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respectively, and of electoral division for ward, and of county fund Sect. 7 (2) for borough fund.

See s. 45 of the Municipal Corporations Act, ante, p. 279; s. 48, ante, p. 283 ; and s. 71, ante, p. 293.

(3.) If district councils are established under any Act of the present session of Parliament, the clerk of every such council, not being the council of a borough, shall make up a register of all persons registered as county electors in his district, and where there are wards in a district, of all county electors in each ward, and he shall obtain from the clerk of the peace a sufficient number of copies of the list of the county electors so registered as may be required for the purpose of making up such register and supplying the same to the public, and the above-mentioned Acts and sections shall apply for that purpose, with the substitution of "clerk of the district council" for "town clerk," and of " district register" for “burgess roll" respectively.

This sub-section never came into force, district councils not being established in the session of 1888. They were, however, established by the Local Government Act, 1894, post.

(4.) Provided that nothing in this section shall prevent a county elector from being registered in more than one division register.

This prevents the application to county electors of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 45, sub-s. (6), ante, p. 280. As to the effect of this subsection, see note (h) on p. 281, ante, and the case of Knill v. Touse there referred to.

c. 15.

(5.) Where in pursuance of section four of the Registration Act, 48 & 49 Vict. 1885, the revising barrister has power to erase the name of any person as a parliamentary voter from division one of the occupiers' list, such barrister, in lieu of erasing the name, shall place an asterisk or other mark against the name, and, in printing such list, the name shall be numbered consecutively with the other names, but an asterisk or other mark shall be printed against the name, and a person against whose name such asterisk or other mark is placed shall not be entitled to vote in respect of such entry at a parliamentary election, but shall have the same right of voting at an election of a county authority as he would have if no such mark were placed against his name.

See the alterations made in the above provisions with the object of distinguishing persons entitled to vote as parochial electors only, s. 44 of the Local Government Act, 1894, post.

(6.) If under any Act of the present session of Parliament establishing a council for a county any portion of another county

Sect. 7 (6). is added to that county for the purpose of such election, such portion of the county register as relates to the electors having qualifying property in the said part so added shall be deemed to be part of the county register of the county for which such council is elected, and the clerk of the peace and other officers shall take such steps as may be necessary for giving effect to these enactments.

Expenses.

The reference in the text is explained by s. 92, sub-s. (2), of the Local Government Act, ante, p. 168.

8.-(1.) All expenses properly incurred and all sums received in carrying into effect the provisions of this Act and the Registration of Electors Acts with respect to county electors,

(a.) If incurred or received by overseers, shall be respectively

paid and applied as expenses and receipts of overseers under the Registration of Electors Acts in the case of the lists of parliamentary voters; and

(b.) If incurred or received by the clerk of the peace or town clerk, shall be paid out of or into the county or borough fund; and such expenses shall include all proper and reasonable fees and charges made and charged by him for the trouble, care, and attention of such clerk in the performance of the services and duties imposed on him by the said provisions.

The 54 Vict. c. 18, provides that where a parish is situate in a parliamentary but not in a municipal borough, one half of the expense and receipts under the Registration Acts in respect of such parish shall, as from the passing of the County Electors Act, 1888, be defrayed out of and paid to the county fund, and the other half defrayed out of and paid to the poor rate.

Remuneration 9. Every barrister appointed to revise any list of voters under of revising barristers and the Parliamentary Voters Registration Act, 1843, shall be paid contribution the sum of two hundred and fifty guineas by way of remuneration by county authorities. to him, and in satisfaction of his travelling and other expenses, and

every such barrister, after the termination of his last sitting, shall forward his appointment to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, who shall make an order for the payment of the above sum to every such barrister.

The maximum amount to be paid to an additional barrister in 49 & 50 Vict. pursuance of the Revising Barristers Act, 1886, shall not exceed the amount authorised by this section to be paid to a revising barrister.

c. 42.

The sums so paid to a revising barrister or an assistant barrister shall be payable partly out of moneys provided by Parliament and partly by the county authorities, as hereinafter mentioned.

(1.) There shall be annually paid by the county authority of Sect. 9 (1). every county out of the county fund into Her Majesty's Exchequer such sum as the Treasury certify to be onehalf of the costs incurred for the payment of revising barristers at the then last revision of the list of parliamentary electors, burgesses, and county electors in that county.

(2.) The Treasury shall yearly ascertain the total costs of the revising barristers appointed for all the counties and boroughs on any circuit, and shall divide one-half of such cost among the counties comprised in such circuit in proportion to the number of burgesses and county electors in each county, and certify the amount which under such apportionment is due under this section from each county. The Treasury may vary such certificate if they think fit, but unless it is so varied the certificate shall be final.

(3.) So much of any Act as requires a payment out of the borough fund of any borough to a revising barrister, in respect of the revision of the burgess lists, shall be repealed, without prejudice to any payment or liability previously made or incurred.

