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THE SU I=N% LONDON-, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1835

Esc is.. were, by their friends and agents, guilty of bribery and
cot. uption at the late election for the borough of Ipswich ; and
thc. Arthur Butt Cooke, J. B. Dasent, John Pilgrim, and others,
we; e guilty of bribery at the said election.
Itc-solved—That .T. B. Dasent, A. B. Cooke, R. B. Clamp,
and _john Pilgrim, were guilty of absconding, to avoid being served
wit'. the Speaker's warrant ; and that J. E. Sparrow and John
Clipperton, the avowed agents of the sitting Members, and F. 0.
Maley, Esq., one of the Counsel employed by the sitting Members,
aid.'d and abetted them in keeping out of the way, to avoid giving
the r evidence before this Committee.
Resclved—That the said John Pilgrim, having at length been
sencd with the Speaker's warrant, was prevented attending on
this Committee, by being arrested, on a charge of embezzlement,
by Messrs. Sewell and Co., under very suspicious circumstances.
" Resolved—That the conduct of the Magistrates, Samuel Big-
nel 1. Esq., and E. Temple Booth, Esq., before whom he was
charged, appears to this Committee to be a-breach of the privileges
of he House."
The Hon. Member then approached the Chair, and, in a tone
ve:v indistinctly heard by us, stated that by a resolution of the
14 use in the year 1833, certain of the electors of Ipswich were
auf:,ected to the hardship of being disqualified from voting at
tit- last election.' Out of 21 votes struck off, 13 were struck
of because they had not been duly registered. The Hon.
Meinher concluded by moving for a new writ for the Borough
of Ipswich, and that the minutes of the evidence taken before
Committee be laid before the House.
Mr. GISBORNE would beg 14:0 call the attention of the
H. use to a case quite analogous, the of Penrhyn in 1827,
in which the House interposed its author.. There a man
mined J. Stambury was served with the gpeAer.'s warrant,
by .t, in defiance of this summons; absconded. Appd,flatiFT was
made to the Speaker, and he issued his warrant for h:.7 ar-
re,t, and the man was taken into custody. Now, thoug,;.
S.ambury absconded after he was served with the warrant,
ar d the parties in the present case absconded to avoid be-
ing served, yet the analogous case of contempt of the House
was, he thought, made out ; and what was done in the Pen-
n case should be done in the present. There was an-
otf,er part of the report equally worthy the attention of the
House. This part stated that the conduct of the Magis-
trates who received the informations against Pilgrim appeared
to be a breach of the privileges of that House. That part
e the Report of the Committee made it indispensable to the
Pouffe to assert its own authority, and to bring the parties
guilty of this breach before the House. He thought the bet-
ter and more regular course would be for the Chairman, or
acme other Member of the Committee, to move that these
parties be taken into the custody of the Sergeant at Arms.
If neither of these Hon. Members, took up the question, he
(Mr. Gisborne) would make a motion to that effect. The
Report further stated-that Pilgrim was, after being served
with the Speaker's warrant, prevented from attending to give
idence, by being arrested tin a charge of embezzlement, by
Messrs. Sewell and Co., under very suspicious circumstances.
E thought it due to the ends of justice that these parties,
though he would not move for their arrest, should also be sum-
inoned before the bar of the House.
Mr. STE WART said he would not shrink from the dis-
charge of any duty of his, but he had no authority from the
Committee to make any such motion as would have the
effect of having the parties taken into custody. Pilgrim and
others did subsequently 0;9 evidence before the Committee,
and did their duty. He could not see, then, any good grounds
for moving that they should be brought up in custody.
Mr. ROEBUCK asked why not include in the motion
that the late Memh4rs should be taken into custody?
Mr. GISBORNE said according to precedent, which
should be the guide in such cases, the question concerning
tie late Members should be postponed till after the minutes
of the evidence were laid before the House. That being
done, it would then be time enough to deal with the late
Members.
The SPEAKER begged to remind Hon. Members that
tl e real qaestion before the House then was, that the minutes
of evidence be laid before it.
Mr. C. PELHAM spoke in support of the motion, but in
a tone quite inaudible.
Mr. D. W. HARVEY said u the real question was the
submitting to the House of the evidence, with a view to guide
it in any subsequent proceedings that it might be found ne-
cessary to adopt, he would not now express any opinion on
the point. But as it appeared that one of the Members, a
King's Counsel, who appeared not only as defending the elec-
tion, but actually as an advocate for himself and his colleagues,
bad entered into elaborate statements, and used arguments in
support of the validity of the election, it was, therefore,
quite consistent with justice, and the duty of the House to
have the benefit of a copy of his address.—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. O'DWYER moved that a transcript of the speeches
and arguments of Counsel be laid before the house.—( Oh,
oh, and laughter.)
An Hon. MEMBER said, after what fell from the Hon.
Member for Southwark, the proposition of the last speaker was
net quite so absurd a one.
Mr. SHE IL begged to ask the Noble Lord was it the in-
ttntion of Government to retain the Magistrates in the Com-
mission of the Peace ?

Lord J. RUSSELL said the Government could not pro-
ceed to punish the Magistrates till evidence of their' guilt was
furnished. As the documents were not yet laid before the
House he could not give an answer.
Sir R. PEEL said it was better to suspend all judgment
till the evidence was laid before the House, as Hon. Gentle-
men called on them to exert an authority, and indeed it might
be found necessary to exert it. The case of Stambury, quoted
by the Hon. Member, was not at all an analogous one. He
was actually served with the Speaker's warrant, and he delibe-
rt tely refused to obey it ; whereas in the present case the par-
tics were not served at all, and therefore could not be punished
for contumacy or disobedience. Surely it was not a punish-
able offence to avoid a warrant.---( Cheers.) How did he know
he was to be served ? The House should pause before it
adopted any rash course. If the witnesses did actually ab-
scond to avoid giving evidence, then it was competent for the
'louse to enforce their attendance on the ground of contempt
of authority and obstruction of justice. But it was absolutely
necessary that evidence should be given of their absconding
with that view. That fact should be first clearly established
before they adopted the summary and dangerous course of de-
priving a subject of his liberty.
Mr. STEWART said there was evidence that they did ab-
scond from that motive.

