any such non- 
 contributing locality shall be defrayed out of the county 
 rate, or rate in the nature of a county rate levied in such 
 locality ; and an order of the said court of county quarter 
 sessions made on the treasurer, or other officer receiving 
 such rate, shall be obeyed by and may be enforced against 
 such treasm-er, as if he were the treasurer of the court of 
 county quarter sessions making the order. 
 
 The receipts of any clerk of the peace under the 
 Parliamentary Registration Acts shall be applied in aid of 
 the rate which bears the expenses of such clerk, and if 
 there is more than one such rate, then of each rate in the 
 proportion in which the expenses are borne by such rates. 
 
 oPjM^sOTis^^ 12. A list of persons occupying property in a 
 wtthi^lif- county, and residing witliin fifteen miles, but more 
 Bounty! °^° than seven miles from the county, shall be made 
 out in accordance with section forty-nine of the 
 Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, and that 
 section shall apply as if it were herein re-enacted, 
 with the substitution of " county " for " borough," 
 and of " county elector " for " burgess," and of 
 " clerk of the peace " for " town clerk." 
 
 Section forty-nine of the Municipal Corporations Act, 
 1882 (45 & 46 Vict, c. 50), as appHed by this section, will 
 read as follows, viz. : 
 
 (1) The overseers of each parish shall, at the same time 
 that they make the parish county electors' list, make
 
 Separate Non-resident List. 57 
 
 a list of the persons entitled in respect of the Notes to 
 occupation of property in that parish to be elected Sect, 12. 
 county councillors, as being resident within fifteen 
 miles, although beyond seven nules from the 
 county. 
 <2) The provisions of this Act as applied to the ^xtnsft. 
 coimty electors' lists, and claims and objections 
 relating thereto, and the revision of those lists 
 shall, as nearly as circumstances admit, apply to 
 the lists made under this section (as applied). 
 
 (3) The clerk of the peace shall arrange the names 
 entered in these lists, when revised, in alphabetical 
 order as a separate list (in this Act (as applied) 
 called the separate non-resident list), with an 
 appropriate heading, at the end of the county 
 register: 
 
 With this section must be read sections 11 and 12 of the ^^JJ^^jf,*^ 
 Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), as councillors, 
 applied under section two of the Local Government Bill, 
 relating to the qualification of councillors. 
 
 Under section eleven, as applied, a person shall not be 
 ijualified to be elected or to be a councillor unless he — 
 
 («) Is registered, or entitled to be registered, as a county 
 elector or burgess ; or 
 
 {b) Being entitled to be so registered in all respects 
 except that of residence, is resident beyond seven 
 miles but within fifteen miles of the county, and 
 entered in the separate non-resident list directed 
 by section twelve of the County Electors Act, 1888, 
 to be made ; and 
 
 (c) In either of those cases, is seised or possessed of real 
 or pergonal property or both, to the value or 
 amount, in the case of a county having four or 
 more electoral divisions, of one thousand pounds, 
 and ill the case of any other county, of five 
 hundred pounds, or is rated to the poor rate in the \ 
 
 county, in the case of a county having four or more )
 
 58 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Notes to electoral divisions, on tlie annual value of thirty 
 
 Sect. 12. pounds, and in the case of any other county of 
 
 fifteen pounds. 
 
 Provided, that every person shall be qualified to be 
 elected and to be a councillor who is, at the time of election, 
 qualified to elect to the oflice of councillor ; which last- 
 mentioned qualification for being elected shall be alternative 
 for and shall not repeal or take away any other qualification. 
 
 But if a person qualified under the last foregoing proviso 
 
 ceases for six months to reside in the county, he shall cease 
 
 to be qualified under that proviso, and his ofiice shall 
 
 become vacant, unless he was at the time of his election and 
 
 continues to be qualified in some other manner. 
 
 Disquaiifl- Under section twelve as applied, 
 cation for -^ '- 
 
 betagcouu- (1) ^ person shall be disqualified for being elected and 
 for being a councillor, if and while he — 
 {a) Is an elective auditor [it is a question Avhether 
 there will be any such ofiice for the county], 
 or holds any ofiice or place of profit, other than 
 that of chairmcm or sherifl', in the gift or disposal 
 of the council ; or 
 
 (h) Is in holy orders, or the regular minister of a 
 dissenting congregation'; or 
 
 (c) Has directly or indirectly, by himself or his 
 
 partner, any share or interest in any contract 
 
 or employment with, by, or on behalf of the 
 
 council ; 
 
 (2) But a person shall not be so disqualified or be 
 
 deemed to have any share or interest in such a 
 
 contract or employment by reason only of hi& 
 
 having any share or interest in — 
 
 (a) Any lease, sale, or purchase of land or any agree- 
 
 ment for the same ; or 
 
 (b) Any agreement for the loan of money, or any 
 
 security for the payment of money only ; or 
 
 (c) Any newspaper in which any advertisement 
 
 relating to the affairs of the county or council 
 is inserted ; or 
 
 Jvi^'
 
 ts by 
 f tll(^ 
 
 Precepts^ Forms, and Definitions. 59' 
 
 (d) Any company which contracts with the council Notes to 
 
 for lighting or supplying with water or insuring Sect. 12. 
 against fire any part of the county; or 
 
 (e) Any railway company, or any company incor- 
 
 porated by Act of Parliament or Royal Charter 
 or under the Companies Act, 1862. 
 
 13. All precepts, notices, und forms required ^i^rV^ 
 for the purposes of the Registration of Electors ^^'^^^' 
 Acts shall be altered in such manner as may be 
 declared by Her Majesty in Council to be neces- 
 sary for carrying into effect this Act, and clerks 
 of the peace and town clerks shall alter their 
 precepts and forms accordingly, and if clerks of 
 the peace or town clerks have sent out precepts to 
 the overseers before the passing of tliis Act, they 
 shall send to them such supplemental precepts as 
 are necessary or desirable for instructing them to 
 carry into effect tliis Act. 
 
 Precepts, notices, and forms under this section are to be 
 issued as provided. 
 
 A calendar of tilings to be done in order of date under 
 this Act in the current year is prefixed to this book, and 
 ■will, it is hoped, be found of practical utility to all con- 
 cerned in carrying into effect the provisions of the Act, 
 
 14. In this Act, unless the context otherwise Definitions 
 requires, — 
 
 The expressions " urban district " and " rural 
 district" respectively mean an urban or rural 
 sanitary district, also any urban or rural dis- 
 trict under any Act of the present session of 
 Parliament ;
 
 ■fiO County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Sect. 13. The expression " clerk of the peace " means, in 
 the event of the establishment of a county 
 authority, the person acting as clerk of that 
 authority, and such person shall act as clerk 
 of the peace throughout the whole county of 
 such authority, both for the purposes of this 
 Act and of the Registration of Electors Acts; 
 subject nevertheless — 
 
 (a) to the provisions of the Registration 
 Act, 1885, respecting the case of any 
 parliamentary county extending into 
 more county quarter sessional areas 
 than one, and 
 
 (Jj) to the proviso that where at the passing 
 of this Act any clerk of the peace acts 
 as clerk of the peace under the Regis- 
 tration of Electors Acts he shall con- 
 tinue so to act, but shall act as deputy 
 of the person acting as clerk of the 
 peace by virtue of this Act. 
 
 In determining the electoral divisions for the first elec- 
 tion of county councillors under the Local Government 
 Bill, every urban sanitary district and rural sanitary district 
 existing at the date of such first election is to be a county 
 district, and where a rural sanitary district is situate in 
 more than one county, then each portion of such distiict 
 ■which is situate on either side the boundary is to be a 
 separate county district in the county in which it is 
 situate. (L. G. B. sect. 52.) 
 
 The clerk of the peace for the county is, under section 
 eighty-two of the Local Government Bill, to be the clerk
 
 Transitorij Provisions. 61 
 
 of the county council, and is when acting under the Acts Notes to 
 relating to the registration of parliamentary voters to act Sect. 13. 
 under the direction of the county council. 
 
 The provisions of the Registration Act, 1885 (48 Vict. 
 c. 15), respecting the case of any parliamentary county 
 extending into more county quarter-sessional areas than 
 one, herein referred to, are contained in section seven, 
 sub-section three, of that Act, which provides that, in such 
 case, the clerk of the peace of each county quarter sessional 
 area shall, in respect of each parish in such jiarliamentary 
 county which is within his jurisdiction, act as and be 
 deemed to be the clerk of the peace of the county Avithin 
 the meaning of the Parliamentary Registration Acts and 
 this Act, until the lists of voters for sucli parish have been 
 revised ; but the revising barrister shall transmit the revised 
 lists of voters for such parish to the clerk of the peace of 
 the county quarter sessional area which comprises the 
 largest part in extent of the said parliamentary county, 
 and, save as aforesaid, such last-mentioned clerk shall, as 
 respects the said parliamentary county, act as and be 
 deemed to be sole clerk of the peace of the county for the 
 purposes of the Parliamentary Registration Acts and this 
 Act. 
 
 prip visions 
 to the 
 ar 1888. 
 
 15. In the year one thousand eioht hundred Transitwy 
 and eighty-eight, notwithstanding anytliing in this -"^^ 
 Act or the enactments appHed hy this Act, the 
 revision of the lists of parHanientary voters and 
 county electors may be later than the twelfth day 
 of October, so that it be not later than the thirty- 
 first day of October, and the register of county 
 electors shall be completed on or before the thirty- 
 first day of December in the said year, and shall 
 come into operation on the first day of January, 
 one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and
 
 62 County Electors Act, 1888. 
 
 Sect. 15. shall continue in operation until the next register 
 of county electors comes into operation. 
 
 In the year one thousand eight hundred and 
 eighty-eight, notwithstanding anything in this Act 
 or the enactments thereby applied, the clerk of the 
 peace in a county may, if he thinks fit, instead of 
 directing the occupiers' Hst to be made out in three 
 divisions as provided by the Registration of Elec- 
 tors Acts, direct the overseers to make supple- 
 mental lists containing the names which would 
 otherwise be contained in division two and division 
 three of the occupiers' list respectively, and the 
 names so contained in the supplemental list corre- 
 sponding to division two shaU be struck by the 
 revising barrister out of division one of the list, 
 and the supplemental list corresponding to division 
 two or division three shall be treated as if it were 
 di-sdsion two or three of the said list, as the case 
 may be. 
 
 As to the time for appealing, see, however, the notes to 
 section six, suh-section two, of this Act. 
 
 As to lists made out in divisions, see ante, pp. 26 and 27, 
 in the notes to section four of this Act.
 
 Cd 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 Registration Act, 1885. 
 
 Definition of Ten Pounds Occupation Qualification. Sect. 3. 
 
