diately preceding the last day of July, and has claimed to be registered as a voter at the next ensuing registration of voters.

V. Every man shall, in and after the year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, be entitled to be registered as a voter, and when registered, to vote for a member or members to serve in Parliament for a County, who is qualified as follows; (that is to say,)

1. Is of full age, and not subject to any legal incapacity, and is seised at law or in equity of any lands or tenements of freehold, copyhold, or any other tenure whatever, for his own life, or for the life of another, or for any lives whatsoever, or for any larger estate of the clear yearly valu of not less than five pounds over and above all rents and charges payable out of or in respect of the same, or who is entitled, either as lessee or assignee, to any lauds or tenements of freehold or of any other tenure whatever, for the unexpired residue, whatever it may be, of any term originally created for a period of not less than sixty years (whether determinable on a life or lives or not), of the clear yearly value of not less than five pounds over and above all rents and charges payable out of or in respect of the same: Provided that no person shall be registered as a voter under this section unless he has complied with the provisions of the twenty-sixth section of the Act of the second year of the Reign of His Majesty William the Fourth, chapter forty-five.

VI. Every man shall, in and after the year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, be entitled to be registered as a voter, and, when registered, to vote for a member or members to serve in Parliament for a county, who is qualified as follows; (that is to say,)

2.

1. Is of full age, and not subject to any legal incapacity; and Is on the last day of July in any year, and has during the twelve months immediately preceding been, the occupier, as owner or tenant, of lands or tenements, within the county, of the rateable value of twelve pounds or upwards; and

3.

Has during the time of such occupation been rated in respect to the premises so occupied by him to all rates (if any) made for the relief of the poor in respect of the said premises; and 4. Has on or before the 20th day of July in the same year paid all poor rates that have become payable by him in respect of the said premises up to the preceding fifth day of January.

VII. Where the owner is rated at the time of the passing this Act to the poor rate in respect of a dwelling house or other tenement situate in a parish wholly or partly in a borough, instead of the occupier, his liability to be rated in any future poor rate shall cease, and the following enactments shall take effect with respect to rating in all boroughs:

1.

After the passing of this Act no owner of any dwelling house or other tenement situate in a parish either wholly or partly within a borough shall be rated to the poor rate instead of the occupier, except as hereinafter mentioned:

2. The full rateable value of everv dwelling house or other separate tenement, and the full rate in the pound payable by the

occupier, and the name of the occupier, shall be entered in the

rate book:

Where the dwelling house or tenement shall be wholly let out in apartments or lodgings not separately rated, the owner of such dwelling house or tenement shall be rated in respect thereof to the poor rate:

Provided as follows:

(1.) That nothing in this Act contained shall affect any composi tion existing at the time of the passing of this Act, so

nevertheless that no such composition shall remain in force beyond the twenty-ninth day of September next: (2.) That nothing herein contained shall affect any rate made previously to the passing of this Act, and the powers conferred by any subsisting Act for the purpose of collecting and recovering a poor rate shall remain and continue in force for the collection and recovery of any such rate and composition:

(3.) That where the occupier under a tenancy subsisting at the time of the passing of this Act of any dwelling house or other tenement which has been let to him free from rates is rated and has paid rates in pursuance of this Act, he may deduct from any rent due or accruing due from him in respect of the said dwelling house or other tenement any amount paid by him on account of the rates to which he may be rendered liable to this Act.

VIII. Where any occupier of a dwelling house or other tenement (for which the owner at the time of the passing of this Act is rated or is liable to be rated) would be entitled to be registered as an occupier in pursuance of this Act at the first registration of Parliamentary voters to be made after the year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven if he had been rated to the poor-rate for the whole of the required period, such occupier shall, notwithstanding he may not have been rated prior to the 29th day of September One thousand eight hundred and sixtyseven as an ordinary occupier, be entitled to be registered, subject to the following conditions:

1. That he has been duly rated as an ordinary occupier to all poor rates in respect of the premises after the liability of the owner to be rated to the poor rate has ceased, under the provisions of this Act:

2. That he has on or before the twentieth day of July One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight paid all poor rates which have become payable by him as an ordinary occupier in respect of the premises up to the preceding fifth day of January.

IX. At a contested election for any county or borough represented by three members no person shall vote for more than two candidates. X. At a contested election for the City of London no person shall vote for more than three candidates.

XI. No elector who within six months before or during any election for any county or borough shall have been retained, hired, or employed for all or any of the purposes of the election for reward by or on behalf

of any candidate at such election as agent, canvasser, clerk, messenger, or in other like employment, shall be entitled to vote at such election, and if he shall so vote, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

XII. Whereas upon representations made to Her Majesty in joint addresses of both Houses of Parliament to the effect that the select committee of the House of Commons appointed to try the petitions complaining of undue elections and returns for the boroughs of Totnes, Reigate, Great Yarmouth, and Lancaster had reason to believe that corrupt practices had extensively prevailed at the last elections for the said boroughs, commissioners were appointed for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of snch corrupt practices, in pursuance of the Act of Parliament passed in the sixteenth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter fifty-seven, intituled An Act to provide for the more effectual Inquiry into the existence of Corrupt Practices at Elections for Members to serve in Parliament: And whereas the commissioners so appointed reported to Her Majesty as follows:

1. As respects the said borough of Totnes, that at every election for the said borough since and including the election in the year 1857 corrupt practices had extensively prevailed:

2. As respects the said borough of Reigate, that bribery and treating had prevailed at the election in the year 1859, and had extensively prevailed at the two elections in the year 1858, and at the elections in the years 1863 and 1865 :

3.

