28 Vict. c. 36. SCHEDULES TO WHICH THIS ACT REFERS. SCHEDULE (A.) [No. 1.-Precept of the clerk of the peace to the overseers. Superseded by Form No. 1 in Act of 1885.] [No. 2.-Notice of objection to parties already on register objected to by any person other than overseers and to occupying tenant. Superseded by Form No. 5 b in Act of 1885.] SCHEDULE (B.) [Form of declaration by voter as to his place of abode. Superseded by Forms 7 and M. of Act of 1885.] 29 & 30 Vict. 29 & 30 Vict. c. 54. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Qualifications of Revising Barristers. c. 54. 6 & 7 Vict. c. 18. Barrister being a commissioner under 16 & 17 Vict. c. 57 not disqualified as revising barrister. [30th July, 1866. "Whereas it is expedient to amend an Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Law for the Registration of Persons entitled to vote and to define certain Rights of voting, and to regulate certain Proceedings in the Election of Members to serve in Parliament for England and Wales, so far as it relates to the qualifications of revising barristers;" BE IT ENACTED, as follows: 1. That, notwithstanding anything in the recited Act, the appointment of or the holding office by any barrister as a commissioner appointed before or after the passing of this Act, under an Act of the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter fifty-seven, shall not disqualify such barrister for the appointment to or from holding the office of revising barrister. 30 & 31 Vict. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 102. Representation of the People Act, c. 102. Notice of rate given by overseers to voters. 1867. [For sections of this Act not here given, see Part I., "Qualification of Electors," ante, and Parts III., IV., V., “Electoral Areas," "Disqualification of Candidates," and "The Election," post.] 28. Where any poor rate due on the fifth day of Jauuary in in arrear to be any year from an occupier in respect of premises capable of conferring the franchise for a borough remains unpaid on the first day of June following, the overseers whose duty it may be to collect such rate shall, on or before the twentieth of the same month of June, unless such rate has previously been paid, or has been duly demanded by a demand note, to be served in like c. 102. manner as the notice in this section referred to, give or cause to 30 & 31 Vict, be given a notice in the Form set forth in Schedule (E.) to this Act to every such occupier. The notice shall be deemed to be duly given if delivered to the occupier or left at his last or usual place of abode, or with some person on the premises in respect of which the rate is payable. Any overseer who shall wilfully Penalty for withhold such notice, with intent to keep such occupier off the withholding list or register of voters for the said borough, shall be deemed guilty of a breach of duty in the execution of the Registration Acts. See now Form C., No. 1, in Schedule 3 of the Act of 1885, p. 221, which by s. 18 of that Act replaces the form prescribed by this section, and as to counties, see Form C., No. 1, in Schedule 2 of the same Act. notice. Overseers to make out list of persons in arrear of rates, to be open to perusal with 29. The overseers of every parish wholly or partly within a borough shall, on or before the twenty-second day of July in every year make out a list containing the name and place of abode of every person who shall not have paid, on or before the twentieth day of the same month, all poor rates which shall have become payable from him in respect of any premises out fee. within the said parish before the fifth day of January then last past, and the overseers shall keep the said list, to be perused by any person, without payment of any fee, at any time between the hours of ten of the clock in the forenoon and four of the clock in the afternoon of any day except Sunday during the first fourteen days after the said twenty-second day of July; any Penalty for overseer wilfully neglecting or refusing to make out such list, neglect. or to allow the same to be perused as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a breach of duty in the execution of the registration Acts. Registration of Voters. *Repealed except as to lodgings, by Act of 1885. 30.* The following regulations shall in and after the year Registration one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight be observed with of lodgers. respect to the registration of voters : 1. The overseers of every parish or township shall make out or cause to be made out a list of all persons on whom a right to vote for a county in respect of the occupation of premises is conferred by this Act, in the same manner, and subject to the same regulations, as nearly as circumstances admit, in and subject to which the overseers of parishes and townships in boroughs are required by the Registration Acts to make out or cause to be made out a list of all persons entitled to vote for a member or members for a borough in respect of the occupation of premises of a clear yearly value of not less than ten pounds: 2. The claim of every person desirous of being registered as a voter for a member or members to serve for any borough in respect of the occupation of lodgings shall * p. 80. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 102, s. 30. Claim by Lodger. *Now 20th. † p. 83. ‡ p. 92. Definition of 66 expenses of registration." § p. 102. * be in the Form numbered 1 in Schedule (G.), or to the like effect, and shall have annexed thereto a declaration in the form and be certified in the manner in the said schedule mentioned, or as near thereto as circumstances admit; and every such claim shall after the last day of July and on or before the twenty-fifth day of August in any year be delivered to the overseers of the parish in which such lodgings shall be situate, and the particulars of such claim shall be duly published by such overseers on or before the first day of September next ensuing in a separate list, according to the Form numbered 2 in the said Schedule (G.): So much of Section 18, of the Act of the session of the sixth year of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter eighteen,† as relates to the manner of publishing lists of claimants, and to the delivery of copies thereof to persons requiring the same, shall apply to every such claim and list; and all the provisions of the 38th and 39th sections of the same Act with respect to the proof of the claims of persons omitted from the list of voters, and to objections thereto, and to the bearing thereof, shall, so far as the same are applicable, apply to claims and objections, and to the hearing thereof, under this section. This section is repealed, except as to lodgers, by s. 17 of the Act of 1885, and Schedule 1, post. See pp. 165 and 187. 