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" 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 end form as may be necessary for
the carrying the provisions of the Act into effect.
" LXVII. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or
Ireland, nor shall it extend to either of the Universities of
Oxford or Cambridge, except as hereinbofore provided in
regard to voting papers.
"LX VIII. 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 of Commons, are required
to vacate their seats upon their acceptance of any other
office of profit under the Crown, and it 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 any writ thereupon issue for a new election.
" LXIX. Throughout this Act, and in the schedules
thereto, the following 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 city borough,
city, or town, being a county of itself, town corporate,
cinque port, district, place or places, within England 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 i'eaVshall 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
person executing the duties of Town-clerk, or if in any city
or borough there shall be no such officer as Town-clerk,
then to any officer executing the same or like duties as
usually devolve upon the town-clerk, or if in any city or
borough there be no such person, then to the returningofficer
borough
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of such city or borough, or to such the
officer may appoint for that purpose, which ho i
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this Act, be taken to be the clerk of the peace for the
county of the Isle of Wight.
Wight,Town Town-clerk
member' shall include a knight of the shire.
"Therho wordwo word
'election' shall mean the election of any
knight or knights of the shire, or any member or members
to serve in Parliament.
The words 'returning officer' shall include the sheriff
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 doth or shallbelong for
the election of a member or memliers to serve in Parliament,
by whatever name or title such person or persons may be
called.
" The word parish' shall extend to and mean every
parish, township,
village, hamlet, district, or place main-
taining its own poor.
" The word overseers ' shall include all persons who, by
v.irtue of any office or appointment, shall execute the duties
of overseers of the poor, by whatever name or title such
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 membenor 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.
" LX X. In citing this Act in any instrument, document,
or proceeding, or for any purpose whatsover, it shall be
sffleient to use the expression, ' The Parliamentary Repre-
sentation Act, 1859.' "

"SCHED
"BOROUGHS NOW RETURNIP
ARE IN FUTURE TO RETU
Honiton.
Thetford.
Totness.
Harwich.
Evesham.
Wells. •
Richmoid.
Marlborough.

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'RN ONE MEMBER EACIL.
Leominster.
Lymington.
Ludlow.
Andover.
Knaresborough.
Tewkesbury.
Mahlon.

" SCHEDULE I.

ParishesßOU DA I(t)
" PLACES TO BE BO;;UGIIS TO RETURN ONE MEMBER
" West Bromwich,' ,
est
The township EACHI3 wiwillich9)SNtaTffEoNrillirFe—THTilileß
"Birkenhead, Cheshire— or chapolry of Bir-
kenhead ; townships of Claughton-clun-Grange, oxton,
Bmniwieli and Wednesbury,
and Tranmere.
"Burnie
ghain y, Lancas
Eaveshire—. The townships of Burnley and
Haber
"Stalybridge, Cheshire and Lancashire—Thetown of Staly-
bridge, as the limits thereof are declared by an Act
passed hi the ninth year of King George IV., entitled
"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 Dukinfield so far as the
same is not comprised within those limits.
" Croydon, Surrey—The parish of Croydon and the hamlet
" of Penge.
Kent—The parishes of Gravesend, Milton;
Gravesend,
and Northtleet.
" Hartlepool, Durham—The parishes, townships, and Places
of Hartlepool, West Hirtlepeol, Strauton, BijartoPi'
&Aden Carew, Greathanii Claxton, Hart, Tbroston,
Elwick, Elwick Hall, Dalton fares, and l'hurp
Bulmer."

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respective borough until the norm :- . . .. - .. . the
succeeding month of March, and the iraivisas ca pined
in the 11th section of the said act of the second year of
King William IV., providing for the event of the death or
incapacity of any person appointed as returnii ig officer for
any borough, and exempting any person so op pointed from
serving again in the same office, and disqualif. Ting certain
persons from being so appointed, and persons a o appointed
from being appointed churchwardens or over seers; 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 theffeturning 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 fife
Population properly belonging to such boroughs has ei-
k-nded beyond the Parliamentary limits thereof, and a large
proportionof 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
--1- beeee-e•Ls • Le it.., enacted. that the ' Enclosure Cons-
id and Wales shall, immediately after
t,..: I,,is;,,ng oti,._. ,;, 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 sall ioropose 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 shell take place after the
31st of December, 1859, and subject to the conditions affect-
in..' 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 18,59
" 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 new
divisions of counties and the boroughs constituted by this
Act, in like e . nor as if they were respectively divisions
of counties . ,e 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 servo
in Parliament as are upon the registers in force for such
county or borough at the time of such dissolution or avoid-
ance.
" 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 CllBO
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 and is 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 relating to the
matters contained in the said recited Act had originally
been inserted in and formed part of the said recited Act.
" LXV. 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
hereinbefore 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.