Macclesfield Temporary Contents and Boundary. Parishes of St. Paul and St. Nicholas, Deptford, and so much of the parishes of Greenwich, Charlton, and Woolwich as lie between the Thames and the Dovor Road. Township of Halifax. Township of Huddersfield. Townships of Kendal and Kirkland, and all such parts of the township of Nethergaveship as adjoin the township of Kendal. Borough of Kidderminster. Parishes of St. Mary, Newington; St. Giles, Camberwell, except the Manor and Hamlet of Dulwich ; Precinct of the Palace; and so much of the parish of Lambeth as is North of the Ecclesiastical division of Brixton. Borough of Leeds. Borough of Macclesfield. Townships of Manchester, Chorlton Row, Ardwick, Marylebone.... Parishes of St. Marylebone and Paddington, and so much of the parish of St. Pancras as is South of the Regent's Canal. Merthyr Tydvil Salford South Shields.. Parishes of Merthyr Tydvil and Aberdare. Town of Rochdale, as within the provisions of an Act Townships of Salford, Pendleton, and Broughton. Townships of Sheffield, Attercliffe-cum-Darnall, Brightside Bierlow, and Nether Hallam. Townships of South Shields and Westoe. Borough of Stockport; Hamlets of Brinksway and Stoke-upon-Trent Townships of Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Shelton, Stroud...... Sunderland.... Tower Hamlets Parishes of Stroud, Bisley, Painswick, Pitchcomb, Boroughs. Temporary Contents and Boundary. Tynemouth.... Townships of Tynemouth, North Shields, Chirton, Wakefield... Warrington.... Whitehaven Whitby..... Preston, and Cullercoats. Township of Wakefield. Borough of Walsall, except the parts detached from the borough of Walsall. Township of Warrington. Township of Whitehaven. Township of Whitby. Wolverhampton Townships of Wolverhampton, Bilston, Wednesfield, and Willenhall; and parish of Sedgeley. PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION OF THE REFORM ACT. 1 WM. IV. CHAP. XLV. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. THE preceding Statute for amending the representation of the people is principally calculated to correct the old law, and direct a new practice, on a new system, in respect of the privilege and business of electing members of Parliament. For that purpose it is made to affect places returning members and persons voting in elections. The first is done by four preliminary enactments, positive in effect and final in operation, and is disposed of in the first four sections; the second has given rise to a series of provisions, which have erected an entirely new system of Election Law and Practice, soon to be called into action. This latter is the most material and important result of the Act, and will be the principal subject B 2 Objects of the QUALIFICA- INTRODUCTORY. of the following treatise on the novel practice, generated by the momentous alterations of the Election Law, and consequently on the general course of proceeding under it, as now modified and improved. The main current objects of the Reform Bill are two-a modification or transfer of the elective franchise, by restraining and extending the qualification of electors, and by the establishment of a system of registration to enrol the voters and record their right of voting. The primary and principal subjects, therefore, GISTRATION. involved in this new legislative measure, as it affects the practice of election law, are QUALIFICATION and REGISTRATION. The first defines the elector's title to vote, by declaring the legal qualification, and is the groundwork of the Bill; the second is made necessary to his exercise and enjoyment of the right thereby conferred on him, and constitutes the principle of the law. In these respects the Act is declaratory, restraining, enlarging, and remedial. Qualification gives the title by operation of law; Registration the right by acts rendering that title available. The law qualifies, but the party and the official ministers of the law must effect registry. Qualification and Registration are mutually dependant qualification is nothing without registration; registration cannot be effected without qualification. This confers the franchise-that authorizes |