and if clerks of the peace or town clerks have sent out precepts to the overseers The expressions "urban district" and "rural district" respectively mean an means, in the event of the establishment of a county authority, the person acting as clerk of that authority, and such person shall act as clerk of the peace throughout the whole county of such authority, both for the purposes of this Act and of the Registration of Electors Acts; subject nevertheless— (a) to the provisions of the Registration Act, 1885, respecting the case of (b) to the proviso that where at the passing of this Act any clerk of the 51 Vict. C. 10, S. 13. Definitions.] the year 1888. Sect. 15. In the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, notwith- Transitory standing anything in this Act or the enactments applied by this Act, the revision provisions as to of the lists of parliamentary voters and county electors may be later than the twelfth day of October, so that it be not later than the thirty-first day of October, and the register of county electors shall be completed on or before the thirty-first day of December in the said year, and shall come into operation on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and shall continue in operation until the next register of county electors comes in operation. In the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, notwithstanding anything in this Act or the enactments thereby applied, the clerk of the peace in a county may, if he thinks fit, instead of directing the occupiers list to be made out in three divisions as provided by the Registration of Electors Acts, direct the overseers to make supplemental lists containing the names which would otherwise be contained in division two and division three of the occupiers list respectively, and the names so contained in the supplemental list corresponding to division two shall be struck by the revising barrister out of division one of the list, and the supplemental list corresponding to division two or division three shall be treated as if it were division two or three of the said list, as the case may be. SCHEDULE. Registration Act, 1885. DEFINITION OF TEN POUNDS OCCUPATION QUALIFICATION. Section 3. A person entitled to be registered as a voter in respect of a ten pounds occupa- Ten pounds tion qualification in a borough, municipal or parliamentary--occupation (a.) must during the whole twelve months immediately preceding the fifteenth qualification. day of July have been an occupier as owner or tenant of some land or tenement in a parish [or township] of the clear yearly value of not less than ten pounds; and (b.) must have resided in or within seven miles of the borough during six months immediately preceding the fifteenth day of July; and 51 Vict C. 10, S. 3. (c.) Such person, or some one else, must during the said twelve months have been rated to all poor rates made in respect of such land or tenement; and (d.) All sums due in respect of the said land or tenement on account of any poor rate made and allowed during the twelve months immediately preceding the fifth day of January next before the registration, or on account of any assessed taxes due before the said fifth day of January, must have been paid on or before the twentieth day of July. If two or more persons jointly are such occupiers as above mentioned, and the value of the land or tenement is such as to give ten pounds or more for each occupier, each of such occupiers is entitled to be registered as a voter. If a person has occupied in the borough different lands or tenements of the requisite value in immediate succession during the said twelve months, he is entitled in respect of the occupation thereof to be registered as a voter in the parish [or township] in which the last occupied land or tenement is situate. Appendix B. LOCAL GOVERNMENT (ENGLAND AND WALES) ACT, 1888. [51 & 52 VICT. CH. 41.] An Act to amend the Laws relating to Local Government in England and Wales, and for other purposes connected therewith. BE [13th August, 1888.] E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: PART I. COUNTY COUNCILS. Constitution of County Council. Sect. 1. A council shall be established in every administrative county as Establishment of defined by this Act, and be entrusted with the management of the administrative county council. and financial business of that county, and shall consist of the chairman, aldermen, and councillors. Sect. 2.--(1.) The council of a county and the members thereof shall be constituted and elected and conduct their proceedings in like manner, and be in the like position in all respects, as the council of a borough divided into wards, subject nevertheless to the provisions of this Act, and in particular to the following provisions, that is to say : (2.) As respects the aldermen or councillors- (a.) clerks in holy orders and other ministers of religion shall not be disqualified for being elected and being aldermen or councillors; Composition and election of position of chairman. council and C. 50. (b.) a person shall be qualified to be an alderman or councillor who, though not qualified in manner provided by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, 45 & 46 Vict. as applied by this Act, is a peer owning property in the county, or is registered as a parliamentary voter in respect of the ownership of property of whatsoever tenure situate in the county; (c.) the aldermen shall be called county aldermen, and the councillors shall (d.) the county councillors shall be elected for a term of three years, and shall (3.) As respects the number of the county councillors, and the boundaries of the Transfer to county council business of (a.) the number of the county councillors, and their apportionment between each of the boroughs which have sufficient population to return one councillor and the rest of the county, shall be such as the Local Government Board may