Sir J. CAMPBELL thought the parties should be placed
itt the same situation as if they had been served. They must
ce known they were to have been served, and were witnesses
of importance. It was their duty not to abscond. There was
no difference between a man who got a warrant, and one wbo
low he would get and yet did not get it. Though it was a
st..ong proceefling to take men into custody on such presump-
ti.,n, yet he thought justice required it.
Sir W. FOLLETT said the presumption of his Right Hon.
Fiend was that the party was guilty ; but was it not too bad
to make this presumption the substitute for substantial proof,
at.d the ground of his real guilt ? For the sake of common
jcitice the House of Commons shouM not go on such presump-
ti..u, and should not decide without hearing the report of the
stimony of the witnesses. Besides this, ti:° Committee were
not unanimous in the resolutions presented to do House.
An Host. MEMBER. was understood to ask how mo.v of the
tl o Committee dissented from the resolutions ?
Another HoN. MEMBER, one of the Committee, as we
lamed, was understood to object to the question.
Sin.W. FOLLETT—But suppose the Committee were
animous, yet they were liable to err. If a breach of privi-
ly ge were in reality committed, he would consent cheerfully
that the House should vindicate its dignity. There was no
precedent for the House to go on but that of the Penrhyn case,
a..d even that was not applicable. Indeed the two cases were
d fferent—there the party had contumaciously refused to obey
tl.e Speaker's warrant, when served upon him, and the Chair-
tAn applied for a warrant for his apprehension. But here the
,aty was never served, and could not therefore be pronouneel
r uilty of disobedience. He hoped the House would first re-
ceive the evidence, and then act on the strict principles of jus-
t e, without prejudice or partiality.—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. O'CONNELL said all parties seemed to agree to that
B eat desirable end, that the evidence should be received by the
Louse. The Hon. and Learned Member for Exeter spoke
of the personal liberty of the subject. Certainly that was of
great value ; but was there not something connected with the
present subject of far greater value? Was not the purity of
those who were described as the guardians of the liberties of
V.° people, of greater importance ?—( Hear.) Great delin-
quencies bad evidently been committed, a degree of delin-
quency, which, in point of fact, went much farther than some
persons would wish—and it was the duty of the House to in-
stitute a very rigorous inquiry, with a view of ascertaining
its course.
After a few words from Mr. WILKS,

Lord JOHN RUSSELL quite agreed with the Hon.
iNlember for Exeter that.the present ease ought to be de-
eded by precedent, and perhaps it might, on that accoont,
be better that they should postpone the further consideration
of the question until to-morrow, in order that Hon, Mem-
rs might have time to look into it. As far as he was indi-
vidually concerned he was confident that all precedent would
e found in favour of the proposed motion, and a case which
he had within the last few minutes succeeded in laying his
hind upon justified that confidence. He found that on the
I.;th of June, a report of a Select Committee in the case of
the borough of Stamford was presented to the House of Com-
mons, in which, among other matters, it was stated that a
Mrson named William Hailing, a drysalter, residing in St.
ary axe, had absented himself, although summoned to give
evidence before that Committee. On the report being
brought up it was ordered that it should be taken into con.
si leration on the 23d day of June following, that, in the
meantime, it should be printed, that a new writ for the bo-
rough should issue--( Hear, hear, from the Opposition
benches)—that the said William Hailing should be taken into
custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms attending the House, and
that Mr. Speaker should issue his warrant accordingly.—
(Cheers from the Ministerial benches.) Notwithstanding
that authority, however, he was inclined to think the better
course would be to postpone the further consideration of the
question until to-morrow.
Mr. D. W. HARVEY wished to know if a report of Mr.
Kelly's speech, which he understand had been taken down
verbatim by the short-hand writer, who minuted the evidence,
could be printed with the other proceedings before the Com-
mittee?

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied that the Act of
Parliament did not authorize the House to call for any minutes
of a Counsel or party's speech before an Election Committee.
Mr. GI SBORNE said that, withdrawing his original mol
don, he begged to move the second to which he alluded,
namely, that " A. B. Cook, J. Bond, J. Clamp, J. E. Spar-
row, J. Clipperton, and F. 0. Malley, be, for their offences
against the authority of that House, taken into the custody of
Ike Sergeant at Arms."
After a few words from Mr. HARDY, which were inaudible
is the gallery,
Sir S. WHALLEY supported the motion.
Mr. BLACKBURNE observed that, as regarded one of

the individuals named in the motion, namely, Sparrow, there
was no evidence whatever to criminate him.
Mr. M. L. C HAYMAN contended that there was evidence
of the strongest possible character, arising out of previous con-
versations, against Sparrow, and was surprised to hear the
lion. Member seek his exclusion from the motion.
Sir R. PEEL felt convinced the House would be establish-
ing a load precedent in adopting the course proposed by the
Hon. Member for North Derbyshire; and although he might
be exposing himself to observation for doing so in an unpopular
cause, he could not refrain from protesting strongly against its
adoption. The Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin said
they wcre not called upon by the motion to presume guilt,
but to secure the attendance of the implicated individuals ;
the Hon. Member for North Derbyshire, on the contrary,
expressly called upon the House, by introducing into his
motion the word " Offences," to recognize tont, and, pro-
ceeding upon that principle, to deprive the parties of
their liberties. The House of Commons, he was well
aware, was not bound to suffer the absence of any techni-
cal evidence to defeat the assertion of its authority, but it
certainly was bound to see what evidence could be arrived at
before it came to a decision. If they acceded to the motion,
they at once branded the characters of the implicated par-
ties.—( Some few cries of " Oh, oh," and symptoms of impa-
tience.) He was sorry to find he spoke in the presence of men
who seemed to think it a light matter to assume the guilt of
parties without hearing their defences ; but, for the sake of
the decency of their proceedings, for the sake of the character
of their authority, he entreated the House to consider whether
they were justified in interfering—not after looking at evidence
taken on oath in their presence, but, on the allegations and
opinions of parties who were present, and heard the proceed-
41gs before the Committee. He did not ask the Hon. Member
to ailictain from making his motion, but to wait until they had
an opport:::nitY
of considering its justice. There was another
part which he ,}'ought himself justified in alluding to. Why
was not Pilgrim in
~,tally
in the motion ?—( Hear, hear.) The
-mally "snort which had been pre.
guilty with the others, and
Committee made him out e'l
if they were to act at all on the
'reTendations•
sented, they were bound to Act up to all-
rr
in Taking
—( Hear.) They certainly would not be justice..
an arbitrary exception of one or two individuals. He, fa con-
clusion, entreated the House to act according to the uSual
course, and to take twenty-four hours to consider how the case
stood.—( Hear. )
Loyd-J. RUSSELL should move that the debate be ad-
journed until to-morrow.—( Hear, hear.)
After a few words from Mr. Rosaucie, which were not
audible in the gallery,
Mr. Sergeant WILDE said, as the suggestion for an ad-
journment came from so high an authority, he would be dis-
posed to adopt it ; but at the same time he would be under-
stood as doing so without at all concurring in its expediency.
Mr. GISBORNE having consented to withdraw his motion,
the amendment of adjournment until to-morrow (this day) was
agreed to, and in the meantime the papers were ordered to
be printed.
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.—BOROUGH OF

