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

" PLACES FOR ELCCTION AND POLLING PLACER.

The court for the election of members for each o. " -f
the divisions mentioned in the second column of the said
Schedule (I)) shs'l be holden at the places named for that
purpose in the fourth column of the same schedule.
"2.1. In every county the justices of the peace having
jurisdiction therein, assembled at some court of general
or quarter sessions not later than the first holden after
the dissolution of the present parliament, shall appoint
proper and convenient places for polling in their county, so
that there may be a polling place in every parish or town-
ship in which there are not less than 200 resident
electors, and a polling place for every two or more adjoin-
ing parishes or townships in either of which sepanitely
there may be less than 200 resident ejectors, at some central
or convenient point at which as nearly as pa:tibia 200
voters from such smaller parishes or townships may most
conveniently attend to record their votes ; and the places
so selected by the justices as the future polling places of
the county shall forthwith be duly advertised in such man-
ner as the justices think fit ; and the said justices may
from time to time at any court of general or quarter ses-
sions alter such polling places as they may think expe-
dient ; but it shall not be incumbent upon any revising
barrister to attend at any polling place at which lees than
500 voters are appointed to poll.
" 24. At every contested election for any county, unless
some building or place belonging to the county is provided
by the justices for that purpose, the sheriff shall, when-
ever it 111 practicable so to do, instead of erecting a boodi,
hire a buildingor room for the purpose of taking the poll
at the places so appointed by the justices as aforesaid
and the expense incur red by the said sheriff in the hire of
rooms, or erecting booths for polling, shall be paid to
him by the justices for such county out of the county rate.
Where in any place there is any room, the expense of
maintaining which is payable out of any rates levied in
such place, such room may, with the consent of the person
or corporation having the control over the same, be uted
for the purpose of taking the poll at such place.

" ELECTION IN rNIVERMITY OP LONDON.
"25. The Vice• Chancellor of the University of London
shall be the retuniing officer for such university, and the
writ for any election of a member to serve in parliament
for such university shall be directed to such vice-chancellor.
" The Vice-Chancellor of the Uriversity of London
shall proceed to election in pursuance of any writ to be
directed to him, as hereinbefore mentioned, within six
days after the receipt of such snit, giving three clear days'
noti,e of the day and place of election, exclusive of the day
of proclamation and the day of election ; and the vice-
chancellor shall, after such election, certify the same, to-
gether with such w.it, according to the directions thereof.

" 27. At every contested election of a member or niem-
ben to serve in parliament for the University of London
the polling shall commence at eight o'clock in the morning
of the day next following the day fixed for the election,
and may continue for not more than three days, Sunday,
Christmas Day, and Good Friday being excluded, but no
poll shall be kept open later than four o'clock in the after-
DOOM - _

At every election of a member to serve in parlia-
ment for the University of London the Vice-Chancellor
shall appoint the polling place, and also shall have power
to appoint two or more pro-vice-chancellors, any one of
whom may receive the votes and decide upon all questions
during the absence of such vice-chancellor ; and such vice-
chancellor shall have power to appoint poll clerks and
other officers, by one or more of whom the votes may be
entered in the poll-book or such number of poll-books as
m y be judged necessary by such vice-chancellor; and
such vice-chancellor shall, not later than 2 o'clock in the
afternoon of the day next follos:ng the close of the poll,
openly declare the state of the poll and make proclamation
or the member chosen.
" VOTLYG PAPERS.
" 29. Any elector may give his vote by a voting paper
in the same manner and subject to the same conditions in
and subject to which an elector of any of the universities
of Oxford, Cambridge, or Dublin may give his vote, and
all the provisions of the act of the session of the 24th and
25th years of the reign of her present Majesty, cap. 53,
shall, with the requisite variations, apply accordingly ;
and in construing the said act ' the returning officer'
shall be substituted for 'the Vice-Chancellor of the Uni-
versity,' and the exprAision ' University' shall be taken to
mean the county or borough for which the elector votes.

" )(Ism- LLANzors.

" 30. In any borough named in Schedules (B) and (C) to
this act annexed, which is or includes a municipal borough,
the mayor of such municipal borough shall be the return-
ing officer, and in the other cases the returning officer shall
be appointed in the same manner as if such places were
included amongst the boroughs mentioned in Schedules (C)
and (D) of the act of the second year of his late Majesty
William the Fourth, chapter 45, for which no persons are
mentioned in such schedules as returning officers.

