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appointed shall accordingly be, the
respective borough until the nomination to _
succeeding month of March, and the provisions
in the 11th section. of the said act of the secom,
King William IV., providing for the event of the
incapacity of any person appointed as returning
any borough, and exempting any person so ar-
serving again in the same office, and disq
persons from being so appointed, and persons so appointed
from being appointed churchwardens or overseers ' - and
providing for the case of a charter of incorporation being
granted to any borough, shall extend and be applicable in
relation to the nomination and appointment of returning
officers for the said unincorporated boroughs in the said
schedule I to this act, and the returning officers to be no-
minated and appointed for the same under this enactment,
and for the purposes of this provision the borough of Staley-
bridge shall be deemed to be situated in the county of
Chester.
" LVII. And whereas in the case of divers boroughs re-
turning a member or members to serve in Parliament the
population properly belonging to such boroughs has ex-
tended beyond the Parliamentary limits thereof, and a large
proportion of the inhabitants of the towns or places com-
prising such boroughs are without any voice in the election
of the member or members for such boroughs ; and whereas
it is desirable that in all such cases the boundaries of
boroughs should be so enlarged as to comprise within them
every part of the population substantially forming part of
such boroughs : be it enacted, that the Enclosure Com-
missioners' for England and Wales shall, immediately after
the passing of this Act, appoint special assistant commis-
sioners, who shall forthwith visit every borough in Eng-
land and Wales, and examine the boundaries of such
borough and the location of the inhabitants, and the said
Enclosure Commissioners shall, on or before the Ist day of
January after the passing of this Act, report to her Ma-
jesty's Secretaryof State for the Home Department whether
any enlargement of the present boundaries of such boroughs
is necessary in order to include within the area thereof the
population properly belonging to such boroughs respec-
tively, and in such report shall propose such new boun-
daries as in their judgment would effect that object, with
the view of being submitted to Parliament in the ensuing
session ; and the assistant commissioners so appointed shall
give notice by public advertisement of their intention to
visit such boroughs, and shall appoint a time for receiving
the statement of any persons who may be desirous of giv-
ing information as to the boundaries or other local circum-
stances of such boroughs, and shall, by personal inspection
and such other means as they shall think necessary, pos-
sess themselves of such information as will enable them to
make such report and recommendation as aforesaid.
" LVIII. Every person on whom, under the provisions
hereinbefore contained, a right of voting at any election for
any county or borough is conferred, shall, subject to the
conditions affecting such right, be entitled to vote at any
election of a member or members to serve in Parliament for
such county or borough which shall take place after the
31st of December, 1859, and subject to the conditions affect-
ing his right to be registered in any year shall be entitled
to be registered in any register of voters to be formed for
such county or borough in or after the year 1859.
" LIX. Registers of voters shall be formed in and after
the year 1859, notwithstanding the continuance of this
present Parliament, for or in respect of the several now
divisions of counties and the boroughs constituted by this
Act, in like manner as if they were respectively divisions
of counties and boroughs now returning members to serve
in Parliament.
LX. If by reason of a dissolution of the present Parlia-
ment, or by any avoidance of a seat therein which may
take effect after the passing of this Act, and before the day
at and from which the registers of voters to be framed under
the provisions of this Act shall be in force, in such case
such persons only shall be entitled to vote at any election
for any county or borough now returning members to serve
in Parliament as are upon the registers in force for such
county or borough at the time of such dissolution or avoid-
ance.

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no person shall be entitled to a copy of any part of any
register relating to any parish without paying for the whole
that relates to such parish.
"X X XVII. Every voter inserted in such voting register
as residing within the county or borough shall vote at the
polling place appointed for the parish in which he shall be
registered as residing, and not elsewhere ; and every voter
inserted in such voting register as an out-voter or non-resi-
dent may vote at any polling place for such county or bo-
rough, provided that every such out-voter, upon tendering
his vote at any election, shall be asked by the returning
officer or his deputy whether he has voted before in person
or by voting paper at such election : and any person making
an untrue answer to such question, or who shall, without
being asked such question, vote a second time at such elec-
tion, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on being con-
victed thereof shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding two years, together with hard labour.