4.

As respects the said borough of Great Yarmouth that corrupt and illegal practices had extensively prevailed at the elections in the years 1859 and 1865:

As respects the said borough of Lancaster, that corrupt practices had extensively prevailed at the election in the year 1865, and, with rare exceptions, had for a long time prevailed at contested elections for members to serve in Parliament for that borough: Be it enacted, That from and after the end of this present Parliament the boroughs of Totnes, Reigate, Great Yarmouth, and Lancaster shall respectively cease to return any member or members to serve in Parliament.

XIII. Whereas the commissioners appointed under a commission of Her Majesty dated the sixteenth day of June One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices in the borough of Totnes, have by their report, datea the twenty-ninth day of January One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, reported to Her Majesty that the persons named in schedules (I.) and (K.) to the said report annexed had been guilty of giving or receiving bribes: Be it enacted, That none of the persons so named in the said schedules shall have the right of voting for the southern division of the county of Devon in respect of a qualification situated within the said borough of Totnes.

XIV. Whereas the commissioners appointed under a commission of Her Majesty, dated the sixteenth day of June One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices in the borough of Great Yarmouth have

by their report, dated the twentieth day of December One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six reported to Her Majesty that the persons named in Schedules (A.) and (B.) to the said report annexed had been guilty of giving and receiving bribes: Be it enacted, That none of the persons so named in the said schedules shall have the right of voting for the north-eastern division of the county of Norfolk, or the eastern division of the county of Suffolk, in respect of a qualification situated within the borough of Great Yarmouth.

XV. Whereas the commissioners appointed under a commission of Her Majesty, dated the sixteenth day of June One thousand eight hundred and sixty six, for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices in the borough of Lancaster, have by their report reported to Her Majesty that certain persons had been guilty of giving or receiving bribes: Be it enacted, That none of the said persons appearing by the Schedules marked (A.) and (B.) to the said report annexed to have been bribed, or as bribing and treating, shall have the right of voting for the northern division of the county of Lancaster in respect to a qualification situated within the said borough of Lancaster.

XVI. Whereas the commissioners appointed under a commission of Her Majesty, dated the sixteenth day of June One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices in the borough of Reigate, by their report, dated the second day of February One thousand eight hundred and sixtyseven, reported to Her Majesty that the said persons named in Schedules (A.), (B.), and (C.) had been guilty of giving or receiving bribes: Be it enacted, That none of the persons so named in the said schedules, and appearing thereby to have been so guilty in the election which took place in the year 1865, shall have the right of voting for the division of Mid Surrey, in respect of a qualification situated within the borough of Reigate.

PART II.-DISTRIBUTION OF SEATS.

XVII. From and after the end of this present Parliament, no borough which had a less population than ten thousand at the census of One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one shall return more than one member to serve in Parliament, such boroughs being enumerated in Schedule (A.) to this Act annexed.

XVIII. From and after the end of this present Parliament, the city of Manchester and the boroughs of Liverpool, Birmingham, and Leeds, shall each respectively return three members to serve in Parliament.

XIX. Each of the places named in Schedule (B.) to this Act annexed shall be a borough, and, until otherwise directed by Parliament, each such borough shall comprise such places as are specified and described in connexion with the name of each such borough in the said Schedule (B.); and in all future Parliaments the borough of Chelsea, named in the said schedule, shall return two members, and each of the other boroughs named in the said schedule, shall return one member to serve in Parliament.

XX. Registers of voters shall be formed in and after the year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, notwithstanding the continuance of this present Parliament, for or in respect of the boroughs constituted by this Act, in like manner as if before the passing of this Act they respectively had been boroughs returning members to serve in Parliament.

XXI. From and after the end of the present Parliament, the boroughs of Merther Tydfil and Salford shall each return two members instead of one to serve in future Parliaments; and the borough of the Tower Hamlets shall be divided into two divisions, and each division shall in all future Parliaments be a separate borough returning two members to serve in Parliament.

The said divisions shall be known by the name of the borough of Hackney and the borough of the Tower Hamlets, and, until otherwise directed by Parliament, shall comprise the places mentioned in connection with each such borough in Schedule (C.) hereto annexed.

XXII. Registers of voters shall be formed in and after the year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, notwithstanding the continuance of this present Parliament, in respect of the said boroughs of Hackney and of the Tower Hamlets constituted under this Act, in like manner as if such divisions had previously to the passing of this Act been separate boroughs returning members to serve in Parliament.

XXIII. From and after the end of the present Parliament, each county named in the first column of Schedule (D.) to this Act annexed shall be divided into the divisions named in the second column of the said schedule, and until otherwise directed by Parliament, each of such divisions shall consist of the hundreds, lathes, wapentakes, and places mentioned in the third column of the said schedule.

In all future Parliaments there shall be two members to serve for each of the divisions specified in the said second column, and such members shall be chosen in the same manner and by the same description of voters, and in respect of the same rights of voting, as if each such division were a separate county.

All enactments relating to divisions of counties returning members to serve in Parliament shall be deemed to apply to the divisions constituted as aforesaid.

Registers of voters shall be formed in and after the year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, notwithstanding the continuance of this present parliament, for or in respect of the divisions of counties constituted by this Act, in like manner as if before the passing of this Act they had respectively been counties returning members to serve in Parliament.

XXIV. In all future Parliaments the University of London shall return one member to serve in Parliament.

XXV. Every man whose name is for the time being on the register of graduates constituting the Convocation of the University of London shall, if of full age, and not subject to any legal incapacity, be entitied to vote in the election of a member to serve in any future Parliament for the said University.