" 31. The following persons, that is to say,
shall be appointed boundary oommisaioners for England
and Wales, and they shall, immediately after the passing
of this act, name special assistant comnuseioners, who shall
examine the bound►ries of the boroughs constituted by
this act (including the divisions of the borough of the
TOWie Hamlets), and of every other borough in England

s.a
19, = 1867.

and Wales. The amistant-oommissioners so appointed
shallgive notice, by public advertisement, of their Wren-
' than lc visit ouch boroughs, and shall appoint a time fur
• receiving the staimptints ei any persons who may be de-
sirens of giving information as to the boundaries or other
Beal circumstances of such boroughs, and shall, by per-
sonal inspection and such other means as they shall think
necessary, possess themselves of such information as will
enable them to make such report and recommendation as
hereinafter mentioned. Upon the completion of such
examination by the said assistant-commissioners,
the Inclosure Commissioners shall report to one of Ler
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State whether any en-
largement of the boundaries of such boroughs is necessary
' in order to include within the area thereof the population
properly belonging to such boroughs respectively, and in
such report shall propose such new boundaries (if any) as
in their judgment would effect that object, but such re-
port shall be of no validity until it has been confirmed by
Parliament.
"32. Every person claiming to vote in respect of any
franchise conferred by this act, other than one involving
occupation of premises and payment of rates, shall vote at
the booth at which he would vote if he were registered as
a voter in respect of the house in which he resides.
"'i3. There shall be repealed so much of the seventy-
ninth section of the act of the sixth year of the reign of
her present Majesty, chapter 18, as relates to the residence
of voters at the time at which they give their votes.
" 34. Where the owneris rated in respect of a dwelling
house instead of the occupier, the occupier may claim to
be rated for the purpose of acquiring the franchise in the
same manner and subject to the same conditions in and
subject to which an occupier may claim to be registered
under the existing acts of parliament for the purpose of
acquiring the franchise in respect of the occupation of
premises of a clear yearly value of not less than ten
pounds, and all the provisions of the said acts shall app!
accordingly; provided that the rites to be paid by such
occupier in order to entitle him to the franchise shall be
rates calculated on the full rateable value of the premises.
"3i. Where any occupier of • dwelling house in re.
of which the owner is rated instead of
thee 6 occupier at the time of the passing of this
act would be entitled to be registered, in pursu-
ance of this act, at the first registration of parlia-
mentary voters to teL made after the passing of this act,
if he had paid rates for the required period, such occupier
shall, notwithstanding he may not have paid such rates,
be entitled to be registered, subject to the following condi-
tions :-1. That he makes a claim to be rated in manner in
which such claims are required by the existing law to lie
made, within one month after the passing of this act :
2. That he pays all rates due in respect of such house at
the time of making his claim, and further pays all rates
becoming due in respect of such house between the date of
his claim being made and the date of his name being
placed on the register of parliamentary voters, such last-
mentioned rates to be calculated on the full rateable value
of the premises.
" 31. i. Any candidate or other person, either directly or
indirectly, corruptly paying any rate on behalf of anyvoter
for the purpose of enabling him to be registered as a voter,
or for the purpose of inducing him to vote, shall be guilty
of bribery, and be punishable accordingly ; and any person
on whose behalf and with whose privity any such payment
is made shall also be guilty of bribery, and punishable
acco "
311.ntibeseas by the act of the sixth year of the reign
of Queen Anne, chapter seven, all persons appointed to
offices of profit under the crown, and thereafter duly
elected as members of the House of Commons, are re-
quired to vacate their seats upon their acceptance of any
other office of profit under the crown and it is expedient
to alter the laws in this re-pect : be it therefore enacted,
that if any person appointed to any office of profit under
the crown, and thereafter duly returned as a member of
the House of Couirno is, accepts, while he continues to be
such member, any other office of profit under the crown
(except an office which by law incapacitates the holder
thereof from being elected or from voting in parliament),
the acceptance of such other office shall not render the
el,.rtion of such person void, nor shall any writ thereupon
issue for a ne v election.
"38. Where separate registers of voters have been
directed to be made in any county or borough divided by
this act, if a vacancy take place in the representation of
the said county or borough before the summoning of a
future parliamenl, and after the completion of such sepa-
rate:registers, such last mentioned registers shall, for the
purpose of any election to fill up such vrcancy, be deemed
toge Cher to form the register fur the county or borough.
"34. Nothing in this act contained shall affect the
rights of persons whose names are for the time being on
the register of voters for any county in which the boroughs
constituted by this act are situate to vote in any election
for such county in respect of any vacancy that may take
place before the summoning of a future parliament, but
after such summoning no person shall be entitled to be
registered as a voter or to vote in any election for any such
county who would not be entitled to be so registered or to
vote in case the boroughs constituted by this act were be-
fore the passing of this act boroughs returning member., to
parliament.
" 40. The franchises conferred by this Act shall be in
addition to cud not in substitution for any existing fran-
chises ; and, subject to the provisions of this Act, all laws,
customs, and enactments now in force conferring any
right to vote or otherwise relating to the representation of
the people in England and Wales shall remain in full
force, and shall apply, as nearly as circumstances admit,
to any constituency hereby authorised to return a member
or members to parliament as if it had heretofore returned
such members to parliament.
" 41. All writs to be issued for the election of members
to serve in parliament, and all mandates, precepts, instru-
ments, proceedings, and notices consequent upon such
writs, shall he framed and expressed in such manner and
form as may be necessary for the carrying the provisions
of this act into effect.
" 42. This act, so far as is consistent with the tenor
thereof, shall be construed as one with the enactments
for the time being in force relating to the representation
of the people.
" 43. The following terms shall in this act have the
meanings hereinafter assigned to them, unless there is
something in the context repugnant to such construction ;
that is to say—' month' shall mean calendar month;
member' shall include • knight of the shire ;
' election' shall mean an election of a member
or members to serve in parliament ; county' shall
not include a county of • city or county of a town,
but shall mean any county, riding. parte or division
of a county returning • member or members to serve in
parliament : ' borough' shall mean any borough, city,
plate, or combination of places, not being a county as here.
inbefore defined, returning a member or members to serve
in parliament ; The Registration Acts' shall mean the
act of the 6th year of the reign of her present Majesty,
cap. la, and the act of the ta4th year of the reign of her
present Majesty, cap. 31i, and any other acts or parts of
acts relating to the registration of persons entitled to vote
at and proceedings in the election of members to serve in
parliament for England and Wales."