" XXXVIII. The justices of the peace assembled at
the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions to be holden next after
the passing of this Act, shall appoint proper and conve-
nient places for polling in every county, so that there may
be a polling place in every parish or township in which
there shall be not less than 200 resident electors, and a
polling place for every two or more parishes or townships,
in either of which separately there shall bo less than 200
resident electors, at some central or convenient point at
which, as nearly as possible, 200 voters from such smaller
parishes or townships may most conveniently attend to re-
cord their votes ; and the places so selected by the justices
as the future polling places of the county shall forthwith
be duly advertised as they shall think fit ; and the justices
shall from time to time vary and alter such polling places
as they shall think expedient, provided that it shall not be
incumbent upon the revising barrister appointed to revise
such lists as aforesaid to attend at any polling places at
which less than 500 voters s hall be appointed to poll.
" XXXIX. At every contested election for any county,
unless some building or place belonging to the county shall
be provided by the justices for that purpose, the sheriff
shall, whenever it is practicable so to do, instead of erecting
a booth, hire a building or room for the purpose of taking
the poll at the places so appointed by the justices as afore-
said, and the expense incurred by the said sheriff in the
hire of rooms or erecting booths for polling shall be paid to
hiniby the justices for such county out of the county rate.
" XL. And whereas it is expedient that an .appeal from
the decision of any revising barrister; contemplated by the
42d section of the said Act of the 6th year °flier MajestY,
should be granted in all cases in whiCh the same is de-
manded, be it enacted that the revising barrister shall in all
cases, upon notice being given to him, as provided in the
said recited Act, state in writing the facts which, according
to his judgment, shall have been established by the evidence
of the case, and which shall be material to the matter in
question, and shall also state in writing his decision upon
the whole case, and also his decision upon the point of law
in question appealed against; and such appeal shall be
stated and dealt with in the manner provided in the said
recited Act passed in the 6th year of her Majesty.
" XLI. The 79th section of the said Act, passed in the
6th year of her Majesty, is hereby repealed, and, instead
thereof, be it enacted that at any future election of a mem-
ber or members to serve in Parliament for any county or
borough the register of voters so made as aforesaid shall be
deemed and taken to be conclusive evidence that the per-
sons therein named continue to have the qualifications
which are annexed to their names respectively in the re-
gister in force at such election.
" XLII. And whereas it is expedient to afford greater
facilities for voting to persons who, at the time of holding
any election, shall be absent from or living beyond the limits
of the county or borough in respect of which they are regis-
tered, or who shall desire to be relieved from attending in
person to vote at such election, bo it enacted that any voter
may, after the issuing of the writ for holding such election,
apply in writing, either by himself or by some person on his
behalf, to the returning officer for a voting paper, and in
such application shall be stated the number attached to his
name in the register, the particulars of his qualification as
therein described, accordinglto the form No. 1 in the sche-
dule D to this Act, or to the like effect, and the returning
officer shall forthwith, upon the receipt of such request, fill
up and transmit to the voter, by a prepaid registered letter
through the post, directed to him at the address indicated
in the request, a voting paper, in the form and according to
the directions given in the forms numbered 2 and 3 to the
schedule D to this Act annexed.
" XLIII. Every voter receiving such voting paper shall
fill in his own name, and also the name or names of the can-
didate or candidates at such election for whom he intends
to vote, and shall sign the same in the presence of two wit-
nesses, one of whom must be a householder, and such wit-
nesses shall, in addition to signing their names, state their
profession, trade, or calling, and their place of abode.
" XLIV. The voting paper, so signed and witnessed as
aforesaid, shall be returned by the voter signing the same
through the post as a prepaid registered letter, directed to
the returning officer from whom the same shall have been
received at the address given by him in such voting paper.
" XLV. The returning officer shall appoint a deputy to
receive all such voting papers at the place to which they
shall be so directed, and he shall give notice to each candi-
date of the name of such deputy, and of the place where
such deputy will, on the day of polling, open such voting
papers, in order that the said candidates or their agents may
attend the said deputy thereat ; and such deputy shall, be-
tween the hours of 8 o'clock in the morning and 4 o'clock in
the afternoon of such day, and in the presence of the candi-
dates or their agents, if they shall think fit to attend, open
the said papers, and read out from each of them the votes
given for the several candidates at such election, and shall
duly record such votes in a poll-book, as the same are given
for such candidates in such voting papers ; and in adding up
the poll the votes so given shall be reckoned in favour of
the respective candidates, together with the votes given in
person at such election ; but no voting paper shall be opened
which shall not have been delivered at the place to which
they shall be se directed, as aforesaid, before the close of
the poll.
