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THE NEW REFORM BILL.

We are enabled to present our readers with 'a copy of this
important measure. It is entitled " A Bill to Amend the
Laws relating to the Representation of the People in Eng-
land and Wales, and to Facilitate the Registration and
Voting of Electors," and proceeds as follows :
" Whereas it is expedient to amend the laws affecting the
representation of the people in England and Wales, and to
afford increased facilities for the registration and voting of
her Majesty's subjects entitled to vote in the election of
members to serve in Parliamentz be it therefore enacted by
the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the ad-
vice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and
Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the same, as follows :
"I. Every male person of full age, and not subject to any
legal incapacity, who shall have any one of the several
qualifications hereinafter specified, shall be entitled to be
registered as a voter, and to vote in the election of a mem-
ber or members for the
.county, or if within the limits of a
borough, then in the election of a member or members for
the borough where, in the case of qualifications arising out
of lands or tenements, such lands or tenements shall be
situate, and where in all other cases such persons shall re-
side.
" The qualifications above referred to are as follow :
".1. Who shall be beneficially entitled, as owner or as
mortgagee itt'pOssession, at law or in equity, to an estate of
inheritancp, in lands or tenements pf freehold tenure, of the
clear yearly value, over and above all charies and encum-
brances affecting the same, of not less than 40s.
" 2. Or shall be so beneficially entitled to an estate of in-
heritance in lands or tenements of copyhold, or any other
tenure whatever, except freehold, of such clear yearly value,
as aforesaid, of not less than £5.
" 3. Or shall be so beneficially entitled to an estate for
any life or lives in lands or tenements, of any tenure, of
such clear yearly value, as aforesaid, of not less than £5.
" 4. Or shall be so beneficially entitled to a term origi-
nally granted for not less than 30 years in lands or tene-
ments, of any tenure, of such yearly value, as aforesaid, of
not less than £5.
" 5. Or shall occupy as tenant any such lands or tene-
ments of the clear yearly value of not less than £lO.
" 6. Or shall occupy any apartments in, or portion of a
house, whether furnished or unfurnished, for which he shall
have paid a rent of not less than Bs. per week, or per an-
num to an amount of £2O.
" 7. Or shall be in the beneficial enjoyment of a yearly
income arising from the personal property following, that
is to say :—From any annuity granted by the Commis-
sioners for Reduction of the National Debt, or any dividends
or interest from the Parliamentary stocks or funds of the
United Kingdom, or from the stocks, shares, or bonds, of
the East India Company, or of the Bank of England, stand-
ing in his own name, of not less amount per annum than
£lO.
" 8. Or shall be in the beneficial enjoyment of an in-
come arising from any pension, pay, or superannuation al-
llowance, in respect of any past employment by such person
in any department of her Majesty's naval, military, East
Indian, or civil service, and who shall no longer be perma-
nently employed therein, amounting to not less per annum
than £2O.
"9. Or shall hold, and shall be beneficially entitled to a
deposit in some savings bank, established in England or
Wales, under the provisions of the Act of the ninth year of
his late Majesty King George IV., chap. 92, to the amount
of £O.
" 10. Or shall possess one or other of the qualifications
following, that is to say :
" Who shall be a graduate of any University of the
United Kingdom ;
" Or an ordained priest or deacon of the Church of Eng-
land ;
" Or a minister of any other religious denomination ap-
pointed either alone or with not more than one colleague,
to the charge of any chapel or place of worship, and offi-
ciating as the minister thereof ;
"Or a barrister-at-law, or sergeant-at-law, in any of the
Inns of Court in England, or a certificated pleader or con-
veyancer ;
"Or a certificated attorney, or solicitor, or proctor in
England and Wales ;
" Or a member of the medical profession, registered under
the provisions of the Medical Act, 1858 ;
"Or a schoolmaster holding a certificate from the Com-
mittee of her Majesty's Council on Education. i
"11. Or who shall be entitled to be registered for any
county, city, or borough, in respect of any estate for life in
freehold lands or tenements, of which he shall be seised at
the time of passing of this Act, or in respect of any qualifi-
cation, as freeholder, burgage tenant; burgess, freeman,
liveryman, or otherwise, reserved, or defined in the 31st,
32d, 33d, 34th, and 34th sections of the Act of the second
year of the reign of his late Majesty King William IV.,
cap. 45.
