COMPANION TO THE CALENDARS, FOR THE YEAR 1876 ; CONTAINING THE PRESENT AND LAST PARLIAMENTS, AND A LIST OF THE CHANGES IN ADMINISTRATION FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE PRESENT CENTURY, &c. ALSO, ABSTRACT OF THE PRINCIPAL LAWS RELATING TO ELECTION PROCEDURE; WITH THE BALLOT ACT, 1872; AND THE DECISIONS OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS ON APPEALS. WITH FORMS OF REGISTRATION NOTICES LISTS London: RIDGWAY'S, N. 169, PICCADILLY. 1876. gir. 21840 e. 1876 CONTENTS. 177 PAOB Abstract of the principal Laws relating to Election proceedings 133 Allegiance, Oath of 192 219 Bribery, Treating, and Intimidation British Islands, Population of Corrupt Practices Prevention Act, 1854. Continued, 1861, 1862, and 1863 178 County Voters Registration Act, Session 1865 Duchy of Lancaster, Chancellor of Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices Prevention Act, 1868 Election, p. 147; The Poll, pp. 144 and 149; Counting Votes, p. Election Erpenses, p. 165; Travelling Expenses of Voters 166 Forms of Registration Lists, and Notices,–Counties.. Gentlemen at Arms, Captain of 106 106 127 127 105 Parliament, Alphabetical List of Number of Members returned by each County, with the Cities, Boroughs, and Universities comprised in it:- Duration of 98 Places which formerly sent Members to Parliament, and now do not.. 96 President of the Council, Lord..... 107 125 127 108 219 193 211 Representative Peers of Scotland.. Returning Officers, Act (1875) to regulate Expenses and Charges of 247 Revenue Officers' Disabilities Removal Act, 1868 Secretaries of State, Home Department Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, may vote by Voting ADVERTISEMENT. As in late Editions, this contains a List of the past and present House of Commons. For this Edition, that portion of the Work relating to the abstract of the principal laws of the Procedure at Elections, with “ the Ballot Act, 1872," and the decisions of the Court of Common Pleas on Registration Appeals, has been carefully revised, and so amplified, as to render it an efficient and useful guide in these matters. The unsuccessful Candidates are invariably marked in Italics. Respecting the List of Changes in all the great Offices, the Rule laid down and pursued in this Book, is, to give, first, the Person or Persons who held this or that Department at the close of the last Century, and then the Changes, or Alterations, in the Administration, which have been since made, with their Dates. No pains have been spared to render this work as accurate as possible ; but Notice of any Errors will at all times be thankfully received by the Publisher, together with any hints for improvement. |