The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-12 00:00:00

ELECTION ACTS AMENDMENT RILL.

Mr. DorEu(iTt the stiotnee of Deputy Ilarrison)
brought up the report of the freedom cooonittee, to whom
thin bill hod been ref:Trvd for re-consideration.

Mr. wool.) ruottPE. read the report, which was as fol-
lows :—" To the Right Honourable toe Lori Mayor, Alder-
men, and Commoners of the City of London, in ommon
Cuuncil assembled,—We, whose names are hereunto sub-
scribed of your freedom committee, to whom do the 4th I
day of Dccember instant was referred back by this
honourable court the proposed London Corporation Bill,
with instructions to consider whether a clause should be in-
soled in the said bill prtscribing the skeiarations and oaths
(if any) mast:miry to be made or taken by aldermen, cent-
mon councilmen, :mil other 'nankin-I officers who may be
elected under the act, do certify that your cammittee,
cousidcred the said referwice and being of opinion that
it was intended by this honourable court by the bill to give
liberty to trade within the C-ty to all persons occupying
premises within the City, your committee directed a clause
to be prepared, enacting that every person in the City of I
London may keep any shop for the sale of ell lawful wares
tuid merchandises, by a lioleitalo or retail, and use every
lawful trade or occupation, mystery and handicraft, Mr hire,
gain, gale, or otherwise, within the ',lid City and
That your committee.bving also tifopittion that the tulle taken
at the several bars of this city should he immediately abut-
ished,they directed a clause to be nrepartd for that purpose.
That the subjects of theft, two clauses not being imeeified in
the parliamentary notices, thise etauses connot be intro-
ductal in the bi 1 in the first instance. but may, with the
sanction of the standing orders committee of the House of
Common-, be introduced in the committee on the bill. That
with respect to the qualification of voters, your committee
directed clause• to be prepared, extendlug the right of
vother 1.11. aldermen, COLUILIUII isoutteilmen, :slid ward officers,
:tad also for mayor, sheriffs, chamberlain, and other officers
elonta by the livery, to all persons occupying premises
within the city for a year and a day previously to the lot
day of Septendxir in any year, and rate I to the police rate
of the City of London. L hat your cumusittee also directed
provisions to lac inserted in the bill, requiring the ward
clerks to make out lists of the names of voter in their re-
spective wants, anti to transmit thc same to the town clock,
and also requiring the town clerk to make tint an alphabetical
lot of all such 113111 es, mid for the appointment of a
court or courts to revise such lists, and for printing and
puldiehing the said lists, and also for regulating the qualifi-
cation or dimpialificatiou and acceptance of °thee of alder-
man, sherd'', and common councilman. Thu it oppears to
your committee that the insert' in the bill of any clause
by
the declarations and oaths to be made sub taken
hy municipal officers will interfere with the ;eneral law ;
and, us the subject is not included in the parhatuentary no-
tiers, your cmumittee are of opinion that it is inexpedient to
Mit...duce this natter into the bill. That your committee
have caused the bill, As approved by them, to be printed
fur the emmiderrtion of yo honourable court. that it

will be neorsivary to depoatt a petition for leave to bring in
the mid bill, at the private bill °thee of the House of Com-
moor, on or before the '3161 instant. Your committee
dircets.sl Mr. ltentetsibranessr to prepare the draft el a peti-
tion aecordinaly, and your conticsittsys, baring approved of
the k.4il draft petition, subnut the ',anal: to the. honourable
court. Dated the 11th day of lkeenther, 1841." Then
follow the signature's of the members of the committee.

Mr. BOWER. said, in inmrintr that the preamble, on al-

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Willi ill CO:ll:tlittt.t., And AS II WI brought up, be read, it was
his duty to inform the court that the Iteeorder and the
other Ltsr °diem of the corporation had attended the min-
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Iltitt:c; that thu whulu suerits of the hill had tweti very
seriously cll.:ewe:eel, awl he thought some very valuable and
uecessery al(erationi had b•Cli mole, which wmlhl suable
it to paw through sterlivinent. There w,ll, however, very
little, it anything, added to the bill siuee it Will loot before
the court:

I lie preamble was read.
Clauses I, 2, 21111 3, were passed.
Mr. ELLIOf f objected to &attic 4, on the ground that
it gave Ow right of voting to occupiers not mident in the
Cityy
' ANDEIITON said it was the very object of the bill
to give to persons living out of the City, and having a right
to vote, an interest iu it. (Hear, hear.)
The clause Was pa•Stal.
Clauses ~ 11, 7,8, 9, and 10 were passed unanimously, hut
upon 11 and 15 being hut tttt itted, several verbal alterations
were proposed, none of them, however, being of much
public importance. Alter a most tedious discussion on the
remaining clauses (Pi to 34 inclusive), the question, "That
this bill do new pass as ,iinomileol," woo put and carried
amidst much cheering. Mr. IL L. Taylor having previously
obtained the permission of the court to add to it another
clause, which will have the effect of giving of to the
elections of municipal representatives on St. 'I 1 ah's-day
without the necessity of their being referred to any other
tasty on the ensuing Plough Monday, such an arrangement
living considered likely touch to facilitate the transaction of
the public business.