determine; and (b.) any borough returning one councillor only shall be an electoral division; and (c.) in the rest of the county the electoral divisions shall be such as in the case of a borough returning more than one councillor the council of the borough, and in the rest of the county the quarter sessions for the county, may determine, subject in either case to the directions enacted by this Act; and in the case of elections after the first, to any alterations made, in accordance with the said directions, in manner in this Act mentioned : (4.) As respects the electors of the county councillors the persons entitled to vote at their election shall be, in a borough, the burgesses enrolled in pursuance of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, and the Acts amending the same, and elsewhere the persons registered as county electors under the County Electors Act, 1888: (5.) As respects the chairman of the county council (a.) he shall be called chairman instead of mayor; and (b.) he shall, by virtue of his office, be a justice of the peace for the county; but before acting as such justice he shall, if he has not already done so, take the oaths required by law to be taken by a justice of the peace other than the oath respecting the qualification by estate. (6.) The county council may from time to time appoint a member of the council to be vice-chairman, to hold office during the term of office of the chairman, and, subject to any rules made from time to time by the county council, anything authorised or required to be done by, to, or before the chairman may be done by, to, or before such vice-chairman. Powers of County Council. Sect. 3. There shall be transferred to the council of each county on and after of administrative the appointed day, the administrative business of the justices of the county in quarter sessions assembled, that is to say, all business done by the quarter sessions quarter sessions. or any committee appointed by the quarter sessions, in respect of the several matters following, namely, 42 & 43 Vict. c. 18. 41 & 42 Vict. C. 77. (i.) The making, assessing, and levying of county, police, hundred, and all rates, and the application and expenditure thereof, and the making of orders for the payment of sums payable out of any such rate or out of the county stock or county fund, and the preparation and revision of the basis or standard for the county rate; (ii.) The borrowing of money; (iii.) The passing of the accounts of and the discharge of the county treasurer ; (v.) The licensing under any general Act of houses and other places for music or (vi.) The provision, enlargement, maintenance, management, and visitation of and other dealing with asylums for pauper lunatics; (vii.) The establishment and maintenance of and the contribution to reformatory and industrial schools; (viii.) Bridges and roads repairable with bridges, and any powers vested by the Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act, 1878, in the county authority; (ix.) The tables of fees to be taken by and the costs to be allowed to any inspector, analyst, or person holding any office in the county other than the clerk of the peace and the clerks of the justices; (x.) The appointment, removal, and determination of salaries, of the county (xii.) The division of the county into polling districts for the purposes of par- Sect. 4. Where it appears to the Local Government Board that any powers, duties, or liabilities of any quarter sessions or justices, or any committee thereof, under any local Act are similar in character to the powers, duties, and liabilities transferred to county councils by this Act, or relate to property transferred to a county council by this Act, the Board may, if they think fit, make a Provisional Order for transferring such powers, duties, and liabilities to the county council. county council. Sect. 5.-(1.) After the appointed day a coroner for a county shall not be Appointment of elected by the freeholders of the county, and on any vacancy occurring in the coroners by office of a coroner for a county, who is elected to that office in pursuance of a writ de coronatore eligendo, a like writ for the election of a successor shall be directed to the county council of the county instead of to the sheriff, and the county council shall thereupon appoint a fit person, not being a county alderman or county councillor, to fill such office, and in the case of a county divided into coroners districts shall assign him a district; and any person so appointed shall have like powers and duties, and be entitled to like remuneration, as if he had been elected coroner for the county by the freeholders thereof. (2.) Where the district of any such coroner is situate wholly within any adminis trative county, the council of that county shall, subject as hereinafter mentioned, appoint the coroner. (3.) Where the district of any such coroner is situate partly in one and partly in another administrative county forming part of an entire county, the joint committee for the entire county may arrange for the alteration in manner provided by law of the district, so that, on the next avoidance of the office of coroner of that district, or at any earlier time fixed by the joint committee when the alteration is made, the coroner's district shall not be situate in more than one administrative county. (4.) Until such arrangement is made, the joint committee for the entire county shall appoint the coroner for the said district, and the amount payable in respect of the salary, fees, and expenses of such coroner shall be defrayed in like manner as costs of the joint committee are directed by this Act to be defrayed. (5.) Nothing in this Act respecting the appointment of a coroner shall alter the jurisdiction of a coroner for the entire county, or any power of removing such coroner, whether by writ de coronatore exonerando or otherwise, and all writs for |