Counties, Cities, no such Party, or if such Party, or some one on his Behalf, and Boroughs. shall in open Court decline, and state in Writing that he de

clines, to support the Decision appealed against as Respondent, then and in every such Case it shall be lawful for the said Revising Barrister to name any Person who may be interested in the Matter of the said Appeal, and who may consent, or the Overseers of any Parish or Township, or the Town Clerk of any City or Borough, to be, and such Person so consenting, or such Overseers or Town Clerk respectively so named, shall be deemed to be the Respondent or Respondents in such Appeal.

XLIV. And be it enacted, That if it shall appear to any Revising Barrister that the Validity of any Number of such Claims or Objections determined by him at any Court as aforesaid depends and has been decided by him upon the same Point or Points of Law, and the Parties, or any of them, aggrieved by or dissatisfied with his Decision thereon, shall have given Notice of an Intention to appeal therefrom, it shall in such Case be lawful for the said Barrister to declare that the Appeals against such Decision ought to be consolidated, and the said Barrister shall in such Case state in Writing the Case, and his Decision thereon, in manner herein-before mentioned, and that several Appeals depend upon the same Decision, and ought to be consolidated, and shall read such Statement, and sign the same, as herein-before mentioned, and thereupon it shall be lawful for the said Barrister to name any Person interested, and consenting for and on behalf of himself and all other Persons in like Manner interested in such Appeals, to be the Appellant or Respondent respectively in such consolidated Appeal, and to prosecute or answer the said Appeal, in like Manner as any Appellant or Respondent might in his own Case under the Provisions of this Act, and the Person so named Appellant in such consolidated Appeal, or some one on his Behalf, shall at the End of the said Statement, make and sign a Declaration in the Form or to the Effect following; (that is to say,)

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FOR myself and on behalf of all the other Persons who are interested as Appellants in this Matter, and whose Names ' are hereunder written, do appeal against this Decision and agree to prosecute this Appeal.'

And the Person so named Respondent in such consolidated Appeal, or some one on his Behalf, shall in like Manner make and sign a Declaration in Writing in the Form or to the Effect following; (that is to say,)

'I FOR myself and on behalf of all the other Persons
interested as Respondents in this Matter, and whose Names
are hereunder written, do agree to appear and answer this
Appeal.'

And the Name, and, where necessary, the Particulars of the
Qualification of every Party intended to be joined in such
consolidated Appeal, shall be written under the aforesaid
Declaration of the Appellant or Respondent respectively to

which they may respectively refer: Provided always, that it Counties, Cities, shall be lawful for the said Barrister, if necessary, in any Case and Boroughs. to name the Overseers of any Parish or Township, or the Overseers or Town Clerk of any City or Borough, to be, and they or he so Town Clerk named shall be, the Respondents or Respondent in such con- may be named as Respondents. solidated Appeal, without any such Declaration being made or signed by them or him as herein-before mentioned.

conducted as

Costs of consoli

XLV. And be it enacted, That in and with regard to Consolidated every such consolidated Appeal the like Proceeding shall be Appeals to be had and taken and the like Rules and Regulations shall apply any single as in the Case of any other Appeal under this Act; and that Appeal. every Order, Judgment, or Decision of the said Court of Common Pleas shall be equally valid and effectual for all the Purposes of this Act, and binding and conclusive upon all the Parties named in or referred to as Parties to such consolidated Appeal as aforesaid; and that if in any Case all or any of the Agreement for Parties to such consolidated Appeal shall make or enter into Contribution to any Agreement as to the Mode of contributing among them- dated Appeal selves to the Costs and Expences of such Appeal, the said may be made a Agreement may, upon the Application of any Party or Parties Rule of Court. thereto, be made a Rule of the said Court of Common Pleas, if the said Court shall think fit: Provided always, that if any If consolidated such consolidated Appeal shall not be duly prosecuted or prosecuted or Appeal not duly answered, it shall be lawful for the said Court of Common answered, the Pleas, or for the Lord Chief Justice or any Judge of the said Court or a Court, to give to any Party or Parties interested in such Judge may give Appeal, upon his or their Application, the Conduct and or of the Answer Direction of the said Appeal, or of the Answer thereto, to other Persons. respectively, as the Case may require, instead of or in addition to any Person named as aforesaid as Appellant or Respondent, and in such Manner and upon such Terms as the said Court or Lord Chief Justice or Judge may think fit and order, or to make such other Order in the Case as may seem meet; provided also, that if after the said Barrister shall as aforesaid If Party interhave declared that the Appeal in any Case ought to be with refuse to be a others consolidated, any Party interested in such Appeal shall Party, &c. object and refuse to be a Party to or to be bound by any such consolidated Appeal, then and in such Case the Appeal in which such Person is interested may proceed separately, but such Person so refusing or objecting shall be liable to pay Costs to the other Party, but shall not be entitled to receive any Costs of or in such Appeal, unless the said Court otherwise order.