medical lawyers. It wag also important to the coun-
try at
the
Coroner's Court should be an open Court,
lar menge thata-'
for which reason he should give the Bill his support. He
should, however, oppose in the Committee that clause which
proposed the disfranchisement of the lower class of freeholders,
in-regard of voting at the election for Coroner.
Mr. BL ACKBURNE consented to withdraw his amend-
ment,
reserving to himself the right of opposing any obnoxious
clauses in the Committee.
Mr. WAK LE Y said the Bill before the House left the Co-
roners' Courts exactly as it found them. It was true it de-. '
Glared them open to the public but it gave the Coroner a
power of excluding all persons, on the pica that the ends of
justice required it. He strongly deprecated the clause which
went to exclude iwrsons cotopetnt to return Knights of the
Shire front voting at the election of a Coroner. He trusted
that the lion. Member who had undertaken the care of the
Bill would expunge it altogether, and also mote such other
alter4tions as were necessary to ensure its further support.
The ATTP4NEY-GENERAL, said that the Clattse rgt
lating to the Coroner's Court was his and he wo sure that,
on further consideration, it would be found useful for the pur-
pose for which was designed—publicity. It was true that it
vested a discretionary power of excluding the public, when
the ends of justice required it, in the bands of the Coroner;
but it wad 4159 trite that he exercised that power on his on
responsibility.
Mr. PEASE was understood to support the principle of the
Bill, but lie objected to the clause which went to disqualify
forty-shilling freeholders from voting for Coroners.
Mr. CRIPPS replied. The clause for disqualifying the
forty-shilling freeholders was introduced by him with no other
view than to prevent riot, fraud, and perjury, all of which he
had himself at various times witnessed at the election for Co-
roner in his own and other counties. _ _

The Bill was accordingly read a secund time, and ordered
to be committed next Wednesday fortnight.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS.

The House resolved itself into Committee on the Capital
Punishments Bill. It was reported pro forma, and ordered
to be taken into further consideration.
PRISONERS' COUNSEL.

Mr. E WART moved the second reading of the Prisoners'
Counsel Bill. _ _ .

Mr. F. MAULS opposed it, on the ground that it was not
necessary, and might be mischievous. He should, therefore,
move that the Bill be read a second time that day six months.
Mr. SANDFORD was understood to support the principle
of the Bill.

Sir G. STRICKLAND also supported the Bill.
Mr. H. TWISS supported the Bill.
The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be
committed this day (Wednesday) se'unight.
SALE OF BREAD BILL.

The House resolved into 4 Committee of the whole House
upon the Sale of Bread Bill.
After a few observations from Sir R. Vyvyan, Lord Gran-
ville Somerset, and Mr. Young,

The CHAIRMAN reported progress.
INSTRUMENTS OF SASINE (SCOTLAND) BILL.
After a few words from the Lord Advocate, Mr. A. John-
ston, and Mr. Pringle, the Instruments of Sasine (Scotland)
Bill was read a second time.
Mr. C. STUART brought up_ the report of the Post Office
Duties Bill. .

Sir C. BURRELL moved, pursuant to notice, for copies
of certain Treasury minutes connected with the dismissal from
office of Mr. James Walker, the late Crown Agent at Berbice.

Colonel SIBTHORP supported the motion.
Mr. BARING opposed the motion.
Sir C. BURRELL was not satisfied with the reasons stated
by the Hon. Gentleman for the non-production of the papers.
He would not, however, press it to a division.
Mr. MACKINNON postponed his motion relative to turn-
pike trusts.
AFFAIRS OF TRIPOLI.

Dr. BOWRING rose, to bring forward his motion for the
production of papers relative to the conduct of Mr. Warring-
ton, British Consul at Tripoli. He did not mean now to bring
any direct charge against Mr. Warrington, but it was matter
of general notoriety that ho had for the last twenty years been
engaged in many squabbles both with the Government of Tri-
poli and with the Consuls of other countries resident there. It
was the more important that the House should have informa-
tion upon this subject, because the appointment of the Consul
to Tripoli, as to the other ports on the African coast, belonged
not to the Foreign Secretary, but to the Colonial Department.
Independent of other considerations, there was a great deal of
property involved in this question. He did not charge Mr.
Warrington with encouraging acts of piracy, but he trusted the
documents would be granted, for the purpose of showing what
had been passing at Tripoli for some time back. The Hon.
Member concluded by moving for copies of the correspondence
between his Majesty's Consul at Tripoli and the British Go-
vernment, relative to the claims to the Pachalic, and the claims
of British subjects on the Government or the subjects of
Tripoli.
Sir G. GREY opposed the motion, on the ground, as we
understood, of inconvenience to the public service.
After a few words from Mr. SCARLETT in support of the
motion, it was withdrawn.
On the motion of Mr. S. CRAWFORD returns were or-
dered of sums of money paid since 1815, to Presbyterian and
Dissenting congregations in Dublin, under the denomination
of Royal Bounty.
Mr. WILKS postponed for a week his motion relative to
public charities in England and Wales.
SCOTTISH ELECTIONS. _

The LORD ADVOCATE moved for leave to bring in a
Bill to explain and amend the 2d and 3d of William I V., cap.
65, entitled " An Act to amend therepresentation of thepeople
of Scotland, and to diminish the expense of elections therein."
The objects of his Bill were to diminish the expense of
elections, and, as far as possible, to remedy the present evil
arising from the creation of fictitious votes.
After a few remarks from Mr. C. Bruce, the Attorney- Ge-
neral, Captain Gordon, Mr. Fox Manic, Mr. Sinclair, Sir
Hugh Campbell, Mr. R. Stuart, and others, leave was granted
to bring in this Bill.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at Half-past Twelve o'clock.

INTERVENTION IN FAVOUR OF

SPAIN.

(From the Supplement to the London Gazette, of Tuesday,

June 9.)
WEDNESDAY, JrNa 10.