" XLVI. It shall not be lawful for the returning officer
to reject any voting paper which he shall have received
through the post, and which shall have so arrived before the
closing of the poll, on account of any informality in filling
up the same, provided that such paper shall purport to con-
tain the surname of the candidate or candidates for whom
the vote is intended to be given, and to have been signed in
the presence of two witnesses, duly witnessing the same,
and that the names of no more candidates are inserted in
such voting paper than such voter would have been entitled
to vote for if he had voted in person at such election.
" XLV 11. All voting papers received and recorded by the
returning officer at any such election, as well as any voting
papers which shall have been rejected by him for infor-
mality, or as having arrived too late, shall be filed by him,
and any person shall be allowed to examine the same at all
reasonable times, and to have copies thereof, upon the terms
herein provided in the table of fees in schedule B to this Act.
" X LVIII. Any person falsely personating any other per-
son whose name appears on any register of voters for any
county or borough, whether such other person shall then be
living or dead, or falsely assuming to sign any voting paper
in the name of such other person, and any person counter-
feiting the name or signature of any witness to any voting
paper, and every person tendering or transmitting as genuine
any false or counterfeit voting paper, or aiding in so doing,
knowing the same to be false or counterfeit in any particu-
lar, and any person voting more than once at any election
for any county or borough, either in person or by voting
paper, or by both, although no question shall be put to him
touching his right to vote thereat, shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanour, and on being convicted thereof shall bepunish-
able by a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding
two years, with or without hard labour.
" XLIX. The clerk of the peace of every county, and the
town-clerk of every borough shall immediately after the
passing of this Act, cause to be printed, and shall at all
times afterwards keep, a sufficient quantity of voting papers,
in the forms numbered 2 and 3 in the said schedudle D, in
their respective offices; and upon the issuing of a writ for
holding an election for any county or borough, the said
clerk of the peace or town-clerk shall deliver to the return-
ing officer such number of the said voting papers as he may
require upon being paid the cost price of printing the same.
"L. The expenses incurred in printing such voting
papers, and transmitting them to voters, shall be charged
by the returning officer to, and shall be paid by, the candi-
date or candidates at such election, in the proportion in
which the voters to whom such voting papers shall have
been issued shall have recorded their votes in favour of
such candidate or candidates respectively.
"LI. The provisions herein contained relating to voting
papers shall extend and apply to the voting at the election
and Cambridge, so far as the same are applicable; ande the_
of any member or members for the UniversitinyeyssifotrfLotkhoa:seelfarvnwoedrdetefsoortfr
Vice-Chancellors
shall
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election, issue to such person, in the manner an
upon the request of any person entitled to vote at and
the forms
times hereinbefore provided, a voting paper, m
this Act or to the
numbered 2 and 3in the schedule Dto s
and otherwise deal with the same in the manner herein-
before provided,candidate at
like effect, and shall open and record
of
ehe
" LII. It shall not be lawful for any any
voteseon conveyance of
any
tsuthene
election to pay any money on account y
candidate, or any person on
other person ; and if any such
shall
his behalf, and with his authority, pay any money on
nce of any voter to the poll, Ruch
account of the conveys
d to bo an ilgal t
payment shall be deenle respectively hall.,
Corruptcos' PaYmen* within
any voter to the poll, either to the voter himresvelfenotrionto
Act,any
the meaning of the
1854.
" LIII. In all future Parliaments each of the boroughs
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from and after the end
tw formedo
of this
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divisions
Parliament,htv3eir
one member and no more, to serve in Parliament.
LIV. The southern division of the county
shire
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divisions, and the county of Middlesex shall be divided into
two divisions ; and such divisions of the county of Lan-
the county of Middlesex, shall consist of the hundreds,
wapentakes, and parishes respectively, as described in the
schedule H to this Act annexed, and in all future Parlia-
ments
of such divisions ; and the court for the election of
enumerated
dthi
knights of the shire for each of such divisions shall be
holden at the place named for that purpose in the said
schedule 11, and all enactments now in force applicable to
divisions of counties returning knights of the shire to serve
in Parliament, and all enactments hereinafter contained
applicable to such divisions of counties, shall be deemed
or taken to extend and apply to the divisions constituted as
aforesaid.
