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c. 58.

in boroughs where the Town Council is not the local authority, 31 & 32 Vict. shall be the Justices of the Peace of the Petty Sessional Division in which such borough is situate, or if such borough be situate in or comprise more than one Petty Sessional Division then the justices in general or quarter sessions having jurisdiction over such borough or the greater part thereof in area.

[19. £12 occupiers in counties to appear in separate list.-Repealed by Act of 1885.]

20. Notwithstanding anything contained in the thirtieth section of the Representation of the People Act, 1867,* and the thirtyeighth section of the Principal Act therein referred to, the names of the persons in any parish or township on whom a right to vote for a member or members to serve for any borough in respect of the occupation of lodgings is conferred by the Representation of the People Act, 1867, shall in the lists and register of voters for such boroughs, appear in a separate list.

[21. Issue of writs to the County Palatine of Durham.]

Miscellaneous Amendments.

Lodgers to

appear in

separate list.

*

p. 127.

in more than

district.

22. Where any parish in a county, city, or borough forms part Parish situate of more than one polling district, the part of such parish situate one polling in each polling district shall be deemed to be a separate parish for the purposes of the revision of voters and the lists and register of voters, and may be designated by some distinguishing addition in the list of voters for such part of a parish.

A notice of objection need not specify on which list the objector's name appears, if two lists be made out: Chorlton v. Tonge Overseers, L. R. 7 C. P. 178; 41 L. J. C. P. 33; 26 L. T. 25; 20 W. R. 338; 1 H. & C. 332; nor on which part of the list, if a divided list be made, as appears to be more in accordance with this section.

town clerks

and returning officers.

23. Whereas it is expedient to provide a summary remedy for Recovery of the recovery by town clerks and returning officers of sums of expenses by money due to them in respect of expenses incurred in pursuance of the Registration Acts: Be it enacted, That if the overseers of any parish or township refuse or neglect to pay to the town clerk or returning officer of any borough, out of the first monies to be collected for the relief of the poor, any contribution or sum required to be paid to him by the fifty-fifth section of the Principal Act, or any Act amending the same, or any part of such contribution or sum, it shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace for the county or place within which such parish or township is wholly or in part situate, upon information and complaint in writing, and after seven days notice in writing to be served upon such overseers or one of them, by warrant under his hand to levy such contribution or sum by distress and sale of the goods of the offender or offenders, together with all costs occasioned by the making of such complaint, service of such summons, and the obtaining and executing such warrant.

31 & 32 Vict. c. 58.

Appointment of revising barrister for borough in

more than one circuit.

Production of rate books by

Overseers.

Revising

barrister

may summon overseers, &c.

Application of certain rating sections to counties.

Expenses of

overseers and relieving officers.

[24. Numbers in polling booths.—-Repealed by Ballot Act, 1872.]

25. Where a borough is situated partly in one circuit and partly in another the judge of the circuit in which the greater part in extent of such borough is situate shall appoint the revising barrister for such borough.

[26. Power of clerk of peace in case of alteration of boundaries under Acts passed in 1867 or 1868.]

[27. Returning officer for Thirsk.]

28. The overseers of every parish or township shall produce to the barrister appointed to revise the lists of voters of any county, whilst holding his court for revising the lists relating to their parish or township, all rates made for the relief of the poor of their parish or township between the fifth day of January in the year then last past and the last day of July in the then present year; and any overseer wilfully refusing or neglecting to produce any such rates shall be deemed wilfully guilty of a breach of duty in the execution of the Principal Act, and be punishable accordingly.

See ss. 34 and 35 of the Act of 1843.

29. The barrister appointed to revise the lists of voters of any county, whilst holding his court for revising the lists relating to a parish or township, may require any overseer or overseers of a past year, or other person having the custody of any poor rate of the then current or any past year, or any relieving officer, to attend before him at any such court, and they shall attend accordingly, and answer all such questions as may be put to them by the barrister; and any overseer or relieving officer wilfully refusing or neglecting to comply with the requirements authorized to be made by the revising barrister in pursuance of this section shall be punishable in the same manner in which an overseer wilfully guilty of a breach of duty in the execution of the Principal Act is punishable under the Principal Act.

See ss. 34 and 35 of the Act of 1843.

30. The thirtieth section of the Act of the session of the second year of King William the Fourth, chapter forty-five, and the seventy-fifth section of the Principal Act, shall apply to all occupiers of premises capable of conferring the franchise for a county under the representation of the People Act, 1867.

See this section with notes, p. 20, ante.

31. All expenses properly incurred by an overseer in pursuance of this Act shall be deemed to be expenses properly incurred by him in carrying into effect the provisions of the Principal Act, and any expense incurred by any relieving officer in attending a revising barrister in pursuance of this Act (the amount to be certified by the revising barrister) shall be deemed to be ex

penses properly incurred by him in the execution of his duty as 31 & 32 Vict. relieving officer, and shall be defrayed accordingly.

See further as to expenses, s. 57 of the Act of 1843, and s. 30 of the Act of 1878. As to expenses of clerks of the peace and town clerks, see ss. 7 and 14 of the Act of 1885.

