before the presiding Officer truly and indifferently to take the same, and to set down the Name of each Voter, and the Situation of the Premises occupied by him in respect of which he claims to vote, and the Name of the Person or Persons for whom he votes, and to poll no 5 Person who does not answer any Question hereby authorized to be put to him at the Time of tendering his Vote; and it shall be lawful for the presiding Officer at any such Election to appoint such and so many Polling Places as in his Judgment are necessary, giving such public Notice of such Places as such presiding Officer may deem 10 necessary, and shall appoint some Person to act as his Deputy at each such Polling Place.

except as to

XXI. No Inquiry shall be permitted at any such Election as to the No Inquiry Right of any Person to vote, except only as follows; (that is to say,) of the Voter, the presiding Officer or his respective Deputy shall, if required by his Identity, 15 any Two Persons entitled to vote, put to any Voter at the Time tendering his Vote, and not afterwards, the following Questions or either of them; (that is to say,).

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of

and whether before at the

he has voted

same Election.

of Forms of

Are you the Person whose Name appears as A.B. on the List
Voters now in force for this Ward, being inserted therein as Questions.
occupying and rated for Property described to be situated

in [here specify the Street, &c. as described in the List of
Voters]?

Have you already voted at the present Election?

And no Person required to answer either of the said Questions shall 25 be permitted or qualified to vote until he have answered the same; and if any Person wilfully make a false Answer to either of the Questions aforesaid he shall be deemed guilty of a Misdemeanor, and may be indicted and punished accordingly.

XXII. After the Poll is finished, the Poll Books shall be sealed 30 up by the presiding Officer, or his Deputy, (as the Case may require,) and shall within Two Days thereafter be publicly opened at the Place of Election, and be duly and truly cast up, and within Two Days after such casting up the Numbers of the Votes for each Candidate shall be truly, fairly, and publicly declared to the Electors at the 35 Place of Election by the presiding Officer.

When the

Poll is to be declared.

in the Year Existing all Aldermen and Aldermen and Common

One thousand eight hundred and fifty Common Councilmen of the City, other than such Persons as have Councilmen been elected such Aldermen and Common Councilmen at the First to go out of Office. 40 Elections for the several Wards of the City under this Act, shall cease to be such Aldermen and Common Councilmen, and their

Manner of proceeding if a Person

Duties and Powers shall be determined, but the Lord Mayor of the City shall continue to hold his Office, and to have and exercise all his Duties and Powers as Lord Mayor, until such Time as he would have gone out of Office if this Act had not been passed.

XXIV. If at any Election under this Act any Person be elected an 5 Alderman or Common Councilman in more than One Ward, or be be elected an elected an Alderman in One or more Wards and a Common Council

Common

One Ward.

Alderman or man in any other Ward or Wards, he shall, within Three Days after Councilman the Declaration of such Election, or if by reason of a Poll the in more than Result of the Election be not declared in every such Ward on the 10 same Day, then within Three Days after the Declaration of the Election in the Ward in which the Result of the Election shall be last declared, notify in Writing under his Hand to the Lord Mayor for which of the Wards for which he is so elected he chooses to serve as such Alderman or Common Councilman, and in default of his so 15 doing the Lord Mayor shall in Writing under his Hand declare for which of the Wards for which such Person is so elected he shall serve as such Alderman or Common Councilman, and such Person shall be deemed to be elected such Alderman or Common Councilman for the Ward for which he so notifies his Choice to serve, or for which 20 the Lord Mayor so declares he is to serve, and some other Person or Persons shall forthwith be elected in his Place in the other Ward or Wards for which he was elected.

Term of
Office of
Common

men.

Day of

in 25

Day of

and in every

XXV. The Common Councilmen elected as aforesaid in any Year shall go out of Office on the Councilmen the Year next following; and upon the and Alder- in the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty- -· Third succeeding Year, One Half of the whole Number of Aldermen to be elected under this Act shall go out of Office; and the Aldermen first elected under this Act shall determine by Lot among themselves 30 which of them shall constitute the Half to go out of Office in the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty- and thereafter the Aldermen to go out of Office shall always be those who have been longest in Office as Aldermen without Re-election.

