ficient, any statute to the contrary notwith-
standing; and that no person shall be so re-
gistered in the year one thousand eight hundred
and thirty-two, or in any succeeding year, in
respect of any lands or tenements held by him
as such lessee or assignee, or as such occu-
pier and tenant as aforesaid, unless he shall
have been in the actual possession thereof, or
in the receipts of the rents and profits thereof
for his own use, as the case may require, for
twelve calendar months next previous to the
day of
in the said
year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-
two, or next previous to the last day of July in
any such respective succeeding year; pro-
vided always, that where any lands or tene-
ments which would otherwise entitle the
owner, holder, or occupier thereof to vote in
any such election shall come to any person at
any time within such respective periods of six
or twelve calendar months by descent, succes-
sion, marriage, marriage-settlement, devise,
or promotion to any benefice in a church, or
by promotion to any office, such person shall
be entitled in respect thereof to have his name
inserted as a voter in the election of a knight
or knights of the shire in the lists then next to
be made by virtue of this Act as hereinafter
mentioned.

of such premises, previously to the
day of

then next preceding, or shall have paid on or before the twentieth day of July in any such succeeding year as aforesaid, all the poor-rates and assessed taxes which shall have become payable from him in respect of such premises, previously to the respective sixth day of April then next preceding.

And be it enacted, that the premises, in respect of the occupation of which any person shall be deemed entitled to vote in the election for any city or borough as aforesaid, shall not be required to be the same premises, but may be different premises, occupied in immediate succession by such person during the said twelve months; and that where any such premises as aforesaid shall be jointly occupied by more persons than one as owners or tenants, each of such joint occupiers shall be entitled to vote in respect thereof, in case the clear yearly value of such premises shall be of an amount which, when divided by the number of such occupiers, shall give a sum of not less than ten pounds for each and every such occupier, but not otherwise.

And be it enacted, that in every city or borough, which shall return a member or members to serve in any future Parliament, and in every place sharing in the election for such city or borough, it shall be lawful for any person occupying any house, warehouse, counting-house, or shop, either separately or jointly, with any land occupied therewith by him as owner, or occupied therewith by him as tenant under the same landlord, in any parish or township in which there shall be a rate for the

And be it enacted, that in every city or borough which shall return a member or members to serve in any future Parliament, every male person of full age, and not subject to any legal incapacity, who shall occupy within such city or borough, or within any place sharing in the election for such city or borough, as owner or tenant, any house, warehouse, counting-relief of the poor, to claim to be rated to the house, or shop, being either separately or relief of the poor in respect of such premises, jointly with any land within such city, borough, whether the landlord shall or shall not be or place, occupied therewith by him as owner, liable to be rated to the relief of the poor in or occupied therewith by him as tenant under respect thereof; and upon such occupier so the same landlord, of the clear yearly value of claiming and actually paying or tendering the not less than ten pounds, shall, if duly regis- full amount of the rate or rates, if any then tered according to the provisions hereinafter due in respect of such premises, the overseers contained, be entitled to vote in the election of the parish or township in which such preof a member or members to serve in any fumises are situate are hereby required to put ture Parliament for such city or borough: provided always, that no such person shall be so registered in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, or in any succeeding year, unless he shall have occupied such premises as aforesaid for twelve calendar months, next previous to the day of

the name of such occupier upon the rate for the time being; and in case such overseers shall neglect or refuse so to do, such occupier shall nevertheless for the purposes of this Act be deemed to have been rated to the relief of the poor in respect of such premises from the period at which the rate shall have been made, the amount whereof he shall have so paid or tendered as aforesaid: Provided always, that where by virtue of any Act of Parliament the landlord shall be liable to the payment of the rate for the relief of the poor in respect of any premises occupied by his tenant, nothing herein contained shall be deemed to vary or discharge the liability of such landlord; but in case the tenant who shall have been rated for such premises in consequence of any such claim as aforesaid, shall make default in the payment of the poor-rate due in respect said year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-thereof, such landlord shall be and remain two all the poor-rates and assessed taxes which liable for the payment thereof, in the same shall have become payable from him in respect manuer as if he had himself been rated in

in the said year one thousand eight hundred
and thirty-two, or next previous to the last day
of July in any such respective succeeding year,
nor unless such person, where such premises
are situate in any parish or township in which
there shall be a rate for the relief of the poor,
shall have been rated in respect of such pre-
mises to all rates for the relief of the poor in
such parish or township, made during the
time of such his occupation as aforesaid, nor
unless such person shall have paid, on or be-
day of
in the

fore the

respect of the premises so occupied by his | gess or freeman, or entitled to be admitted a

tenant.

