church or chapel, then to be fixed up in some making objection to the insertion or omission public and conspicuous situation within the of any name in such list as aforesaid, and to same, respectively on the first three Sundays all persons objected against, and to all witin the month of September in each year; nesses who may be tendered on either side, and on or before the twenty-fifth day of Sep-but that the said hearings shall not be attember in, each year, shall send such list to tended by Counsel; and that such Returning the High Constable or High Constables of Officer or Barrister shall, upon the hearing the hundred wherein such parish or township in open Court, finally determine upon the valies, who shall forthwith transmit the same to lidity of such claims and objections, and shall the Clerk of the Peace of the County. in open Court write his initials against the names respectively struck out or inserted, and sign his name to the several lists so settled. And be it enacted, that the Judges named in the last Commission of Assize for each county, immediately alter the passing of this Act, and in each succeeding year the Judges of Assize for each county, when travelling the Summer Circuit, shall nominate and appoint (subject, nevertheless, to the approbation of the Lord High Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal for the time being) a Barrister to revise such lists, and decide upon all objections to the omission or insertion of the names therein respectively; and that such Barrister, so appointed as aforesaid, shall give public notice by advertisement, in the county newspapers, that he will make a circuit of the County for which he shall be so nominated and appointed, and of the several times and places at which he will hold Courts for that purpose, and he shall hold an open Court for that purpose, at the times and places so to be an nounced; and that such Barrister shall be paid for discharging the duty so cast upon him, out of the at the rate of not more than or less than for every day that he shall be so employed; provided always, that no Barrister, so nominated and appointed as aforesaid, shall be eligible to serve in Parliament for twelve months from the time of such his appointment for the county for which he shall be nominated and appointed. And be it enacted, that such lists shall, when so settled and signed, be tacked together and form one list for the county or division, city or borough, respectively; and the list so signed by the said barrister shall be transmitted to the Clerk of the Peace of the county for which he shall have been appointed; and the list so signed by the said Returning Officer shall be by him kept and handed over at the expiration of his office to the person succeeding him in the same; and that the Clerk of the Peace and the Returning Officer respectively shall cause copies of the same to be printed at the expense of the county (which shall be delivered to all persons ap plying, on payment of sixpence for each copy), and that such lists shall be the lists of electors to vote after the end of this present Parliament, in the choice of knights, citizens, and burgesses for the several counties, and division of counties, cities, and boroughs, for which such lists shall be made respectively at any election which may be holden within twelve months next after the said day of in the present year, and the lists to be made in each succeeding year shall be the lists of the electors to vote at any election to be holden after the first day of December in each succeeding year respectively. same election, and no such person shall be excluded from voting at any such election, except by reason of his refusing to take the oaths or make the affirmation required by law. And be it enacted, that the said Barrister And be it enacted, that in all elections shall inquire into and determine all such ob- whatever of Members to serve in any future jections as aforesaid, and shall expunge the Parliament, no inquiry shall he permitted at names of all persons who shall not have owned the time of polling, except as to whether the or held the lands or tenements, in respect of person claiming to vote be the same whose which he claims to vote for the space of thirty name appears in such list, and whether such days, at the least, before the first day of hold-persons shall have previously voted at the ing the said Court, or who shall be incapacitated by any law or statute from voting in the election of Members to serve in Parliament, and shall insert the name of any person who may, to the satisfaction of such Barrister, prove himself to have owned or held such lands and tenements as may entitle him to a vote in the next ensuing election, and who shall not be proved incapable, by law, of voting in the election of Members to serve in Parliament: provided, that no name shall be expunged or inserted without such notice and publication as is hereinbefore required in respect to the lists to be made for cities and boroughs. And be it enacted, that such Returning Officer and such Barrister so holding their respective Courts as aforesaid, shall have power to administer an oath to all persons Provided nevertheless, and be it further enacted, that by petitioning to the House of Commons complaining of an undue election or return of any knight, Citizen, or burgess, any Petitioner shall be at liberty to question the correctness of the lists which shall have been settled by such barrister or Returning Officer, and to prove that names were improperly retained, inserted, expunged, or omitted at the registration that shall have taken place next before the election or return complained of; and the Committee before whom the merits of any such Petition shall be tried may inquire into the same, and alter the poll the person person from whom he shall have received them and on the final close of the poll the said Sheriff or such his deputy shall keep the And be it enacted and provided, that nosaid poll-books so unopened until the re-assem- thing in this Act contained shall extendi to or bling of the Court on the sixth day, when he in any wise affect the election for Members to shall openly break the seals thereon, and cast serve in Parliament for the Universities of up the number of votes as they appear on the Oxford or Cambridge.aids Hade said several books, and shall openly declare And be it enacted that throughout this Act, the state of the poll or polls, and shall make wherever the words city or borough, proclamation of the Member or Members 19ghol 30 lista amoqqa de 50 shall extend to and include all towns corporate cities or boroughs," may occur, those words chosen, quod that so much And be it enacted, that so of an Act cinque ports, districts, or places within Engpassed in the 20th year of the reign of King land and Wales which shall be entitled, after George the Third, intituled, An Act to re- this Act shall have passed, to return Members move certain difficulties relative to voters at to serve in Parliament, other than counties County Elections, as requires the bames of and divisions of counties, and also to the town freeholders to be placed on the land-tax roll, of Berwick upon-Tweed; and the words re shall be and the same is hereby repealed; and turning Officer" shall apply to every person all laws, statutes, either under the present Act or under any Parliament for that the custom, or has, or have dom called England and Wales, shall be and had, and shall, have, the right of returning remain, and are hereby declared to be and writs or precepts for the election of Members remain in full force, except so far as they are to serve in Parliament, by whatever name repealed or altered by this, Act. such person or persons may have been called; and the words "parish or township sball extend to every parish, township, bamlet, district, or place maintaining Its own poor; and the words churchwardens anil overseers of the poor shall extend to all overseers of the poor. in the several parishes, townships or chapelries, vills, districts or pla ces, by whatever name or title they may be called, and whether appointed under the Act for the Relief of the Poor passed in the forty. third year of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, or under any local Act or according to any peculiar custom, or in any other manner whatever. 175 WAY to 15dofun sd1 und 24075519 5d3 Leburash ed ade log a bus,qu balfit ad Diboobs' SCHEDULES guillo d 907 TO WHICH THIS ACT REFERS odr sd of ess yo -48 Boroughs, Aldborough 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 from giving his vote at the election of Members to serve in Parliacement, shall presume to vote at such election, he hall he hable to all penalties and forfeitures to which he would have been subject for the said offence 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 House of Commons, for altering the return or setting aside the election in which such person shall have voted, hist vote shall be struck off by the Committee, with 03 151892 D3201540 02 200 Yorkshis bobivong |