''>?> 'yC ^i e IV / .-m^ S Ob IV f.^m^. S ^- £2 S ". VCFIfrx ■ VAUTUQll J»- "^IJONVSOV' )i*^ ^ '^•tfOJnVJJO^^ '%)JI1V3J0'^ <(5l3DNVSm^ ENGLISH ^-f-^ MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; THEIR GKOAVTK AND DEVELOPMENT PKOM 1835 TO 1879, STATISTICALLY ILLUSTRATED. BY J. R. SOMEES VINE, E.S.S., Compiler and Editor of the " County Companion and Annual Statistical Chronicle," the " ^imicipal Corporations' Companion and Year Book of Statisticg," 4'<^-i &<'• " I have no doubt that when this new constitution of the municipal boroughs comes into effect, we shall find, not only that it will be productive of great improvements, not only that many defects will be remedied and many abuses corrected, but that the working of the Bill itself will point out how the whole system may be perfected." — Lord John Russell, in moving the adoption of the Municipal Seform Bill of 1835. LOiV^BON: WATEELOW »fc SONS LIMITED, LONDON WALL, Great Wixchester Street, and Fiksbury, E.G. ; and Parliament Street, S.W. 18 79. J5 SA est 3= J2. '10 THE EIGHT llON. EICHAED ASSHETON CEOSS, M.P., HER MAJESTY S >• a: •< ^ SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT, THESE PAGES at ARE, BY PERMISSION, RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED »— BY Cj HIS OBLIGED SERVANT, THE COMPILER. M t^ ^ .4 *^A INTRODUCTION. THE increasing manifestation of public interest in all that appertains to the extension of Municipal government in this country has induced me to compile the following pages for publication. I sincerely trust, without claiming a pretentious character for the book, that its contents will be deemed useful and instructive; in providing appropriate materials for comparison with the details of the shortly-expected report of the Royal Commission on Unreformed Corporations it may, very possibly, prove to be of some value, I have endeavoured, with Vv'hat success I must leave others to determine, to so arrange the tabular matter that the contrast between the past and present condition of English municipal life may be clearly apparent. This object has not been previously attempted in a simihir form. Parts I. and II. arc, mainly, a reprint from an established year book'^ (edited by myself), and are inserted here in deference to the opinion of competent authorities upon Municipal matters who have represented that the work will probably find its way into the hands of many persons to whom the remarks upon the nature, constitution, and history of the English Municipalities may be of practical advantage. The abstracts of the Acts of Parliament have not been prepared with the view of their serving for professional guidance, but I think 1 mav sal'elv say that not a single statute of imiwrtance has escaped * " The Mvinicipal Corporations' Compauion. Diary. Directory, and Yeai- Book of statistics." Watirloiv ami Simx LiMitrd. VI INTRODUCTION. reference. The fact that there are more than one hundred separate enactments in force, directly or indirectly affecting corporate government under the 5th and 6th William IV., c. 76, is of itself strong evidence of the necessity for the proposed consolidation of municipal laws. No trouble has been spared to ensure general accuracy. Many of the pages, and particularly those which treat of the Parlia- mentary Franchise, have been revised, in print, by my friend, Mr. T. Nicolls Roberts (compiler of the " Parliamentary Buff Book"). I desire to warmly acknowledge his kind assistance. The figures, dates, and historical information have been obtained from ofiicial records or by direct application to the Mayors, Town Clerks, and other chief officials of the various cities and boroughs. My hearty thanks are tendered to these gentlemen for their ready and necessary aid. J. R. S. V. 27, Great Winchester Street, London Wall, London, E.C, July 1, 1S79. CONTENTS PAGE VUl 2 4 Intkoduction coerigenda Part I.— The Nature and Constitution of the English Municipal Corporations ....■•••• Part II.— A Short Historical Sketch of the English Municipalities Part III.— The Acts of Parliament relating to the English Municipal Corporations, from 1835 to 1878 inclusive, with an outline of their general purport 10 Part IV.— The Growth and Development of the English Municipalities, subject to 5 and 6 Will. IV., c. 76, between 1835 and 1879, statistically illustrated under the following heads : — (1.) Area (2.) Population and Inliabited Houses (3.) The Municipal Francliise . (4.) The Parliamentaiy Francliise (5.) The Governing Body (6.) The Municipal Judges and Mjigistracy (7.) The CivU and Criminal Jurisdictions (8.) Police and Criminal Statistics . (9.) The Corporate Revenue, Expenditure Rateable Value, (fee. (10.) The Public Health and Educational Jurisdictions Part V. — The Unreformed Corporations . Pari VI. — Populous Districts not under Municipal Government Appendix Index CORRIGENDA. At page 14, (in List of Acts) Public Libraries, &c., for lSa7id 19 Vict. " c. 20,"' read c. 70. At page 96 (first line of the last paragraph) for " 6 and 7 Victoria,'' read 5 and 6 Victoria. At page 113 (last line of first paragraph) for "Mayors-elect," read Mayor- elect. At page 127 (fifth line of first paragraph) for "is administered,'' read was administered. At page 129 (second List in foot-note) for 2 Vict. " c. 13,"' i-ead c. 15. THE ENGLISH MUNICIPALITIES. -^ IT may be safely asserted that no form of local administration or government attains to so high a position in popular esteem, or commands such a large measure of visible respect, as does a corporate existence under the municipal laws now in force in England and AVales. It is the system above all others which works freely and without friction between the State and the individual. On the one hand, it interposes firm barriers to a centralising interference in matters of detail Avhich could never evoke genuine confidence ; and, on the other hand, it promotes a fervent interest and healthy emulation in essential obligations closely allied with the family circle. Most true it is that " our Municipalities produce qualities which are the best safeguards of England's greatness/' * and it might be added, none the less justly, that their appreciated intervention between the national directorate and domestic duties plays no secondary part in stimulating that proverbial love of regulated independence which characterises the faithful type of an English citizen. The paramount purpose of the present compilation is to describe in the language of statistics the practical advance which the municipal institutions of England and Wales have made from the date of their re-establishment upon an intelligible and approved basis in 1835, and to afford easily comprehended means of comparison between two phases of municipal life separated by an interval of nearly fifty years. * Right llou. W. E. Gladstone. B ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS; PART T. The Nature and Constitution of Municipal Corporations. A corporation is a franchise possessed by one or more individuals who subsist as a body politic under a special denomination, and are vested by the policy of the law with the capacity of perpetual succession, and of acting in several respects, however numerous the association may be, as a single individual. The object of the institution is to enable the members to act by one united will, and to continue their joint powers and property in the same body, undisturbed by the change of members, and without the necessity of perpetual conveyances, as the rights of members pass from one individual to another. All the individuals composing a corporation, and their successors, are considered in law but as one person, capable under an artificial form of taking and con- veying property, contracting debts and duties, and of enjoying a variety of civil and political rights. One of the peculiar properties of a corporation is the power of perpetual succession, for in the judgment of law it is capable of indefinite duration The rights and privileges of the corporation do not determine or vary upon the death or change of any of the individual members ; they continue as long as the corporation endures. It was chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men in succession with the qualities and capacities of one single artificial and fictitious being that corporations were originally invented, and for the same convenient purpose they have been brought largely into use. Corporations, private as well as public, or municipal, were well known to the Roman law, and they existed from the earliest periods of the Roman republic. The powers, capacities, and incapacities of corporations under the English law, do, indeed, very much resemble those under the civil law ; and it is evident that the principles of law applicable to corporations under the former were borrowed chiefly from the Ptoman law, and from the policy of the municipal corporations established in Britain and the other Roman colonies, after the countries had been conquered by the Roman arms. The first division of corporations is into aggregate or sole. Corporations aggregate consist of many persons united together into one society, and are kept up by a perpetual succession of THEIR GROWTH AM) DEVELOPMENT tJ members, so as to continue for ever. Corporations solo consist of one person only and his successors, and are incorporated by law in order to give them some legal capacities and advantages, particularly that of perpetuity, which in their natural person they could not have had. Another division of corporations, either sole or aggregate, is into ecclesiastical and lay; while lay corporations are again subdivided into civil and eleemosynary. The civil are such as are created for a variety of temporal purposes, and under this head are included municipal corporations. The eleemosynary sort are such as are constituted for the perpetual distribution of the free alms or bounty of the founder of them to such persons as he has directed. Corporations by the civil law seem to have been created by the mere act and voluntary association of their members. But, in England the consent of the crown is absolutely necessary to the creation of any corporation; that consent, however, may be either expressly or impliedly given. The sovereign's implied consent is to be found in corporations which exist by force of the common law, to which former kings are supposed to have given their concurrence ; common law being nothing else but custom arising from the uni- versal agreement of the whole communitv- Another method of implication, whereby the consent of the crown is presimied, is as to all corporations by presoupfion, such as the city of London, and many others which have existed as corporations, time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, and therefore are looked upon in law to be well created. For, although the members thereof can show no legal charter of incorporation, yet in cases of such high antiquity the law presumes that there once was one, and that, by the variety of accidents which a length of time may produce, the charter is lost or destroyed. The methods by which the consent of the crown is expressly given are either by Act of Parliament or charter. When a corporation is created, a name must be given to it, and by which name alone it must sue and be sued, and do all legal acts. After a corporation is so formed and named, it acquires many powers, rights, capacities, and incapacities. As — (1) To have perpetual succession. (2) To sue or to be sued, implead or be impleaded, grant or receive by its corporate name, and do all other acts as natural persons may. (3) To purchase lauds, and hold them for the benefit of them- selves and their successors. b2 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS; (4) To have a common seal. (5) To make bye-laws or private statutes for the better govern- ment of the corporation, which are binding upon themselves, unless, contrary to the laws of the land, or inconsistent with their charter, or unreasonable, and then they are void. PART II. The History of the English Municipalities. Municipal Coepoiiations did not exist in England until 1439 ; but although that is the date of the earliest known charter of incorpora- tion, boroughs, the citizens of which exercised powers of local self-government, existed from the earliest periods of British history. There is no doubt that such municipalities may be traced back to the Roman occupation of Britain, and the organisation of these seems to have been, at least in part, adopted by the Anglo-Saxons. It is at all events certain that at that time, while the county districts or shires were under the jurisdiction of shire-reeves (whence sheriffs), the boroughs were under the rule of borough- or ^;or/-reeves. As the counties had their shire-gemotes or sheriffs' towns in which their local affairs were discussed and regulated, so the latter had their burgh-mote or court-leet of the borough. The one assembly was composed of the freeholders of the county, and the other of the freemen resident in the borough. At the time of the Norman conquest the county sheriff was supplanted by the vice-comes, while tlie borough or port-reeve gave place to the bailiff (or mayor), the new officers being appointed by the king instead of by the free- holders or resident freemen, as the case might be. With this exception, however, it would seem that William the Conqueror did not alter the local institutions of the country to the extent that is sometimes imagined. The two leading records which establish this position are the laws compiled by this sovereign and the Domesday Book. In the former the same features are traceable as in the Saxon laws. The king's peace is to be preserved, the freemen are to be sworn to their allegiance, the payment of scot and lot (or local rates) is mentioned, the watch and ward in boroughs is enforced, the provisions of the old law for selling in the presence of witnesses are repeated, as well as the general sj^stem of giviug pledges for good behaviour which was so remarkable a characteristic THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 5 of the Saxon system. Distinct traces are also to be found of the law which subsequently assumed much greater prominence and contributed so materially to the rise and growth of towns, namely, that ''all bondmen who remained without claim for a year and a day in any borough, &c., should be free," In Domesday Book boroughs and burgesses arc frequently mentioned, and it is clear from the way in which this is done that the local government of the towns was separate from that of the counties, and tluit it was vested in the burgesses presided over by a bailiff. At a later period the " burgesses " were, in too many boroughs, a small select class, excluding the great mass of the inhabitants from the right of local government, and exercising the powers which they thus obtained for their own profit and advantage. But at this early j^eriod the test of municipal citizenship continued to bo the same as it was in Saxon times, and, broadly speaking, was in fact verj nearly the same as it is at present. An excellent authority* thus refers to burgessship as it existed in the tenth and eleventh centuries : — " There are entries in Domesday, in almost every county, which establisli that burgussship did not depend upon tenure, because many burgesses are described as belonging to other manors. If tenure was the basis of tlieir right, they would have belonged iJtogether to the manors, and would not be described of the boroughs, because they did not hold of them. But if i^sidence made them burgesses, then the entry is explained reconcilably with facts, because they would in respect of their resiancy be burgesses in the place of their residence, but would be entered under the nianors of which their lands were held. There are, also, numerous instances in which, the burgesses being distinctly connected with their houses, and the latter being 'inhabited,' it is imj^ossible not to infer that they were householders. They paid the custom of yable for tlieir houses, and other taxes. In the entiy as to Canterbury, 14 burgesses are mentioned iustesid of their houses ; and in Thetford, Norwich, and other places, the identity cannot be mistaken. It is also clear from many passages that all the houselmlders were not burgesses. Peers, ecclesiastics, minors, villains, and persons of infamous character were excepted from the privileges and also exempted from the duties of burgessship ; many houses are therefore mentioned in the retiu-ns which had not burgesses. Those only who bore their share of the bvirthons of the jilace, or, according to the laws of the Saxons and of William th-e Conqueror, y>(( it/ scut (oul bore lot^ were entitled to the privileges ; those who from poverty or other cause did not pay the charges or serve the public offices of the borougli being excluded. It woidd have been inconsistent with the whole s^-stem of the law at that time if non-residents could have been burgesses ; and tlierefore we find througlinut this document that the burgesses were resident, and in that respect distinguished from the membei's of the trading companies who might be non-resident." A careful examination of Domesday Book shews clearly that at the * Meiewether and Stephen's " History of Boroughs, &c.," 1833. 