And be it enacted, that every person who would have been entitled, if this Act had not been passed, to vote in the election of a member or members to serve in any future Parliament for any city or town, being a county in itself, in respect of his estate or interest as a freeholder, either with or without any other qualification superadded thereto, shall be entitled to vote in such election, provided he shall be duly registered according to the provisions hereinafter contained; but that no such person shall be so registered in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, or in any succeeding year, unless he shall on the day of in the said year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, or on the last day of July in any such respective succeeding year, be qualified as such elector, in such manner as would entitle him then to vote if such days were respectively the days of election, and this Act had not been passed.

burgess or freeman previously to the first day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, or from or through some person who shall since that time have become a burgess or freeman in respect of servitude. And be it enacted, that no person shall be entitled to vote in the election of a member or members to serve in any future Parliament for any city or borough, save and except in respect of some right conferred by this Act, or as a burgess or freeman, or as a freeman and liveryman, or in the case of a city or town being a county of itself, as a freeholder as herein before-mentioned: provided always, that every person now having a right to vote in the election for any city or borough (except those enumerated in the said schedule A) in virtue of any other qualification than as a burgess or freeman, or as a freeman and liveryman, or in the case of a city or town being a county of itself, as a freeholder as herein before-mentioned, shall retain such right of voting so long as he shall be qualified as an elector according to the usages and customs of such city or borough, or any law now in force, and such person shall be entitled to vote in the election of a member or members to serve in any future. Parliament for such city or borough, if duly registered according to the provisions hereinbefore contained; but no such person shall be so registered in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, or in any succeeding year, unless such person shall on the day of

And be it enacted, that every person who would have been entitled to vote in the election of a member or members to serve in any future Parliament for any city or borough not included in the schedule marked A to this Act annexed, either as a burgess or freeman, or in the city of London as a freeman and liveryman, if this Act had not been passed, shall be entitled to vote in such election, provided such person shall be duly registered according to the provisions hereinafter contained; but that no such person shall be registered in the year one thousand eight hundred in the said year one thousand and thirty-two, or in any succeeding year, eight hundred and thirty-two, or on the last unless such person shall, on the day day of July in any such respective succeeding of in the said year one thousand eight year, be qualified as such elector in such hundred and thirty-two, or on the last day of manner as would entitle him then then to vote July in any such respective succeeding year, if such days were respectively the days of the be qualified in such manner as would entitle election, and this Act had not been passed, nor him then to vote if such days were respectively unless such persons shall have resided for six the days of election, and this Act had not been calendar months next previous to the passed, nor unless such person shall have re- day of sided for six calender months next previous to the day of in the said year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, or next previous to the last day of July in any such respective succeeding year, within the city or borough, or within the place sharing in the election for the city or borough, in respect of which city, borough, or place respectively, such person shall be entitled to vote, or within seven statute miles of such city, borough, or place respectively provided always, that no person who shall have been elected or made a burgess or freeman since the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyone, or who shall hereafter be elected or made a burgess or freeman, otherwise than in respect of birth or servitude, shall be entitled to vote as such in any election for any city or borough as aforesaid, or to be so registered as aforesaid provided also, that no person shall be entitled as a burgess or freeman in respect of birth, unless his right be originally derived Provided also, and be it enacted, that every from or through some person who was a bur-person now having a right to vote for the bo

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in the said year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, or next previous to the last day of July in any such respective succeeding year, within the city or borough, or within the place sharing in the election for the city or borough, in respect of which city,. borough, or place respectively, such person shall be entitled to vote, or within seven statute miles of such city, borough, or place respectively; provided nevertheless, that such person shall for ever cease to enjoy such right of voting for any such city or borough as aforesaid, if his name shall have been omitted for two successive years from the register of such voters for such city or borough hereinafter directed to be made, unless he shall have been so omitted in consequence of his having received parochial relief within twelve calendar months next previous to the day of

in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, or next previous to the last day of July in any succeeding year.

rough of New Shoreham in respect of any freehold situate in the borough or parish of Horsham, and every person now having a right to vote for the borough of Cricklade in respect of any freehold situate in the borough or parish of Malmsbury, shall respectively retain such right of voting for the several boroughs of New Shoreham and Cricklade as defined by this Act, subject always to the provisions herein before mentioned with regard to the right of voting for any borough in respect of freehold.

in the

or before the
day of
year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-
two, and on or before the twentieth day of July
in every succeeding year, a statement of their
claim as such voters according to the form
numbered 2 in the said schedule H, or to
the like effect. Provided always, that after
the formation of the register to be made ia
each year as hereinafter mentioned, no per-
son, whose name shall be upon such register
for the time being, shall be required there-
after to make any such claims as aforesaid,
unless such person shall, since the formation
of such register for the time being, have
ceased to have the qualification or place of
abode described in such register, for the time
being.

