ON ELECTIONS, REGISTRATION, AND ELECTION AGENCY. Thirteenth Edition, INCLUDING PETITIONS, AND MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS AND REGISTRATION. WITH AN APPENDIX OF STATUTES AND FORMS. BY JOHN CORRIE CARTER, Esq., OF THE INNER TEMPLE AND MIDLAND CIRCUIT, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, BIBLIOTHE APH' 80 BODLEIAN LONDON: STEVENS & SONS, 119, CHANCERY LANE, Law Publishers and Booksellers. PREFACE. SINCE the publication of the last edition of this work, the Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act, 1878, has imposed the duty of revising the lists of Municipal voters in the majority of English and Welsh boroughs, upon the barristers annually appointed to revise the lists of Parliamentary voters. This, together with the fact that a large portion of the original work of Mr. Rogers has, since the Corrupt Practices (Municipal Elections) Act, 1872, become applicable to the questions arising out of Municipal elections, seemed to justify the extension of the book to Municipal Election Law. The subject of Municipal Election and Registration Law has been included in this edition without interfering with the original plan of the book, which long experience has shown to be well suited to the somewhat intricate subject of Election Law, and also without materially increasing the size of the volume. The Law and Practice of Parliamentary Petitions formed part of the earlier editions of the work before the jurisdiction over petitions was transferred from the House of Commons to the judges in 1868, and by adding Chapter X. on Petition, the Editor hopes that he has increased the general usefulness of the book by making it again a complete treatise on the whole subject of Election Law. As the procedure in Municipal Election Petitions is modelled on that of Parliamentary Petitions, it has not been thought advisable to occupy valuable space by separate Chapter on the subject, but references have bee given in Chapter X. under the appropriate headings to th corresponding sections in the Act regulating Municipa The statutes and cases since the last edition have bee incorporated, and additional references given to many An endeavour has been made by framing a precept fo Clerks of the Peace, embodying the duties of overseers i counties in accordance with the present state of the law, t supply a want which legislation has created but has no The Editor has to thank his friends, Mr. R. Ward an P.S.-While this edition has been passing through th The effect of this legislation will be found referred to TEMPLE, March, 1880. |