Voters may in another district in certain cases. ninth section of the seventy-eighth chapter of the statute passed in the fifth and sixth years of his said Majesty, respecting freeholders in counties. VI. Any county voter, not being a freeholder, and not claim to vote resident in the district containing the premises in respect of which he claims to vote, may make application, in person or by writing, to the sheriff, at the registration court of the county, to be entitled to poll at the polling place nearest to his residence; and the sheriff, on being satisfied of the truth of the statements of such voter, shall insert in the list against the name of the voter making such application the name of the polling place at which such person shall be registered to vote; and such voter shall thereafter be entitled to vote at such polling place, and shall not be at liberty to poll at any other polling place for the same county. Provision for non-resident voters, with VII. Where the polling place for a district containing the premises in respect of which any voter claims to vote shall island quali- be in an island distant more than ten miles from the mainland of the county, such voter, not being resident in the island, may poll at the polling place for the district in which the county town is included. fications. Declaration certain cases. VIII. With respect to section thirty-three of the said of the poll in first-mentioned statute, be it enacted, that where the sheriff shall not have received the poll books transmitted from any island within the time therein limited for the opening thereof, the sheriff may adjourn the court for the declaration of the state and result of the poll from day to day, omitting Sunday, and shall either at the first of such adjourned courts after the receipt of such poll books, or at the expiration of twelve days from the first court so adjourned (whichever shall happen first) proceed to declare the poll, and make proclamation and a return in the manner therein mentioned. Poll to be kept open IX. No poll at any election for any county shall be kept open for more than one day, and that only between the only one day hours of eight in the morning and four in the afternoon: provided always, that at any time after a poll has been de manded the poll at any one place may be closed, if all the candidates or their agents and the sheriff or his substitute shall agree in so closing it: provided also, that when the proceedings at any election shall be interrupted or obstructed by any riot or open violence, whether such proceedings shall consist of the nomination of candidates, or of the taking the poll, the sheriff or his substitute at the place where the riot or open violence has occurred may adjourn Order and manner of polling. the nomination or the taking the poll at the particular polling place or places at which such riot or open violence shall have happened to the following day or some other convenient time, and if necessary may repeat such adjournment till such interruption or obstruction shall have ceased, he always giving notice to the sheriff or his substitute who is to make the return of such adjournment having been made; and the state of the poll shall not be finally declared, nor the result of the election proclaimed, until the poll so interrupted or obstructed shall be closed and transmitted to the sheriff or his substitute who is to make the return. two days land. X. That in respect of the remote situation of certain Poll to be parts of the county of Orkney and Shetland, and the occa- kept open sional difficult intercommunication therein, nothing in this in Orkney act contained shall alter the provisions of the said recited and Shetact so far as relates to the keeping open of the poll for two consecutive days as heretofore; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to exclude the said county of Orkney and Shetland from any of the benefits or obligations of the other portions of this act. XI. The word "burgh" in this act shall include every Meaning of city, burgh, town, or district of cities, burghs, or towns, "burgh." entitled to return or to contribute to return a member to Parliament. 16 & 17 VICT. c. 68. An Act to limit the Time for proceeding to Election in Counties and Boroughs in England and Wales, and for Polling at Elections for the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and for other Purposes. [15th August, 1853.] Whereas it is expedient to alter the law respecting the Sheriff's to make elec counties only. Writs for election in Universities of Oxford and &c. to be directed to the returning officers thereof. and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that I. The writ for any election hereafter to be directed to tion for their the sheriff of any county in England or Wales (other than the county of a city or of a town) shall require such sheriff to cause election to be made of a knight or knights to serve in Parliament for such county, and for any riding, parts, or division thereof only, and not further or otherwise; the writ for making any election of a member or members to serve in Parliament for the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Cambridge, and for every borough, town corporate, port, or place returning members to serve in Parliament in England and Wales, shall hereafter be directed to the vice chancellors of the said Universities, and to the returning officers of such boroughs, towns corporate, ports, and places respectively, and such vice chancellors and returning officers shall thereupon in due course of law proceed to election, and after such election certify the same, together with the Writs, &c. to writ, according to the directions thereof; all such writs be inade con- hereafter to be issued, and all mandates, precepts, instruments, proceedings, and notices consequent upon such writs. shall be and the same are hereby authorized