Lord Mayor. and Alder

men to be Justices.

Day of

One thousand eight hun- 35 the Lord Mayor of the City shall be elected by

XXVII. The Lord Mayor shall be a Justice of the Peace of and for the City while he continues Lord Mayor, and for One Year after he ceases to be Lord Mayor, unless disqualified as herein provided; 40

and

and every Alderman elected under this Act shall be a Justice of the Peace of and for the City while he continues Alderman; and every Lord Mayor and Alderman for the Time being shall, as such Justice of the Peace, have and exercise all such Jurisdiction, Powers, 5 and Authorities as are now vested in the Lord Mayor and any such Alderman respectively as such Justice, save as otherwise provided by this Act.

in the Year One and in every succeeding Year,

Three Auditors to be elected

thousand eight hundred and fifty10 the Persons entitled to vote in such Election under this Act shall elect, annually. by a Majority of Votes, Three Auditors, and such Auditors shall continue in Office until the Day of in the Year following their Election Provided always, that no Person shail vote for more than One Person to be Auditor, and that no Person shall be capable of being 15 elected Auditor who is in the Common Council, or Town Clerk or Chamberlain of the City, and that no Person who is such Auditor shall be capable of being elected a Member of the Common Council.

Elections

XXIX. The Provisions herein-before contained with regard to Provisions the Mode of Election of Aldermen and Common Councilmen, and as to Ward 20 the Appointment of the Place of Election, and of a Person to preside to apply to at each such Election, and the demanding and taking a Poll, and Election of generally in relation thereto, shall apply to and in the Case of the Auditors. Election of Auditors, with such Variation as the different Nature of the Election may require.

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XXX. Any Lord Mayor, Alderman, Common Councilman, or Persons vaAuditor, going out of Office, shall, if qualified, be capable of imme- enting Office diate Re-election.

may be

re-elected.

XXXI. When any Alderman, Common Councilman, or Auditor Casual Vaelected under this Act ceases to be such Alderman, Common cancies. 30 Councilman, or Auditor otherwise than by the Expiration by Effluxion of Time of his Term of Office, some other Person shall with all convenient Speed be elected in his Place; and every Alderman, Common Councilman, and Auditor elected to supply any such Vacancy as aforesaid shall go out of Office when the Term of Office 35 of the Alderman, Common Councilman, or Auditor in whose Place he is elected would have expired by Effluxion of Time.

Time and

XXXII. The Lord Mayor shall, in every Case where the Time Lord Mayor or Place of any Election directed under this Act is not appointed to appoint in this Act, appoint the Time or Place of such Election, and shall Place of

Election

where not appointed in the Act.

Who are not qualified to be chosen

Common

cause such public Notice to be given of the Time and Place so appointed as he may deem necessary; and such Election shall be holden, and the Voting and Proceedings thereat shall be conducted, and in case a Poll be demanded as herein-before mentioned such Poll shall be taken on the Day next following, in manner herein provided 5 with respect to the Elections on the Days fixed by this Act.

