one, the clerk of the peace of each county quarter sessional area shall, in respect of each parish in such parliamentary county which is within his jurisdiction, act as and be deemed to be the clerk of the peace of the county within the meaning of the Parliamentary Registration Acts and this Act, until the lists of voters for such parish have been revised; but the revising barrister shall transmit the revised lists of voters for such parish to the clerk of the peace of the county quarter sessional area which comprises the largest part in extent of the said parliamentary county, and save as aforesaid, such lastmentioned clerk shall, as respects the said parliamentary county, act as, and be deemed to be sole clerk of the peace of the county for the purposes of the Parliamentary Registration Acts and this Act.

8. Whereas by section thirty-one of the Representation of the People Act, 1867, it was provided that the word " expenses in sections fifty-four and fifty-five of the Parliamentary Registration Act, 1843, should include and apply to all proper and reasonable fees and charges of any clerk of the peace of any county, or of any town clerk of any city or borough to be thereafter made or charged by him in any year for his trouble, care, and attention in the performance of the services and duties imposed on him by the abovementioned Acts:

And whereas doubts may arise as to whether the said section would extend to services and duties imposed upon him by the Representation of the People Act, 1884, or this Act, and it is expedient to remove such doubts: Be it therefore enacted as follows:

Section thirty-one of the Representation of the People Act, 1867, with respect to the remuneration of clerks of the peace and town clerks, shall extend to their duties under the Representation of the People Act, 1884, and this Act.

9. Where a parish is situate partly within and partly without the boundary of a parliamentary county, or of a parliamentary borough, or of a municipal borough, the burgesses of which are enrolled in accordance with the Parliamentary and Municipal Registration. Act, 1878, the Parliamentary Registration Acts and this Act shall apply as if the several parts of the parish divided by such boundaries were respectively separate parishes, and the overseers of the whole undivided parish were also the overseers of each such separate parish.

10. Any person deemed to be an inhabitant VOL. LXIV.-LAW JOUR. STAT.

occupier uuder section three of the Representation of the People Act, 1884, shall be qualified to be registered as if the provisions of that Act had been in force throughout the year one thousand eight hundred and eightyfour, and had been duly carried into effect.

11. A man entitled to be registered as a fifty pounds rental voter shall be registered as an occupation voter and not as an ownership voter, and shall be included in the expression

occupation voter" in this Act, and it shall be the duty of the overseers to insert the name of every fifty pounds rental voter in the list of occupation voters, and to add "objected" before the name of such voter in the portion of the register relating to ownership

voters.

12. Whereas by section seven of the Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act, 1878, it is provided that every period of qualification for parliamentary voters in parliamentary boroughs which was then computed by reference to the last day of July should be computed by reference to the fifteenth day of July, and the said enactment extends to occupation voters in parliamentary counties, and it is expedient to extend the same enactment to all other voters in parliamentary counties: Be it therefore enacted as follows:

Every period of qualification as defined by the said Act for any voter in a parliamentary county which is now computed by reference to the last day of July shall, instead of being so computed, be computed by reference to the fifteenth day of July.

13.-(1.) Where a parliamentary county is coextensive with or is comprised within one county quarter sessional area, the court of county quarter sessions having jurisdiction in that area shall be the local authority having power to divide such parliamentary county into polling districts within the meaning of the enactments relating to polling districts.

(2.) Where a parliamentary county extends into more county quarter sessional areas than one, the court of county quarter sessions for the area which comprises the largest part in extent of such parliamentary county, shall be the local authority having power to divide such parliamentary county into polling districts.

(3.) Where a parliamentary county extends into more county quarter sessional areas than one, the local authority having power to divide the said county into polling districts shall have power to agree with any other court of quarter sessions having jurisdiction in that area for the constitution of a joint committee

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to take into consideration the division of such county into polling districts and assigning of polling places to such districts, and shall, after receiving the report of the said committee, make such order thereon as they may think fit.

(4.) The local authority having power to divide any parliamentary county or parliamentary borough into polling districts shall, not later than one month after the passing of this Act, take into consideration the division of such county or borough into polling districts, and, if necessary, in order to make the districts conform with the enactments relating to the division of counties and boroughs into polling districts, shall divide such county and borough, or any division of such borough, anew into polling districts, and (in a county) assign polling places to such districts, in such manner as shall make the districts so conform with the said enactments, measuring the distance therein mentioned along the nearest road, so as to meet the convenience of electors in recording their votes.

(5.) A court of general sessions shall, where necessary for the purposes of this section, be assembled forthwith after the passing of this Act.

