The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-03-26 00:00:00

THE REFORM BILL

The first two clauses ore formal ;the second and
third enact respectively the borough and county
occupecy qualifications. The lifth, relating to the
educations' franchhee, is as follows-
6—Every man shall be entitled to be registered, and,
than englatered, to vote at the election of • member or
Members to serve in Parliament for a county or
borough, who is of full age. and 1:104 subject to nay legal
incapacity, and lieu the last day of July in any year,
and has during the last year immediately preceding,
been reelJent in such couoty or hors ugh. and u
of any one or mote of the qualifications
roclrite4, that is to say-
-I.—le, and has been during the period of such
residenoe, • graduate or associate in arts of any
University of the United Kingdom ; oh a nide
person who lug passed at any motor middle-claim
rumination of any University of the United
Eingdati •
2.—le and has been during the period aforesaid, an
admitted priest or desoon of the Church of
England; or
3.—ls, and has been during the period aforesaid, •
minister of any other religious denomination
afriaiated either alone or with not more than one
colleague to the charge of any registered chapel
or place of worship, and in, and has been daring
such petiod, alleimting as the minister thereof; '
or
4.—ls, and hen bees during the period aforesaid, •,1
aerjeant-sa-law, or barrister-at-law is any of the j
Insect Court in &ahead, ore eartilluted pleader
or artifiested tionveYanser ; at
s.—ls, and has been during the period aforesaid, al
rertifitated attorney, or solicitor, Or proctor In
Ragland or Wales; or
B.—ls, and has ham during the period aforesaid, •
dimly bailed medial practitioner, registered
an der Use Medical Act, 1858; or
7.—ls, nod has been during the period aforesaid, •
seloolinastei holding • certificate from the Com-
mittee of her Majesty's Coraeil on Education •
Provided that no pawn shall be entitled to be reglste4d
as • voter, or to vote in respect at say cf the quell/lase
teens mentioned in this section, in more than one plum.
In the sixth clause the pecuniary fronohine are set
forth. Tha seventh provide, for WI (100610 vote' its
wording suggests GOA Its object is to prevent distrait.
°bailment, for it rays that • person registered as a voter
as having paid the requisite amount of mussed taxes
end Weenie tax, or either, 'shall not, by reason of
being so registered, lose any right to which he may be
entiffeel, if otherwise duly qualified, to be registered as
• voter for the same borough in raped of any franehin
involving occupation of premises and payment of rates."
but shall have two Term The second part of the BA
comprising elauses 8 to 18, disposes of the redistribution
of seats. A number of supplemental provisions are
given in the third pert, such as that the superbve
occupation of different premises in boroughs and joint
occupations of premiere in counties shall unfit votes;
that certain certilleatee shall be required of qualifies-
lions before any name is put on the register, and that
the refusal of each certificate by say officer from whom
It may be required shall entail a penalty of Lb ; that
the falsification of a oartificete, or use of • false eartill.
ate, shall render the offender liable to imprisonment,
with or without hard labour, for a term sot euncidiag
two years. The twentpthird clause provides that the
jostler of the peace in every county shall appoint a
Polling plus in every perish or township in which there
are not lore thaa MO resident electors, and • polling
place for every two or mon adjoining parishes or town.
ships in either of which separately there may be lase
than 200 eleetore, at sows central or oonvenient point
at which as nearly as partible 200 voters from snob
smaller perishes or townships may most conveniently
attend to record their votes. Clause 29 authorises any
elector to vote by a voting raper in the lame manner an
an elector of any of the Universities of Oxford. Cam.
bridge, or Dublin. Clause 30 directs the appointment
of certain Boundary Commisaiours, who shall, on •
report of assistant oonimimieurs upon personal i
tins that the boundaries of any boroughs aboel be
enlarged, propose to the Government mai new
boundaries as they deem right. The case of compound
householder. is thus met :

34. Where the owner is rated In respect of •
dwelling•house instead of the occupier, the occupier
may claim to be rated for the purpose of ea:patting the
franebiae in the same manner and subject to the mote
emaditioos to and subjest to wbiali an oesupier may
dab's to be registered under the existing Acts of
Parliament for the retroom of acquiring the Inisebise la
ravest of the occupation of premises of • °lsar yearly
value of not less then CO, and all the proviaions of the
said Acts shall apply assordingly ; provided that the
rates to be paid by such oesupier in order to entitle him
to the franchise shall be rake calculated on the full
rateable value of the minims.
Clause 371, to the street that members holding °floss
of profit from the Crown shall not be required to vitiate
their seats on aceeptesse of another aim