XXXIII. No Person, being in Holy Orders, or being the regular Minister of any Dissenting Congregation, shall be elected or be Lord Lord Mayor, Mayor, or an Alderman, Common Councilman, or Auditor of the Aldermen, City; and no Person shall be elected or be such Lord Mayor, 10 Councilmen, Alderman, Common Councilman, or Auditor, unless he be on the or Auditors. List of Voters for some Ward in the City, and be seised or possessed of Real or Personal Estate, or both, to the Amount of One thousand Pounds, or be rated to the Police Rate of the City upon the annual Value of not less than Thirty Pounds; and no Person 15 shall be elected or be such Lord Mayor, Alderman, Common Councilman, or Auditor, during such Time as he holds any Office or Place of Profit (other than that of Lord Mayor or Sheriff) in the Gift or Disposal of the Corporation of the City, or during such Time as he or his Partner has directly or indirectly any Share or Interest in 20 any Contract or Employment by, with, or on behalf of the said Corporation: Provided always, that no Person, being a Shareholder of any Joint Stock Company, shall be disqualified from being Lord Mayor or an Alderman, Common Councilman or Auditor as aforesaid, by reason of any Contract with or Employment of such Company by or 25 on behalf of the said Corporation; and the Word "Contract" in this Enactment shall not extend to any Lease, Sale, or Purchase of Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or to any Agreement for any such Lease, Sale, or Purchase, or for the Loan of Money, or to any Security for the Payment of Money only; but no such Lord Mayor, 30 Alderman, or Common Councilman shall, as a Member of the Common Council, vote upon any Question in which such Company is interested, or vote on or take part in the Discussion of any Matter in which he has directly or indirectly, by himself or his Partner, any pecuniary Interest; and any Person not disqualified by this Act from 35 being elected such Lord Mayor, Alderman, Common Councilman, or Auditor, shall be capable of being so elected.

Qualifica

tion of Sheriffs.

XXXIV. Any Alderman or Common Councilman, and any Person who under this Act might be elected to be an Alderman or Common Councilman of the City, shall be capable of being elected to be a 40 Sheriff thereof.

XXXV. No

Sheriffs,
Aldermen,

XXXV. No Person elected Lord Mayor, Sheriff, Alderman, Lord Mayor, Common Councilman, or Auditor for the City shall be capable of acting as such until he has made and subscribed before Two or Common more of such Aldermen or Common Councilman (who are hereby and Auditors Councilmen, 5 respectively authorized and required to administer the same to each not to act other) a Declaration in the Words or to the Effect following; (that until they is to say,)

have made

a Declaration

tance of

IA.B., having been elected Lord Mayor [or Sheriff, Alderman, of AccepCommon Councilman, or Auditor] for the City of London, do Office, and, 10 hereby declare, That I take the said Office upon myself, and will where qualified by duly and faithfully fulfil the Duties thereof, according to the best Estate, of of my Judgment and Ability [and in case the Party be qualified by such Quali'Estate, say, and I do hereby declare that I am seised or possessed

of Real or Personal Estate (or both, as the Case may be,) to the

15 Amount of One thousand Pounds over and above what will satisfy
'all my Debts].'

Which Declaration shall be sent to and filed in the Town Clerk's
Office.

fication.

Person not

pay a Fine.

XXXVI. Every Person, duly qualified, who is elected to the Office Every 20 of Lord Mayor, Sheriff, Alderman, Common Councilman, or Auditor accepting of or for the City, shall accept such Office or shall pay to the Cor- Office to poration such Fine, not exceeding, in the Case of Lord Mayor or Sheriff, One hundred Pounds, and in other Cases Fifty Pounds, as the Common Council by a Byelaw to be made by them in this 25 Behalf shall direct; and such Fine, if not duly paid, shall be levied by the Warrant of any Justice having Jurisdiction within the City, (who is hereby required, on the Application of the Common Council, to issue the same,) by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the Person so refusing to accept Office, with the reasonable Charges of 30 such Distress; and every such Person so elected shall accept such Office by making and subscribing the Declaration herein-before mentioned within Five Days after Notice of his Election, otherwise such Person shall be liable to pay the said Fine as for his Non-acceptance of such Office, and such Office shall thereupon be deemed to be vacant, and shall be filled up by a fresh Election to be made in the Manner 35 herein-before mentioned: Provided always, that no Person disabled by Lunacy or Imbecility of Mind, or by Deafness, Blindness, or other permanent Infirmity of Body shall be liable to such Fine as aforesaid; provided also, that every Person so elected to any such Office who is above the Age of Sixty-five Years, or who has already 40 served the same Office, or paid the Fine for not accepting such Office, within Five Years from the Day on which he is so elected, shall be exempted from accepting or serving the same Office if he [77.]