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hall hold an open court or courts fur that purpose within
such city or borough, and also within every place sharing in
the lecion for such city or borough. at some time between
'It(• 111th day of March inclusive, and the 25th day of April
inclusive, in the year 1/332, and between the 10th day of
October inclusive, and the 25th day of November inclusive.
even, succeeding year, haying first given three clear days' I
notice of the holding of 'twit court or courts, to be fixed on
the doors of all the churches and chapels within such city,
' orough. or place respectively, crlf there be no church or
chain] therein, then to be fixed in some public and conspl-
t twos situation within the same respectively t and the over-
septa who shall have made out such lists shall, at the open-
int; of the first court to be held by every such barrister for
rt %hag such lists, produce their respective lists before him;
and the town desk or other like officer of such city or
borough or place sharing in the election therewith, and
• also the several overseers within such city, borough, or
;Ace respectively, shall attend the court to he held by
every such barrister for such city, borough, or place Teepee-
tively. and shall answer upon oath all such questions as such
karrister may put to them or any of them touching the said
lists or any matter necessary for the revising thereof; and
every such barrister shall inquire into and determine all such
Itjections as may be made to the insertion or omission of
r Imes in the said lists, and shall retain on the said lists all
names to which no valid objection shall be established, and
shall insert in such lists the name of every person who shall
be proved to he entitled to vote in the election of a member
Of members of parliament to serve for such city or borough,
and shall expunge from the said lists the name of every per-
son who shall be proved not to be entitled to tote for such
city or borough. in respect of the qualification stated in the
said lists, or to be incapacitated by any law nr statute from
voting in the election of members to serve in parliament ;
and every such barrister shall correct any mistake or supply
any omission which shall be proved to him to have been
made in any of the said lists in respect of the name or place
of abode or nature of the qualification, or local description
of the property of any person who shall be included in any
such list . provided always, that no person's name shall be
expunged from any such list unless such notice as is herein-
before required in that behalf shall have been given to the
overseers; and no person's name shall be inserted in any
such list, unless he shall have given to the overseers such
notice as is hereinbefore required to be given in that behalf.

38. And be it enacted. that the overseers of every parish
or township shall, for their assistance in making out the
lists in pursuance of this act (upon request made by them.
or any of them, at any reasonable time between the Ist day
of January and the let day of February, in the year 1832,
and between the Ist day of July and the last day of August
in any succeeding year, to any assessor or collector of taxes,
or to any other officer having the custody of any duplicate
or tax assessment. and to extract from thence such names
as may apppear to such overseer or overseers to be necessary;
and every barrister holding any court under this act shall
have power to require any assessor, collector of taxes or
other officer having the custody of any duplicate or tax
assessment, or any overseer or overseen having the ens-
hly of any poor rate, to produce the same respec-
tively before him, for the purpose of assisting him in
revising the lists to be by him revised in pursuance of
this act.

