JULY-continued. Overseers should publish notices that non-payment before the 20th July of poor rates made during the twelve months immediately preceding the 5th January last will disqualify parliamentary ten pounds occupiers and householders, also burgesses and county electors. Notices should state that non-payment of assessed taxes will disqualify ten pounds occupiers for local government franchise, and for parliamentary occupation franchise in parliamentary boroughs; and non-payment of county rates will disqualify burgess occupiers under section 2 in counties, and non-payment of borough rates will disqualify burgesses not being ten pounds occupiers under section 3 Overseers should send notices to voters where rates have not been previously demanded AUGUST. 1st. (Note) County and borough lists of electors to be affixed to church doors (first two Sundays in August). Lodgers claiming for the first time must do so between this date and the 25th. Freemen's roll must be published on or before to-day. 10th.-Rate books may be inspected until 31st by voters and claimants 20th.-Last day for giving notices of claims and objections to county and borough voters to the overseers, persons objected to, and their tenants 25th.-Last day for serving objections to voters, and for claiming to vote On this day overseers should make up lists of all claims and objections in the form prescribed and send lists of electors, claims, and objections to town clerks 31st.- Last day for inspecting rate books SEPTEMBER. 1st.-Objections to voters to be affixed to church doors on two Sundays preceding the loth inst., aud jurors' lists on first three Sundays in September. Notice should be given of dates for holding revising barristers' courts (must be between 8th of this month and 12th October inclusive) 5th. Declarations under sections 10 of the County Voters' Registration Act, 1865 and section 24 of the Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act, 1878 should be sent to the clerk of the peace, or the town clerk respectively, on or before this date 8th.-Earliest day for holding revising barristers' courts 20th. The county lists and burgess rolls 24th.- Last day for delivering nominations of councillors to town clerk for elec- Notice of nomination to candidates for 25th.-Mayor must attend at town hall to 27th.--List of nominations for councillors should be published. Notice of polling places should be given not later than this datet 31st.Criminal returns should be sent to Home Secretary by clerks to justices NOVEMBER. 1st. The new burgess roll comes into operation (also county electors' lists for county councils) General election of borough councillors General election of county councillors every third year from 1891 inclusive 7th.-Quarterly-fixed-(and annual) meeting of county councils 9th.-Quarterly—fixed—(and annual) meeting of town councils to be held today at noon. First business: Election of mayor, followed by that of sheriff (where there is one); aldermen (every three years); and officers. Quarterly meetings to be fixed for year, and Committees appointed DECEMBER. 192 196 1 : 60 1-7 61 1-4 : : : : : : : : : :: :: * Extended in the year 1888 only. See also paragraph 2 of Part III. of the Third Schedule (page 72). 60 65 THE MUNICIPAL CITIES AND BOROUGHS OF ENGLAND AND WALES, Regulated and Governed under the Municipal Corporations Act of 1882, and subsequent Acts with the population (according to the Census of 1881), on September 1st, 1888. The area of certain Cities and Boroughs having been extended since 1881, the increased population, according to the census of that year, has been shewn in accordance with particulars supplied by local officials. The figures shew the population for the municipal area; those for the parliamentary area differ in some cases. + Prescriptive Cities only. Episcopal and Prescriptive Cities. (a) Cities and Boroughs (to have a Commission of the Peace) named in Schedules A, and (b) Cities and Boroughs (not to have a Commission of the Peace except on petition and grant) of Schedule B of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1835. (c) Cities and Boroughs incorporated after the passing of the Act 5 & 6 Will. 4. Act 45 & 46 Vict., c. 50 (1882). (Q.S.) indicates Boroughs having a separate Commission of the Peace and Court of Quarter Sessions. (CP) indicates Boroughs having a Commission of the Peace only (in practice the County Justices do not act in such Boroughs); in all others the County Magistrates do or can exercise a concurrent jurisdiction with the Mayor and immediate Past Mayor. |