(c.) In sections sixty-two and sixty-three of the Act of the (a.) The lists... shall be revised.] In ordinary years the borough revision commences on the 15th September and terminates on the 12th October, and the county revision commences on the 15th September and terminates on the 31st October: see s. 32 of the Act of 1843, s. 33 of the Act of 1878, and s. 4, subs. 1, of the Registration Act, 1885. The declarations.] The date for the declarations is changed to the 5th from the 14th September in counties, and from the 12th September in boroughs. (b.) The printed book or register.] The seventh day of November is substituted for the last day of December, which, by s. 38 of the Act of 1867, replaced the last day of November originally fixed by ss. 47 and 48 of the Act of 1843. After the date of such dissolution.] It follows from these words, and from s. 19, subs. 1, ante, that an election taking place before the dissolution, though after the formation of the new registers, will take place upon the old registers. (c.) "The Michaelmas Sittings."] Michaelmas Sittings are substituted for Michaelmas Term, because, as pointed out in the note to s. 62 of the Act of 1843, p. 105, the "Sittings' commence on the 24th October, whereas the "Term" commences on the 2nd November. 31, 32. [Scotland and Ireland.] 33. For the purposes of this part of this Act The expression "present year" means the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five. The expression "parliamentary county" means a county returning a member or members to serve in Parliament, and where a county is divided for the purpose of such return means a division of such county. Other expressions in this part of this Act have, unless the context otherwise requires, the same meaning as in the Acts relating to the registration of parliamenatry voters. 34. All provisions of any Act of Parliament inconsistent with the provisions of this part of this Act shall not apply to the lists or register of voters to be made in the present year; but, save as aforesaid, all the provisions of the Acts relating to the registration of parliamentary voters shall remain in full force. 48 & 49 Vict. c. 23, s. 33. 41 & 42 Vict. c. 26. Temporary repeal of inconsistent provisions. c. 57. 48 & 49 Vict. c. 57. An Act to remove doubts as to the 48 & 49 Vict. appointment of Revising Barristers. [6th Aug., 1885. "Whereas doubts have arisen as to the judge authorized to appoint revising barristers on circuit under section twenty-eight of the Parliamentary Voters Registration Act, 1843,* and section * twenty-nine of the Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885,† and it is † p. 240. expedient to remove such doubts:" BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED, as follows: p. 86. 1. The senior judge named in the commission of assize for the Senior judge counties within any circuit, who actually travels that circuit or actually any part thereof during the summer circuit in any year, shall travelling to be the judge having power to appoint the barristers to revise appoint revising the lists of voters for that year in pursuance of section twenty- barristers. eight of the Parliamentary Voters Registration Act, 1843, and that section and section twenty-nine of the Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885, shall be construed accordingly. Provided that, if any such judge, before he has appointed all or any of the barristers whom he is authorized to appoint, dies or becomes unable to appoint such barristers, the senior judge named in the said commission, who actually travels the remainder of the circuit, shall be the judge having power to appoint such barristers so far as they have not been already appointed. For the purposes of this section Birmingham shall be deemed to be part of the Midland Circuit. Any appointment of a revising barrister heretofore made shall be deemed to have been validly made. This section shall continue in force until the end of the Summer Circuit in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five and no longer; but the expiration thereof shall not affect any appointment of a revising barrister which otherwise would have been valid. The doubts which this Act remove arose from the 12th section of the Circuits Order of June, 1884 (see Chitty's Statutes Continuation for 1884, p. 801), directing that the names of ail the judges of the Supreme Court shall be placed in every commission, the effect of which appears but for this Act to be that the senior judge so commissioned, i.e. the Lord Chief Justice, as the senior judge in every commission of assize within the meaning of s. 28 of the Act of 1843 (p. 86), had the appointing power. Validity of appointments before the Act. The last paragraph of the section prevents the Act applying to appointments of revising barristers in the event of death, illness, or absence after the conclusion of a circuit and before the 5th September. Such appointments take place under s. 29 of the Act of 1843, p. 87, aud must be made by "the senior judge in the commissions" (p. 86). After the 5th September the appointment is by the judge at chambers (Seats Act, 1885, s. 29, p. 240). Birmingham.] For the area of the parliamentary borough of Birmingham, see p. 272. It includes portions of Staffordshire and Worcestershire, which, apart from this section, are on the Oxford Circuit. Appointment... heretofore made... valid.] This clause gives validity to the irregular appointments of 1884, and also to such appointments in 1885 as were made before the passing of this Act. The North Wales Division and South Wales Division form one circuit, and the senior of the two judges travelling any part of either division had the appointments. 