Provided nevertheless, and be it enacted, that, notwithstanding anything herein before contained, no person shall be entitled to vote in the election of a member or members to serve in any future Parliament for any city or borough (other than a city or town being a And be it enacted, that the overseers of the county of itself, in the election for which free- poor of every parish and township shall, on or holders have a right to vote as hereinbefore before the day of in the year mentioned), in respect of any estate or inte- one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, rest in any burgage tenement, annuity or free-make out, or cause to be made out, according hold, which shall have been acquired by such to the form numbered 3, in the said schedule person since the first day of March, one thou-H, an alphabetical list of all persons who sand eight hundred and thirty-one, unless the same shall have come to or been acquired by such person since that day, and previously to the passing of this Act, by descent, succession, marriage, marriage settlement, devise, or promotion to any benefice in a church, or by promotion to any office.

shall claim as aforesaid, to be inserted in such list as voters in the election of a knight or knights of the shire to serve for the county, or for the riding, parts or division of the county, wherein such parish or township lies, in respect of any lands or tenements situate wholly or in part within such parish or townAnd be it enacted, that no person shall be ship; and that the said overseers shall, on or entitled to be registered in the year one thou-before the last day of July, in every succeedsand eight hundred and thirty-two, or in any succeeding year, as a voter in the election of a member or members to serve in any future Parliament for any city or borough, who shall within twelve calendar months next previous to the day of in the said year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, or next previous to the last day of July in any such respective succeeding year, have received parochial relief.

And whereas it is expedient to form a register of all persons entitled to vote in the election of a knight or knights of the shire, to serve in any future Parliament, and that for the purpose of forming such register, the overseers of every parish and township should annually make out lists in the manner hereinafter mentioned; be it therefore enacted, that the overseers of the poor of every parish and township shall, on the day of

ing year, make out, or cause to be made out, a like list, containing the names of all persons who shall be upon the register for the time being as such voters, and also the names of all persons who shall claim as aforesaid to be inserted in such last-mentioned list, as such voters; and in every list to be made by the overseers as aforesaid, the christian name and surname of every person shall be written at full length, together with the place of his abode, the nature of his qualification, and the name of the street, lane, or other description of the place where such lands or tenements may be situate, as the same are respectively set forth in his claim to vote; and the said overseers, if they shall have reasonable cause to believe that any person so claiming as aforesaid or whose name shall appear in the register for the time being, is not entitled to vote in the election of a knight or knights of the shire in the year one thousand eight hundred and for the county, or for the riding, parts, or dithirty-two, and on the twentieth day of June vision of the county, in which their parish or in every succeeding year, cause to be fixed, on township is situate, shall have power to add or near the doors of all the churches and cha-the words " objected to" opposite the name of pels within such parish or township, or if there be no church or chapel therein, then to be fixed in some public and conspicuous situation within the same respectively, a notice, according to the form numbered 1 in the schedule H to this Act annexed, requiring all persons who may be entitled to vote in the election of a knight or knights of the shire to serve in any future Parliament, in respect of any property situate in such parish or township, to deliver or transmit to the said overseers, on

every such person, on the margin of such list and the said overseers shall sign such list, and shall cause a sufficient number of copies of such list to be printed, and to be fixed on or near the doors of all the churches and chapels, within their parish or township, or if there be no church or chapel therein, then to be fixed up in some public and conspicuous situation within the same respectively, on the two Sundays next after such list shall have been made; and the said overseers shall likewise

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keep a true copy of such list, to be perused by any person, without payment of any fee, at all reasonable hours during the two first weeks after such list shall have been made; provided always, that every precinct or place, whether extra-parochial or otherwise, which shall have no overseers of the poor, shall, for the purpose of making out such list as aforesaid, be deemed to be within the parish or township adjoining thereto, such parish or township being situate within the same county, or the same riding, parts, or division of a county, as such precinct or place; and if such precinct or place shall adjoin two or more parishes or townships, so situate as aforesaid, it shall be deemed to be within the least populous of such parishes or townships, according to the last census for the time being; and the overseers of the poor of every such parish or township shall insert in the list for their respective parish or township the names of all persons who shall claim as aforesaid, to be inserted therein, as voters in the election of a knight or knights of the shire to serve for the county, or for the riding, parts, or division of the county in which such precinct or place as aforesaid lies, in respect of any lands or tenements situate wholly or in part within such precinct or place.

