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NO VOTER TO POLL OUT OF THE DISTRICT WHERE lIIS

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, er 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
principal place of election for the county, or riding, parts, or
division of the county, as the case may be; and by the Act
of the sixth year of her Alijesty, chapter eighteen, provision
is made concerning persons on the list of voters for any
parish 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. 41, TO IN APLICABLE TO

THIS ACT.
.27. The provisions of the said Act of the second year of
Ring William the Fourth relating to the construction
thereof shall be applicable to the enactments hereinbefore
contained, and all other the provisions of the said Act, and
of any Act amending the same now in force and not hereby
repealed,
enactments
far as the same are not inconsistent with the
hereinbefore contained, shall be construed with
such enactments as one Act.
28. And whereas an Act was passed in the sixth year of
her Majesty, intituled " An Act to
amend the law for the re-
gistration of persons entitled to vote, and to define certain
rights of voting, and to regulate certain proceedings in the
election of Members to serve iu ParliamentiorEngland and
Wales :" And whereas for giving full effect
to
sions hereinbefore contained it is necessary to
amentdhethpersoaviid-
Act as herinafter mentioned :
CERTADI PROVISIONS of 6 VICT. C. 18, REPEALED, AICERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT SUBSTITUTED. D
From and after the first day of June, one thousand ew
hundred and ,fifty-two, tfty-two, the provisions of the said Act of he
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
send in their claims to vote for counties, the lists of per-
sons so claiming, and objections by the overseers to such
claims, and concerning the precepts and forms of notices and
lists to be delivered by town clerks of cities and boroughs to
overseers, the noV,ce by overseers as to payment of rates and

taxes, tad the lists of person (other than freemen) entitled
to vote in cities and borough (that is to say), sections 3,4,
5, 10, 11 !, and 13 of the said kct, shall be repealed, and the
said Ac t shall be ;read an+ construed as if the provisions
hereinafter contained concerting the like matters were re-
spective, ly• substituted for tho provisions so repealed, and as
if the fo, nes numbered (1, 2,3, 6) in the schedule (C.) to
this Act, t tnd (1, 2,3, 3a, 4) n the schedule (D.) to this Act,
were rest ctively substitute( for the forms numbered (1, 2,
3,6)• in t h e schedule (A.) tothe said Act of the sixth year
of her M k testy, and (1, 2,3, 4) in the schedule (B.) to
such Act.
CLERK OF THE PEACE TC HAVE FORMS OF PRECEPTS,
ETC., PR, (NTED.—CLERK )F THE PEACE TO ISSUE MS
PRECEP ft i, WITH FORD'S OF NOTICES, ETC., TO OVER-
SEER°.
29. The clerk of the peacefor every county shall cause a
sufficient ni tmber of forms of precepts, notices, and lists to
2,3, 6) inhe schedule (C.) b this Act annexed, and of the
in!arecdco(rld)ing to the respective forms numbered (1,
the schedule (D.) annexed to the said
t
Atbaecbtpleoriftintathembl
the ixth ixth year of her Majesty, and shall also, on or
before the ti enth day of Jung in every year, make and cause
to be delivts red to the overseers of the poor of every parish
and town:Lb ip within his county his precept, according to the
form nun sb r.red (1) in the said schedule (C.) to this Act, to-
gether wiitl t a sufficient number of the said printed forms of
notices al nd lists. and of the copies of such part of the register
of voters tt ten in force for um] county as shall relate to
such part al t or township respectively, omitting from such
copies the names of persons whose qualification to vote is in
respect oft he payment of taxes, and also a sufficient num-
ber of the ( lopies of the said tab[e for the purposes herein-
after menti need.
OVERSEERS TO GIVE NOTICE ANNUALLY REQUIRING VOTERS

TO SEND IN TIEDI CLAIMS.
30. The 3verseers of the poor of every parish and township
shall, oa or before the twentieth day of June in every year,
publish a n otice, according to the form numbered (2) in the
said scheda le (C.) having first ggned the same, requiring all
persons err titled to vote in ths election of a knight or
knights oft the shire to serve in Parliament in respect of any
property sit :,uate wholly or in part within such parish or
township,' the shall not be upon the register of voters then
in force, or who being upon such register shall not retain the
same qualification or continue in the same place of abode as
described in such register, and all persons entitled to vote in
such electio a as aforesaid in respect of the payment of taxes
in such parish or township, and entitled to vote in
collected within such parish or township, and all persons re-
sidingsuch election as aforesaid in respect of the payment of other
taxes (whether such persons so entitled to vote in respect of
the paymextt of taxes be upon the register °of voters then in
force, or ot), and who are desirous to have their names
inserted in the register about to be made, to give or send to
the said ev erseers, on or befbre the twentieth day of July
ge inupwonristui:rebgiyster, may be de-
suchthelll person,signed,
a and
tauh eyn
other next :.4ne sr us
oi nag, a
who,n obt ieci
on or before the said
sthireoiurscltaoinimi tlkoevaotneeasw acflaoirmes,aidsh;aalin, d every
twentieth d ay of July, deliver or send to the said overseers a
notice signed by him of his claim, according to the form of
notice set fi ,rth in that behalf in the said form numbered (2),
or to the effect.

