"ADDITIONAL GENERAL RULE (PARLIAMENTARY), Dec., 1868." That notice of the time and place of the trial of each election petition shall be transmitted by the master to the treasury, and to the clerk of the crown in chancery, and that the clerk of the crown in chancery shall, on or before the day fixed for the trial, deliver or cause to be delivered to the registrar of the judge who is to try the petition, or his deputy, the poll-books, for which the registrar or his deputy shall give, if required, a receipt. And that the registrar shall keep in safe custody the said pollbooks until the trial is over, and then return the same to the crown office. Dated the 19th day of December, 1868. SAMUEL MARTIN. J. S. WILLES. "ADDITIONAL GENERAL RULES (PARLIAMENTARY), March, 1869.” I. All claims at law or in equity to money deposited or to be deposited in the Bank of England for payment of costs, charges and expenses payable by the petitioners pursuant to the 16th General Rule, made the 21st November, 1868, by the judges for the trial of election petitions in England, shall be disposed of by the Court of Common Pleas or a judge. II. Money so deposited shall, if and when the same is no longer needed for securing payment of such costs, charges and expenses, be returned or otherwise disposed of as justice may require, by rule of the Court of Common Pleas or order of a judge. III. Such rule or order may be made after such notice of intention to apply, and proof that all just claims have been satisfied or otherwise sufficiently provided for as the court or judge may require. IV. The rule or order may direct payment either to the party in whose name the same is deposited or to any person entitled to receive the same. V. Upon such rule or order being made, the amount may be drawn for by the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas for the time being. VI. The draft of the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas for the time being shall, in all cases, be a sufficient warrant to the Bank of England for all payments made thereunder. Dated the 25th day of March, 1869. "ADDITIONAL GENERAL RULES (PARLIAMENTARY), January, 1875." I. A сору of every order (other than an order giving further time for delivering particulars, or for costs only), or if the master shall so direct, the order itself or a duplicate thereof, also a copy of every particular delivered, shall be forthwith filed with the master, and the same shall be produced at the trial by the registrar, stamped with the official seal. Such order and particular respectively shall be filed by the party obtaining the same. II. The petitioner or his agent shall, immediately after notice of the presentation of a petition and of the nature of the proposed security shall have been served, file with the master an affidavit of the time and manner of service thereof. III. The days mentioned in Rules 7 and 8, and in any rule of court or judge's order, whereby particulars are ordered to be delivered, or any act is directed to be done, so many days before the day appointed for trial, are exclusively also of Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday, and any day set apart for a public fast or public thanksgiving. IV. When the last day for presenting petitions or filing lists of votes or objections, under Rules 7 or 8, or recognizances, or any other matter required to be filed within a given time, shall happen to fall on a holiday, the petition or other matter shall be deemed duly filed if put into the letter box at the master's office at any time during such day; but an affidavit, stating with reasonable precision the time when such delivery was made, shall be filed on the first day after the expiration of the holidays. V. Rule 40 is hereby revoked, and in lieu thereof it is ordered that the amount to be paid to any witness whose expenses shall be allowed by the judge shall be ascertained and certified by the registrar; or in the event of his becoming incapacitated from giving such certificate, by the judge. VI. After receiving notice of the petitioner's intention to apply for leave to withdraw, or of the respondent's intention not to oppose, or of the abatement of the petition by death, or of the happening of any of the events mentioned in the 38th section of the Act, if such notice be received after notice of trial shall have been given, and before the trial has commenced, the master shall forthwith countermand the notice of trial. The countermand shall be given in the same manner, as near as may be, as the notice of trial. Dated the 27th day of January, 1875. G. PIGOTT. ROBT. LUSH. GEORGE E. HONYMAN. Judges for the time being on the rota for the trial of Election Petitions in England. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 51. What is treating. What is undue influence. What is corrupt practice. CORRUPT AND ILLEGAL PRACTICES 46 & 47 VICT. c. 51. An Act for the Better Prevention of Corrupt and Illegal [25th August, 1883.] BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Corrupt Practices. 1. Whereas under Section 4 of the Corrupt Practices Prevention Act, 1854, persons other than candidates at parliamentary elections are not liable to any punishment for treating, and it is expedient to make such persons liable; be it therefore enacted in substitution for the said Section 4, as follows: (1.) 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 at the election, or on account of such person or any other person having voted or refrained from voting, or being about to vote or refrain from voting at such election, shall be guilty of treating. (2.) And every elector who corruptly accepts or takes any such meat, drink, entertainment or provision shall also be guilty of treating. 2. Every person who shall directly or indirectly, by himself or by. any other person on his behalf, make use of or threaten to make use of any force, violence, or restraint, or inflict or threaten to inflict, by himself or by any other person, any temporal or spiritual injury, damage, harm, or loss upon or against any person in order to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting, or on account of such person having voted or refrained from voting at any election, or who shall by abduction, duress, or any fraudulent device or contrivance impede or prevent the free exercise of the franchise of any elector, or shall thereby compel, induce, or prevail upon any elector either to give or to refrain from giving his vote at any election, shall be guilty of undue influence. 3. The expression "corrupt practice " as used in this Act means any of the following offences namely, treating and undue influence, as |