and the said overseers shall likewise keep true copies of such lists, to be perused by any person, without payment of any fee, at all reasonable hours during the two first weeks after such lists shall have been made.

quired to be done by and with regard to the town-clerk, shall be done by and with regard to the person executing duties similar to those of the town-clerk, and if there be no such person, then by and with regard to the chief civil officer of such city, borough, or place.

And be it enacted, that every preciuct or place, whether extra-parochial or otherwise, having no overseers of the poor, which now is And be it enacted, that every person whose or hereafter may be within any city or borough, name shall have been omitted in any such or within any place sharing in the election for list of voters for any city or borough, so to be any city or borough, shall, for the purpose of made out as hereinbefore-mentioned, and who making out the list of voters for such city or shall claim to have his name inserted therein, borough, be deemed to be within the parish or shall, on or before the day of tewnship adjoining thereto, and situate wholly in the year one thousand eight hundred and or in part within such city or borough, or thirty-two, and on or before the twenty-fifth within such place sharing in the election day of August in every succeeding year, give therewith; and if such precinct or place shall or cause to be given a notice in writing, acadjoin two or more parishes or townships so cording to the form numbered 4, in the said situate as aforesaid, it shall be deemed to be schedule 1, or to the like effect, to the overwithin the least populous of such parishes or seers of that parish or township in the list townships according to the last census for the whereof he shall claim to have his name in time being; and the overseers of every such serted, or if he shall claim as a freeman of any parish or township shall insert in the list for city, or borough, or place sharing in the electheir respective parish or township the names tiou therewith, then to the town clerk of such of all persons who may be entitled to vote in city, borough, or place; and every person the election of a member or members to serve whose name shall have been inserted in any in any future Parliament for any such city or list of voters for any city or borough, may ohborough in respect of any property occupied ject to any other person as not being entitled by such persons within such city or bo-to have his name retained in any list of voters rough, or within any place sharing in the for the same city or borough, and every person election therewith, such property being situate so objecting shall, on or before the wholly or in part within such precinct or place day of as aforesaid.

in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and on or before the twenty-fifth day of August in every suc ceeding year, give, or cause to be given, a uotice in writing according to the form numbered 5 in the said schedule I, or to the like effect, to the overseers who shall have made out such list; or if the person objected to shall be inserted in the list of freemen of any city, borough, or place, as aforesaid, then to the town clerk of such city, borough, or place and the overseers shall include the names of all persons so claiming, as aforesaid, in a list according to the form numbered 6 in the said schedule I, and the names of all persons so objected to as aforesaid in a list according to the form numbered 7 in the said schedule I, and shall cause copies of such two lists 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 in some public and conspicuous situation within the same respectively, two Sundays next preceding the day of

And be it enacted, that the town-clerk of every city or borough shall, on or before the day of in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and on or before the last day of July in each ucceeding year, make out, or cause to be made out, according to the form numbered 3, in the said schedule 1, an alpbabetical list of all the freemen of such city or borough who may be entitled to vote in the election of a member or members to serve in any future Parliament for such city or borough, together with the respective places of their abode; aud the town-clerk of every place sharing in the election for any city or borough shall, at the respective times aforesaid, make out, or cause to be made out, a like list of all the freemen of such place who may be entitled to vote in the election of a member or members to serve in any future Parliament for such city or borough; and every such town-clerk shall cause copy of every such list to be fixed on or near the door of the Town Hall, or in some public and conspicuous situation within such re-in the year one thousand eight hundred and spective city, borough, or place, as aforesaid, thirty-two, and on the two Sundays next preon the two Sundays next after such list shall ceding the fifteenth day of September in every have been made, and shall likewise keep a succeeding year; and every town-clerk shall true copy of such list to be perused by any include the names of all persons so claiming person without payment of any fee, at all rea- as freemen in a list according to the form sonable hours during the two first weeks after numbered 8, in the said schedule I, and the such list shall have bern made; provided al names of all persons so objected to as freemen ways, that where there shall be no town-clerk in a list according to the form numbered 9, in for such city, borough, or place, as aforesaid, the said schedule I, and shall cause copies of or where the town-clerk shall be dead, or in-two such lists to be fixed on or near the door capable of acting, all matters by this Act re- of the town-hall, or in some public and conspi

