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NO PERSON CHARGED WITH DUTY AS TRUSTEE TO BE EN-
TITLED TO VOTE IN RESPECT OF SUCH CHARGE.
16. Provided always, that no person who shall be charged
with any of the said duties on profits arising from property,
professions, trades, and offices (whether locally collected or
not) shall be entitled to vote in respect of any sum so
charged which he shall be entitled, as a trustee or otherwise,
to deduct, retain, or be reimbursed.
EACH OF THE PLACES IN SCHEDULE (A.) TO BE A BOROUGH,
AND TO RETURN ONE MEMBER.
17. Each of the places named in schedule (A.) to this Act
shall for the purposes of this Act be a borough, and shall as
such borough include the places and be comprised within
the boundaries which shall be specified and described in an
Act t o be passed for that purpose in this present session of
Parliament, which Act when passed shall be deemed and
taken to be part of this Act, as fully and effectually as if the
same were incorporated herewith ; but if no such Act shall
be passed before the first day of June, one thousand eight hun-
dred and.fifty-two, then until Parliament shall otherwise pro-
vide, each such borough shall include such places and be
comprised within such boundaries as are specified and de-
scribed in conjunction with the name of such respective bo-
rough in the said schedule (A.), and each of such boroughs
shall from and after the thi-tieth day of November, one thou-
sand eight hundred and,fif fifty two, return one Member to serve
in Parliament.
CERTAIN PLACES TO BE ADDED TO AND SHARE IN ELEC-
TIONS FOR BOROUGHS.
18. Each of the places named in the third column of the
schedule (B.) t o this Act shall have a share in the election of
a Member or Members, as the case may be, to serve in Par-
liament for the borough which is mentioned in conjunction
therewith, and named in the second column of such sche-
dule, and shall be deemed to be added to and form part of
such borough, for all purposes of this Act not herein specially
provided tor; and each of the said places named in the
third column of the said schedule (B.) shall for the purposes
of this Act include the places and be comprised within the
boundaries which shall be specified and described in an Act
to be passed for that purpose in this present session of Par-
liament, but if no such Act shall be passed before the first
day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two,
then, until Parliament, shall otherwise provide, shall for the
purposes of this Act include such places and be comprised
within such boundaries as are specified and described in the
fourrh column of the said schedule (B.), in conjunction
with the name of each respective place named in the third
column of such schedule.
PROVISION FOR TAKING THE POLL AT PLACES TO SHARE
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 fur 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 ie 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 CRICRLADE.
20. 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 F arts 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 (B. ), 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, parts, 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 hnndred and fifty. two; and, notwithstanding
anything hereinbefore 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, shall 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 FORCE.
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, nothing 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
succeeding year in the month of March, by
writing hand, to be delivered to the clerk of the
Act, and
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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 any 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 churchwarden? 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, be 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.
NO VOTER TO POLL OUT OF THE DISTRICT WHERE HIS
PROPERTY LIES.
26. And whereas by section sixty •four of the said Act of
the second year of King William the Fourth it is enacted that
no person shall be admitted to vote at any contested election
for any county, or riding, parts, or division of a county, in
respect of any property situate in any parish, township, or
place, except at the booth allotted as therein mentioned for
such parish, township, or place, and if no booth shall be so
allotted for the same, then at any of the booths for the same
district; and in case any parish, township, or place shall
happen not to be included in any of the districts to be ap-
pointed, the votes in respect of property situate in any
parish, township, or place so omitted shall be taken at the
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of the sixth year of her Majesty,
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is made concerning persons on the list of voters for any
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pariah or township whose places of abode are not within the
polling district at which such parish or township is allotted
to poll :
RECITED PROVISIONS EXTENDED TO PERSONS ENTITLED TO
VOTE IN RESPECT TO PAYMENT OF TAXES.
The said provision of the said Act of King
William the
Fourth shall, subject to the said provision of the said Act of
her Majesty, extend and be applicable to every person whose
name shall appear in the list of voters of any parish or town-
ship in and for any county, riding, parts, or division, and
who shall be entitled to vote in respect of the payment of
taxes, in like manner as such recited provision is now ap-
plicable to any person entitled to vote at any election for
any county, riding, parts, or division in respect of any pro-
perty in such parish or township.
THE PROVISIONS OF 2 W. 4, C. 45, TO BE ArLICABLE TO
THIS ACT.
27. The provisions of the said Act of the second year of
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King William the Fourth relating to the construction
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hereinbefore contained, shall be construed with
such enactments as one Act.
28. And whereas an Act wa
her Majesty, intituled " An Acta
to
passed in the sixth year of
gistration of persons entitled to vamend the law for the re-
rights of voting, and to regulate ote, and to define certain
certain
election of Members to serve iu Parliamentproceedings in the
Wales :" And whereas for England and
for giving full effect -
provi-
sions hereinbefore contained it is to the necessary to am
Act as herinafter mentioned : end the said
CERTAIN PROVISIONS of 6 VICT. C. 18, REPEALED
CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT SUBSTITUTED: AND
' From and after the first day of June, one thousand e7,/ithundred and fifty-two, the provisions of the said Act of the
sixth year of her Majesty, concerning the precepts and
forms of notices and lists to be delivered by clerks of the
peace to overseers, the notices by overseers requiring persons
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to send
in their claims to vote for counties, the lists of per-
sona so
claiming, and objections by the overseers to such
claims, and concerning the precepts and forms of notices and
Jists to be delivered by town clerks of cities and boroughs to
overseero, 49tio ))),' oyergeera as to payment Nos and