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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. COUNTY ELECTORS ACT, 1888. 51 and 52 Vict. c. 10. An Act to provide for the Qualification and Registration of Electors for the purposes of Local Government in England and Wales. 16th May, 1888. "WHEREAS it is expedient to make provision with respect to the qualification and registration of electors of any representative bodies (in this act referred to as "county authorities") which may be established under any act of the present session of parliament for the purposes of local government in counties in England: 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: 1.--Short title and construction.--This act may be cited as the County Electors Act, 1888. The Registration Act, 1885, and the Parliamentary Registration Acts within the meaning of that act, are in this act referred to as the Registration of Electors Acts, and together with this act may be cited as the Registration of Electors Acts, 1843 to 1888. This act shall be construed as one with the Registration of Electors Acts. 2.--Extension of burgess franchise to county electors outside municipal boroughs.--(1.) For the purpose of the election of county authorities in England, the burgess qualification, that is to say, the qualification enacted by section nine of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, shall extend to every part of a county not within the limits of a borough, and a person possessing in any part of a county outside the limits of a borough such burgess qualification, shall bo entitled to be registered under this act as a county elector in the parish in which the qualifying property is...