preceding the fifteenth day of September in ̈
every succeeding year; and the overseers shall
likewise keep a copy of the uames of all the
persons so objected to, to be perused by any
person, without payment of auy fee, at all
reasonable hours during the ten days next
preceding the said “
day of
the said year one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-two, and the said fifteenth day of Sep-
tember in every succeeding year.
And be it enacted, that on the
day

in

of
in the year one thousand eight
hundred and thirty two, and on the twenty-
ninth day of August in every succeeding year,
the overseers of every parish and township
shall deliver the list of voters so made out as
aferesaid, together with a written statement of
the number of persons objected to by the over-
seers and by other persons, to the high con-
stable or high constables of the hundred or
other like district in which such parish or
township is situate; and such high constable
or high constables shall forthwith deliver all
such lists, together with such statements as
aforesaid, to the clerk of the peace of the
county, riding, or parts, who shall forthwith
make out an abstract of the number of persons
objected to by the overseers and by other per-
sons in each parish and township, and trans-
mit the same to the barrister or barristers
appointed as hereinafter appointed to revise
such lists, in order that the said barrister or
barristers may fix proper times and places for
holding his or their courts for the revision of
the said lists.

And be it enacted, that every person who shall have claimed to be entitled to vote in the election of a knight or knights of the shirc for any county, or any riding, parts, or division of a county, may object to any person as not being entitled to have his name retained on any such list of voters for such county, riding, parts, or division to be made out as aforesaid; And be it enacted, that the Lord Chief Jusand every person so objecting (save and except tice of the Court of King's Bench for the overseers objecting in the manner hereinbefore time being, immediately after the passing of mentioned), shall, on or before the day this Act, and in each succeeding year, in the of in the year one thousand eight hundred month of July or August, shall nominate and and thirty-two, and on or before the twenty- appoint for Middlesex, and the senior Judge fifth day of August in every succeeding year, for the time being in the last commission of give or cause to be given a notice in writing Assize for every other county, immediately. according to the form numbered 4, in the said after the passing of this Act, and in each schedule H, or to the like effect, to the over- succeeding year the senior Judge for the time seers who shall have made out such list; and being in the commission of Assize for every such persons shall also, on or before the said such other county, when travelling the sumday of in the said year one mer circuit, shall nominate and appoint for thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and every such county, or for each of the ridings, on or before the twenty-fifth day of August in parts or divisions of such county (subject every succeeding year, give to the person ob- nevertheless to the approbation of the Lord jected to, or leave at his place of abode as High Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Lords Comdescribed in such list, or send by the post, di-missioners of the Great Seal for the time berected to him at such place of abode, a notice ing, a barrister or barristers, to revise the list in writing according to the form numbered 5, of voters in the election of a knight or knights in the said schedule H or to the like effect; of the shire; and such barrister or barristers and the overseers shall include the names of so appointed as aforesaid, shall give public all persons so objected to in a list according to notice, as well by advertisement in some of the form numbered 6, in the said schedule H; the newspapers circulating within the county, and shall cause copies of such list to be fixed riding, parts or division, as also by a notice on or near the doors of all the churches and to be fixed in some public and conspicuous chapels within their parish or township, or if situation at the principal place of election for there be no church or chapel therein, then to the county, riding, parts, or division (such be fixed in some public and conspicuous situa- last-mentioned notice to be given three days tion within the same respectively, on the two at the least before the commencement of his Sundays next preceding the day of or their circuit), that he or they will make a in the year one thousand eight hun-circuit of the county, riding, parts, or division, dred and thirty-two, and the two Sundays next for which he or they shall be so appointed, and

of the several times and places at which he or such person from the lists; and he shall also they will hold Courts for that purpose, such expunge from the said lists the name of every times being between the day of person who shall be proved to him to be dead; inclusive, and the day of and shall correct any mistake or supply any inclusive, in the year one thousand eight hun-omission which shall be proved to him to have dred and thirty-two, aud between the fifteenth been made in any of the said lists in respect day of September inclusive, and the twenty- of the name, or place of abode, or nature of fifth day of October inclusive, in every sub-the qualification, or local description of the sequent year; and he or they shall hold open property, of any person who shall be included courts for that purpose at the times and in any such list: Provided always, that no places so to be announced; and where two or person's name shall be expunged from any more barristers shall be appointed for the such list, except in case of his death, or in case same county, riding, parts, or division, they of his being objected to on the margin of the shall attend at the same places together; but list by the overseers as aforesaid, unless such shall sit apart from each other, and hold notice as is herein before required in that separate courts at the same time for the dis- behalf shall have been given to the overseers, patch of business: Provided always, that no nor unless such notice as is hereinbefore rebarrister so appointed as aforesaid, shall be quired in that behalf shall have been given to eligible to serve in Parliament for eighteen such person, or left at or sent to his place of months from the time of such his appoint- abode. ment for the county, riding, parts or division for which he shall be so appointed.