6 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS; time of its compilation, no municipal corporations were in existence, although several ecclesiastical corporations are mentioned. During the reign of William II. no municipal grants nor any changes in the municij)al institutions appear to have been made. Henry I. granted charters to several boroughs, but they were not charters of incorpora- tion. They were princixDally devoted to enlarging the powers of local self-government possessed by the burgesses of the places to which they related. About this period, or soon afterwards, a very important change in their government took place. The bailiff appointed by the king was charged with the duty of assessing and collecting the king's taxes due from the borough. As might have been anticipated, this was often made the cause or pretence of great oppression, and, in order to get rid of it, many towns offered to pay a larger sum than had previously been exacted from them, on condition that thev mio-ht elect their own chief magistrate and assess them- selves. These offers were too tempting to be resisted by sovereigns who were often sorely in want of money, and the towns were thus allowed to re-purchase the right which they had possessed in Saxon times. The elected oihcer was sometimes called by the old name of port-reeve ; but he was more generally known as the mayor. At this time the merchant guilds who afterwards assumed so large a share in the government of many, perhaps of most municipal corporations, had no connection with the constitution of the boroughs. Down to the reign of Henry VI., the right of burgessship, and, after the boroughs were represented in Parliament, the right of voting for Parliamentary representatives, continued to be vested in the whole body of resident inhabitant householders, being freemen, paying scot and bearing lot, and doing suit and service in the court-leet of the town or city. In the reign of Henry YI., however, a process commenced which gradually transferred the power from the hands of the burgesses generally to various exclusive bodies within the boroughs, and ultimately produced the gravest and most intolerable abuses, which were not swept away until the year 1835. In the year 1439 the first charter of incorporation to a municipal body was granted to Kingston-upon-Hull. Incorporations did not, however, immediately become general, for this charter is followed by others upon the roll which are not of that kind. It is not, indeed, surprising that there was some disinclination on the part of the towns to receive charters of incorporation, because proof is extant that, even at this time, the corporate bodies which then existed had began to abuse the powers given to them, and to make usurpations upon the rights of the ( THEIll GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 7 people. To take a single instance of the spirit wliich was at work: In 1407 it was found that the companies and liveries of London had been making cncroacliraents upon the privileges of the householders in the wardmotes to such an extent that it was necessary for Parlia- ment to interfere for the protection of the people. And upon the Parliament roll for the same year there is a petition praying for the dissolution of the tailors' guild at Exeter, on the ground that they set the authority of the mayor at defiance, and threatened to reduce the town to a state of anarchy. But although the boroughs showed but slight desire for incorporation, the courts of law were determined to thrust it upon them. In 14G6 the Court of Common Pleas laid the foundation of a doctrine from which important results subse- quently flowed — that of the creation of corporations by inference or implication — by holding that, " If the king gave land in fee- farm to the good men of the town of Dale, the corporation was good. And so likewise when it was given to the burgesses, citizens, and commonalty, &c." The principle of this decision was afterwards extended, and the charters of our early kings, which merely conferred the right of local self-government upon boroughs, were then con- strued as charters of incorporation, with very mischievous conse- quences, as was thereafter seen. The increasing importance of the House of Commons under the Tudor sovereigns made these princes exceedingly anxious to establish an ascendancy in that assembly. The first mode adopted was to issue writs for the return of members of Parliament to small or decayed towns in which the king or some of his courtiers could exercise a ' commanding influence. This course was taken to some extent by Henry VIII., and to a much greater extent by Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth ; but the House of Commons at last intervened, and succeeded in putting a stop to these arbitrary and fraudulent enfranchisement of dependent boroughs. The Crown then resorted to another device. As there was no doubt that the right of election belonged to the burgesses, it was clear that if the general body of inhabitant householders could be deprived of their privileges, and if these could be handed over to some select knot who would be under the dictation of the Crown or of some great men in the neighbourhood, the end in view would be obtained as effectually as by the creation of new nomination boroughs. Accordingly, new charters were granted to a number of boroughs. In these the doctrine of the existence of corporations by implication was expanded into that of corporations by prescription. It was falsely recited that they had been incorporated from time immemorial, 8 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; and under this pretext, and under that of confirming ancient usage, the right of burgessship was either limited to a select and self- electing body, or was extended — and this was quite as mischievoua — to non-residents, who were admitted by the governing bodies of the boroughs to the freedom of the town. At the same time — in the reign of Queen Elizabeth — the judges by their decision in the celebrated Corporations case with respect to the validity of electors and as to the binding effect of bye-laws made by select bodies in the corporations, laid the foundation fur further and, as the result proved, almost indefinite encroachment upon the rights of the burgesses. Stating the matter broadly, it may be said that the effect of these innovations was to deprive the municipalities of their character of local institutions, and to subject them in their character of corporations — the creatures of the law — to the manipu- lation of judges who were, at this period and during the reigns of the Stuarts, bitterly hostile to popular rights, and equally bent upon extending in every way the influence of the crown. It is true that in the reign of James I. an effort was made to check a process by which the right of burgessship, and consequently the right to the franchise, was being gradually involved in inextricable confusion. The famous election committee, presided over by Serjeant Grlanville, decided " that of common right the burgesses were the inhabitant householders, resident, paying scot and lot ;" but this decision was lost sight of, or, at any rate, it was never acted upon in the revolutionary times which followed ; and, after the Restoration, during the reigns of Charles II. and James II., the process of remodelling the corj^orations was resumed and prosecuted with augmented vigour. In the words of the learned writers already quoted (and who are entitled to the merit of being the first to place the history of English municipal incorporations on a sound basis) — " The interference in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. by charters of the crown — the decisions of the courts, and the acquiescence of the people — had merged aU the borough privileges and jui'isdictions in the general notion of corporations ; and as by these means all their rights were brought under the influence and control of the Crown, the subsequent attack upon them was made comparatively easy. On the Restoration the statute passed for the correction of the corporations aftbrded ready means for that attack, and a pretext for every species of usiiriiation. Extensive use was made of the opportunity ; the old members and oflicers of the corporations were dis- placed ; ministers of the crown, officers of state, and non-residents were substituted ; and from the proceedings upon the statute it is obvious that no corporation had any chance of continuing its existence but by a submissive compliance with the wishes of the king. * * * After the success of the THEIK GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 9 London ([iio warrayvto, the king sent his officers into .all parts of the kingdom to terrify the corporations l)y tlio tlireats of similar legfil prwoedings to give up their charters. The greater portion of them voluntarily surrendered them through the agency of the sehci bfxlies, on the promise of having new grants from the crown ; against those who were refractory proceedings were instituted. So that at this time the borough rights, whicli by general misconception and practice had J)een assumed to be identified with the corporations, were by the acts of the corporations and the surrender or seizure of the corporations sub- mitted entirely to the mercy of the crown." There is no doubt that his dealings with the corporations contri- butei in no slight degree to the downfall of James II. But, although Wiliiam III. did not imitate his predecessors, he did nothing to correct the abuses which had grown up under them. Indeed, during his reign and those of his successors, much was done to perpetuate and to extend those abuses — not, indeed, by the king, whose interference with corporate rights and privileges ceased with the devolution of IG 88, but by the House of Commons and the courts of law. Again quoting the before-mentioned authority, we find — " The first (Parliament) in the reign of William III. passed the Act compelling the sheriffs to make the retux'u from the elections according to the rights which had last been determined by the House of Commons, by which means the varying and anomaloiis usages of the different boroughs and the contradictory decisions of committees were sanctioned and confirmed. The House of Com- mons also — by its resolution — supported the former decisions, however irrecon- cilable with the charters or the principles of our institutions ; and in some instances under the generid name of ' burgesses,' introduced new varieties, according to the agreement of parties or the absurd usages of places that were brought before them. The courts of law relied upou the few early cases to wliich we have referred, and the extra-jiKlicial opinions in the reigns of Elizabeth and James ; and they feU into the same course which the House of Commons and the legislature had taken, adopting the same rules, by which they avoided a discrepancy whicli might have existed injurious to the char;u;ter of both, as well as detriment;d to the people. The courts, therefore, upheld the same pi'in- ciples, supported usage, maintained th« select bodies, sanctioned the non- residents, confirmed numerous bye-laws not in accordance with the charters or with each other, bvit giving a different constituticm to every different borough, and a.s the greatest imd worst innovation of a|l, gave the stamp of jmlicial authority to the doctrine of the arbitraiy admission of burgesses by tlie corporations, a principle which had not before been expressly sanctioned by legal decisions. * * * During the reigns of Queen Anne, George I., II., III., and IV., the abuses to which we have referred were fully maintaineiL Select bodies, common councils, their bye-laws, and non-residents were supported. Freemen were substituted for * burgesses,' and the latter name was applied to burgage- tenants, freeholders, pot-wallers, and inhabitants witliout any other qualificatiim. The court-leet was neglected, its proceedings disregarded or misapplied. Instead of them, cmirts baron were brought into a prominent situation in the municipal 10 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS; government of boroughs, for wliicli they were never intended. Trade, and the companies and liveries connected with it, particularly in London, were more interwoven with the rights of burgesssliip than the original constitution of boroughs would justify ; and the unrestrained admission of freemen as burgesses, which was declared to be lawful, laid all the municii^al privileges and jurisdiction at the feet of those of whatever party who hapi^en to possess the influence necessary to secure the admission of their friends. Hence in some places a sufficient number of non-resident honorary freemen were admitted to overawe or neutralise the votes of the real burgesses ; making in this manner the important functions of the separate exclusive jurisdictions of boroughs not the means of local government, as they were intended to be, but the tools of IJarty violence and private intrigue." The general result of these innovations — for so they may be justly described — was that the municipal corporations were, for the most part, in the hands of narrow and self-elected cliques, who administered local aflPairs for their own advantage, rather than for that of the borough; that the inhabitants were practically deprived of all power of local self-government, and were ruled by those whom they had not chosen, and in whom they had no confidence; that the corporate funds were wasted ; that the interests and the improvements of towns were not cared for; that the local courts were too often corrupted by party influence, and failed to render impartial justice ; and that municipal institutions, instead of strengthening and sup- porting the political framework of the country, were a source of weakness and a fertile cause of discontent. Such was the condition of the English municipalities until the year 1835, when Parliament restored to the inhabitants of the boroughs those rights which their remote ancestors had enjoyed, but of which they had been deprived by a long series of usurpations. PART III. The Acts of Parliament relating to the English "Municipal Corporations, from 1835 to 1878 inclusive, with an Outline or their General Purport. The passing of the Parliamentary Pteform Bill of 1832 may be said to have foreshadowed the necessary change in the municipal institu- tions of the country which shortly followed. In many instances its provisions aifected the very existence of the corporations whose municipal privileges had been almost solely exercised for the furtherance of political objects ; and there can be little doubt that TIIEIU GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 11 the opinion which generally prevailed, as to municipal corporations having provided the most convenient machinery for the wide-spread corruption appertaining to the parliamentary franchise, was a just one. In compliance with an address from the House of Commons, a E-oyal Commission was issued, on the 18th day of July, 18o3, directing a searching inquiry to be made "as to the existing state of the Municipal Corporations in England and Wales, and to collect information respecting the defects in their constitution." The Report of the Commissioners, signed by sixteen out of the nineteen originally appointed (one having died in the course of the inquiry', and two failing to concur in all the statements submitted), was presented to Parliament at the commencement of the Session of 1835. On the 9th of September, in the same year, the Royal Assent was given to the Bill now so well known as the Act 5 and 6 William lY., cap. 76. It did not apply, as is often supposed, to the whole of the corporations. The total number of places where an inquiry was instituted was 285 ; but, of these, 39 possessed corporations with few municipal functions worthy of the name. Of the 246 places believed to be in the possession of, or exercising, municipal powers, 178 were set out in the schedules defining the application of the Act ; the remaining 68 (including the city of London) were not brought within its scope — London because it was reserved for future legis- lation, and the others because they were inconsiderable in extent and population. These particular boroughs still continue to be governed by their charters or prescriptive usages (except where incorporation has taken place under the Act,* or the special privileges comprised in their charters have been allowed to lapse), and each may therefore be said to be a law in itself. The Act of 1835 swept away at a stroke all previous charters, usages, and rights inconsistent with itself, and placed the constitution and the powers of the muni- cipal corporations named in its schedules upon a simple, uniform, and popular basis. There had previously been great absence of uniformity with reference to the naming of the corporations ; but the Act provided " That after the first election of councillors under this Act in any borough, the body or reputed body corporate named in the said schedule in connection with such borough shall take and bear the names of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of such borough, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be capable by the council hereinafter mentioned [the town * Five of these boroughs— Aberavoo, Conway, Hartlepool, Hedon, and Yeovil— have been placed under the Act since 1835. 12 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; council] to do and suflPer all acts which now lawfully they and their successors respectively may do and suffer by any name or title of incorporation ; and the mayor of each of the said boroughs shall be capable in law to do and suffer all acts which the chief officer of such borough may now lawfully do and suffer so far as the same respectively are not altered or annulled by the provisions of this Act." The courts of law have fully settled that, although the name of the corporation be changed, as in many cases it is by the operation of this section, yet that the effect of the statute is not to create a new corporation in any case, but merely to continue the old co'-poration, so that all the rights, claims, franchises, privileges, prescriptions, and customs, as well as all the debts, liabilities, and duties of the corporation as it stood on the day the statute passed, remain and inhere in the remodelled corporation so far as they are not contrary to or inconsistent with the provisions of the Act. A careful consideration of the 6th, 137th, and 142nd sections of the Act seems, however, to render it perfectly clear that the substitution of the word " citizens " for " burgesses " in corporations of cities is both legal and proper. This subject wa^ recently suggested for discussion (and determination by an important civic body) in an interesting pamphlet,* which quotes judicial opinions in favour of the term "citizens," and not "burgesses," being employed in the corporate style of cities. Inclusive of the principal Acts, the number of legislative measures, directly applicable to municipal corporations, which were entered on the Statute roll between the years 1835 and 1878, is 31, They are as follows : — Session, Chapter and Tear. 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 76 (1835) 6 & 7 Will. 4, c. 103 (1S36). 6 & 7 Will. 4, c. 104 (18.36). 6 & 7 Will. 4, c. lt)5 (1836). 7 Will. 4, & 1 Vict. c. 78 (1837). 7 Will. 4, & 1 Vict. C. 81 (1837). 1 & 2 Vict. C. 31 (1838). 2 & 3 Vict. c. 27 (1839). 