on the

day of

cuous situation, within his respective city, form numbered 2, in the said schedule K, and borough, or place as aforesaid, on the two shall cause such last-mentioned list to be fixed Sundays hereiubefore last mentioned in the in the Guildhall and the Royal Exchange of year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-the said city on the two Sundays next precedtwo, and in every succeedling year respectively; ing the in the year and the overseers and town-clerks shall like-one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and wise keep a copy of the names of all the per- on the two Sundays next preceding the fifsons so claiming as aforesaid, and also a copy¦teenth day of September in every succeeding of the names of all persons so objected to, as year; and the said returning officer or officers, aforesaid, to be perused by any persons with- and clerks of the said companies, sball likeout payment of any fee, at all reasonable hours wise keep a copy of the names of all persons so during the ten days next preceding the said claiming as aforesaid, to be perused by any day of in the year one thou- person without payment of any fee, at all reasand eight hundred and thirty-two, and the sonable hours during the ten days next prein fifteenth day of September in every succeeding ceding the said day of year, and shall deliver a copy of each of such the year one thousand eight hundred and thirtylists to any person requiring the same on pay-two, and the said fifteenth day of September in ment of one shilling for each copy. every succeeding year; and every person who shall object to any other person as not being entitled to have his name retained on any such livery list, shall, on or before the day of in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and on or before the twenty fifth day of August in every succeeding year, give to such person, or leave at his usual place of abode, a notice in writing, according to the form numbered 3, in the said schedule K, or to the like effect; and in the city of London the returning officer or officers shall take the poll or votes of such freemen of the said city, being liverymen of the several companies, as are entitled to vote at such election, in the Guildhall of the said city; and the said returning officer or officers shall not be required to provide any booth or compart ments, but shall appoint or take one poll for the whole number of such liverymen at the same place.

And be it enacted, that for providing a list of such of the freemen of the city of London as are liverymen of the several companies en

titled to vote in the election of a member or

members to serve in any future Parliament for the city of London, the returning officer or officers of the said city shall, on or before the day of in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and on or before the last day of July in each succeeding year, issue precepts to the clerks of the said livery companies, requiring them forthwith to make out or cause to be made out, at the expense of the respective companies, an alphabetical list according to the form in schedule K, to this Act annexed, of the freemen of London, being liverymen of the said respective companies, and entitled to vote at such election; and every such clerk shall sign such list, and transmit the same, with two printed copies thereof, to such returning officer or Aud be it enacted, that the Lord Chief officers, who shall forthwith fix one such copy Justice of the Court of King's Bench for the in the Guildhall, and one in the Royal Ex-time being, immediately after the passing of change of the said city, there to remain fourteen days, in the year one thousand eight hun dred and thirty-two, and in every subsequent year; and the clerks of the said livery companies shall cause a sufficient number of such lists of freemen and liverymen of their tive companies to be printed at the expense of the respective companies, and shall keep the same, to be perused by any person, without payment of any fee, at all reasonable hours during the two first weeks after such fists shall have been printed; and every person whose name shall have been omitted in any such list of freemeu and liverymeu, and who shall claim to have his name inserted therein, shall, on or before the day of

respec

in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and on or before the twenty-fifth day of August in every succeeding year, give or cause to be given a notice in writing, according to the form numbered 1, in the said schedule K, or to the like effect, to the returning officer or officers, and to the clerk of that company in the list whereof he shall claim to have his name inserted; and the returning officer or officers shall include the names of all persons so claiming as aforesaid in a list according to the

this Act, and in each succeeding year in the month of July or August, shall nominate and appoint (subject nevertheless to the approbation of the Lord High Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal for the time being) so many barristers as the said Lord Chief Justice shall deem necessary to revise the respective lists of voters for the City of London, and for the City of Westminster, and for the several boroughs in the county of Middlesex; and that the senior Judge for the time being in the last Commission of Assize for every other county immedi ately after the passing of this Act, and in each succeeding year, the senior Judge for the time being in the Commission of Assize for every such other county, when travelling the Summer Circuit, shall nominate and appoint (subject nevertheless to such approbation as aforesaid) so many barristers as the said Judge shall deem necessary, to revise the respective lists of voters, as well for the several cities and boroughs in every such county as for every city aud town, and county of a city and town, next adjoining to any such county's aud the town and county of the town of Kingston-upon-Hull shall for this purpose be con