At the Court at St. James's, the 10th of day of June, 1835,
present tho King's most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas by an Act, passed in the 59th year of the reign of
his late Majesty King George 111., entituled " An Act to
prevent the enlisting or engagement of his Majesty's subjects
to serve in foreign service, and the fitting out or equipping
in his Majesty's dominions vessOs for warlike purposes, with-
out his Majesty's licence," it was enacted and declared, that if
any natural-born subject of his Majesty, his heirs and succes-
sors, without the leave or licence of his Majesty, his heirs or
successors, for that purpose first had and obtained, under the
3ign manual of his Majesty, his heirs or successors, or signi-
fied by Order in Council or by proclamation of his Majesty,
his heirs or successors, should take or accept, or agree to
take or accept, any military commission, or should otherwise
enter into the military service as a commissioned or non-com-
missioned officer, or should enlist, or enter himself to enlist, or
should agree to enlist or to enter himself to serve as a soldier,
or to be employed, or should serve in any u arlike or military
operation in the service of, or for, or under, or in aid of any
foreign Prince, State, or Potentate, or of any person exercis-
ing, or assuming to exercise, the powers of government in or
over any foreign country, either as an officer or soldier, or in
any other military capacity, or should, without such leave or
",Anse as aforesaid, accept, or agree to take or accept, any
—.no, warrant, or appointment as an officer, or should
commies.,
eiself, or should agree to enlist or enter him-
enlist or enter
nr marine, or to be employed or en.
self, to serve as a sailor
board any ship or vessel of
gaged, or should serve in am; ,?"
war, or in and on board any ship or vessel used or fitted out,
or equipped, or intended to be used, for any wariii.l:.! anurNse,
in the service of, or for, or under, or in aid of, any foreign
Power, Prince, State, or Potentate, or of any person exer-
cising, or assuming to exercise, the powers of Government in
or over any foreign country, or should, without such leave and
license as aforesaid, engage, contract, or agree to go, or
should go, to any foreign state or country, or to any place
beyond the seas, with an intent or in order to enlist or enter
himself to serve, or with intent to serve, in any warlike or
military operation whatever, whether by land or by sea, in the
service of, or for, or under, or in aid of any foreign Prince,
State, or Potentate, or any person exorcising, or assuming to
exercise, the powers of government in or over any foreign
country, either as an officer or a soldier, or in any other mili-
tary capacity, or as an officer or sailor or marine in any such
ship or vessel as aforesaid, although no enlisting money or pay
or reward should have been, or should be in any of the cases
aforesaid, actually paid to or received by him, or by any person
to or for his use or benefit, in' any or either of such eases
every person so offending should be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanour, and should be punishable by fine or imprisonment,
as in the said act is mentioned :

His Majesty, by and with the advice of his Privy
Council, being desirous of enabling all persons to
engage in the military and naval service of her Majesty Isabella
the Second, Queen of Spain, is pleased to order, and it is hereby
ordered, that from and after the tenth day of this instant
month of June, it shall be lawful for every
.person whom-
soever to enter into the military or naval service of her said
Majesty as a commissioned or non-commissioned officer, or as a
Private soldier, sailor, or marine, and to serve her said Majesty in
any military, warlike, or other operations, either by land or sea,
and for that purpose to go to any place or places beyond the
seas, and to accept any commission, warrant, or other appoint-
ment from or under her said Majesty, and to enlist and enter
himself in such service, and to accept any money, pay, or
reward for the same.
Provided always, that the license and permission hereby
given shall be in force only for the term of two years
from the said 10th day of June instant, unless by
Order in Council, made in manner aforesaid, such period
should be further extended.
WILLIAM L. BATHURST.

The King, attended by Sir Herbert Taylor, arrived in town
at a quarter past one o'clock yesterday afternoon from Windsor
Castle.
Prince Esterhazy, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipo-
tentiary from the Emperor of Austria; and Count Sebastian,Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from the King
of the French, had audiences of
the King to deliver letters.
Their Excellencies were respectively introduced by Viscount
Palmerston, his Majesty Principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester,'Master
of the Ceremonies.

MUNICIPAL CORPORATION

REFORM.