"11. No person shall be entitled to vote, as aforesaid,
unless he shall have been duly registered according to the
previsions hereinafter contained ; 'and no person shall be so
registered in any year in respect of his estate or interest in
any lands or tenements, either of inheritance, or for any
life or lives, or for a term of years, as aforesaid, unless he
shall have been in the actual possession thereof, or in the
receipt of the rents and profits thereof, for his own use, for
six calendar months at least next previous to the 24th day
of Juno in such Tear : provided always, that where any such
qualification shall come to any person at any time within
such period of six calendar months, by descent, succession,
marriage, marriage settlement, devise, or promotion to any
benefice in a church, or by promotion to any office, such
person shall be entitled in respect thereof to have his name
inserted in the list of voters then next to be made, by virtue
of this Act as hereinafter mentioned ; and no person shall
be so registered in any year in respect of any lands or tene-
ments occupied by him as tenant, or in respect of any apart-
ment or portion of a house occupied by him as aforesaid,
unless he shall have been in the actual occupation thereof
for 12 calendar months next previous to the 24th day of
June in such year ; and no person shall be so registered in
respect of any annuity or income, as aforesaid, or in respect
of a deposit in any savings bank, as aforesaid, unless he
,;tall have been in the receipt of such annuity or income or
have had such deposit standing in his name for 12 calendar
months next previous to the 24th day of June in such year;
and no person shall be so registered in respect of any such
annuity, income, or deposit, or in respect of any educational
qualification as aforesaid, unless he shall have resided with-
in the county or borough in respect of which he claims to
be so registered, for 12 calendar months next previous to
the 24th day of June in such year : provided always that
no person having two or more places of residence shall be
entitled to be registered as a voter at more than one place
in respect of the tame qualification.
" 111. No person shall be so registered in any year, in
respect of his occupation of any lans or tenements situate
in a parish or township in which there shall be a rate
for time relief the poor as occupier, unless he shall
have t•een rated, in respect of such premises, to all rates
for the &lief of the poor made during the time of his occu-
pation, so :required as aforesaid, and shall have paid on or
before the 2'4th day of June in such year all the poor-rates
which shall have become payable in respect of such lands
or tenements previously to the 25th day of December then
next preceding.
" IV. Every person occupying any lands or tenements in
ally County or borough swill have the same right to claim
to be rated to the relief of the poor as is given by the 30th
ear of hr Majesty,
section of the said Act passes, in the second year of the
reign of his late Majesty King Villiam IV., and the pro-
os
hAacilt passed
applicablein the
tlostLalcyp
ergo
us sec laiming,
except that the 25th day of December ai_
*A the 24th day of
June shall be the periods fixed in lieu o'f the sth day of
January and the 20th day of July respective',ll:.
vichaptersi 8 o fl4th,
" V. The lards or tenements in respect of ice ownership
or occupation
of which any person shall be em!tled to be
registered in any y.
ear shall not be required to be the same
premises, but may be different premises, owned or occupied
in immediate succession by such person during the six
calendar months, or 12 cai,°ndar months, as the case may be,
next previous to the 24th day of June in such year.
oi
" VI. Where any such preses shall be jomtly owned
or occupied by more persons than one, each of such joint
owners or occupiers shall be enticed to be so registered be su,
ffi-
in
case the clear yearly value thereof, a., aforesaid, shall
cient when divided by the number of" such owners or occu-
piers, to give to each of such joint owners or occupiers, as
the case may be, a sum of not less than the amount before
specified, as constituting a qualification to vote, in the case
of such owner or occupier respectively but not otherwise :
provided always, that no greater number of persons shall
be entitled to be registered in respect of any freehold, copy-
hold, or leasehold interest in the same premises than
shall be equal to two voters for every single tenement
or undivided plot of land, unless they shall have derived
the same by descent, succession, marriage, marriage settle-
ment, devise, or promotion as aforesaid, or unless they
shall be bona fide engaged as partners carrying on trade or
business thereon.