2 & 3 Vict. c. 28 V839). Title of Act. An Act to provide for the regulation of muni- cipal coi-porations in England and Wales. An Act to make temporary provision for the boundaries of certain boroughs. An Act for the better administration of the borough funds in certain boroughs. An Act for the better administration of justice in certain boroughs. An Act to amend an Act for the regulation of municiiml corporations in England and Wales. An Act to provide for the levying of rates in boroughs and towns having municipal cor- porations in England and Wales. An Act for facilitating the sale of church patronage belonging to municipal corpora- ti-on's in certain cases. An Act for regulating the proceedings in the borough courts of England and Wales. An Act for the more equally assessing and levjang watch rates in certain boroughs. Short Title. The Municipal Corporations Act, 18.35. The Municipal Corporations (Boimdaries) Act, 1836. The Municipal Corporations (Borough Fund) Act, 1836. The Municipal Corporations (Justices, ic.) Act, 1836. The Municipal Corporations (General) Act, 1837. The Municipal Corporations (Watch Rate) Act, 1837. The Municipal Corporations (Benefices) Act, 1838. The Municipal Corporations (Borough Courts) Act, 1839. The Municipal Corporations (Watch Rate) Act, 1839. * " Ou the distinctive style and title of the Corporation of the City of Exeter.'" — B. a GUlUij, M.A., Town Oerlt. THEIR GROWTir AND DEA'ELOPMEXT. 13 Session, Chapter and Yciir. 3 & 4 Vict. c. 29 (1840). 5 & 6 Vict. c. 104 (1812). 6 & 7 Vict. c. 89 (1843). 8 & 9 Vict. c. 110 (18-15). 13 & It Vict. c. 42 (1850). 13 & 14 Vict. c. CI (1850). 13 & 14 Vict. c. 91 (1850). 15 & 16 Vict. c. 5 (1852). IG & 17 Vict. c. 79 (1853). 20 & 21 Vict. c. 50 (1857). 22 Vict. c. 35 (1859) 23 & 24 Vict. c. 16 (18G0). 2t & 25 Vict. c. 75 (1861). 32 & :W Vict. c. 23 (1869). 32 & 33 Vict. c. 55 (1869). 34 & 35 Vict. c. 67 (1871). 35 & 36 Vict. c. 60 (1872). 35 & 36 Vict. c. 91 (1872). 36 & 37 Vict. c. 33 (1873). 38 & 39 Vict. c. 10 (1875). 40 & 41 Vict. C. 69 (1877). 41 & 12 Vict. c. 26 (1878). Title of Act. An Act to explain nnd amend an Act of the second and lliiidyc-.ir.s of Her presciit Majesty for more Cfiually assessing and levying watch rates in certain boroughs. An Act to exphiin and amend certain enact- ments contained respectively in the Acts for the regulation of municipal coriiorutious in England and Wales and in Ireland. An Act to amend the Act for the regulation of municipal corporations in England and Wales. An Act for the better collecting borough and watch rates in certain places. An Act to confirm the incorporation of certain boroughs, and to provide for the payment of the expenses of the incorporation of new boroughs. An Act to provide for more effectually main- taining, repairing, improving and rebuilding bridges in cities and boroughs. An Act to authorise justices of any borough having a sejiarate gaol to commit assize prisoners to such gaol, and to extend the jurisdiction of borough justices to all offences and matters arising within the borough for which they act. An Act further to explain and amend the Acts for the regulation of municipal corporations in England ami Wales and in Ireland. An Act for muking suniby provisions with respect to municipal corporations in England. An Act to amend the Acts concerning municipal corporations in England. An Act to amend the law relating to municipal elections. An Act to make further provision concerning mortgages and other dispositions of property belonging to municipal corpoi-ations in England and Ireland. An Act for amending the municipal corpora- tions Act. An Act to extend the power of recorders to appoint deputies in certain cases. An Act to shorten the term of residence required as a qualification for the municipal franchise, and to make provision for other purposes. An Act to amend the municipal corporations Act of 1859 with resiKJct to the division of Ijoroughs into wards. An Act for the better prevention of corrupt practices at municipal elections, and for establishing a tribunal for the trial of the validitj' of such elections. An Act to authorise the application of funds of municipal corix>rations and other governing bodies in certain cases. An Act to facilitate the proof of the bye-laws of municipal corporations in England and Wales. An Act to amend, &c., the law as to nominating councillors, auditors and assessors in muni- cipal boroughs in England and Wales. An Act to amend the law with respect to the grant of muuici])al charters. An Act to amend the law relating to the regis- tration of voters in parliamentary boroughs, and the enrolment of burgesses in municipal boroughs, and relating to certain rights of voting and proceedings before, and appeals from revising barristers. Short Title. The Municipal Corporations (Watch Rat«) Act, 1840. The Municipal CorporatioDS Act, ia42. The Municipal Corporations Act, 1843. The Municipal Corporations (Rates) Act, 1815. The Municipal Corporations (Incorpoi*ations) Act, 1850. The Municipal Corporations (Bridges) Act, 1850. The Municipal Corporations (Justices) Act, 1850. The Municipal Corporations Act, 1852. The Municipal Corporations Act, 1853. The Municipal Corporations Act, 1857. The Municipal Corporations Act, 1859. The Municipal Corporations (Mortgages, &c.) Act, 1860. The Municipal Corporations Act Amendment Act, 1861. The Municipal Corporations (Recorders) Act, 1869. The Municipal Corporations (Elections) Act, 1869. The Municipal Corporations Act, 1859, Amendment Act isn. The Municipal Corporations (Corrupt Practices) Act, 1872. The Municipal Corporations (Borough Funds) Act, 1872. Tho Municipal Corpoj-ations (Evidence) Act, 1873. The Municipal Corporations (Elections) Act, 1875. The Municipal Corporations (New Charters) Act, 1877. Tho Parhamentary and Mu- nicipal Registration Act, 1878. There arc, of course, a variety of Acts of Parliament which do not exclusively refer to municipal corporations, but which, never- theless, affect the members thereof, and prescribe and define many 14 E^■GLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS; of the important duties entrusted to them. The appended list (arranged in alphabetical order of subjects) names most of these Acts. Adulteration— 38 . u E C (4-t f-l C --- O £0 es-- -^ oi (£5is o o ^ c: ^ ^ o S a IB— -/I a) a 3 13 f^-^ a .§ « c 3 Col. 1. Leeds Leicester Leominster Lichfield Lincoln Liskeard Liveqiool Llandovery Llanidloes Louth Ludlow Lyme Regis Lymington Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Mai'lborough Monmouth Morpeth Neath Newark Newbury Newcastle- under- Ljaue Newcastle-on-Tyne ... Ne-svj^ort (Isle of Wight) Newj^ort (Mon.) Northampton Norwich Nottingham Oswestry Oxford Pembroke Penrj'n Penzance Plymo\ith Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Preston PwUheli Reading Retford (East) Col. 2. 123,393 40,512 4,300 6,261 11,742 3,034 165,175 1,766 2,562 6,976 5,253 2,407 2,000 23,129 2,500 15,387 3,831 3,426 5,105 3,890 4,043 9,557 5,959 8,192 42,760 4,398 4,898 15,351 61,096 50,220 * 6,000 19,370 4,383 3,521 6,563 31,080 4,832 6,459 46,282 33,112 2,091 15,595 2,491 Col. 3. 25,456 8,348 868 1,286 2,417 423 25,732 427 553 1,447 909 423 *400 4,543 *450 2,844 671 544 894 560 842 2,022 1,256 1,578 5,048 771 1,000 3,091 13,156 10,407 * 1,200 3,402 1,079 598 1,264 3,300 995 1,315 8,607 6,184 395 3,081 507 Col. 4. 123,393 40,512 5,249 6,508 11,742 3,034 185,000 1,766 2,700 6,976 5,253 2,407 2,000 30,000 2,500 15,387 3,831 3,426 5,351 3,890 4,500 9,557 5,959 8,300 53,613 6,700 6,500 15,351 61,096 50,220 * 6,000 21,345 6,400 3,521 6,563 31,080 4,832 8,216 50,389 33,871 2,200 15,595 2,491 Col. 5. 259,212 95,220 5,863 7,347 26,766 4,700 493,405 1,861 3,428 10,500 5,087 2,333 2,474 35,450 6,173 26,196 5,586 3,660 5,879 4,517 9,319 12,195 6,602 15,948 128,443 7,956 27,069 41,168 80,386 86,621 7,306 31,404 13,704 3,679 10,414 68,758 5,350 10,097 113,569 85,427 3,009 32,324 3,194 Col. 6. 55,827 19,800 1,252 1,553 5,523 849 78,403 406 737 2,493 1,081 509 474 8,418 1,168 4,685 1,151 636 1,199 683 1,831 2,711 1,448 3,180 16,460 1,625 4,023 7,594 18,321 17,911 1,483 6,139 2,513 781 2,130 7,289 1,146 2,127 19,088 16,508 705 6,016 688 Col. 7. 306,000 120,000 5,863 7,500 33,000 4,700 532,681 1,861 3,500 10,500 5,087 3,000 2,500 36,000 8,000 30,000 5,600 3,660 5,879 5,000 12,000 12,500 10,000 20,000 153,000 9,021 40,000 48,000 85,000 180,000 9,012 40,000 15,000 3,800 11,000 75,000 7,500 10,097 132,000 87,600 3,009 38,000 9,000 * Approximate figures. 6Z ENG LISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS , TABLE 1. (Pakt IV., Sec. 2.) — continued. O.i.— . rL .Xi ^^ a -rt 10-^ 1 d w— . »-.-./> 1 . . withi: adoptci ;tof 183 of 1831. withii ll Limit of 1871. £-S 9 c =2 Cities AjfD BObocges. «§■! a'S<^ S.&2 ^^ai s5 c's a 'c s a <^ 'P OQ o'S 5 'C "p. '^ 1^^ 1^^ •■5 Hj S Is" s ~^=" w ^r ri Em S'^ " Pop the und (pci eg g ip Col. 1. Col. 2. Col. 3. Col. 4. Col. 6. Col. 6. Col. 7. Richmond (Yorks.) ... 3,900 773 3,900 4,443 904 4,443 Ripon 5,080 1,097 5,700 6,806 1,516 6,806 Rocliester 9,891 1,738 12,058 18,352 3,435 20,000 Romsey 5,432 1,296 5,432 2,056 436 4,500 Ruthin 3,376 747 3,376 3,298 759 5,000 Rye 3,366 680 3,366 3,865 847 4,200 Saffron Walden 4,762 941 4,762 5,718 1,224 5,890 St. Alban's 4,772 800 5,771 8,298 1,738 10,000 St. Ives (Cornwall)... 4,776 924 4,776 6,965 1,556 6,965 Salisbury 9,338 1,871 11,672 12,903 2,588 14,500 Sandwich 3,084 577 3,084 3,060 666 3,060 Scarborough 8,760 1,848 8,760 24,259 5,161 28,750 Shaftesbury 2,742 *450 2,742 2,472 485 2,472 Shrewsbury 16,055 * 3,000 21,297 23,406 4,811 24,200 S outhampton 19,324 4,059 19,324 53,741 9,091 58,300 South Molton 3,826 783 3,826 3,978 855 3,978 South wold .- 1,875 431 1,875 2,115 494 2,115 Stafford ...• 6,956 1,216 7,996 14,437 2,650 20,000 Stamford 5,837 1,078 7,062 7,846 1,671 8,000 Stockport 25,469 4,973 41,000 53,014 11,122 55,000 Stockton-on-Tees ... 1,940 *330 1,940 27,738 4,976 35,000 Stratford-on-Avon ... 3,488 673 3,488 3,863 817 3,863 Sudbury 4,677 971 5,500 6,908 1,495 7,000 Sunderland 17,060 1,744 40,735 98,242 12,761 114,000 Swansea 13,256 2,582 8,600 51,702 9,254 75,000 Tamwoi'th 3,537 729 3,537 4,.589 958 5,000 Tenby 1,942 362 1,942 3,810 661 4,500 Tenterden 3,300 548 3,300 3,669 739 3,669 Tewkesbury 4,563 1,245 5,780 5,409 1,218 5,409 Thetford 3,462 675 3,462 4,166 915 4,166 Tiverton 9,776 2,034 9,776 10,024 2,172 10,024 Torrington (Great) ... 3,093 633 3,093 3,529 727 3,529 Totnes 3,308 375 3,942 4,073 742 4,073 Truro 3,104 523 8,291 11,049 2,405 11,049 Wallingf ord 2,645 476 2,645 2,972 567 3,000 WalsaU 15,066 3,108 15,066 46,447 9,044 55,000 Warwick 9,109 1,715 9,109 10,986 2,418 11,500 WeUs 3,430 576 4,603 4,518 900 4,518 Welshpool 4,700 993 4,700 6,983 1,479 7,300 Wenlock 17,435 3,642 17,435 19,401 4,090 20,000 Weymouth and Mel- 7,655 1,320 8,095 13,259 2,198 15,000 combe Regis Wigan 20,774 3,870 20,774 39,110 7,135 45,500 Winchester 5,280 832 9,292 16,366 2,720 20,000 Approximate figures. THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 33 TABLE 1. (Part IV., Sec. 2)—contimied. within Mimici- (1831.) (—1 -^ '— ' Life ^ o Houses unicipal census 1.) Cities asd Boroughs. tion cient imits ted Ancie Limit tion mits he Ac nsus « a a 1^ O X III * Popula the An pal I Inhnbi within cipal ] Popula tlie Li under t (per ce Populn the Mu (per ce Inhnbi within Limits Estimn tion w pa L Col. 1. Col. 2. Col. 3. Col. 4. Col. 5. Col. 0. Col. 7. Windsor G,129 * 1,500 7,071 11,769 1,832 ; 12,000 Wisbech 7,253 1,633 8,777 9,362 2,162 1 10,400 Worcester 18,590 3,568 27,000 33,226 6,970 35,000 Yarmouth (Great) ... 23,332 4,570 25,448 41,810 9,153 ' 47,000 York Total 2C,2G0 4,586 26,260 43,796 9,140 ! 50,000 1,955,131 359,666 2,193,407 3,996,770 737,215 4,654,302 * Approximate figures. TABLE 2. (Part IV., Sbc. 2.) — CIties and Boroughs incorporated since THE PASSING OF 5 AND 6 WiLLIAM IV. C. 76 (1835.) a .i tc .X B— ; o -^ a =£— ^ K •— to , , ^ ~ n ■^Bi leg I.E-3 CiTIBS iKD BOBOUGSS. n w nt Ml ts (18 c^"* a a-S-'g a *i O o g TS 3 a o.ie o S C $i M TT S-^'^ *?- a a 3 J 1^3 1.25 g ■-Sea a " o tt'^ Popnl the A pal J d - -* ■a t3 £, 5i-5 Popnl tho L undci (per c Popnl the Ml (perc Inhnb withii Limit Col.Jl. Col. 2. Col. 3. Col. 4. Col. 5. Col. C. Col. 7. Aberavon 573 3,574 684 5,000 Accrington • • • • • • • • • § 21,788 § 4,401 30,000 Ashton-under-Lyne. . • • • • • • > • • 31,984 6,678 34,000 Barnsley ■ • • ■ ■ • • • • 23,021 4,595 30,000 Barrow-in-Furness .. , , . • • • • • • 18,245 2,728 40,000 Batley ■ ■ ■ . • • > ■ • 20,871 4,371 27,000 Birkenhead • • • ■ • • • • • § 65,971 §10,243 81,000 Birmingham ■ • • • • ■ • • • 343,787 68,532 400,000 Blackburn ... ... ... 76,339 14,690 96,000 Bhickpool ■ • • • • • ... § 7,092 § 1,302 14,000 Bolton ■ ■ • ■ ■ ■ . . . 82,853 16,286 105,000 Bootle-cum-Linacre . • • ■ ■ • • ■ • • 16,247 2,519 25,000 Bradf ( )rd (Yorkshire) • • • • • ■ • • • 145,830 29,408 191,046 Brighton • • . ■ • • ■ • • 90,011 14,438 104,000 Burnley • ■ • • • • • • • 40,858 8,040 52,500 Burslem ■ ■ • • • • • ■ • § 25,562 § 4,781 30,000 Burtou-on-Trent ... • • • • t • • • • § 29,305 § 5,857 30,000 Bury (Lane.) . ■ ■ > • • ■ • • § 40,000 § 7,832 45,000 Cheltenham • ■ ■ • • > • • • § 41,923 § 7,825 42,000 Conway 1,245 • • • • • » ^ 2,620 §583 3,600 Crewe ... ... ... § 17,810 § 3,457 25,000 § Indicates the populatiou and inhabited houises of the Districts which have been incorporated since the year 1871. 34 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; TABLE 2. (Pakt IV., Sec. 2.}— continued. a- 05.' d t; >a--^ C K^ a:^^ m . . 1 withi Munic (1831.) Ms withi: adopte !tof 183 of 1831. withi: il Limit 3f 1871. House unicipn ceusu I.) Popnla Munici (1879.) Cities and Boeoughs. Population the Ancient I5al Limits Iiilmbited ; withiuAnoie cipal Limits Population the Limits under the Ac (per census T'opulntion tho Munioipf (per census ( Inhiiliited within tho M Limits (per of 187 Estimated tion within pal Limits Col. 1. Col. 2. Col. 3. Col. 4. Col. 5. Col. 6. Col. 7. Darlington .. 27,729 4,631 33,000 Devonport ,, 49,449 4,269 50,000 Dewsbury 24,764 4,999 30,000 Dudley .. , . 43,782 8,556 50,000 Dunstable , , , , 4,558 947 5,000 Glossop , , , , 17,046 3,548 17,500 Halifax ... ., , , 65,510 13,970 72,000 Hanley . , 39,976 7,557 45,000 Hartlepool 3,330 .. 13,166 1,933 14,000 Hedon 1,080 ,, 996 231 1,000 Honiton • • • , , 3,464 677 3,464 Huddersfield , , 70,253 14,738 78,000 Jarrow-on-Tyne , , 18,115 4,000 22,000 Leamington .. § 20,910 § 3,963 24,000 Longton , , 19,748 3,723 24,000 Luton . , § 17,317 § 3,345 22,000 Manchester . , 351,189 67,204 368,000 Margate , , 11,995 2,179 14,000 Middlesborough , , 39,563 6,842 55,000 Oldham , , 82,629 16,739 112,000 Over Darwen , , § 21,278 § 4,225 26,000 Peterborough , , § 12,999 § 2,783 23,000 Reigate , , 15,916 2,587 20,000 Rochdale , , 44,559 9,587 70,000 Rotherham , , 25,087 5,055 31,631 Ryde J , 11,260 2,136 14,000 St. Helens . , 45,134 7,920 50,000 St. Ives (Hunts.) ... , , ^ 3,391 724 3,391 Salford , , 124,801 23,891 170,251 Sheffield , , 239,946 48,496 282,130 Southport , , 18,086 3,326 33,000 South Shields , , 45,336 5,994 60,000 Stalybridge , , 21,092 4,491 21,300 Stoke-upon-Trent ... , , ^ 15,300 § 2,844 18,500 Taunton , , § 15,466 § 2,951 16,000 Tynemouth , , 38,941 5,385 42,829 Wakefield . , , 28,069 5,633 32,000 Warrington ., 32,144 6,044 40,000 Wolverhampton 68,291 13,222 75,000 Wrexham , , 8,576 1,631 10,000 Yeovil 1,970 •• 8,527 1,584 9,000 Totals 6,198 ... ... 2,912,049 553,810 3,498,142 Grand Totals ... 1,961,329 359,666 2,193,407 6,908,819 1291025 8,152,444 § Indicates the population and inhabited houses of the Districts which have been incorporated since the year 1871. TIlElll GROWTH AND DliVELOPMENT. 35 SUJIMAET AND COMPARISONS, Population of Cities and Boroughs in Table 1, as per Census of 1831 ],9oo,1.31 Estimated Population within the altered Boundaries in 1835, based on the Census of 1831 2,193,407 Increase of Population in the Municiiial Areas in 1835 as compared u-ith 1831 ... ... ... ... 238,276 Estimated Population, within Municipal Limits, in the year 1870 8,152,444 Increase as compared with 1831 ... ... ... ... 6,297,313 Increase as compared with 1835 ... ... 5,959,037 (3) The Municipal Franchise. The true condition of the Municipal Franchise, previous to the year 1835, has been already briefly referred to (see pages 4 to 10). The principal Table of this section further illustrates the many vicissitudes and deteriorations to which the popular right of self-government was subjected during successive periods of English history, and but few additional details are needed to make the contrast between the old and new order of things perfectly clear. Although great obscurity surrounds the early constitution of the English municipalities, there are valid reasons for believing that the " freemen" or "burgesses at largo" were the governing boly. The Anglo-Saxon forms of local organization were legitimate ramifications of the common-law rights of the free population. Under the con- solidated rule of the renowned Alfred and his two able successors, Edward and Atlielstan, the hiirg/i-Diotes — as well as the s//ire-fnofos — became integral portions of the State, charged with essential duties to their immediate communities and responsible obligations to the witena-geniot, or national council. The individuals composing these commimal associations were men who had a stake — inconsiderable though it may frequently have been — in the country, or, in homely words, " had something to lose ;" hence the irresistible impulses which D 2 36 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS; in later times compelled despotic administrators, much against their will, to formally recognise the enjoyment of " peculiar privileges " which had thereto been exercised as " undisputed rights." It does not appear that the " borough liberties " of the Anglo-Saxons de- pended for their origination upon the favour of the Sovereign. They were the natural outgrowth of social necessities. The Municipal Commissioners, in their report, adduced only two instances of grants of local charters by Saxon kings — that of Athelstan to Beverley and that of Edward the Confessor to the Cinque Ports — neither of which, from the alleged nature of their contents, can be accepted as satis- factory evidence of the creation of municipal franchises by mon- archical condescension prior to the Norman era. Notwithstanding the slight interference of the Conqueror and his immediate successors with the local institutions of the subjugated country, the introduction of the feudal systems of the continent gradually but surely obliterated the free peasantry, and transferred their independent jurisdictions to the Lords of the Manors. The principal towns were reserved to the Crown, and were known as " Royal boroughs " or " boroughs of ancient demesne " ; the inhabitants held their town at fee-farm, undisturbed by the king's officers, and continued, with few exceptions, in possession of their ancient freedoms. The earliest charters were, invariably, simple con- firmations of old customs