A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGULATION
OF MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS IN ENG-
LAND AND WALES.
Whereas divers bodies corporate, at sundry times, have
been constituted within the cities, towns, and boroughs of
England and Wales, to the intent that the same might for
ever be and remain well and quietly governed. And whereas,
partly by defects in the charters by which the said bodies
ceipai ate have been constituted, partly by neglect and abuse
of the privileges by such charters granted and confirmed to
the inhabitants of the said cities, towns, and boroughs, and
partly by eliange of circumstances since the said charters I
were granted, the said bodies corporate, for the most part,
have not of long time been, and are not now useful and ef-
Aoient instruments of local government : Be it therefore
enacted, by the King's must excellent Majesty, by and • with
the advice and ceosmit of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal,
and coiletious, in this present Parliament assembled, and by
authority of the same, that so much of all laws, statutes and
usages, and so much of all royal and other charters, grants,
4r.cflettees patent now In force relating to the several boroughs
named in the first column of the schedules ( A) and ( B) to
this Act annexed, or to the inhabitants thereof, or to the se-
veral bodies or reputed bodies corporate named in the second
column of the said schedules, or any of them, as are incon-
sistent with or contrary to the provisions of this Act, shall be,
and the same are hereby repealed and annulled.
And be it enacted, that in the construction of this Act, the
word " borough" shall be construed to mean city, borough,
port, cinque port or town corporate, named in one of the said
schedules ( A) and (B) ; and the words " body corporate"
shall be construed to mean body corporate named in one of the
said schedules (A) and (B); and the word " burgess" shall
be construed to mean citizen in the case of a city ; and the
word " county" shall be construed to mean county, riding, or
division, and the word " trustees" shall be construed to mean
trustees, commissioners or directors, or the persons charged
with the execution of a trust, by whatever name they are de-
signated ; and the word " pariah" shall be construed to mean
parish, township, vill, hamlet, chapelry, tything, district, pre-
cinct or place maintaining its own Poor ; and the words " over-
seers of the poor" shall be construed to mean all persons who
execute the duties of overseers of the poor ; and that in all
things hereinafter provided to be done until the first election
of councillors in any borough under this Act shall have been
declared, the word " mayor" shall be construed to mean the
chief officer of a borough, by whatever name he is now called,
" town clerk, common clerk, &c." and in describing any per-
son or thing, any word importing the singular number, shall
be construed to mean also several persons or things respec-
tively, unless there be something in the subject or context re-
pugnant to such construction ; and that no misnomer or inac-
curate description of any person or place named in any sche-
dule to this Act annexed, or in any burgess roll, ward list, no-
tice or voting paper required by this Act, shall hinder the full
operation of this Act with respect to such person or place, pro-
vided that such person or place shall be so named as to be cortt,
monly understood.
And be it enacted, that after the first election of council.
Tors under this Act, in any borough, the body or reputed body
corporate named in the second column of sail schedules,
in connection with such' borough, shall take and bear the
name of the Mayor and burgesses of the borough of
(as the case may be), and by that name shall have perpetual
succession, and shall be capable in law to do and suffer all acts
which now lawfully they and their successors respectively may
do and suffer by any name or title of incorporation; and the
mayor of each of the said boroughs shall be capable in law to
do and suffer all acts which the chief officer of such borough
may now lawfully do and sufer, so far as the same re- I
spectively are not altered or annulled by the provisions of
this Act.
And be it enacted, that after the passing of this Act, the
metes and bonds of the several boroughs named in the first
section of the first and second divisions of the said schedule
( A) and in the first section of the said schedule (B) for the
purposes of this Act shall be the same as the limits thereof re-
spectively settled and described in an Act passed in the second
and third year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled,
" An Act to settle and describe the Divisions of Counties, and
the Limits of Cities and Boroughs in England and Wales, so
far as respects the Election of Members to serve in Parliament ;"
and the metes and bounds of the several boroughs named in
the second section of the first and second division of the said
schedule (A), and the second section of the said schedule
( B) for the purposes of this Act, shall be and remain as the same
are now taken to be, until such time as his Majesty shall
have been pleased to issue his letters patent under the great
seal, that he may be certified concerning the fit metes and
bounds to be allotted unto the same respectively, and until
such further time as it shall please his Majesty, by advice of
his Privy Council, upon inspection of the return thereof made
by the Commissioners, unto whom such letters patent shall have
been directed, to declare fit metes and bounds of the said
last-named boroughs; and the metes and bounds of the said
last-named boroughs thenceforward for the purposes of this
Act shall be the same so declared as last aforesaid.
And be it enacted, that every place and precinct which
shall be included within the metes and boundaries of any bo-
rough as hereinbefore provided, and none other, shall be part
of such borough, for all the purposes of this Act, and in those
boroughs which are counties of themselves, shall be part of
such county, and of none other, for all the purposes of this Act.
And be it enacted, that after the passing of this Act, every
male person of full age, who, on the last day of August in
any year shall have been an inhabitant householder within
any borough, or within seven miles of such borongh, and shall
have occupied any house, warehouse, counting-house, or shop
within such borough during that year, and each of the
two preceding years, and who shall have been rated, in
respect of premises occupied by him, to all rates for the
relief of the poor of some parish, wholly or in part within such
borough, made in that year, and in each of the two years next
preceding that year, shall, if duly enrolled according the pro-
visions hereinafter contained, be a burgess of such borough, and
member of the body corporate of the mayor and burgesses of such
borough : provided, that the premises in respect of the occu-
pation of which any person shall be so rated need not be
the same premises, or in the same parish, but may be dif-
ferent premises in the same parish or in different parishes :
provided also, that every person who shall come to occupy
any house, warehouse, counting-house, or shop in any bo-
rough, during the time for which any rate for the relief of
the poor shall have been made, to which he would have been
rateable if he had been occupying there at the time such
rate was made, may claim to be rated to such rate in re-
spect of the property which he shall so come to occupy,
and upon his so claiming and paying or tendering the amount
of rate, if any, then due in respect of the premises, he shall
be taken to have been rated to the relief of the poor in the
parish in which such premises are situate, from the time at
which the rate in respect of which he shall have made such
claim shall have been made : provided also, that no person
shall be so enrolled in any year who shall not have paid all
such rates due from him at the tier of the revision of the
burgess roll, hereinafter provided, except such as shall have
been made or become due within six calendar months next
before such revision : provided also, that no person shall be
so enrolled in any year, who within twelve calendar months
next before such revision shall have received parochial re-
lief or other alms, or any pension or charitable allowance
from any fund intrusted to the charitable trustees of such
borough hereinafter mentioned.
And be it enacted, that in every borough it shall be lawful
for any person occupying any house, warehouse, counting-
house, or shop, to claim to be rated to the relief of the poor
in respect of such premises, whether the landlord shall or shall
not be liable to be rated to the relief of the poor in respect
thereof; and upon such occupier so claiming and actually pay-
ing or tendering the full amount of the last-made rate then
due in respect of such premises, the overseers of the parish in
which such premises are situate, are hereby required to put
the name of such occupier upon the rate for the time being,
and in case such overseer shall neglect or refuse so to do, such
occupier shall nevertheless, for the purposes of this Act, be
eenied to have been rated to the relief of the poor in respect
of such premises, from the period at which the rate shall have
been made in respect of Which he shall have so claimed to be
rated as aforesaid ; Provided always, that where, by virtue of
any Act of Parliament, the landlord shall be liable to the pay-
ment of the rate for the relief of the poor in respect of any
premises occupied by his tenant, nothing herein contained
shall be deemed to vary or discharge the liability of such land-
lord ; but in case the tenant who shall have been rated for such
premises in consequence of any such claim as aforesaid shall
make default in the payment of the poor's rate due in respect
thereof, such landlord shall be and remain liable for the pay-
ment thereof, in the same manner as if he alone had heen rated
in respect of the premises so occupied by his tenant,
And be it enacted, that if any person, who shall have been
enrolled a burgess of any body corporate within any borough,
according to the provisions of this Act, shall at any time there-
after cease to occupy any house, warehouse, counting-house or
shop within the borough, or neglect or refuse to pay such rates
as aforesaid due from hire at the time of the revision of the
burgess-roll, except as hereinbefore is excepted, his name
shall, at the then next revision of the burgess-roll, be struck
out from the said burgess-roll, and he shall thereupon cease to
be a burgess and member of the said body corporate : pro-
vided nevertheless, that if, at an?, revision of the burgess-roll
within two years next after the time at which he shall So cease
to be a burgess, he shall occupy and be rated for any house,
warehouse, counting-house or shop within such borough, he
shall be entitled again to be and be enrolled a burgess and
member of the said body corporate ; provided that he shall be
then otherwise qualified, as herein provided,
And be it enacted, that after the passing of this Act no
person shall be elected, admitted, or enrolled a citizen, free-
man, liveryman, or burgess of,any borough, or by any name, a
member of any body corporate, in respect of any right or title,
other than by occupancy and payment of rates within such bo-
rough, according to the meaning and proyisiens of this Act.
And whereas in divers cities, towns, and boroughs, a cer-
tain custom bath prevailed of taking or allotting the common
lands and public stock of such cities, towns, and boroughs,
and the rents and profits thereof, to and for the particular be-
nefit, use and enjoyment of the citizens, freemen, and bur-
gesses of the said cities, towns, and boroughs respectively,
or of certain of them, or of the widows or kindred of them,
or certain of them, and not applying the same to public pur-
poses ; be it therefore enacted, that after the passing of this
Act no person shall hare or be entitled to claim any share, be-
nefit, or advantage of or from any of the lands, tenemeuts, and
hereditaments, or the rents and profits thereof, or of or from
any common lands or public stock of the said body corporate,
or any discharge or exemption from any tolls or dues lawfully
levied, wholly or in part, by or to the use of any body corporate,
who was not a citizen, freeman, or burgess of some borough,
or the wife or widow of a citizen, freeman, or burgess of some

borough on the sth day of June in this present year, and every
person who was a citizen, freeman, or burgess of some borough,
or the wife or widow of a citizen, freeman, or burgess of some
borough on the said sth day of June, shall have and enjoy the
same share, benefit, and advantage, of or from the lands,
tenements, or hereditaments, or the rents and profits thereof, or
of or from the common lands or public stock of any borough
or body corporate,• or from any discharge or exemption from
any tolls or dues lawfully levied wholly or in part, by or to the
use of any of the said boroughs or bodies corporate, and all
benefit and advantage derivable therefrom, as fully and for such
time and in such sort as he or she might and would have had
and enjoyed the same if this Act had not passed, and no
further or otherwise : provided, nevertheless, that after all the
persons whose rights in this behalf are herein reserved shall
have become entitled to be in actual possession of their share
of the premises, the share, benefit, and advantage of or from
the lands, tenements and hereditaments, and the rents and
profits thereof, or of or from the common lands or public stock
of any borough or body corporate hereinbefore reserved to any
person, shall accrue for the benefit of the borough fund of
such borough, when and as soon as by any law, statute, char-
ter, or usage in force on the day before the passing of this Act,
such person would have ceased to have the benefit of the same
if this Act had not been passed, and shall not survive and ac-
cumulate for the particular benefit of the other persons, or any
of them, whose rights in this behalf are hereinbefore reserved
as aforesaid.

