Accommodation to be provided.

One shilling and one penny halfpenny each.

Fourpence per day.

per day.

An Act to relieve Municipal Voters from being disqualified in consequence of letting their Dwelling-houses for short periods. (28th April 1885.)

WHEREAS by the House Occupiers Disqualification Removal Act, 1878, provision was made that a man should be entitled to be registered as an inhabitant occupier of a dwelling-house under the third section of the Representation of the People Act, 1867, notwithstanding that during a part of the qualifying period not exceeding four months in the whole, he should by letting, or otherwise, have permitted the qualifying premises to be occupied as a furnished house by some other person:

And whereas similar provision was made as regards Scotland by the House Occupiers Disqualification Removal (Scotland) Act, 1878:

And whereas it is expedient to extend the said Acts to voters at municipal elections:

Be it therefore 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:

1. This Act may be cited as the Municipal Voters Relief Act, 1885.

2. From and after the passing of this Act a man shall not be disqualified from being enrolled or voting as a burgess at any municipal election in a borough, in respect of the occupation of any house, by reason only that during a part of the qualifying period, not exceeding four months in the whole, he has, by letting or otherwise, permitted such house to be occupied as a furnished dwelling-house

An Act to extend the Hours of Polling at Parliamentary and Municipal Elections. (28th April 1885.)

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:

1. At every parliamentary and every municipal election within the meaning of this Act, the poll (if any) shall commence at eight o'clock in the forenoon, and be kept open till eight o'clock in the afternoon of the same day and no longer.

As regards England, a borough subject to the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882; and

As regards Scotland, a burgh or town which has a town council or police commissioners; and

As regards Ireland, a borough subject to the Act of the session of the third and fourth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and eight, intituled "An Act for the Regulation of Mu"nicipal Corporations in Ireland,” and the Acts amending the same, and includes a place subject to the Act of the ninth year of the reign of King George the Fourth, chapter eighty-two, or to the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854, or to any local Act providing for the election of commissioners in any town or place for purposes similar to the purposes of the above-mentioned Acts.

WHEREAS Her Majesty's Government has entered into a Convention with the Governments of Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and Turkey, containing articles to the effect set forth in the schedule to this Act, for the purpose of facilitating the raising of a loan by the Government of Egypt, and in pursuance of Her Majesty's gracious recommendation in that behalf it is expedient to enable Her Majesty to carry into effect the said Convention:

Be it therefore 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:

1. This Act may be cited as the Egyptian Loan Act, 1885.

2. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty to guarantee jointly with the foreign Governments named in Article Seven set forth in the

schedule to this Act, and severally, upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Articles in the said schedule, the regular payment of the annuity of three hundred and fifteen thousand pounds sterling, mentioned in the said Article Seven, for the purpose of a loan to be raised by the Government of Egypt.

3. (1.) The Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall charge on and issue out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom or the growing produce thereof such sums as may from time to time be required for fulfilling the guarantee of Her Majesty in pursuance of this Act.

(2.) All sums paid from time to time in or towards the repayment of any sum issued out of the Consolidated Fund in pursuance of this Act shall be paid into the Exchequer.

4. The Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall, during the continuance of the said annuity, lay before both Houses of Parliament in every year within one month after the thirty-first day of March an account up to that day of the total sums, if any, which have been either issued from the Consolidated Fund in pursuance of this Act, or paid in or towards repayment of any money so issued.

1. The Lord Lieutenant may, by and with the advice of the Privy Council in Ireland, within three months after the passing of this Act, and thereafter at the end of each succeeding term of three years from the passing of this Act, alter or vary the number of sergeants and constables for each county, city, or town specified in the schedule to the Constabulary (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1865, and for the city of Londonderry, to such number as the Lord Lieutenant may consider to be required, but so that the total number to be distributed as free quota, including such number as may be assigned to the city of

Londonderry, shall not exceed the total number

specified in the schedule to that Act.

The number for the time being assigned by the Lord Lieutenant to each county, city, or town, may be referred to for all purposes as the free quota for such county, city, or town.

2. So much of section three of the Constabulary (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1870, as limits the numbers of the Constabulary Force, and of the additional Constabulary Force, for the city of Londonderry is hereby repealed.

The power of distribution conferred upon the Lord Lieutenant by this Act shall be in substitution for the power conferred upon him by the third section of the Act of the session of the twentieth and twenty-first years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter

seventeen.

3. In this Act,

The expression "Lord Lieutenant" includes the lords justices or other chief governor or governors of Ireland for the time being.

4. This Act may be cited as the Constabulary (Ireland) Redistribution Act, 1885.