" LV. Each of the places named in schedule I to this
Act annexed shall, for the purposes of this Act, be a
borough, and shall, as such borough, be comprised within
the boundaries, and shall include the places specified in the
said schedule I, in connection with such borough, and each
of the said boroughs named in the said schedule I shall,
from and after the end of the present Parliament, return
one member to serve in Parliament.
" LVI. In each of the boroughs named in schedule I to
this Act annexed, which are now incorporated, or within
which there shall be any incorporated place, the mayor or
for
the chief municipal officer fbr such borough or place
the time being shall be the returning officer forsuch Borough,
and in each of the boroughs iu the said schedule I which are
not now incorporated, and in which there shall be no in-
corporated place, the sheriff for the time being of the
county in which each of such unincorporated boroughs is
situate shall, within two months after the passing of this
act, and in every succeeding year in the month of March,
by writing under his hand, to be delivered to the clerk of
the peace of the county, and to be by such clerk of the peace
filed and preserved with the records of his office, nominate
and appoint, for such respective borough, a fit person, being
resident therein, to be, and such person so nominated and

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" LXI. If a dissolution of the present Parliament shall
take effect after the passing of this Act, before the day 'at
and from which the register of voters to be framed under
the provisions of this Act shall be in force, in such case the
writs for the new divisions of counties and the new boroughs
hereby created shall not be issued until the time when such
registers shall be in force.
" LXII. If this Act shall not be passed before the day
fixed therein for the issuing of a precept by the Clerk of the
Peace or Town-clerk to the overseers, then and in such case
such precept shall be issued by such Clerk of the Peace or
Town-clerk respectively, to the overseers of the poor, on
such days as her Majesty shall, by and with the advice of
her Privy Council, order and direct, and all notices shall be
published, and all other Acts, for the purpose of forming a
complete register of voters for every county and borough,
according to the provisions of this Act, shall be done on the
several days specified in such Order in Council, in lieu of the
days hereinbefore specified ; and such order shall provide
for the same intervals between the several acts necessary to
be done in the formation of the register of voters as are by
this Act provided between the several days herein named.
" LXIII. So much of the several Acts of Parliament
mentioned in the schedule F to this Act as is specified con-
cerning the same Acts respectively in the third column of
the said schedule shall be audit; hereby repealed.
'''LXIV. So much of the Act of the 6th year of her
Majesty as is not hereby repealed shall, as amended by this
Act, be applicable for the registration of persons entitled to
vote, and to the rights of voting, and to proceedings in the
election of members to serve in Parliament under this Act
as if the several enactments herein contained relatinf to the
matters contained in the said recited Act had originally
been inserted in and formed part of the said recited Act.
"LX V. No person shall be entitled to be registered,
or to vote at any election of a member to serve in Parlia-
ment, unless he shall have some one of the qualifications
defined and subject to the provisions of this
Act, all laws, statutes, usages, provisions, and penalties
now in force respecting the registration of voters and elec-
tion of members to serve in Parliament for England and
Wales not hereby repealed, shall be and remain in full
force. _ _ _ _ _

" LXVI. All writs to be issued for the election of mem-
bers to serve in Parliament, and all notices and other pro-
ceedings consequent upon such writs shall be framed and
expressed in such manner and form as maybe necessary for
the carrying the provisions of the Act into effect.
"LXV 11. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or
Ireland, nor shall it extend to either, of the Universities of
Oxford or Cambridge, except as hereinbefore proiided in
regard to voting papers.
LXVIII. Whereas by the Act of the sixth year of the
reign of Queen Anne, chap. 7, all persons appointed to
offices of profit under the Crown' and thereafter duly
elected as members of the House ofCoramonsrare required
to vacate their seats upon their acceptance of any other
office of profit under the CroWn, andit is expedient to alter
the laws in this respect ; be it therefore enacted, that if
any person appointed to any office of profit under the Crown,
and thereafter duly returned as a member of the House of
Commons, shall, while he continues to be such member,
accept any office of profit under the Crown (except an office
which by law incapacitates the holder thereof from being
elected or from voting in Parliament), the acceptance of
such other office shall not render the election of such person
void, nor shall atiy writ thereupon issue for a new election.
".LXIX. Thrsughont this Act; and in the schedules
thereto, the folio-vein, words shall have the meanings re-
spectively given to them in this section, except there be
something in the subject or context inconsistent with or
repugnant to such meaning.
