been given, and before the trial has commenced, the Master shall forthwith countermand the notice of trial. The countermand shall be given in the same manner, as near as may be, as the notice of trial.

7. If all the respondents shall give notice of their intention not to oppose the petition, and no other person shall be admitted as a respondent, the Court of Common Pleas or a Judge may either declare the election void or direct the trial to proceed. Notice of such order shall be forthwith given by the Master to the town clerk, and if the election be declared void the office shall be deemed to be vacant from the first day (not being a dies non) after the date of such order.

The Court or Judge may also make such order as to costs as may be just.

Dated the 27th day of January, 1875.

G. PIGOTT,

ROBT. LUSH,

GEORGE E. HONYMAN,

Judges for the time being on the rota for trial of Election Petitions in England.

4. Notice given by overseers for occupiers to pay rates 5. List of rated occupiers .

6. List of claimants

7. Notice of objection given to overseers

696

699

700

8. Notice of objection to £12 occupiers.

704

9. Notice of objection to new claimants

10. Notice of objection to voters already on the register
11. Notice of claim by rated occupier omitted
12. List of persons objected to

13. List of rated occupiers omitted who have claimed
14. Declaration by voter who has changed his place of

705

706

707

708

709

716

18. List of persons who have not paid poor rates
19. Lists of parliamentary voters and burgesses for a parish
wholly or partly situate both in a parliamentary
borough and in a municipal borough

718

20. List of parliamentary voters for a parish wholly or partly situate in a parliamentary borough, but not in a municipal borough

21. List of burgesses for a parish wholly or partly situate in a municipal borough, but not in a parliamentary borough

22. List of occupiers in any parish entitled to be elected councillors or aldermen of a municipal borough, though not entitled to be on the burgess roll of that borough

41. Notice of objection given to secondaries and clerks of

(In Registration Generally.)

43. Rate of payment for a copy list other than register 44. Rate of payment for a copy register

45. Form of appeal from the decision of revising barrister. 734

(At Elections.)

46. Writ for a county or borough at a general election

47. Certificate of two members on a vacancy during recess 48. Writ for a county or borough on a new election

735

736

736

737

737

737

737

737

738

739

54. Appointment of a deputy sheriff in counties

55. Appointment of a presiding officer in counties and

56. Notice of appointment of agent to detect personation
57. Appointment of agent for election expenses.
58. Declaration of same to returning officer
59. Notice of disqualification of a candidate upon the ground
of his having been guilty of treating at a former
election for a borough

FORMS.

(1.)

June 20.

July 31.

Precept of the Clerk of the Peace to the Overseers (a).

County of

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To the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish
of
[or of the Township of

to wit. ]. In pursuance of the provisions of the Acts of Parliament in that behalf, I require your attention to the following

INSTRUCTIONS.

On or before the twentieth day of June you are to publish one of the copies of the register for your parish [or township] herewith sent, together with a notice signed by you, according to the form marked No. I. (b), among the printed forms herewith sent.

The manner in which you are required to publish that register and notice is as follows; (that is to say,) you are to fix one of the printed copies of each (each copy being first signed by you) on or near the outside of the outer door or of the outer wall near the door of every church and public chapel in your parish or township, including chapels which do not belong to the Established Church, or if there should be no such church or chapel, then in some public or conspicuous situation in your parish [or township], and such copies must remain there during a period including two Sundays at least, and not later than the twentieth day of July.

On or before the last day of July you are to make out an alphabetical list of all persons who, on or before the twentieth day of July, shall have delivered or sent to you their claims as voters for the county [riding, &c.] in which your parish [or

(a) This is based upon Form 1, Schedule (A), to 28 & 29 Vict. c. 36. By s. 58 of the 30 & 31 Vict. c. 102, all precepts are to be framed so as to carry that Act into effect, and by s. 34 of the 31 & 32 Vict. c. 58 (relating to Registration), a similar provision is made, but no form is given in any of the Acts. The importance of clear directions being given to the overseers (sometimes uneducated men), has induced the editor to endeavour to frame a precept which shall embody the actual duties of overseers in counties at the present time. His experience as a revising barrister has led him to believe that the direction to overseers not to make any other than the autho rised marginal additions will be found beneficial.

(b) Number (2), post. The simplest plan is to number the forms in their chronological order.

township] lies, in respect of any property situate wholly or in part within your parish [or township] according to the form marked No. 2 (c), sent herewith; and you are also, on or before the said last day of July, to make out a separate alphabetical list, according to the form marked No. 3 (d), sent herewith, of all persons who may be entitled to vote in the election of a member [or members] for the county [riding, &c.] in which your parish [or township] lies, in respect of their occupation for the twelve months immediately preceding the said last day of July, as owners or tenants, of lands or tenements within your parish [or township] of the rateable value of £12 or upwards, and who have during the time of such occupation been rated in respect to the premises so occupied by them to all rates (if any) made for the relief of the poor in respect of the said premises, and who have, on or before the twentieth day of July in this year, paid all poor rates that have become payable by them in respect of the said premises up to the fifth day of January in this year. You are to omit from this list the names of all persons who have received parochial relief within twelve calendar months next previous to the said last day of July (e) ; and in making out such lists you are to write or cause to be written, in the proper column of the printed forms of list (herewith sent) numbered 2 and 3, the christian name and surname of every such person, with the place of his abode, the nature of his qualification, and the local or other description of the property and the name of the occupier (in the case of claimants, accordingly as the same shall be stated in the claim). If you have reasonable cause to believe that any person so claiming, or any person whose name shall appear in the copy of the register for your parish [or township] herewith sent, is not entitled to have his name on the new register about to be made, you are to add the word "objected" before his name in the margin of the copy of the register or list in which his name appears; and you are also to add the word "dead" before the name of any person whom you shall have reasonable cause to believe to be dead; but you are to make no other marginal additions than the words "objected" or "dead," nor are you to make any marginal additions to the said list (No. 3) of £12 rated occupiers. Having done this, you are to sign the said lists, and also one of the copies of the register herewith sent, and to cause a sufficient number of copies of such lists to be written or printed, August 1. and then, on or before the first day of August, you are to publish the said copy of the register and lists, with your marginal addi

(c) Number (6), post.

(d) Number (5), post.

(e) See s. 40 of 30 & 31 Vict. c. 102.

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