The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-19 00:00:00

_" REGISTRATION OP VOTERS.

" 19. The following regulatioir; shall be observed with
respect to the registration of voters :-1. The overseers of
every parish or township shall make out or cause to be
made out a fiat of all persons on whom a right to vote in
respect of the occupation of premises is conferred by this
act, in the same manner and subject to the same regula-
tions, as nearly as circumstances admit, in and subject to
which the overseers of parishes and townships in boroughs
are required by the registration acts to make out or cause
to be made out a hat of all persons entitled to vote for •
member or members for • borough in respect of the occu-
pation of premises of a clearyearly value of not less than 10/.
2. The claim of any person desirous of being registered as
a voter for any county or borough, and herein-before
required to make a claim, shall be made in the form
marked 1 in schedule (E) annexed hereto, or as near
thereto as circumstances admit. 3. The claim of a person
claiming to be registered in respect of a deposit in a savings
bank shall not be received by the overseers unless it have
annexed thereto a certificate in the form marked 2 in the
said schedule, or as near thereto as circumstances will
admit, and is signed, in the case of a post-office savings
bank, by some officer authorised to sign the same by the
Postmaster-General, and in the case of any other =sings
bank by two of the trustees or managers of such savings
bank, or by some officer authorised by them. 4. The
claim of any person claiming to be registered in respect
of the holding of any parliamentary stocks or funds
of the United Kingdom to an amount of not less than
101. shall not be received by the overseers unless it have
annexed thereto a certificate in the form marked 3 in the
said schedule, or as near thereto as circumstances admit,
and signed by an officer of the governor and company of
the Bank of England, or, as the case may require, I
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an officer of the governor and company of the
of Ireland. 5. The claim of any person claiming to be
registered in respect of the payment of assessed taxes
and income tax, or either of such taxes, shall not be
received unless it have annexed thereto • certificate in
the form marked 4 in the said schedule, or as near
thereto as circumstances admit, and signed by one of
the commissioners or collectors acting in relation to the
tax in respect of which such certificate is required. 6. The
overseers of parishes and townships in counties and
boroughs shall annually give notice directing all persons
who are required by this act to make their claim to send
in their claims to them, such notice to be given in the
same manner, so far as circumstances admit, in whichever.
seers give notice in counties under the law in force at the
time of the passing of this act to persons desirous of being
placed on the list of county voters. Upon the receipt of
a claim by any such person as atonntd, having annexed
thereto such certificates as aforesaid, the overseers may
make all such objections to the claim so made as overseers
in counties are empowered to make on receiving claims of
voters, but subject thereto shall place the claimant on the
list of voters for the parish or township in which the
residence of the voter is situate. _ _ _

"20. If any person whose certificate is required under
this act in support of the claim of a person to vote wil-
fully refuses to give such certificate, he shall on summary
conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding sf.
"21. if any person is guilty of any of the following
offences, that is to say,-1. Wilfullygives anycertificate re-
quired by this act falsely ; 2. Forges, counterfeits, or fraudu-
lently alters any such certificate or any signature thereto
3. Knowingly makes use of, in support of • claim to be
registered or to vote, any false ant tificate, or any certificate
forged, counterfeited, or altered as aforesaid ; such person
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on being convicted
thereof shall be liable to imprisonment, with or without
hard labour, for • term not exceetling two years.