The Parliamentary Election Acts for England and Wales: Arranged According to the Qualification and the Registration of Electors, Electoral Areas, the Disqualification of Candidates, the Election and the Election Petiltion, with Notes, History and Summary : Being a Treatise on the Law of the Election of Members in England and Wales to the House of Commons of the United KingdomW. Clowes and Sons, 1885 - 588 pages |
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... copy of the register of voters allotted to vote at that station , officer at the and over the votes by ballot , which is the legal means of poll . Ballot paper . Counting votes . recording votes . He THE ELECTION . xxxvii.
... copy of the register of voters allotted to vote at that station , officer at the and over the votes by ballot , which is the legal means of poll . Ballot paper . Counting votes . recording votes . He THE ELECTION . xxxvii.
Page xxxviii
... copy of the register of voters showing the voters who have voted , the counterfoils of the ballot papers used , the tendered voters ' list , and the list of illiterates ' votes marked by him . These packets are to be delivered to the ...
... copy of the register of voters showing the voters who have voted , the counterfoils of the ballot papers used , the tendered voters ' list , and the list of illiterates ' votes marked by him . These packets are to be delivered to the ...
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... copies of minutes of the admission of so many freemen as such candidate , agent , or freemen , shall think fit , upon paying to such mayor , bailiff , sheriff , town clerk , or other officer , a reasonable charge for writing the same ...
... copies of minutes of the admission of so many freemen as such candidate , agent , or freemen , shall think fit , upon paying to such mayor , bailiff , sheriff , town clerk , or other officer , a reasonable charge for writing the same ...
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... copy holds and leaseholds in a borough . 25. Notwithstanding anything herein before contained no person shall be entitled to vote in the election of a knight or No county vote knights of the shire to serve in any future Parliament in ...
... copy holds and leaseholds in a borough . 25. Notwithstanding anything herein before contained no person shall be entitled to vote in the election of a knight or No county vote knights of the shire to serve in any future Parliament in ...
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... copy- holder , customary tenant , or tenant in ancient demesne , unless he shall be in actual possession , or in receipt of the rents and profits thereof to his own use for six calendar months at least previous to the last day of July ...
... copy- holder , customary tenant , or tenant in ancient demesne , unless he shall be in actual possession , or in receipt of the rents and profits thereof to his own use for six calendar months at least previous to the last day of July ...
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31 Vict 48 Vict aforesaid amend appeal apply appointed ballot paper boundary candidate City of London city or borough claim claimants Commissioners comprised in Division copy Corrupt Practices county or borough Cricklade day of July declaration deemed disqualified dwelling-house election agent election of members election petition electors enacted entitled to vote expenses franchise freehold freemen Hackney Parish hereby House of Commons Ireland last day list of voters lodgers member or members members to serve mentary municipal borough notice of objection overseers ownership voters parish or township Parlia parliamentary borough Parliamentary Elections Parliamentary Registration Acts parliamentary voters payment peace person objected persons entitled place of abode polling districts poor rate pounds precept premises Provided purpose qualification quarter sessions register of voters relating repealed Representation returning officer revising barrister Sched Schedule scot and lot serve in Parliament Sessional Division sheriff thereof tion town clerk Ward writ
Popular passages
Page 381 - ... to or for any voter, or to or for any person on behalf of any voter, or to or for any other person in order to induce any voter to vote or refrain from voting...
Page 401 - ... for any term not exceeding six months, with or without hard labour.
Page 45 - Act, 1870, real and personal property of every description may be taken, acquired, held, and disposed of by an alien in the same manner in all respects as by a natural-born British subject ; and a title to real and personal property of every description may be derived through, from, or in succession to an alien, in the same manner in all respects as through, from, or in succession to a naturalborn British subject.
Page 449 - ... on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of such election...
Page 435 - ANY person who corruptly by himself or by any other person, either before, during or after an election, directly or indirectly gives or provides or pays wholly or in part the expense of giving or providing any meat, drink, entertainment or provision to or for any person, for the purpose of corruptly influencing that person or any other person to give or refrain from giving his vote...
Page 507 - Petition shall be divided into paragraphs, each of which, as nearly as may be, shall be confined to a distinct portion of the subject...
Page 421 - A description or citation of a portion of an Act is inclusive of the words, section, or other part, first or last mentioned, or otherwise referred to as forming the beginning, or as forming the end, of the portion comprised in the description or citation.
Page 75 - January 5 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...
Page 480 - Person who shall advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any Money to or to the Use of any other Person with the Intent that such Money or any Part thereof shall be expended in Bribery at any Election...
Page 323 - ... directly or indirectly, himself, or by any other person in trust for him, or for his use or benefit, or on his account, undertake, execute, hold, or enjoy, in whole or in part, any contract or agreement, made or entered Into in behalf of the United States...