 A person entitled to be registered as a voter in respect of Ten ponnds 
 a ten pounds occupation qualification in a borough, mum- cjuaiitica- 
 cipal or parliamentary — '^*°°* 
 
 (a) Must during the wliole twelve months immediately 
 
 preceding the fifteenth day of July have been an 
 occupier as owTier or tenant of some land or tene- 
 ment in a parish [or township] of the clear yearly 
 value of not less than ten pounds ; and 
 
 (b) Must have resided in or within seven miles of the 
 
 borough during six months immediately preceding 
 the fifteenth day of July ; and 
 
 (c) Such person, or some one else, must during the said 
 
 twelve months have been rated to all poor rates 
 made in respect of such land or tenement ; and 
 {d) All sums due in respect of the said land or tene- 
 ment on account of any poor rate made and 
 allowed during the twelve months immediately 
 preceding the fifth day of January next before the 
 registration, or on account of any assessed taxes 
 due before the said fifth day of January, must 
 liave been paid on or before the twentieth day of 
 July. 
 If two or more persons jointly are such occupiers as 
 above mentioned, and the value of the land or tenement 
 is such as to give ten pounds or more for each occupier, 
 each of such occupiers is entitled to be registered as a 
 voter. 
 
 If a person has occupied in the borough different lands 
 or tenements of the requisite value in immediate succession 
 during the said twelve months, he is entitled in respect of 
 the occupation thereof to l)e registered as a voter in the 
 parish [or township] in which the last occupied land or 
 tenement is situate.
 
 APPE^roiX. 
 
 AN ACT to provide for the Qualification and Rer/istra- 
 tion of Electors for the purposes of Local Govern- 
 vient in England and Wales. [16tli May, 1888.] 
 
 Whereas it is expedient to make provision with respect 
 to the qualification and registration of electors of any 
 representative bodies (in this Act referred to as *' county 
 authorities ") which may be established under any 
 Act of the present session of Parliament for the pur- 
 poses of local government in counties in England. 
 
 Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excel- 
 lent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of 
 the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in 
 this present ParHament assembled, and by the authority 
 of the same, as follows : 
 
 1. This Act may be cited as the County Electors Short title 
 
 and con- 
 Act, 1888. struction. 
 
 The Registration Act, 1885, and the Parliamentary 4S* 49 vict. 
 
 " C. 15. 
 
 Registration Acts within the meaning of that Act, arc 
 in this Act referred to as the Registration of Electors 
 Acts, and together with this Act may be cited as the 
 Registration of Electors Acts, 18-13 to 1888. 
 
 F
 
 66 Appendix. 
 
 Sect. 1. This Act shall be construed as one with the Regis- 
 tration of Electors Acts. 
 
 Extension 9. (1-) For the purpose of the election of county 
 
 of burgess "■ v / i' ^ 
 
 franchise to authorities in Encfland, the burgess qualification, that 
 
 county elec- o ' <j j. 
 
 tors outside ig to say, the Qualification enacted by section nine of 
 
 municipal j ^ i ^ 
 
 45&46 Vict *^^^ Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, shall extend to 
 c. 50. every part of a county not within the limits of a 
 
 borough, and a person possessing in any part of a 
 county outside the limits of a borough such burgess 
 quahfication, shall be entitled to be registered under 
 this Act as a county elector in the parish in which the 
 qualifying property is situate. 
 
 (2.) Sections nine, thirty-one, thirty-three, and 
 sixty-three of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, 
 and any enactments of that or any other Act affecting 
 the same, shall extend to so much of every county as 
 is not comprised within the limits of a mimicipal 
 borough in like manner as if they were herein re- 
 enacted, with the substitution of " county " for 
 "borough" and of " county elector " for "burgess," 
 and with the other necessary modifications. 
 
 Occupation 3. Every person who is entitled to be registered as 
 
 of land of ' • Ti» 
 
 the value of a voter in respect of a ten pounds occupation qualifica- 
 iiuaiify. tiQji -within the meaning of the provisions of the 
 Registration Act, 1885, which are set out in the 
 schedule to this Act, shall be entitled to be registered 
 as a county elector, and to be enrolled as a burgess, in 
 respect of such qualification, in like manner in all 
 respects as if the sections of the Municipal Corporations
 
 Countij Electors Act, 1888. 67 
 
 Act, 1882, relating to a burgess qualification included Sect. 3. 
 the said tep pounds occupation qualification. 
 
 4. (1.) The Registration of Electors Acts shall, so Rceistra- 
 
 ^ ' ° tion of 
 
 far as circumstances admit, apply to the enrolment of ^',1,"°^^^^ 
 burgesses in a municipal borough to which the Parlia- 4i&42Vict. 
 mentary and Municipal Registration Act, 1878, does 
 not apply, and to the registration of county electors 
 within the meaning of this Act ; and the lists of 
 bui'gesses, and of county electors, and of occupation 
 voters for parhamentary elections, shall, so far as 
 practicable, be made out and revised together ; and the 
 Registration of Electors Acts shall accordingly — 
 
 (a) apply to every such municipal borough in like 
 manner as if it were a borough to which 
 sub-section two of section six of the Regis- 
 tration Act, 1885, applied (sub-section one of 
 which section is hereby repealed), and revising 
 assessors for such borough shall not be 
 elected; and 
 
 (fc) apply to every parish not situate in a municipal 
 borough, in like manner as if such pai'ish 
 were a municipal borough to which the 
 Parhamentary and Municipal Registration 
 Act, 1878, applies, and the said lists of county 
 electors and of occupation voters for pai-lia- 
 mentary elections in such parish shall be 
 made out in divisions, as provided in the said 
 Act : Provided that a person whoso name 
 appears in any list of county electors or bur- 
 f2
 
 68 Appendix. 
 
 Sect. 4. gesses in a county may object to the name of 
 
 any other person on a list of county electors 
 or burgesses for a parish in that county, and 
 may oppose the claim of a person to have 
 his name inscribed in any such list. 
 
 (2.) In the construction of the Registration of Elec- 
 tors Acts for the purpose of their application to a parish 
 not situate in a municipal borough, there shall be made 
 the variations following, and such other variations as 
 may be necessary for carrying into effect the applica- 
 tion, that is to say : — 
 
 (a) Where such parish is not within a parliamentary 
 borough, "parliamentary county" shall be 
 substituted for " parliamentary borough ; " 
 
 (h) Where such parish is not within a parliamentary 
 borough, the clerk of the peace shall perform 
 the duties of and be substituted for the town 
 clerk ; but any notice required to be given to 
 the town clerk by section twenty- seven of 
 the Parliamentary and Municipal Registration 
 Act, 1878, relating to the withdrawal and 
 revival of objections, shall be given to the 
 overseers and not to the clerk of the peace ; 
 
 (c) County elector shall be substituted for burgess ; 
 
 (d) Section nine of the Parliamentary and Municipal 
 
 Registration Act, 1878, shall not apply to 
 any parish which is not wholly situate in an 
 urban district ;
 
 County Electors Act, 1888. 69 
 
 ie) Where sucli parish is not within a parliamentary Sect. 4. 
 borough section twenty-one of the Parliamen- 
 tary and Municipal Registration Act, 1878, 
 shall not apply, and the lists and register of 
 voters shall be made out alphabetically, but 
 shall be framed in parts for polling districts 
 and electoral divisions and for urban districts 
 and for wards of urban and rural districts in 
 such a manner that the parts may be con- 
 veniently compiled or put together to serve 
 as lists for poUiug districts, and elections in 
 ui'ban districts and as electoral division or 
 ward lists ; 
 
 (/) Where such parish is within a parliamentary 
 borough — 
 
 (i.) the overseers shall send to the clerk of 
 the peace for the county two copies 
 of the lists of voters at the same 
 time at which they send copies to 
 the town clerk ; and 
 
 (ii.) the toAvn clerk shall cause to be printed 
 such number of copies of the re- 
 vised Hsts as the clerk of the peace 
 may require, and shall transmit the 
 same to the clerk of the peace, who 
 shall deal with the same as with 
 other lists of county electors in his 
 county ; but, 
 
 (iii.) save as aforesaid, the clerk of the 
 peace shall not act in relation to
 
 70 Appendix. 
 
 Sect. 4, the registration of county electors 
 
 in the said parish, and the town 
 clerk of the parliamentary borough 
 shall be the town clerk within the 
 meaning of the Eegistration of 
 Electors Acts and this Act in re- 
 lation to such parish, and shall 
 include in his precept to the over- 
 seers proper directions respecting 
 the registration of the county 
 electors within the meaning of this 
 Act. 
 
 {()) The lists of occupation voters and county electors 
 shall be revised by the revising barrister for 
 the parliamentary borough or county in which 
 such parish is situate, and the revising 
 barrister for revising the county electors' 
 lists for the whole or any part of an electoral 
 division of any county shall, if so required 
 by the county councU, hold a court in that 
 electoral division or at some convenient place 
 in a division adjoining thereto. 
 
 (/i) The guardians of a union which is not wholly 
 comprised in an urban district may, with the 
 consent of the overseers of any parish or 
 parishes within their union for which an 
 assistant overseer has not been appointed, 
 annually appoint a fit person to act as regis- 
 tration officer for such parish or parishes.
 
 County Electors Act, 1888. 71 
 
 and may remove any such person, and fill Sect. 4. 
 up any vacancy caused by death, resignation, 
 or otherwise. Such registration officer shall 
 perform all the duties of overseers of the 
 parish or parishes for which he is appointed 
 in respect of the registration of county electors 
 and parliamentary voters, and the provisions 
 of the Registration of Electors Acts relating 
 to overseers, including those providing for 
 penalties, shall apply to him accordingly : 
 
 Provided that his remuneration shall be 
 fixed and paid by the guardians of the union, 
 and charged on the poor rates of the parish 
 or parishes for which he is appointed, and (if 
 he acts for more than one parish) in propor- 
 tion to the number of persons on the registers 
 made during the year of his appointment of 
 county electors and parliamentary voters for 
 each parish. 
 
 (3.) Notwithstanding anything in this Act contained, 
 where a municipal borough or an urban district is 
 co-extensive with any electoral division or divisions of 
 a parliamentary county, the lists of voters may be 
 directed by the county authority to be made out 
 according to the order in which the qualifying premises 
 appear in the rate book, and section twenty-one of the 
 Parliamentary and Municipal Eogistration Act, 1878, 
 shall apply to such borough or ui'ban district, and 
 where lists of voters are so made out nothing in this
 
 72 Apperidix. 
 
 Sect. 4. Act shall require such part of the county register as 
 consists of these lists to be arranged alphabetically. 
 
