The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-05 00:00:00

THEN.

BILL.

The following is a copy of the Bill introduced

by Lord John Russell, on Thursday, "further to
amend the laws relating to the representation of
the people in England and Wales" :
Whereas it is expedient to make further provi-
sion for the due representation of the people in
Parliament, be it enacted by the Queen's most
Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled,

and by the authority of the same, as follows :
I. Every male person of full age, and not subject
to any legal incapacity, who shall occupy within
any county, or riding, parts, or division of a county,
in England or Wales, except within the limits of a
city or borough which shall return a member or
members to serve in Parliament, or of a place
sharing in the election for such city or borough, as
owner or tenant, any house, warehouse, counting-
house, shop, or other building, being either sepa-
rately or jointly with any land within such county,
riding, parts, or division (except within such limits
as aforesaid) occupied therewith by him as owner,
or occupied by him therewith as tenant under
1 the same landlord, of the clear yearly value of
not less than £lO shall, if duly registered, be en-
titled to vote in the election of a knight or knights
of the shire to serve in Parliament for such county,
riding., parts, or division ; provided always that no
such person shall be so registered in any year unless
he have resided for six calendar months next pre-
vious to the last day of July in such year within
such county, riding, parts, or division.
11. The provisions hereinafter mentioned with
reference to the right :to vote in the election of a
member or members t.) servo in Parliament for a

city or borough, in respect of the occupation of pre,
mises in such city or borough, and to be registered
in respect of such right—that is to say, the provi-
sions now in force as to the time of such occupa-
tion, as to being rated, claiming to be rated, and
payment of rates, and as to successive and joint
occupation, shall be applicable to the right to vote
in the election of a knight or knights of the shire
conferred by_this Act, and to be registered in re-
spect of such right, as if such provisions were re-
enacted, mutatis inutandis, with reference thereto.
111. The occupation of premises within a city or
borough which shall return a member or members
to serve in Parliament, or within a place sharing
in the election for such city or borough of the clear
yearly value of not less than £6, shall confer a right
to vote in the election of such member or members,
in like manner as such right is now conferred in re-
spect of the occupation of premises of the clear
yearly value of not less than £lO ; and all provi-
sions now in force concerning such right in respect
of such occupation shall, save as herein otherwise
provided, be applicable to the right hereby con-
ferred, as if £6 were mentioned in section 27 of
the Act of the session holden in tha 2d and 3d years
of King William IV., cap. 45, and were mentioned
or referred to in all other the provisions concern-
ing such right, instead of £lO.
IV. No person shall be entitled under this Act
to vote in the election of a knight or knights of the
shire for any county, or riding, parts, or division of
a county, or under the said Act of the 2d and 3d
years of King William IV. and this Act, to vote in
the election of a member or members for any city
or borough, in respect of his occupatioi, jointly
with any land, or any building other than a dwell-
ing house in which he himself resides, unless such
building separately be of the clear yearly value of
not less than £5 in a county or than £3 in a city
or borough, although the same, jointly with the
land occupied therewith, be of the clear yearly
value of not less than £lO or £6, as the case may
require.
V. Sections 24 and 25 of the said Act of King
William IV., disentitling persons in the cases
therein mentioned to vote in the election of a knight
or knights of the shire in respect of their estates
and interests as freeholders, copyholders, or cus-
tomary tenants, or tenants in ancient demesne, or
as such lessees or assignees, or as such tenants and
occupiers as in the said Act mentioned, shall not be
applicable in the case of any building and land oc-
cupied therewith, where, by reason of the foregoing
enactment, the occupier shall not be entitled to vote
for any city or borough in respect thereof.
VI. So much of sections 27, 28, and 29 of the said
Act of the 2d and 3d years of King William IV.,
and so much of an Act of the session holden in the
11th and 12th years of her Majesty, cap. 90, and
of an Act of the session holden in the 14th and 15th
years of her Majesty, cap. 14, as requires as a con-
dition of the registration in any year of any such
occupier of premises as therein mentioned, or of his
title to vote in the election for any city or borough,
that he shall have paid, on or before the 20th day
of July in such year, all the assessed taxes which
have become payable from him as therein men-
tioned, shall be repealed.
VII. Each of the boroughs mentioned in the
schedule (A) to this Act shall, from and after the
end of this present Parliament, return one member
and no more to serve in Parliament.
VIII. The parishes of Chelsea and Kensington,
in the county of Middlesex, shall, for the purposes
of this act, together form a borough, to be called
the borough of Chelsea, and such borough shall,
from and after the end of this present Parliament,
return two members to serve in Parliament.
IX. Each of the places mentioned in the schedule
(B) 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 of
such borough as such boundaries shall be settled
and described in an act to be passed for that pur-
pose in this present session of Parliament, which act
when passed shall be deemed and taken to be part
of this act as if the same were incorporated here-
with ; and each of the said boroughs named in the
said schedule (B) shall, from and after the end of
this present Parliament, return one member to
serve in Parliament; and if no act to settle and de-
scribe the boundaries of the said boroughs be passed
before the Ist day of June, 1860, then, until Parlia-
ment otherwise provide, each such borough shall
comprise places and include such boundaries as are
specified and described in connexion with the name
of such respective borough in the said schedule.
X. In all future Parliaments the West Riding of
the county of York shall return four knights of the
shire instead of two to serve in Parliament.
XI. In all future Parliaments the county, riding,
parts, and each of the divisions of counties men-
tioned in the schedule (C) to this act shall respec•
tively return three knights of the shire instead of
two to serve in Parliament.
XII. In all future Parliaments each of the
boroughs mentioned in the schedule (I)) to this act
shall return three members instead of two to serve
in Parliament.
XIII. In all future Parliaments the University
of London shall return one member to servo in
Parliament.
XIV. Every person, not subject to any legal in-
capacity, on whom the degree of Master of Arts,
Bachelor of Laws, Doctor of Laws, Bachelor of
Medicine, or Doctor of Medicine shall have been
conferred by the University of London, or who shall
be a Bachelor of Arts in such University of not less
than three years' standing, shall be entitled to vote
in the election of any member to serve in Parlia-
ment for the said University.
XV. The Sheriff for the time being of the county
in which each of the boroughs constituted by this
Act is situate shall, within two months after the
passing of this Act, and in every subsequent 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, appoint for such respective borough a
fit person, being resident therein, to be, and such
person so appointed shall accordingly be, the re-
turning officer for such respective borough until
the appointment to be made in the succeeding
March ; and the provisions contained in section 11
of the said Act of the 2d and 3d years of King
William IV., providing for the death or incapacity
of any person appointed as returning officer for any
borough, as therein mentioned, and exempting any
so appointed from serving again in the same (ace,
and disqualifying certain persons from being so
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XVI. The Vice-Chancellor of the University of
London shall be the returning officer for Such Uni-
versity, and the wait for any election of a member
to serve in Parliament for such University shall be
directed to such Vice-Chancellor.
XVII. The Vice Chancellor of the University of
London shall proceed to election, in pursuance of
any writ to be dirt eted to him as liereinbefore
mentioned, within three days after the receipt of
such writ, giving three char days' notice of the
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XVIII. At every contested election of a member
to serve in Parliament for the University of London
the polling shall commence at 8 o'clock in the morn-
ing of the day next following the day fixed for the
election, and may continue for not more than three