Conduct of it

ested shall

XLVI. And be it enacted, That if in any Case it shall Power to Barrister to give appear to any Revising Barrister holding any Court as aforesaid Costs in certain that any Person shall under this Act have made or attempted Cases to Parties to sustain any groundless or frivolous and vexatious Claim claiming or or Objection or Title to have any Name inserted or retained objecting. in any List of Voters, it shall be lawful for the said Barrister, in his Discretion, to make such Order as he shall think fit for the Payment by such Person of the Costs or of any Part of the Costs of any Person or Persons in resisting such Claim or Objection

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Counties, Cities, Objection or Title; and in every such Case the said Barand Boroughs. rister shall make an Order in Writing, specifying the Sum

County Lists to be transmitted

to Clerk of the Peace, and to

be by him copied

into a Book.

which he shall order to be paid for such Costs, and by and to whom and when and where the same Sum shall be paid, and shall date and sign the said Order, and deliver it to the Person or Persons to whom the said Sum shall therein be ordered to be paid: Provided always, that the said Sum so ordered to be paid by way of Costs shall not in any Case exceed the Sum of Twenty Shillings: Provided also, that such Order for the Payment of Costs as aforesaid may be made in any Case, notwithstanding any Farty shall have given Notice of his Intention to appeal against any Decision of the Revising Barrister in the same Case; but in case of such Appeal the said Order for the Payment of Costs shall be suspended, and shall abide the Event of such Appeal, unless the Court of Appeal shall otherwise direct; but no Appeal shall be allowed or entertained against or only in respect of any such Order for the Payment of Costs: Provided also, that whenever any Revising Barrister shall have made any such Order for the Payment of any Sum of Money for Costs by any Person who shall have made any Objection as aforesaid, it shall not be lawful for the said Barrister to hear or admit Proof of any other Objection or Notice of Objection made or signed by the same Person until the Sum of Money so ordered to be paid by him for Costs be paid to the Person entitled to receive the same, or deposited in the Hands of the said Barrister in Court, for the Use of the Person so entitled.

XLVII. And be it enacted, That the said Lists of Voters for each County, signed as aforesaid, shall be forthwith transmitted by the Revising Barrister to the Clerk of the Peace of the same County, and the Clerk of the Peace shall keep the said Lists among the Records of the Sessions, and shall forthwith cause the said Lists to be copied and printed in a Book or Books, arranged with the Names in each Parish or Township in strict alphabetical Order, according to the Surnames, and with every Polling District in alphabetical Order, and with every Parish or Township within such Polling District likewise in the same Order, and shall, after the last List for each Polling District, insert a List in like alphabetical Order of all Persons whose Names shall not appear in any of the said Lists for such Polling District, but who shall in manner herein-before mentioned have been registered by the Revising Barrister to vote at the Polling Place of such last-mentioned District, and shall in the said Book prefix to every Name its proper Number, beginning the Numbers from the first Name, and continuing them in a regular Series down to the last Name: Provided always, that a Number as aforesaid shall be prefixed to the Name of every Person in every such List inserted after the last List for any Polling District as aforesaid; and no Number, but an Asterisk only, shall be prefixed to the Name of the same Person in the List of the Parish or Township in which his Name originally appeared; and every such Book shall be

printed and arranged in such Manner and Form that the List Counties, Cities, of Voters of and for each and every separate Parish or Town- and Boroughs. ship contained therein may be conveniently and completely cut out or detached from all the other Lists of Voters contained in the same Book, so that all the Lists for every or any Polling Place, or the List of every or any single Parish or Township, may be ready for the Purposes of this Act or for Sale; and the said Clerk of the Peace shall sign and deliver the said Book or Books on or before the last Day of November in the then current Year to the Sheriff of the County, to be by him and his Successors in the Office of Sheriff safely kept, for the Purposes herein-after and in the said recited Act

mentioned.

Clerk of the

Peace to sign
Copy to the

and deliver a

Sheriff.

to the Town

Book.

