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London, England, 1830-02-22 00:00:00

And as soon as it shall be declared hi the Garotte that any city
or chin, borough or boroughs, or any claque pert or other town
that now sends a member or members to serve in Parliament,
bas ceased to send a member or members to serve in Parliament, It
AA be the ditty of the said committee to select, and report to the
said Secretary of State, that they have selected such populous, unre-
presented, or inadequately represented town or place, including such
hundreds, districts, or parishes surrounding such town or place as
the said committee shall think proper to point out, in order to fulfil
the object and intentions of this Act, so that the said electors shall
be fully equal to bear the burden of paying a member or members
the wages of attendance according to the value of money at the pee.
sent day, and that there shall be no immediate danger of the /rea-
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chisc being abused by misuser or non-user. And it shall be the
duty of the said committee to point out in such report who shall be
the returning officer or officers of such town or place.

And. be It further enacted, that in all such cues the right
of voting shall be, and is hereby declared to be, in all the inhabitant
householders assessed to any rate or tax, parochial or parliamentary,
within such town or place, or within such hdndreds, districts, or
parishes surrounding the came ; and all such electors shall be m-
ussed by the returning officer or officers thereof, for the payment of
such wages as aforesaid, and of all expenses attending the return of
a member or members to serve in Parliament, according to the value
of the houses inhabited by such electors.
And it shall be the duty of the said Secretary of State upon the
receipt of such report from the said committee to cause the same to
be forthwith published in the Gazette, and to transmit a copy there-
of to the Lord High Chancellor of England, to the Speaker of the
House of Commons, and to the returning officer or officers of such
town or place, with directions forthwith to make the same as public
as possible therein ; and such report so made by the said committee
to the said Secretary of State according to the directions of this Act,
shall be deemed and considered to be the charter of enfranchisement

of such city, borough, town, or pl.-.cc u shall be therein mentioned
for the purpose of sending a member or members to serve in
Parliament.

And it shall be the duty of the Lord High Mantel/4e of Eng-
land, in the event of a new Parliament, and of the Speaker of the
House of Commons, while Parliament is sitting, to cause such writs
to be sent to the sheriff* of every county in which such town or
place shall be situated, for the return of a Member or limbers up
serve in Parliament, as shall be in conformity with the previsions of
this Act.

And it is hereby enacted, that the wages of attendance, as afore.
said, shall be well and truly paid to the said member or numbers,
and that any agreement or undemanding to the contrary rball
render void the election of any member that shall ban entered ince
the same ; and the amount of such wages, according to the, present
value of money, shall be deemed, and taken to be, after the rate of
a day for every member of any city, 00'00g . town, or
place, and a day for every member of any county ; and
the same shall be assessed upon the electors, according to the value
of the houses they inhabit, or of the lands, tenements, or heredita-
meets, which afford the right of voting.
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have proceeded in manner as aforesaid, to have enfranchised nth
populous unrepresented, or inadequately represented cities, bo-
roughs, or towns throughout the united kingdom, in place.of those
that shall have been thus declared to have ceased to send members
to serve in Parliament, it shall be the duty of the said otemniuse, if
*soy number of seats Annaba unfi,lled up as aforemii, to select such
counties in Scotland as are at present subject to alternate repro.
saltation only, and afterwards such other counties in the unile4
Wisdom as the said committee skull Adak Mend most in WA
Aim more additional members, and. thereupon, to tusks t
typed to the said Secretary of State; and it shell be the duty.
the said Secretary forthwith to publish the mime in the coil%
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r England, the Speaker of*, House of Commons, Ail ALi
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And it is hereby declared, that the right of voting in any county
for a member or members to serve in Parliament, shall in no case
whatever be hereafter created, by any such cootrivanccs of separating
the superiority from the property, nor shall such right be hereaft, r
exercised by any person not in pommel= of the property, as well as
the supsriprity j but all persons now in possession of such rights of
voting as arise from the superiority alone, distinct from the pro-
perty, shall be entitled to vote at the neat and at all aubseelpent
elections for the city, borough, town, or place, that shall be nearest
to the place IR residence of such persons, provided such notice shall
be given to the returning officer thereof in respect of assessment, as
is herelnbcfore mentioned.

And be it further enacted, that no burgess, or other person now
baying a right to vote in any city, borough, or place, for any mem-
ber or members to serve in garliarnent, shall again be allowed to
axemise such right, unless he be resident within the same ; anti as
it is not the intention of this Act to disfranchise any person what-
ever, it is hereby declated, thatall such non-resident burgesses, shall
be entitled to vote at the next and all subsequent elections for the
city, borough, town, or place, that shall be nearest to the place of
residence of such persons, provided such notice shall be given to the
returning officer thereof, in respect of assessment, ts is heretnbefore
mentioned.

And whereas it is expedient to prevent the present enormous_ax•
penes often attending elections both in towns and counties; be it there-
fore further enacted, that it shall be the duty of the said committer
to make such regulations, as to counties,' respecting the places in
each county at which the poll, if demanded, shall be adjourned after
the two first days of the election; and as to large and populots
towns, respecting the manner in which the numbers of the ckcted
in each town may be inercosed and apportioned, or such other re-
gulations as the said committee may think proper for the sake ut
putting an end to all great expenses, and of rendering the right of
voting sa convenient and as efficient as possible. And such regula•
tions shall be reported to the Secretary of State, to be published it
the Gaut*, and transmitted to the Sheriffs of the said countit..
and returning officer of the said towns, as aforesaid.

And be it further enacted, that an Act peeled in the 9th year o,
his present Majesty, entitled " An Act to regulate the mode o.
taking the poll at the election of members to serve In Parliament tor
cities, boroughs, and ports in England and Wales, ani all °tilt)
Acts whereby the expense of erecting tootbs or polling places fur !hi
election deny member or mush= to serve in Parliament, is put
,jpcn the candidate, or on the person puttiog such candidate in ric
agnaAion, are hereby welded.
Awl whereas by.repeeling swam Oct of Parliament, name!) ,
ht of Gee. 1. ecenteonly called tb Septennial Bill, and by
the repoil of another Art Mill more raniktras nom* 14th °cork,
111. c. MI, which repealed the wise enactments of the 43rd
Vi. c. li, and the Ist of lien. V. requiring the electors and the
elected to be resident within their respective counties, cities and
boroughs, the purity of representation would be greatly increased
tied these laws restored which ought never to have been repeelal
Be it thenfore further enaesed, that from and *NT the caPkatien
of the pettiest Session of Parliament, the said Act made in the drat
ygor of the nip of his lots JlL•jesty, King George the First, en.
MIK "L 9. Act far enlarging the time of continuance of Parlia-
imps appdoced by an Act made in the eicth year of the reign of
.inpip.Widlism end Queen Mary," and also the said Act qtade in
the fourteenth pee of the reign of his late
.4(sjesty George the
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