The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-10-11 00:00:00

TINT OAS&

One of the must important cases was not d.,..ided
until l••• lii the eveniug. It Wlki • 1111.4C1/•«1, I.f Ills
claims made on ler the nee reedusg o the law—thst
• person who occupies • pert of a hoUlle, having that
p at exclusively for his own use, is entitled tes vote -0
the part, HO matter whethrr or no he my have the
joint occupation of any other part. T dens.' .n,
which apposite to be similar to decisions in oth, r
tieing artistries' C urta, seems deednel ti hays s
raa•ked effect on the coustituency.—gdwa.d W.lc
claimed as the exclusive o.:nupier of two room., for
which he paid £BlO4. a year. There were five reline
in the house, tur e being mot al bedroom., one esi
sitting room, and tale as a kitchen. 11- clAmsit2ii
tather-in.law occupied the other part of the h otos,
claimant p..) reut to his btoer-dt-law, and some•
times they all took their meals t gether.— diaiscant
wets closely examined, and stated that his father ad
inothereinelaw sit in the kitchen, and Mr. Andel,
inked: km you meal to say it ia true you turn your
father and muther-in-law into the kit h-n, an take
the beet room for yourself to sit iu t—Witne.a sald
that was so; but Ms. Trevauion's re-dramidation
elicited that be kitchen is a Heim( room, •it he ,•otne.
time eat there with his father, and mother.h.•ldw, in
fact they sometimes sat in each ctoer's r .0 us; l'ut
the father and mother-in.law c mid nly come into hi.
room by luvitation. His wife and he had a bddroom all
to themselves.—By Mr. Arden : I pay my rent every
week—helf-a-crown.—Mr. TC0•7110lUO urged that no
structural severance uf the part of the house occupiel
is now required to make guod the vote on it, and he
quoted at length trim the Act.—Mr. Arden sai if
this vote were &Howes, the lodger tranchiss would b,
oorie away with entirely. lo reality h,se
were all one family, and messed togs her.—The
Barrieter was of opinion the vote worn good, an.; for
this leason—the section of the B:atute says that for
the purposes of the Reform Act, the terms "hou-a,"
"warehouse," "oonnting.house," "shop," or other
building, shall include any pert of a house where that
psrt is separately occupied for that purpose of any
trade, business, or profeeiou. and it may be described
as" othst" "chambers," "studio," &a., arid also the
vote is allowed where the occupier is entitled to the
sole and exclusive use of any part of a boom-, and, said
the Barrieter, it is quite clear in this Mee that the
claimant and his wire are entitled to the sole • of
exclusive use uf one room, aid that is pat .if a house.
—Mr. Ardent What ia to be come of the lodger vote
sir ?—Mr. Vig : I have not to answer tha..-41r.
Arden: There is no use for the 'Alga v..te uuw.—Mr.
Vigor said he wes very much or the same opinion; the
only advantage he could see of the lodger vote is that
the claimant has to make the 'laceration, in the caws
of repeated claim, and he makes it as a matter of
form, acid gets his vote. He had given his detiui4 n,
and if they did not like it, they could appeal,
Kven if the man had oceupied jointly dowo•tairs.
that did nut affect his sole Ikll,l exclusive use .d
room upstairs.- Mr. Arden: You have mil pled
votes, sir.—Mr. Trevanion: The same thin; has iseen
done in every Revision Court. —Vote allowed.
UND/14 WHICH LINO, DEZ9NIAN

The proceedings were ooutinUed tilt about nine the
last part of the buainea beiug the striking off duplicate
votes.—lt was argued that voters who have double
quaii&ationa, viz., one in each ear I of the Borough,
ought to have the right to defer til, the election their
choice sat which ward they would vote in.--On ts
Association's site it was argued tnat such voters
should be confined to one ward, the choice being
coutirmed before the Reusing Barri.der, s i that the
voters could not ciao se to vote eith r in Weymouth
or Melcombe Regis according to their wills on election
day, but only aa they appeared on the re4ister.—lt
was decided to strike out one each of the duplicate
qualificauous. .11r. Dennis named for some voters the
ward they would prefer, cud on the other side an
overseer objected to this mater being gone jut,.ift,r
the agent for the Conservatives had left, the overarers,
he said, were not acting puliticall,..—Mr. Vigor 411•13
what right Mr. Donnie had to choose for the v der. ha
named?— Mr. Dennis: They are our political fie a,
sir, they have acted with us, and we know whit they
would desire at the election.—Mr. Trevanion : Dot
call them political.-Ir. Dennis: oh yes, we 11:14k0
clean breast of it at Weymouth. I should like it I go
forth that we are a young political party, burn out of
due time.

Shortly after, the sittinz, which had hated without
intermission over seven h•iure, came to au sod.
The victory is clahned by the Liberal aide.