(20.) Division East Retford, shall be taken at the place or places which in the schedule to of Counties, &c. this act annexed marked (N. 2) is or mentioned in conjunction with the names of such several boroughs respectively."

Rules for the construction of the

descriptions contained in schedule (O.) to this act.

By sect. 33," the justices of the peace for the respective counties in which the boroughs of New Shoreham, Cricklade, and East Retford are situated, at the quarter sessions to be holden in the month of October in the then present year, were empowered to divide the said boroughs of New Shoreham, Cricklade, and East Retford into convenient districts for polling, and assign one of such districts to every polling place for the said boroughs of New Shoreham, Cricklade, and East Retford, mentioned in the said schedule to this act annexed marked (N. 2); and a list describing the districts named in such assignment, and naming the polling places to which such districts are respectively assigned, to be lodged with the returning officer of the respective borough, who is forthwith to cause copies of such list to be printed, and to be fixed on the doors of the several churches and chapels within the borough for which such districts are assigned."

By sect. 34, "if it shall seem fit to the sheriff, the court for the election of knights of the shire may be held, or the poll may be taken, at any place or spot in the neighbourhood of any place appointed by this act for holding such court or taking such poll respectively, at which such court or poll may have heretofore been held or taken, or which may be convenient for either of those purposes; any thing herein contained notwithstanding."

By sect. 35, reciting that by the 2 Wil. IV. c. 46, "it is also provided that each of the places enumerated in the schedules thereto annexed respectively marked (C.), (D.), and (E.), and that every city and borough in England which before the passing of the said recited act was entitled to return a member or members to serve in parliament, (except the several boroughs enumerated in the schedule thereto annexed marked (A.), and except the several boroughs of New Shoreham, Cricklade, Aylesbury, and East Retford,) and that the borough of Brecon, and each of the towns of Swansea, Loughor, Neath, Aberavon, and Kenfig, should, for the purposes of the said recited act, include the place or places respectively which should be comprehended within such boundaries as should be settled and described by an act to be passed for that purpose in this present parliament, which act when passed should be deemed and taken to be part of the said recited act as fully and effectually as if incorporated therewith: and whereas the act so to be passed for settling and describing the boundaries of cities, boroughs, and places as in the said recited act is mentioned is this present act: and whereas the several cities, boroughs, and places whereof the boundaries were so to be settled and described as in the said recited act is mentioned are the several cities, boroughs, and places which are specified in the schedule to this act annexed marked (O.); be it therefore further enacted and declared, that the several cities, boroughs, and places specified in the said schedule to this act annexed marked (O.) shall, as to the election of members or a member to serve in parliament, respectively include the places and be comprised within the boundaries which in such schedule are respectively specified and described in conjunction with the names of such cities, boroughs, and places respectively."

By sect. 36," the following rules shall be observed in the construction of the several descriptions of boundaries contained in the said schedule hereto annexed marked (O.); (that is to say,)

"1. That the words northward,' southward,' 'eastward,' 'westward,'

shall respectively be understood to denote only the general direction in which any boundary proceeds from the point last described, and not that such boundary shall continue to proceed throughout in the same direction to the point next described:

"2.-That when any road is mentioned merely by the name of the place to which such road leads, the principal road thither from the city, borough, or place of which the boundary is in course of description shall be understood:

"3.-That whenever a line is said to be drawn from, to, or through an

object, such line shall, in the absence of any direction to the con- (20.) Division trary, be understood to be drawn from, to, or through the centre of Counties, &c. of such object, as nearly as the centre thereof can be ascertained: 4.-That every building through which or through any part whereof

any boundary hereby established shall pass, shall be considered as
within such boundary: provided always, that if the boundaries of
any two or more of the cities, boroughs, and places whereof the
contents and boundaries are hereby settled and described shall pass
through the same building or any part thereof, such building shall
be considered as within that one of such two or more of the said
cities, boroughs, and places which was before the passing of the
hereinbefore recited act entitled to return members or a member to
serve in parliament, or if neither or more than one of such two or
more of the said cities, boroughs, and places shall have been so
entitled, then within that one of them whereof the area is hereby
established is the smallest :

5.-That whenever any boundary by this act established is said to pass
along any other boundary, or along any road, lane, path, river,
stream, canal, drain, brook, or ditch, the middle (as nearly as the
same can be ascertained) of such other boundary, or of such road,
lane, path, river, stream, canal, drain, brook, or ditch, shall be
understood:

"6.-That the middle of any road or lane shall be understood as the
middle of the carriageway along the same:

" 7.—That when any boundary by this act established is said to proceed
along a road, lane, path, river, stream, canal, or drain, from or to an
object, such boundary shall be understood to proceed from or to that
point in the middle of such road, lane, path, river, stream, canal, or
drain from which the shortest line would be drawn to the centre
of such object, as nearly as the centre thereof can be ascertained:
* 8.-That the point at which any fence, hedge, wall, boundary, road,
lane, path, river, stream, canal, drain, brook, or ditch is said to cut,
meet, join, cross, reach, or leave any fence, hedge, wall, boundary,
road, lane, path, river, stream, canal, drain, brook, or ditch, shall be
understood as that point at which a line passing along the middle of
the fence, hedge, wall, boundary, road, lane, path, river, stream,
canal, drain, brook, or ditch so cut, met, joined, crossed, reached,
or left, would be intersected by a line drawn along the middle of
the fence, hedge, wall, boundary, road, lane, path, river, stream,
canal, drain, brook, or ditch so cutting, meeting, joining, crossing,
reaching, or leaving, if such line were prolonged sufficiently far:
"9.-That when a line is said to be drawn to a road, lane, river, stream,
or canal, such line shall be considered as prolonged to the middle of
such road, lane, river, stream, or canal:

10.-That by the words 'sea' and 'sea-coast,' shall be understood the low-water mark: ·

"11-That if any deficiency shall be found to exist in the line of any boundary described in the said schedule to this act annexed marked (0.), by reason of the intervention of any space between any two immediately consecutive points, such deficiency shall be supplied by a straight line to be drawn from the one to the other of such two immediately consecutive points."

By sect. 37, "notwithstanding the generality of any description contained Detached parts of in the said schedule to this act annexed marked (O.), no city, borough, or parishes, &c. and place, the contents whereof are specified in such schedule, shall include extra-parochial any part of any parish, township, hamlet, chapelry, tithing, manor, or places. liberty which is detached from the main body of such parish, township, hamlet, chapelry, tithing, manor, or liberty, if, by reason of including such detached part, the boundary hereby established of such city, borough or place would not be continuous, unless such detached part shall, before the passing of this act, have formed part of such city, borough, or place for the

(20.) Division purpose of the election of members to serve in parliament; but that all of Counties, &c. places, parochial or extra-parochial, which are surrounded by the contents

Misnomer not to vitiate, and the descriptions in schedule (O.) to be considered as existing on the 1st Oct. 1831.

of which any city, borough, or place is said in such schedule marked (0.) to consist, but for which no provision is made in such schedule (O.), shall be considered as included within such city, borough, or place, for the purpose of the election of members to serve in parliament."

By sect. 38,"no misnomer or inaccurate description contained in this act, or in any of the schedules hereto annexed, shall in anywise prevent or abridge the operation of this act with respect to the subject of such description, provided the same shall be so designated as to be commonly understood; and that for the purpose of identifying the descriptions contained in the said schedule (O.) with the subjects of such descriptions respectively, such descriptions shall, if now inapplicable, be held to apply to such subjects as they existed on the first day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one."

SCHEDULES REFERRED TO BY THE 2 & 3 WIL. 4, c. 64.