39. And be it enacted, that every banister holding any
court under this act as aforesaid shall have power to ad.
journ the same from time to time, and from any one place
to any other place or places within the same county or ri-
ding, or within the same city or borough, or within any
place sharing in the election for such city or borough, but
so as that no such adjourned court for revising the lists to
be made in the year 1832, shall be held after the 25th of
April in the said year, and that no such adjourned court
for revising the lists to be made in any succeeding year,
shall be held after the 25. b day of November, in such re-
spective year; and every such barrister shall have power to
administer an oath (or in the case of a quaker or a hors.
vian an affirmation) to all persons making objection to the
insertion or omission of any name in such lists as afore-
said. and to all persons objected against, or claiming to be
in such lists, or claiming to have any mistake in such lists
corrected, and to all witnesses who may be tendered on el-
tier side; and that if any person taking any oath or mak-
ing any affirmation order this act shall wilfully swear or
affirm falsely, such person shall be deemed guilty of per.
jury, and shall be punished accordingly • and that at the
holding of such respective courts the parties-shall not be at.
t,,nded by counsel ; and that every such barrister shallatpon
tie hearing in open court, finally determine upon the Tali.
di.y of such claims and objections, and shall in open court
write his initials against the names respectively struck out
or inserted, and against any part of the said lists In which
any mistakes shall have been corrected, and shall sign his
name to every page of the several listsso settled.
40. And be it enacted, that the lista of voters for each
county, or part, riding, or division of a county, so signed
by any such barrister, shall be forthwith transmitted by
him to the clerk of the peace of the county or riding for
which such barrister shall have been appointed, and the clerk
of the peace shall keep the said lists among the records of
the sessions, arranged with every hundred in alphabetical
order, and with every parish and township within such hun-
dred likewise in alphabetical order, and shall forthwith:cauee
the said lists to be fairly and truly copied in the same order
in a book to be by him provided for that purpose at the ex.
pence of the counts or riding, and shall prefix to every
came to copied out its proper number, beginning the
numbers from the first name and continuing them in •
regular series down to the last name, and shall de.
liver such book on or before the last day of April in the
rear 11132, and the like book on or before the last day of
November in every succeeding year, to the sheriff of the
county, or his under-sheriff, who shall safely keepthe same,
and shall at the expiration of his office deliver over the
same to the succeeding. sheriff or his under-sheriff; and the
hist of voters for each city or borough, so signed by any
catch barrister, shall be forthwith delivered by him to the
returning officer for such city or borough, who shall safely
..ep the sante, and shall cause the said lists to be fairly and
truly copied in a book to be by him provided for that pur-
pose at the expense of the county, with every name therein
numbered according to the directions aforesaid, our shall
Catlike such book to be completed on or before the last day of
A pail, in the rear 1832, and the like book to be completed
on or before the last day of November in every in every suc-
ceeding year. and shall deliver over such book, together with
the lists, at the expiration of his oglce, to the person suc-
ceeding him in such office; and suels respective books to be
so completed on or before the last day of April in the year
1832, shall be deemed the registers of electors to vote, after
the end of this present parliament, in the choice of knights,
citizens, and burgesses for the several counties, parts, rid-
ings, and divisions of counties, cities, and boroughs to which
such registers respectively relate, at any election which
may take place after the said last day of Aptil in the said
year, and beforeshe Ist day of December in the next year;
and such respective books to be so completed on or before
the last day of November in such next and in every succeed.
ing year shall be the registers of the electors to vote at any
election which shall take place between the Ist day of De-
cember inclusive in the year wherein such registers shall
have been made, and the lit day of December in the fol-
lowing year.
Cza use (C.) And be it enacted, that the overseers of every
parish and township shall cause to be printed, at the expense
of their respective parish or township, copies of the lists so
by them to be made in the present and in every succeeding
year, and shall deliver such copies to all persons applying
for:the same, on payment of a ,reasonable price fur each
copy ; and the monies arising from the sale thereof shall
be accounted for by the said overseers, and applied to the
use of their parish or township ; and the clerks of the peace
shall cause copies of the registers of the electors for their re.
spective counties or ridings, or the parts or divisions of their
respective counties, to be printed at the expense of their re-
spective counties or ridings ; and the returning officer of
every city or borough shall cause copies of the register
of the electors for such city or borough to be printed at
the expense of the county or riding within which such
city or borough may be situate; end every such clerk of
the peace, and every such returning officer, shall deliver
such respective copies to all persons applying for the same,
on payment of a reasonable price for each copy ; and the
monies arisirg from the talc of all such copies shall be
accounted for to the treasuter of the county or riding at,
whose expense the same shall have been printed.
CLAUSE (D.) And be it enacted, that every barrister
oppointed.p.revise any lists of votes ut.der this act, shall
be paid at the Tate of five guineas for every day that be,
shall be so employed, over and above his travelling and
other expenses ; and every suet' barrister, after the termi.
nation of his last sitting, shall lay or cause to be laid be.
fore the lords commissioners of his Majesty's treasury fur
the time being, a statement of the rumber of days during
which he shall have been so employed, and an account of
the travelling and other expenses incurred by him in res-
pret of such emplorment ; aid the said lords commis-
toorers shall make an order for the amount to be paid to
suet, barrister.
41. And be it enacted, that in all elections whatever of

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