AN N
IEMNO "RDEDEATDO"
AGAINST E.--TO ADD TILE
v OLD WE
OVERSEERS TO PREPARE LISTS OF CLAIMANTS..--OVERSEERS
TO
COPIES or LISTS OF CLAIMANTS, AND OF THE PART ON
THE REGISTER or VOTERS RELATING TO THEIR OWN
PARISII--To NEE? COPIES OF SAME FOR LNSFECTION
"AiGIACTTO "YY
NAA

AND SALE.
31. The overseers of the poor of every parish and township
respectively shall, on or before the last day of July in every
year, make out, according to the form numbered (3) in the
said schedule (C.), an alphabetical list of all persons who, on
or before the twentieth day of July then next preceding, shall
have claimed as aforesaid; and in every such list the
Christian name and surname of every claimant, with the
place of his abode, the nature of his qualification and (where
the claim in in respect of property), the local or other de.
scription of the property, and the name of the occupying
tenant thereof, shall be written as the same are stated in the
claim ; and the said overseers, if they shall have reasonable
cause to believe that any person whose name shall appear in
such list of claimants, or in the copy of the register relating
to their parish or township, and received by them from the
clerk of the peace, is not entitled to have his name upon the
register then next to be made, shall add the word " ob-
jected" before the name of every such person on the margin
of such list of claimants or the said copy of register, and
particularly shall so add the word "objected" before the
name of any person whose qualification as stated in such
list of claimants or such copy of the register appears to be
as occupier of lands or tenements situate within such parish
or township of a rateable value of not less than twent3o•
pounds, or as one of two or more joint occupiers of lands or
tenements so situate of a ratable value of an amount which
when divided by the number of such joint occupiers shall
give a sum of not less than twenty pounds for each of such
occupiers, if such premises (where the same are situate in a
parish or township in which there shall be a rate for the re-
lief of the poor) shall not appear on the rate for the relief
of the poor to be of a ratable value of not less• than twenty
pounds, or in the case of such joint occupiers shall not
appear to be of such amount as aforesaid, or if such
person shall not have been rated in respect of such
premises to all rates for the relief of the poor
made in such parish or township during twelve calendar
months next previous to the last day of July in such year ,or
shall not have paid on or before the twentieth day of July in
such year all the poor rates which shall have become pay-
able from him in respect of such premises previously to the
fifth day of January in each year; and the said overseers
shall also add the ward" dead " before the name of any per-
son in the said copy of the register whom they have reason-
able cause to believe to be dead; and the overseers shall
cause a sufficient number of copies of such list of claimants
and of the said copy of the register, with all such marginal
additions as aforesaid, to be written or printed, and shall, on
or before the first day of August,
sign and publish the same;
and the said overseers shall likewise keep a copy of such list
of claimants, and of the said copy of the register, with the
marginal additions respectively as aforesaid, signed by them,
to be perused by any person. without payment of any fee, at
any time between the hours of ten of the clock in the forenoon
and four of the clock in the afternoon of any day except
Sunday, during the first fourteen days after the same shall
have been published, and shall deliver written or printed
copies thereof, signed by them, to all persons applying for the
game, on payLuenG or a price tor each copy aver ifs rate con-
tained in the table numbered (1) in the schedule (D.) an-
nexed to the said Act of the sixth year of her Majesty.
SOWN CLERK TO HAVE FORMS OF PRECEPTS, ETC., PRINTED.

