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" PLACES FOR ELECTION AND POLLING PLACES.

with the consent of the person or corporation having
the control over the same, be used for the purpose
of taking the poll at such place.

" ELECTION IN UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.

" 25. The Vice-Chancellor of the University of
London shall be the returning officer for such uni-
versity, and the writ for any election of a member
to serve in Parliament for such university shall be
directed to such vice-chancellor.

" 26. The Vice-Chancellor of the University of
London shall proceed to election in pursuance of any
writ to be directed to him, as hereinbefore mentioned,
within six days after the receipt of such writ, giving
three clear days' notice of the day and place of elec-
tion, exclusive of the day of proclamation and the
day of election, and the vice-chancellor shall, after
such election, certify the same, together with such
writ, according to the directions thereof.

" 27. At every contested election of a member or
members to serve in Parliament for the University
of London the polling shall commence at eight
o'clock in the morning of the day next following the
day fixed for the election, and may continue for not
more than three clays, Sunday, Christmas Day, and
Good Friday being excluded, but no poll shall be
kept open later than four o'clock in the afternoon.
" 28. At every election of a member to serve in
Parliament for the University of London the Vice-
Chancellor shall appoint the polling place, and also
shall have power to appoint two or more pro-vice-
chancellors, any one of whom may receive the vote
and decide upon all questions during the absence of
such vice-chancellor ; and such vice-chancellor shall
have power to appoint poll-clerks and other officers,
by one or more of whom the votes may be entered
in the poll-book or number of poll-books as may be
judged necessary by such vice-chancellor ; and suc h
vice-chancellor shall, not later than two o'clock in
the afternoon of the day next following the close of
the poll, openly declare the state of the poll and
make proclamation of the member chosen.

" VOTING PAPERS.

" 29. Any elector may give his vote by a voting
paper in the same manner and subject to the same
conditions in and subject to which an elector of any
of the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, or Dublin
may give his vote, and all the provisions of the act
of the session of the 24th and 25th years of the
reign of her present Majesty, cap. 53, shall, with
the requisite variations, apply accordingly; and in
construing the said act ' the returning officer' shall
be substituted for the Vice-Chancellor of the Uni-
versity,' and the expression University' shall be
taken to mean the county or borough for which the
elector votes.

" MISCELLANEOUS.

" 30. In any borough named in Schedules (13)
and (C) to this act annexed, which is or includes a
municipal borough, the mayor of such municipal
borough shall be the returning officer, and in the
other cases the returning officer shall be appointed
in the same manner as if such places were included
amongst the boroughs mentioned in Schedules (C)
and (D) of the act of the second year of his late
Majesty William the Fourth, chapter 45, for which
no persons are mentioned in such schedules as re-
turning officers.
" 31. The following persons, that is to say,
shall be appointed boundary commissioners
for England and Wales, and they shall, immediately
after the passing of this act, name special assistant
commissioners, who shall examine the boundaries of
the boroughs constituted by this act (including the
divisions of the borough of the Tower Hamlets), and
of every other borough in England and \Vales. The
assistant-commissioners, so appointed shall give
notice, by public advertisement, of their intention
to visit such boroughs, and shall appoint a time for
receiving the statements of any persons who may
be desirous of giving information as to the boun-
daries or other local circumstances of such boroughs,
and shall, by personal inspection and such other
means as they shall think necessary, possess
themselves of such information as will enable
them to make such report and recommendation as
hereinafter mentioned. Upon the completion of
such examination by the said assistant-commis-
sioners, the Inclosure Commissioners shall report to
one of her Majesty's Princip:►l Secretaries of State
whether any enlargement of the boundaries of such
boroughs is necessary in order to include within the
area thereof the population properly belonging to
such boroughs respectively, and in such report shall
propose such new boundaries (if any) as in their
judgment would effect that object, but such report
shall be of no validity until it has been confirmed
by Parliament.
" 32. Every person claiming to vote in respect
of any franchise conferred by this Act, other than
one involving occupation of premises and payment
of rates, shall vote at the booth at which he would
vote if he were registered as a voter in respect of
the house in which he resides.

" 33. There shall be repealed so much of the
seventy-ninth section of the act of the reign of her
present Majesty, chapter 18, as relates to the resi-
dence of voters at the time at which they give their
votes.

" 34. Where the owner is rated in respect of a
dwelling house instead of the occupier, the occupier
may claim to be rated for the purpose of acquiring
the franchise in the same manner and subject to the
same conditions in and subject to which an occupier
may claim to be registered under the existing Acts
of Parliament for the purpose of acquiring the fran-
chise in respect of the occupation of premises of a
clear yearly value of not less than ten pounds, and
all the provisions of the said acts shall apply ac-
cordingly; provided that the rates to be paid by
such occupier in order to entitle him to the fran-
chise shall be rates calculated on the full rateable
value of the premises.

