that purpose, such times being between the fifteenth day of Period for September inclusive and the twenty-fifth day of October revision. inclusive in the present and in every succeeding year, and he or they shall hold open courts for that purpose at the times and places so to be announced; and where two or more barristers shall be appointed for the same county, riding, parts, or division, they shall attend at the same places together, but shall sit apart from each other, and hold separate courts at the same time for the dispatch of business: Provided always, that no member of Parliament, nor any person holding any office or place of profit under the crown, shall be appointed such barrister, and that no barrister, so appointed as aforesaid, shall be eligible to serve in Parliament for eighteen months from the time of such his appointment for the county, riding, parts, or division for which he shall be so appointed.

overseers to

who shall

those whose

XLII. And be it enacted, That the clerk of the peace Clerk of the shall at the opening of the first court to be held by every peace and such barrister for any county, or for any riding, parts, or attend before division of a county, produce or cause to be produced the barristers, before him, the several lists of voters for such county, retain on the riding, parts, or division, which shall have been delivered county lists to such clerk of the peace by the high constables as afore- all names not objected to, said; and the overseers of every parish and township who and shall shall have made out the lists of voters shall attend the expunge court to be held by every such barrister at the place ap- qualification, pointed for revising the lists relating to such parish or if objected to, township respectively, and shall also deliver to such bar- shall not be proved. rister a copy of the list of the persons objected to, so made out by them as aforesaid; and the said overseers 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 retain on the lists of voters the names of all persons to whom no objection shall have been made by the overseers, or by any other person, in the manner herein before mentioned; and he shall also retain on the list of voters the name of every person who shall have been objected to by any person other than the overseers, unless the party so objecting shall appear by himself or by some one on his behalf in support of such objection; and where the name of any person inserted in the list of voters shall have been objected to by the overseers, or by any other person, in the manner hereinbefore mentioned, and such person so objecting shall appear by himself or by some one on his behalf in support of such objection, every such barrister shall require it to be proved that the person so objected to was entitled on

Power to rectify mistakes and supply omis

sions in the lists.

Proviso..

Barrister to

to insert in the county lists the

names of claimants omitted by the overseers on proof of claim and

the last day of July then next preceding to have his name inserted in the list of voters in respect of the qualification described in such list; and in case the same shall not be proved to the satisfaction of such barrister, or in case it shall be proved that such person was then incapacitated by 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 which shall be proved to him to have been made in any of the said lists as to any of the particulars by this Act required to be inserted in such lists; and where the Christian name of any person, or his place of abode, or the nature of his qualification, or the local or other description of his property, or the name of the tenant in the occupation thereof, as the same respectively are required to be inserted in any such list, shall be wholly omitted therefrom, such barrister shall expunge the name of every such person from such list, unless the matter or matters so omitted be supplied to the satisfaction of such barrister before he shall have completed the revision of such list, in which case he shall then and there insert the same in such list: Provided always, that no person's name shall be expunged from any such list, except in case of his death, or of his being objected to on the margin of the list by the overseers as aforesaid, or except in case of any such omission or omissions as hereinbefore last mentioned, unless such notice as hereinbefore required in that behalf shall have been given to the overseers, nor unless such notice as is hereinbefore required in that behalf shall have been given to such person, or left at his place of abode, or delivered to his tenant as hereinbefore mentioned.

XLIII. Provided also and be it enacted, That if it shall have power happen that any person who shall have given to the overseers of any parish or township due notice of his claim to have his name inserted in the list of voters in the election of a knight or knights of the shire shall have been omitted by such overseers from such list, it shall be lawful for the barrister, upon the revision of such list, to insert therein the name of the person so omitted, in case it shall be qualification. proved to the satisfaction of such barrister that such person gave due notice of such his claim to the said overseers, and that he was entitled on the last day of July then next preceding to be inserted in the list of voters in the election of a knight or knights of the shire for the county, or for the

riding, parts, or division of the county, wherein the parish or township of such overseers may be situate, in respect of any lands or tenements within such parish or township.

titled to vote

lish them.