And whereas in divers cities, towns and boroughs, a certain
custom bath prevailed, that no person, not being free of a city,
town, or borough, or of certain guilds, mysteries, or trading
companies within the same, or some or one of them, shall keep
any shop or place for putting to show or sale certain wares or
merchandize by way of retail or otherwise, or use certain trades,
occupations, mysteries or handicrafts for hire, gain or sale
within the same ; be it enacted that every person in any bo-
rough may keep any shop for the sale of all lawful wares and
merchandises by wholesale or retail, and use every lawful trade,
occupation, mystery and handicraft, for hire, gain, sale or other-
wise within any borough ; any custom within such borough to
the contrary notwithstanding.
And be it enacted, that on the last day of August in this and
every succeeding year, the overseers of the poor of every parish,
wholly or in part within any borough, shall make out an alpha-
betical list according to the form Number 1. in the Schedule
(D.) to this Act annexed, of all persons who shall be entitled
to be enrolled in the Burgess Roll of that year, according to
the provisions of this Act, in respect of property within such
parish ; and the overseer shall sign such lists, and shall deliver
the same to the town clerk of such borough on the last day of
August in every year, and shall keep a true copy of such 1..15t s
to be perused by any person, without payment of any foe,
reasonable hours during the first fourteen days o": at all
September
in every year ; provided always, that in any Borough in which
there shall be no town-clerk, or in which. the town-clerk shall
be dead or incapable of acting, al!. matters required by this
Act to be done, by and with rP:g.ard to the town-clerk, shall be
done by and with regard, the person executing duties in such
borough, similar to
nose of town-clerk ; and if there be no
such personor if such person shall be dead or incapable of
acting, then by and with regard to such fit person as the mayor
of' such borough shall appoint it that behalf.
_ _

• •
And be it enacted, that every person whose name shall have
been omitted in any such Overseer's list, and who shall claim
to have his name inserted in the burgess roll, shall, on or be-
fore the 15th day of September in this and every subsequent
year, t1.c.1-eof to the Town Clerk in writinT, ac-
cording to the form Number 2, in the said schedule (D) or to
the like effect ; and every person whose name shall have been
inserted in any Overseer's list for any borough may object to
any other person as not being entitled to have his name re-
tained in the burgess roll for the same borough, and every per-
son so objecting shall, on or before the 15th day of September
in the present and in every succeeding year, give notice thereof
in writing to the Town Clerk of such borough according to
the form Number 3, in the said schedule (D), or to the like
effect ; and every Town Clerk shall include the names of all
persons so claiming in a list, according to the form Number 4,
in the said schedule (D), and the names of all persons so ob-
jected to in a list, according to the form Number 5, in the said
schedule (D), and shall cause copies of such lists to be fixed
on or near the door of the Town-hall, or in some public and
conspicuous situation, within such borough, during the week
next preceding the first day of October in the present and in
every succeeding year; and the Town Clerk shall likewise
keep a copy of the names of all the persons so claiming as
aforesaid, and also a copy of the names of all persons so ob-
jected to as aforesaid, to be perused by any person, without
payment of any fee, at all reasonable hours during the week
next preceding the first day of October in the present and in
every succeeding year, and shall deliver a copy of each of such
lists to any person requiring the same, on payment of one shil,
ling for each copy.
_ _ _

And be it enacted, that the Mayor of every br,rough shall
hold an open Court within such borough, for the purpose of
revising the said lists, at some time between the first day of
October inclusive, and the fifteenth day of October inclusive,
in the present and in every succeeding year, having first given
three clear days' notice of the holding of such court, to be fixed
on or near the door of the Town Hall, or in some public
and conspicuous situation within the borough ; and the
town clerk of every such borough shall, at the opening
of the court, produce the said lists before him, and a
copy of the lists of the persons claiming, and of the
persons objected to, so made out as aforesaid; and the
several overseers within every such borough shall attend the
Court, and shall answer upon oath all such questions as the
Mayor may put to them, or any of them, touching any mat-
ter necessary for revising the said lists ; and the Mayor shall
insert in such lists the name of every person who shall be
proved to his satisfaction to be entitled to be enrolled in the
burgess roll, according to the provisions of this Act, and shall
retain on the said lists the names of all persons to whom no
objection shall have been duly made ; and shall also retain
on the said lists the name of every person who shall have
been objected to by any person, unless the party so ob-
jecting shall appear by himself, or by some one on his
behalf, in support of such objection; and where the name of
any person inserted in any one of the said lists shall have been
duly objected to, and the person objecting shall appear by
himself, or by some one on his behalf, in support of such
objection, the Mayor shall require proof of the qualification of
the person so objected to; and in case the qualification of
such person shall not be proved to the satisfaction of the
Mayor, he shall expunge the name of every such person from
the said lists, and he shall also expunge from the said lists
the name of every person who shall be proved to him to be
dead, and shall correct any mistake or supply any omission
which shall be proved to him to have been made in any
of the said lists in respect of the name, or place of abode,
or local description of the rated property of any person who
shall be included in any such list : provided always, that no
person's name shall be inserted by the Mayor in any such
list, or shall be expunged therefrom, except in the case of
death, unless notice shall have been given as is hereinbefore
required in each of the said cases.

