of any candidate at such election as agent, canvasser, clerk, messenger, or in other like employment, shall be entitled to vote at such election, and if he shall so vote, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

XII. Whereas upon representations made to Her Majesty in joint addresses of both Houses of Parliament to the effect that the select committee of the House of Commons appointed to try the petitions complaining of undue elections and returns for the boroughs of Totnes, Reigate, Great Yarmouth, and Lancaster had reason to believe that corrupt practices had extensively prevailed at the last elections for the said boroughs, commissioners were appointed for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of such corrupt practices, in pursuance of the Act of Parliament passed in the sixteenth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter fifty-seven, intituled An Act to provide for the more effectual Inquiry into the existence of Corrupt Practices at Elections for Members to serve in Parliament: And whereas the commissioners so appointed reported to Her Majesty as follows:

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As respects the said borough of Totnes, that at every election for the said borough since and including the election in the year 1857 corrupt practices had extensively prevailed:

2. As respects the said borough of Reigate, that bribery and treating had prevailed at the election in the year 1859, and had extensively prevailed at the two elections in the year 1858, and at the elections in the years 1863 and 1865 :

3. As respects the said borough of Great Yarmouth that corrupt and illegal practices had extensively prevailed at the elections in the years 1859 and 1865:

As respects the said borough of Lancaster, that corrupt practices/ had extensively prevailed at the election in the year 1865, and, with rare exceptions, had for a long time prevailed at contested elections for members to serve in Parliament for that borough: Be it enacted, That from and after the end of this present Parliament the boroughs of Totnes, Reigate, Great Yarmouth, and Lancaster shall' respectively cease to return any member or members to serve in Parliament.

XIII. Whereas the commissioners appointed under a commission of Her Majesty dated the sixteenth day of June One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices in the borough of Totnes, have by their report, dated the twenty-ninth day of January One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, reported to Her Majesty that the persons named in schedules (I.) and (K.) to the said report annexed had been guilty of giving or receiving bribes: Be it enacted, That none of the persons so named in the said schedules shall have the right of voting for the southern division of the county of Devon in respect of a qualification situated within the said borough of Totnes.

XIV. Whereas the commissioners appointed under a commission of Her Majesty, dated the sixteenth day of June One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices in the borough of Great Yarmouth have

by their report, dated the twentieth day of December One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six reported to Her Majesty that the persons named in Schedules (A.) and (B.) to the said report annexed had been guilty of giving and receiving bribes: Be it enacted, That none of the persons so named in the said schedules shall have the right of voting for the north-eastern division of the county of Norfolk, or the eastern division of the county of Suffolk, in respect of a qualification situated within the borough of Great Yarmouth.

XV. Whereas the commissioners appointed under a commission of Her Majesty, dated the sixteenth day of June One thousand eight hundred and sixty six, for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices in the borough of Lancaster, have by their report reported to Her Majesty that certain persons had been guilty of giving or receiving bribes: Be it enacted, That none of the said persons appearing by the Schedules marked (A.) and (B.) to the said report annexed to have been bribed, or as bribing and treating, shall have the right of voting for the northern division of the county of Lancaster in respect to a qualification situated within the said borough of Lancaster.

XVI. Whereas the commissioners appointed under a commission of Her Majesty, dated the sixteenth day of June One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices in the borough of Reigate, by their report, dated the second day of February One thousand eight hundred and sixtyseven, reported to Her Majesty that the said persons named in Schedules (A.), (B.), and (C.) had been guilty of giving or receiving bribes: Be it enacted, That none of the persons so named in the said schedules, and appearing thereby to have been so guilty in the election which took place in the year 1865, shall have the right of voting for the division of Mid Surrey, in respect of a qualification situated within the borough of Reigate.

PART II.-DISTRIBUTION OF SEATS.

XVII. From and after the end of this present Parliament, no borough which had a less population than ten thousand at the census of One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one shall return more than one member to serve in Parliament, such boroughs being enumerated in Schedule (A) to this Act annexed.

XVII. From and after the end of this present Parliament, the city of Manchester and the boroughs of Liverpool, Birmingham, and Leeds, shall each respectively return three members to serve in Parliament.

XIX. Each of the places named in Schedule (B.) to this Act annexed shall be a borough, and, until otherwise directed by Parliament, each such borough shall comprise such places as are specified and described in connexion with the name of each such borough in the said Schedule (B.); and in all future Parliaments the borough of Chelsea, named in the said schedule, shall return two members, and each of the other boroughs named in the said schedule shall return one member to serve n Parliament.

XX. Registers of voters shall be formed in and after the year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, notwithstanding the continuance of this present Parliament, for or in respect of the boroughs constituted by this Act, in like manner as if before the passing of this Act they respectively had been boroughs returning members to serve in Par liament.

XXI. From and after the end of the present Parliament, the boroughs of Merther Tydfil and Salford shall each return two members instead of one to serve in future Parliaments; and the borough of the Tower Hamlets shall be divided into two divisions, and each division shall in all future Parliaments be a separate borough returning two members to serve in Parliament.

The said divisions shall be known by the name of the borough of Hackney and the borough of the Tower Hamlets, and, until otherwise directed by Parliament, shall comprise the places mentioned in connection with each such borough in Schedule (C.) hereto annexed.

XXII. Registers of voters shall be formed in and after the year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, notwithstanding the continuance of this present Parliament, in respect of the said boroughs of Hackney and of the Tower Hamlets constituted under this Act, in like manner as if such divisions had previously to the passing of this Act been separate boroughs returning members to serve in Parliament.

