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London, England, 1835-09-30 00:00:00

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V ided that in every borough in which, by statute, char-
ter, bye-law, or custom, any election is appointed to be
loldr.:n between the day of the passing of this Act and the
lst day of May next, both inclusive, no such election shall
be holden, but every person holding office in any borough
=lle day of the passing of this Act shall continue to hold
soil► office, and to have all the powers, and be subject to all
the duties, and be entitled to the same salary and fees of
such c,ffice, as he would have had and been if elected to
such office between the day of the passing of this Act and
-the said Ist day of May, until the time provided ',ay
this Act for him to go out of office ; any statute, cha►ter,
bye-law, or custom notwithstanding.
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11/MERE BOROUGHS ARE TO BE DIVIDED INTO WARDS, THE
BOUNDS OF THE WARDS TO BE DETERMINED BY THE
BARRISTERS APPOINTED TO REVISE THE LISTS.
39. And whereas it is expedient that certain boroughs of
large population should be divided into wards before any
election of councillors for such boroughs should take place ;
be it therefore enacted, that every borough in the said
schedule (A.) shall be divided into the number of wards
mentioned in. such schedule in conjunction with the name of
such borough ; and that it shall be lawful for the barrister
or barrist(As appointed in pursuance of the provisions herein-
before contained to revise the burgesses and councillors lists
of any loorough in the present year, and he or they is and are
hereby required within the space of six weeks next after the
pasr.ang of this Act to determine and set out the extent, limits,
and boundary-lines of such wards, and what nortions of
such borough shall be included therein respect ,vely ; and
the copy of the particulars of such division shall be forth-
'with transmitted to one of his Majesty's principal Seere-
-taries of State, and, if his Majesty by advice of his Privy
Council shall approve such determination, shall be pub-
lished in The London Gazette, and another copy of such
particulars shall be delivered to the town-clerk of such bo-
rough, to be by him safely kept among the public docu-
ments of such borough ; and every such borough shall, after
such publication as aforesaid, be deemed to be divided into
such wards as shall be so determined and set out as afore-
said, and such division shall continue and be in force until
the same shall be altered by authority of Parliament . Pro-
vided always that if his Majesty, by advice of his Privy
Council, shall not approve such determination, such publi-
cation as aforesaid shall nevertheless be made, and such di-
-vision be in force for the purpose of any election under the
provisions of this Act, and until such time as his Majesty
shall by advice of his Privy Council, upon further informa-
tion and report from such barristers, definitively approve
the division of such borough into wards in manner herein-
before mentioned.
NUMBER OF COUNCILLORS FOR EACH WARD TO BE AS-
SIGNED BY THE BARRISTERS, ACCORDING TO CERTAIN

RULES.
40. And be it enacted, that the said barrister or barris-
ters shall, after the division of the borough into such num-
ber of wards as is directed by this Act, apportion among
the several wards of such borough the number of councillors
mentioned in conjunction with the name of such borough in
the said schedule (A.) ; and in assigning the number of
councillors to each word, the said barrister or barristers shall,
as far as in his or their judgment he or they may deem
it to be practicable, have regard as well to the number of
persons rated to the relief of the poor in such ward as to
the aggregate amount of the sums at which all the said per-
sons shall be so rated : Provided always that the number of
councillors assigned to each ward shall be a number divisi-
ble by three ; and a copy of the particulars of the number
of councillors so assigned to the several wards of the borough
shall be forthwith transmitted to one of his Majesty's prin-
cipal Secretaries of State, and, subject as aforesaid to the
approval of his Majesty by the advice of his Privy Council,
shall be published in The London Gazette, and other copy
of such particulars shall be delivered to the town-clerk of
the borough, to be by him safely kept among the public
documents of such borough ; and the number of coun-
cillors so assigned to each ward of such borough shall, after
such publicatien as aforesaid, be the number to be elected
in such ward, and shall so continue until the same shall be
altered by authority of Parliament ; Provided always, that
if his Majesty, by the advice of his Privy Council, shall
not approve of the number of councillors so assigned to
each ward, such publication shall nevertheless be made, and
the number of councillors so assigned to each ward of such
borough by such barrister shall be the number to be elected
in such ward at any election of councillors under this Act,
until such time as his Majesty shall, by advice of his
Privy Council, upon further information and report from
such barrister, definitively approve such assignment in
manner hereinbcfore mentioned.
APPORTIONMENT OF COUNCILLORS FOR EACH WARD in

