A BIL L To continue an Act for amending the Law for the Trial of Controverted Elections. [Note. The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.] 5 HEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament Preamble: Wholder in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of Her pre 4 & 5 Vict. c. 58. sent Majesty, intituled, "An Act to amend the Law for the Trial of Controverted Elections :" And whereas the said recited Act will expire at the End of the present Session of Parliament, and it is expedient to continue the same; Be it therefore 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, THAT the Act con10 said recited Act shall continue in force until the Thirty-first day of July One thousand eight hundred and Forty-three, and if Parliament be then sitting, to the End of the then Session of Parliament. tinued. A BILL To prevent Persons in England and Wales from losing their 5 [Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.] W HEREAS by the Act passed in the Session of Parliament Preamble. holden in the second and third years of the reign of his late Majesty King WILLIAM the Fourth, intituled, "An Act to amend the Representation of the People in England and Wales," it is amongst other things enacted, that in every City or Borough which shall return a Member or Members to serve in Parliament, every male person of full age, and not subject to any legal incapacity, who shall occupy within such City or Borough, or within any place sharing in the Election for such City or Borough, as owner or tenant, any 10 house, warehouse, counting-house, shop or other building, being either separately or jointly with any Land within such City, Borough or Place occupied therewith by him as owner, or as tenant under the same landlord, of the clear yearly value of not less than Ten Pounds, shall, if duly registered according to the provisions thereinafter 15 contained, be entitled to vote in the Election of a Member or Members to serve in Parliament for such City or Borough; and in the said Act are contained various provisions for annually making a Register of the names of the persons entitled to vote as such occupiers as aforesaid, in the Election of a Member or Members to serve in Parliament for 20 every City and Borough in England and Wales : And whereas questions often arise as to the right of voting of persons whose names have been duly placed on the Register of Voters as such occupiers as aforesaid, by reason of their not con 1. Electors not to lose right of voting on account of removal after Registration. 2. The Third Question required by the Reform Bill not to be put to tinuing to have at the time of tendering their Votes at any Election, the same Qualifications in respect of which their names were respectively placed on the said Register; and such questions often give rise to great and vexatious expense; BE it therefore Enacted, by The QUEEN's most Excellent 5 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, THAT every person whose name shall hereafter be duly placed on any Register of Voters for any City or Borough in England and Wales, as the occupier of any such house, 10 warehouse, counting-house, shop or other building as aforesaid, being either separately or jointly with such land as aforesaid, of the clear yearly value of Ten Pounds, shall at all times after the making of such Register, and so long as the same Register shall be in force as the Register of Voters for such City, Borough or Place, be entitled to vote 15 in the Election of a Member or Members to serve in Parliament for such City or Borough, although such person may subsequently to the formation of such Register, and previously to tendering his Vote, have ceased to occupy the whole or any part of the premises in respect of which his name shall have been placed on such Register. 20 And be it Enacted, That no Returning Officer, or his Deputy, shall at the time of the polling at any Election for any City or Borough be entitled to put to any person registered and tendering his Vote as such occupier as aforesaid, and no such person voting or tendering have removed. his Vote shall be bound to answer the Third Question by the said Act 25 authorized to be put at the time of polling. Electors who 3. Act may be amended in present Session. And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed during the present Session of Parliament. |