And be it enacted, that every mayor holding any court un-
der this Act for the revision of the said lists, shall have power
to adjourn the same from time to time, so that no such ad-
journed court shall be held after the 15th day of October
in any year, and shall have power to require any overseer of
any parish, wholly or in part within the borough, having the
custody of any poor-rate, to produce the same, and allow the
same to be inspected at any court to be held for revision of the
burgess-roll, and shall have power to administer an oath (or in
the case of a Quaker or Moravian, an affirmation) to the town-
clerk and to the overseers, and to all persons claiming to be in-
serted in or making objection to the omission or insertion of
any name in the said lists, and to all persons objected to in any
of such lists, and to all persons claimin,,,* to have any mistake
in any of such lists corrected, and to all witnesses who may be
tendered on either side ; and if any person taking any oath or
making any affirmation under this Act shall wilfully swear or
affirm falsely, such person shall be deemed guilty of perjury,
and shall be punished accordingly ; and the mayor shall, upon
the hearing in open court, determine upon the validity of such
claims and objections, and shall in open court write his initials
against the names respectively struck out or inserted, and
against any part of the said lists in which any mistakes shall
have been corrected, and shall sign his name to every page of
the several lists so settled.
And be it enacted, that the overseers' lists, so revised and
signed as last aforesaid, shall be 'delivered by the mayor to
the town-clerk of such borough, who shall keep the same, and
shall cause the said lists to be fairly and truly copied into one
general alphabetical list in a book to be by him provided for
that purpose, with every name therein numbered, beginning
the numbers from the first name, and continuing them in a
regular series to the last name, and shall cause such book to
be completed on or before the twenty-fourth day of October
in the present and every succeeding year, and shall deliver
such book, together with the lists, at the expihtion of his
office, to the person succeeding him in such office ; and
every such book shall be the burgess-roll of the burgesses of
such borough entitled to vote after the passing of this Act in
the choice of the council and auditors of such borough as here-
inafter mentioned, at any election which may take place in such
borough between the twenty-fifth day of October inclusive in
the year wherein such burgess-roll shall have been made, and
the twenty-fifth day of October in the succeeding year ; pro-
vided that no stamp duty shall be payable in respect of the ad-
mission, registry, or enrolment of any burgess, according to
the provisions of this Act.
Arid be it enacted, that the council hereafter provided of
every borough shall cause to be written or printed cop'.es of the
Burgess-roll in the present and in every succeeding year, and
shall deliver such copies to all persons applying for the same,
on payment of a reasonable price for each copy ; and the
monies arising from the sale thereof shall be paid over to the
treasurer of such borough, and shall be applied by him in aid
of the borough fund hereinafter mentioned.
And be it enacted, that the said Council of every borough
shall take an account of the reasonable expenses incurred by
the overseers of the poor in carrying into effect the several
provisions of this Act, so far as relates to the said lists, and
shall order the treasurer of the said borough to pay the same out
of the borough fund of the said borough.
And be it enacted, that in every borough shall be elected,
at the time and in the manner hereinafter mentioned, a certain
number of fit persons who shall be and be called " The Cotm-
cil" of such borough, and one fit person ;yin; shall •be and be
called " The Mayor', of such borough ; and the number of
persons so to be elected of the Council in each borough shall
be the number mentioned in conjunction with the name of sack
borough, in the said Schedules (A) and (B).
And be it enacted, that no person shall he qualified to ho
elected or to by a councillor, Qt One of the charitable trustees
hereinafter mentioned, of any such borough who shall not be
a burgess of such borough, or during such time as
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hold any office or place of profit that of mayor in
the gift . .
wsposai of the council or charitable trustees of such
borough, or during such time as he shall have directly or in-
directly, by himself, or his partner, any share or interest in any

