The Sun.
London, England, 1832-11-02 00:00:00

REFORM BILL-RE GIS TRATIO N.

This subject being now of considerable importance, se
have collected the following decisions which have bee
made known, and may be useful to overseers and electors t'

BOROUGHS.
An elector who called at the collector's house to pay h
rates on or before the 29th of July, and did not find
at home, nor any one who knew the amount to receive
of him, has a right to be put on the list ; the non•PaY
ment not being occasioned by his default.
If the receipt be dated before the 20th of July, and thi
entry in the books after that day, preference will be gilt'
to the statement in the books.

Jews have a right to be inserted in the lists.
Persons living in extra-parochial places not having bee,
called upon for rates, but being otherwise qualified, °t
entitled to be put on the lists.
All persons whose names have been put on the list bl
the overseers, although erroneously, yet, if unobjected
will not be struck out by the Barrister.
Where the poor-rates are included in the rent, and Pt'
by the landlord, the tenant must have been put on the r$ -
or made claim to entitle him to be entered- on the lists.
If there be several partners in a firm, and the dwell
house be rated in the name of the company, but oceol3/0
by a partner whose name does not appear in the etYleo
the firm in the rate-books; such partner, although 06'd
pier, cannot be admitted in the list, without having 01$

Joshua was entered Joseph in the list, on reference claim.
the rate-books it was difficult to tell whether the nano
Joshua or Joseph. The name was inserted. hp ti
Where the Christian name and place of abode are -

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wrong it cannot be altered.
Two persons occupying the same house, the rates 103:
times paid by the one and sometimes by the other, °,
names entered in the rate-books, neither are entitled '

vote. inol
A house rated at 9/. per annum value proved to be
than 101. adulated.
Errors in the lists may be altered by reference to tb
rate-book, but errors in the rate-book are fatal.
A person paying a yearly rent for an apartment, sybie,
he furnishes, and a separate sum for board, being col,' '-
occasional resident, has been admitted at Colchester.
It has been decided at Exeter that the distance foga
tl
polling place should be determined by the crow's flight%
Persons paying the rates through the landlord, b 5
been admitted.
The list tendered to the barrister by the overseer, rau
be received, the responsibility of any improper alterati,
resting upon the overseer.—Cumberland Packet.
IMEOILTA NE DECISION.
On considering the objection made to the notice sere,
signed " Isaac Squibbs,” the Court'
Brill county voter,
gwAter, on Monday, decided that blank notices
objection could at be signed and handed over to a thir
person to be indiscriminately used, and, consequently, °)
objections where such notices have been served, will no
be gone into. This question was raised and disposed ,
in the manner above stated, en the first county Irt)te„r
case. The discussion lasted several hours, and did
terminate until half-past three. Nearly all the notic''d,'
objection signed by Mr. Luttrell's agents are, urLI
ground, invalid. It was observed thein Court at r-d
water, on Monday, that I aac Squt • bbs had gape off 5P
,
cracker."—Taunton Courier.

A NICE POINT. f
the •At the registration for the Hull district 0
the see
Riding of Yorkshire on Monday, Mr. Henry, tnee ,„ tel
ter, decided that the claim of a person arriving 11.°0.00
made since the thy appointed by the Act, if wade !f tir°
diately on his landing, would be allowed ; but trile tb
were suffered to elapse after coming on shore be"'::
tb
claim is preferred, the Uame could not be inserted I
list.

13,a.
The Duke and Duchess of Riciotocrg
rived at their residence in Cavendish-square iless °
evening, from Newmarket. The Dowager Maceorso
litcumoND has left Apthorp, the seat of the Earl 0' to 03'
moaLaND, for Temple Newsham, on a visit ;wit)!
Dowager Marchioness of HERTFORD, who is cote: oce
select party of fashionables at her splendid rest°
the North.
Lieut.-General Sir WILLIAM KlEft `"- of
is now in the enjoyment of the dignity of a Be°, cod
Austrian empire, which the Emperor Ft:Axe's 1t is tb
ferred upon him. The dignity will be hereditarYglioste‘
family of the Gallant General, who has also been
a Knight Commander of the Imperial Austrian
Order of Maria Theresa.