32. The certificate given to the overseers by the revising barrister under section fifty-seven of the Principal Act for the expenses incurred by them in carrying into effect the provisions of the Registration Acts shall be final and conclusive; provided nevertheless, that such certificate shall be signed by the revising barrister in open Court, and any ratepayer present shall have a right to inspect the account of expenses delivered in by the overseers, and to object to any item or items included therein, before such account is allowed by the revising barrister, who shall hear any such objection and make a decision respecting the same.

c. 58.

Certificate of revising expenses to be conclusive.

barrister as to

33. Whenever a borough returning a member or members to Returning serve in Parliament becomes a municipal borough the authority officer where of the person who may for the time being be acting as returning parliamentary borough officer shall cease, and the mayor shall take his place, subject becomes nevertheless to the repayment to such first-mentioned returning municipal. officer of any expenses properly incurred by him in the execution

of the duties of his office.

[34. Issue of precepts, &c., in case of altered or disfranchised boroughs.]

of altered

of counties and boroughs.

35. Where the boundary of any county or borough is altered Provision as to in pursuance of any Act passed during the present session of officers in case Parliament, any clerk of the peace, town clerk, returning officer, boundaries or other officer who would have jurisdiction in relation to the registration of voters, or in relation to the election of members to serve in Parliament, within such county or borough if it had remained unaltered, shall have jurisdiction over the area constituting such county or borough as altered by the said Act. [36. Scotland.]

37. The clerk of the peace of every county, and the town clerk or other officer having charge of the register of every city or borough respectively, shall in each and every year within twenty-one days after the first day of February transmit to one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State a printed copy of the register of voters then in force for such county, city, or borough.

Copies of registers to be

transmitted to Secretary of State.

36 & 37 Vict. c. 70.

Revising
Barristers.

Short title.

Repeal of Acts in schedule.

Power to Queen in Council to alter number of revising barristers.

Evening sittings of

revision court.

Adjournment

of court by revising barrister.

36 & 37 Vict. c. 70. Revising Barristers Act, 1873. An Act to amend the Law relating to the appointment of Revising Barristers and the holding of Revision Courts. [5th August, 1873. "Whereas it is expedient to amend the law relating to the appointment of revising barristers and the holding of revision courts;" BE IT ENACTED, as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as "The Revising Barristers Act, 1873."

2. The Acts specified in the schedule to this Act are hereby repealed from and after the passing of this Act to the extent specified in the third column of the schedule, without prejudice to anything done or suffered before the passing of this Act under the enactments hereby repealed.

3. Her Majesty by Order in Council may vary from time to time, either by way of increase or decrease, the number of revising barristers to be appointed for any counties, cities, boroughs, or places in pursuance of section twenty-eight of the Parliamentary Electors Registration Act, 1843, and the number fixed by such order shall be substituted for the number fixed by the said section, or by any previous Order in Council made under this or any other Act.

4. Every barrister appointed to revise the lists for a Parliamentary borough containing, according to the last census for the time being, more than ten thousand inhabitants, shall hold at least one evening sitting of his court in such borough.

An evening sitting shall commence not earlier than six nor later than seven o'clock in the evening, and shall be of such duration as, in the opinion of the revising barrister, shall be reasonable.

Special notice or notices of an evening sitting or of evening sittings to be held in a borough shall be published by the town clerk in such manner as the revising barrister may direct.

5. If a revising barrister is prevented by illness from holding a court at any place in a county or borough at the appointed time, he may, by notice in writing addressed to the clerk of the peace of such county, or town clerk of such borough, adjourn such court to some other day named in the notice, and the court shall be adjourned accordingly; and the clerk of the peace or town clerk on the receipt of such notice shall forthwith give public notice of such adjournment, in like manner as he gives notice of the time at which the revising barrister will hold his court.

A formal adjournment of the court of a revising barrister from day to day shall not be necessary, but the revision shall be deemed to be adjourned, and may be continued from day to day until concluded: Provided that no court shall be adjourned

under this section to any day later than the thirty-first day of 36 37 Vict. October in any year.

6. In this Act

The term "The Parliamentary Electors Registration Act, 1843," means the Act of 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":

The term " Parliamentary borough" and "Borough " mean a city or borough as defined by the Parliamentary Electors Registration Act, 1843:

The other terms used in this Act have the same meaning as in the Parliamentary Electors Registration Act, 1843, and the enactments amending the same.

7. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland.

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c. 70. Interpretation.

Extent of Act.

Order in Council under Revising Barristers Act, 1873.

July 9, 1885.

Whereas by the third section of the Revising Barristers Act, 1873, it was enacted that her Majesty, by Order in Council, might vary from time to time, either by way of increase or decrease, the number of revising barristers to be appointed for any counties, cities, boroughs, or places, in pursuance of s. 28 of the Parliamentary Electors Registration Act, 1843,* and * p. 87. that the number fixed by such Order should be substituted for the number fixed by the said section, or by any previous Order in Council made under the Revising Barristers Act, 1873, or any other Act:

And whereas by Order in Council dated the 27th day of June, 1876, the number of revising barristers was prescribed as set forth in the schedule of the same Order: (a)

(a) By the schedule to the Order of 27th of June, 1876, the numbers

were:

For Middlesex, 3; in Northern Circuit, 8; in North-Eastern Circuit, 10; in Midland Circuit, 13; in South

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