"The word county' shall include any county, riding,
parts, or divisions of a county, in England and Wales.
"The word 'borough shall include any citylserough,
city, or town, being a county of itself, town corporate,
cinque port, district, place or places, within Eftland or
Wales, returning a member or members to serve in Parlia-
ment, and every place sharing. therewith in such election,
and the town of Berwick-on-Tweed.
"The words Clerk of the Peace' shall comprehend and
apply to any deputy or other person executing the duties
of such Clerk of the Peace.
" The words Town-clerk' shall extend to and include any
or borough there shall be no such officer as Town-clerk,
then to any officer executing the same or like duties as
person executing the duties of Town-clerk, or if in antgu.yocieteyr
usually devolve upon the town-clerk, or if in any city or
fhetheelecPetiaceon
officer may appoint for that purpose,
the
borough hereby
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authorised to do, and the Town-clerk for_
Newport, in the Isle of Wight, shall, for the purposes of
this Act,foofr
any
the
county of the Isle of Wight.
" The word member' shall include a knight of the shire.
knightsrliam of the shire, or any member or members
4, The words 'returning officer' shall include the sheriff
be the
mcleeanrk of
of any county, and apply to every person or persons to whom,
by virtue of his or their office, under any law, custom, or
statute, the execution of any writ cloth or shall belong for
the election of a member or members to serve in Parliament,
taming
nicrilvegrsietseros
by whatever name or title such person or persons nay be
called.
The word parish shall extend to and mean every
" The wordbe taken'
electithon'
parish, township, village, hamlet, district, or place main- •
'mite sgehrteoinr Pa
" The word overseers' shall include all persons who, by
own
the poor, by whatever name or title such
virtue of any office or appointment, shall execute the duties
persons may be called, and in whatever manner they may
be appointed, and all matters by this Act directed to be
done by the overseers of a parish or township may be law-
fully done by the majority of such overseers.
" The words list of voters' shall mean the list of
voters for the election of a member or members to serve in
Parliament.
" The word register' shall mean the register of voters
entitled to vote in the election of a knight or knights of the
shire, or a member or members to serve in Parliament for
any county, city, or borough.
"The words 'revising barrister' shall mean the revising
barrister or barristers appointed to revise the list of voters
for any county, city, or borough.
locior LXX. In citing this Act in any instrument) !i.cicume
or proceeding, or for any purpose whatsover, nbtat
Repre-
sfficient to use the expression, The Parliamentary
sentation Act, 1859."

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)TJLE G.
NQ Two MENBNRS WHICH
rant Ortn Motion EACH.
Leominster.
Lymington.
Ludlow.
Andover.
Knaresborough.
Tewkesbury.
Mahlon.

BOROUGHS NOW mown
ARE IN FUTURE TO BET
Honiton.
Thetford.
Totness.
Harwich.
Evesham.
Wells.
Richmoid.
Marlborough.

" SCHEDULE I.
CONTENTSBoT touGH
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TRHEETIRURBNOrOzDEAMRIEETIER
Staffordshire--The
" West Bromwich, parishes of West
Bromwich and Wednesbury,
gi Birkenhead, Cheshire—The township or chapelry of Bir-
kenhead ; townships of Claughton-cum-Grange, Oxton,
and Trarunere.
„ Lancashire—The townships of Burnley and
Habergham Eaves.
Stalybridge, Cheshire and Lancashire--Thetown of Staly-
bridge, as the limits thereof are declared by an Act
passed in the ninth year of King George IV., entitled
" PELAACECHS,
WITH
TB:
"An Act for lighting, watching, and otherwise im-
proving the town of Stalybridge, in the counties pala-
tine of Lancaster and Chester, and for regulating
the police thereof, and for establishing and regulating
a market, and erecting a market-place within the said
town ; " and the township of •Dukinfleld so far as the
same is not comprised within those limits.
" Croydon, Surrey—The parish of Croydon and the hamlet
of Penge.
" Gravesend, Kent—The parishes of Gravesend, Milton,
and Northfleet.
" Hartlepool, Durham—The parishes, townships, and places
of Hartlepool, West Hartlepool, Stranton, Briartcn,
Seaton Carew,Elwick, Elwick Hall, Dalton Percy, and Thorp
Grektham, Claxton, Hart, Throston,
Bulmer."

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