Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-10-17
Organization Of Parliament
Methods Of Procedure.

1t is the sovereign who takes the in
itiative for organizing a new Parlia-
ment in Great Britain. This is done
by means of a royal proclamation
which couched in quaint old fashioned
phraseology, intimates that Her Maj
esty, being desirous and resolved as
soon as may be to meet Our people,
and to have their advice in Parliament,
do hereby make known to all Our low
ing subjects Our Royal will and pleas
ure to call a new Parliament, and do
hereby further declare that with the
advice of Our Privy G..l,ii, We have
given order that Our Chancellor OF
that part of Our United Kingdom
called Great Britain, and Our Chan
cellor of Ireland do respectively on
Tuesday, the Twenty-Fifth Day OF
September instant, issue out writs in
due form, and according to law for
calling a new Parliament"
And then the royal proclamation
goes on to state that the Lords Spir-
itual and Temporal and Commons who
are to serve in the said Parliament
are to give their attendance in Our
said Parliament on the first day of
November next" Meanwhile the
Fourteenth Parliament of Queen Vic
toria remains still in existence. For
the same proclamation, by means of
which she summons its successor.
continues its life until October 81,
from which day it stands dissolved,
1.-The Lords Spiritual and Temporal
and the knights, Citizens, Burgesses
and the Commissioners for Shires and
Burghs Of the House of Commons, are
discharged from their meeting"
Following Immediately upon this
proclamation, orders bearing the sig
nature of the Queen ale addressed 10
the Lords Chancellor of Great Britain
and of Ireland, commanding them to
issue writs for the calling of a new
Parliament, to meet "at the City of
Westmins er.' These wriis are ad-
dressed by the respective Lords High
Chancellor to the Temporal Peers of
England, to what are known as the
Representative Peers of Ireland, to
the Spiritual Peers of England. to the
Judges of the High Court, not being
peers to the Attorney-General and
Solicitof-General Of Great Britain,
and to the Sheriff and returning Off
GERS of the various counties and Dor
oughs. These writs are sent by the
mails free of charge, and all sorts of
precautions are adopted to insure their
safe ard speedy transmission, wIlful
neglect or delay in delivering or trans
mit,ng a writ Of Parliament being a
misdemeanor punishable by fine and
Imprisonment.
WRITS FOR House OF COMMONS. |
The wriis for the House of Com
mons differ, Of course, from those OF
the House Of Lords, in tha. they do not
contain the name Of the legislator
summoned which Is not known until
the result Of the poll has been ascer-
tained, when it becomes the duty Of
the returning officer to communicate
the name of The duly elected member
to the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
by means Of a certificate II is not un-
til this certificate reaches the hands of
the Clerk of the Grown, and is enter
ed by him in book kept for the pur-
pose, that the election Of the member
in question TO Parliament is complete.
The Scotch representative peers are
called in a separate and different man
ner, the mode Of procedure being as
follows: Whenever a new Parliament
is summoned a royal proclamation is
posted at the market cross in Edin-
burgh and in all the county towns of
Scotland, ordering the election within
ten days of the sixteen peers by whom
the Northern Kingdom is represented
in the House Of Lords at Westminster.
The election takes place at Holyrood
Palace, at Edinburgh, the meeting of
all the peers of Scotland who are of
age being presided over by the Lord
Clerk Register, as the principal judi
clal agent of Scotland. The peers
present vote for their nominees. Prox-
les are handed in, and then the Lord
Clerk Register declares the result, and
makes his return TO the Clerk of the
Crown in Chancery, and by him to the