2. The Act of the session of the sixth and seventh years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter eighteen, intituled "An Act to amend the law for the registration of persons entitled to vote, and to define certain rights of voting, and to regulate certain proceedings in the election of members to serve in Parliament for England and Wales," is in this Act referred to and may be cited as the Parliamentary Voters Registration Act, 1843. This Act shall be construed as one with the Parliamentary Voters Registration Act, 1843,* and that Act and this Act and the Registration Act, 1885,† may be cited together as the Parliamentary Voters Registration Acts, 1843 and 1885, and this Act may be cited separately as the Revising Barristers Act, 1885. The proper short titles of the Acts mentioned are the "Parliamentary Registration Act, 1843" (p. 140), and the "Registration Act, 1885" (p. 78). [N.B.-These Acts do not in themselves contain a complete list of Parliamentary Boroughs and Counties. For Table containing such list, see p. 339.] 27 Hen. 8, c. 26. An Act for Laws and Justice to be ministered in Wales in like Form as it is in this Realm. [A.D. 1535. 29. For this present Parliament, and all other Parliaments to be holden and kept for this realm one knight shall be chosen and elected to the same Parliaments for every of the shires of Brecknock, Radnor, Montgomery, and Denbigh, and for every other shire within the said country or dominion of Wales; and for every borough being a shire-town within the said country or dominion of Wales, except the shire-town of the aforesaid county of Merioneth, one burgess; and the election to be in like manner form and order, as knights and burgesses of the Parliament be elected and chosen in other shires of this realm; and the knights and burgesses, and every of them, shall have like dignity pre-eminence and privilege, and shall be allowed such fees, as other knights of the Parliament have and be allowed; and the knights fees to be levied and gathered of the commons of the shire they be elected in; and the burgesses fees be levied and gathered as well of the boroughs and shire-towns as they be burgesses of, as of all such ancient boroughs within the same shire. The English counties returned members to Parliament at common law, but this was not the case with the Welsh counties, which returned, and most of which still return members by virtue of this Act alone, the arrangements of which, except by the Act of 1832 giving an additional member to each of the counties of Carmarthen, Carnarvon, and Denbigh, and by the Act of 1885 dividing these counties, and also giving five members to Glamorgan (also divided), have not been disturbed by any of the three Reform Acts. As to Welsh boroughs, which also first returned members by virtue of this Act alone, see s. 8 of the Act of 1832, and Schedule E., post. The fees to which members were entitled have not been abolished, but have not been enforced for two centuries. 27 Hen. 8, c. 26. Knights and burgesses for the Parliament in Wales, and their fees. 2 Will. 4, c. 45. Certain boroughs to cease to send members to Parliament. * p. 249. What boroughs to return one 2 Will. 4, c. 45. REFORM ACT, 1832. An Act to amend the Representation of the People in Whereas it is expedient to take effectual measures for correcting divers abuses that have long prevailed in the choice of members to serve in the Commons House of Parliament, to deprive many inconsiderable places of the right of returning members, to grant such privilege to large, populous, and wealthy towns, to increase the number of knights of the shire, to extend the elective franchise to many of his Majesty's subjects who have not heretofore enjoyed the same, and to diminish the expense of elections; BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED, That each of the boroughs enumerated in the Schedule marked (A.) to this Act annexed * (that is to say), shall from and after the end of this present Parliament cease to return any member or members to serve in Parliament. * 2. Each of the boroughs enumerated in the Schedule marked (B.) to this Act annexed (that is to say), Petersfield,* Ashburton, Eye, Westbury,* Wareham,* Midhurst,* Woodstock,* Wilton,* member only. Malmesbury,* Liskeard,* Reigate, Hythe, Droitwich,* Lyme Regis, Launceston,* Shaftesbury,* Thirsk,* Christchurch, Horsham,* Great Grimsby, Calne,* Arundel, St. Ives,* Rye, Clitheroe, Morpeth, Helston,* North Allerton,* Wallingford,* and Dartmouth, shall from and after the end of this present Parliament return one member and no more to serve in Parliament. New boroughs to return two members. * Boroughs marked* ceased as such by the Act of 1885. See s. 2 and Sched. 1 of that Act. Reigate was disfranchised for corruption by the Act of 1867. * * 3. Each of the places named in the Schedule marked (C.) to this Act annexed (that is to say), Manchester,* Birmingham,* Leeds, Greenwich, Sheffield,* Sunderland, Devonport, Wolverhampton,* Tower Hamlets,* Finsbury, Mary-le-bone, Lambeth, Bolton, Bradford,* Blackburn, Brighton, Halifax, Macclesfield,* Oldham, Stockport, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Stroud, shall for the purposes of this Act be a borough, and shall as such borough include the place or places respectively which shall be comprehended within the boundaries of such borough, as such boundaries shall be settled and described by an Act to be passed for that purpose in this present Parliament, which Act, when passed, shall be deemed and taken to be part of this Act as fully and effectually as if the same were incorporated herewith; and that each of the said boroughs named in the said Schedule (C.) shall from and after the end of this present Parliament return two members to serve in Parliament. Boroughs marked * were divided, and their members were increased by the Act of 1885. Macclesfield was disfranchised for corruption by the Act of |