and liberties; special immunities were sometimes conferred, but they were chiefly such as regarded the burgesses in their external relations. What the inhabitants mainly secured in their contracts with the king, in addition to their primary privileges was — freedom from servile duties; free trade and exemption from toll in every part of the king's dominions ; that all the land within their limits should be the property of the community — such as was not already occupied by tenements to form common land, of which portions might be saved for building, &c., to the profit of the community and the improvement of the town ; that the burgesses should answer to the king for hisferm by their own appointed chief officer ; that the profits arising from fines, &c., in the borough courts, should be applied to the common benefit of the townsmen ; and that they should be untrammelled in their choice of a mayor, bailiflf, or portreeve. These were the examples of municipal enfranchisement usually cited by the barons in their charters to the smaller towns which they held in fief from the king or those which sprang up under the wails of their castles. The extinction of feudalism eventually brought these baronial boroughs under the direct authority of the Crown. THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 37 Upon the early constitution of the municipal corporations the Inquiry Commissioners in their report observe : — " It is certain that many of these institutions were established in practice long before they were settled by law." " In some places, as at Newcastle-Upon-Tjme, Carlisle, and Scarborough, the forms of the Municipal Government were defined by an express composition between the magistracy and the people. It is probable that the powers of government in all ordinary cases were exercised by the superior magistracy, but that in extraordinary emergencies the whole body of bin-gesses were called upon to sanction the measures which interested the community. The difficulty of conducting business in such an assembly seems to have suggested the expedient of appointing a species of committee out of the larger body, which acted in con- junction with the burgesses, and which was dissolved when the business was concluded. * * * We have not discovered that there was any general principle in the mode of forming the constituency of the boroughs, nor can we assume that one system of policy or common law right prevailed at any period throughout the reabn. * * * * It is sufficient that we are enabled to collect the main principles of administration, namely, that the municipal magistracy and nnmicipal councils were the resident and effective heads of the community, and that the community probably included in its members, aU who shared in its burthens, and were liable to fill its offices." The above extract plainly shows the close assimilation of the ancient and modern municipal franchises. The opinions of two learned writers as to the qualifications of a "freeman" or "burgess" have been already quoted (see page 5), but another and no less valuable authority* thus intelligibly defines a "townsman" or "freeman," — "They were deemed townsmen who had a settled dwelling in the town, who merchandized there, who were of the hans (/laiis-hus) or hanse-house," (being a designation for the hall of the Common Mercatory Guild similar to that which formed the germ of the institutions of the Ilanse Towns) who were in scot and lot, and who used and enjoyed the liberties and free customs of the town." The freedom of a borough was obtained under a variety of forms, which, however, may be included under the following general titles, — Gift by the Governing Body, Purchase, Birth, Marriage, Servitude, Membership of Trade Guilds, and Possession or Occupancy of House or Land Property. * Madox — Firma Burgi. p. 269. 421121 38 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; By far the greater number of claims were acquired by birth, marriage, or servitude. This distinctive class of the people lost little of its power until the reign of Henry VI., when commenced those insidious encroachments on the part of the Crown which, by degrees, entirely deprived the freemen, in nearly every borough, of many of their most cherished functions. "With the rapid extension of the pernicious principles of self-election to the ruling bodies, constituted by charters of in- coiyoration, the value of freemanship was almost wholly reduced to eligibility to corporate offices, and a share in the election of members of parliament. The minor benefits which remained outside these "rights" were stated by the Inquiry Commissioners to "consist in exemption from the tolls and duties which in many towns are levied under various grants from the Crown. In the greater number of towns the privilege extends only to those tolls levied by their own coiporation ; the freemen of some corporations claim and are allowed to be free in certain cases from those of other towns ; a very few claim an universal exemption. The freemen are also very generally excused from serving on County Juries ; this exemption is often enjoyed by all the inhabitants of corporate towns. They have sometimes exclusive privileges in the local courts, * * * and in many places the exclusivive right of trading within coi-porate limits. Another privilege often belonging to the freemen is, that they or their widows or children are designated as the sole objects of local charities." Having thus far elucidated the prominent features of the ancient municipal franchise, the annexed table, showing the number of Royal Charters of Privileges and Governing Charters mentioned in the Report of the Inquiry Commissioners as having been obtained by municipal boroughs from the reign of William the Conqueror downwards, will be found interesting. TABLE 1. (Part IV., Sec. 3.) Beigns. Boroughs ob- taining Charters of "privileges" or " incorpora- tion." Number of Charters obtained. Governing Charters in force in 1835. William the Conqueror 1 1 William Paifus 2 2 Hemy I 9 9 Stephen Ilemy II 2 29 2 37 Richard I 16 17 John 47 Hemy III 52 114 Edward I 46 62 Edward II 38 43 Edward III 75 128 2 THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 39 Rbigns. Boroughs ob- taining Charters of "privileges " or incorijora- tion." Number of Chaitcrs obtained. Governing Charters in force in 1635. Richard II 66 88 Henry IV 50 GO HenryV 3o 42 Henry VI 69 98 3 Edward IV 59 74 1 Richard III 19 22 1 Henry VII 51 61 1 Henry VIII 72 104 3 Edward VI 75 84 3 Mary 27 28 3 Philip and Mary Elizabeth 40 123 42 156 5 23 James I 110 31 Charles I 41 44 22 Cromwell 5 5 Charles II 81 111 *37 James II 55 10 AVilliam and Mary William III 9 10 9 11 *6 6 Anne 7 7 *4 George I 3 3 3 George II 6 7 3 George III 16 16 *8 George IV 6 2 William IV 3 2 Totals i;355 1,496 177 t^" Tlie additiou of the names of Athelstan and Edward the Confessor (one charter eacli) would place the above Talilt> in accord -with the information detailed by tlie Municipal Commi:th day i.f Julv as the date to which the period of (luuliticatiou is now to be computed fur both parli imeutary and munici- pal voterri. 46 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS; borough to all rates made for the relief of the poor of the parish wherein such premises are situated during the time of his occupation as aforesaid, and unless he shall have paid on or before the twentieth day of July in such year all such rates, including therein all borough rates, if any, directed to be paid under the provisions of the said Acts, as shall have become payable by him in respect of the said premises up to the preceding fifth day of January : Provided also, that the premises in respect of the occupation of which any person shall have been so rated need not be the same premises or in the same parish, but may be diflerent premises in the same parisli or in different parishes : Provided also, that no person being an alien shall be enrolled in any year, and that no person shall be so enrolled in any year who, within twelve calendar months next before the said last day of July, shall have received parochial relief or other alms : Provided also, that the respective distances mentioned in this Act shall be measured in the manner directed by section seventy- six of the Act of the session of the sixth and seventh years of Queen Victoria, chapter eighteen." (3.) The Burgess Boll and its Brejiaration. — By 5 and 6 William lY., c. 76, the Overseers of the Poor in every parish, wholly or in part, within any borough, are on the fiftli^ day of September in every year, to make out an alphabetical list, called " The Burgess List," of all persons entitled to be enrolled in the burgess roll of that year according to the provisions of the act in respect of property within such parish. The list, duly signed by the overseers, is to be delivered, on the said fiftJi* day of Sejotember, to the town clerk of the borough,! who is to allow a true copy thereof to be perused by any person, without payment of any fee, at all reasonable hours, between the fifth and fifteenth days of September in every year. The town clerk is also to cause copies to be forthwith printed of all overseers' lists delivered to him ; is to give a copy to any person requiring the same, on payment of a reasonable price ; and is also to cause a copy to be fixed on or near the outer door of the town hall, or in some public and conspicuous situation within the borough, on every day during the week next preceding the fifteenth of September in every year. Overseers neglecting to make out and sign the burgess lists are liable to a fine of £50. Every person whose name has been omitted from any such burgess list, and who claims to have his name inserted therein, must on or before the fifteenth day of September in every year give notice to the town * The ffth was the day named in this Act, but see page 48 as to 20 & 21 Vict., c. 50, s. 7, which altered the date to the^r^^. t If there be no town clerk, or the town clerk be dead or otherwise incapable of acting, all things required by the Act to he done by and with regard to the town clerk are to be done by and with regard to the person executing duties in the borough similar to those of town clerks ; and if there be no such person, or such person be dead or incapable of acting, then by and with regard to such fit person as the maj'or of such borough shall appoint in that behalf. The reasonable expenses incurred by the overseers in preparing the lists are to be defrayed out of the borough fund. THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 47 clerk, in writing, according to the form given in a schedule to the act or to the like effect ; and every person whose name has been inserted in the burgess list for any borough may object to any other person as not being entitled to have his name retained on the burgess list for the same borough. A person so objecting must on or before the fifteenth of September in every year give to the town clerk of such borough, and also give to the person objected to, or leave at the premises for which he shall appear to be rated in the burgess list, notice thereof in writing (according to the form given in the Act or to the like effect) . The town clerk is then to draw up lists of these claims and objections ; is to cause copies of them to be fixed on or near the outer door of the town hall, or in some public and con- spicuous position in the borougli, during the eight days next pre- ceding the first of October in every year ; is to keep a copy of these lists to be perused by any person, without the payment of any fee, during the eight days (Sundays excepted) next preceding tlie first of October in every year, and is to deliver a copy of such lists to any person requiring the same on payment of a sum not exceeding one shilling. The lists prepared and published in the manner described are then to be revised* by the mayor and two assessors, annually chosen by the burgesses, who are for that purpose to hold an open court (three clear days' notice having been given) at some time between the first day of October inclusive and the fifteenth day of October inclusive. The burgess list having been revised is to be delivered to the town clerk, Avho is to keep the same, to cause the said list to be fairly and truly copied into one general alphabetical list in a book, with every name therein nurabered.f beginning the numbers from the first name, and continuing them in a regular series to the last name ; is to cause such book to be completed on or before the twenty-second day of October in every year ; and every such book in which the said burgess list shall have been copied shall be the burgess roll of the burgesses of such borough entitled to vote in the choice of the councillors, assessors, and auditors of such borough at any election which may take place in such borough, between the first day of November inclusive in the year wherein such burgess roll shall have been made and the fii'st day of November in the succeeding year. Copies of the burgess rolls are to be printed for sale. By Sections 3, 5, 6, and 7, of 7 William lY., and 1 Yictoria, c. 78, * But see next page as to the Act 41 & 42 Vict., c. 26. f When the borough is divided into wards, the burgess roll is to be made out by the town clerk in alphabetical lists of the burgesses in each ■wnid. 48 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; (whicli statute was passed to settle some minor defects experienced in the working of the principal Act), when a borough is divided into wards, two assessors are to be chosen on the 1st of March in each year, or, if that be a Sunday, 07i the following day, to hold the court for revising the burgess lists with the mayor in like manner, as is provided by the Municipal Corporations Act, with respect to the election of two auditors for the borough. The burgess roll is not to be questioned for want of title to their offices on the part of mayor and assessors. One burgess roll is to be in force until the new burgess roll has been duly made ; and corporations are not to be dissolved by any neglect to make a new burgess roll. By Clause 24, the Court of Queen's Bench may grant a mandamus to put a burgess on the roll. By 20 and 21 Victoria, c. 50, s. 7, the day for preparing and delivering the burgess roll by the overseers was changed from the hfth to ih.e first day of September. The Act 41 and 42 Victoria, c. 26, combines, in boroughs loth parliamcniary and munici'pal^ the separate systems of registration and revision with respect to the parliamentary lists and burgess rolls. The revising barristers, in such boroughs, are invested, so far as the burgess rolls are concerned, with the duties formerly dis- charged by the mayor and the two assessors, the latter office being abolished. Boroughs, municipal but not parliamentary, are but slightly affected by this statute,which provides for the details attendant upon the assimilation, and will be found more fully abstracted under the succeeding section (the Parliamentary Franchise) . Unlike the Parliamentary Reform Act of 1832, the Municipal Reform Act of 1835 did not grant, continue, or reserve to the " freemen ^' the privilege of voting, by virtue of their freedom. The exclusion could not, in that light, be deemed a hardship because, as pointed out in Part II., the greater portion of them had for generations been deprived of any share in municipal elections. Section 2, however, reserved all rights of property and beneficial exemptions to existing freemen and their wives and children ; Section 3 abolished the power of admitting freemen (or burgesses) by gift or purchase ; and Section 4 confirmed the reservation of the paidiamentary franchise. All exclusive rights of trading were extin- guished, as also were exemptions from local tolls on the part of any person not already possessed of such an immunity. The claims of freemen to the enjoyment of property or direct and indirect pecuniary profits in boroughs named in the schedules of the Municipal Reform Act are shown in the annexed table which is an THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 49 almost literal reproduction of a table compiled by the Assistant Secretary to the Commissioners. TABLE 2. (Part IV., Sec. 3.) Boroughs. Claims to Freodom in 1835. Rights of Property claimed by Freemen in 1835. Col. 1. Col. 2. Col. 3. Bath Servitude, gift, or pur- chase. Benefit from the Bath Common. Bedford Birth, servitude, pur- cliase, or gift. Common right of small extent. Berwick Birth, apprenticeship, and gift. Education for their children. Beverley Birth, apprenticesliip. Enjoyment by residents of ex- and grant. tensive common riglits. Boston Birth, servitude, and Benefit of loans from a very purchase. small sum bequeathed. Cambridge Birth, apprenticeship, purcliase, and gift. Some rights of common pasture. Cardigan Presentment of jury of burgesses at the mayor's court. Pasturage on a common waste. Clitheroe Burgageholders. Pasture on Preston Moor ; pay less at grammar-school than non-freemen. Coventry Apprenticeship. Limited right of common pas- ture, and exclusive eligibility as objects of Sir Thomas AVliite's charity. Derby Birth, apprenticeship, and gift of corporation. Common right without stint. Doncaster Birth, servitude, and Common right, with about £1 grant. per annum to each ; claim to have their children taught the classics at grammar-school. Durham Birth, apprenticeship, Common lands producing about and gift. D.s. a-year to each of 424 resi- dent burgesses. Exeter Birth, gift, servitude, Eligibility to be objects of some and marriage. small charitable endowments. Eye Birth, apprenticeship, Limited rights of common pas- and election. ture. Gatesliead Borough-h( )lders, birth. Limited profits from common and .servitude. lauds. Gloucester Appointment, purchase, birth, and servitude. Small common rights. Godmanchester Birth and purchase ... Considerable rights of common. Grantliam Birtli, servitude, pur- chase, and gift. Exclusive eligibility to a charity. Haverfordwest. . . Birth, servitude, & gift. Riglit of common pasture. Hereford Birth, marriage, and Eligibility to benefits of certain apprenticesliip. charities. Kingston - upon - Birtli, servitude, and Clieapor education at grammar- HuU. grant. school than others. Lancaster Birth, purchase, and Right of common ; 80 seniors a gift. separate common, producing £4 per annum. £ 50 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; TABLE 2. (Part IV., Sec. 3.)