XLIV. And be it enacted, That the overseers of the Overseers to poor of every parish and township, either wholly or in prepare lists of persons part situate within any city or borough, or place sharing in (other than the election for any city or borough, which shall return a freemen) enmember or members to serve in any future Parliament, in boroughs, shall, on or before the last day of July in the present and and to pubin each succeeding year, make out or cause to be made out, according to the Form numbered 1, in the Schedule marked (I.) to this Act annexed, an alphabetical list of all persons who may be entitled by virtue of this Act to vote in the election of a member or members to serve in any future Parliament for such city or borough in respect of the occupation of premises of the clear yearly value of not less than ten pounds, as hereinbefore mentioned, situate wholly or in part within such parish or township, and another alphabe tical list according to the Form numbered 2 in the said Schedule (I.) of all other persons (except freemen) who may be entitled to vote in the election for such city or borough by virtue of any other right whatsoever; and in each of the said lists the christian name and surname of every person shall be written at full length, together with the nature of his qualification; and where any person shall be entitled to vote in respect of any property, then the name of the street, lane, or other description of the place where such property may be situate shall be specified in the list; and where any person shall be entitled to vote otherwise than in respect of any property, then the name of the street, lane, or other description of the place of such person's abode shall be specified in the list; and the overseers shall sign each of such lists, and shall cause a sufficient number of copies of such lists to be printed, and to be fixed on or near the doors of all the churches and chapels in their several parishes and townships, 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 lists shall have been made; and the said overseers shall likewise keep true Copies of lists copies of such lists, to be perused by any person, without to be kept payment of any fee, at all reasonable hours during the two for inspecfirst weeks after such lists shall have been made.

tion.

XLV. And be it enacted, That every precinct or place, Provision for whether extra-parochial or otherwise, having no overseers places within

boroughs

having no

overseers.

Town clerks to prepare and publish the lists of freemen.

of the poor, which now is or hereafter may be within any city or borough, or within any place sharing in the election for any city or borough, shall, for the purpose of making out the list of voters for such city or borough, be deemed to be within the parish or township adjoining thereto, and situate wholly or in part within such city or borough, or within such place sharing in the election therewith; 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 every such parish or township shall insert in the list for their respective parish or township the names of all persons who may be entitled to vote in the election of a member or members to serve in any future Parliament for any such city or borough in respect of any property occupied by such persons within such city or borough, or within any place sharing in the election therewith, such property being situate wholly or in part within such precinct or place as aforesaid.

XLVI. And be it enacted, That the town clerk of every city or borough shall, on or before the last day of July in the present and in each succeeding year, make out or cause to be made out, according to the Form numbered 3 in the said Schedule (I.), an alphabetical 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; and 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 a copy of every such list to be fixed on or near the door of the townhall, or in some public and conspicuous situation within such respective city, borough, or place as aforesaid, on the two Sundays next after such list shall have been made, and shall likewise 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 where there shall be no town clerk for such city, borough, or place as aforesaid, or where the town clerk shall be dead or incapable of acting, all matters by this Act required 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.

the borough

claims.

Notices as to

retained in

the lists.

XLVII. And be it enacted, That every person whose Persons name shall have been omitted in any such list of voters for omitted in any city or borough so to be made out as hereinbefore lists to give mentioned, and who shall claim to have his name inserted notice of their therein as having been entitled on the last day of July then next preceding, shall, on or before the twenty-fifth day of August in the present, and in every succeeding year, give or cause to be given a notice in writing, according to the Form numbered 4 in the said Schedule (I.), or to the like effect, to the overseers of that parish or township in the list whereof he shall claim to have his name inserted, or if he shall claim as a freeman of any city or borough, or place sharing in the election therewith, then to the town clerk of such city, borough, or place; and every person whose name shall have been inserted in any list of voters for any city or borough may object to any other person as not having persons not been entitled on the last day of July then next preceding entitled to be to have his name inserted in any list of voters for the same city or borough, and every person so objecting shall, on or before the twenty-fifth day of August in the present and in every succeeding year, give or cause to be given a notice 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 the list in which the name of the person so objected to shall have been inserted, or if the person objected to shall have been 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 Lists of include the names of all persons so claiming as aforesaid in claimants, a list according to the Form numbered 6 in the said Sche- and of persons objected dule (I.), and the names of all persons so objected to to, to be pubas aforesaid in a list according to the Form numbered 7 in lished, &c. 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, on the two Sundays next preceding the fifteenth day of September in the present and in every succeeding year; and every town clerk shall include the names of all persons so claiming as freemen in a list according to the Form numbered 8 in the said Schedule (I.), and the names of all persons so objected to as freemen in a list according to the

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