" VII. All such enactments now in force as require the
payment by any person of assessed taxes, in order to entitle
such person to have his name inserted in respect of the oc-
cupation of any premises in any list of persons entitled to
vote for any borough, and so much of any enactments now
in force as require assessors or collectors of taxes to deliver
to overseers lists of persons who have not paid the assessed
taxes payable in respect of any premises, are hereby re-
pealed.
"VIII. In order to entitle any person to be placed on any
register of voters, in respect of his occupation of apartments
in, or the portion of any house, such person shall, on or be-
fore the 24th day of July in each year, send to the overseers
of the parish or township in which such house shall be
situate, a claim, according to the form numbered sin the
schedule B to this Act annexed, with the declaration therein
contained, and signed and witnessed as therein required.
"IX. The Governor and Company of the Bank of Eng-
land, the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland,
the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt,
and the East India Company, upon the request of Lay per-
son who, at the time of making such request, shall, for' the
12 months next preceding the 24th day of June in any yea.",
have received or have been entitled to receive any annuity,
or any dividends, or interest to the amount of £lO in re-
spect of stock, shares, or bonds, standing in the name of
such person in the books of such commissioners or company
respectively, shall cause to be given to such person a certi-
ficate in the form numbered lin the schedule A to this Act.
And the trustees or managers of any sax* •
ingsbank in Eng-
land and Wales, upon the request of any person who shall
have in such savings bank a sum not less than £6O, and
I which he shall have had deposited in such bank for the 12
months next preceding the 24th day of June in any year
shall cause to be given to such person a certificate in the
form numbered 2, in the said schedule Ato this Act. And
every Such certificate shall have a distinguishing number
affixed thereto and shall on all occasions touching the right
or title of such person to be. registered be received as prima
facie evidence of the facts therein mentioned, without proof

of the signature, or of the. official character of the person
appearing to have signed the same.
" X. In order to entitle any person to be registered in
respect of his yearly income derived from such personal
property as aforesaid, or in respect of his being a depositor
in any savings-bank, such person shall, en or before the
24th day of June, send in a claim, with the certificate
before-mentioned annexed, to the overseers of the parish in
which he shall reside, in the form numbered 6 in the sche-
dule B to this Act, with the declaration therein contained ;
and the overseer of the parish shall, on or immediately after
the 24th day of June m every subsequent year, so long as
the person so registered shall continue on the register, send
to the Commissioners, company, or savings-bank, giving
such certificate, addressed to the secretary, a circular in the
form numbered 3 in the said schedule B, and shall omit the
name of such person from the list of voters for the current
year unless it shall appear from the answer received to such
circular that the person so registered continues to be pos-
sessed of such qualification : provided always that any per-
son who shall continue to be possessed of the same qualifi-
cation for which his name appears on the register then in
force, and who shall have been so omitted by the overseers
from the list of voters in any year, shall be entitled to claim
to be inserted in a supplemental list of voters in manner
hereinafter mentioned.
"XI. The circulars to be sent by the overseers as afore-
said shall be transmitted through the post, and the Commis-
sioners, or company, or the trustees of the savings-bank,
respectively, receiving any such circular, shall forthwith
authorise some officer or clerk on their behalf to return such
circular to the overseers by the post; with an answer thereto
in the form numbered 4 in the schedule B to this Act.