— continued. BOHOUGHS. Col. 1. Lincoln Maidstone.. Maldon ... Marlboroiigli Morpeth ... Newcastle-under- Lyne. Newcastle - upon- Tyne. Northampton Norwich . . . Nottingham Oxford Pembroke... Rochester . . . Shrewsbury Stamford ... Swansea ... Tenby Tewkesbury Worcester . . . York Claims to Freedom in 1835. Col. 2. Birth, servitude, pur- chase, and gift. Birth, servitude, and purchase. Birth, marriage, servi- tude, purchase, & gift. Election Election Birth and servitude ... Birth, servitude, and gift. Birth, marriage, servi- tude, purchase, and gift. Birth, servitude, pur- chase, gift, and as woollen manufacturers. Birth, apprenticeship, purchase, and gift. Birth, apprenticeship, purchase, and gift. Birth, apprenticeship, and gift. Birth, servitude, pur- chase, and gift. Birth, servitude, and grant. Birth, servitude, pur- chase, and gift. Birth, marriage, servi- tude, and gift. Election Birth, servitude, & gift. Birth, servitude, pur- chase, and gift. Birth, apprenticeship, and gift. Eights of Property claimed by Freemen in 1835. Col. 3. Exclusive right to depasture two commons, and right on two others jointly with inhabitant householders. Exclusive right to hold leases of city property, and of eligibility to be objects of certain charities. Privilege of having their chil- dren taught Latin and Greek at the grammar-school. Exclusive right of fishing within the borough. Small shares in a piece of land. Rights of common pasture, worth to residents £5 to £6 per annum each ; and to have their childi'en educated gratis. Riglit of pasture on 205 acres of common. Right of common pasture en- joyed by 308, worth about £10 a-year each ; exclusiA'e eligi- bility to assistance from certain charities. Common pasture on about 200 acres of land ; exclusive eligi- bility to certain charities, and education for cliildren in free grammar-school. Nearly 8s. a-year each from cer- tain lands formerly common. A considerable right of pasture on lands around the town, and eligibility to "burgess parts" of certain land. Common right over 439 acres ; fishery in city streams. Very limited right of common. Sole eligibility of children to education at free-school. Trifling money- payments in lieu of common rights. Right of common enjoyed by about 30. 12 senior burgesses £10 each per annum. Very limited right of common. Petty share in rent of an aftermath Limited right of common on 20 acres, and exclusive ehgibdity to almshouses. Pasturage over several pieces of waste. THEIR GUOWTII AND DEVELOPMENT. 51 The abolition of admissions to the freedom of a borough by gift or purchase has exhausted all shares to the "rights of property" in some of the foregoing places ; in a few the " rights " have been compounded for by the governing body ; and in others the various interests still remain in force, although, generally speaking, they are of trifling value. 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Cities and Borougbs named in Tables 3 and 4 which were described as Boroughs in Domesday Book ... 64 Total number of Burgesses on the Rolls of Cities and Boroughs subject to 5 and 6 Willam IV., c. 76, in 1835— (the First Rolls) 124,710 Total number of Burgesses on the Rolls of Cities and Boroughs subject to 5 and 6 William IV., c. 76, in 1879 1,312,796 Table 3. — (178 Boroughs). — Excess of number of Burgesses on the First Rolls, 1835, over the number of individuals possessing elective powers under the ancient constitution in the same year ... ... 100,765 Excess of number of Burgesses on the Rolls of 1878-9 over the number of Burgesses on the First RoUs in 1835 604,851 Tables 3 and 4. — (240 Boroughs). — Excess of number of Burgesses on the Rolls of 1878-9 over the number of Burgesses on the First Rolls in 1835 1,188,086 (4) The Parliamentary Franchise. The Parliamentary and Municipal Franchises, although distinct in every sense, have, for the last five hundred years, been so closely and peculiarly associated as to forbid the significant influences of the paramount privilege being overlooked in a work of this character. The gradual depreciation of the social and older franchise and its general subservience (until the year 1835) to the powerful domina- tion of the national and younger franchise has been already traced in Part II. The British Constitution, in its present form, is not comprised or defined in any one document. Its principles combine a variety of unwritten customs, supplemented by the provisions of several Royal 64 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; charters and grants, formal deeds, and Acts of Parliament. The chief documents are : — 1. Charta lihertatum, (Henry I). 2. Magna Charta, (John). 3. Petition of Rights, (Charles I). 4. Habeas Corpus, (Charles II). 5. Declaration of Eights, (William III). 6. Act of Succession, 1701, (William III). 7. Act of Succession, 1705, (Anne). 8. Act of Union with Scotland, 1707, (Anne). 9. Act of Union with Ireland, 1801, (George III). 10. Reform Act, (England and Wales) 1832, (William lY). 11. Reform Act, (England and Wales) 1867, (Victoria). 12. Reform Act, (Scotland) 1868, (Victoria). Whatever may have been the true constitution of the Saxon loitena-gembt (or council of bishops and nobles) and mickel-gemot, (or general council) which are often spoken of as the fundamental basis of the British Parliament, it was not until Simon de Montfort (temp. 1265) summoned the barons of his own party, several eccle- siastics who were not immediate tenants of the Crown, two knights from each shire, and deputies from the cities and boroughs in a common assembly, for the purpose of securing popular support in his opposition to Henry III., that the right of the people to a share in the direction of the afi'airs of the kingdom, received a certain recognition by the governing estates of the realm. In these elections, household suffrage may be said to have prevailed ; but the alleged frequency of tumults subsequently led (temp. Henry VI.) to the voting power being restricted to certain qualified persons. The diversified outgrowth of the circumscribed franchise will be best understood by a reference to Col. 4 of Table 2 in this section. The perpetuation of the ancient rights therein shewn, under the present system of parliamentary voting, may be described as advantageous in so far as they afford facilities for enabling individuals who, through purely personal circumstances, lose one qualification to obtain another. The boroughs have at all times enjoyed a preponderance in the number of members of the House of Commons. In the first Par- liament of the reign of Henry VIII. the whole number of the House was 298, the boroughs contributing a little more than three- fifths of the representatives. With the last Act of Union (1801) the total strength of the House was brought up to 658 members, the THEIR GUOWTU AND DEVELOPMENT. 65 same as that of tlic present House.* The I'nglish and "Welsh borough representation at the time of the Reform Act of 18J32 was distributed thus : — England- -24 Cities 171 Boroughs Wales— 11 Boroughs. 23 with 2 each -j 46 tl with 4 i" 4 165 with 2 each ^ 330 tlwith4 j^ 4 5 with 1 each ^ 5 10 with 1 each ) 10 1 with 2 I 2 401 In the House as established under the Act of 1832 the borough seats were apportioned thus : — 1 1 city with 4 ... ... ...\ 4 L^ 13^ England-^ 133 cities and boroughs with 2 each V 206 (. 53 cities and boroughs with 1 each ) 53 Wales ... 14 borough districts with 1 each ... 14 337 In the present House the members for the English and Welsh cities and boroughs are as follows : — 1 city with 4 1 city with 3 3 boroughs with 3 each ... England . \ Wales { 4 3 9 §89 cities and boroughs with 2 each §178 92 cities and boroughs with 1 each J 92 1 borough district with 2 ... | 2 13 borough districts with 1 each ... J 13 §301 The combined representation of the English counties and univer- sities, the Scotch counties, universities, cities, and burghs, and the Irish counties, university, cities, and boroughs is, therefore, seen to be only 56 members in excess of the English borough representation. * Practically the House li:is numbered for some years only 652 members — the conseiiuence of the disifnnu-hisciiR'iit of the boroughs of Beverley aud Bridgwater (England), and Cashel and Sligo (Ireland), which occurred subsequent to the passing of the Reform Acts of 1867 and 1868 ; the Govei-nment have, however (April 1879), announced their intention to take steps for filling up these vacancies. t London. J Weymouth and Mclcombe Regis. § Four of the vacant seats are here included. 66 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; The proportionate representation of the United Kingdom, ac- cording to the census of 1871 (omitting fractions), is — England 1 member to every 46,449 inhabitants. AVales 1 member to every 40,571 inhabitants. Scotland 1 member to every 56,000 inhabitants. Ireland 1 member to every 51,156 inhabitants. United Kingdom, 1 member to every 55,464 inhabitants. The present proportionate representation of the parliamentary and municipal boroughs of England and Wales will be found at page 88. The Act, 2 William lY. c. 45, better known as the Parliamentary Reform Act of 1832, struck the first blow at that flagrant perversion of municipal privileges which had been so general throughout the country for a period of four hundred years, by bieaking down the political ascendancies of certain parties and families. By the changes it etFected fifty-six decayed (or " rotten ") boroughs were wholly deprived of the franchise ; thirty boroughs had their representatives reduced to one member each, and that of one (Weymouth and Melcombe Regis) was reduced to two members ; — twenty-two boroughs to return two members each, and nineteen to return one each, were created in England. The old qualifications for the franchise were all preserved with restrictions as to residence, date of admissions to freedom, &c., and the right of voting conferred on every male person of full age, not subject to any legal incapacity, who occupied in a city or borough, as owner or tenant, any house, warehouse, counting house, shop, or other building of the clear annual value of not less than £10, provider! such person should have paid the poor rates and assessed taxes, have occupied for twelve months next previous to the last*" day of July, in the year in which registration is sought, and have resided for six months next previous to the last* day of July, in the city or borough, or within seven miles thereof. A comparison of Cols. 5 and 7 of Tables 2 and 4 in this section will shew the extent to which the voting power of the cities and boroughs was increased under the Act. The boundaries of the cities and boroughs were newly defined and settled by a supplemental Act of Parliament (2 & 3 Will. IV. c. 64). The Act 30 & 31 Victoria, c. 102, determined the English and Welsh borough franchise in its present form. By it four boroughs were totally disfranchised (for bribery and corruption) ; the repre- sentation of thirty-eight cities and boroughs was reduced from two members to one member each ; — that of one city and three boroughs * Sec. 7 of 41 and 42 Vict. c. 26 enacts that in every parliamentary borough and in every municipal borough every period of qualification for parliamentary voters and burgesses respectively which is now computed by reference to the last day of July ehall, instead, be computed to the 15th day of July. THEIR GIIOWTII AND DEVELOPMENT. 67 was increased from two members to three members each ; and that of two borouglis from one member to two members each. Eleven new boroughs were created, two to return two members each, and nine to return one member each.* As in tlie case of tlie Act of 1832, the Act of 1867 was followed by a supplemental Act (31 and 32 Vict. c. 46) which newly defined the several boundaries. The annexed table will illustrate the extent of the various ancient- right qualifications in the year preceding the passing of the Act (so far as relates to cities and boroughs under the Municipal Act of 1835). These peculiar qualifications are being gradually extinguished by the expanded franchise, and in some of the cities and boroughs named have altogether la])scd. TABLE 1. (Part IV., Sec. 4.) — Ancient Municipal Cities and Boroughs (now under tue Municipal Act op 1835) returning Members TO Parliament in 1866. Number of Electors on Number of Electors on Register, IbUU, classed Register, IbUB, classed according to Qualilications. according to Qualifications. "' -s 00* -u Citr Ciiy p:^- OE ►? = V OB >=5§ BOEOUGH. £10 o i< a) a BOEOUGE. £10 Q b o a Occupiers > Freemen ScotnndL Potwalk other Anci Qunlific Occupiers Freemen Scot and L Potwnlle other Anci Qunlific Col. 1. Col. 2. Col. 3. Col. 4. Col. 1. Col. 2. Col. 3. 1 Col. 4. 1 ENGLAND. Calne 172 1 3 Abingdon 309 — 20 ' Cambridge 1,905 21 ' Andover 260 3 Canterbury 1,084 724 Arundel 143 — 31 Carlisle 1,196 310 Banbury 763 — Che.ster 1,598 1,102 Barnstaple 581 182 — Chichester 559 2 26 Bath 3,235 — 1 Cliippenham ... 402 5 Bedford 930 45 133 Clitheroe 484 — Berwick - upon Colchester .:. 1,019 405 Tweed 440 376 — Coventry 1,056 3,911 — Beverley 619 855 — Cricklade 2,008 — 86 Bewdley ... 356 — 5 Dartmouth 294 1 Bodmin 401 — 2 Derby 2,196 336 Boston... ... 974 191 — Devizes 365 — 4 Bridgnorth 381 277 — Dorchester 45 L — Bridgwater 638 — 41 Dover... 1,575 839 Bridport 475 — 28 Droitwich 398 2 Bristol ... 10,697 1,707 1,920 Durham 648 501 Buckingham ... 405 2 — Evesham 323 49 Bury Saint Exeter... 2,452 224 1,013 Edmund's ... 689 8 ~ Eye ... 329 1 17 — * The Scotch rarliaineotary Eeform Act of ISciS iiicideutiilly led to the total dis- f ranchisemeut of Arundel, Lyme liegis, Thetford,and Wells (see Table 4, at pages 66-7). r2 68 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; Table 1. (Pakt IV., Sec. 4.) — continued. Number of Electors on Number of Electors on Register, 1866, cl issed Register, 1866, classed City according to Qualifications. City according to Qualifications. tors, nd ight s. OR ^2 ffi 'r Pi OB ►? = V a BOEOUGH. £10 4J rVj a ■:S BOEOUGH. £10 ■g £ o'-S Occupiers Freemen. Scot and 1 Potwalk other Anc Qualiflc Occupiers Freemen. Col. 1. Col. 2. Col. 3. Col. 4. Col. 1. Col. 2. Col. 3. Col. 4. Gloucester 1,298 548 Oxford... 2,162 951 Grantham 071 215 — Peniyn and Grimsby, Great 1,012 346 — Falmouth ... 816 — 71 Guildford 685 31 9 Peterborough ... 609 — 44 Harwich 389 — Plymouth 3,109 14 — Hastings 1,938 3 1 Poole 556 12 — Helston 357 6 Pontef ract 652 — 80 Hereford 1,129 185 Portsmouth 4,670 1 Hertford 496 96 10 Preston 2,224 — 425 Honiton 228 — 60 Reading 1,830 — 2 Huntingdon ... 363 45 — Reigate 926 — — Hythe ... 1,265 48 — 1 Retford, East ... 2,398 64 75 Ipswich 1,877 360 — Richmond 312 — 6 Ives, St. 448 — 88 Ripon... 349 — — Kings Lynn ... 805 96 — Rochester 1,225 374 — Kingston-upon- Rye 388 4 — HuU 5,140 1,358 — Salisbury 702 — 2 Lancaster 467 1,006 — Sandwich 841 228 — Launceston 421 — — Scarborough ... 1,437 9 — Leicester 3,588 1,839 11 Shaftesbury 476 — 30 Leominster 352 — 56 Shrewsbury 1,371 406 — Lichfield 414 95 211 Southampton ... 4,147 4 79 Lincoln... 1,267 546 — Stafford 666 973 — Liskeard 450 — — Stamford 484 — 43 Liverpool 20,554 1,285 — Tamworth 529 — 31 Ludlow 395 31 — Taunton 843 54 Ljane Regis ... 250 2 — Tewkesbury ... 312 21 9 Lymington 349 — — Thetford 232 — Maidstone 1,572 401 — Tiverton 461 4 — Maldon 308 596 — Totnes... 389 6 — Marlborough ... 303 1 — Truro 639 1 Monmouth 2,125 21 — Wallingf ord . . . 374 — 5 Morpeth 389 96 . — . Warwick 641 — 125 Newark 540 — 171 Wells 230 66 — Newcastle-under Wenlock 851 142 — Lyme 463 718 — Weymouth and Newcastle - upon M elc om b e Tyne 5,618 1,842 — Regis 931 4 3 Newport (Isle of Wigan ... 862 3 Wight) 662 2 — Winchester 988 3 — Northampton ... 2,579 — 278 Windsor 657 — — Norwich 2,439 1,971 1,272 Worcester 1,944 r32 — Nottingham ... 4,329 1,565 1,027 Wycombe 551 2 — THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 69 Table 1. (Part IV., Sec. 4.) — continued. Number of Electors on Number of Electors on Register, IHliO, c UHsed Regifiter, IHOO, c l:iH.sed City according to Qualitieations. CiTT according to Qualitications. tcrs, nd ght s. l-sL O e ^ 13 = 73 OB > -- 2 OB > --.2 Borough. £10 Q 5 .a « BOBOUOH. £10 Occupiers Freemen. Scot nnd I Potwall other Anc Qualiflc Occupiers Freemen. Scot nnd I Potwall othor Anc Qualilii Col. 1. Col. 2. Col. 3. Col. 4. Col. 1. Col. 2. (Col. 3. Col. 4. Yarmou th, Great 1,050 Pembroke 1,102 37/ York 2,153 2,571 — Radnor... 420 ] 24 — Swansea 1,695 313 Total (England) 158,332 34,041 7,598 WALES. Total (Wales) Total for Citiesx 11 165 1 ^•>'7 380 '"■ Beaumaris 5G1 2 — and Boroughs Brecon... 293 — — (under the Cardiff 1,889 234 — ]\I u n i c i p a 1 Cardigan 637 55 — Act of 1835), C'armarthen ... 775 41 — which returned 26,997 35,468 7,978 Carnarvon 1,027 — 66 Members pre- Denbigh 805 129 — vious to the Flint 601 — 99 passing of the Haverfordwest 406 191 215 2 & 3 WiU. 4. Montgomery . . . 954 61 0. 45 ) The provisions of the law with regard to borough representation may be conveniently classed here under three heads : — (Ij Qualitica- tions for the Franchise ; (2) Procedure for Registration ; (3) Pro- cedure in Elections. (1) QuaUficatious for the Franchise. — The right to be placed on a borough register may arise under any of the following qualifica- tions : — (1) ^Householder ; (2) "*Ten Pound Occupier ; (3) *Lodger; (41 t Freeholder ; (5) t Freeman; (6) t Burgage Tenant : (7) t Pot- waller, or other Ancient Right. The requirements to be observed under these qualifications are : — (1) Houskholders. — The occupa- tion as inhabitant, owner, or occupier of any dwelling-house within the city or borough for the whole of twelve months preceding the fifteenth day of July.§ (Occupation may be successive, but must * These qiinlificntions npplj' to all horontjhs. t Freehold .lunlitieations are confined to Bristol, Exeter, Haverfordwest, Lichfield, Norwich, and Nottingham. X These qualifications are confined to boroughs that existed prior to 1S32. ' § See footnote at page 66. 70 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; be continuoiis). The person must have been rated as an ordinary occupier to all Poor Rates made during such twelve months, and on or before July 20 must have paid all Poor Rates payable in respect of the premises up to the preceding January 5. Joint occupation of a dwelling-house does not give a qualification under this enactment. The payment of rates by an owner instead of by an occupier is constructively a payment by the latter, so far that a claim to be rated is not now necessary ; (a) where the overseers have entered into a written agreement to collect the rates from the owner instead of from the occupier ; [b) where the local authority has made an order that owners should be rated instead of occupiers. In all other cases where a person is omitted from the Rate Book he must make a formal claim to be rated. (2) Ten Pound Occupier — Occupation for twelve calendar months preceding July 15* as owner or tenant of any house, warehouse, counting-house, shop, or other building, which, either separately or jointly with any land within the borough occupied therewith as owner or tenant under the same landlord, is of the clear yearly value of not less than £10. (Occupation may be successive, but must be continuous.) The occupier must have resided in the borough, or within seven miles of its boundary, for six calendar months next preceding July 15.