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London, England, 1852-02-14 00:00:00

IN ELECTIONS.

19. Every person who shall have a right to vote in the
election of Members or a Member to serve in Parliament for
any borough in respect of any place named in the third
column of the said schedule (B.), shall give his vote at such
place before the deputy for such place, whom the returning
officer of such borough is hereby authorised and required to
appoint; and the returning officer for every such borough
shall give to the deputy for each of the places sharing in the
election for such borough notice of the day fixed for any
election for such borough, and shall before the day fixed for
such respective election cause to be made and delivered to
every such deputy a true copy of the register of voters for
such borough, and shall under his hand certify every such
copy to be true; and such deputies as aforesaid shall re-
spectively take and conduct the poll, and deliver or transmit
the poll books in such manner as the deputies or returning
officers of cities and boroughs in England are by law
required to do, and shall have the same powers and perform
the same duties in every respect as are respectively conferred
and imposed on such deputies.

SWINDON SEVERED FROM THE BOROUGH OF CRICKLADE,

sO. And whereas under the provision hereinbefore con

tained, entitling certain places to share in the elections for
certain boroughs, Swindon will have a share in the election
of Members for the borough of Marlborough :
All such parts of the borough of Cricklade as shall be in-
cluded in the boundary of Swindon shall be severed from and
cease to be parts of the said borough of Cricklade.

RIGHTS OF PLACES TO VOTE IN ELECTIONS FOR BOROUGHS

IN SCHEDULE (R. ), TO COMMENCE AFTER NOV., 1852.
21. The enactments herein before contained, providing
that the places named in the said schedule (B.) shall have a
share in the election of Members to serve in Parliament for
the respective boroughs mentioned in conjunction therewith
in such schedule, and that certain parts of the borough of
Cricklade shall be severed from such borough, shall take
effect from and after the last day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-two; and if the seat of
any Member returned to serve in Parliament for any
such borough mentioned in the said schedule (B.), or
for the said borough of Cricklade, shall become vacant
within fifteen days before the said last day of November,
or shall have become vacant before the commencement of
such fifteen days, and no warrant to make out a new writ for
the election of a Member to serve in Parliament for such
borough in the place of the Member whose seat shall have
become vacant shall have been issued before the commence-
ment of such fifteen days, no warrant shall be issued for a
new writ for the election of a Member in the place of the
Member whose seat shall be or shall have become vacant as
aforesaid until after such last day of November.

NEW RIGHTS OF VOTING, AND VARIATION OF RIGHTS OF
VOTING, TO TAKE EFFECT IN AND FROM THE REGISTRA-
TION OF 1852.

22. Every person on whom, under the provisions herein-
before contained, a right of voting at any election of a
knight or knights of the shire to serve in Parliament for any
county, riding, parts, or division of a county, or of a Member
or Members to serve in Parliament for any city or borough,
is conferred, shall, subject to the conditions affecting such
right, be entitled to vote at any election of a knight or
knights of the shire to serve in Parliament for such county,
riding, pacts, or division, or of a Member or Members to
serve in Parliament for such city or borough, which
shall take place after the last day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty- two, and, subject to
the conditions affecting his right to be registered in any
year, shall be entitled to be registered in any register
of voters to be formed for such county, riding, parts, or
division, or for such city or borough, in or after the year one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-two; and, notwithstanding
anything hereinbetore contained, registers of voters shall be
formed in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two,
for or in respect of the boroughs in schedule (A.) to this Act,
and the places to share under this Act in elections for any
borough, in like manner as in the case of boroughs now re-
turning Members to serve in Parliament, and places now
sharing in elections for boroughs, and the register of voters
for the borough of Cricklade, :Audi be formed In such year
in like manner as if the parts severed therefrom under this
Act were not now parts thereof.

NOTHING IN THIS ACT TO AFFECT ANY REGISTER OF
VOTERS NOW IN FeiCCE.
23. Provided always, that as respects persons whose
names are on the register in force at the time of the passing
of this Act, of persons entitled to vote in any election of a
knight or knights of the shire to serve in Parliament for a
any county, or any riding, parts or division of a county, or
of a Member or Members to serve in Parliament for any
city or borough, nctthing herein contained shall, so long as such
register shall continue in force, affect the rights which such
persons would have had in case this Act had not been passed.
PROVISION FOR APPOINTMENT OF RETURNING OFFICERS FOR

NEW BOROUGHS.
24. The sheriff for the time being of the county in which
each of the said boroughs named in the said schedule (A.) is
situate shall, within two months after the passing of this
Act, and in every succeeding year in the month of March, by
writing under his hand, to be delivered to the clerk of the
peace of the county within one week, and to be by such
clerk of the peace filed and preserved with the records of
his office, nominate and appoint for such respective borough
a fit person being resident therein to be, and such person so
nominated and appointed shall accordingly be the returning
officer for such respective borough until the nomination to
be made in the succeeding March ; and the provisions contained
in section eleven of the said Act of the second year of King
William the Fourth, providing for the event of the death or
incapacity of any person appointed as returning officer for
any borough, and exempting auy person so appointed from
serving again in the same office, and disqualifying certain
persons from being so appointed, and persons so appointed
from being appointed churchwardens or overseers, and pro-
viding for the case of a charter of incorporation being granted
to any borough, shall extend and be applicable in relation to
the nomination and appointment of returning officers for the
said boroughs in the said schedule (A.) to this Act, and the
returning officers to be nominated and appointed for the same
under this enactment.

PROVISO IN 2 W. 4. C. 45. S. 11 REPEALED. NO PERSON
INTENDING TO BECOME A CANDIDATE COMPELLABLE TO

SERVE AS RETURNING OFFICER.

25. So much of section eleven of the said Act of the second
year of King William the Fourth as provides that no person
qualified to be elected to serve as a Member in Parliament
shall be compellable to serve as returning officer for any bo-
rough for which he shall have been appointed as therein
mentioned, shall be repealed, but no person who shall have
been nominated and appointed a returning officer for any
borough under the said Act or this Act shall be compellable
to serve as such returning officer if, within one week after he
shall have received notice of his nomination and appoint-
ment as returning officer, he shall make before a justice of
the peace a solemn declaration, according to the provisions of
the Act of the session holden in the fifth and sixth years of
King William the Fourth, chapter sixty-two, declaring his
intention to become a candidate for election as a Member to
serve in Parliament for such borough, and shall forthwith
notify the same to the sheriff.