XLVIII. And be it enacted, That the Lists of Voters for Borough Lists V each City or Borough, signed as aforesaid, shall be forthwith to be delivered delivered by the Revising Barrister to the Town Clerk of the Clerks, and same City or Borough; and the said Town Clerk shall forth- copied into a with cause the said Lists to be copied and printed in a Book; and in the said Book the said Lists shall be arranged and every Name numbered according to the Directions aforesaid with regard to the County Lists, so far as the same are applicable; and the said Town Clerk shall sign and deliver Town Clerks to the said Book on or before the said last Day of November to sign and deliver the Returning Officer of the same City or Borough, to be by ing Officers. him and his Successors as Returning Officer safely kept for the Purposes herein-after mentioned.

same to Return

XLIX. And be it enacted, That the said printed Book or Books to be the Books, so signed as aforesaid by the Clerk of the Peace or Town Voters for One Register of Clerk respectively, and given into the Custody of the Sheriff of Year. any County, or the Returning Officer of any City or Borough, as the Case may be, shall be the Register of Persons entitled to vote at any Election of a Member or Members to serve in Parliament which shall take place in and for the same County, City, or Borough respectively, between the last Day of November in the Year wherein such Register shall have been made and the First Day of December in the succeeding Year: Provided always, that the Register of Electors now in force shall be the Register in force until the First Day of December in the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-three; and the Copies of Re Clerk of the Peace of every County, and the Town Clerk of gisters to be every City or Borough respectively, shall keep printed Copies of the said Register for such County, City, or Borough, and shall deliver such Copies of such Register, or of any Part thereof, to any Person applying for the same, upon Payment of a Price after the Rate contained in the Table numbered (2.) in the Schedule (D.) to this Act annexed: Provided always, that no Person shall be entitled to a Copy of any Part of any Register relating to any Parish or Township without taking or paying for the whole that relates to such Parish or Township.

printed for Sale.

L. And be it enacted, That any Assessor or Collector of Assessors and Taxes, or other Officer, or any Overscer or Overseers of the other Officers Poor, or other Persons having the Custody of any Poor-rate attend when neglecting to

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Book summoned by

Counties, Cities, and Boroughs. Revising Bar

rister, liable to

be fined.

Power to Bar. risters to fine

Overseers for

Book for any past Year, or any Assistant Overseer or Relieving Officer, who shall wilfully refuse or neglect, when duly required by Summons under the Hand of any Revising Barrister, to attend before such Barrister at any Court to be holden as aforesaid, according to the Exigency of such Summons, shall, upon Proof before him of the Service of such Summons, be liable to pay by way of Fine for every such Offence a Sum of Money not exceeding Five Pounds nor less than Twenty Shillings, to be imposed by and at the Discretion of the said Barrister holding any such Court as aforesaid.

LI. And be it enacted, That any Overseer of any Parish or Township who shall wilfully refuse or neglect to make out any Neglectof Duty. List, or who shall wilfully neglect to insert therein the Name of any Person who shall have given due Notice of Claim, or who in making out the List of Voters for any City or Borough shall wilfully and without any reasonable Cause omit the Name of any Person duly qualified to be inserted in such List, or who shall wilfully and without reasonable Cause insert in such List the Name of any Person not duly qualified, or who shall wilfully refuse or neglect to publish any Notice or List, or Copy of the Part of the Register of Voters relating to his Parish or Township, at the Time and in the Manner required by this Act, or who shall wilfully refuse or neglect to deliver to the Clerk of the Peace the Copy of the Lists of Claimants and of Persons objected to, and the Copies of the Register, as required by this Act, or who shall wilfully refuse or neglect to deliver to the Town Clerk of the City or Borough the Copies of the several Lists as required by this Act, or who shall wilfully refuse or neglect to attend the Court for revising the Lists of Voters of his Parish or Township, or to attend any Revising Barrister when required by any Summons as aforesaid, or who shall wilfully refuse or neglect to deliver to the Barrister or Barristers holding any such Court the several Lists to be made out by them as aforesaid, or who shall be wilfully guilty of any other Breach of Duty in the Execution of this Act, shall for every such Offence be liable to pay by way of Fine a Sum of Money not exceeding Five Pounds nor less than Twenty Shillings, to be imposed by and at the Discretion of any Barrister holding any Court for the Revision of any List of the Parish or Township of such Overseer: Provided always, that nothing herein contained as to any Fine as aforesaid shall affect or abridge any Right of Action against any Overseer or other Person liable to any Fine as aforesaid, or any Liability such Overseer or other Person may incur under or by virtue of this Act or the said

Fines, to whom

what Purpose to be applied.

recited Act.

LII. And be it enacted, That every Revising Barrister, when payable, and to and so often as he shall impose any such Fine as aforesaid, shall at the same Time in open Court, by an Order in Writing under his Hand stating the Sum payable for such Fine, direct by and to whom and when the same shall be paid, and the Person to whom the said Sum shall be so ordered to be paid shall receive the same, and in every Case where the Offence

for