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Sect. 8.

Definition

of medical

and surgical assistance.

Letting as furnished house for certain

period not to disqualify.

Defini-
tions.
45 & 46
Vict. c. 50.

35 & 36

Vict. c. 33. Reduction of qualify ing period of occupation in Dublin.

Medical Relief Disqualification Removal Act, 1885.

(h) This language is not very precise; but the class of claims intended is that which is provided for by sects. 37 and 38 of the Parliamentary Registration Act, 1843.

(i) It would have been more satisfactory had precise forms of supplementary precepts been enacted to ensure a strict performance by the overseers of the additional duties imposed upon them by this act.

4. The term "medical or surgical assistance" in this act shall include all medical and surgical attendance, and all matters and things supplied by or on the recommendation of the medical officer having authority to give such attendance and recommendation at the expense of any poor rate (k).

(k) This is a very sweeping enactment, and may conceivably result, at no distant date, in the entire abolition of the existing disqualification arising from the receipt of parochial relief.

MUNICIPAL VOTERS RELIEF ACT, 1885. [48 VICT. C. 9.]

"2. From and after the passing of this Act a man shall not be disqualified from being enrolled or voting as a burgess at any municipal election in a borough, in respect of the occupation of any house, by reason only that during a part of the qualifying period, not exceeding four months in the whole, he has, by letting or otherwise, permitted such house to be occupied as a furnished dwelling-house by some other person, and during such occupation by another person has not resided in or within seven miles of the borough.

"3. In this Act

The expression 'burgess' has, in England, the same meaning as in the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, and in Scotland and Ireland means a person entitled to vote at a municipal election in Scotland and Ireland respectively. The expression municipal election' has, in England, the same meaning as in the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, and in Scotland and Ireland, has the same meaning as that expression is defined to have with reference to Scotland and Ireland respectively by the Ballot Act, 1872.

"4. . . . In the municipal borough of Dublin the qualifying period of occupation. . shall be a period of twelve months preceding the first day of September, instead of [the] period of two years and eight months."

The above is an abridgment of the Municipal Voters Relief Act, 1885, the effect of which is to extend to burgesses the relief granted to parliamentary voters by 41 Vict. c. 3. The last-named Act contained no provision as to residence, an omission which is supplied in sect. 2 of the present Act.

INDEX.

ABODE, altered date as to transmission of declarations of change
of, 37.

AGE, it is sufficient if a man be of full, by 31st of July next
preceding the revision; sect. 7 of Parliamentary and Muni-
cipal Registration Act, 1878, and sects. 1 and 12 of Regis-
tration Act, 1885, not applying to voter's electoral capacity
in respect of status, 50, n., 61, n. (a).

ALDERMEN, instruction to overseers as to list of, 113, 114; form
of list of, 127.

ALLOTMENT of freemen (non-resident) in divided boroughs, 151,
152.

AMENDMENT of mistakes in a list, 32; in a claim or objec-
tion, 32.

ANNUITY GRANTED OUT OF LAND, any, included in expression
"rent-charge," 22.

APPEALS, inadequate provision for, 41.

ASSESSORS included in expression "overseers," 22.

ASSIMILATION OF OCCUPATION QUALIFICATION in counties and
boroughs, 5.

BALLOT ACT, 1872, distinctive letter to be applied to each polling
district, and deemed to be part of the number of the elector,
to be marked in manner directed by the, 39, 40; alteration
(as respects the year 1885) of date named in sect. 5 of the,
167, 168; discretion as to fixing the day of poll vested in
returning officer by the, 146.

BENEFICE, owner of the whole of the tithe rent-charge of a, to
which an apportionment of tithe rent-charge has been made
in respect of any portion of tithes, entitled to be registered
in respect of ownership, 2, 3.

BOROUGH," meaning of expression, 22; voter not entitled to
county vote in respect of occupation qualification situate
in a, 6; voter in divided, not to vote in more than one divi-
sion, 145.

BOROUGH FRANCHISE, voters in respect of, xiv, xv.

BOROUGH HOUSEHOLD QUALIFICATION is, as respects England
and Ireland, the qualification enacted by 30 & 31 Vict.
c. 102, s. 3, and enactments amending or affecting the
same, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12; and, as respects Scotland, the quali-
fication enacted by 31 & 32 Vict. c. 48, s. 3, and the enact-
ments amending or affecting the same, with substituted
definition of dwelling-house, 7, 8.

BOROUGH LODGER QUALIFICATION is, as respects England, the
qualification enacted by 30 & 31 Vict. c. 102, s. 4, and
enactments amending or affecting the same, 6; and, as
respects Ireland, the qualification enacted by 31 & 32
Vict. c. 49, s. 4, and the enactments amending or affecting
the same, 6, 7; and, as respects Scotland, the qualification
enacted by 31 & 32 Vict. c. 48, s. 4, and the enactments
amending or affecting the same, 8.

"BOROUGH OCCUPATION FRANCHISE," meaning of expression,
as respects England, 8, 14, 15; as respects Scotland, 8, 9;
and as respects Ireland, 9.

BOROUGHS, disfranchised for corruption, 144, 174; divisions of,
145, 186-206; merged, 143, 171-173; new, 144, 175—
177; reported on by Election Commissioners of 1880..273;
to have additional members, 144, 174, 175; to lose one
member, 144, 174; instructions for, 97-117; forms for,
118-142.