It is provided by the Local Government Act, 1888, s. 76, sub-s. (4), ante, p. 148, that for the purposes of this section the county of Surrey and such portion of the county of London as is situated south of the Thames shall be deemed to be separate counties forming part of the south-eastern circuit; and such portion of the administrative county of London as is situate north of the Thames shall be deemed to form part of the county of Middlesex; and the county of Middlesex inclusive of that portion shall be a separate county on a circuit; but any sum payable by the London County Council in respect of either of the said portions of the county shall be paid for as a general county purpose.

of 49 & 50

10.-(1.) Section four of the Revising Barristers Act, 1886, is Perpetuation hereby repealed, and that Act, as amended by this Act, shall be perpetual.

(2.) So long as a separate commission of assize is issued for the county of Surrey, that county shall be deemed to be a circuit within the meaning of section two, as well as of section one of the Revising Barristers Act, 1886.

(3.) An application to appoint an additional barrister under the said Act may be made at any time after the first day of September.

(4.) Section fifty-nine of the Parliamentary Voters Registration Act, 1843, is hereby repealed.

Vict. c. 42.

Repeal of
6 & 7 Vict.
c. 18, s. 59.

Sect. 11 (1).

Application

of Act

11.-(1.) In the event of a county authority being established under any Act of the present session, the provisions of this Act of provisions with respect to county authority, county, and county fund shall respecting refer to the said county authority and to the county and county county fund. fund of such authority, and in case of any borough which, for the purposes of the said Act, is a county of itself, to the council of the borough and to the borough and borough fund.

c. 15.

(2.) In the event of a county authority not being established under any Act during the present session, the sums directed by this Act to be paid out of and into the county fund shall be paid by or under the direction of the local authority of every county quarter 48 & 49 Vict. sessional area within the meaning of the Registration Act, 1885, in like manner as expenses or receipts of the clerk of the peace for such area under the Registration of Electors Acts, and by and under the direction of the council of every municipal borough which is also a parliamentary borough out of and into the borough fund, and the amount to be paid for revising barristers shall be apportioned between such quarter sessional areas and boroughs upon the principles above mentioned in this Act.

Separate list of persons residing

miles of

12. A list of persons occupying property in a county, and residing within fifteen miles, but more than seven miles from the within fifteen county, shall be made out in accordance with section forty-nine of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, and that section shall apply as if it were herein re-enacted, with the substitution of "county for "borough," and of "county elector" for "burgess," and of "clerk of the peace" for "town clerk."

county.

Precepts by

clerk of the

peace.

The Local Government Act, s. 76, sub-s. (6), ante, p. 150, provides that nothing in the above section applies to any person occupying property in a borough. The meaning of these provisions is stated in the note to s. 49 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, ante, p. 283.

13. All precepts, notices, and forms required for the purposes of the Registration of Electors Acts shall be altered in such manner as may be declared by Her Majesty in Council to be necessary for carrying into effect this Act, and clerks of the peace and town clerks shall alter their precepts and forms accordingly, and if clerks of the peace or town clerks have sent out precepts to the overseers before the passing of this Act, they shall send to them such supplemental precepts as are necessary or desirable for instructing them to carry into effect this Act.

The Local Government Act, s. 76, sub-s. (7), ante, p. 150, contains a similar provision giving power to the Queen in Council from time to time to alter the instructions, precepts, etc.

See now the Registration Order, 1895, which was published in the London Gazette of March 19th, 1895, and will be found in the S. R. O., 1895, p. 274.

Sect. 14.

14. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
The expressions "urban district" and "rural district" respec- Definitions.

tively mean an urban or rural sanitary district, also any
urban or rural district under any Act of the present
session of Parliament;

The expression "clerk of the peace" means, in the event of
the establishment of a county authority, the person acting
as clerk of that authority, and such person shall act as
clerk of the peace throughout the whole county of such
authority, both for the purposes of this Act and of the
Registration of Electors Acts; subject nevertheless-

(a.) To the provisions of the Registration Act, 1885, respecting the case of any parliamentary county extending into more county quarter sessional areas than one, and

(b.) To the proviso that where at the passing of this Act any clerk of the peace acts as clerk of the peace under the Registration of Electors Acts he shall continue so to act, but shall act as deputy of the person acting as clerk of the peace by virtue of this Act.

15. In the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, Transitory notwithstanding anything in this Act or the enactments applied by provisions as to the year this Act, the revision of the lists of parliamentary voters and 1888. county electors may be later than the twelfth day of October, so that it be not later than the thirty-first day of October, and the register of county electors shall be completed on or before the thirty-first day of December in the said year, and shall come into operation on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and shall continue in operation until the next register of county electors comes into operation.

In the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, notwithstanding anything in this Act or the enactments thereby applied, the clerk of the peace in a county may, if he thinks fit, instead of directing the occupiers' list to be made out in three divisions as provided by the Registration of Electors Acts, direct the overseers to make supplemental lists containing the names which would otherwise be contained in division two and division three of the occupiers' list respectively, and the names so contained in the supplemental list corresponding to division two shall be struck by the revising barrister out of division one of the list, and the supplemental list corresponding to division two or division three shall be treated as if it were division two or three of the said list, as the case may be.

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