" XII. The overseers shall keep such certificates annexed
to the said claims, and also such annual circulars, with the
answer thereto, and allow the same to be perused by any
person without payment of any fee, and give copies of the
same in like manner as hereinafter provided with regard to
lists of voters and persons objected to ; and the said over-
seers shall produce the certificates annexed to the original
claims, and also such annual circulars and replies to the
barrister appointed to revise the lists for any county or
borough at the same time as they are by law required to
deliver the original claims and notices of objection, and the
revising barrister shall return all such certificates and an-
nual circulars, with the answers thereto, to the overseers,
who shall forthwith file the same, and keep all such certi-
ficates and circulars in some secure place, and shall, at the
conclusion of their year of office, dottier the same to their
successors in the said office of overseers, who shall, in like
manner, preserve and hand over the same to their succes-
sors. _ _ _

" XIII. In order to entitle any person to be registered
in respect of an income arising from any pension, pay, or
superannuation allowance, as aforesaid, or in respect of any
one of the educational qualifications hereinbefore mentioned,
such person shall, on or before the 24th day of July, send
to the overseers of the parish within which he shall reside
a claim according to the form numbered 7 in the schedule
B to this Act annexed.
" XIV. If any person shall wilfully give or make any
such certificate, or answer to such circular, as hereinbefore
mentioned, falsely, or without due authority, or forge, coun-
terfeit, or alter any such certificate or answer, or any signa-
ture thereto, or shall make use of the same in support of
any claim to vote, or tender the same in evidence, knowing
the same to be false or counterfeit, or given without due
authority, or shall wilfully declare falsely in any claim sent
in by him under the provisions of this Act,. he shall be
guilty of a misdemeanour, and, on being convicted thereof,
shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two
years, together with hard labour.
" XV. No person employed in any Government arsenal,
dockyard, or factory connected with her Majesty's
army or navy shall be capable of giving his vote at any
election for the county, city, or borough within which such
arsenal, dockyard, yard, or factory shall be situate during
the time that he shall be so employed, and for one month
after he shall have quitted such employment ; and the vote
of such person, if given, shall be utterly void and of none
effect, notwithstanding that the name of such person shall
have been inserted in the register in force at the time of
such election ; and any person being so disqualified, as
aforesaid, who shall vote at any such election shall forfeit
the sum of £2O, to be recoverable by any person who shall
sue for the same in any action in any of her Majesty's courts
of record at Westminster.
" XVI. For the purpose of forming registers of all per-
sons entitled to vote at any election, in accordance with the
provisions of this Act, the Clerk of the Peace for every
county and the Town-Clerk of every borough shall cause a
sufficient number of forms of precepts, notices, claims, lists,
and circulars to be printed according to the respective forms
numbered 1,2, 3,4, 5,6, 7, 8,•9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and of the
table of fees in the schedule B to this Act ; and shall also,
on or before the 24th day of May in every year, make and
cause to be delivered to the overseers of the poor of every
parish within his county; or within his borough, as the case
may be, his precept, according to the form numbered 1 in
the said schedule B to this Act, together with a sufficient
number of the said printed forms of notices, claims, lists,
and circulars, and of the copies of such part of the qualifi-
cation register of voters then in force for such county or
borough as shall relate to such parish, and of copies of the
said table of fees for the purposes hereinafter mentioned.
" XVII. The overseers of the poor in every parish shall,
on or before the first day of June in every year, publish a
notice, according to the form numbered 2 in the said sche-
dule B to this Act, having first signed the same, stating
that no person will be entitled to have his name inserted in
the list of voters for such parish then next to be made in
respect to the occupation of any lands or tenements of the
clear yearly•value of not less than £lO, situate wholly or in
part within such parish, unless he shall pay on or before the
24th day of • June -,then next ensuing all the poor-rates
which shall -have- become payable from him in respect of
such premises previously to the 25th day of December then
last past, and requiring all persons entitled to vote at such
election in respect of the occupation of apartments or the
portion of any house within such parish, and all persons
resident within such parish, and entitled to vote in respect
of an income derived from personal property, or from pen-
sion, pay, or superannuation allowance, or as depositors in
a savings bank, and all persons resident within such parish
or township having any one of the educational qualifica-
tions entitling_ them under this act to vote in respect there-
of, and also all other persons entitled to be registered who,
though not herein required to send in a claim, may think
fit so to do, and who are desirous of having their name in-
serted in the register about to be made, to give or send to
the said overseers, on or before the 24th day of July then
next ensuing a claim to vote, as aforesaid; and every such
person shall, -on or before the said 24th day of July, deliver
append to the-said• overseers a claim, according to the form
alicable to hiss-particular qualification, and as set forth in
that behalf in the schedule B to this act.
