view to carrying out the sentence of the Court or Commissioners in this respect. The Registration Officer in every county and borough is required annually to examine the reports of any Election Court or Commissioners relating to his constituency, and make out and send to the overseers for publication, a list of persons incapacitated for voting by corrupt or illegal practices. But every person included in such Corrupt and Illegal Practices Lists has a right to be heard at the Revision Courts, and the Revising Barristers shall determine all claims and objections relating thereto; but for this purpose, shall determine only whether a person is incapacitated by conviction or by any report, and not whether such person has, or not, been guilty (s. 39.) Increase in number of polling centres. V.-Amendment of Law as to Polling Districts and Under this section it is provided that every county shall be divided into polling districts, and a polling place assigned to each district, so as to enable every resident elector to have his polling place within three miles of his residence, provided every polling district contains 100 electors. In boroughs, every resident elector is to have a polling place within a mile of his residence, provided each district contains 300 electors. Powers are given to the local authorities to divide 1 counties and boroughs for the purpose of carrying out this section (s. 47). VI.-Definitions, Applications of Act, &c. of Act. The remaining sections of the Act do not call for Other sections any detailed notice in this connection. Sec. 61 deals with breach of duty by returning and other officers. Sec. 62 provides for due publication and service of notices. Sec. 63 provides a new definition of candidate, and saves the rights of persons nominated without their consent. Sec. 64 is the interpretation clause. Sec. 65 contains short titles of various Acts. Sec. 66 contains repeal of, and savings of rights, &c., under previous Acts. Sec. 67 fixes the commencement of the new Act on the 15th of October, 1883. Secs. 68 and 69 contain special provisions for the application of the Act to Scotland and Ireland; and Sec. 70 limits its continuance to the 31st of December, 1884. VII.-Schedules. Finally, the Act is followed by five Schedules, the Schedules. contents of which may be summarised as follows :— Schedule I. Enumeration of number of persons in each capacity who may be employed if electors, may vote; legal expenses for committee rooms and other purposes; legal maximum scale of expenses in the case of separate and joint candidatures. Schedule II. Forms of declarations and return of election expenses. Schedule III. Enumeration of the Corrupt Practices Prevention Acts. Schedule IV. Short titles of two earlier Acts. Schedule V. Enactments repealed. CORRUPT AND ILLEGAL PRACTICES ACT, 1883. (46 & 47 Vic. c. 51.) An Act for the better prevention of Corrupt and Illegal Practices at Parliamentary Elections. [25th August, 1883. BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: Corrupt Practices. Sec. 1. What is 1. Whereas under s. 4 of the Corrupt Practices Prevention Act, 1854, persons other than candidates at Parliamentary elections are not liable to any punishment for treating, and treating. 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 (a) by himself or by any (2.) And every elector who corruptly accepts or takes Sec. 1. Treating, how and under the new Act. There must be evidence of intention. This Act, except where otherwise specified (see ss. 37-39 and notes), applies only to Parliamentary and not to Municipal Elections (see s. 64). وو Treating has usually been regarded as a far more venial offence than bribery.. But, "in point of fact, corrupt treating and bribery run into one another (pr. Dowse, B., Carrickfergus, 3 O. & H. 91), and there can be no valid reason for maintaining any distinction between them. The present Act accordingly places treating on the same footing as bribery, making both offences equally punishable as a misdemeanour. Sec. 6 (1). Under the Corrupt Practices Prevention Act of 1854, s. 4, the candidate alone was punishable (in a fine of £50 and costs to any person who should sue for the same) for treating, whether by himself or by another; the voter being disqualified, or his vote, if given, rendered void. The present Act (1) extends the liability for the offence, so as to include "any person "; (2) makes 66 every elector" who corruptly accepts treating equally guilty with the person treating him; and (3) makes the offence a misdemeanour, punishable with one year's imprisonment with or without hard labour, and a fine not exceeding £200, and involving as well the incapacities fixed by s. 6 (3). (a) "Corruptly."-This word, as in the repealed section of the Act of 1854 (Staleybridge, 1 0. & H. 73; North Norfolk, ib. 242; Brecon, 2 ib. 44; Carrickfergus, 3 ib. 91), governs the whole of the section. Its meaning was thus explained by Blackburn, J. (following Willes, J., in Cooper v. Slade, 6 H. L. C. 773), in the Bewdley case (1 O. & H. 19) :As to this word 'corruptly,' it does not mean |