" 35. Where any occupier of a dwelling house
in respect of which the owner is rated instead of
the occupier at the time of the passing of this
act would be entitled to be registered, in pur-
suance of this act, at the first registration of
parliamentary voters to be made after the pass-
ing of this act, if he had paid rates for the re-
quired period, such occupier shall, notwithstand-
ing he may not have paid such rates, be en-
titled to be registered, subject to the follow-
ing conditions .-1. That he makes a claim to be
rated in manner in which such claims are required
by the existing law to be made, within one
month after the passing of this act : 2. That he
pays all rates due in respect of such house at
the time of making his claim, and further pays all
rates becoming due in respect of such house between
the date of his claim being made and the date of his
name being placed on the register of Parliamen-
tary voters, such last- mentioned rates to be cal-
culated on the full rateable value of the premises.
" 36. Any candidate or other person, either
directly or indirectly, corruptly paying any rate
on behalf of any voter, or for the purpose of in-
ducing him to vote, shall be guilty of bribery,
and be punishable accordingly ; and any person on
whose behalf and with whose privity any such
payment is made shall also be guilty of bribery,
and punishable accordingly.

" 22. The court for the election of members for
each of the divisions mentioned in the second column
of the said Schedule (D) shall be holden at the places
named for that purpose in the fourth column of the
same schedule.

" 23. In every county the justices of the peace
having jurisdiction therein, assembled at some court
of general or quarter sessions not later than the first
holden after the dissolution of the present Parlia-
ment, shall appoint proper and convenient places
for polling in their county, so that there may be a
polling place in every parish or township in which
there are not less than 200 resident electors, and a
polling place for every two or more adjoining
parishes or townships in either of which separately
there may be less than 200 resident electors, at some
central or convenient point at which as nearly as
possible 200 voters from such smaller parishes or
townships may most conveniently attend to record
their votes ; and the places so selected by the justices
as the future polling places of the county shall forth-
with be duly advertised in such manner as the jus-
tices may think fit ; and the said justices may from
time to time at any court of general or quarter ses-
sions alter such polling places as they may think ex-
pedient ; but it shall not be incumbent upon any re-
vising barrister to attend at any polling place at
which less than 500 voters are appointed to poll.
" 24. At every contested election for any county,
unless some building or place belonging to the county
is provided by the justices for that purpose, the
sheriff shall, whenever it is practicable so to do, in-
stead of erecting a booth, hire a building or room
for the purpose of taking the poll at the places so
appointed by the justices as aforesaid; and the ex-
-pense incurred by ,the said sheriff in the hire -of
rooms, or erecting booths for polling, shall be: paid
to him by the justices for such county out of the
county rate. Where in any place there is any
room, the expense of maintaining which i 3 payable
out of any rates levied iu such place, such room may,

" 37. Whereas by the act of the 6th year of
the reign of Queen Anne, chap. 7, all persons ap-
pointed to offices of profit under the Crown, and
thereafter duly elected as members of the House
of Commons are required to vacite their seats
upon their acceptance of any other office of profit
under the Crown, and it is expedient to alter the
laws in this respect : be it therefore enacted, that
if any person appointed to any office of profit
under the Crown, and thereafter duly returned as
a member of the House of Commons, accepts,
while he continues to be such member, any other
office of profit under the Crown (except an office
which by law incapacitates the holder thereof from
being elected or from voting in Parliament), the
acceptance of such other office shall not render the
election of such person void, nor shall any writ
thereupon issue for a new election.
" 38. Where separate registers of voters have
been directed to be made in any county or borough
divided by this act, if a vacancy takes place in the
representation of the said county or borough before
the summoning of a future Parliament, and after
the completion of such separate registers, such last

mentioned registers shall, for the purpose of any
election to fill up such vacancy, be deemed together
to form the register for the county or borough.
" 39. Nothing in this act contained ;shall affect