" XVIIh -The overseers shall, on or before the 24th day
of July in every •year, make out, according to the form
numbered 9-in the said schedule B, an alphabetical list of
all persons other than freemen who, on or before the 24th
day of June•then -next preceding, shall appear to be on the
said copy of the qualification register of voters then in force
for such county or borough, omitting all names against
which the letter-A: shall have been printed in such register,
according to the provisions hereinafter contained, or who
shall, without being •on the said register, and without
makingany claim, be entitled to be registered in respect of
anyo one of the several qualifications hereinbefore specified,
arising out of lands or tenements, or who shall in due form,
as herein prescrib&t, have claimed in respect of any one of
the severl' qualifications hereinbefore specified for which a
claim is required ; 'and such list shall be called ' The list of
voters,' and in every such list the Christianname and surname
of every such person, with his profession, trade, or calling,
and the place of his abode, the nature of his qualification,
and the local or other description of the property, and the
name of the occupying tenant of any property so occupied
shall be written, and in the case of claimants the particulars
of the qualification shall be set forth as the same are stated
in the claim; and the said overseers, if they shall have
reasonable cause to believe that any person whose name
shall appear in such list of voters is not entitled to have his
name upon the' register then next to be made, shall add the
word ' objectedre the name of every such
and the said person on
the margin of such list of voters ;
shall also add the word dead' before the name of any per-
son in the said list whom they shall have reasonable cause
to believe dead; and the overseers shall cause a sufficient
number of copies of such list of voters, with all such mar-
ginal additions, as aforesaid, to be printed, and in such list
all the names which have not been taken from the copy of
the register then in force, as aforesaid, shall be printed in
italics, and they shall, on or before the Ist day of August,
sign and publish the same ; and the said overseers shall
likewise keep a copy of such list of voters, with the mar-
ginal additions respectively, as aforesaid, signed by them,
to be perused by any person, withbut payment of any fee,
at any time between the hours of 10 of the clock in the
forenoon and 4 of the clock in the • afternoon of any day,
except Sunday, during the first 14 days after the same shall
have been published, and shall deliver.
.written or printed
copies thereof, signed by them, to all persons applying for
the same, on payment of a price fOr each copy, after tho
rate contained in the table of fees in the schedule B to this
Asocn c .;31,,_itled to be registered
t provided always, that it shall be lawful for any p9r-
in respect of his estate or in-
terest in or tenements to send to the overseers of the
parish where such lands or tenements shall be situate, on
or before the 2401 day of July, a claim according to the
form numbered in the schedule B to this Act, or to the like
effect, if he shall so think fit.
" XIX. The town-elerk of every borough shall, on or
before the Ist day of August in each year, make out, ac-
cording to the form numbered 15 in the said schedule B,
an
alphabetical list of all the freemen of such borough who
may be entitled under the provisions hereinbefore cont
to vote in the election of a member or members to serve
in Parliament for such borough, to be called The Liist of
Voters entitled as Freemen,' together with the respective
places of their abode, and shall sign such list, and cause
copies thereof to be printed, and shall publish the laid list
on•or before the Ist day of August in such year,•and shall
a copy thereof to be perused by any person,
10 of the clock in the forenoon and 4 of the clock in the
likewisewithout pkaeyepment of any fee, at a;time between the hours of
afOrnoon of any day, except Sunday, during the first 14
days after such lists shall persons been published, and shall
deliver copies thereof to all applying for the same,
for
tit of a price each copy, after the rate con-
otained in paymn tlie table of few in the schedule to this act.
herein contained shall alter or affoct the
and publishing the lists of such of the
mode ‘
freemen'lCoXf .op
frNet.
pho
of London as are liverymen of the seve-
ral companies entitledtibriiitggy to vote in the election of members to
serve in Parliament for the city of London.
