135 INDEX. TO THE BOUNDARY ACT OF ENGLAND AND WALES. A Aberavon, boundaries of, page| Chester, boundaries of, 87. Chichester, boundaries of, 113. Sect. 32, p. 73. B Banbury, boundaries of, 105. Bewdley, boundaries of, 116. See Schedule (O), and the dif Bradford, boundaries of, 119. C Caermarthen, boundaries of,123. polling places of, 81. Conway, boundaries of, 124. polling places, 81. -polling districts of,84 polling places of, 81. polling places, 81. Divisions of Counties. See p.63 to polling places, 81. East Retford,polling places of,81. polling places, 82. Eye, boundaries of, 111. Falmouth. See Penryn. Gateshead, boundaries of, 94. of, 84. Gloucester, boundaries of, 95. Gloucestershire, divisions of, 65. polling places.82 H polling places, 82. polling places, 82. Knaresboro', boundaries of, 119. L polling places, 82. London, boundaries of, 103. Oldham, boundaries of, 101. Machynlleth, bound. of, 130. Pembroke, boundaries of, 134. mouth. Merionethsh. polling places, 85. Merthyr Tydvil, boundaries of, Middlesex, divisions of, 102. Narberth, boundaries of, 132. of, Sect. 32. New Windsor, bound, of, 85. -polling places, 83. polling places, 85. Staffordshire, polling places, 83. Stroud, boundaries of, 95. polling places, 83. polling places, 83. polling places, 83. R. Radnorshire, polling places, 85. Ruthin, boundaries of, 125. Salford, boundaries of, 101. polling places, 83.' Wakefield, boundaries of, 120 polling places, 84. polling places, 84. 111. Worcester, boundaries of, 117. Y A FULL AND CORRECT ABSTRACT OF "AN ACT TO AMEND THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE IN SCOTLAND." 2nd and 3d of WILLIAM 4th. cap. 65. (PASSED 17TH JULY, 1832.) THE PREAMBLE STATES That, it is expedient, and would be for the evident utility of the subjects within Scotland, that Members should be provided for Places hitherto unrepresented, and the Right of Election extended to Persons of Property and Intelligence, and that the Mode of conducting Elections should be better regulated and ordered : hereafter to three repre 1. It is therefore enacted, That there shall be fifty-three Scotland Representatives returned for Scotland to the Commons House have fifty of Parliament, of whom thirty shall be for the several or con- sentatives joined Shires or Stewartries hereinafter enumerated, and twenty- Counties, and three for the several Cities, Burghs, and Towns, or Districts of twenty-three Cities, Burghs, and Towns, hereafter described. thirty for for Towns. Peebles and held as Parts and Selkirk. 2. That after this present Parliament the Burghs of Peebles Burghs of and Selkirk shall no longer form Parts of the District to which Selkirk to be they now belong, or be entitled to contribute with any other of Counties Burghs in the Election of any Member, but shall be held to be of Peebles Parts of the Counties of Peebles and Selkirk respectively; Burgh of and in like manner that the Burgh of Rothsay in the County of Bute shall no longer form part of the District to which it Bute. now belongs, but be held to be part of the County of Bute. form Part of Rothsay to of Counties return Mem 3. That of the thirty Members to be returned to Parliament by Enumeration the separate or combined Shires of Scotland, one shall be always hereafter to returned by each of the separate Shires or Parts of Shires enu- bers severally merated in the Schedule marked (A,) and one by each two of or jointly. the combined Shires or Parts of Shires enumerated and described in Schedule (B.) Proviso. That all Properties lying locally within the limits of any County or Shire, though hitherto constituting Part of some other County, shall be held to be Part of the County within which they are locally included. of Burghs 4. That of the twenty-three members to be returned for the Enumeration several or combined Cities, Burghs, and Towns of Scotland, and Towns two shall always be returned by each of the separate Cities, Burghs and Towns enumerated and described in Schedule (C,) or jointly. one by each of the separate Cities, Burghs, and Towns enu A return Members severally Boundaries of Cities, Towns. merated and described in Schedule (D,) and one by each of the Districts or Sets of Cities, Burghs, and Towns enumerated and described in Schedule (E.) 5. That the Limits and Boundaries of all the Cities, Burghs, Burghs, and and Towns enumerated in any of the above-mentioned Schedules shall, for the purposes of this Act, be taken and held to be according to the Description and Specification of such Limits and Boundaries set forth and contained in Schedule (M,) to this Act annexed; and all the Properties within the Boundaries therein specified shall hereafter, for the purposes of this Act, be Parts of the said Cities, Burghs, and Towns, and not of the adjoining or of any other County. Proviso. That the following Rules shall be observed in the construction of the several Descriptions of Boundaries contained in the said Schedule (M.)