sidered as next adjoining to the county of York, election of a member or members of Parlia and the town and county of the town of New-ment to serve for such city or borough; and castle-upon-Tyne as next adjoining to the such barristers shall retain on the lists of county of Northumberland, and the city and voters for such city or borough the names of county of the city of Bristol as next adjoining all persons to whom no objection shall have to the county of Somerset; and the said Lord been made in the manner hereinbefore-inenChief Justice and Judge respectively shall have tioned; and he shall also retain on the said power to nominate and appoint one or more lists the name of every person who shall have barristers to revise the lists for the same city been objected to by any person, unless the or borough or other place as aforesaid, or one party so objecting shall appear by himself, or barrister only, to revise the lists for several by some one on his behalf, in support of such cities, boroughs, and other places, as afore-objection; and where the name of any person said: provided always, that no barrister so inserted in the list of voters for such city or appointed as aforesaid shall be eligible to serve borough shall have been objected to in the in Parliament for eighteen months from the manner herein before-mentioned, and the time of his appointment for any city, borough, person so objecting shall appear by himself, or other place as aforesaid, for which he shall or by some one on his behalf, in support of be so appointed: provided also, that nothing such objection, every such barrister shall reherein contained shall prevent the same bar- quire the qualification of the person so objected rister from being appointed to revise the lists to to be proved; and in case the qualification for two or more counties, ridings, parts or of such person shall not be proved to the satisdivisions, or for any county, riding, part or faction of such barrister, or in case it shall be division, and any one or more of the cities or proved that such person is iucapacitated by boroughs therein. any law or statute from voting in the election of members to serve in Parliament, such barrister shall expunge the name of every such person from the said lists; and he shall also expunge from the said lists the name of every person who shall be proved to him to be dead; and shall correct any mistake, or supply any omission which shall be proved to him to have been made in any of the said lists in respect of the name or place of abode, or nature of the qualification, or local description of the property of any person who shall be included in any such list; provided always, that no person's name shall be inserted by such barrister in any such list for any city or borough, or shall be expunged therefrom, except in the case of death, unless such notice shall have been given as is herein before required in each of the said cases.

And be it enacted, that the barrister or barristers so appointed to revise the lists of voters for any city or borough shall hold an open court or courts for that purpose, within such city or borough, and also within every place sharing in the election for such city or borough, at some time between the

day of

of

clusive, and the

day inclusive, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and between the fifteenth day of September inclusive, and the twenty-fifth day of October inclusive in every succeeding year, having first given three clear days' notice of the holding of such court or courts, to be fixed on the doors of all the churches and chapels within such city, borough, or place, respectively; or if there be no church or chapel therein, then to be fixed in some public aud conspicuous situation within the same respectively; and the overseers or town-clerks who shall have made out the lists of voters as aforesaid, and in the case of the city of London, the returning officer or officers of the said city shall, at the opening of the first court to be held by every such barrister for revising such lists, produce their respective lists before him; and the said overseers and town-clerk shall also deliver to such barrister a copy of the list of the persons objected to, so made out by them as aforesaid; and the clerks of the several livery companies of the city o London, and the town-clerk of every other city or borough, or place, sharing in the election therewith, and the several overseers within every city, borough, or place, as aforesaid, shall attend the court to be held by every such barrister for any such city, borough, or place, as aforesaid, and shall answer upon oath all such questions as such barrister may put to them or any of them, touching any matter necessary for revising the lists of voters; and every such barrister shall insert in such iists the name of every person who shall be proved to his satisfaction to be entitled to vote in the

and the

And be it enacted, that the overseers of every parish or township shall, for their assistance in making out the lists in pursuance of this Act (upon request made by them, or any of them, at any reasonable time between the day of day of in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and between the first day of June and the last day of July in any suc ceeding year, to any assessor or collector of taxes, or to any other officer having the custody of any duplicate or tax assessment for such parish or township), have free liberty to inspect any such duplicate or tax assessment, and to extract from thence such particulars as may appear to such overseer or overseers to be necessary; and every barrister appointed under this Act shall have power to require any assessor, collector of taxes, or other offcer having the custody of any duplicate or tax assessment, or any overseer or overseers having the custody of any poor-rate, to produce the same respectively before him at any court to be held by him, for the purpose of assisting him in revising the lists to be by him revised in pursuance of this Act.