14.-(1.) Where any expenses have been incurred, either by the court of county quarter sessions of any county quarter sessional area in dividing a parliamentary county into polling districts, or by the clerk of the peace of any county quarter sessional area under the Parliamentary Registration Acts, or this Act, and such expenses were incurred partly in respect of a locality which does, and partly in respect of a locality (whether a division, liberty, county of a town, or other locality) which does not, contribute to the county rate levied by the court of county quarter sessions of such county quarter sessional area, that court shall apportion the expenses between the localities in the ratio, so nearly as may be, which the number of registered voters in each locality for the time being bear to each other, and the amount apportioned to any such non-contributing locality shall be defrayed out of the county rate or rate in the nature of a county rate levied in such locality; and an order of the said court of county quarter sessions, made on the treasurer or other officer receiving such rate, shall be obeyed by and may be enforced against such treasurer, as if he were the treasurer of the court cf county quarter sessions making the order.

(2.) Where a parliamentary borough is situate within the jurisdiction of more than one court of county quarter sessions, and by reason of there being no town council in such

borough, the expenses of the town clerk under the Parliamentary Registration Acts and this Act are required to be allowed by the quarter sessions for the county in which such parliamentary borough is situate, such expenses shall be allowed by the court of county quarter sessions within the jurisdiction of which the larger portion of such parliamentary borough in area is situate.

(3.) The receipts of any clerk of the peace under the Parliamentary Registration Acts shall be applied in aid of the rate which bears the expenses of such clerk, and if there is more than one such rate, then of each rate in the proportion in which the expenses are borne by such rates.

15. From and after the passing of this Act section seventy-eight of the Act of Parliament passed in the second and third years of the reign of His Majesty King William the Fourth, chapter forty-five, shall be and the same is hereby repealed.

Provided that no person shall be prevented by any other Act from being registered as a parliamentary voter in respect of his occupation of any chambers or premises in any of the colleges or halls of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge.

16. Any person registered as a parliamentary voter in the register of voters for a parish may, by notice in writing delivered or sent to the clerk of the guardians for such parish, or for the union containing such parish, require such clerk to send to him a list giving the names and addresses, as appearing in the books of the guardians and their officers, either of all men of full age, or of all persons who have, during the period specified in the notice, received out of the rates administered by such guardians, either parochial relief or outdoor parochial relief, and at the time of receiving such relief were recorded as resident in the said parish or union, and the clerk of the guardians, on payment of fees after the rate allowed by the Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act, 1878, for returns by registrars of births and deaths, shall send the list with such of the said particulars as are specified in the notice, and the relieving officers of the guardians shall give the clerk the information he requires for that purpose, and shall receive from the clerk a reasonable remuneration for so doing, and if any clerk or relieving officer refuses or fails to comply with this section he shall be deemed guilty of a wilful act of com. mission or omission within the meaning of section ninety-seven of the Parliamentary Registration Act, 1843,

17. The Acts mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act shall to the extent in the third column of that Schedule mentioned be repealed without prejudice to anything done in pursuance thereof before the passing of this Act.

18. The forms and instructions contained in the second and third schedules to this Act shall be used and observed in all cases to which they apply, and shall be substituted in all such cases for the forms, instructions, and directions contained in the schedules to the Parliamentary Registration Act, 1843, the County Voters Registration Act, 1865, the Representation of the People Act, 1867, the Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act, 1878, and the Representation of the People Act, 1884, but a disregard of any form or instruction shall not of itself invalidate any list, notice, or other thing.

19. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

The expression "ownership voter" means a person entitled to vote in respect of the ownership of property, whether of freehold, leasehold, or copyhold tenure.

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The expression fifty pounds rental voter means a person who on the sixth day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four was registered as a voter for a county in pursuance of section twenty of the Reform Act, 1832, in respect of the occupation of any land or tenement for which he was bonâ fide liable to a yearly rent of not less than fifty pounds, and who continues by virtue of section ten of the Representation of the People Act, 1884, to be entitled to be registered as a voter in respect of such occupation.

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The expression occupation voter" means, as regards a parliamentary county, a person entitled to vote in respect of any qualification conferred by the Representation of the People Act, 1884, and as regards a parliamentary borough means a person entitled to vote in respect of any qualification conferred by section five of the Representation of the People Act,

1884, or in respect of a household qualification or a lodger qualification as defined by that Act. The expression "Parliamentary Registration Acts means the Parliamentary Registration Act, 1843, and the Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act, 1878, inclusive of any Acts and enactments amending the said Acts, or otherwise relating to revising barristers or to the registration of voters, and of any Acts and enactments relating to rating in so far as they are auxiliary to or deal with the registration of voters.

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.

The expression "court of county quarter sessions means the justices in general or quarter sessions assembled for any county at large, or riding, or parts of a county at large having a separate commission of the peace and a separate court of quarter sessions, and includes the justices in general or quarter Bessions assembled for the Isle of Ely.