* All poor rates must be paid as stated for householders ; likewise assessed taxes due on the preceding January 5. Joint occupation qualifies when the aggregate value, if divided, gives an amount of not less than £10 for each occupier, (3) Lodger — Occupation as a resident lodger, separately and as sole tenant for twelve months preceding July 15,* such lodgings being of the clear yearly value of not less than £10, when let unfurnished. (The occupation may be successive if continuous and in the same house ; there may also be joint occupation with identical provisoes to the £10 occupation. t) The franchise must be claimed every year by a claim being addressed to the Overseers between August 1 and 25 in the first year, and by the 25th of July in each succeeding 3'ear.J (4) Freeholder. — A footnote at page 69, and the sections of the statute quoted at page 71, explain this qualification. (5.) Freeman (or Burgess). — Must be registered; and must reside within the city or borough, or within seven statute miles of the place where the poll was taken prior to 18-J2. Freemen created since March 1, 1831, are excluded unless they have been admitted in respect of birth or servitude; but even freemen admitted by birth are subject to the further proviso, that the right must be derived from or * See footnote at page 66. f By 41 & 42 Vict. c. 26, sec. G. t See 41 & 42 Vict. c. 26, sec. 22 (and page 74). THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMEXT. 71 through some person who was a burgess or freeman, or entitled to be admitted as such previously to March 1, 1831, or from or through some person who since that time shall have become, or shall hereafter become, a burgess or freeman in respect of servitude. (6) Burgage Tenant and (7) Potwaller or other Ancient Right. — Sections 31 and 33 of the Iveform Act of 1832 regulate claims in these classes (and also those of Freeholders) in the following terms : — " XXXI. And bfi it enacted, that in every city or town being a county of itself, in the election for whicli freeholders or burgage tenants, either with or without any superadded qualification, now have a right to vote, every such free- holder or burtrace tenant shall be entitled to vote in the election of a member or members to serve in all future Parliaments for such city or town, provided he shall be duly registered according to the provisions hereinafter contained ; but that no such person shall be so registered in any year in respect of any freehold or burgage tenement, uidess he shall have been in the actual possession thereof, or in receipt of the rents and profits thereof, for his own use, for twelve calendar months next previous to the last* day of July in such year (except where the same shall have come to him, at any time within such twelve months, by descent, suc- cession, marriage, marriage settlement, devise, or promotion to any benefice in a church, or to any office), nor unless he shall have resided for six calendar months next previous to the last* day of Jidy in such year within such city or town, or within seven statute miles thereof or of any part thereof : Provided always, that nothing in this enactment contained shall be deemed to vary or abridge the pro- visions hereinbefore made relative to the right of voting for any city or town being a county of itself, in respect of any freehold for life or lives : Provided also, that every freehold or burgage tenement which may be situate without the present limits of any such city or town being a county of itself, but within the limits of such city or town, as the same shall be settled and described bj^ the Act to be passed for that purpose as hereinbefore mentioned, shall confer the right of voting in the election of a member or members to serve in any future Parlia- ment for such city or town in the same manner as if such freehold or burgage tenement wei"e situate within the present limits thereof. " XXXII r. And be it enacted, that no person shall be entitled to vote in the election of a member or members to serve in any future Parliament for any city or borough, save and except in respect of some right conferred by this Act, or as a burgess or freeman, or as a freeman and liverjonan, or, in the case of a city or town being a county of itself, as a freeholder or burgage tenant, as hereinbefore mentioned : Provided always, that every person now having a right to vote in the election for any city or borough (except those enumerated in the said schedule (A.) in virtue of any other qualification than as a burgess or freeman, or as a fi-eeman and liveryman, or, in the case of a city or town being a county of itself, as a freeholder or burgage tenant, as hereinbefore mentioned, shall retain such right of voting so long as he shall be qualified as an elector according to the usages and customs of such city or borough or any law now in force, and such person shall be entitled to vote in the election of a member or members to servo in any future Parliament for such city or borough, if duly registered according to the provisions hereinafter contained ; but that no such person shall * See footnote at page 66. 72 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; be so registered in any year unless he shall, on the last* day of July in such year, be qualified as such elector, in such manner as would entitle him then to vote if such day were the day of election and this Act had not been passed, nor unless such person, where his qualification shall be in any city or borough, shall have resided for six calendar months next previous to the last* day of Jnhj in such year within such city or borough, or within seven statute miles from the place where the poll for such city or borough shall heretofore have been taken, nor unless such person, where his qualification shall be within any place sharing in the election for any city or borough, shall have resided for six calendar months next previous to the last* day of July in such year within such respective place so sharing as aforesaid, or within seven statute miles of the jilace mentioned in conjunction with such respective place so sharing as aforesaid, and named in the second column of the schedule marked (E. 2) to this Act annexed : Provided, nevertheless, that every such person shall for ever cease to enjoy such right of voting for any such city or borough as aforesaid if his name shall have been omitted for two successive years from the register of such voters for such city or borough hereinafter directed to be made, unless he shall have been so omitted in consequence of his having received parochial relief within twelve calendar months next previous to the last* day of Jitly in any year, or in consequence of his a.bsence on the naval or military service of His Majesty." (2) Procedure for Registration. — On or before July 20tli, poor rates due on the previous January 5 must be paid by inhabitant householders, and poor rates and assessed taxes similarly due must be paid by £10 occupiers. On the 1st day of August town clerks must publish lists of inhabitant householders, of £10 occupiers, and of reserved rights of voting (if any). All notices of objection must be posted, so that in the ordinary course of post they shall reach the persons to whom they are addressed not later than the 2oth of August. Also, not later than this day persons whose names have been omitted from the lists must send in their claims. Lodgers claiming for the first time must do so between the 1st and 25th of August; afterwards their claims for continuance on the register should be made by the 25th of July.f Lists of persons claiming, and of persons objected to, are to be published by town clerks and overseers on the 1st day of September. The names of lodgers are to be made into a separate list. Between September 15 and October 31, both inclusive, the Revising Barrister must hold courts, of which seven days' notice is to be given to the town clerk, who in turn will advertise the fixtures by notice on the town hall, and on every church, chapel, or meeting-house. With respect to the revision which, by 41 and 42 Victoria, c. 26, in Cities and Boroughs, both parliamentary and municipal, is combined for the parliamentary register and the burgess roll, sections 15 to 23 of the Act may be here usefully abstracted : — " S. 15. Where the whole or part of the area of a municipal borough is * See footnote at page 6G. f See footnote at page 70 (and page 74). THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 73 co-extensive with or included in the area of a j)arlianientary Itorough, the lists of parliamentary voters and the burgess lists shall, so far as practicalde, be made out and revised together. In every such case the overseers of every parish situate wholly or partly either in the jtarliamentary borough or in the municipal borough shall, on or before the last day of July in every year, make out a list of all persons entitled under any right conferred by the Reform Act, 1832, or by B. 3 of the Representation of the People Act, 1867, to be regi-stered as voters for the parliamentary borough in respect of the occupation of property situate wholly or partly within that parish, or entitled to be enrolleil as burgesses of the municipal borough in respect of the occupation of any property so situate. With respect to every list so made out the following provisions shall have effect : — (1.) The lists shall be in substitution for the lists of persons so en- titled, which are required to be made out under the Parliamentary Registration Acts and the Municipal Corporation Acts : (2.) Where the parish is situate, wholly or partly, botli in the parliamentary borough and in the municipal borough, the list for the parish shall be made out in three divisions : Division One shaU comprise the names of the persons entitled both to be registered as parliamentary voters under a right conferred as aforesaid, and to be enrolled as burgesses ; Division Two shall comprise the names of the persons entitled to be registered as parliamentary voters under a right conferred as aforesaid, but not to be enrolled as burgesses ; Division Three shaU comprise the names of the persons entitled to be enrolled as burgesses, but not to be registered as parliamentary voters under a right conferred as aforesaid: (3.) Each list shall state the surname and other name or names of every person whose name is inserted therein, his place of abode, the nature of his qiialification, and the situation and description of the property in respect of which he is entitled: (4.) Each list shall be signed and otherwise dealt with in manner directed by the Parliamentary Registration Acts with respect to the alphabetical lists mentioned in 8. 13 of the Parliamentary Registration Act, 1843 : (5.) Where no part of the parish is situate within the municipal borough, the list for the parish shall be deemed to be a list of voters for the parliamentary borough : (G.) Where no part of the parish is situate within the parliamentary borough, the list for the parish shall be deemed to be a burgess list for the municipal borough : (7.) Where the list is made out in divisions, Divisions One and Two shall be deemed to be list of voters for the parliamentary borough, and Divisions One and Three shall be deemed to bo burgess lists for the municipal borough : (8.) The lists, and, if the lists are made out in divisions, each division thereof shall, if and so far as the local authority from time to time direct, according to convenience for use, be framed in parts for polling districts or wards ; and where the polling districts and wards are not conterminous, in such manner that the parts may be con- veniently comi)iled or put together to serve either as lists for polling districts or as ward lists. S. 16. In the case of any parliamentary borough in which any persons are entitled to be registered as freemen, or under any right other than a right conferred by the Reform Act, 1832, or s. 3 of the Representation of the People Act, 18G7, the registration of such persons sh;dl be carried out in the manner tlirected by the I'arliamontaiy Registration Acts, as modified by this Act. S. 17. In the case of a parliamentaiy borough which inclutles in whole or in part more municipid boroughs than one, each such municipal borough shiJl, for the purposes of this Act, be de;ilt with sepai-ately, and as if oacli were the only municipal borough included in whole or in part in such parliamentary borough ; and if any parish is partly in one and partly in another or others of such 74 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS; municipal boroughs, so much thereof as is in any one of such municipal boroughs shall, for the purposes of this Act, be dealt with as a separate parish. The town clerk of each such municipal borough shall, so far as regards the area of such municipal borough, issue the precepts and perform the other duties to be performed by the town clerk under and shall be the town clerk for the purposes of the Parliamentary Registration Acts and this Act, S. 18. The Municipal Corporation Acts shall not, as to anything prior to the completion of the revision of the burgess lists, apply to any burgess list made out under this Act, and instead thereof the Parliamentary Registration Acts, as modiiied by tliis Act, shall, up to the completion of the revision of the burgess lists, apply to every such burgess list, as if it were a list of parliamentary voters made oiit under those Acts, and as if the municipal borough to wliich such burgess lists relate were a parlia- mentary borough : Provided as follows : — (1.) Notliing in tliis Act shall authorise a person entered on a burgess list, not being also entered on a list of parliamentary voters, to make any objection in respect of a list of parliamentary voters, or authorise any person entered on a list of parliamentary voters, not being also entered on a burgess list, to make any objection in respect of a burgess list ; (2.) The last day for revising a burgess list made out under this Act shall be the 12th October ; and (3.) The burgess lists when revised shall be copied for the burgess roU in manner directed by the Municipal Corporation Acts. S. 19. Where the whole or part of the area of a municipal borough is co-extensive with or ".ncluded in the area of a parliamentary borough, the separate lists of the persons entitled to be elected councillors or aldermen of the municipal borough, though not entitled to be on the burgess roU, shall be made out at the same time and in the same manner as the burgess lists, and all the provisions of this Act with respect to the burgess lists shall apply to those separate lists, S. 20. After the commencement of this Act assessors shall not be elected in any municipal borough which as regards the whole or part of its area is co-extensive with or included in the area of a parliamentary boroiigh, and any assessors elected in any such municipal borough before the commencement of this Act shall cease to hold office upon the commencement of this Act. S. 21. If and so far as the local authority so direct, the lists of parliamentary voters and registers of parliamentary voters in parliamentary boroughs, and the burgess lists and burgess rolls in municipal boroughs, and the lists of claimants and persons objected to in parliamentary boroughs and municipal boroughs respectively, or any of those documents, shaU, so far as they relate to persons qualified in respect of the ownersliip or occupation of property (including persons qualified in respect of lodgings), be arranged in the same order in which the qualifying premises appear in the rate book for the parish in which those premises are situate, or as nearly thereto as will cause those lists, registers, and rolls to record the qualifying premises in successive order in the street or other place in which they are situate, subject in the case of a municipal borough divided into wards to the division of the burgess roll into ward lists. The local authority in this Act means as regards a parliamentary borough the authority having power to divide the parliamentary borough into polling districts, and as regards a municipal borough the council of the municipal borough, S. 22. Where a person is.entered in respect of lodgings on the register of voters for the time being in force, and desires to be entered on the next register in respect of the same lodgings, he may claim to be so entered by sending notice of his claim to the overseers of the parish in which Ixis lodgings are situate on or before the 25th July, The overseers shall on or before the last day of July make out a list of all persons so claiming, and if they have reasonable THEIR GRO^VTH AND DEVELOPMENT. /O cause to believe that any person whose name is entered on the list is not entitled to be registered or is dead, shall add in the margin of the list opposite his name the Words " objected to " or " dead " as the case may be. The lists so made out shall be signed, publisliod, and otherwise dealt with in the same manner as the al[)lial>etical lists mentioned in s. 13 of the Parliamentary Registration Act, 1843, and shall for the purposes of the Parliamentary Registration Acts be deemed to be lists of voters, and the provisions of the Parliamentary Registration Acts as to objections shall apply to such lists, and the persons against whose names the overseers have so written the words "objected to" or "dead" shall be deemed to be duly objected to. S. 23. In the case of a person claiming to vote as a lodger, the declaration annexed to hia notice of claim shall, for the purposes of revision, be prima facie evidence of his qualification." The new register, revised as above, comes into operation on the Ist of January following; the burgess roll on the 1st of ISovember following. Both remain in force for ooe year. (3) Procedure in Elections. — The appended extract from a Parlia- mentary paper, issued in 1872, best describes the course of proceedings in connection with a borough election. (Say) July 1. Eeceipt of writ. ,, 2. Ijast possible day for notice. „ 4. First possible day for nomination. „ 5. Last possible day for nomination. „ 6. First possible day for poll in ordinary boroughs. „ 7. First possible day for poll in district boroughs. ,, y. Last possible day for poll in ordinary boroughs. „ 12. Last possible day for poll in district boroughs. The Act 35 and 36 Victoria, c. 33, prescribes that the voting shall be by ballot. The returning officer in a city or borough is the Mayor, unless the city or borough be a county of itself, in which case the duties devolve upon the Sheriff. The classes of persons ineligible to sit in the House of Commons comprise — aliens; minors; English and Scotch peers (Irish peers may sit for English constituencies) ; clergymen of the Church of England ; bankrupts ; felons during the term of their sentence ; judges ; London police magistrates ; revising barristers and returning officers, so far as relates to the constituency to which they are attached; holders of certain offices specified by statute; and con- tractors with Government. Candidates at Parliamentary elections found guilty of bribery are disqualified for the term of seven years from the date of being so reported to the House. The Tables in this section have been compiled from the particulars contained in a large number of Parliamentary Reports and Heturns extending from the year 1830 to 1879. 