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

MONDAY EVENING, FEB. 22, 1830.

PRICE 7D.

And whereas the exact amount of such wages have been fixed by
Act of Parliament, and ought to be paid according to the difference
and in the value of money at the present day.
And whereas from the most ancient times such qualifications
have been required on the part of those who are to elect the said
knights, citizens, and burgesses as should secure, as far as human
wisdom could secure, the independent exercise of such important
rights, and therefore the right of voting for citizens and burgesses,
where there was no charter or custom to the contrary, was limited
to all householders within the same paying scot and lot.
Be it therefore further enacted, that as soon as the said com.
mince shall have ascertained the fact that any city or borough
shall have fallen into decay, and ceased to be such populous and
wealthy place, as, according to this Act was originally intended to
bear the burden of sending a member or members to serve in Par-
liament, or that such city or borough shall b any means have
fallen into a state that the return of a member or members to serve
in Parliament, is become a proprietary interest, se is absolutely in the
power and at the command of any one individual, or of a few indi.
viduals, whether sole or corporate, or that such return at the last
election was obtained by means of money given to the electors, or
that the eledors of such city or borough are so reduced in point of
wealth and number, that they could not, and ought not, to bear the
burden of sending a member or members to serve in Parliament,
and to pay the wages of attendance according to the value of money
at the present day, or that any corporation of any city or borough
to which a charter has been granted to send a member or members
to serve in Parliament have not been elected by the burgesses at
large, but elected by themselves or in any other manner, whereby
the city or borough is deprived of the power of electing a member
or members to serve in Parliament; in all or any of such cases, It
shall be the duty of the chairman of the said committee to report
such fact to the Secretary of State for the Home department, and
such report shall be deemed and taken to be the petition of the city
or borough to which it relates, to be relieved of the burden of send.
tog a member or members to serve in Parliament. or where there
has been a franchise by charter to such city or borough, granted by
the Crown or by Parliament, such report shall be deemed and taken to
be a forfeiture of such franchise upon the ground of misuser, and it
shall be the duty of such Secretary of State to announce in the Ga..
setae that under and by virtue of this Act, such city or borough has
ceased to send a meinber or members to serve in Parliament.

And it shall be the duty of the said committee to begin making
such reports as are herein before mentioned in respect of those
boroughs where the right of voting depends upon estates held
by burgage tenure, and then in respect of those cities
or boroughs where there are the fewest number of electors, and to
proceed in such order throughout the whole of the cities and boroughs
in the United Kingdom that send a member or members to serve in
Parliament.