"EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE ACT, 1881." (44th & 45th Victoriæ, cap. 70). An Act to continue various expiring Laws, [27th August, 1881.] WHEREAS the several Acts mentioned in column one of the schedule to this Act are, to the extent specified in column two of that schedule, limited to expire on the thirty first day of December one thousand eight huudred and eighty-one : And whereas it is expedient to provide for the continuance as in this Act mentioned of such Acts, and of the enactments amending the same: Be it therefore 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: I. This Act may be cited as the Expiring Laws Continuance Act, 1881. II. The Acts mentioned in column one of the schedule to this Act, in so far as they are temporary in their duration, shall, to the extent in column two of the said schedule mentioned, be continued until the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, and any enactments amending or affecting the enactments continued by this Act shall, in so far as they are temporary in their duration, be continued in like manner. "CORRUPT PRACTICES (SUSPENSION OF ELECTIONS) ACT, 1881." (44th & 45th Victorie, cap. 42.) An Act to suspend for a limited period, on account of Corrupt Practices, the holding of an Election of a Member or Members to serve in Parliament for certain cities and boroughs. [22nd August, 1881.] WHEREAS, in pursuance of addresses to Her Majesty from both Houses of Parliament in relation to elections of members to serve in Parliament for the cities and boroughs mentioned in the Schedule to this Act, commissioners were appointed by commissions, dated the ninth day of September, One thousand eight hundred and eighty, for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices at the elections of members to serve in Parliament for the said cities and boroughs: And whereas the said commissioners have respectively reported as regards the existence of corrupt practices to the effect in the second column of the said schedule mentioned: And whereas it is expedient, with a view to the future consideration of the cases by Parliament, to provide temporarily for the suspension of elections in the said cities and boroughs: Be it therefore 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: I. This Act may be cited as the Corrupt Practices (Suspension of Elections) Act, 1881. JI. An election of a member or members to serve in Parliament for any of the cities or boroughs mentioned in the schedule to this Act shall not be held until the expiration of seven days after the meeting of Parliament in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two. SCHEDULE. CITIES AND BOROUGHS REFERRED TO. Name of City or Report of Commissioners as to prevalence of corrupt practices. Corrupt practices prevailed very extensively at Corrupt practices extensively prevailed at the elections of 1879 and 1880. Corrupt practices extensively prevailed at the general elections of February 1874 and of April 1880. Corrupt practices extensively prevailed at the elections in February 1874 and March 1880. Corrupt practices extensively prevailed at the elections of 1865, 1868, 1874, and 1880. Corrupt practices were committed at the election in February, 1874, and corrupt practices extensively prevailed at the elections in March, 1874, April 1880, and May 1880, by way of payment of money to voters as therein mentioned. In the election of May 1880, there was practised throughout the constituency, not only indirect bribery of various kinds, but direct bribery, the most extensive and systematic. Electoral corruption has long extensively pre vailed in the borough. T. Brettell & Co. Printers, 51, Rupert Street, Haymarket, W. |