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so enclosed and sealed to the person from whom he shall have received
them ; and on the final close of the pull, the said sheriff or such his
deputy shall keep the said poll-books so unopened until the re.assent-
bling of the court on the sixth day, when he shall openly break the
seals thereon and cast up the number of votes as they appear on the
said several books, and shall openly declare the state of the poll or
polls, and shall make proclamation of the member or members chosen,
And be it enacted, that so much of an act passed in the twentieth
year of the reign of King George the Third, intituled, " an act to re-
move certain difficulties relative to voters at county elections," as re-
quires the names of freeholders to be placed on the land-tax roll, shall
be and the same is hereby repealed ; and all laws, statutes and usages
now in force respecting the election of members to serve in parliament,
for that part of the united kingdom called England and Wales, shall
be and remain and are hereby declared to be and remain in full force,
except so far as they are repealed or altered by this att.
And be it enacted, that if any sheriff, returning officer, barrister, or
any person whatsoever, shall wilfully conttavene or disobey the pro-
visions of this Act or any of them, with respect to any matter or
thing which such sheriff, returning officer, barrister or other person
is hereby required to do, he shall for such his offence be liable to be
sued in an action of debt in any of his Majesty's Courts of Record at
iVestminster for the penal sum of
and the jury before whom such action shall be tried may find their
verdict for the full sum of or for any
less sum not less than which the said jury shall think
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itnust that he should pay for such his offence ; and the defendant in
such action, being convicted, shall pay such penal sum so awarded,
with full costs of suit, to any party who may sue for the same, without
prejudice however to the right of any party grieved by the same mis-
conduct of such sheriff, returning officer, barrister or other person, to
recover such damage in an action on the case, for a false return, or any
other grievance, as he may be entitled to at common law, or by virtue
of any statute now in force,
And be it enacted that if any person named in any of the lists so as
aforesaid required to be made, but who at the time of any election shall
be in the enjoyment of any office now by law disqualifying him trout
giving his vote at the election of members to serve in parliament, shall
presume to vote at such election, he shall be liable to all ;Lt:ldes and
forfeitures to which he would have been subject for the said effence by
any law in force at the time of the passing of this act, any thing herein
contained notwithstanding; and In case of a petition to the HOUR! of
Commons, for altering the return or setting aside the election in which
such person shall have voted, his vote shall be struck cif by the com.
mime, with such costs to be by him paid to any petitioner as to such
committee shall seem just.
And be it enacted and provided, that nothing in this act contained
shall extend to or in any wise affect the election for members to serve
in Parliament for the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge.
And be it enacted, that throughout this act wherever the words city
or borough, cities or boroughs, may occur, those wards eball extend to
and include all towns corporate. cinque ports, districts, or places within
England and Wales which shall be entitled, after this act shall have
passed, to return members to serve in Parliament, other than counties
and divisions of counties, and also to the town of Berwick upon Tweed,
and the words returning officer shall apply to every person or persons
who by virtue of his or their office, either under the present act
or under any former law, custom, or statute, has, or have had, and shall
have, the right of returning writs or precepts for the election of mem-
bers to serve in Parliament, by whatever name such person or persons
may have been called ; and the words " parish or township" shall ex-
tend to every parish, township, vill, hamlet, district, or place maintain-
ing its own poor; and the words " churchwardens and overseers of the
poor" shall extend to all overseers of the poor in the several parishes,
townships or chapeiries, villa, districts or places, by whatever name or
title they may be called, and whether appointed under the act for the
relief of the poor passed iu the forty-third year of her Alajesty Queen
I Elizabeth, or tinder any local act, or according to any peculiar custom,
or in any other manner whatever. _

