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all constables and officers of the peace of the county, borough, or place where the person adjudged guilty of contempt may be found, and such warrant shall be sufficient without further particularity, and shall and may be executed by the persons to whom it is directed or any or either of them.

57. All interlocutory questions and matters, except as to the sufficiency of the security, shall be heard and disposed of before a judge, who shall have the same control over the proceedings under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, as a judge in the ordinary proceedings of the High Court, and such questions and matters shall be heard and disposed of by any judge of the High Court.

58. Notice of an application for leave to withdraw a petition shall be in writing and signed by the petitioners or their agent.

It shall state the ground on which the application is intended to be supported.

The following form shall be sufficient:

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO WITHDRAW A PETITION.

Borough of

day of

Municipal Corporations Act, 1882.

Petition of [state petitioners]

presented

The petitioner proposes to apply to withdraw his petition upon the following ground [here state the ground] and prays that a date may be appointed for hearing his application.

Dated this

day of

(Signed)

59. The notice of application for leave to withdraw shall be left at the master's office.

60. A copy of such notice of the intention of the petitioner to apply for leave to withdraw his petition shall be given by the petition er to the respondent, and to the town clerk, who shall cause the same to be published in the borough to which it relates.

The following may be the form of such notice:

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO WITHDRAW A PETITION, TO BE
PUBLISHED BY THE TOWN CLERK.

Municipal Corporations Act, 1882.

In the election petition for

respondent.

in which

is petitioner and

day of

Notice is hereby given that the above petitioner has on the

lodged at the Master's office notice of an application to withdraw the petition, of which notice the following is a copy [set it out].

And take notice that by the rule made by the judges, any person who might have been a petitioner in respect of the said election may, within five days after publication by the town clerk of this notice, give notice in writing of his intention on the hearing to apply for leave to be substituted as a petitioner.

(Signed)

61. Any person who might have been a petitioner in respect of the election to which the petition relates, may, within five days after such notice is published by the returning officer, give notice, in writing, signed by him or on his behalf, to the master of his intention to apply at the hearing to be. substituted for the petitioner, but the want of such notice shall not defeat such application, if in fact made at the hearing.

62. The time and place for hearing the application shall be fixed by a judge, and whether before the High Court, or before a judge, as he may deem advisable, but shall not be less than a week after the notice of the intention to apply has been given to the master as herein before provided, and notice of the time and place appointed for the hearing shall be given to such person or persons, if any, as shall have given notice to the master of an intention to

apply to be substituted as petitioners, and otherwise in such manner and at such time as the court or judge directs.

63. Notice of abatement of a petition, by death of the petitioner or surviving petitioner, under sect. 96, sub-sect. 1, of the said Act, shall be given by the party or person interested in the same manner as a notice of an application to withdraw a petition, and the time within which application may be made to the High Court, or a judge thereof, by motion or summons at chambers, to be substituted as a petitioner, shall be one calendar month, or such further time as upon consideration of any special circumstances the High Court or a judge thereof may allow.

64. If the respondent dies, any person entitled to be a petitioner under the Act in respect of the election to which the petition relates, may give notice of the fact in the borough by causing such notice to be published in at least one newspaper circulating therein, if any, and by leaving a copy of such notice signed by him or on his behalf with the town clerk, and a like copy with the master.

65. The manner of the respondent's giving notice that he does not intend to oppose the petition shall be by leaving notice thereof in writing at the office of the master signed by the respondent.

66. Upon such notice being left at the master's office, the master shall forthwith send a copy thereof by the post to the petitioner or his agent, and to the town clerk, who shall cause the same to be published in the borough.

67. The time for applying to be admitted as a respondent in either of the events mentioned in the 97th section of the Act shall be within ten days after such notice is given as herein before directed, or such further time as the High Court or a judge thereof may allow.

68. Costs shall be taxed by the master, or at his request by any master of the superior court upon the rule of court or judge's order by which the costs are payable, and costs when taxed may be recovered in like manner as if payable under a rule of court, judgment, or order of a judge in the ordinary proceedings in the High Court of Justice, or in case there be money in the bank available for the purpose, then to the extent of such money by order of the Lord Chief Justice of England for the time being.

The office fees payable for inspection, office copies, enrolment, and other proceedings under the Act and these rules, shall be the same as those payable, if any, for like proceedings according to the present practice of the High Court of Justice.

69. No proceedings under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, shall be defeated by any formal objection.

70. Any rule made or to be made in pursuance of the Act shall be published by a copy thereof being put up at the master's office.

Dated the 17th day of April, 1883.

C. E. POLLOCK.

H. MANISTY.
HENRY C. LOPES.

The judges for the time being on the rota for the

trial of Parliamentary Election Petitions.

TIME TABLE

SHEWING THE DATES (DEFINITE AND APPROXIMATE) UPON WHICH CERTAIN
REQUIREMENTS OF THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT, 1882 (AND OTHER
ACTS IMPOSING DUTIES UPON BOROUGH OFFICIALS) SHOULD BE OBSERVED
AND EFFECTED.

Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, and Easter Tuesday, or any day appointed for a public fast, humiliation, or thanksgiving, is not to be computed. If a date specified for any particular act or proceeding required to be done falls on either of these days, then the act or proceeding is to be taken on the next day afterwards. If anything is directed to be done within seven days, then those days are not to be reckoned in the computation of time (section 230, subsections 1, 2, and 3), and the same provision applies to the day or date on which any Act is appointed to be done. It must be noted that where specified dates are given in this Table, they are governed by the operation of the section referred to.

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JANUARY.

1st.-Copy rules, &c., respecting police to be sent to the Secretary of State by Watch Committee

Council to appoint trustees for special purposes from their number within the first ten days

List of voters (parliamentary, county electors, and burgesses) comes into force 7th.-Registrars of Births and Deaths to

transmit to overseers on or before this
day, a return of all male persons
dying within a parish included in a
parliamentary or municipal borough
during the period between 15th
September, or the date when the last
preceding return was made, and
the 31st December

.

FEBRUARY.

1st.-Coroners to send to the Secretary of State, on or before this date, a return of inquests held

18th.-Town Clerk should give notice of election of auditors for 1st March not later than this date.

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20th. Assessed taxes and poor rates due Jan. 5th to be paid on or before this day to prevent disqualification for voting

Last day in counties to claim as owner for parliamentary vote (claims to be published until 25th)

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Clerks of the peace to issue precepts to overseers to make out jury lists 22nd. Overseers to make out (and publish for 14 days) list of rate defaulters 25th.-Lodgers already on parliamentary list must renew their claim not later than this day 31st.-Overseers in counties to make out occupiers' lists in divisions or with supplemental lists; also separate lists of non-residents qualified to be county councillors, and lists of parliamentary ownership claimants and old lodgers, with marginal objections

Overseers in boroughs to make out occupiers' list in divisions, old lodgers' list with marginal objections, reserved rights' list, if any, aldermen and councillors' list, and parish burgess lists; the town clerk must make out the freemen's roll

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