And be it enacted, that every barrister holding any court under this Act as aforesaid, shall have power to adjourn the same from time to time, and from any one place to any other place or places within the same county, riding, parts, or division, or within the same city or borough, or within any place sharing in the election for such city or borough, but so as that no such adjourned court for revising the lists to be made in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, shall be held after the day of

in

the said year, and that no such adjourned court for revising the lists to be made in any succeeding year shall be held after the twentyfifth day of October in such respective year; and every such barrister shall have power to administer an oath (or in the case of a Quaker or Moravian, an affirmation) to all persons claiming to be inserted in, or making objection to the omission of any name in the lists for any city or borough, or making objection to the insertion of any name in the lists for any county, riding, parts, or division, or for any city or borough, and to all persons objected against in any of such lists, and to all persons claiming to have any mistake in any of such lists corrected, and to all witnesses who may be tendered on either side; and that if any person taking any oath or making any affirmation under this Act shall wilfully swear or affirm falsely, such person shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and shall be punished accordingly; and that at the holding of such respective courts the parties shall not be attended by counsel; and that every such barrister shall, upon the hearing in open court, finally determine upon the validity of such claims and objections, and shall for that purpose have the same powers, and proceed in the same manner (except where otherwise directed by this Act) as the returning officer of any county, city, or borough, according to the laws and usages now observed at elections; and such barrister shall in open court write his initials against the names respectively struck out or inserted, and against any part of the said lists in which any mistakes shall have been corrected, and shall sign his name to every page of the several lists so

settled.

And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for every barrister appointed by virtue of this Act to require, by summons under his hand, the attendance of any person as a witness before him, at any court to be held by him by virtue of this Act; and if any person so summoned shall not appear before such barrister, and it shall be proved on oath that he was personally summoned, and in case he shall be required to travel more than five miles from his usual place of residence, then that his reasonable expenses were tendered to him, it shall be lawful for such barrister to issue his warrant to compel the appearance of such person as a witness; and if any person appearing or brought as a witness before such barrister shall refuse to be sworn, or being a Quaker or Mo

ravian, refuse to make his affirmation, or be ing sworn, or having made his affirmation, shall refuse to answer such questions as may be lawfully put to him by such barrister, touching the matter pending before him, it shall be lawful for such barrister to commit such persou to the common jail or house of correction for seven days, unless he shall in the mean time submit to be sworn, or to make his affirmation, or to give evidence, as the case may be.

And be it enacted, that, notwithstanding any-thing herein before contained, if it shall be made to appear to the Lord Chief Justice, or Judge, who shall have appointed any barrister or barristers under this Act, to revise the list of voters, that by reason of the death, illness, or absence of any such barrister or barristers, or by reason of the insufficiency of the number of such barristers, or from any other cause, such lists cannot be revised within the period directed by this Act, it shall be lawful for such Lord Chief Justice or Judge, and he is hereby required, to appoint one or more barrister or barristers to act in the place of or in addition to the barrister or barristers originally appointed; and such barrister or barristers so subsequently appointed shall have the same powers and authorities in every respect as if they had been originally appointed by such Lord Chief Justice or Judge.

And be it enacted, that the lists of voters for each county, or for the riding, parts, or division of each county, so signed as aforesaid, by any such barrister, shall be forthwith transmitted by him to the clerk of the peace of the county, riding, or parts for which such barrister shall have been appointed, and the clerk of the peace shall keep the said lists among the records of the sessions, arranged with every hundred in alphabetical order, and with every parish and township within such hundred likewise in alphabetical order, and shall forthwith cause the said lists to be fairly and truly copied in the same order in a book to be by him provided for that purpose, and shall prefix to every name so copied out its proper number, beginning the numbers from the first names and continuing them in a regular series down to the last name, and shall complete and deliver such book on or before day of in the year one the thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and the like book on or before the last day of October in every succeeding year, to the sheriff of the county or his under-sheriff, who shall safely keep the same, and shall at the expiration of his office deliver over the same to the succeeding sheriff or his under sheriff; and the lists of voters for each city or borough so signed as aforesaid by any such barrister shall be forth with delivered by him to the returning officer for such city or borough, who shall safely keep the same, and shall cause the said lists to be fairly and truly copied in a book to be by him provided for that purpose, with every name therein numbered according to

