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London, England, 1867-03-20 00:00:00

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" REGISTRATION OF VOTERS.

" 19. The following regulations shall be observed
with respect to the registration of voters :-1. The
overseers of every parish or township shall make out
or cause to be made out a list of all persons on whom
a right to vote in respect of the occupation of pre-
mises is conferred by this act, in the satne manner
and subject to the same regulations, as nearly as
circumstances admit, in and subject to which the
overseers of parishes and townships in boroughs are
required by th,3 registration acts to make out or
cause to be made out a list of all persons entitled to
vote for a member or members for a borough in re-

spect of the occupation of premises of a clear yearly
value of not less than 110. 2. The claim of any
person desirous of being registered as a voter for any
county or borough, and herein-before required to
make a claim, shall be made in the form marked 1
in schedule (E) annexed hereto, or as near thereto
as circumstances admit. 3. The claim of a person
claiming to be registered in respect of a deposit in a
savings bank shall not be received by the overseers
unless it have annexed thereto a certificate in the
form marked 2 in the said schedule, or as near
thereto as circumstances will admit, and is signed,
in the case of a post-office savings bank, by some
officer authorised to sign the same by the Postmas-
ter-General, and in the case of any other savings
bank by two of the trustees or managers of such
savings bank, or by some officer authorised by thew.
4. The claim of any person claiming to be registered
in respect of the holding of any Parliamentary stocks
or funds of the United Kingdom to an amount of
not less than £5O shall not be received by the over-
seers unless it have annexed thereto a certificate in
the form marked 3 in the said schedule, or as near
thereto as circumstances admit, and signed by an
officer of the governor and company of the Bank of
England, or, as the case may require, by an officer of
the governor and company of the Bank of Ireland.
5. The claim of any person claiming to be regis-
tered in respect of the payment of assessed taxes
and income tax, or either of such taxes, shall not be
received unless it have annexed thereto a certificate
in the form marked 4 in the said schedule, or as near
thereto as circumstances admit, and signed by one of
the commissioners or collectors acting in relation to
the tax in respect of which such certificate is required.
6. The overseers of parishes and townships in coun-
ties and boroughs shall annually give notice direct-

ing all persons who are required by this act b make
their claim to send in their claims to them, such
notice to be given in the same manner, so far as cir-
cumstances permit, in which overseers give notice in
counties under the law in force at the time of the
passing of this act to persons desirous of being
placed on the list of county voters. Upon the re-
ceipt of a claim by any such person as aforesaid,
having annexed thereto such certificates as aforesaid,
the overseers may make all such objections to the
claim so made as overseers in counties are empowered
to make on receiving claims of voters, but subject
thereto shall place the claimant on the list of voters
for the parish or township iu which the residence of
the voter is situate.

" 20. If any person whose certificate is required
under this act in support of the claim of a person to
vote wilfully refuses to give such certificate, he shall
on summary conviction be liable to a penalty not
exceeding £5.
" 21. If any person is guilty of any of the follow-

ing offences, that is to say,-1. Wilfully gives any
certificate required by this act falsely ; 2. Forges,
counterfeits, or fraudulently alters any such certifi-
cate or any signature thereto ; 3. Knowingly makes
use of, in support of a claim to be registered to vote,
any false certificate, or any certificate forged, coun-
terfeited, or altered as aforesaid: such person shall
be guilty of a misdemeanour, and' on being con-
victed thereof shall be liable to imprisonment, with
or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding

two years.
" PLACES FOR ELECTION AND POLLING PLACES.

"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 iu 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 is payable
out of any rates levied in such place, such room may,