 Making out 5 After the year one thousand eight hundred and 
 
 of lists and w. j o ^ ^ 
 
 registers in eighty-eight, in every part of the metropoUs, and in 
 every part of a parliamentary borough, the whole or 
 greater part of which is situate in the metropoUs, the 
 lists and registers of parliamentary voters, and of 
 county electors, shall, unless the local authority other- 
 wise direct, be arranged in the same order in which 
 the qualifying premises appear in the rate book for the 
 parish in which those premises are situate, or as nearly 
 thereto as will cause those lists and registers to record 
 the qualifying premises in successive order in the street 
 or other place in which they are situate. 
 
 For the purpose of this section "metropolis" 
 means the city of London and the parishes and places 
 mentioned in Schedules (A.), (B.), and (C.) of the 
 i8&J9"^ict. Metropolis Management Act, 1855. 
 
 Revision of g n \ ^he lists of parliamentary voters, and of 
 
 electoral \j. \ ,/ r j ^ 
 
 lists. burgesses, and of county electors, shall be revised 
 
 between the eighth day of September and the twelfth 
 day of October both inclusive, and shall be revised as 
 soon as possible after the seventh day of September, 
 and the eighth day of September shall be substituted 
 in the Acts relating to the registration of parliamentary 
 voters for the fifteenth day of September; and the 
 declarations under section ten of the County Voters 
 
 c^36.'^^'^'^' Registration Act, 1865, and section twenty-four of the
 
 Count)/ Electors Act, 1888. 73 
 
 Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act, 1878, Sect. 6. 
 shall be sent to the clerk of the peace or town clerk 4i &42V)ct. 
 
 "^ C, L'G. 
 
 on or before the fifth day of September. 
 
 (2.) In sections sixty-two and sixty-three of the 
 Pai'liamcntary Voters Registration Act, 1843 (relating 6&7Virt. 
 to appeals from revising barristers in England), " the 
 Michaelmas sittings of the High Court of Justice " shall 
 be substituted for " the Michaelmas term," and forth- 
 with after the fourth day of the Michaelmas sittings a 
 court or courts shall sit for the purpose of hearing such 
 iippcals, and those appeals shall be heard and deter- 
 mined continuously and without delay, and any state- 
 ment by the barrister for the purpose of any such 
 appeal made in pursuance of section forty-two of the 
 said Act may be made at any time within ten days 
 after the conclusion of the revision, so that it be made 
 not less than four days before the first day of the said 
 Michaelmas sittings, and the statement need not be 
 read in open court, but shall be submitted to the 
 appellant, who, if he approves the same, shall sign the 
 same as directed by the said section, and return the 
 same to the barrister. 
 
 7, (1.) The clerk of the peace of every county shall f^^j^^l 
 make up a register of all persons registered as burgesses *''<^'='<>'^ 
 or county electors in the county, both for the county 
 and for each electoral division into which the county is 
 divided for the purpose of election of the county autho- 
 rity, and such number of copies as the clerk of the 
 peace may require of the list of burgesses as revised
 
 74 Appendix. 
 
 Sect. 7. stall be delivered by tbe town clerk to such clerk of 
 the peace for the pui-pose of making up such register. 
 
 (2.) The Eegistration of Electors Acts, and sections 
 ^^^^^''*' forty-five, forty-eight, and seventy-one of the Muni- 
 cipal Corporations Act, 1882, shall apply, for the 
 purposes of this section, with the substitution of clerk 
 of the peace for town clerk, and of county register and 
 division register for burgess roll and ward roll respec- 
 tively, and of electoral division for ward, and of county 
 fund for borough fund. 
 
 (3.) If district councils are established under any 
 Act of the present session of Parliament, the clerk of 
 every such council, not being the council of a borough, 
 shall make up a register of all persons registered as 
 county electors in his district, and where there are 
 wards in a district, of all county electors in each ward, 
 and he shall obtain from the clerk of the peace a 
 sufficient number of copies of the hsts of the county 
 electors so registered as may be required for the 
 pui-pose of making up such register and supplying the 
 same to the public, and the above-mentioned Acts and 
 sections shall apply for that purpose, with the substi- 
 tution of " clerk of the district council "for " town 
 clerk," and of " district register" for "burgess roll" 
 respectively ; 
 
 (4.) Provided that nothing in this section shall pre- 
 vent a county elector from being registered in more 
 than one division register. 
 48 & 49 Vict. (5.) Where in pui'suance of section four of the Regis- 
 tration Act, 1885, the revising barrister has power to
 
 County Electors Act, 1888. 7S 
 
 erase tlio name of any person as a parliamentary voter Sect. 7. 
 from division one of the occupiers' list, such barrister, 
 in lieu of erasing the name, shall place an asterisk 
 or other mark against the name, and, in printing such 
 lists, the name shall be numbered consecutively with 
 the other names, but an asterisk or other mark shall be 
 printed against the name, and a person against whose 
 name such asterisk or other mark is placed shall not 
 be entitled to vote in respect of such entry at a parlia- 
 mentary election, but shall have the same right of 
 voting at an election of a county authority as he would 
 have if no such mark were placed against his name. 
 
 (6.) If under any Act of the present session of 
 Parliament establishing a council for a county any 
 portion of another county is added to that county for 
 the pui-pose of such election, such portion of the county 
 register as relates to the electors having qualifying 
 property in the said part so added shall be deemed to 
 be part of the county register of the county for which 
 such council is elected, and the clerk of the peace and 
 other officers shall take such steps as may be necessary 
 for giving effect to these enactments. 
 
 8. — (1.) All expenses properly incurred and all sums Expenses. 
 received in carrying into effect the provisions of this 
 Act and the Registration of Electors Acts with respect 
 to county electors, — 
 
 (o) if incurred or received by overseers, shall be 
 respectively paid and appHcd as expenses 
 and receipts of overseers under the Regis-
 
 76 Appendix, 
 
 Sect. 8. tration of Electors Acts in the case of the 
 
 lists of parliamentary voters ; and 
 
 {b) if incurred or received by the clerk of the peace 
 or town clerk, shall be paid out of or into 
 the county or borough fund ; and such 
 expenses shall include all proper and reason- 
 able fees and charges made and charged by 
 him for the trouble, care, and attention of 
 such clerk in the performance of the services 
 and duties imposed on him by the said 
 provisions. 
 
 Rcmunera- g_ Every barrister appointed to revise any Hst of 
 foarrtters voters Under the Parliamentary Voters Registration 
 tribution by ^^^' 1^^^' ^^^^^ ^® V^^^ *^® ^^^ °^ *^° hundred and 
 authorities. ^^^Y guineas by way of remuneration to him, and in 
 satisfaction of his travelling and other expenses, and 
 every such barrister, after the termination of his last 
 sitting, shall forward his appointment to the Commis- 
 sioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, who shall make an 
 order for the payment of the above sum to every such 
 barrister. 
 
 The maximum amount to be paid to an additional 
 barrister in pursuance of the Revising Barristers Act, 
 1886, shall not exceed the amount authorised by this 
 section to be paid to a revising barrister. 
 
 The sums so paid to a revising barrister or an 
 assistant barrister shall be payable partly out of 
 moneys provided by Parliament and partly by the 
 county authorities, as hereinafter mentioned. 
 
 49 & 60 Vict, 
 C.42.
 
 Counti/ Electors Act, 1888. 77 
 
 (1.) There shall be annually paid by the county Sect. 9. 
 authority of every county out of the county 
 fund into Her Majesty's Exchequer such 
 sum as the Treasury certify to be one-half of 
 the cost incurred for the payment of revising 
 barristers at the then last revision of the lists 
 of parliamentary electors, burgesses, and 
 county electors in that county. 
 
 (2.) The Treasury shall yearly ascertain the total 
 cost of the revising barristers appointed for 
 all the counties and boroughs on any circuit, 
 and shall divide one-half of such cost among 
 the counties comprised in such circuit in 
 proportion to the number of bm-gcsses and 
 county electors in each county, and certify 
 the amount which under such apportionment 
 is due under this section from each county. 
 The Treasury may vary such certificate if 
 they think fit, but unless it is so varied the 
 certificate shall be final. 
 
 (3.) So much of any Act as requires a payment out 
 of the borough fund of any borough to a 
 revising barrister, in respect of the revision 
 of the burgess lists, shall be repealed, without 
 prejudice to any payment or liability pre- 
 viously made or incurred. 
 
 10.— (1.) Section four of the Revising Barristers ^f,;;'^'f"=»- 
 Act, 1886, is hereby repealed, and that Act, asYij^p^^2. 
 amended by this Act, shall be perpetual.
 
 78 Appendix. 
 
 Sect. 10. (2.) So long as a separate commission of assize is 
 
 €■& TVict ^^^^^^ fo^ ^^6 county of Surrey, that county shall be 
 
 c 18, s. 59. deemed to be a cii-cuit within the meaning of section 
 
 two, as well as of section one of the Revising Barristers 
 
 Act, 1886. 
 
 (3.) An application to appoint an additional barrister 
 under the said Act may be made at any time after the 
 first day of September. 
 
 (4.) Section fifty-nine of the Parliamentary Voters 
 Eegistration Act, 1843, is hereby repealed. 
 
 Son-'''' 11.— (!•) Ill the event of a county authority being 
 re°pecti^*^* established under any Act of the present session, the 
 lund!^ provisions of this Act with respect to county authority, 
 county, and county fund shall refer to the said county 
 authority and to the county and county fund of such 
 authority, and in case of any borough which, for the 
 purposes of the said Act, is a county of itself, to the 
 council of the borough and to the borough and borough 
 fund. 
 
 (2.) In the event of a county authority not being 
 established under any Act during the present session, 
 the sums directed by this Act to be paid out of and 
 into the county fund shall be paid by or under the 
 direction of the local authority of every county quarter 
 48 & 49 sessional area within the meaning of the Registration 
 
 Vict. C. 15. _ . fc> o 
 
 Act, 1885, in like manner as expenses or receipts of 
 the clerk of the peace for such area under the Regis- 
 tration of Electors Acts, and by and under the 
 direction of the council of every municipal borough
 
 County Electors Act, 1888. 79 
 
 which is also a parliamentary borough out of and into Sect. 11. 
 the borough fund, and the amount to be paid for 
 revising barristers shall be apportioned between such 
 quarter sessional areas and boroughs upon the prin- 
 ciples above mentioned in this Act. 
 
 12. A list of persons occupying property in a ^^g^^** 
 county, and residing within fifteen miles, but more ^g^^n^ 
 than seven miles from the county, shall be made out ^^'^Jn 
 in accordance with section forty-nine of the Municipal ^'^ty. 
 Corporations Act, 1882, and that section shall apply 
 
 as if it were herein re-enacted, with the substitution 
 of *' county " for " borough," and of " county elector " 
 for " burgess," and of " clerk of the peace " for " town 
 clerk."' 
 
