statement, without a special application to the Committee for permission to do so. 2. "That if costs be demanded by either party, under the 11th & 12th Vic. c. 98., the question must be raised immediately after the decision on that particular case, unless the Committee shall otherwise decide. 3. "That the Committee expect that with respect to cases of bribery, which it is intended to bring home to the sitting member, or his agents, the counsel for the petitioners will now state the names of the electors bribed, and those of the persons who actually gave the bribes. 4. "The Committee, however, reserve to themselves a power under the special application of counsel, to proceed with any case which tends to inculpate any principal, or agent, the knowledge of which case has been brought out before the Committee in the progress of the investigation, with the circumstances of which the parties could not be reasonably supposed to have been previously cognizant. 5. "That with respect to treating, the Committee will expect counsel to state the times and places where such treating is alleged to have taken place. The Committee, however, reserving to themselves a discretionary power, as in cases of bribery. 6. "That no person shall be examined as a witness who shall have been in the room during any of the proceedings, with the exception of the agents, whose names shall be handed in, without special leave of the Committee." It is not the intention of this little manual to treat at any length of the proceedings before the Election Committee. The slight sketch that has been given has for its object to draw attention of the agent during the progress of the contest to the points that will be of after importance. The resolutions just quoted shew that the case ought to be thoroughly prepared before the proceedings commence. The Committee having tried the case, decide 1. Who was duly elected, and who is duly or ought to have been returned. 2. Whether the election was good or void. 3. Whether a new writ should issue. The decision is reported to the House, and entered on the journals. The House then does the formal acts necessary to give practical effect to the decision. The case is now closed, unless the report of the committee should lead the House to direct a prosecution against some person implicated in the proceedings; or unless the conduct of the constituency should have been so bad that the precedents of Sudbury and St. Alban's should be followed. In the latter case a commission will issue under the "Act to provide for more effectual inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices at elections for members to serve in Parliament " (15 & 16 Vic. c. 57.), and upon those proceedings a Disenfranchising Act will be based. Into this, however, I do not enter. Burgesses, 2. Canvassing, not proof of agency, 89. Candidate, eight requisites of, 11 not privileged from arrest, 20. disqualified for bribery, &c. 85. to incur penalties at law must be cognisant of the act, 86. not so according to parliamentary law, 86. expenses of, 90. Disqualification of candidate by being an alien, 11 by office, 12 by bribery, 16, 85 by crime, 16 by peerage, 17 by want of qualification, 17 Dissolution, proceedings for new Parliament after, 1 Election auditor, appointment of, 22 oath of, 23 duties of, 91, 95 fees, 41 precedent of account of, 94 no payments to be made except through, 96 Election, General must be within three years after dissolution, 1 Election bills-see Bills Election Committee, 110 Electors-see Voters Expenses personal expenses of candidate, 93 definition of, 42 paid without intervention of auditor, 42 penalty upon volunteer paying money without inter- of registration of voters not electors' expenses, 83 advertisements, 42, 93 precedent of auditor's account, 94 bills to be sent in within a month, 95 Franchise in England, 2 in Scotland, 4 in Ireland, 5 |