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X tH <<<=< O 12 o t^ CO X X CO -* Tj< -* CO X O lO o^o^co^ t- rH Tt* CO t- CO x^co co^^co^ o o t^ t- JO s9aoB g^niB^s m -Bajy o i-Tcq^i-T x" c^Toq" (m'^co' of !M c-q '6^81 'sspni gjBubs m c^i HmkHC,^ Hm H^i ^\-^ H^ -<|CJ H* ^M-c 'S;iUi!l i!j'B^TI9OTBq.IBa ^ -rj* CO g^ tH CO '"' cq TjH CO CO rH Tji CO lO K5 CO rH JO 'b9!ib 95BnnxoiddY o O CO iH 00 : : : : : : : rH : : * * * * ■ %-\ * entary and Mi ies and Boron the Number of i retui-ued by e; ^ o ^^ ffq : 03 r-l C .5 JH ;:^ c2 o r^^ o 03 CD > 1— 1 ^S'? S s s c3 f-l 02 ■3 . 2 1 -S ^ 5 "+3 3 o w. 32 X S e" 'ts e 8 8 1 1 '^ 1 o 1 1 1 -If o 2 X CO 1 ' 1 1 ' ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 Tt< CO 3 T-K ^ -•! ^ o Cft 00 00 « iH CO o o m lO O CO 00 rH O CI lO CO rH iH (M O O O 00 C5 o o Cl c ^ CC 00 CO M< 00 ^ O •r ^ (N lO O CO -H rH O co^ CO ci^ CO L~ -t o 00 C". I- CO X "tT* ^ to •\ cf CO a i-H oo'i- . -^4 o CI I-H I-H rH ^^r-i' co" rn" O rH tH CO O '^ "Z^ I— 1 I— I r-\ ^^ o =5 ^' .o X s Tft (N 05 cq CO 05 -* 05 CO 00 CO 00 OS O CO rH CO lO I— 1 _j >» 00 <-! ^ O 1^ o o C<) -^ to w^ ro O lO rH CO X rH CO o a ^ t.1 o_ O '>3 't I- "*^ "*-, o o_co O 'Ti CI "3 :3 to a o a to (M O -* CO O (M O ■* K_ tf^ —^ >'*^ 00 ifl m in 't* t^ 00 IS 00 >0 X t- CI X o o c^ ■^ ">* lO CO 'H •^ 00 >* t- X CO l~ 't X I- -i ? <^ f" ^*» Ni- .../ t~^ !>. rH '^^cs O CO -t CO CO^CO__l- co__o^ CT. re inclui utatiou N—' i-T r-t rn" rn" rn" CO ^ co'rn" MTrH'rH'lc'cT o IS •- Cl ?e 00 t- (M lO la t-i>. CO o rH CO CO CO rH CI t^ o JS _CJ iH ■* o o CO IM o CO m C5 O OO CO CO O O 1- -.-1 lO CO 1 -* C5 lO CO '^ O CO (M^CO O O X C5 CO CO C1_ rt ii ■a r-T p~r-r T^ Cf'*" o" o ci a. Q 1 > t^ fc? t^ iH Ir-QO r-iircr-H'"inr t- rt ._ »o 00 la fH 7-t r-i CO r-i. 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Cities and Boroughs under the Municipal Act of 1835 (named in Tables 2 and 3) which have direct Parlia- mentary representation are in number ... ... 158 Borouo-hs under the Municipal Act of 1835 which are contributory to other Boroughs for the purposes of Parliamentary representation, are in number ... 20 Total number of Members representing Cities and Boroughs governed under the Municipal Act of 1835, in 1879, as per Tables 2 and 3 240 Tables 2, 3, and 4. Excess of number of electors in 1879 over the number of electors immediately before the passing of the Eeform Act of 1832 1,056,347 Excess of number of electors in 1879 over the number of electors on the first registers after the passing of the Reform Act of 1832 992,898 Excess of number of electors in 1879 over the number of electors on the registers immediately preceding the passing of the Reform Act of 1867 ... ... ... 874,010 Excess of number of electors in 1879 over the number of electors on the first registers after the passing of the Reform Act of 1867 320,814 Proportionate representation of the population (according to the census of 1871) of the Municipal Cities and Boroughs governed under the Municipal Act of 1835, which are also Parliamentary Cities and Boroughs (omitting fractions) ... ... 1 member to every 29,426 inhabitants. (5.) The Governing Body. The Tables of this Section, combined with those of Section 3, will, of themselves, shew the extremely small share which the real com- munity of each city and borough had in the election of the governing body previous to 1835. The general character of the Councils, their THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 89 /■ exclusive and party spirit, and the extent to which they were vitiated by the defects of their organization, have already been referred to. The ISIunicipal Commissioners passed a scathing condemnation upon them in the following terms : — " So far from being the representa- tives, either of the population or the property of the town, they do not represent even the privileged class of the freemen ; and being elected for life, their proceedings are unchecked by any feeling of responsibility. The discharge of the functions with which they are entrusted is rendered difficult by the dislike and suspicion which their manner of election entails upon them." The ancient Councils were, in most places, composed of two classes, " aklerracn " and " councilmen." In a few corporations the alder- men had distinct powers, and met separately, from the " councilmen," as in London ; in others, the distinction was merely honorary. Some of the corporations possessed more than two classes in the Council, and in several certain officers became permanent members of the Council by virtue of their office. The subjoined extract from the Commissioners' Report succinctly describes the prevailing method of election : — " There are very few instances in the corporations of indefinite number, in •which, as at Berwick-upon-Tweed and Ipswich, the general body of the freemen have the power of choosing whomsoever they please of themselves as the head of the corporation. Sometimes he is chosen by the freemen from the aldermen, or from the members of the Common Council. In some boroughs he is chosen by the body at large from among two or more nominated by the select body. The most common case is, that he is selected either from the aldermen or common councilmen by the Court of Aldermen or Common Council. In London, and some other towns, he is elected by a popular assembly from the aldermen. * * In some places he is presented by the Jurors of the Court leet. In several boroughs the same person is re-eligible only after a given interval. In all cases the election is for a year. The members of the Common Council are elected, in the great majority of instances, by the Common Council, or that division of it commonly comprised under the name of aldermen. In some cases they are nominated by the mayor. The election is generally for life. Residence is some- times a necessarj^ qualification ; often it is little attended to. The aldermen generally fill up vacancies in their own body, from the other division of the Common Council ; in other cases this class consists of aU who have passed the chair. The aldermen also are usually chosen into that class for life. London and Norwich afi'ord instances, among others, of elections by large bodies of free- men. In both these cities the aldermen are elected for life, and the common councilmen annually. * * In Norwich all are elected by the freemen without any qualification of residence, property, or local taxation." The regulations as to the election of mayor, aldermen, and coun- cillors, and the procedure at meetings of the Council, enacted by 5 & 6 William lY., c. 76, will be best subdivided under the follow- 90 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; ing heads : — (1) Election of Councillors. [Under this head several clauses, which apply alike to the mayor, aldermen, and officers, are of necessity introduced] ; (2) Election of Aldermen ; (3) Election of Mayor ; (4) The Council ; its Meetings ; and its Officers. Subse- quent statutes amending the above Act in minor points are quoted at the foot of each page, or in order of sequence; but those effecting important alterations are stated chronologically. (1) Election of Councillors. — All persons on the burgess roll, and none others, are entitled to vote in the election of town councillors, which is to take place on the first of November in every year, unless that day happens to fall on a Sunday. One third of the council go out of office each year, so that the term of office for each councillor is three years. When a borough is not divided into wards, the election of councillors is to be held before the mayor and the assessors* of the borough, but when the borough is divided into wards, then before the alderman of the ward and the two assessors of the ward. The voting at every such election is to commence at nine o'clock in the forenoon, and is finally to close at four o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, but the poll may be closed at any time before four o'clock if one hour shall have elapsed without a vote having been tendered.! The provisions of this Act with respect to the mode of taking the poll are now superseded by those of the Ballot Act, and of the Act 38 & 39 Yict. c. 40 (which see at laage 100.) No inquiry can be made of any burgess tendering his vote except as follows : that the maj^or or other officer presiding at the election must, if required by any two bur- gesses entitled to vote, put to the voter at the time of his delivering in Ms voting paper, and not after, the following questions or any of them, and no other: 1. Are you the person whose name is signed as A.B. to the voting paper now delivered in by you ? 2. Are you the person whose name appears as A.B. on the burgess roll now in force for this borough, being registered therein as rated for property described to be situated in ? (specifying the street, &c., as described on the burgess roll) . 3. Have you already voted at the present election ? No person who is required to answer any of the said questions is to be permitted to vote until he has answered them, and any person who gives a false answer commits a misdemeanour, and may be indicted and punished accordingly. It is perhaps worth while observing that the strict prohibition in the Act against putting any * See 41 k 42 Vict. c. 26, s. 20 (page 74). f 7 Will. IV. and 1 Vict. c. 78. s. 18. THETTl GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 91 but the three questions we have given above prevents nny inquiry into a voter's change or loss of qualification. Once on llio burgess roll a person is entitled to vote during the year in which tliat roll is in force, whether he does or does not possess the same or any qualification. The voting being over, the mayor and assessors, or, if the borough be divided into wards, the presiding alderman and assessors, are to examine the voting papers in order to see who has been elected. In case of any equality of votes for two or more persons, the returning officer (mayor or alderman) and assessors, or any two of them, are to give a casting vote or votes. A list of the persons elected is to be published not later than two o'clock p.m.* on the following day, unless it happens to be Sunday, and then on Monday. Where the majority of electors vote for a disqualified person in ignorance of the fact of disqualification, the election may be void or voidable, or, in the latter case, may be capable of being made good, according to the nature of the disqualification. The objection may require ulterior proceedings to be taken before some competent tribunal in order to be made available, or it may be such as to place the elected candidate on the same footing as if he had never existed, and the votes for him w^ere a nullity ; but in no such case are the electors who vote for him deprived of their votes, if the fact becomes known and is declared while the election is still incomplete; they may then instantly proceed to vote for another candidate. If it be disclosed afterwards, the party elected may be ousted and the election declared void, but the candidate in the minority will not be deemed i^iso facto elected. But when an elector before voting receives due notice that a particular candidate is disqualified, and yet will do nothing but tender his vote for him, he must be taken as voluntarily abstaining from exercising his franchise, and as violating his duty of assisting at the election.! We have hitherto said nothing on the subject of the wards into which most boroughs are divided, or on the manner in which the election of councillors is conducted in that case. It now becomes necessary that we should touch briefl}' on both points. Under the Act of 1835 it was directed that certain large boroughs should be divided into wards, and barristers were appointed to perform the work, it being provided " that the number of councillors assigned to each ward shall be a number divisible by three." It was then enacted that a third of the councillors for each * No publication can be made after two o'clock under any circumstances. It would, if actually made, be a mere nullitj-. t Grant on Corporations, page 399. 92 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; ward — one or more according to the number assigned to the ward — should go out of office on each first of November, so that each councillor would serve three years. The election of councillors in each ward is to be before the aldermen whom the councillors chosen to each ward shall yearly appoint on that behalf, and before the two assessors of each ward ;* the aldermen and assessors having the same power as the mayor and assessors would have had if the borough had not been divided into wards. Burgesses are to vote in the election of councillors and assessors for the w^ard in which the pro- perty for which they are rated is situated, and if any burgess is rated in respect of distinct premises in two or more wards, then he is to be entitled to be enrolled in such one of the said wards as he shall select, but not in more than one. If, at any election of councillors or assessors for any borough, any person is elected a councillor or assessor for more than one ward, he must, within three days' notice thereof, choose, or in default of his choice, the mayor must declare for, which ward he is to serve; and is held to have been elected in that ward only which he so chooses, or which the mayor so declares.! If any extraordinary vacancy (that is a vacancy occasioned by any other cause than the expiration of the time of service) occurs in the office of councillor, auditor, or assessor for any borough, the burgesses entitled to vote are, on a day to be fixed by the mayor of the borough, or in the case of a councillor or assessor, when the borough has been divided into wards, by the alderman of the ward in which the vacancy has happened (such day to be not later than ten days after notice shall have been given to the mayor or town clerk by any two burgesses.) | elect from the persons qualified to be councillors another burgess to supply such vacancy, and every person thus elected will hold office until the person in room of whom he was chosen would regularly have gone out of office. It has been held that an election taken to fill ordinary and extraordinary vacancies both together is wholly bad. In case, therefore, an election to supply an extraordinary vacancy takes place on the day of an ordinary election (that is, on the first of November), care must be taken that in the notice of the election, as * By the Act, when a borough is divided into wards, two ward assessors are to be chosen annually by the burgesses of each ward; but see also 41 and 42 Vict., c. 26, s. 20 (page 74), as to the abolition of the office of assessor in cities and boroughs which are both Parliamentary and Municipal. t See also 34 and 35 Vict., c. 67 (at page 98). X Pro%'ided by 16 and 17 Vict., c. 79, s. 11. If through neglect or otherwise the vacancy has not been filled up within the time fixed the High Court of Justice (formerly Court of Queen's Bench) can, in accordance with the provisions of 7 William IV. and 1 Vict., c. 78, s. 26, grant a mandamvs for the election. THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 93 well us in all other subsequent proceedings, a distinction is preserved between the two classes of candidates and the two descriptions of vacancies, so that it may distinctly appear who is to fill the extra- ordinary vacancy, and who the ordinary. AVith respect to the qualifications requisite (both for aldermen and councillors) it is provided that — " No person being in holy orders or being the regular minister of any dissenting congregation shall be qualified to be elected, or be a councillor of any siuch borough, or an alderman of any such borough ; nor shall any person be qualified to be elected, or to be a councillor, or alderman of any such borough who shall not be entitled to be on the burgess list of such borough, nor unless he shall be seised or possessed of real or personal e&tate or both to the following amount, that is to say, in all boroughs directed by this Act to be divided into four or more wards to the amount of £1,000, or be rated to the relief of the poor of such borough upon the annual value of not less than £30, and in all boroughs directed to be divided into less than four wards, or which shall not be divided into wards, to the amount of £500, or be rated to the relief of the poor in such boroughs upon the annual value of not less than £15, or during such time as he shall hold any office or place of profit other than that of mayor, in the gift or disposal of the council of such borough, or during such time as he shall have directly or indirectly by himself or his partner, any share or interest in any contract or employment with, by, or on behalf of such council : Provided that no person shall be disqualified from being a councillor or alderman of any borough as aforesaid by reason of his being a proprietor or shareholder of any company which shall contract with the council of such borough for lighting or supplying with water or insuring against fire any part of such borough." No burgess can be elected a member of the council while holding the office of assessor or auditor. An uncertificated