BOUNDARIES, marking of, where they do not follow well-defined
lines, 156; of boroughs with altered boundaries, 178–185;
of divisions of boroughs, 186-206.

BREACH OF DUTY BY OVERSEERS in relation to inhabitant occu-
piers of dwelling-houses comprised in rateable heredita-
ment, 17, 18, 35, 36.

BURGESSES, in what cases enrolment of, conducted by revising
barristers, and in what cases by revising assessors, 44, 45,
n. (y); instruction to overseers as to list of, 113, 114;
form of list of, 127; forms of claim for, 128, 130; forms of
objection to, 131-133; forms of lists of persons claiming
as, 133-135; forms of lists of persons objected to as, 136,

138.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, members of, entitled to vote for town
of Cambridge in respect of their college rooms, 52, 53.
CHANDOS CLAUSE, subject to saving clause of Representation of
People Act, 1884, is repealed, 25.

CHANGE OF ABODE, altered date as to transmission of declara-
tions of, 37, 38, 166.

CHAPELRY, owner of the whole of a tithe rent-charge of a, to
which an apportionment of tithe rent-charge has been made
in respect of any portion of tithes entitled to be registered
in respect of ownership, 2, 3.

CHIEF RENT, included in expression "rent-charge," 22.
CLAIMS, form for ownership, 77; forms for occupation (counties),
88-90; forms for occupation (boroughs), 128-130; lists
of, may be revised as lists of voters, 39.

CLAIMS IN RESPECT OF OCCUPATION (COUNTIES), forms for lists
of, 91, 92.

CLAIMS IN RESPECT OF OCCUPATION (BOROUGHS), forms for
lists of, 133-136.

CLAIMS IN RESPECT OF OWNERSHIP, notice as to, 76; form for
list of, 78.

CLERK OF THE PEACE, duties of, as to copying and numbering
lists, 39, 40; when must send precept to overseers, 46;
remuneration of, 47, 48; where a parliamentary county is
co-extensive with or comprised in one county quarter
sessional area, 46; where a parliamentary county extends
into more county quarter sessional areas than one, 47; in-
structions to, 57-59; precept of, to overseers, 59–75.

"CLERK OF THE PEACE FOR A COUNTY QUARTER SESSIONAL
AREA," meaning of expression, 56.

CLERKS OF UNIONS included in expression "overseers," 22.
" COMMONLY UNDERSTOOD," whether a description is such as to
be, a question for revising barrister, and not for the court,
159.

CORRECTION, power of revising barrister as to, 32-35, 42,
note (n).

CORRUPT PRACTICES, repeal of enactments respecting, 163, 273;
disqualification of certain voters for, 163, 164, 273.

COUNCILLORS, instruction to overseers as to list of, 113, 114;
form of list of, 127.

COUNTIES, divisions of, 146, 206-273; instructions for, 57-75;
forms for, 76-96.

"COUNTY," meaning of expression, 22.

COUNTY FRANCHISE, voters in respect of, xi-xiv.

"COUNTY OCCUPATION FRANCHISE," meaning of expression,
as respects England, 8; as respects Scotland, 8; and as
respects Ireland, 8.

"COUNTY QUARTER SESSIONAL AREA," meaning of expres-
sion, 56.

"COURT OF COUNTY QUARTER SESSIONS," meaning of expres-
sion, 56.

DATE, alteration of, as to period of qualification in counties,
49; alteration of, as to orders relating to polling districts,
167, 168; things to be done in order of (counties), 68-75;
things to be done in order of (boroughs), 111-117; for
register of 1885, in England, coming into force, 167; for
register of 1885, in Scotland, coming into force, 168; for
register of 1885, in Ireland, coming into force, 168, 169.
DATES, alteration of, in both parliamentary counties and par-
liamentary boroughs, 37, 38; alteration of (in England)
for the year 1885..166; alteration of, in relation to Ireland,
6, 25.

DECLARATION annexed to claims of lodger (new and old) is
prima facie evidence of qualification, 13, 14.

DECLARATIONS for correcting misdescription of place of abode,
37, 38, note (k), 166; and errors in borough lists, 37, 38,
note (k), 166.

DESCENT, interest in land or tenement by, 3.

DESCRIPTION OF QUALIFICATION, change of, 35.

"DISTRICT," meaning of expression, 160.

DIVIDED BOROUGH, voter in, not to vote in more than one divi-
sion of a, 145; one revision court for whole of, sufficient,
150, 151, note (d); returning officer in, to be returning
officer for each division of, 149, 150; paid agent not to
vote at an election for any division of, 152; registration of
freemen in, 151.

DIVIDED PARISHES, provisions as to, 48.

DIVIDED PARISHES AND POOR LAW AMENDMENT ACT, 1876,
orders of Local Government Board under, 154.

DIVISIONS, of counties, 146, 206-273; of boroughs, 145, 186-

206.

DUPLICATE ENTRIES, duties of revising barrister in counties as

to, 40, 41; duties of revising barrister in boroughs as to,
43, 44, 145; form of notice of selection in the case of, in
boroughs*, 142.

* No corresponding form is given for counties.