 13. All precepts, notices, and forms required for the ^yrk^o^the 
 purposes of the Registration of Electors Acts shall be p®''*** 
 altered in such manner as may be declared by Her 
 Majesty in Council to be necessary for carrying into 
 
 eflfect this Act, and clerks of the peace and town clerks 
 shall alter theii* precepts and forms accordingly, and if 
 clerks of the peace or town clerks have sent out pre- 
 cepts to the overseers before the passing of this Act, 
 they shall send to them such supplemental precepts as 
 are necessary or dosii'able for instructing them to carry 
 into effect this Act. 
 
 14. In this Act, unless the context otherwise re- Deflniuons. 
 quires, — 
 
 The expressions " urban district " and "rural dis- 
 trict" respectively mean an ur'jan or rural sani-
 
 80 Appendix. 
 
 Sect. 14. ^^^y district, also any urban or rural district 
 
 under any Act of the present session of Par- 
 liament ; 
 
 The expression "clerk of the peace" means, in the 
 event of the establishment of a county authority, 
 the person acting as clerk of that authority, and 
 such person shall act as clerk of the peace through- 
 out the whole county of such authority, both for 
 the purposes of this Act and of the Registration of 
 Electors Acts ; subject nevertheless — 
 
 (a) to the provisions of the Registration Act,. 
 1885, respecting the case of any parlia- 
 mentary county extending into more county 
 quarter sessional areas than one, and 
 
 (h) to the proviso that where at the passing of 
 this Act any clerk of the peace acts as 
 clerk of the peace under the Registration of 
 Electors Acts he shall continue so to act, 
 but shall act as deputy of the person acting 
 as clerk of the peace by virtue of this Act. 
 
 Transitory 15. In the year one thousand eight hundred and 
 asto'thT" eighty-eight, notwithstanding anything in this Act or 
 the enactments appHed by this Act, the revision of the 
 lists of parhamentary voters and county electors may 
 be later than the twelfth day of October, so that it be 
 not later than the thirty-first day of October, and the 
 register of county electors shall be completed on or 
 before the thirty-first day of December in the said 
 year, and shall come into operation on the first day of 
 
 year 1888.
 
 County Electors Act, 1888. 81 
 
 January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, Sect. 15. 
 and shall continue in operation until the next register 
 of county electors comes into operation. 
 
 In the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty- 
 eight, notwithstanding anything in this Act or the 
 enactments thereby applied, the clerk of the peace in a 
 county may, if he thinks fit, instead of directing the 
 occupiers' list to be made out in three divisions as pro- 
 vided by the Registration of Electors Acts, direct the 
 overseers to make supplemental lists containing the 
 names which would otherwise be contained in division 
 two and division three of the occupiers' list respectively, 
 and the names so contained in the supplemental list 
 corresponding to division two shall be struck by the 
 revising barrister out of division one of the list, and 
 the supplemental list corresponding to division two or 
 division three shall be treated as if it were division 
 two or three of the said list, as the case may be. 
 
 G
 
 82 Appendix, 
 
 SCHEDULE. 
 
 Kegistbation Act, 1885. 
 Sect 3. Definition of Ten Pounds Occiqoation Qualification. 
 
 Ten pounds A person entitled to be registered as a voter in respect 
 quaMca^'^ of a ten pounds occupation qualification in a borough, 
 tion. mliuicipal or parliamentary — 
 
 (a) must during the whole twelve months immediately 
 preceding the fifteenth day of July have been an 
 occupier as owner or tenant of some land or tene- 
 ment in a parish [or townshii^] of the clear yearly 
 value of not less than ten pounds ; and 
 (h) must have resided in or within seven miles of the 
 borough, during six months immediately preceding 
 the fifteenth day of July; and 
 (c) such person, or some one else, must during the said 
 twelve months have been rated to all poor rates 
 made in respect of such land or tenement ; and 
 {d) all sums due in respect of the said land or tenement 
 on account of anj poor rate made and allowed 
 during the twelve months immediately preceding 
 the fifth day of January next before the registra- 
 tion, or on account of any assessed taxes due before 
 the said fifth day of January, must have been paid 
 on or before the twentieth day of July. 
 If two or more persons jointly are such occupiers as 
 above mentioned, and the value of the land or tenement is 
 such as to give ten pounds or more for each occupier, each 
 of such occupiers is entitled to be registered as a voter. 
 
 If a person has occupied in the borough different lands 
 or tenements of the requisite value in immediate succession 
 during the said twelve months, he is entitled in respect of 
 the occupation thereof to be registered as a voter in the 
 parish [or township] in which the last occupied land or 
 tenement is situate.
 
 83 
 
 APPEISTDIX IT. 
 
 KOTE ON THE SUPPLEMENTAL PRECEPTS Note to 
 AND FORMS FOR THE YEAR 1888. Precepts. 
 
 There has been some cleLay in the issue of the Supple- 
 mental Precepts and Forms for the current year under 
 section thirteen of the Act, which has retarded the publica- 
 tion of this book, as it was felt that the practical value of 
 any edition of the Act without those Precepts and Forms 
 would be seriously lessened. Now, however, that those 
 Precepts and Forms have at length been prepared and 
 issued, a few remarks upon them seem to be necessary. 
 
 It is to be obser-\'ed that these Precepts and Forms are 
 not issued as sanctioned by any Order in Council under 
 section thirteen of the Act, but derive whatever authority / 
 they may possess in relation to their use by Town Clerks / 
 and Clerks of the Peace, as being prepared and issued 
 by and at the instance of the Local Government Boai'd, 
 which has never before intervened in such matters, 
 l)ut wlxich will be under the provisions of the Local 
 Government Bill intimately concerned in the settlement 
 of the boundaries of local government areas. 
 
 In all the Supplemental Precepts alike no notice has 
 l)een taken of the fact that a ten pounds burgess occuiiier 
 will not be entitled to be registered as a county elector or 
 enrolled as a burgess unless he has, on or before the 20th 
 July next, paid all sums on account of assessed taxes due 
 before the fifth of January last. 
 
 g2
 
 84: Appeiidix. 
 
 Note to This is of small importance as regards the registration of 
 ecepis. |.gj^ pounds burgess occujiiers in parliamentary or merged 
 parliamentary boroughs, because there the same thing is 
 required of i^arliamentary ten pounds occupiers, nor will 
 it matter in any case where the subject-matter of a ten 
 pounds burgess occupation qualification consists of land 
 only, for the inhabited house duty is the only kind of 
 assessed tax the non-payment of which will now disqualify. 
 But it is as well to remember that a house may be the 
 subject-matter of a ten pounds occupation qualification as 
 well as land, and that many persons may, no doubt, claim 
 to be registered as county electors or burgesses in respect 
 of houses of sufiicient value in which they may have 
 resided only six months, or in respect of which they may 
 possibly not have paid county rates, in which cases they 
 will not be qualified unless they have paid the inhabited 
 house duty. 
 
 The Supplemental Precept of the Clerk of the Peace has 
 a note appended to it upon its ajiplication to parishes in 
 municiiDal boroughs to which the Parliamentary and 
 IVIunicipal Registration Act, 1878, does not apply. Tliis 
 note seems hardly sufiicient to meet the case. By sub- 
 section (1) (a) of section 4 of the Act the Registration 
 of Electors Acts are to apply to every such municipal 
 borough in like manner as if it were a borough to which 
 sub-section two of section six of tlie Registration Act, 
 1885, applied (sub-section one of which section is hereby 
 repealed). Sub-section two of section six of that Act (as 
 noted in the notes to section four) enacts that the Parlia- 
 mentary and Municipal Registration Act, 1878, shall apply 
 to such municipal borough, subject nevertheless {inter alia) 
 to paragraph (c), whereby " The overseers of every parish 
 in such municii^al borough shall send to the clerk of the 
 peace for the parliamentary county two copies of the lists
 
 County Electors Act, 1888. 85 
 
 of voters at the same time at wliich they send copies to the Note to 
 
 town clerk, and the lists of voters for a parish in sucli P 
 
 borough, when revised, shall be transmitted by the re- 
 vising barrister to such clerk of the peace, and dealt with 
 by him as with other lists in his county ; but, save as 
 aforesaid, the town clerk of the municipal borough shall, 
 until such transmission, act as and be deemetl to be the 
 tovN'u clerk within the meaning of the Parliamentary 
 Eegistration Acts and this Act in relation to such parish, 
 and the clerk of the peace shall not act in relation to the 
 registration of occupation voters in such parish." 
 
 This seems to make it necessary for the to\vn clerk of 
 such municipal borough to issue the necessary supple- 
 mental precept, and expressly to forbid the clerk of the 
 peace for the parliamentary county to do so. If the clerk 
 of the peace, however, does in fact do so, probably the lists 
 of voters will not be invalidated thereby ; but the expenses 
 of the clerk of the peace in relation thereto ought, so it 
 seems, to be disallowed, because under sections eight and 
 eleven of the Act these expenses ought to fall on the 
 borough fund, and not upon the county. 
 
 Moreover, the overseers are not directed by this precept 
 to make out a list of persons entitled to be elected coun- 
 cillors and aldermen of such municipal borough, thougli 
 not entitled to be on the burgess roll thereof, because they 
 liave been resident beyond seven miles though within 
 fifteen miles of such municipal borough. It seems that 
 the overseers ought to do this, because the Local Govern- 
 ment Bill, even if it does pass this year, does not apparently, ) 
 at least in its present form, abolish altogether the municipal 
 council of any such small borough. 
 
 The forms, also, when used for the purposes of the regis- 
 tration of occupation voters and burgesses in such a muni- 
 cipal borough, will require careful handling; for instance, the
 
 86 Appendix. 
 
 Note to forms of notices as to rates appended to the Supplemental 
 
 Precepts. Precept of the Town Clerk, Form B., would be much more 
 
 easily adjusted to such use than the forms of notices as to 
 
 rates appended to the Supplemental Precept of the Clerk of 
 
 the Peace. 
 
 As to the Supplemental Precepts to be issued by the 
 Town Clerk, Form A. omits all mention of any list of 
 persons entitled to be on the list of persons entitled to be 
 county councillors though not entitled to be on the burgess 
 roll, because not resident within seven miles of the 
 borough though resident Avithin fifteen miles of the county. 
 It is quite conceivable that such a list may be wanted, for 
 there may be a parish situated within a municipal and 
 Avitliin a parliamentary borough, and at the same time 
 situate also wdthin the county of a council under the Local 
 Government Bill. The boundaries of counties of councils 
 under that Bill are given in the notes to section 2 of the 
 Act. 
 