20th day of August substituted for 25th day of August by s. 3 of the Act of 1885, p. 167. Lodgers already on the register may make a claim on or before the 25th of July, and the overseers on or before the 31st of July must make out a list called the "Old Lodgers List" of the persons so claiming. See s. 22 of the Act of 1878, p. 150. By making such a claim they can be objected to only after notice of objection, whereas if they delay the claim till the 25th of August they may be objected to under s. 39 of the Act of 1843, p. 92, without such notice. The forms prescribed by the section were replaced by Forms H., No. 2, and K., No. 2, of the Act of 1878, which latter forms are now replaced by Forms H., No. 2, in Schedule 3 of the Act of 1885, which schedule also contains a new form for lodgers in counties (Forms H., No. 2 of Schedule 2), and “Old Lodgers Lists." It was essential under this section that the lodger should claim annually, and the creation of the "Old Lodgers" lists does not dispense with the obligation to claim annually. But s. 23 of the Act of 1885, p. 150, provides that the lodger's declaration is primâ facie evidence of his qualification. 31. The word "expenses" contained in the sections fiftyfour and fifty-five of the said Registration Act of the session of the sixth year of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter eighteen,§ shall be deemed to and shall 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 hereafter made or charged by him in any year for his trouble, care, and attention in the performance of the services and duties imposed upon him by the same Act or by this Act, in addition to any money actually paid or disbursed by him for or in respect 30 & 31 Vict. of any such services or duties as aforesaid. 32. Whereas several of the hundreds mentioned in the third column of the said Schedule (D.), and therein assigned to Mid Lincolnshire, are situate in the parts of Lindsey, and others are situate in the parts of Kesteven, and the liberty of Lincoln consisting of the city and the county of the city of Lincoln is situate partly in the parts of Lindsey and partly in the parts of Kesteven, and there are separate clerks of the peace for the said parts of Lindsey and Kesteven. In forming the register for the said division of Mid Lincolnshire the clerk of the peace of the parts of Lindsey shall do and perform all such duties as are by law required to be done by clerks of the peace in regard to such of the hundreds assigned to Mid Lincolnshire as aforesaid as are situate within the said parts of Lindsey, and in regard to so much of the liberty of Lincoln aforesaid as is situate within the said parts of Lindsey; and the clerk of the peace of the parts of Kesteven shall do and perform all such duties as are by law required to be done by clerks of the peace in regard to such of the said hundreds assigned to Mid Lincolnshire as aforesaid as are situate within the said parts of Kesteven, and in regard to so much of the liberty of Lincoln aforesaid as is situate within the said parts of Kesteven. c. 102. Provision as for counties. 34. In every county the justices of the peace may Revision divide such county into polling districts, and assign to courts at each district a polling place in such manner as to enable each polling places voter, so far as practicable, to have a polling place within a convenient distance of his residence; and the justices shall adverti-e... a description of the polling districts so constituted by them and the name of the polling place assigned to each district, and shall name the polling places at which the revising barristers are to hold their courts, and no revising barrister shall be obliged to hold his court at any polling place not so named . . The local anthority of each borough shall, if they think convenience requires it. . . . divide each borough into polling districts Arrangement Where any parish in a borough is divided into or forms part of more than one polling district, the overseers shall, so far as of the borough lists to correspracticable, make out the lists of voters in such manner as to pond with divide the names in conformity with each polling district. polling The town clerk as defined by the Act of the sixth Victoria, districts. chapter eighteen, shall cause the list of votes for each borough to be copied, printed, arranged, and signed, and delivered in the manner directed by the said Act, so as to correspond with the division of the borough into polling districts . ... [For parts of this section not here given see post, Part V., "The Election."] See further s. 18 of the Act of 1868, and s. 4 of the Act of 1885. K 30 & 31 Vict. c. 102, s. 38. Time for delivery of lists. Commencement of register. 38. The forty-seventh and forty-eighth sections of the sixth year of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter eighteen, relating to the transmission and delivery of the book or books containing the list of voters to the sheriff and returning officer, shall be construed as if the word "December were substituted in those sections for the word " November," and the said book or books shall be the register of persons entitled to vote for the county or borough to which such register relates, at any election which takes place during the year commencing on the first day of January next after such registration is made. SCHEDULES. [For Schedules A.-D. and H., see post, Parts III. and IV. [Schedule E.-Notice of Rates in Arrear. Replaced by Form C. 1, in Schedules 2 and 3 of Act of 1885.] [Schedule G.-Forms as to Lodgers. Replaced by Form H. 2, in Schedule 3 of Act of 1885.] 31 & 32 Vict. 31 & 32 Vict. c. 58. Parliamentary Electors Registra c. 58. tion Act, 1868. An Act to amend the Law of Registration so far as relates to the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and for other Purposes relating thereto. [16th July, 1868, "Whereas it is expedient to make provision for expediting the completion of the Registration of Parliamentary electors during the present year, and to make certain amendments in the law relating to elections: " BE IT ENACTED, as follows: Preliminary. 1. "Principal Act" in this Act shall mean the Act passed in the session of the sixth and seventh years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter eighteen, intituled An Act to amend the Law for the Registration of persons entitled to vote, and to define certain rights of voting, and to regulate certain proceedings in the election of members to serve in Parliament for England and Wales, as amended by "The County Voters Registration Act, 1865." [17. Amendment of s. 30 of Act of 1867, by declaring that s. 15 of Act of 1843 applies to persons on whom occupation franchise in counties was conferred by Act of 1867.-Repealed by Act of 1885.] 18. Where a municipal borough forms part of a parliamentary borough the town clerk of such municipal borough shall be deemed to be the town clerk within the meaning of the thirty-fourth section of the Representation of the People Act, 1867, and the Acts relating to registration. * The local authority within the meaning of the same section, |