‘' XXI. Every person not by this Act specially required
to eloim to be registered, as aforesaid, whose name shall
have b,gen omitted in any such list of voters so to be made
out, as oforesaid, and who shell be entitled to have his
'rise ,ted therein, and every person desirous of being
namerewis in
for a different qualification than that for which
his name appvars in the said list, or of correcting any error
• in such list.
shall, on or before the 24th day of August
L-on
-ve a notice according to the form numbered
ill t`hat year,
as to name, pLice of abode, or description of his qualifica-
d le B, or to the like effect, to the over-
in 'll • the list whereof he shall claim to
that parisi.,,
seers of e inserted, or if he shall claim as a free-
have his na-I;o?o„,re,o.lricit then he shall, in like manner,
man of a. V of such borough, a ntice, ac-
give to the 014;7,1-e nwAcred 14 in the aides chedule
cording to th.e. form _
kticlude tliG names of all persons
troesptheeotiisl,ekiey, 4144 the overseers and town-
B, or
ktt to be calW The Supple-
so claiming as aforesaid, in
4(n to the form& num-
mental List of Voters,' accor,
a B.;
bered 10 and Is respectively, in the .gal.oaring
esfrhall.!
vided always, that every person so orni,!led Lula to
upon the suppl
emental list of voters shaJi. be requires
410 corrected,
prove his right to vote, or the fact required p

at the court to be held by the revising barrister, or his claim
shall be disallowed; and such revising barrister, where any
such claim is made for the purpose of correcting an error
or misdescription in the said list of voters, shall, upon due
proof being furnished to his satisfaction, correct the same
accordingly.
" XXII. Any original or supplemental claim made in
respect of the ownership or occupation of any lands or tene-
ments may be signed by any other person on behalf of the
claimant ; provided that the person so signing on behalf
of another shall add his own name and place of abode, and
shall be liable to the payment of costs, as hereinafter pro-
vided in the case of claimants, in the event of such claim
being decided by the revising barrister to be frivolous.
" XXIII. Every person whose name shall have been
inserted in any list of voters for a county or borough may
object to any other person upon any list of voters for such
county or borough, as not having been entitled on the 24th
day of June then next preceding to have his name inserted
in any list of voters for such county or borough, and every
person so objecting shall, on or before the 24th day of
August in such year, give or send by post to the overseers
of the parish, or the town clerk of the borough to which
the list of voters containing the name of the person so ob-
jected tomay relate, as the case may be, a notice, according
to the form numbered 11 or 16 in the said schedule B, or
to the like effect, and the person, as well overseers as
others, so objecting, in the manner hereinbefore mentioned,
shall, on or before the 24th day of August, give to the
party so objected to, or send to him by post, at his place of
abode, as described in such list, a notice, according to the
form numbered 14 in the said schedule B, or to the like
effect ; and every such notice of objection shall be signed
by the party or overseer, as the case may be, so objecting,
and whenever the place of abode of the person objected
to, as described in the said list, shall not be in the
parish to which such list may relate, and the name of the
occupying tenant of the whole or any part of the qualifying
property, together with his place of abode, shall appear in
such list, the person so objecting shall also, on or before the
same day, give, or send by post, to any such occupying
tenant, at his place of abode, a duplicate notice signed as
aforesaid.