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the rights of persons whose names are for the time
being on the register of voters for any county in
which the boroughs constituted by this act are situate
to vote in any election for such county in respect
of any vacancy that may take place before the sum-
moning of a future Parliament, but after such
summoning no person shall be entitled to be regis-
tered as a voter or to vote in any election for any
such county who would not be entitled to be so re-
gistered, or to vote in case the boroughs constituted
by this act were before the passing of this act
boroughs returning members to Parliament.
" 40. The franchises conferred by this act shall
be in addition to and not in substitution for any
existing franchises ; and, subject to the provi,ions
of this act, all laws, customs, and enactments now
in force conferring any right to vote or otherwise
relating to the representation of the people in Eng-
land and Wales shall remain in full force, and shall
apply, as nearly as circumstances admit, to any
constituency hereby authorised to return a member
or members to Parliament as if it had heretofore
returned such members to Parliament.
" 41. All writs to be issued for the election of
members to serve in Parliament, and all mandates,
precepts, instruments, proceedings, and notices con-
sequent upon such writs, shall be framed and ex-
pressed in such manner and form as may be neces-
sary for the carrying the provisions of this act into
effect.
" 42. This act, so far as is consistent with the
tenour thereof, shall be construed as one with the
enactments for the time being in force relating to
the representation of the people.
" 43. The following terms shall in this act have
the meanings hereinafter assigned to them, unless
there is 'something in the context repugnant to such
construction ; that is to say—' month' shall mean
calendar month ; member' shall include a knight
of the shire ; election' shall mean an elec-
tion of a member or members to serve in
Parliament ; county' shall not include a county of
a city or county of a town, but shall mean any
county, riding parts or division of a county return-
ing a member or members to serve in Parliament ;
borough' shall mean any borough, city, place, or
combination of places, not being a county as here-
inbefore defined, returning a member or members to
serve in Parliament ; The Registration Acts' shall
mean the Act of the 6th year of the reign of her
present Majesty, cap. 18, and the Act of the 28th
year of the reign of her present Majesty, cap. 36,
and any other Act or parts of Acts relating to the
registration of persons entitled to vote at and pro-
ceedings in the election of members to serve in Par-
liament
for England and Wales."
SCHEDULES.
SCHEDULE (A).
Boroughs to return one member only in future Parliaments
Honiton, Thetford, Wells, Evesham, Marlborough, Har-
wich, Richmond, Lymington, Knaresborough, Andover,
Leominster, Tewkesbury, Ludlow, Ripon, Huntingdon,
Maldon, Cirencester, Bodmin, Great Marlow, Devizes,
Hertford, Dorchester, and Lichfield.
SCHEDULE (B).
Places to be Boroughs to return One Member each.
Torquay.—Parishes of Tor Mohun, St. Mary Church,
Cockington, Poignton.
Darlington.—Townships of Darlington, Haughton-le-
Skerne, Cockerton.
Hartlepool.—Municipal borough of Hartlepool, town-
ships of Throston, Stranton, Seaton Carew.
Gravesend.—Parishe sof Gravesend, Miltoti, Northfleet.
St. Helen's—Townships of Sutton and Parr, portions of
townships of Eccleston and Windle.
Burnley.—Townships of Burnley, Habergham Eaves.
Staleybridge.—Municipal borough of Staleybridge, re-
maining portion of township of Dukinfield, township of
Staley, the district of the Local Board of Health of Moseley.
Wednesbury.—Parishes of Wednesbury West Brom-
wich, Tipton.
Croydon.—Parish of Croydon Hamlet of Penge.
Middlesborough.—Township of Linthorpe, and so much
of the townships of Middlesborough, Ormsby and Eaton,
as lie to the north of the road leading from Eston towards
Yarm.

Dewsbury.—The townships of Dewsbury, Batley Scot-
hill.

Barnsley.—The townships of Barnsley, Worsborough,
Dodworth, Bo.rugb, Monk Bretton, Ardsley.
SCHEDULE (0).
Divisions of Borough or Tower Hamlets.
Northern Division—The parish of Hackney; the parish
of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green ; the parish of West Ham ;
the parish of St. Leonard, Shoroditch.
Southern Division —The parish of St. George's-in-the-
East ; the hunlet of Mile-end Old Town ; the union of
parishes of Poplar; the union of parishes of Stepney ; the
union of parishes of Whitechapel ; the Liberty of the
Tower of London.

with two members the population of which, by the
census of 1861, was below 10,000 ; and that the
seats thus taken, together with those obtained by
the disfrancisement of any existing boroughs, should,
after providing one seat apiece for the proposed 13
new constituencies, be allotted as third seats to the
largest boroughs and counties now having two mem-
bers ; and that in these, and also in the eight con-
stituencies now represented by three members, every
elector should be at liberty to distribute or accumu-
late his votes, at his own discretion."

Mr. Pease will move, " That the municipal
borough of Hartlepool, the township of Hart, the
township of Throston, and the parish of Stranton
shall constitute the borough of the Hartlepools.
That one member be given to the borough of Stock-
ton, and that the said Parliamentary borough do
consist of the municipal borough of Stockton-upon-
Tees, the parish of Norton, and the parish of
Thornaby."