WHICH THE ANCIENT DIVISION IS ADHERED TO.
41. And whereas, it may be convenient in divers bo-
roughs to adhere in the division of the same into wards to
the ancient division thereof into parishes or into districts
under any local Act, or to adapt such division to local cir-
cumstances, and such division so made might render diffi-
cult such apportionment of councillors as is hereinbefore
directed ; be it therefore enacted, that in every such case
the said barrister or barristers shall be empowered, at his
or their discretion, subject as aforesaid to the approval of
his Majesty by the advice of his Privy Council, to divide
any borough in conjunction with the name of which, in
the said schedule (A), shall be mentioned any number
of wards greater than two, into any number of wards
more or less by one than the number of wards mentioned
in conjunction with the name of such borough in the said
schedule.

POWER TO EXAMINE RATE-BOOKS.

42. And be it enacted that the said barrister or barris-
ters shall have power to require any overseer, or person
having the custody of any book containing any rate made
for the relief of the poor, in any parish wholly or in part
within any borough to be divided into wards, to produce
such books before and allow the same to be inspected
by the said barrister or barristers ; and the said barris-
ter or barristers shall have power to administer an
oath to the overseers and to all other persons, who are
hereby required to answer upon oath all such questions
as the said barrister or barristers may put to them or any
of them, touching any matter which the sail barrister or
barristers may deem necessary, for enabling them to exe-
cute the duties by this Act imposed upon them.

COUNCILLORS AND A3SESSORS TO BE ELECTED IN WARDS
BY THE BURGESSES OF SUCII WARDS.

43. And be it enacted, that in every case in which there
shall be a division into wards of any borough, the bur-
gesses of every such ward, and none others, shall on the
day fixed for the first election of councillors separately elect
from the persons qualified to be councillors the whole num-
ber of councillors assigned to such ward respectively, on the
Ist day of November in any subsequent year shall sepa-
rately elect from the persons qualified to be councillors one-
third part of the whole number of councillors assigned to
such ward ; and on the Ist day of March next after the first
election of councillors in such ward, and in every subse-
quent year, shall separately elect from the persons qualified
to be councillors two assessors for such ward ; and every
such ward election first after such division into wards of any
such borough shall be held before the mayor, or the person
whom the mayor for the time being shall appoint in that
behalf, and in every succeeding year shall be held before the
alderman whom the councillors chosen in such wasd shall
yearly appoint in that behalf, and before the two assessors
of such ward ; and the assessors who shall hold the Court
for revising the burgess lists with the mayor shall be the
assessors of the mayor's ward, and the votings and other
proceedings in all other respects at such ward elections
shall be conducted in the same manner as at elections of
councillors or assessors respectively, by the burgesses of
the whole borough ; and the alderman and assessors of each
ward shall have the same powers in regard to elections in
their ward as the mayor and assessors for the whole bo-
rough if not divided into wards ; and every person so
elected a councillor or assessor in such ward shall hold his
office for the same time that he would have held it if he
had been elected by the burgesses of the whole borough,
and if the number elected in such ward had been the whole
number for the borough.

BURGESSES TO VOTE IN THE WARD IN WHICH THEIR PRO-
PERTY IS SITUATED.

44. And be it enacted, that every burgess of any bo-
rough shall be entitled to vote in the election of the coun-
cillors and assessors to be chosen within that ward in which
the property of such burgess for which he appears to be
rated on the burgess-roll for the time being of such borough
shall appear to b situated, and not otherwise ; and if any
burgess shall be rated in respect of distinct premises in two
cimore wards, then he shall be entitled to be enrolled, and
icNctein such one of the said wards as he shall select, but
not in more than one.