" XXIV. Every person,. as well overseers as others, ob-
jecting in the manner hereinbefore provided to the name of
any other person shall specify, in the notice of objection to
be sent by him, the grounds of objection upon which he in-
tends to rely, whether it be that he has not a qualification
entitling him to be registered, or that his qualification or
place of abode is not accurately described, and upon the
revision of the lists before the revising barrister the person
so objected to shall not be required to give any evidence in
support of his right to be registered, except in so far as the
same shall have been disputed in such grounds of objec-
tion, and it shall not be competent for the overseer or party
objecting to give any evidence in support of any other ob-
jection.

"XXV. The overseers shall include the names dell per-
sons so objected to in a list, according to the form numbered
13 in the said schedule B, and the town-clerk shall include
the names of all persons so objected to as freemen in a list,
according to the form numbered 17 in the said schedule B ;
and the said overseers and town-clerk respectively, shall
sign the same, and shall publish such lists, and also the said
lists of supplemental claims, on or befere the Ist day of Sep-
tember, and shall also keep copies of the said lists, and shall
allow the same and also the notices of objection which they
shall have received, to be perused by any person, without
payment of any fee, at any time between the hours of 10 of
the clock in the forenoon and 4of the clock in the afternoon
of any day, except Sunday, during the first 14 days of the
month of September,. and shall deliver a copy of such lists
to any person requiring the same, on payment of a price for
each copy, after the rate contained in the said table of fees.
" XXVI. On or before the Ist day of September in every
year the overseer of every parish shall deliver to the clerk
of-the peace of the county, or to the town clerk of the bo-
rough wherein such parish is situate, the said list of voters,
with the marginal additions thereto as aforesaid, and also
the said list of supplemental claims, and also the list of ob-
jections respectively signed as aforesaid, relating to their
parish.
" XXVII. It shall be lawful for any person whose name
shall be on any list of voters for the time being, for any
county or borough, and for any person who shall have
claimed to have his name inserted in any such list, upon
request made by such person at any time between the 24th
day of July and the 24th day of August, to inspect and
make extracts from the rate-books in the manner and be-
tween the hews provided in the 16th section of the Act of
the sixth year of her Majesty, cap. 18.
" XXVIII. At every court to be holden by any revising
barrister for the revision of any list of voters, all witnesses
examined before him shall be examined upon oath, and it
shall be lawful for such barrister, at his discretion, to re-
ceive in evidence affidavits, solemn affirmations, or declara-
tions, made before any justice of the peace, or other person
authorised to administer oaths in any of her Majesty's
courts of law or equity, in support of any right to be regis-
tered, or objection thereto, or negativing the grounds alleged
in any notice of objection to any person on such lists, and
every person who shall wilfully swear, affirm, or declare
falsely, in any affidavit, affirmation, or declaration to be so
used, or when examined on oath before any revising barrister
at any court holden as aforesaid, shall be guilty of a misde-
meanour and subject to the penalties of perjury.
" XXIX. And whereas it is provided in the 40th section
of the said Act, passed in the 6th year of her Majesty, that
no evidence shall be given of any other qualification than
that which is described in the list of voters or claims, and
that the barrister shall not be at liberty to change the
description of the qualification as it appears in the list, ex-
cept for the purpose of more clearly and accurately defining
the same : be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for such
barrister to change the description of the qualification, and
to amend the same, and to receive evidence in support
thereof, whenever he shall be satisfied that the person
whose right is in question is entitled to be registered
for such altered or amended qualification, and that
the niisdescription or error was not made with e intention
to mislead any person as to the right of such person to be
registered.
" XXX. The revising barrister shall write before the
names of all such persons interested on the list of voters as
are required to renew their claims annually, the letter A,
and in printing the register in the manner hereinafter pro-
vided, such letter A shall be placed before the name of such
person in the register, and the names of all such persons
shall be omitted in the ensuing year from the list of
voters to be made by the overseers as aforesaid, unless they
shall have duly sent in their claims in the manner herein-
before provided.
