The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-10 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN

CITIES AND BOROUGHS.
We earnestly urge our friends, who have, or ought
to have, votes, to attend to the following. Another
election will take place before a second registration
is made, and it is therefore the duty of all Reformers
to lose no time in securing their right to vote. The To-
ries have no chance if we do our duty :
HOW TO OBTAIN THE ELECTIVE FRAN-
CHISE, AND HOW TO AVOID DISFRAN-
CHISEMENT.

By the English Reform Act, the right to be registered
as a voter in the Election of Members to serve in Parlia-
ment for Cities and Boroughs, is given to every male
person of lull age, and not subject to any legal incapa-
city, who shall occupy as owner or tenant any house,
warehouse, counting-house, shop or other building of the
clear yearly value of 101., but the occupation must be for
a year enclitic, on the 31st of July, and such person must
be rated or have' claimed to be rated to all rates (if any)
made for the relief of the poor during that period, and
have paid by the 20th of July, his poor's-rate and win-
dow-tax payable previously to the Gth of April, and have
resided (slept) within seven miles, for six months, Joint
occupiers are entitled if the yearly value give 101. for
each occupier.

Person;, although lodgers, who use a part of their
premises (even an attic, kitchen or cellar) as a shop,
workshop, warehouse, store room, or c3unting-house, if
worth four shillings a week, or 10/. a year, are entitled
to vote. Any lodger who pays this amount of rent has
also the right, if his landlord do not sleep on the pre-
mises, or if the lodger have a separate entrance, or the
control of an outer door, or occupy a separate building.
It is only necessary in all these cases that the lodgers
should require an overseer to put their names on the
poor's •rate book (either separately or in conjunction with
the landlord) and any payment afterwards made by them
may be deducted from the rent, as the landlord will, in
consequence of such claim to be rated, cease to be called
upon for rates or will pay proportionally less. 'Where a
man rents a house and the parish officers have rated the
landlord, the tenant if occupying will be entitled to
vote after he has claimed to be rated or has got his own
name put on the poor's-rate. It is not necessary to be
rated at 10/., if the premises be worth that sum annually,
Every tenant, although a lodger, who is liable to a yearly
rent of 50/. is entitled to a vote for the County, if the
premises occupied by . him do not confer a vote for a
City or Borough, and in this case it is not necessary to
be rated. MEMORANDA.

The Gth day of April.—To avoid the disfranchisement
of Ele -.tors in Cities and Boroughs, all the Poor's-rate
and Window-tax (if any) payable from them in respect
of their premises, previously to the 6th day of April,
must be paid on or before the 20th of July. The
Window-tax is payable by Act of Parliament, whether
demanded or not. The Poor's-rate is not "payable till
demanded ; so that it is not necessary, in order to be
registered, for the 101. voter,;eoiMed kinder the Reform
Act, to pay any Pcor's-rate, if it were not demanded
previously to the 6th of April, either personally of the
voter, or by note in writing left on the premises by the
Collector. No man should, however, omit to pay his
Poor's-rate because it has not been demanded, as the
Collectors may think they have called when they have
not done so, and for fear of ultimate neglect, the Poor's-
rate and Window-tax should be paid immediately. In
some parishes there is a Local Act, whereby the Poor's-
rate is payable before a demand has been made.
The 20th day of July.—Parliamentary Electors in
Cities and Boroughs entitled under the Reform Act, will
lose their votes for the next year, unless they pay on or
before the 20th of July all the Poor's-rates (and Win-
dow-tax, if any) payable from them in respect of their
premises, previously to the 6th of April. The payment
of no other rate or tax is required for the exercise of
this franchise.

leC2ouotnhtyorvojteurlsy.7ust send in
_their claims on or before

rate or tax than the
The 31st of July.—Scot and lot voters will be dis-
franchised, unless they pay on or before the 31st of July,
all the Poor's-rates payable from them previously to that
daiy. 1
vTi
nhdeoywn.
teae
xd, not
or , frtoory t
otherhe purpose of registration, pay
Poor's-rates.
Beginning of August.—The Lists of Voters are made
out oa or before the 31st of July, and may be seen gratis
at the Overseers' houses fourteen days afterwards, and on
tle
the Church and Chapel doors on the -two next Sundays,
and may be purchased at a reasonable price. Persons
improperly omitted or inserted, must claim or be objected
to, on or before the 25th of August. Overseers can ob-
ject to county voters, by inserting the words " objected
to," without giving notice to the party, and may omit
the names of any persons 'from the Lists for Cities and
Boroughs also, witholt giving notice, so that it behoves
' all voters annually to inspect the Lists, and to observe if
the particulars be correctly described.
In case an Elector has removed since the last regis-
tration, but continues to occupy premises in the same
City or Borough, he is still entitled to the franchise,
under the 28th section of the Reform Act, which enablesto_e
persons occupying different premises in succession
partyb
registered. In this case, to secure the vote, thevh
_iho
must claim to be registered in the parish tc ‘hmiel
not
has removed, if the Overseers of that parish
already inserted his name.
All persons omitted by reason of the non-payment of
Poor's-rates, should claim to be registered,lie demanded the
as the Col-
lector may not perhaps prove that
payment before the 6th of April, and as there are many
rates not legally made.
The non-payment of the shilling annually charged insome parishes, in respect of t_ h e
or not. registration, does not
disfranchise, whether demanded
In London the Lists of the Liverymen are exhibited
. Exchange.,, Liverymen
improperly omitted, l
at the Guildhall, and
shouldthe o) ..I
deliver claims to the Clerk
of their Company, and II t the Secondaries' office. If
the Company's List, the name
no residence appear nrion
address be given, the Bar-
erased. If a w g .
will be
correct it.
rister, if required, willA
August.—This —This is the last day for
The 25th day of g
objectionsu in Cities and Boroughs,
sending in claims ai4
Count voters.
and for objecting to
iber.y The Lists of objections to
Beginnin,y; of bepten
and Counties, and of the
in Cities, Boroughs,
voters
claims of persons omitted
from the Lists of Voters in
days before the 15th of
^
Cities end Boroughs may, ten
September,
be seen gratis at the
Overseers' houses, and,
the 15th of September,
two Sundays preceding
on