* 6. That after the passing of this Act, no Person shall acquire by Succession, Purchase, Gift, or otherwise, the right of voting for a Member, either in Shires, or in Cities, Burghs, or Towns, provided, but except by one or other of the Qualifications after prescribed now enrolled and directed: Proviso. That all persons, who at the passing be entitled to of this Act shall be lawfully on the Roll of Freeholders of any Lives. Shire in Scotland, or who shall then be entitled to be put on such roll, or who shall, previous to the first day of March, 1831, have become the Owners or Superiors of Lands affording the Qualification for being so enrolled, shall be entitled to be registered and to vote as after directed in the Election of a member for such Shire. None hereafter to acquire votes except as hereinafter in Shires to vote for their Qualification of County Voters. 7. That after the passing of this Act, every Person, not subject to any legal incapacity, shall be entitled to be registered as after directed, and thereafter to vote at any Election for a Shire in Scotland, who, when the Sheriff proceeds to consider his Claim for Registration in the present or in any future year, shall have been, for a period of not less than six Calendar Months next previous to the last day of July in any future year, the Owner, (whether he has made up his Titles, or is infeft, or not,) of any Lands, Houses, Feu Duties, or other Heritable Subjects (except Debts heritably secured) within the said Shire, provided the Subject or subjects on which he so claims shall be of the yearly value of Ten Pounds, and shall actually yield, or be capable of yielding, that value to the Claimant, after deducting any Feu Duty, Ground Annual, or other consideration which he may be bound to pay or to give, or account for as a Condition of his Right, provided he be, by himself, his Tenants, Vassals, or others, in possession of the said Subjects, and be either himself in the actual Occupation, or in *As the Descriptions of the terms "Northward," "Southward,' &c. &c., are the same in this Act as in the English Boundary Act, it is unnecessary to repeat what would occupy a full page. See English Boundary Act, Section 36. receipt of the Profits and Issues thereof to the Extent above mentioned: Proviso. That where the whole Profits of any such Subject do not arise annually, but at longer Intervals, the Worth and Amount of such occasional Profits shall be taken into Computation, in estimating the annual Value. Proviso. That where any Property which would entitle the Owner to be registered and to vote as above shall come to any Person, within the said Period of Six months, by Inheritance, Marriage, Marriage Settlement, or mortis causa Disposition, or by Appointment to any Place or Office, such Person shall be entitled to be registered on the first Occasion of making up the Lists of Voters, as herein provided, next following such Succession or Acquisition. Life-renters, and joint 8. That in Elections for Shires, where Two or more Persons Rule as to are interested in any Subject to which a Right of voting is for and Fiars the first Time attached by this Act, as Life-renter and as Fiar, owners. the Right of voting shall be in the Life-renter, and not in the Fiar; and all Co-proprietors or joint Owners shall be entitled each to vote in respect of their joint Property within the Shire, provided the Share or Interest of each joint Owner so claiming on such Property is of the yearly Value of Ten Pounds, as above specified, but not otherwise: Proviso. That Husbands shall be entitled to vote in respect of Property belonging to their Wives, or owned or possessed by such Husbands after the Death of their Wives by the Courtesy of Scotland. sessing on cortain De scription enin Stires. titled to vote 9. That Tenants in Lands, Houses, or other Heritable Sub- Tenants posjects shall also be entitled to be registered, and to vote at Elec- Leases of a tions for the Shires in which the said Heritable Subjects are situated, provided each Tenant (whether joint or several) when the Sheriff proceeds to consider his Claim for Registration, shall, for a Period of not less than Twelve Months next previous to the last Day of July in any future Year, have held such Subjects or Tenements, whether in his personal Possession or not, under a Lease or Leases, Missive of Lease, or other written Title, for a Period of not less than Fifty-seven Years (exclusive of Breaks,) at the option of the Landlord, or for the Life-time of the said Tenant, where the clear yearly Value of such Tenant's Interest, after paying the Rent and any other Consideration due by him for his said Right, is not less than Ten Pounds, or for a Period of not less than Nineteen Years where the clear yearly Value of such Tenant's Interest is not less than Fifty Pounds, or where such Tenant shall, for the foresaid Period of Twelve Months, have been in the actual personal Occupancy of any such Subject, where the yearly Rent is not less than Fifty Pounds, or where the Tenant, whatever the Rent may be, has truly paid for his Interest in such Subject a Price, Grassum, or Consideration of not less than Three hundred Pounds. Proviso. That where, in any of these cases, the Rent is payable in whole or in part in Grain, the Value shall be estimated according to the average Fiars of the Counties in which the Heritable Subjects are |