XXIII. From and after the end of the present Parliament, each county named in the first column of Schedule (D.) to this Act annexed shall be divided into the divisions named in the second column of the said schedule, and until otherwise directed by Parliament, each of such divisions shall consist of the hundreds, lathes, wapentakes, and places mentioned in the third column of the said schedule.

In all future Parliaments there shall be two members to serve for each of the divisions specified in the said second column, and such members shall be chosen in the same manner and by the same description of voters, and in respect of the same rights of voting, as if each such division were a separate county.

All enactments relating to divisions of counties returning members to serve in Parliament shall be deemed to apply to the divisions constituted as aforesaid.

Registers of voters shall be formed in and after the year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, notwithstanding the continuance of this present Parliament, for or in respect of the divisions of counties consti tuted by this Act, in like manner as if before the passing of this Act they had respectively been counties returning members to serve in Parliament.

XXIV. In all future Parliaments the University of London shall return one member to serve in Parliament.

XXV. Every man whose name is for the time being on the register of graduates constituting the Convocation of the University of London shall, if of full age, and not subject to any legal incapacity, be entitied to vote in the election of a member to serve in any future Parliament for the said University.

PART III-SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISION.-Incidents of Franchise.

XXVI. Different premises occupied in immediate succession by any person as owner or tenant during the twelve calendar months next previous to the last day of July in any year shall, unless and except as herein is otherwise provided, have the same effect in qualifying such person to vote for a county or borough as a continued occupation on the same premises in the manner herein provided.

XXVII. In a county where premises are in the joint occupation of several persons as owners or tenants, and the aggregate rateable value of such premises is such as would, if divided amongst the several occupiers, so far as the value is concerned, confer on each of them a vote, then each of such joint occupiers shall, if otherwise qualified, and subject to the conditions of this Act, be entitled to be registered as a voter, and when registered to vote at an election for the county: provided always, that not than two persons, being such joint occupiers, shall be entitled to be registered in respect of such premises, unless they shall have derived .the same by descent, succession, marriage, marriage settlement, or devise, or unless they shall be bona fide engaged as partners carrying on trade or business thereon.

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XXVIII. Where any poor rate due on the fifth day of January in any year from an occupier in respect of premises capable of conferring the franchise for a borough remains unpaid on the first day of June following, the overseers whose duty it may be to collect such rate shall on or before the twentieth of the same month of June, unless such rate has previously been paid, or has been duly demanded by a demand note, to be served in like manner as the notice in this section referred to, give or cause to > be given a notice in the form set forth in Schedule (E) to this Act to every such occupier. The notice shall be deemed to be duly given if delivered to the occupier or left at his last or usual place of abode, or with some person on the premises in respect of which the rate is payable. Any overseer who shall wilfully withhold such notice, with intent to keep such occupier off the list or register of voters for the said borough, shall be deemed guilty of a breach of duty in the execution of the Registration Acts.

XXIX. The overseers of every parish wholly or partly within a borough shall, on or before the twenty-second day of July in every year, make out a list containing, the name and place of abode of every person who, shall not have paid, on or before the twentieth day of the same month, all poor rates which shall have become payable from him in respect of any premises within the said parish before the fifth day of January then last past, and the overseers shall keep the said list, to be perused by any person without payment of any fee, at any time between the hours of ten of the clock in the forenoon and four of the clock in the afternoon of any day except Sunday during the first fourteen

days after the said twenty-second day of July; any overseer wilfully neglecting or refusing to make out such list, or to allow the same to be perused as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a breach of duty in the execution of the Registration Acts.

XXX. The following Regulations shall in and after the year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight be observed with respect to the registration of voters:

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The overseers of every parish or township shall make out or cause to be made out a list of all persons on whom a right to vote for a county in respect of the occupation of premises is conferred by this Act, in the same manner, and subject to the same regulations, as nearly as circumstances admit, in and subject to which the overseers of parishes and townships in boroughs are required by the Registration Acts to make out or cause to be made out a list of all persons entitled to vote for a member or members for a borough in respect of the occupation of premises of a clear yearly value of not less than ten pounds:

2. The claim of every person desirous of being registered as a voter for a member or members to serve for any borough in respect of the occupation of lodgings shall be in the form numbered I. in Schedule (G.) or to the like effect, and shall have annexed thereto a declaration in the form and be certified in the manner in the said schedule mentioned, or as near thereto as circumstances admit; and evey such claim shall after the last day of July and on or before the twenty-fifth day of August in any year be delivered to the overseers of the parish in which such lodgings shall be situate, and the particulars of such claim shall be duly published by such overseers on or before the first day of September next ensuing in a separate list, according to the form numbered 2, in the said Schedule (G.):

So much of section 18, of the Act of the session of the sixth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter eighteen, as relates to the manner of publishing lists of claimants and to the delivery of copies thereof to persons requiring the same, shall apply to every such claim and list; and all the provisions of the 38th and 39th sections of the same Act with respect to the proof of the claims of persons omitted from the lists of voters, and to objections thereto, and to the hearing thereof, shall, so far as the same

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applicable, apply to claims and objections, and to the hearing thereof, under this section.

XXXI. The word "expenses" contained in the sections fifty-four and fifty-five of the said Registration Act of the session of the sixth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter eighteen, shall be