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County Electors Act, 1888 (English) (51 & 52 Vict. c.10), provided for the qualification and registration of the electors of the county authorities established by the (English) Local Government Act, 1888 by extending the qualification for burgesses. Repealed by the (English) Representation of the People Act, 1918....
Revising assessors
Revising assessors, two officers elected by the bur-gesses of non-parliamentary municipal boroughs for the purpose of assisting the mayor in revising the parish burgess lists (Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 29, and Sch. III.); but their duties were transferred to the revising barristers, and their office abolished by the County Electors Act, 1888....
Parish meeting
Parish meeting. Established for every rural parish by the Local Government Act, 1894 (see now Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 43-55, 77, and Sch. III., Part VI.), and consisting of the registered parliamentary electors and county council electors of the parish, each having one vote and no more on any question, or in the case of an election for each of any number of persons not exceeding the number to be elected; bound to assemble annually, or if thee be no parish council, at least twice a year. The proceedings must not begin earlier than 6 p.m. Every question is decided by a majority of those present at a meeting, and voting, the decision of the chairman being final unless a poll, which is taken by ballot, be demanded. On the question of the appointment of chairman for a year, or of the adoption of any 'adoptive Act' (see below) and other questions, any one elector may demand a poll. The chairman of the parish council, or any two parish councillors, or any six r...
Registration of electors
Registration of electors. The representation of the People Act, 1918, provides for the preparation of a spring and an autumn register in each year by the registration officer for each parliamentary borough or county. This officer is the clerk of the county or the town clerk (see Part II. of the Act, ss 11 et seq.). See (as amended 12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 12, and (English) Local Govt. Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51)....
County franchise
County franchise. This was conferred by the (English) Representation of the People Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 102), on all county house holders, and by the (English) Representation of the People Act, 1884, on all county house holders and lodgers in lodgings up to 10l. a year in value. See (English) Representation of the People Act, 1918, Part I., for extent of local government franchise, and ELECTORAL FRANCHISE....
Electoral divisions
Electoral divisions, divisions of an administrative county for the purpose of each of them returning a member of the County Council under the (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51)....
Register
Register [fr. giter, Fr., to lodge], a public books serving to enter and record memoirs, Acts, and minutes, to be had recourse to for the establishing matters of fact; as the register of companies under the (English) Companies Act, 1929; of bills of sale under the (English) Bills of Sale Acts, 1878 and 1882; and (English) Administration of Justice Act, 1925, s. 23; of births, deaths, and marriages, and of baptisms; and of parliamentary, municipal, county, district, and parochial electors.Means the register of patents referred to in s. 67. [The Patents Act, 1970, s. 2(x)]...
Lodger-franchise
Lodger-franchise. This was first conferred upon the occupiers of lodgings in boroughs of 10l. yearly value, if let unfurnished, by the (English) Representation of the People Act, 1867, and was afterwards extended to the occupiers of lodgings in counties by the (English) Representation of the People Act, 1884. Lodger-franchise was abolished by the (English) Representation of the People Act, 1918. See ELECTORAL FRANCHISE....
Electoral franchise
Electoral franchise. (1) The qualifications entitling persons to vote at Parliamentary elections. A brief sketch of the changes up to 1884 in (a) Counties, and (b) Boroughs is as follows:(a) Originally the freeholders elected the members for the county: later, residence was made an additional qualification. In the fifteenth century the qualification was limited to resident freeholders of lands or tenements to the value of 40s. by the year (8 Hen. 6, c. 7). Towards the end of the eighteenth century the residence qualification was abolished. The (English) Reform Act, 1832, extended the franchise to 10l. copyholders and to leaseholders for terms of years, and tenants at will paying a minimum of 50l. yearly rent (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 45, ss. 19 and 20). The (English) Representation of the People Act, 1867, extended the franchise to every duly registered man of full age who was-(i) the owner of lands or tenements, of whatever tenure, for his own life, for the life of another or for any lives wha...
House of Commons
House of Commons, one of the constituent parts of Parliament, being the assembly of knights of shires, or the representatives of counties; citizens, or the representatives of cities; and burgesses, or the representatives of boroughs.The lowest chamber of British and Canadian Parlia-ment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 744.Property Qualification.--The property qualification of members, which was by 1 & 2 Vict. c. 48, amending 9 Anne, c. 5, by allowing personal property to count fixed at 600l. a year for a county, and 300l. a year for a borough member, was abolished in 1858 by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 26.Payment of Members.--Members were from very early times entitled to payment at the rate of 4s. a day for county, and 2s. a day for borough members, payable by their constituents. This has never been abolished, and is recognized by the unrepeated 6 Hen. 8, c. 16, by which members may not depart from Parliament without licence from the Speaker on pain of losing their 'wages,' though 35 Hen. ...
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