SCHEDULES TO WHICH THIS ACT REFERS.
SCHEDULE (A.)
DISFRANCHISED BOROUGHS.
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Aldborough, YoriiAideb;gl;,guffoik; Appleby, Westmoreland;
Bedwin (Great), Wilts; Berealston, Devonshire; Bishop's Castle,
Salop; Blechingley, Surrey; Boroughbridge, Yorkshire; Bossiney,
Cornwall; Brackley, Northampton ; Bramber, Sussex ; Buckingham,
Buckinghamshire; Callington, and Camelford, Cornwall; Castle
Rising, Norfolk; Corfe Castle, Doisetshirc Dunwich, and Eye,
Suffolk; Fowey, Cornwall; Gatton, and Haslcmcre, Surrey; Hedon,
York ; Heytesbury, Wilts ; Higham Ferree, Northampton ; Hindon,
Wilts; Ilchester, Somersetshire; East Lout, West Looe, and Lost-
withiel, Cornwall; Ludgershall, and Ifialmesbury, Wilts; Blidhurst,
Sussex ; Pililborne Port, and Blinehead, Somerstuhire; Newport,
Cornwall; Newton, Lancashire; Newtown (Hants), Isle of Wight;
Okehampton, Devonshire; Orford, Suffolk; Petersfield, Hants;
Plympton, Devonshire ; Queenborough, Kent ; Reigate, Surrey ;
Romney (New), Kent ; St. Move's, St. Michael's or lidlidshall, and
Saltash, Cornwall ; Old Sarum, Wilts ; Seaford, and Steyning, Sussex ;
Stockbridge, Hants ; Tregony, Cornwall ; Wareham, Dorsetshire ;
Wendover, Bucks ; Weobly, Herefordshire; Whitchurch, Hants ;
Winchelsea, Sussex ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire; Wootton Bassett,
Wilts; Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Hants.

SCHEDULE (B.)
Amasharn, Bucks; Arundel. Sussex; Ashburton, Devon; Bod-
min, Cornwall ; Bridport, Dorset-hire; Chippenham, Wiltshire;
Clitheros, Lancashire; ockermouth, Cumberland; Dorchester,
Dorsetshire; Downton, Wiltshire; Droltwich, Worcestenhire ;
Evesham, Worcestembire• Grimsby, Great, Lincolnshire; Grinstead,
East, Sussex; Guildford, Surrey; Heiman, teornwall ; Moulton,
Devonshire; Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire; Hythe. Kent; Laun-
ceston, Cornwall; Leominster, Herefordshire; Liskeard, Cornwall;
Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire; Lymington, Hans; Maldon, Essex;
Marlborough, Wilt, ; Marlow, Great, Bucks; blorpeth, North-
umberland; Northallerton York; Peoryn, Cornwall; Richmond,
York ; Rye, Sussex ; bermain's, Cornwall ; St. Ives, Cornwall;
Sandwich, Kent; Shaftesbury, Dorsetshire; Sudbury, Suffolk;
Tsmworth, Staffordshire and Warwick; Thetford, .Norfolk ; Think,
York; Totness, Devonshire; Truro, Cornwall; Wallingford, Berk-
shire; Westbury, Wilts; Wilton, Wilts; Wycombe, Bucks.

Manchester

SCHZDITLE (C.)
Parish or Township.

Township of Manchester
Township of Salford
Townships of—
Chorlton Bow
Ardwicke
Betlrnewick H
Cheetham, and
Pendleton, Lancashire
Parishes of—
St. Philip and St. Mary,
in Birmingham
Aston, Warwickshire
The Borough and Liberty
of Leeds, 'Yorkshire
Parish of Halifax, Yorkshire
Parishes of
;
St. Nicholas and
St. Paul's, Deptford;
Woolwich, Kent
Townships of—
Sheffield
Ecelesall
Brightside
Nether Hallam

Halifax
Greenwich

Rchuning Officer.

The Boroughreeve of
Manchester

The two Banff. of the
Town ofßirmingham

The Mayor of Leeda

Devonport

Wolvahampton

The Muter Cutler

Tower Hamitts

Upper Hallam
&stemliffe, Yorkshire
Parishes of—
Sunderland
Bishopwearmouth and
Monkswearmouth,
Durham
The Town of Devonport
Parish of Stoke Damerel &
Township of Stonehouse
Devon
Parishes of
Wolverhampton
Mason, and
Sedgley, Staffordshire
Parishes of the Tower

Alary.k.booe

Division Ossulston
Hundred, Middlsex.
Parishes of the Finsbury
Division, Ossuiston Hun-
dred, Middlesex.
Parishes of—
St. Andrew Holborn and
St. George the Martyr
Saffron Hill
Hatton Garden
Ely Rents
St. Giles in the Fields &
St. George
M Bloornsburf,
iddlesex
Parish of—
St. Mary.le.hone
St. Pancras, and
Pad
hltMneic

Constable of the Ma.
nor of the Deanery
of Wolverhampton.

St. Mary, Lambeth
B St. Mary, Newington
ermondsey
Rotherbitim
Surrey.