to be framed and expressed in such manner and form as may be neces sary for carrying the provisions of this act into effect. formable to this act. Elections in counties to be not later than nor sooner than the sixth day after the sheriff's proclamation. II. Whereas by the fourth section of the act of the twenty-fifth George the Third, chapter eighty-four, it is provided, that immediately after the receipt of the writ for the twelfth making any election of a knight or knights to serve in Parliament for any county or shire in England or Wales, and endorsing on the back thereof the day of receiving the same, as by law required, it should and might be lawful for the sheriff of such county and he is thereby required, within two days after the receipt thereof, to cause proclamation to be made at the place where the ensuing election ought by law to be holden of a special county court to be there holden for the purpose of such election only on any day (Sunday excepted) not later from the day of making such proclamation than the sixteenth day nor sooner than the tenth day and whereas it is expedient to limit the time for proceeding to such elections: be it therefore enacted, that hereafter any such special county court for the purpose of the election of a knight or knights to serve in Parliament for any county, riding, parts, or division of any county in England or Wales shall be holden on any day (Sunday, Good Friday, and Christmas day excepted) not later from the day of making such proclamation than the twelfth day nor sooner than the sixth day: provided that this section, shall not apply to the election for any county of a city or of a town. be within six days notice III. That the act of the third and fourth Victoria, chapter Elections in eighty-one, be and the same is hereby repealed, and in cities, &c. to every city or town being a county of itself, and in every days after borough, town corporate, port, or place, returning or con- receipt of tributing to return a member or members to serve in Par- writ, three liament in England and Wales, the officer to whom the duty being given. of giving notice for the election of such member or members belongs shall proceed to election within six days after the receipt of the writ or precept, giving three clear days notice at least of the day of election, exclusive of the day of proclamation and the day of election. sities to con IV. At any election of a member or members to serve in Polling at Parliament for either of the Universities of Oxford and the UniverCambridge the polling shall not continue for more than five tinue five days at the most, Sunday, Christmas day, Good Friday, and days only. Ascension day being excluded. cellors to ap appoint pro V. At every such election the vice chancellor shall have Vice Chanpower to appoint any number of polling places not expoint addiceeding three, in addition to the House of Convocation or tional polling Senate House, and to direct at which of such polling places places, and the members of convocation and of the senate according to vice chantheir colleges shall vote, and also to appoint any number of cellors, &c. pro vice chancellors, any one of whom may receive the for conductvotes and decide upon all questions during the absence of such vice chancellor; and such vice chancellor shall have power to appoint any number of poll clerks and other officers, by one or more of whom the votes shall be entered in such number of poll books as shall be judged necessary by such vice chancellor. ing the poll. inns, &c. without con VI. No poll at any election for members of Parliament Polls not to in England and Wales shall be taken at any inn, hotel, be taken at tavern, public house, or other premises licensed for the sale of beer, wine, or spirits, or in any booth, hall, room, or sent of all other place directly communicating therewith, unless by the candiconsent of all the candidates expressed in writing. dates. VII. It shall be lawful for her Majesty, by and with the Power for advice of her privy council from time to time hereafter, on her Majesty. petition from the justices in quarter sessions assembled of on petition of justices, any county, riding, parts, or division of any county, other to direct that than any county of a city or of a town, in England and polling place in counties shall cease to be such, other places and that be substi tuted in lieu thereof. Proceedings upon the Wales, representing that it would be expedient that any polling place or places mentioned in the said petition should cease to be such, and that any other place or places mentioned in the said petition should be substituted in lieu thereof, and praying that such alteration and substitution might be made, to declare that the said alteration and substitution shall be made in respect of all or any of the places mentioned in the said petition; and the said declara tion shall be certified under the hand of one of the clerks in ordinary of her Majesty's Privy Council, and when so certified shall be published in the London Gazette, and shall then be of the same force and effect as if the same had been expressly made by the authority of Parliament. VIII. Provided always, that the notice of and proceedsaid petition ings to be had upon any such petition shall be according to to be as pro- the provisions of the second section of the one hundred and of 6 & 7 Wm. second chapter of the statute of the sixth and seventh years 4. c. 102. of King William the Fourth in respect of the petition therein mentioned. vided by s. 2, Repeal of acts in the schedule. 17 & 18 VICT. C. 102. An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Bribery, Whereas the laws now in force for preventing corrupt I. The several acts of Parliament mentioned in the schedule (A) hereto annexed shall be repealed to the extent specified concerning the same acts respectively in the third column of the said schedule. |