 The Supplemental Precept of the Town Clerk, Form B., 
 does not appear to call for any further remark. 

 
 87 
 
 FORM OF SUPPLEMENTAL PRECEPT OF THE ^^'^S^Pj 
 CLERK OF THE PEACE TO THE OVERSEERS o/peace 
 IN THE YEAR 1888. 
 
 Registration op Parliamentary Voters and County 
 
 Electors. 
 
 County oi 1 rp^ ^-^^ overseers of the poor of the parish of 
 to wit J • i'^^ °^ *^^ township of ]. 
 
 In pursuance of the provisions of the County Electors 
 Act, 1888, I require your attention to the following in- 
 structions respecting the registration of parliamentary 
 voters and county electors. 
 
 This precept is supplemental to my former precept which 
 I sent you in April last. 
 
 1. In this precept the expression "county electors" 
 means persons entitled to be registered in respect of the 
 old burgess qualitication or of the ten pounds occupation 
 burgess qualification. 
 
 2. A county elector may be a man or a woman, but County 
 must be of full age and not subject to any legal incapacity, 
 
 and must not at any time within the twelve months next 
 before the fifteenth day of July next have received any 
 parochial relief ; but where a person has received for him- 
 self or for any member of his family any medical or 
 surgical assistance, or any medicine, at the expense of any 
 poor rate, he is not thereby deprived of his right to be 
 registered.
 
 88 Appendix. 
 
 Precept 3. A person entitled to be registered as a county elector 
 ot p/arp ^^ respect of the old burgess qualification — 
 Old burgess (^*) ^^^^^ during the whole of the twelve months immedi- 
 quaiiflca- ately preceding the fifteenth day of July next 
 
 have been an occupier of a house, warehouse, 
 1 counting-house, shop, or other building in your 
 
 parish [or township] ; and 
 (6) must have resided during those twelve months 
 in the county or within seven miles thereof ; 
 and 
 (c) such person or some one else must during the said 
 twelve months have been rated to all poor rates 
 made in respect of the qualifying property ; and 
 {d) all sums due in respect of the qualifying property on 
 account of any poor rate made and allowed, 
 during the twelve months immediately preceding 
 the fifth day of January last, must have been 
 paid on or before the twentieth day of July next ; 
 and 
 (e) if the county rate is not levied with the poor rate 
 all sums due in respect of the qualifying property 
 on account of any county rate made during the 
 twelve months immediately preceding the fifth 
 day of January last must have been paid on or 
 before the twentieth day of July next. 
 A person is entitled to be registered in respect of the old 
 burgess qimlification notwithstanding that he has permitted 
 his dwelling-house to be occupied as a furnished house for 
 a time not exceeding four months, and during that time 
 has not resided as above mentioned. 
 
 If two or more persons are joint occupiers of property 
 qualifying for the old burgess qualification, each such 
 occupier is entitled to be registered.
 
 County Electors Act, 1888. 81:^ 
 
 4. A person entitled to be registered as a county elector Precept 
 
 in respect of the ten pounds occupation burgess (j[ualifica- qI Peace 
 
 tiou — ^ — . 
 
 Ten pounds 
 
 la) must durinf' the whole twelve months immediately occiiimtiou 
 preceding the fifteenth day of July have been an fi.iwii"f;i- 
 occupier as OAvner or tenant of some land or tene- 
 ment in your parish \or township] of the clear 
 yearly value of not less than ten pounds ; and 
 {b) must have resided in or within seven miles of the 
 county during six months immediately preceding 
 the fifteenth day of July next ; and 
 (c) such person, or some one else, must during the said 
 twelve months have been rated to all poor rates 
 made in respect of such land or tenement ; and 
 (f/) all sums due in respect of the said land or tenement 
 on account of any poor rate made and allowed 
 during the twelve months immediately precedmg 
 the fifth day of January last, must have been 
 paid on or before the twentieth day of July 
 next. 
 If two or more persons jointly are such occupiers as 
 above mentioned, and the value of the land or tenement 
 is such as to give ten pounds or more for each occupier, 
 each of such occupiers is entitled to be registered as a 
 voter. 
 
 5. If a person has occupied in immediate succession 
 during the said twelve months different premises in the 
 county which would (qualify him for registration as a county 
 elector, he is entitled, in respect of the occupation thereof, 
 to be registered as a county elector in the parish \_or town- 
 ship] in which the last occupied premises are situate. 
 
 6. A person who is entitled to be registered as a county Quaiin- 
 elector in all respects except that of residence, and is resi- counciu'oi\<.
 
 DO 
 
 Appendix;. 
 
 Precept 
 by Clerk 
 of Peace. 
 
 Parliamen- 
 tary occu- 
 pation 
 voters. 
 
 ■General 
 qualifi- 
 cation. 
 
 Fifty 
 pounds 
 rental quali- 
 fication.' 
 
 dent beyond seven miles, but witbin fifteen miles, of the 
 said county, is entitled to be on tbe list of persons entitled 
 to be elected councillors though not entitled to be on the 
 county register. 
 
 7. In this precept the expression " parliamentary occu- 
 imtion voters " means persons entitled to be registered as 
 parliamentary voters in respect of, — 
 
 (a.) a fifty pounds rental qualification as hereafter defined 
 
 in paragraph 9 of this precept ; 
 (&.) a ten pounds occupation qualification as hereafter 
 
 defined in paragraph 10 of this precept ; or 
 (c.) a household qualification as hereafter defined in 
 
 paragraph 11 of this precept ; or 
 {d.) A lodger qualification as hereafter defined in j)ara- 
 
 graph 12 of this precept. 
 
 8. Every person entitled to be registered as a parliamen- 
 tary occupation voter must be a man of full age and not 
 subject to any legal incapacity, and must not at any time 
 during the twelve months immediately preceding the 
 fifteenth day of July next have received any parochial 
 relief, but where a person has received for himself or for 
 any member of his family any medical or surgical assist- 
 ance, or any medicine, at the expense of any poor rate, he 
 is not thereby deprived of his right to be registered. 
 
 9. A person entitled to be registered as a parliamentary 
 voter in respect of a fifty pounds rental qualification — 
 
 («.) must on the fifteenth day of July next be an occu- 
 pier as tenant of some land or tenement for which 
 he is bona fide liable to a yearly rent of not less 
 than fifty pounds ; and 
 
 (&.) must have occupied such land or tenement for the 
 whole of the twelve months immediately preceding 
 the fifteenth day of July next ; and
 
 Countij Electors Act, 1888. yi 
 
 (c.) must have been registered as a voter in respect of Precept 
 the said occupation in the register of voters in orPeace 
 
 force during the year one thousand eight hundred 
 
 and eighty-four. 
 
 If two or more persons jointly are such occupiers as 
 above mentioned, and the rent is such as to give fifty 
 pounds or more for each occupier, each such occupier, if he 
 was registered in respect of the said occupation as aforesaid 
 in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty -four, is 
 entitled to be registered as a parliamentary voter. 
 
 10. A person entitled to be registered as a parliamentary occnpation'' 
 voter in respect of a ten pounds occupation qualification — tion '^'^^' 
 (a) must on the fifteenth day of July next be, and 
 during the whole twelve months immediately 
 preceding that day have been, an occupier, as 
 owner or tenant, of some land or tenement in 
 your parish \_or township] of the clear yearly 
 value of not less than ten pounds ; and 
 
 (h) such person, or someone else, must during those 
 twelve months have been rated to all poor rates 
 made in respect of such land or tenement ; and 
 
 (c) all sums due in respect of the said land or tenement 
 on account of any poor rate made and allowed 
 during the twelve months immediately preceding 
 the fifth day of January last must have been paid 
 on or before the twentieth day of July next. 
 
 If two or more persons, jointly, are such occupiers as 
 above mentioned, and the clear yearly value of the land or 
 tenement is such as to give ten pounds or more for each 
 occupier, two of such occupiei-s are entitled to be registered 
 as parliamentary voters ; but no more are so entitled 
 (unless they derived the property by des^nt, succession, seo 30 & 3i
 
 92 Append Lv. 
 
 Precept marriage, marriage settlement, or devise, or) unless they 
 
 y are londfide engaged as partners carrying on trade or busi- 
 
 — " ness thereon, in any of which cases all may be registered, if 
 
 Vict. c. 102 ' -J J o J 
 
 s. 27! * ' the clear yearly value is sutficient to give ten pounds for 
 each occupier. 
 
 If a person has occupied different lands or tenements in 
 your divison [or county] of the requisite value in imme- 
 diate siiccession during the said twelve months he is entitled 
 in respect of the occuj)ation thereof to be registered as a 
 parliamentary voter in the parish [or township] in which, 
 the last occupied land or tenement is situate. 
 
 ^"^im'"'*''^ 11. A person entitled to be registered as a parliamentary 
 tion. voter in respect of a household qualification — 
 
 (a) must on the fifteenth day of July next be, and for 
 the whole twelve mouths immediately preceding 
 that day (except the time (if any) not exceeding 
 four months during which he has permitted the 
 house to be occvipied as a furnished house), have 
 been, an inhabitant occupier of some dwelling- 
 house in your parish [or township], or of some 
 part of a house separately occupied as a dwelling ; 
 and 
 
 (6) such person or someone else must during those twelve 
 months have been rated to all poor rates made in 
 respect of the said dwelling-house ; and 
 
 (c) all sums due in respect of the said dwelling-house 
 on account of any poor rate made and allowed 
 during the twelve months immediately preceding 
 the fifth day of January last must have been paid 
 on or before the twentieth day of July next. 
 
 If two or more persons are joint occupiers of a dwelling- 
 house no one of them is entitled to be registered as a par-
 
 County Electors Art, 1888. 
 
 93 
 
 liamentary voter in respect of a household qualification in Precept 
 respect thereof, thouf,'h if the value is sufficient, one or ^f pg^^g^ 
 more of them may be entitled under paragraph 10 above. 
 
 If a person has occupied different dwelling-houses in 
 your division [or county] iu immediate succession during 
 the said twelve months he is entitled in respect of the 
 occupation thereof to be registered a.s a parliamentary voter 
 in the parish [or township] in which the last occupied 
 dwelling-house is situate. 
 