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The expression county quarter sessional area" means the area of the jurisdiction as extended by this Act of any court of county quarter sessions, and includes the Isle of Ely; and save as aforesaid, for the purposes of this Act every liberty, county of a city, or county of a town which for the purposes of parliamentary elections forms part of any county at large, riding, or parts shall be deemed to be within the jurisdiction of the court of county quarter sessions and clerk of the peace of such county at large, riding, or parts.

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The expression clerk of the peace for a County quarter sessional area means the clerk of the peace for such county at large, riding, or parts as aforesaid, and includes the clerk of the peace for the Isle of Ely.

Other expressions in this Act have, unless the context otherwise requires, the same meaning as in the Parliamentary Registration Acts.

20. This Act shall not apply to Scotland or Ireland, and may be cited for all purposes as the Registration Act, 1885.

the parish or township as are sufficient to comply with the provisions of the precept as to publication, and a copy of each of the following forms for ownership voters, namely, ownership Forms No. 2, No. 3, and No. 6; and a sufficient number of copies of the corrupt and illegal practices list, if any; and when forms relating to occupation voters are sent, a copy of each of the following forms for occupation voters, Form A., Form B., Form C., No. 1 and No. 2, Form D., No. 3, Form E., No. 1, Form K., No. 1 and No. 2, and Form L., No. 1 and No. 2.

5. Each entry for voting on the parliamentary register of every county or division is to be distinguished by a number, either alone or in combination with a letter distinguishing the polling district in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

6. Where the name of a person is entered on any list of voters for a parish, and such person is registered by the revising barrister as entitled to vote in a polling district, other than the polling district comprising such parish, such entry shall in the register be denoted by an asterisk, and no number is to be prefixed to the name of such person in such entry.

FORM NO. 1.

FORM OF PRECEPT OF THE CLERK OF THE PEACE TO THE OVERSEERS.

REGISTRATION OF COUNTY VOTERS.

County of

To the overseers of the poor of [or of 1.

to wit} the parish of

the township of In pursuance of the provisions of the Acts of Parliament in that behalf, I require your attention to the following instructions respecting the registration of county voters.

Part I. of this precept informs you generally of the persons entitled to be registered as voters, and of the meaning of the expressions used in this precept, and also as to the mode in which you are to make out and publish the lists.

Part II. gives you in order of time the several matters which you are required to do.

PART I.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS EXPLAINING THE PERSONS ENTITLED TO BE REGISTERED, THE MEANING OF THE EXPRESSIONS USED, AND THE MODE OF MAKING OUT AND PUBLISHING THE LISTS.

Definitions.

1. This precept relates to the registration of parliamentary voters for your county [or division]. There are two classes of persons

ontitled to be registered: first, ownership
voters; and, secondly, occupation voters.*
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(a.) The expression 'ownership voters" Ownership
means persons entitled to be registered as voters.
voters in respect of an ownership qualifi-
cation; that is to say, of the ownership of
property, whether of freehold, leasehold,
or copyhold tenure, and does not include
fifty pounds rental voters.

(b.) The expression "ownership portion of the register" means the portion of the register of voters which contains the names of persons entitled to vote in respect of an ownership qualification in your parish [or township].

(c.) The expression "list of ownership claimants means the list to be made by you of persons who, on or before the twentieth day of July next shall have claimed to vote in respect of an ownership qualification in your parish [or township].

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3. In this precept the expression оссира- Оссupation tion voters' means persons entitled to be voters. registered as voters in respect of,-

(a.) a fifty pounds rental qualification as hereafter defined in paragraph 5 of this precept;

(b.) a ten pounds occupation qualification as hereafter defined in paragraph 6 of this precept; or

(c.) a household qualification as hereafter defined in paragraph 7 of this precept; or (d.) a lodger qualification as hereafter defined in paragraph 8 of this precept.

tions.

4. Every person entitled to be registered as General an ownership voter or an occupation voter qualifica must be a man of full age and not subject to any legal incapacity, and must not at any time during the twelve months immediately preceding the fifteenth day of July next have received any parochial relief.

5. A person entitled to be registered as a Fifty voter in respect of a fifty pounds rental pounds rental quali qualification-fication.

(a) must on the fifteenth day of July next be an occupier as tenant of some land or tenement for which he is bonâ fide liable to a yearly rent of not less than fifty pounds; and

(b) must have occupied such land or tenement for the whole of the twelve months immediately preceding the fifteenth day of July next; and

(c) must have been registered as a voter in respect of the said occupation in the register of voters in force during the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty. four.

If two or more persons jointly are such occupiers as above mentioned, and the rent is