contract or employment with, by, or on behalf of such cow
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or chant-able trustees. who
And be it enacted, that every burgess of any borough
shall be enrolled on the burgess roll for the time being of
such borough, shall be entitled to vote in the election f_
councillors for such borough, and no person who shall not
enrolled in such burgess roll for the time being shall hare
any voice or be entitled to vote in any such election. .0
And be it enacted, that upon the 25th day of October
this and every succeeding year, the burgesses so enrolled f
every borough shall openly assemble and elect the council °
such borough, or such part thereof as shall be needed to stir
ply the places of those who shall then go out of office; Pro
vided nevertheless, that whenever any day by this Act 0'
pointed as a day of election shall in any year happen erlb:
Sunday, in every such case the election shall take place on t
Monday following.
And be it enacted, that upon the 25th day of Octobe.r,
1836, and in every succeedin year, one-third part of r"
whole Council for the time being of every borough shall
out of office ; and in the said year 1836 those who
so go out of office shall be the councillors who were electe;
under the provisions of this Act by the smallest number";
votes in the present year ; and in the next year, 1837, th°,'.
who shall so go out of office shall be the councillors nil
were elected under the provisions of this Act, by the Welt
smallest numbers of votes in this present year, the majority -
the whole council always determining, when the votes for anY
such persons shall have been equal, who be the persons
so to go out of office ; and thereafter those who shall so go°
out of office shall always be the councillors who have beerit
for
_the longest time in office t provided always, th being
councillor so going out of ofce shall be capable of
forthwith re-elected, if tisit qualified as herein provided'.
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held before the mayor for the time being of such I°ll
except as hereinafter is excepted ; and the voting in e a
such election shall commence at nine o'clock in the tbrenc'atl;
and shall finally close at four o'clock in the afternoon °f that
same day, and shall be conducted in manner followings;„Otoa-
is to say, every burgess entitled, to vote in the election of s-tse
cillors may vote for any number of persons, not exceeding to
tnhuem number y
oorf
aeovuonteiril:gors, then to be chosen, by deliveri°,ng es
and surnames paper, containg the Christian
bk the persons for whom its their
respective races of abode and descriptions, such paper he Crohtes,"l:l:
previoueiy signed with the name of the burgess voting, the
the name of the street, lane, or other place in wine" 11
property for which he appears to be rated on the burgess'
is situated.
eye And be it enacted, that at every contested e's- Wed
of councillors or of the auditors hereafter meatio,„
in any borough, the mayor shall, if required theret%°L
or on behalf of any candidate, and if not so reatnerted
may, if it shall appear to him expedient, cause to be ere dits
for taking the poll at such election different booths for etes
ferent parts of such borough, which booths may be site di•
either in one place or in several places, and shall be °ball
vided and allotted into compartments as to the InaYer:terit
seem most convenient ; and the mayor shall appoint 11,_.
of
to take the poll at each compartment, and shall cause to he
tilt,
fixed on the most conspicuous part of each of the said ha
the names of the parts for which such booth is respects such
lotted ; and no person shall be admitted to vote at 40-7., the
election, except at the booth allotted for the part whertin as
house, warehouse, counting-house, or shop occupied booth
,I„..ses:',As.: es:, I:l7gcss-roll may be; hut in case n° dose
shall happen to be provided for any particular part yeti,
said, the votes of the persons voting in respect 01,1:ssia
situate in any part so omitted may be taken at any snot'
booths, and public notice of the situation, division', an"befors
ments of the different booths, shall be given two dalle the
the commencement of the poll by the Mayor • and in ap•
booths shall be situated in different places, the Mayor moat oo
point a deputy to preside at each place : provided als°,
nominationlincil-
shall be made, or election holden of anY 0001
loss or auditors of any borough in any church, chap
other place of public worship. lted
And be it enacted, that no enquiry shall be Per to vote
any election of councillors as to the right of any Pers°,llbia is t°
as a burgess in any borough, except only as follows 'ises cO-
- tvhoeteMianytehreshssamll,eifborerciouitigrhed,
putby atnoy tawny° burge 0 the
voter
rovas,
time of his delivering in his voting-paper, and not aft
the following questions, or. any of them, and no other rooting"
1. Are you the peg son whose name is signed to the
paper now delivered in by you? A. 13' 00
2. Are yota the person whose name appears sting regis
the burg,e'ss-roll now in force for this borough, "'';nated
terest therein as rated for property described to be !,ss in the
? [here specify the street, &c., as descrine"
burgess-roll].
3. Have you already voted at the present election to ant
And if any person shall wilfully make a false answer of se
of the questions aforesaid, he shall be deemed gui&Y„,sy.
indictable misdemeanor, and shall be punished according the
And be it enacted, that the mayor, having recelesatoe,
voting papers so delivered as aforesaid, shall examine t"
for the purpose of ascertaining which of the several Pebeing
voted for are elected; and so many of such personstien,
equal to the number of the councillors then to be cho dto
shall have the greatest number of votes, shall be her of
be elected ; and in case of an equality in the null; ose
votes for any two or more persons, the mayor shah n
votes
from amongst those persons, for whom the number fetetba
shall be equal, so many as shall be necessary to Complete 4
requisite number of councillors to be chosen ; and the 1081,1
shall publish a list of the names of the persons so ele'be
councillors not later than two o'clock in the afternoon of the
day next following the day of such eleetion, unless such Iles
day be Sunday, and then on the Monday following. al
And be it enacted, that if the mayor of any borough shill) f„(1
the time when he shall be required to execute the powers 5,
duties herein provided with respect to elections, be dead,oeh
sent, or otherwise incapable of acting, the councillors of.
811
borough shall forthwith elect one of themselves to execute
such powers and duties in the place of the mayor. , first
And be it enacted, that after the declaration of tile in
election of the council under the provisions of this
ulleil-
any borough, the mayor, aldermen, and common
..cu„„
men, and all other members of the common council, n'erTots
verning body of the body corporate, named in con,juno,
with such borough in the said schedules A aalT_A then
whatever name or style they may be known or c Ueda sad
in office, shall go out of office, and their whole pc."_,!,, or;
duties shall cease, except only where any of the iBsiron's 19t
. sons shall have been again elected under the provos as by
this Act : provided nevertheless, that such Per!! rough
virtue of any charter are justices of the peace in anYe and ex.
at the time of passing this Act, shall continue
t°
h thf
avis Act WY
ercise all the powers which at the time of passing o May °a°
have as justices of the peace, until the first daY ye- t.
thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and no Intloof the int.bn"
And whereas, by reason of the great nate; r„ the
bitants of the boroughs named in the first divas bernug
dole (A) to this Act annexed, it is desirable that rooting tl?:
should be divided into wards, for the purpose
all
elections of councillors in such boroughs
al
separate wards ; be it enacted, that in case his 1 Great
be pleased to issue his letters patent under the,l'on mat
stso
that he may be certified in what manner such clivis therewlai
most fitly made ; and upon inspection of the relit*" ,aterit Le
made by the Commissioners to whom such letters
erd, by Dint
last aforesaid shall have been directed, shall be Plessand est! 0
advice of his Privy Council, to declare the numberiest disia.„l%
of the wards into which any borouh named in tbelividecl,
of the said schedule (A) shall beg thenceforward " b.of
¢a
all thslice
the number of councillors who shall be chosen in ball be bo.
wards, so that the whole number of councillors 540013 e,
number mentioned in conjunction with the name
thees
rough in the said Schedule A, every such borougus he dive
ed,
forward, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to dolor
ch
esty
into such and so many wards as shall have been ;001.5 in e 8
sla°stmasfjoresaidh
and the number of persons to be elected council
eSi
ward shall be the numbers so declared as aforesaid'
obey n ,
And be it enacted, that on the 25th day and verY
e I none
after such division into wards of any boroue , j_ sou ted
ceeding year, the burgesses of 'every such wart' be electors
others, shall separately elect the councillors then
_f council
in such ward respectively, and the whole number n4rit eleetthe
so elected in any ward in any one year after the art of ea
of councillors under this Act shall be one-th
ni% ward rest
whole number of councillors allotted to
At. '
Octoberi_ shah
every such ward election, on the 25th daY borough,s tillie
after such division into wards of any such for the ,da g
be held before the person whom the mar° , Wee- nini•
being shall appoint in that behalf, and in "rim the °that
year shall be held before the councillor wu°o;ut in 'id,
cillors chosen in such ward shall yearly aPPI.-sush Ware,
aspndeettsh,e s•
shallo t ibi leg
conducted
behalf, who shall be called " The Alderman" all other be-
fore declared with respect to elections by onadnodetoodthieor
the same
in aig bereft"
ul atnhneer as
e s:hca4ll° in e);
whole borough ; and the alderman of each
the same powers in regard to elections of contsaver nso
walucillorsh
ward, as are herein enacted with rard to the lu_sl„ per3° for
whole borough, if not divided into wards; and eve.? eigoeetea
elected, a councillor in such ward, shall hold his e 0 elect
the same time that he would have held it had be h
hall
by the burgesses of the whole borough. °
And be it enacted, that every burgess of anY Weirilo4 b
rs ttjbo se,
u
be entitled to vote in the election of the CO for
chosen within that ward in which the propertY on
gess, for which he appears to be rated on the bu sisteture
the time being of such borough, shall appear toallY
btu
and not otherwise ; and in case it shall hapPen_iies in AtO
gess shall be rated in respect of distinct pre`"roged an"t is
or more wards, then ho shall be entitled to be e° . but 0°
vote in such one of the said wards as he shall select,
rtsie.
more than one.
And be it enacted, that, for the purpose of
he buraril
ing who are the burgesses of any such ward, t e „so,
341
better aseeo.oll
of every borough so divided into wards shall then "1 jo e IC.-
urgesse:sh.n h
made out in as many alphabetical lists of the b wit 1 lath
ward, to be called " ward lists," as there are wards
.1, 0 for
borough. 0,0 ore
And be it enacted, that if at any election of coo.„ r ,
than one of the wards of such borough, he shall the said
any borough, any person shall be elected a councwp-ifbin thres
days after notice thereof, choose for which 0080°L elect!
' wards he will serve, and shall thereupon be held t
in that ward only which he sbAll so choose. signed is
And be it enacted, that if any vacancy shall be ocu any p rc_
ri of
the office of councillor for any borough by MOO 'sail
son who shall have been elected to such. office not
.wher!
the same, or accepting the said, nice in another.sffzing ocr)
tho borough is
"into wards, or by reason r 01'
o'tled to vo!
shall, on a day to be fixed by the mayor _a., by
(such
into war a
ed (su
case the borough shall have been divided
has happen t
awl
"ash': .nold the ;aid office, the burgeosfsessu entitled' to
or
thine
alderman of the ward in which the vacancy
two
oc
day not to be later than ten days after such v
vacancy ;05
other burgess as a councillor to supply such