SCHEDULES. FIRST SCHEDULE. CHARGES OF RETURNING OFFICERS. The following are the maximum charges to be made by the returning officer, but the charges are in no case to exceed the sums actually and necessarily paid or payable. PART I.-COUNTIES AND DISTRICT OR CONTRIBUTORY BOROUGHS. This Part of this Schedule applies to an election for a county, or for either of the boroughs of Aylesbury, Cricklade, Monmouth, East Retford, Stroud, and New Shoreham, or for any borough or burgh consisting of a combination of separate boroughs, burghs, or towns. For preparing and publishing the notice of election For preparing and supplying the nomination papers For travelling to and from the place of nomination, or of declaring the poll at a contested election, per mile. For hire or necessary fitting up of rooms or buildings for polling, or damage or expenses by or for use of such rooms or buildings. For constructing a polling station, with its fittings and compartments, in England. And in Ireland the sum or sums payable under the provisions of the 13th and 14th Victoria, chap. 68, and 35th and 36th Victoria, chap. 33. In Ireland the returning officer shall use a court house where one is available as a polling station, and his maximum charge for using and fitting the same shall in no case exceed three pounds three shillings. For each ballot box required to be purchased For the use of each ballot box, when hired For stationery at each polling station For printing and providing ballot papers, per thousand For copies of the register For each presiding officer For one clerk at each polling station where not more For making the return to the clerk of the Crown Schedule 1. NOTE.-Travelling expenses are not to be allowed in the case of any person unless for distances exceeding two miles from the place at which he resides. The provisions of the above Schedule are modified by s. 4 of the Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 62), which provides that notwithstanding the above scale of charges it shall be lawful in any county constituency in England for the returning officer to charge four guineas for each presiding officer, and thirty shillings for each clerk at a polling station. 1. NOTIFICATION to be added to the NOTICE of ELECTION. Take notice, that by the Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) Act, 1875, it is provided that every person having any claim against a returning officer for work, labour, materials, services, or expenses in respect of any contract made with him by or on behalf of the returning officer, for the purposes of an election (except for publications of account of election expenses), shall, within fourteen days after the day on which the return is made of the person or persons elected at the election, transmit to the returning officer the detailed particulars of such claim in writing, and the returning officer shall not be liable in respect of anything which is not duly stated in such particulars. PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS (RETURNING OFFICERS) ACT (1875) AMENDMENT ACT, 1886. (49 & 50 VICT. Cap. 57.) An Act to amend the provisions of the Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) Act, 1875. [25th June, 1886.] BE it 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 as follows: This Act amends the 38 & 39 Vict. c. 84, ante p. 232, and with that Act is incorporated by the Local Government Act, 1888, s. 75 (19), ante, p. 147. taxation. 1. The judge or officer by whom any account or claim is taxed Review of or examined under the Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) Act, 1875 (herein called the "principal Act"), shall deliver to the returning officer, and to the other party to the taxation or examination, a certificate showing the items and amounts allowed or disallowed, with a copy of any order or judgment made thereon. Either party may, within seven days of the delivery to him of such certificate, give notice in writing to the said judge or officer of intention to appeal, specifying in the notice the items and amounts in respect of which he intends to appeal. The said judge or officer shall thereupon forthwith transmit to the prescribed taxing officer of the superior court the said account or claim, with any vouchers relating thereto, the certificate and the notice of appeal, and such taxing officer shall forthwith proceed to review the taxation or examination in the usual manner, or in such manner as may be prescribed, and shall, if required, receive evidence in relation to the matters in dispute, and may confirm or vary the certificate, and direct by whom all or any part of the costs of review are to be paid, and shall return the certificate as confirmed or varied to the said judge or officer with any such direction, and effect shall be given to a certificate as so confirmed or varied, and to any such direction, as if the same had been a judgment of the court as defined in the principal Act. Any taxation or review of taxation under this Act shall be subject to appeal to the superior court in like manner as any ordinary taxation of costs is now subject. Sect. 1. Short title. In this Act "superior court" means in England the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in England, and in Ireland the Common Pleas Division of the High Court of Justice in Ireland. "Prescribed" means prescribed by rules of the superior court in England or Ireland as the case may be. 2. This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) Act (1875) Amendment Act, 1886, and shall be read as one with the principal Act. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT, 1882. (45 & 46 VICT. CAP. 50.) THE following sections and schedules of this Act are incorporated with the Local Government Act, s. 75, ante, p. 141. Some other sections of this Act are referred to in the Local Government Act, but these are set out in the notes to the sections of that Act containing such references. The notes to the following sections have been for the most part limited to their application to county councils. PART II. CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT OF BOROUGH. Corporate Name. 8. The municipal corporation of a borough shall bear the Name of name of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough, or, municipal in the case of a city, the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of the city. This section does not really apply to county councils, for by s. 79 of the Local Government Act, ante, p. 153, the council of each county are incorporated by the name of the county council, with the prefix of the name of the administrative county. By s. 34, sub-s. (1), of the same Act, ante, p. 73, the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of each borough mentioned in the Third Schedule, that is, of the county boroughs acting by the council, have all the powers and duties of the county council within the borough ; but this involves no change of the name of the borough or city. Burgesses (a). corporation. 9. (1.) A person shall not be deemed a burgess for any purpose Qualification of this Act unless he is enrolled as a burgess (b). (2.) A person shall not be entitled to be enrolled as a burgess unless he is qualified as follows (c): (a.) Is of full age; and (b.) Is on the fifteenth of July in any year, and has been during the whole of the then last preceding twelve months, in occupation (d), joint or several (e), of any house, warehouse, counting-house, shop or other building (ƒ) (in this Act referred to as qualifying property) in the borough (9); and (c.) Has during the whole of those twelve months resided in the borough, or within seven miles thereof (h); and of burgess. |