 If a person inhabits a dwelling-house by virtue of any 
 office, service, or employment, and the dwelling-house is 
 not inhabited by any person under whom such man serves 
 in such office, service, or employment, he is to be considered 
 as an inhabitant occupier of that dwelling-house. 
 
 tlOIU 
 
 12. A person entitled to be registered as a parliamentary ^j^'if^ca- 
 voter in respect of a lodger qualification — 
 (a) must have claimed to be registered ; and 
 
 (6) must have occupied separately as a lodger for the 
 whole twelve months immediately preceding the 
 fifteenth day of July next, lodgings, being part of 
 one and the same dwelling-house in your parish 
 [or township], and being of a clear yearly value, 
 if let unfurnished, of ten pounds or upwards; 
 and 
 
 (c) must have resided in such lodgings during the said 
 twelve months. 
 
 If two or more persons are joint lodgers, and the value 
 of the lodgings is such as to give ten pounds or more for 
 each lodger, two of such persons but no more are entitled 
 to be registered as parliamentary voters. 
 
 If a person has occupied different lodgings of the requisite 
 value in the same house in immediate succession, he is
 
 94 Appendix. 
 
 Precept entitled to be registered as a parliamentary voter in respect 
 oy Clerk of the occupation thereof. 
 
 of Peace- 
 
 13. In addition to the Form B. which is required by 
 paragraph 27 of my former precept to be published, you 
 must, on or before the twentieth day of June next, publish 
 in manner directed by paragraph 19 of my former precept, 
 a notice signed by you according to the Form marked B, 
 No. 2 among the printed forms sent herewith. 
 
 14. Form C. No. 1 sent herewith must be substituted for 
 the Form C. No. 1 which I sent with my former precept, 
 and which is required by paragraph 28 of my former pre- 
 cept to be served on or before the twentieth day of June. 
 
 22nd July. 15. If the sum due on account of poor rate or (if required) 
 of county rate, in respect of any property is not paid on or 
 "before the twentieth day of July next, as required by the 
 said notice, all occupiers of that property are disqualified 
 from being entered in any list of county electors in respect 
 of the old burgess qualification, or the ten pounds occupa- 
 tion bvirgess qualification (as the case may be) ; and on or 
 before the twenty-second of July next you are to add to the 
 list mentioned in j)aragraph 29 of my former precept the 
 name of every person so disqualified. 
 
 22n(i Jniy. 16. You are to ascertain, in accordance with paragraph 31 
 of my former precept, the names of all persons who are 
 disqualified from being inserted in any list of county 
 electors for your parish [or township] by reason of having 
 received parochial relief. 
 
 17. The occupiers' list, which you were directed by 
 paragraph 34 (a) of my former precept to make out on or 
 before the last day of July next, in the Form E. sent with 
 that precept, must include the names of all jjersons entitled
 
 County Electors Act, 1888. 95 
 
 to be registered as county electors, and must be made out Precept 
 
 DV Clerk 
 in three divisions in the Form E. sent herewith : ^^ Peace- 
 
 Division 1 is to comprise the names of the persons 
 entitled to be registered both as parliamentary occupation 
 voters as defined in paragraphs 9 to 12 of this precept other 
 than lodgers, and as county electors. 
 
 Division 2 is to comprise the names of the persons 
 entitled to be registered as parliamentary occupation voters 
 other than lodgers, but not as county electors. 
 
 Division 3 is to comprise the names of the persons 
 entitled to be registered as county electors, but not as 
 parliamentary occupation voters. 
 
 In Division 3 of such occupiers' list the nature of an old 
 burgess qualification should be stated thus : " house," 
 "warehouse," "counting-house," "chambers," or, as the 
 case may be, with the addition of "joint" or " successive," 
 if necessary. 
 
 18. You will also, on or before the last day of July next, 3ist July. 
 make out a list in the form G. sent herewith, of all persons 
 ■who, as mentioned in paragi-aph 6 of this precept, are 
 entitled in respect of the occupation of property within 
 your parish [or township] to be elected councillors of your 
 county, l)ut are not entitled to be on the county register 
 thereof. 
 
 Paragraph 37 and the subsequent paragraphs of my 
 former precept will apply to this list as if it were one o 
 the lists there mentioned, and you are to make out a sepa- 
 rate objection list and claim list in relation to such list of 
 persons entitled to be elected councillors, and deal with the 
 same in manner directed by paragraphs 41 to 45 of my 
 former precept respecting the occupiers' claim and objection 
 lists.
 
 S6 x\ppemlix. 
 
 Precept 19. Forms H., I., K., L., and M., among the printed 
 
 /-rT forms sent lierewitli must be substituted for the forms H., 
 
 01 Pe^Lce 
 
 ' I., K., L., and M., sent with my former precept. 
 
 If you fail to comply with this precept jo\x will be liable 
 to the j)enalties in that case provided. 
 
 Given under my hand this day of , 1888. 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 Clerk of the Peace for tlie County of 
 
 Application of Precept to Parish in small 
 Municipal Borough. 
 
 Where a parish is in a municipal borough in which the 
 lists of parliamentary voters are not made out under the 
 Parliamentary and Municipal Kegistration Act of 1878, the 
 supplemental precept and forms issued by the clerk of the 
 peace to the overseers of that parish will be the same as the 
 foregoing precept and forms, with the substitution, wherever 
 necessary, of " burgess " for "county elector," of "municipal 
 borough " for " county," and of " burgess roll " for " county 
 register," and wdth the addition of the foUowing paragraph: 
 25th Aug. On or before the twenty-fifth day of August next yoa 
 
 are, besides delivering to me the documents mentioned in 
 paragraph 45 of my former precept, to deliver to the town 
 clerk of the municipal borough in which your parish [or 
 township] is situate two copies of the occupiers' list and of 
 the list required by paragraph 18 of this precept to be made 
 out in the Form G. sent herewith, and a copy of each of the 
 occupiers' claim and objection lists, made out and signed 
 by you.
 
 97 
 
 FORM OF SUPPLEMENTAL PRECEPT OF THE 
 TOWN CLERK TO THE OVERSEERS IN THE 
 YEAR 1888. 
 
 Form B.— Parishes within a Parliamentary Borough, 
 
 BUT NOT within A MUNICIPAL BOROUGH. 
 
 Registration of Parliamentary Voters and County Electors. 
 
 Parliamentary ] 
 
 borough of I To the overseers of the poor of the parish 
 
 ^"""*^ '^«« ^«^• J ^^ [or ofthe township of ]. 
 
 In pursuance of the provisions of the County Electors 
 Act, 1888, I require your attention to the following instruc- 
 tions respecting the registration of parliamentary voters 
 and county electors. 
 
 This precept is supplemental to my former precept which 
 I sent to you in April last. 
 
 1. In this precept the expression "county electors" County 
 means persons entitled to he registered in respect of the old ^^^^"^ 
 hurgess qualification or of the ten pounds occupation 
 burgess qualification. 
 
 The expression "parliamentary voter" has the same 
 meaning as in my former precept, 
 
 2. A county elector may be a man or a woman, but must 
 be of full age and not subject to any legal incapacity, and 
 must not at any time within the twelve months next before 
 the fifteenth day of July next have received any parochi;d 
 relief, but where a person has received for himself, or for 
 any member of his family, any medical or surgical assist- 
 
 H
 
 9B Appendix. 
 
 Precept ance, or any medicine, at the expense of any poor rate, he 
 Clerk ^^ ^^^ thereby deprived of his right to be registered. 
 Old burgess 3. A person entitled to be registered as a county elector 
 tion. *^^" ill respect of the old burgess qualification — 
 
 (a) must dming the Avhole of the twelve months imme- 
 diately preceding the fifteenth day of July next 
 have been an occupier of a house, warehouse, 
 counting-house, shop, or other building in your 
 parish [or township] ; and 
 
 (6) have resided during those twelve months in the 
 
 county or within seven miles thereof ; and 
 
 (c) such person or some one else must during the said 
 
 twelve months have been rated to all poor rates 
 
 made in respect of the qualifying property ; and 
 
 (rf) all sums due in respect of the qualifying property on 
 
 account of any poor rate made and allowed, during 
 
 the twelve months immediately preceding the fifth 
 
 day of January last, must have been paid on or 
 
 before the twentieth day of July next ; and 
 
 (e) if the county rate is not levied ■\\-ith the poor rate, all 
 
 sums due in respect of the qualifying property on 
 
 account of any county rate made during the 
 
 twelve months immediately preceding the fifth 
 
 day of January last, must have been paid on or 
 
 before the twentieth day of July next. 
 
 A person is entitled to be registered in respect of the old 
 
 burgess qiialification notwithstanding that he has permitted 
 
 his dwelling-house to be occupied as a furnished house for 
 
 a time not exceeding four months, and during that time has 
 
 not resided as above mentioned. 
 
 If two or more persons are joint occupiers of property 
 qualifying for the old biu'gess qualification, each such 
 occupier is entitled to be registered.
 
 Countrj Electors Act, 1888. 99 
 
 4. A person entitled to be registered as a county elector Precept 
 
 ill respect of the ten pounds occupation burgess ciualiii- ^^?'°)^'^ 
 
 ClerK, 
 cation — — 
 
 Ten pounds 
 (o) must during the whole twelve months immediately occupation 
 
 preceding the fifteenth day of July have been an quaiiflca- 
 occupier as owner or tenant of some land or tene- 
 ment in your parish [or township] of the clear 
 yearly value of not less than ten poiuids ; and 
 
 {h) must have resided in or within seven miles of the said 
 parliamentary borough during six months imme- 
 diately preceding the fifteenth day of July next ; 
 and 
 
 (c) such person , or some one else, must during the said 
 twelve months have been rated to all poor rates 
 made in respect of such land or tenement ; and 
 
 ((/) all sums due in respect of the said land or tenement 
 on account of any poor rate made and allowed 
 during the twelve months immediately precedmg 
 the fifth day of January last, must have been paid 
 on or before the twentieth day of July next. 
 
 If two or more persons jointly are such occujjiers as 
 above mentioned, and the value of the land or tenement is 
 such as to give ten pounds or more for each occupier, each 
 of such occupiers is entitled to be registered as a voter. 
 
 5, If a person has occupied in immediate succession Succession, 
 during the said twelve months diftereut premises in the 
 
 .said parliamentary borough which would qualify him for 
 registration as a county elector in respect of the old or ten 
 pounds occupation burgess qualification, he is entitled, in 
 re.-pect of the occupation thereof, to be registered as a 
 county elector in the parish \or township] in which the 
 li^t occupied premises are situate. 
 
 n2
 
 100 Appendix. 
 
 Precept 5a. A person who is entitled to be registered as a county 
 
 by Town elector in all respects except that of residence, and is 
 
 Clprk 
 
 ' resident beyond seven miles, but within fifteen miles, of 
 
 Son^of'^^' ^^^ ^^^^ county, is entitled to be on the list of persons 
 
 councillor, gj^titled to be elected councillors though not entitled to be 
 
 on the county register. 
 
