The Sun.
London, England, 1828-03-28 00:00:00

J. EWBANK, Gen.-Accountant.
Ficile Office, London, March lb, 1828.

BOROUGH OF MANCHESTER.

A BILL

TO EICLVDE TYE BOROUGH OF PENRYN, IN THE COUNTY DI
CORNWALL, FROM SENDING MEMBERS TO SERVE IN PARLIA-
MENT, AND TO ENABLE THE TOWN OF MANCHESTER, IN THE
COUNTY PALATINE OF LANCASTRR, WITH CERTAIN TOWN-
SHIPS ADJOINING, TO SEND TWO BURGESSES f 0 EERYE IV
PARLIAMENT.

Witanyas there has been notorious and long continued
bribery and corruption in the election of Burgesses to serve
in Parliament, for the borough of Penryn, in the county
of Cornwall ; and it should therefore be excluded from
hereafter returning Burgesses to serve in Parliament :
And whereas on account of the great and increasing
wealth, trade, and population in the town of Manchester, in
the county palatine of Lancaster, it is expedient that two
Burgesses should be returned to the high Court of Parlia-
ment, to represent the said town in lieu of the said borough
of Penryn.
May it therefore please your MAJESTY, that it may be
enacted; and be it enacted by the KING'S most Excellent
MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same,
that henceforth the borough of Penryn, in the county of
Cornwall, shalt cease to elect and return Burgesses to nerve
in the High Court of Parliament ; and that if during the
present Parliament, the election of the two Burgesses now
serving therein for the said borough of Penryn, or either
of them, shall by death or otherwise become void, then and
in every such ease the borough of Manchester, in the county
palatine of Lancaster, shall have a Burgess or Burgesses to
serve in the High Court of Parliament ; and that from the
eud of this present Parliament, and at all times thereafter,
the said borough of Manchester shall have two Burgesses
for the said borough to serve in the High Court of Par
'lament.

And be it further enacted, that the township of Man-
chester, together with the contiguous townships of Sal-
ford, Cheatham, Ilarpurhey, Newton, Bradford, Ardwick,
Chorlton-row, and Hulme, all within the parish of Man-
chester, in the said county palatine, shall be the borough of
Manchester, within the intent and meaning and for the
purposes of this Act.
And be it further enacted, that such Burgesses shall be
elected and chosen by virtue of a writ in that behalf to
the Sheriff of the county palatine of Lancaster, and a pre-
cept by the said Sheriff to be thereupon made to the Bo-
roughreeve and Constables of the said town of Manchester
for the time being; and that such Boroughreeve and Con-
stables shall be the returning officer at every such election:
provided always, that if any one or more of them the said
Boroughreeve and Constables for the time being, shall, b:s
death at otherwise, become incapacited to fulfil his or their
respective oflice or offices during the continuance of any
election, or shall become a candidate or candidates at an)
election, then, and in every such case, he or they surviving
to
the
or continuing in office, or not becoming such candidate o!
candidates, shall be the returning officer at that election ;
but if there shall be no such surviving or continuing officer,
or if all of them shall become candidates at such election,
then the stipendiary magistrate for the time being, acting
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turning officer for that election.
And be it further enacted, that all persons shall be elec•
names, for the
tars who shall have been rated, in their own
relief of the poor, in any township within the said borougl,
of Manchester, in the sum of twenty pounds or upwards,
candidates,
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(or being a person carrying on the trade of a publican, then
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