" XXXI. Every clerk of the peace for a county, and every
town clerk for any borough, shall, upon the request of any
person objected to, or objecting to any other person, or their
respective agents, i ssue a summons, according to the form
in the schedule Eto this act, requiring the attendance of
any witness to be named in such summons to attend and
be examined before such revising barrister, and every such
summons shall be served personally upon the witness whose
attendance is required ; and if any person so summoned as
a witness shall, after a tender of reasonable compensation
for his time and expenses, neglect or refuse to appear before
such barrister at the time and place for that purpose ap-
pointed, without a reasonable excuse for such neglect or
refusal to be allowed by such barrister, or if any person so
summoned shall appear but refuse to be examined or give
evidence before such barrister, every person so offending
shall forfeit any sum not exceeding £5, to be fixed by order
under the hand of such barrister, and to be recovered in the
manner provided in the 71st section of the said Act of the
6th year of the reign of her Majesty.
" XXXII. In order to discourage frivolous and vexatious
claims and objections, be it enacted, that the power of the
revising barrister to give costs under the 46th section of the
said Act of the 6th year of the reign of her Majesty shall
be enlarged, so as to enable such barristers to give costs to
the extent of £5 in the cases therein provided.
" XXXIII. Any person objected to, and also any person
objecting to any other person, as aforesaid, may send to the
overseers, or other person objecting, or to the person ob-
jected to, as the case may be, not less than one week before
the time appointed for the revision of the lists by the re-
vising barrister, a notice, stating that such person objected
to, or objecting to any other person, does not intend to sup-
port his right to be registered, or his objection, as the case
may be ; and in such case no claim for costs shall arise.
" XX X IV. The lists of voters for each county, signed by
the' revising barrister, shall be forthwith transmitted by
him to the clerk of the peace of the county, and the clerk of
the peace shall keep the said lists among the records of the
sessions, and shall forthwith cause the said lists to be copied
and printed in a book, to be called The Qualification Re-
gister,' arranged with the names in each parish in strict
alphabetical order, according to the surnames, and with
every polling place or district in strict alphabetical order,
and with every parish within such polling district likewise
in the same order and with a number prefixed to the name
of each person in regular succession ; and in order to enable
voters to vote with less trouble and expense, the clerk of
the peace, in addition to such qualification register, shall
also make out and print in the said book another register,
to be called The Voting Register,' wherein every polling
district and every parish in each polling district shall be
arranged in strict alphabetical order, and wherein in each
parish shall also be arranged in strict alphabetical order,
the name of every voter residing in such parish, with his
place of abode, as described in the said lists, and before the
name of each voter shall br placed the same number as
is affixed thereto in the qualification register, and the
names of all such voters as shall reside out of such county
shall be arranged together in the said voting register in
strict alphabetical order, to be headed The List of Out-
Voters or Non-Residents,' and every such qualification
register and voting register shall be printed in the forms
numbered 1 and 2 in the schedule C to this act, and shall
be arranged in such manner and form that the list of
voters residing in each separate parish or township, and
also the list of out-voters or non-residents, may be conve-
niently and completely cut out or detached from all the
other lists of voters contained in the same book, so that all
the lists for every or for any polling place or district, or the
list of every or any single parish, may be ready for the pur-
poses of this Act or for sale ; and the said clerk of the peace
shall sign and deliver the said voting register, with the
qualification register, on or before the 31st day of Decembero
in the then current year, to the returning
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fication register and voting register, so signed and delivered
as aforesaid, shall be the register of persons entitled to vote
at any election of a member or members to serve in Par-
liament which shall take place for such county or borough
during the year commencing the Ist day of January then
next and ending on the 31st day of December; and every
such clerk of the peace and town clerk shall keep printed
polies of their respective registers, and shall deliver copies
of suet' registers, or of any part thereof, to any person ap-
.plying for the saline, after the rate contained in the table of
fees in the Schedule '33 to this Act : provided always? that