 20th June. 6. On or before the twentieth day of June next you are 
 to publish, in manner directed by paragraph 19 of my 
 former precept, a notice signed by you according to the 
 Form B. No. 2 among the printed forms sent herewith. 
 
 20th June. 7. The notice which you are directed by paragraph 27 of 
 any former precept to give on or before the twentieth day 
 of June must be in Form C. No. 1 among the printed forms 
 sent herewith, instead of the Form C. No. 1 previoiisly 
 sent. 
 
 22aa July. 8. If the sum due on account of poor rate or (if required) 
 of county rate in respect of any property is not paid on or 
 before the twentieth day of July next, as mentioned in the 
 said notice, all occupiers of that property are disqualified 
 from being entered in any list of county electors in respect 
 of the old burgess qualification or the ten pounds occupa- 
 tion burgess qualification (as the case may be); and on or 
 before the twenty-second of July next you are to add to 
 the list mentioned in paragraj)h 28 of my former precept 
 the name of every person so disqualified. 
 
 9. You are to ascertain, in accordance with paragraph 29 
 of my former precept, the names of all persons who are 
 disqiialified from being inserted in any list of county elec- 
 tors for your parish [or township] by reason of having 
 received parochial relief. 
 
 3l.st July. 10. The occupiers' list which you are directed by para- 
 graph 30, sub-paragraj^h (a), of my former jjrecept to make
 
 County Electors Act, 1888. 101 
 
 out, must be made out in the Form D., No, 1, sent here- Precept 
 with, instead of in the form sent before, and must be made "7 Town 
 out in three divisions : ' 
 
 Division one is to comprise the names of the persons 
 entitled both to be registered as parliamentary 
 voters in respect of a ten pounds occupation or 
 household qualification and to be enrolled as 
 county electors. 
 
 Division two is to comprise the names of the persons 
 entitled to be registered as parliamentary voters 
 in respect of a ten pounds occupation or household 
 qualification, but not to be enrolled as county 
 electors. 
 
 Division three is to comprise the names of the persons 
 entitled to be enrolled as county electors, but not 
 to be registered as parliamentary voters in respect 
 of a ten pounds occupation or household qualifi- 
 cation. 
 
 Where you are required to make out such occupiers' list 
 according to the streets or the order in which tlie qualifying 
 premises occur in the rate book, you will continue to make 
 out the list in that manner. 
 
 In making out Division 3 of the occupiers' list, the nature 
 of the old burgess qualification should be stated thus : 
 "house," "warehouse," " counting-house," " chambers," or, 
 as the case may be, with the addition of "joint," or "suc- 
 cessive," if necessary. 
 
 11. You will also, on or before the last day of July next, 31st July, 
 make out a list in the Form G. sent herewith of all persons 
 who, as mentioned in paragraph 6 of this precept, are 
 entitled, in respect of the occupation of property A\-ithin
 
 102 
 
 Appendix. 
 
 Precept yoiir parish [or township], to be elected councillors of your 
 by Town county, but are not entitled to be on the county register 
 Clerk, thereof. 
 
 Paragraph 31, and the subsequent paragraphs of my 
 former precept, will apply to this list as if it were one of 
 the lists there mentioned, and you are to make out a sepa- 
 rate objection list and claim list in relation to such list of 
 persons entitled to be elected councillors, and deal with the 
 same in manner directed by paragraphs 35 — 39 of my 
 former precept respecting the occupiers' claim and objec- 
 tion Ust. 
 
 If the 
 officer issu- 
 ing the 
 precept is 
 not the 
 town clerk 
 of a muni- 
 cipal 
 borough, 
 he should 
 append to 
 his signa- 
 ture his 
 ]iroper 
 official 
 iloscription. 
 
 12. Forms H., I., K., L., and M., among the printed 
 forms sent herewith, must be substituted for the Forms H., 
 I., K., L., and M., sent with my former precept. 
 
 If you fail to comply with this precept, you will be 
 liable to the penalties in that case provided. 
 
 Given under my hand this 
 
 day of 
 
 (Signed) A.B., 
 
 Town Clerk of the Municipal Borough of
 
 103 
 
 FORM OF SUPPLEMENTAL PRECEPT OF THE Precept 
 TOWN CLERK TO THE OVERSEERS IN THE ^^ ^°^ 
 YEAR 1888. ^ZL 
 
 Form A. — Parisues in Municipal Boroughs where 
 THE Lists are now made out under the Parlia- 
 mentary AND Municipal RegistrxVtion Act of 
 1878. 
 
 Enrolment of Burgesses. 
 Municipal borough ) Tq ti^g overseers of the poor of the 
 to wit. ) Pari'^'i [^'" townshiij] of 
 
 In pursuance of the provisions of the County Electors 
 Act, 1888, I reiiuire your attention to the following in- 
 structions respecting the enrolment of burgesses. 
 
 Tills precept is supplemental to my former precept which 
 I sent to you in April last. 
 
 1. Persons are entitled to be enrolled as burgesses in Additional 
 respect of the ten pounds occupation burgess qualification, (inaiinca- 
 as hereafter defined in paragraph 2 of this precept, as well 
 
 as in respect of the old burgess qualification (that is to say, 
 the qualification described in paragraph 8 of ray former 
 precept). 
 
 2. A person entitled to be enrolled as a burgess in respect Ten ponmis 
 of the ten pounds occupation burgess qualification may be burgo^"""^ 
 a man or woman, but must be of full age and not subject uon'."^*^" 
 to any legal incapacity, and must not at any time witliin
 
 104 Appendix, 
 
 Precept, the twelve months next before the fifteenth day of July 
 
 by Town ^ext have received any parochial relief ; but where a per- 
 f lPT*lr 
 ' son has received for himself or for any member of his 
 
 family any medical or surgical assistance, or any medicine 
 
 at the expense of any poor rate, he is not thereby deprived 
 
 of his right to be registered ; and — 
 
 {a) must during the whole twelve months immediately 
 preceding the fifteenth day of July next have 
 been an occupier as owner or tenant of some 
 land or tenement in your parish \or township] of 
 the clear yearly value of not less than ten pounds ; 
 and 
 
 (&) must have resided in or within seven miles of the 
 said municipal borough during six months imme- 
 diately preceding the fifteenth day of July next ; 
 and 
 
 (c) such person or some one else must during the said 
 twelve months have been rated to all poor rates 
 made in respect of such land or tenement ; and 
 
 {d) all sums due in respect of the said land or tenement 
 on account of any poor rate made and allowed 
 during the twelve months immediately preceding 
 the fifth day of January last. 
 
 If two or more persons jointly are such occupiers as 
 above mentioned, and the value of the land or tenement is 
 such as to give ten pounds or more for each occupier, each 
 of such occupiers is entitled to be registered as a voter. 
 
 If a person has occupied in the said municipal borough 
 different lands or tenements of the requisite value in 
 immediate succession during the said twelve months, he is 
 entitled in respect of the occupation thereof to be registered
 
 Cmntij Electors Act, 1888. 105 
 
 as a voter in the parish \or township] m which the last Precept 
 
 occupied land or tenement is situate. by Town 
 
 Clerk. 
 
 3. A person who is entitled to be registered as a burgess Quaiiflca- 
 in respect of the ten pounds occupation Lurgess qualifica- ^,2ic[iiore 
 tion in all respects except that of residence, and is resident 
 beyond seven miles, but within fifteen miles, of the said 
 municipal borough, is entitled to be on the list of persons 
 mentioned in sub-paragraph (cZ) of paragraph 30 of my 
 former precept as entitled to be elected councillors or alder- 
 men though not entitled to be on the burgess rolL 
 
 4. Form B., No. 2, sent herewith must be substituted for 20th June, 
 the Form B., No. 2, which I sent before, and which is 
 required by paragraph 26 of my former precept to be 
 published on or before the twentieth of June. 
 
 Form C, No. 1, sent herewith must be substituted for 20th June. 
 Form C, No. 1, sent with ray former precept, and required 
 by paragraph 27 of my former precept to be served on or 
 before the twentieth of June. 
 
 If you fail to comply with this pi^ecept you will be 
 liable to the penalties in that case provided. 
 
 Given under my hand this day of 
 
 (Signed) A.B., 
 
 Toxcn Clerk of the Mimicipal Borough of
 
 II^DEX. 
 
 ABODE, PAGE 
 
 change of, declaration as to, to be sent to clerk 
 
 of peace by fifth of September ... 33, 34 
 
 place of, of objector, to be truly stated in notice 
 
 of objection 28 
 
 ACCOUNTS, 
 
 of clerks of peace 
 of tovm. clerks 
 of overseers 
 
 49,50 
 ... 50 
 ... 46 
 
 ADMISSION TO HOSPITAL, 
 when no disqualification... 
 
 11, 13 
 
 ALMS, 
 
 receipt of, so as to disqualify 
 
 ... 12 
 
 ALPHABETICAL ORDER, 
 
 of lists, when necessary ... 
 
 25 
 
 of Msts, when not required 
 
 24,31,32 
 
 APPEALS, 
 
 
 cases on 
 
 33,35,36 
 
 entry of 
 
 35 
 
 first day for hearing 
 
 33,35 
 
 notice of ... 
 
 36, 37 
 
 ARRANGEMENT OF LISTS, 
 
 
 according to rate book ... 
 
 24, 31, 32, 101 
 
 in metropolis 
 
 32,33
 
 108 Index. 
 
 ASSESSED TAXES, page 
 
 payment of, when necessary 17,83,84 
 
 list of defaulters 18 
 
 ASSISTANT BARRISTEES, 
 
 application for ... ... ... ... ... 53 
 
 appointment of ... ... ... ... ... 53 
 
 remuneration of 51,54 
 
 ASSISTANT OVERSEERS, 
 
 appointment of 31 
 
 where none, registration officer may be appointed 
 
 in rural district 23,31 
 
 BARRISTERS. 
 
 See " Assistant Barristers " or " Revising 
 Barristers." 
 
 BOROUGH, 
 
 definition of ... ... ... ... ... 4 
 
 See also " Parliamentary Borough " or " Muni- 
 cipal Borough." 
 
 BOROUGHS, 
 
 to be counties of themselves 
 
 5 
 
 BUILDING, 
 
 
 occupation of, so as to qualify . . . 
 