—TO ISSUE HIS PRECEPTS TO THE OVERSEERS.
32. And for the purpose of preparing like lists and form-
ing a register of all persons entitled to vote in the election of
a Member or Members to serve in Parliament for any city or
borough, the town clerk of every such city or borough shall
cause a sufficient number of forms of precepts, notices, and
lists to be printed according to the forms numbered (1,(2,3, 3 a
4) in the schedule (D.) to this Act annexed, and according
to the forms numbered (8, 12) in the schedule (13.) annexed
to the said Act of the sixth year of her Majesty, and of the
table numbered (1) in the schedule (D) annexed to the said
Act of the sixth year of her Majesty, and shall, on or before
the tenth day of June in every year, make and cause to be
delivered to the overseers of the poor of every parish or
township situate wholly or in part within such city or bo-
rough, or within any place sharing in the election for such
city or borough, his precept according to the form numbered
(I) in the said schedule (D.) to this Act, and also a suffi-
cient number of the said printed forms of notices and lists,
and of the said table.
OVERSEERS TO GIVE PUBLIC NOTICE AS TO THE PAYMENT OF
RATES, AND REQUIRING PERSONS TO SEND IN CLAIMS TO
VOTE IN RESPECT OF PAYMENT OF TAXES.
33. The overseers of every such
.parish or township shall,
on or before the twentieth day of June in every year, publish
a notice in writing according to form numbered (2) in the
said schedule (D) to this Act, stating that no person will be
entitled to have his name inserted in any list of voters for
the city or borough then next to be made in respect of the
occupation of premises of the rateable value of /ire
pounds,
situate wholly or in part within such parish or township,
unless he shall pay, on or before the twentieth day of July
then next ensuing, all the poor-rates which shall have be-
come payable from him in respect of such premises during the
twelve calendar months next before the fifth day of January
then last past, and requiring all persons entitled to vote in
the election of a Member or Members for the city or borough
in respect of the payment of taxes collected within such
parish, and all persons residing in
such parish or township,
and entitled to vote in such election in respect of the pay-
ment of other taxes and of residence, who are desirous to
have their names inserted in the register about to be made,
to give or send to the said overseers on or before the said
twentieth day of July a notice in writing by
them signed of
their claim to vote as aforesaid.
OVERSEERS TO PREPARE AND PUBLISHLISTS or PERSONS
(OTHER THAN FREEM ) EN
i ENTITLED TO VOTE.—COPIES
OF LISTS TO BE Kiri. FOR INSPECTION AND SALE.
34. The overseers of every such
parish or township shall,
on or before the last day of July in every year, make out
or cause to be made out, according to the form numbered (3)
in the schedule (D.) to this Act annexed, an alphabetical
list of all persons who may be entitled to vote in the election
of a Member or Members to serve in Parliament for such
city or borough in respect of the occupation of premises
situate wholly or in part within
of such ratable value as required ar
by this Ad, and another
such ish or township
alphabetical list according to the form numbered (3 a) in
before the twentieth day of July
the said schedule (D.) to this
then next preceding shall
Act, of all persons who on or
have claimed as aforesaid in respect of the payment of taxes
collected within such parish or townshi
P, or in respect of the
payment of other taxes, and as residing in such parish or
township (which last mentioned list shall be deemed a list
tsufcrh city
the like purposes and
of voters for such city or borough for
I se;aeeniadionenpe schedulever y
su (c
hD D.
p) e tr o.
subject to the like revision as the other lists to be made out
under this provision), and another
the list: accord-
ing to the form numbered (4) in the
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the b e
or borough b
entitled
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lists
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ri
stotherChristian
nameight whatsoever
son shall be written at full length, together with the place
of his abode, and the nature of his qualification, and where
any person shallt be entitled to vote in respe f an ro-
perty, then the name of the street, lane, and the y P
number of
place, where
the house (if any), or other description of the
, and shall such property may be situate, shall be specified in the list ;
and the said overseers shall sign such lists
with cause a sufficient number of copies of each of the said
forth-
lists to be written or printed, and shall publish copies of the said lista on or before the first day of August in such year, and shall likewise keep a copy of each of the said lists, to be perused by any person, without payment of any fee, at any
iceforela)chincotphye
time between the hours of ten o'clock in the forenoon and
four of the clock on the afternoon of any day, except Sunda
during the first fourteen days after such lists shall have been
so published, and shall deliver copies thereof' to all persons
aa
ipptelry ituhge
ratefor the
contained
m e, o
inn ptahyemt eanb tl
table numbered
f a price
schedule (D.) annexed to the said Act of the 'sixth year of
her Majesty.
COMMISSIONER OR COLLECTOR OF TAXES lIAVITa
• ---o CUSTODY
OF ASSESSMENT TO CERTIFY THE CHARGE OF DUTY.
35. Any commissioner or collector actingin relation to an
of the duties in respect of the charge of which a right to vote
hereof, shall, on the request
may he conferred by this Act, and having in his custody any
assessment or duplicate t of any
ent or duplicate to the amount
to such persona
upwards, give , certificate
of forty shillings or
schedule (E.) to:this:Act, signed
person charged in such assessment
in the form numbered (1) in
a voter in respectof
by such commis.. • loner or collector, certifying that suChsi'..p—er--
necif•
and such person,• caseu
certificate a declaration
in
son is so charged to the amount. aforesaid, and s
such
such certificate •
using
lai also ob
et the
sdiersacursi description o nb
be registered
esguicsht
edrneudt
such
ea
h,
charge of duties, and of as evidence of
the said schedule (E.), which
shall in the form numbered (2, in
such charge, shall endorse‘ t?
his true Ch •
rank, calling, or ccu-
shall be signed by him, setting forth ristianiname
and surname, lace of abode,
person certi-
fiedpation, and
division,
t, oor servesueh
duty as in the said
to be charged with certi-
ficate is mentioned, and that by virtueof
such charge
registered as ' entitled to v •
of duty he claims to bevote at
declaring that be is the
of the h*
riding, parts, or
in Parliament for a county, or
any election of a knight or knight
election
for a city of a county, or to vote at any of a Member
or Members to serve in Parliament
..y. or borough,
parts,
specifying such county, riding, be; and such certificate
o may tY or borough, as the case cats

and declaration as aforesaid, being delivered to the over-
seers or one of the overseers of the poor of the parish or
place where the person certified to be so charged shall claim
to be registered to vote as aforesaid, shall be kept by such
overseers, and the same shall on all occasions touching the
right or title of such claimant to be registered or to vote at
any election be received and admitted as evidence of such
charge of duty.