A Manual of the Practice of Elections in the United Kingdom. With an Appendix of Statutes and Forms |
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... AND AFTER ELECTION : -Nomination Day - The Poll - The Return - Election Expenses 9 18 64 CHAPTER V. CORRUPT PRACTICES : -Bribery - Treating - Undue In- fluence .. 103 APPENDIX : List of Persons ineligible for House of Com-
... AND AFTER ELECTION : -Nomination Day - The Poll - The Return - Election Expenses 9 18 64 CHAPTER V. CORRUPT PRACTICES : -Bribery - Treating - Undue In- fluence .. 103 APPENDIX : List of Persons ineligible for House of Com-
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... nomination in West- minster Hall.1 In an Eng- lish , or Welsh , city or borough : In a Scotch constituency : In an Irish constituency : As to a vacancy in the office in an English , or Welsh , city or borough , it is provided that ...
... nomination in West- minster Hall.1 In an Eng- lish , or Welsh , city or borough : In a Scotch constituency : In an Irish constituency : As to a vacancy in the office in an English , or Welsh , city or borough , it is provided that ...
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... nomination ( excepting only the guards attending the Sovereign or royal family , or the soldiers stationed in the Bank of Eng- land ) , shall go out of his barrack , or quarters , except to mount or relieve guard , or , if a voter , to ...
... nomination ( excepting only the guards attending the Sovereign or royal family , or the soldiers stationed in the Bank of Eng- land ) , shall go out of his barrack , or quarters , except to mount or relieve guard , or , if a voter , to ...
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... nominated as candidates at such election ( unless nominated without their own consent ) ; or who declare themselves candi- dates on , or after , the issue of the writ , or after the dissolution , or vacancy , in consequence of which the ...
... nominated as candidates at such election ( unless nominated without their own consent ) ; or who declare themselves candi- dates on , or after , the issue of the writ , or after the dissolution , or vacancy , in consequence of which the ...
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... nomination , or poll , in case of interruption , or obstruction , by riots , or open violence . And it is , further , his duty , in the Sheriff's absence , to record specially in the poll - book , as " disallowed , " the votes tendered ...
... nomination , or poll , in case of interruption , or obstruction , by riots , or open violence . And it is , further , his duty , in the Sheriff's absence , to record specially in the poll - book , as " disallowed , " the votes tendered ...
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adjourn affirmation aforesaid agent Ante APPENDIX appointed Aylesbury behalf borough bribery burgh candidate CHAP Chiltern Hundreds cities or towns Clerk Commissioners common law contest Corrupt Practices counties of cities Cricklade Crown day of election day's polling declared delivered Deputy didate disqualified district ditto Dungarvan duties elec England and Wales English or Welsh expenses forthwith Frederick Dean freeholder freemen guilty Hempholme House ineligible Ireland Irish counties Irish elections issue John Purse liable Lord members to serve ment nomination day notice number of booths oath offence payment penalty perjury place of election places for polling poll being demanded poll-books poll-clerk polling-place Postmaster precept proclamation procure receipt Returning Officer Returning Officer's Rogers Scotch counties Scotland seal seat serve in Parliament Sheriff statute tendered thereof tion undue influence Universities of Oxford unless vacancy Vict voter voting paper Welsh Welsh boroughs writ
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Page xxiv - Every person who shall directly or indirectly by himself, or by any other person on his behalf make use of, or threaten to make use of any force, violence, or restraint, or inflict or threaten the infliction by himself or by or through any other person of any temporal or spiritual injury, damage, harm, or loss...
Page xxi - Pounds over and above all Rents and Charges payable out of or in respect of the same...
Page xxiv - Bribery, and shall be punishable accordingly: 1. Every Voter who shall, before or during any Election, directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other Person on his Behalf, receive, agree, or contract for any Money, Gift, Loan, or valuable Consideration, Office, Place, or Employment, for himself or for any other Person, for voting or agreeing to vote, or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting, at any Election: 2.
Page vii - Third, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four.
Page 116 - Consideration, to or for any Voter, or to or for any Person on behalf of any Voter, or to or for any other Person...
Page xxxix - ... on the ground that the answer thereto may criminate or tend to criminate himself...
Page xxiii - Parliament, or the vote of any voter at any election. (5.) Every person who shall advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any money to or to the use of any other person with the intent that such money, or any part thereof, shall be expended in bribery at any election...
Page xxiii - Election: 3. Every Person who shall, directly or indirectly, by himself, or by any other Person on his Behalf, make any such Gift, Loan, Offer, Promise, Procurement, or Agreement as aforesaid, to or for any Person, in order to induce such Person to procure, or endeavour to procure, the Return of any Person to serve in Parliament, or the Vote of any Voter at any Election: 4.
Page 101 - ... incur a penalty not exceeding five pounds for every day during which it is so in operation.
Page 77 - ... 1. Are you the same person whose name appears as AB on the register of voters now in force for the county of [or for the riding...