 7 
 
 BURGESS QUALIFICATION, 
 
 old, definition of 
 
 88, 98 
 
 extended to counties 
 
 3—15 
 
 ten pounds occupation 
 
 ...89,99, 103 
 
 CERTIFICATE, 
 
 of justices, as to expenses of clerks of peace 49, 50, 56 
 of revising barristers, as to expenses of over- 
 
 b\3cI^o ••• •■• »•• «•• ••• ••• Tx/ 
 
 of town council, as to expenses of to'mi 
 
 Ci.vJ?i^S •*• ••« ••• ••• ••• •■• *j\r
 
 Index, 
 
 109 
 
 CIRCUIT, PAGE 
 
 county of Surrey to be a separate, for appointing 
 
 barristers 
 
 ... ... 53 
 
 CITY OF LONDON 
 
 4 
 
 • • • • • • ^ 
 
 CLAIMS, 
 
 
 notices of 
 
 28 
 
 who may oppose 
 
 19, 20 
 
 CLAIM AND TENDER, 
 
 
 of rates 
 
 14, 15 
 
 COUNTY, 
 
 
 authority 
 
 1, 40 
 
 boundary of, for first election ... 
 
 ... 4, 5 
 
 councillors 56- 
 
 -59, 86, 89, 100 
 
 definition of 
 
 • • • • • • ^ 
 
 districts 
 
 30, 59 
 
 electors 
 
 7—18 
 
 of London 
 
 5 
 
 quarter sessional area 
 
 55 
 
 rates 
 
 10 
 
 register 
 
 ... 37—42, 44 
 
 COUNTY RATES, 
 
 
 payment of, when necessary 
 
 8, 10, 88, 98 
 
 ten pounds occupier need not pay 
 
 17 
 
 DATES, 
 
 
 for appointing assistant barristers 
 
 53 
 
 for completing revision 
 
 33 
 
 for entry of appeals 
 
 30 
 
 for hearing appeals 
 
 ... 34,35,36 
 
 for holding revision courts 
 
 ... 33,34,35 
 
 for sending in declarations 
 
 34,35 
 
 of operations for present year, sec Calendar ... xi
 
 110 Index. 
 
 DECLARATIONS, 
 
 PAGE 
 
 of change of abode 
 
 33,35 
 
 of misdescription 
 
 34,35 
 
 DEFINITIONS, 
 
 
 of a borough 
 
 ... 4 
 
 of a coiirt of county quarter sessions . . . 
 
 ... 55 
 
 of a county 
 
 ... 4 
 
 of a county quarter sessional area 
 
 ... 55 
 
 of a parish 
 
 4—6 
 
 of a rural district 
 
 30,59 
 
 of an urban district 
 
 30, 59 
 
 of the clerk of the peace under the Act 
 
 60, 61 
 
 DISTRICT, 
 
 
 council 
 
 38,44 
 
 councillors... 
 
 ... 44 
 
 registers ... 
 
 ... 38 
 
 DIVISION REGISTERS 38,41 
 
 DIVISIONS OF OCCUPIERS' LISTS ... 26,^27 
 
 DOUBLE ENTRIES, 
 
 how to be dealt with in counties ... 39, 45 
 
 DUPLICATE LISTS, 
 
 to be signed by revising barristers and delivered 
 
 to town clerks 41, 42 
 
 ELECTORAL DIVISIONS, 
 
 how constituted 30, 32 
 
 lists to be arranged according to 21, 30, 32, 40, 41 
 
 ESTATE, 
 
 necessary to qualification 9,' IT
 
 Index, 1 1 1 
 
 EXCUSAL OF RATES, 
 
 PAGE 
 
 not equivalent to payment 
 
 11 
 
 not parochial relief 
 
 12 
 
 EXPENSES, 
 
 
 of clerks of the peace 
 
 45, 50, 55, 85 
 
 of overseers 
 
 42,43,45—50 
 
 of revising barristers 
 
 51, 52, 54—56 
 
 of town clerks 
 
 42, 43, 45—50 
 
 EXTEA-PAROCHIAL PLACES, 
 
 now abolished 5,6 
 
 FORMS, 
 
 to be issued 50 
 
 of supplemental precepts 87 — 105 
 
 FULL AGE, 
 
 what to be reckoned ... ... ... ...8,9 
 
 FURNISHED HOUSE, 
 
 letting of, for not more than four months no 
 
 disqualification ... ... ... ... 15 
 
 GUARDIANS, 
 
 Avhen they may appoint registration officer 22, 23 
 
 HIGH BAILIFFS, 
 
 of Southwark and Westminster to be town 
 
 clerks... ... ... ... ... ... 31 
 
 HOUSE, 
 
 part of, may be qualifying property ... 12,13 
 
 JOINT OCCUPIERS, 
 
 of an old burgess qualification 8, 88, 98 
 
 of a ten pounds occupation qualification 18, 89, 
 
 99, 104
 
 112 Index. 
 
 LAND, PAGE 
 
 of clear yearly value of ten pounds may qualify 16, 
 
 89, 99, 104 
 
 LISTS, 
 
 of occupation voters, burgesses, and county 
 
 electors to be made out and revised together 19 
 
 when to be made out alphabetically 25 
 
 when to be made out in order of rate book 24, 31, 
 
 32, 101 
 
 MARRIED WOMEN, 
 
 may not vote 14 
 
 METROPOLIS, 
 
 definition of 5, 33 
 
 lists in ... 32 
 
 MICHAELMAS SITTINGS, 
 
 date of ... ... ... ... ... ... 36 
 
 MUNICIPAL BOROUGH, 
 
 application of Acts to 19,24 
 
 in a county, town clerk to issue precept for 
 
 occupation voters and burgesses ... 19, 84, 85 
 lists for, when co-extensive with electoral divi- 
 sions of parliamentary coimty ... 23,24 
 
 NON-RESIDENTS, 
 
 when qualified to be elected county coimcillors 57, 
 
 58, 89, 109 
 
 separate Hst of 56,57,90,100 
 
 NOTICES, 
 
 of claim ... ... ... ... ... 28,29 
 
 of non-payment of rates {See Calendar) ... xi 
 
 of objections 27,28 
 
 OBJECTIONS, 
 
 notices of 27, 28
 
 Index* 113 
 
 Objections — conhntied. page 
 
 who may object to local government voters 19, 20 
 withdrawal and revival of 20,29 
 
 OCCUPATION, 
 
 as guest, lodger, member of corporation, or 
 
 servant will not (qualify f>, 17 
 
 as owner or tenant will c|ualify ... 17 
 
 by mere permission docs not qualify 17 
 
 joint, when qiialifying 8,18 
 
 of land of clear yearly value of 101. . . . 15—18 
 successive 13 
 
 OCCUPATION VOTEES, 
 
 lists of, to be made out and revised with tli(jse 
 of burgesses and county electors 19 
 
 OCCUPIERS' LIST, 
 
 to be made out in divisions ... 19, 27, 95, 101 
 supplemental lists in present year 27 
 
 PARISH, 
 
 delinition of -1,5,6 
 
 divided 5 
 
 not situate in municipal borough ... 19—23, 29 
 
 PARLIAMENTARY BOROUGH, 
 
 town clerk of, to send lists of county electors to 
 clerk of peace for county 21 
 
 PARLIAMENTARY COUNTY, 
 
 to be, with modifications, the county of a 
 council 4, 5 
 
 PARLIAMENTARY REGISTRATION ACTS, 
 
 what are 2 
 
 PAROCHIAL RELIEF, 
 
 what is, so as to disqualify 11,12 
 
 I
 
 1 14 Inde.v, 
 
 PAYMENT OF RATES,. ' page 
 
 what, necessary for qualitication 10, 11, 17, 88, 89, 
 
 98, 99, 104 
 PEERS, 
 
 (|ualifie J as local government electors 18 
 
 PENALTIES, 
 
 enactments as, on overseers, apply to registra- 
 tion officer ... 23 
 
 POLLING DISTRICTS, 
 
 how to be settled for purposes of local govern- 
 ment elections 30 
 
 lists to lie made out according to ... 21,30 
 
 POOR RATES, 
 
 when made 9 
 
 when payable 10 
 
 PRECEPTS, 
 
 supplemental ... ... ... ... 87 — 105 
 
 QUALIFYING PROPERTY, 
 
 definition of , 7 
 
 RATES. 
 
 See " County Rates," " Poor Rates," and " Pay- 
 ment of Rates." 
 
 RATING, 
 
 what necessary to qualification ... ... 10, 13, 17 
 
 RECEIPTS, 
 
 of clerks of the peace 45,50,55 
 
 of overseers 42,43,45 — 50 
 
 of town clerks 42,43,45—50 
 
 REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS ACTS, 
 
 definition of 1,2
 
 Index. 115 
 
 REGISTRATION OFFICER, . page 
 
 appointment of 22, 23, 31 
 
 RELIEF. 
 
 See « Parochial Relief." 
 
 RESIDENCE, 
 
 definition of ... ... ... ... ... 9 
 
 required period of ... ... ... 9,17 
 
 REVISING ASSESSORS, 
 
 abolished 19, 26 
 
 REVISING BARRISTERS, 
 
 additional ... ... ... ... 52 
 
 remuneration of ... ... ... ... 50—53 
 
 to revise local government lists 22, 25 
 
 RURAL DISTRICTS, 
 
 definition of 30, 59 
 
 SANITARY DISTRICTS, 
 
 to be county districts for first election ... 59, 60 
 
 SCHOOL FEES, 
 
 payment of, not parochial relief so as to dis- 
 qualify 11 
 
 SERVICE OCCUPIERS, 
 
 not qualified as local government electors 9, 17 
 
 SHOP, 
 
 may qualify for registration as local government 
 elector 8, 12 
 
 SUCCESSIVE OCCUPATION. 
 See " Occupation." 
 
 SUCCESSIVE RATING. 
 See « Rating."
 
 116 Index. 
 
 SUPPLEMENTAL OCCUPIERS' LISTS, page 
 in present year 27 
 
 SUPPLEMENTAL PRECEPTS, 
 
 and Forms to be issued in present year 69, 87 — 105 
 
 TENEMENT, 
 
 what sufficient to qualify 16 
 
 TEN POUNDS OCCUPATION, 
 
 what qualifies 15—18,89,99,103 
 
 TOWN CLERK, 
 
 in municipal borough to issue precept for occu- 
 pation voters and burgesses 19, 25, 26, 84, 85 
 
 meaning of 30,31 
 
 to send copies of burgess lists to clerk of the 
 
 p6clC6 ... •■• ■.. ..• ,.. ,., o7 
 
 TRANSITORY PROVISIONS, 
 
 for the present year 61,62 
 
 URBAN DISTRICTS, 
 
 definition of 30,59 
 
 VACCINATION, 
 
 not parochial relief 11 
 
 WARDS, 
 
 lists to be made out according to 21 
 
 WAREHOUSE, 
 
 may be qualifying property 8,12 
 
 WOMEN, 
 
 right to vote at local government elections 14, 18 
 
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