SCHEDULES.
SCHIMULE (A).

Boroughs to return one member only in future Parliaments.
Honiton, Thetford, Wells, Evesham, Marlborough,
Harwich, Richmond, Lymington, Knaresborough, Au.
clover, Leominster, Tewkesbury. Ludlow, Ripon, Hun-
tingdon, Maldon, Cirencester, lknlmin, Great Marlow,
Devizes, Hertford, Dorchester, and Lichfield.

SCHEMLE (B).

Places to be Boroughs to Member each.

Places to be Boroughs. Temporary Contents or Boundaries.
Torquay Parishes of Tor Mohun, St. Mary
Church, Cockington, Paignton.
Darlington Townships of Darlington, Haughton-le-
Skerne Cockerton.
Hartlepool Municipal borough of Hartlepool,
townships of Throston, Stranton,
Seaton Carew.
Gravesend Parishes of Gravesend, Milton, North-
fleet.
Townships of Sutton and Parr, portions
of townships of Eccieston and
Whittle.
Burnley Townships of Burnley, Habergham
Eaves.
Staleybridge Municipal borough of Staleybridge,
remaining portion of township of
Dakin/eld, township of Staley, thu
district of the Local Board of Health
of Moseley.
Wednesbnry ... Parishes of Wednesbury, West Brom-
wich, Tipton.
Parish of Croydon, Hamlet of Penge.
' Township of Linthorpe, and so much
of the townships of Middlesborough,
Grimsby, and Eaton, as lie to the
north of the road leading from
Eaton towards Yann.
The townships of Dewsbury, Batley,
Soothill.
The townships of Barnsley, Wors-
borough, Dodworth, Barugh, Monk
Bretton, Anlsley.
Salmi:LE (C).
Divisions of Borough of Tower Hamlets.

81. Helens.

Croydon
Middlesboro'

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Northern Division—The psh of Hackney ; the parish
of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green ; the pariah of West Ham ;
the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch.
Southern Division—The parish of St. George's-in-the-
East ; the hamlet of Mile-end Old Town ; the union of
parishes of Poplar ; the union of parishes of Stepney ; the
union of parishes of Whiteehapel ; the Liberty of the
Tower of Loudon.