the directions aforesaid, and shall cause such | borough in causing the lists of the electors book to be completed on before the for such city or borough to be copied out and day of in the year one thousand eight made into a register, and in causing copies of hundred and thirty-two, and the like book to such register to be printed, shall be defrayed be completed on or before the last day of by the treasurer of the county, riding or parts October in every succeeding year, and shall in which such city or borough shall be situate, deliver over such book, together with the lists, out of any public money in his hands, and he at the expiration of his office, to the person shall be allowed all such payments in his acsucceeding him in such office, and every such counts; aud that all such expenses incurred book, to be so completed on or before the by the returning officer of any city or town, day of in the year one thousand being a county of itself, and having a rate or eight hundred and thirty-two, shall be deemed other similar fund in the nature of a county the register of the electors to vote, after the rate, shall be defrayed out of such rate or fund end of this present Parliament, in the choice by the treasurer or other person charged with of a Member or Members to serve in Parlia-the collection or disbursement thereof, who shall ment for the county, riding, parts, or division of a county, city or borough to which such register shall relate, at any election which may take place after the said day of

be allowed all such payinents in his accounts: and that all expenses incurred by the clerk of the peace of any county, riding or parts, in causing the lists of the electors for such counin the year one thousand eight hun-ty, riding or parts, or for any division of such dred and thirty-two, and before the first day county to be copied out and made into a reof November, in the year one thousand eight gister, and in causing copies of such register hundred and thirty-three; and every such to be printed, and in otherwise carrying into book to be so completed on or before the last effect the provisions of this Act, shall be deday of October, in the year one thousand eight frayed by the treasurer of such county, riding hundred and thirty-three, and in every suc- or parts, out of any public money in his hands, ceeding year, shall be the register of electors and he shall be allowed all such payments in to vote at any election, which shall take place his accounts. between the first day of November inclusive, in the year wherein such respective register shall have been made, and the first day of November in the succeeding year.

And be it enacted, that every barrister appointed to revise any lists of voters under this Act, shall be paid at the rate of five guineas for every day that he shall be so employed,. over and above his travelling and other expenses; and every such barrister, after the termination of his last sitting, shall lay or

ers of his Majesty's Treasury for the time being, a statement of the number of days during which he shall have been so employed, and an account of the travelling and other expenses incurred by him in respect of such employment; and the said Lords Commiss sioners shall make an order for the amount to be paid to such barrister. [This clause is printed in italics in the original copy.]

And be it enacted, that the overseers of every parish and township shall cause to be printed copies of the lists so by them to be made in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-cause to be laid before the Lords Commissiontwo, and in every succeeding year, and shall deliver such copies to all persons applying for the same, on payment of a reasonable price for each copy; and the monies arising from the sale thereof, shall be accounted for by the said overseers, and applied to the use of their parish or township; and the clerks of the peace shall cause to be printed copies of the registers of the electors for their respective Counties, ridings, or parts, or for the divisions of their respective counties; and the returning officer of every city or borough shall cause to be printed copies of the register of the electors for such city or borough; and every such clerk of the peace, and every such returning officer, shall deliver such respective copies to all persons applying for the same, on payment of a reasonable price for each copy; and the monies arising from the sale of all such copies shall be accounted for to the treasurer of the county, riding, or parts, at whose expense the same shall have been printed.

And be it enacted, that the expenses in curred by the overseers of any parish or township, in making out, printing and publishing the lists and notices directed by this Act, and all other expenses incurred by them in carrying into effect the provisions of this Act, shall be defrayed out of the money collected or to be collected for the relief of the poor in such parish or township; and that all expenses incurred by the returning officer of any city or

And be it enacted, that in all elections whatever of members to serve in any future Parliament, no inquiry shall be permitted at the time of polling, as to the right of any person to vote, except only whether the person claiming to vote be the same whose name ap pears in the register of voters for the current year, and whether such person's qualification for voting still continues, and whether such person has previously voted at the same election, all which inquiries the returning officer or his deputy or deputies shall, if required on behalf of any candidate, make from each voter at the time of his tendering his vote, and not after, and shall also, if so res quired as aforesaid, then and there administer an oath (or in case of a Quaker or Moravian, an affirmation) to such voter, in the follow ing form, that is to say,

You, A B, do swear for, being a Quaker or Moravian, do affirm] that you are the same A B whose name appears on the register of voters for this year for the county of