bankrupt is not disqualified from being elected a councillor, though a person on being declared bankrupt Mobile holding the office of a councillor is disqualified to retain, and immediately ceases to hold, the office. Not only are the holders of corporate offices disqualified, under the section we have just quoted, from election to the council, but also the holders of places of profit in the gift of the council. Thus, the town clerk, the treasurer, the registrar of a local court are all disqualified. The clerk to the justices, holding neither a corporate office nor a place of profit under the council, may be elected a councillor; but, if he be, the justices must immediately discharge 94 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS; him, since the 102nd section of the Act provides that it shall not be lawful for the justices to appoint or continue as their clerk any alderman or councillor of the borough. Under the word '•' contract," in the latter part of the section we have just set out, it was held that not only did dealings between a corporation and a private individual for the supply of goods or commodities disqualify him for the office of a councillor, but that the same effect was produced by other transactions to which the legislature did not intend to attach this consequence. It was accordingly enacted by the 5th and 6th Yict. c. 104, " that the word ' contract ' shall not extend or be construed to extend to any lease, sale or purchase of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments ; or to any agreement for any such lease, sale, or purchase; or for the loan of money; or for any security for the payment of money only." Also, by the loth Yict. c. 5, proprietors of newspapers in which are inserted advertisements relating to the affairs of the corporation are not to be thereby deemed to have an interest in a contract or employment within this section, and are exempted from disqualification on that account. The provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 as to the declarations to be made by Mayors, Aldermen, and Councillors, have been superseded by those of the Promissory Oaths Act (31 & 32 Yict. c. 72.) ' Every person who, being duly qualified, is elected to the office of alderman, councillor, auditor or assessor, and every councillor who is elected to the office of mayor for any borough, must accept the office to which he has been elected, or must pay to the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of such borough, such fine not exceeding £50 in case of aldermen, councillors, auditors, and assessors, and such fine not exceeding £100, in case of a mayor, as the council shall by bye-law declare to be payable. The fine, if not duly paid, is to be levied by warrant of a justice, issued at the application of the council, upon the goods and chattels of the defaulter. The acceptance of office under this part of the Act is the making and subscribing of the declaration before referred to (that contained in the Municipal Corporations Act) within five days after notice of election. If a person duly elected fail to do this, he will be liable to pay the fine, and the office will be deemed vacant, and will be filled up by a fresh election. It is, however, provided that no person disabled by lunacy or imbecility of mind, by deafness, blindness, or other permanent infirmity of body, shall be liable to a fine; that every person who is above sixty-five years old when elected, or who has already served the municipal offices in question, or paid the fine for non-acceptance. THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 95 shall be exempted from accepting or serving any of them if he claim his exemption within five days after receiving notice of his election ; and that nothing in the Act shall have the effect of compelling the acceptance of any office or duty whatever in any borough by any military, naval, or marine officer in His ^lajesty's service on full pay, or by any officer or other person employed and residing within any of His Majesty's dockyards, victualling establishments, arsenals, or barracks. If any person holding the office of mayor, alderman, or councillor for any borough is declared bankrupt, or compounds by deed with his creditors,* or being mayor is absent from the borough for more than two calendar months, or being an alderman or councillor for more than six months, at one and the same time (unless in case of illness), such person immediately becomes disqualified and ceases to hold the office (being liable in case of absence to the same fine as if he had refused to accept office), which the council are forthwith to declare void, by notice in writing under the hands of three or more of them, countersigned by the town clerk, to be affixed in some public place within the borough. The cause of disqualification, however, having been removed — by the grant of a certificate to the bankrupt, &c.., or by return to the borouglx, the person thus removed from office may, if otherwise qualified, be re-elected. The mode herein pointed out for giving the notice must be strictly pursued ; the office is not void until the vacancy is duly declared. Every councillor is prohibited from being interested or concerned or being employed directly or indirectly as an architect, builder, artist, mechanic, workman, trader, merchant, or otherwise, in any part of the work to be done or materials to be supplied in building a borough gaol or house of correction, or in any contract relating thereto ; and anyone while in office, on becoming interested, concerned, or employed in such work or contract, shall thenceforward be disqualified from continuing to hold such office, and also from being thereafter elected or appointed to fill any corporate office within the borough, t It only remains to add in connection with the revision of the burgess list, and the election of councillors, assessors, &c., that if any mayor, alderman, or assessor neglects or refuses to peri'orm any duty imposed upon him by law, in respect either of such revision or * See also 32 & 33 Vict., c. 63 (at page 98). t The Act 40 & 41 Vict., c. 21 (Prisons Act) would seem to have rendered this provision nugatory, all prisons being now the property of the Government, and practi- cally separated from the local control formerly exercised. 96 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS; such election, he is liable to a fine of £100. We have already seen that the overseers and the town clerk are liable to a penalty of £50 for similar neglect or refusal in reference to the preparation of the burgess lists. These penalties are recoverable, with full costs of suit, by any person who chooses to sue for the same, within three calendar months after the commission of such offence, in any of the superior courts. Half the money recovered is, after payment of the costs and expenses of its recovery, to be paid to the person suing for it, while the other half is to go to the borough fund. The Act 7 William IV. and 1 Victoria, c. 78, enacts, among its miscellaneous provisions, that : — S. 1. No election of any person into any corporate office shall be questioned for want of title in the pre- siding officer, provided such officer is in actual possession of, or acting in, the office, giving the right to preside at such election. S. 18. At any election under the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act, or of this Act, it shall be lawful for the presiding officer to close the poll at any time before four o'clock if one hour shall have elapsed during which no vote has been tendered for any candidate ; provided, however, that no person or persons have, within the last hour, been prevented from coming to the poll by any riot, violence, or other un- lawful means, of which notice shall have been given to the returning officer. S. 23. Every application to the Court of Queen's Bench for the purpose of calling upon any person to show by what warrant he claims to exercise the office of mayor, alderman, councillor, burgess in any borough, must be made before the end of twelve calendar months after the election, or the time when the person against whom such application shall be directed shall have become disqualified, and not at any subsequent time. S. 25. In case the elections of the mayor, or any of the aldermen, councillors, or other corporate officers, are not made upon the day or within the time appointed by the Municipal Corporations Act, or this Act, such elections may be made on the following day. S. 26. When no election, or no valid election of any corporate officer is made, or when the election after- wards, by default or accident, becomes void, the Court of Queen's Bench is empowered to issue a mandamus for such election. The Act 6 & 7 Victoria, c. 104, enacts, inter alia, that members of the council shall not take part in any discussion in the issue of which they or their partners have directly or indirectly a pecuniary interest ; that no councillor, alderman, or mayor shall be disqualified for sitting and acting by reason of his being interested in any lease under the corporation ; and that the office of borough sheriff shall not be THEIR GIIOWTII AND DKVEl.OPM KM'. 97 deemed one of profit so us to disqualify the holder for a seat in the council. The Act 16 & 17 Victoria, c. 79, provides, inter alia, that vacancies in the offices of councillors, &c., are to be filled up within ten days after notice given thereof, by two burgesses, to the mayor or town- clerk. The Act 22 Victoria, c. 35, is one of some importance with refer- ence to the regulation of municipal elections. Its importance has, however, been materially diminished by the repeal of the clauses relating to the municipal nomination and the substitution of other provisions by the 38 & 39 Vict., c. 40 (which see at page 100.) Sec- tion 9 provides that any person personating* or inducing another to personate a voter at a municipal election, or wilfully giving a false answer to the questions which ai"e authorised to be put to him at the time of polling, shall be liable, on conviction before the justices io petty sessions, to three months' imprisonment. Section 10 imposes the same punishment upon any one fabricating in whole or in part, alter- ing, defacing, destroying, abstracting, or purloining any nomination or voting paper after the same has been duly filled up. By s. 11, it any person at any election of mayor, councillors, auditors, or assessors for any borough, is guilty of bribery, he is for every such offence to forfeit 40s. to any person who sues for the same in any county court, with full costs of suit ; and any person offending in any case in which, under the Act or Acts for the time being in force with respect to the election of members to serve in Parliament for boroughs in England and Wales, the name of the offender may be expunged from the list of voters (being lawfully convicted thereof), is for the term of six years to be disabled from voting in any election in such borough, or in any municipal or parliamentary election whatever, in any part of the United Kingdom, and is for such terra to be disabled from holding, exercising, or enjoying any office or franchise to which he shall then, or at any time afterwards, be entitled as a burgess of such borough, as if such person w'cre naturally dead. Section 12 enacts that everything which would be " bribery " at a parliamentary, shall also be a bribery at a municipal election. Section 13 gives an appeal to the borough quarter sessions from any conviction under this Act ; and s. 14 provides that all proceedings for enforcing any pains, penalties, forfeitures, or convictions under this Act must be commenced * The offence of personation is coniiilete when a person not tlie voter hands in a nomination paper to the polling ollicer, autl it is immaterial that he does not persist, but answers " No," when asked if he is a \oie\-.^ Queen v, Hague, 33 L. J., M.C., 81. H 98 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; within six calendar months from, the time when the matter of such proceedings arose. The Act 32 & 33 Vict., c. 55, enacts, by s. 3, that a councillor or alderman may reside within fifteen miles of borough. By s. 4, when any borough, consisting of less than four wards, shall at any time hereafter be divided into a greater number of wards, the qualification for an alderman or councillor of such borough shall not be increased or altered in consequence of such division, but shall continue the same as if such borough consisted of less than four wards. Section 5 provides that proprietors of shares in companies are not to be deemed contractors, &c., and not to be disqualified from election to mimicipal offices by reason of holding such shares. The Act 32 & 33 Vict., c. 63, is for the abolition of imprisonment for debt, and for the punishment of fraudulent debtors, and for other purposes. By s. 21 it is enacted that " the provisions of the Act of the session of the 5th and 6th years of William IV., c. 76, for the regulation of municipal corporations, sees. 52 and 53, as to the dis- qualification of mayors, aldermen, and town councillors having been declared bankrupt, or having compounded by deed with their creditors, shall extend to every arrangement or composition by a mayor, alderman, or town councillor with his creditors under the Bankruptcy Act, 1869, whether the same is made by deed or otherwise." The Act 34 & 35 Victoria, c. 67, s. 2, repeals section four of '■ The Municipal Corporations Act, 1859," (22 Vict. c. 35,) and in lieu thereof enacts as follows : — " On the division of any borough into wards, the revising barrister shall apportion all the councillors for such borough amongst the wards into which it shall have been so divided ; and in case of the alteration of the number and boundaries of the wards of any borough already divided into wards, the revising barrister shall apportion the councillors for the wards so altered amongst the new wards in such manner as to provide, so far as may be practicable, for such councillors continuing to represent as large a number as possible of their former constituents ; and eveiy councillor for the borough so divided, or for the wards so altered, as the case may be, shall hold his office in the ward to which he may be assigned by the revising barrister for the same time that he would have held it had the said borough or wards remained undivided or unaltered." The Act 35 & 36 Victoria, c. 60, in the words of the preamble, makes provision for the better prevention of corrupt practices at municipal elections, and for establishing a tribunal for the trial of the validity of such elections. It commences by (s. 3) providing THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 99 that tlie definition of " bribery," " treating," " unduo influence," and " personation," shall be the same for a municipal as for a parlia- mentary election. Then by s. 4, where it is found by the report of an election court acting under the provisions of this Act, that any corrupt practice has been committed by, or with the knowledge and consent of, any candidate at an election, such candidate shall be deemed to have been personally guilty of corrupt practices at the election, and his election, if he has been elected, shall be void, and he shall (whether he was elected or not), during seven years from the date of the report, be subject to the following disqualifications, viz. : — (1.) He shall be incapable of holding or exercising any muni- cipal office or franchise, and of having his name placed on the register, or voting at any municipal election. (2.) lie shall be incapable of acting as a justice of the peace, and of holding any judicial office. (3.) He shall be incapable of being elected to, and of sitting or voting in. Parliament. (4.) lie shall be incapable of being registered or voting as a parliamentary voter. (5.) He shall be incapable of being employed by any candidate in any parliamentary or municipal election. (G.) He shall be incapable of acting as overseer or as guardian of the poor. If any person is, upon an indictment or infor- mation, found guilty of any corrupt practice at an election, or is in any action or proceeding adjudged to pay a penalty or forfeiture for any corrupt practice at an election, he shall, whether he was a candi- date at the election or not, be subject, during seven years from the date of the conviction or judgment, to all the disqualifications mentioned in this section. By s. 5, if it is found by an election court acting under the provisions of this Act that a candidate has by an agent been guilty of any corrupt practice at an election, or that any act hereinafter in this Act declared to be an offence against this Act has been committed at an election by a candidate, or by an agent for a candidate with the candidate's knowledge and consent, the candidate shall, during the period for which he was elected to serve, or for which, if elected, he might have served, be disqualified from being elected to and for holding any municipal office in the borough for which the election was held, and if he was elected, his election shall be void. By s. 6 an election for a borough or a ward thereof shall be wholly avoided by such general corruption, bribery, treating, or intimidation at the election for such borough or ward as would by the common law of Parliament avoid an election of members to serve in Parliament for a parliamentary borough. Sections 7 to 11 prohibit paid canvassers and payment for conveyance of voters, and make pro- vision for prosecutions for corrupt practices, for striking off" votes on a H 2 100 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ', scrutiny, and as to cases of alleged personation. The second part of the Act, commencing with s. 12, points out the mode in which a municipal election may he questioned. By s. 12 the election of any person at an election for a borough or ward may be questioned by petition before an election court constituted as hereinafter in this Act provided, and hereinafter in this Act referred to as the " court," on the ground that the election was as to the borough or ward wholly avoided by general bribery, treating, undue influence, or personation, or on the ground that the election of such person was avoided by corrupt practices or ofiences against this Act committed at the election, or on the ground that he was at the time of the election disqualified for election to the oflSce for which the election was held, or on the ground that he was not duly elected by a majority of lawful votes. Section 13 contains a series of provisions as to form, signature, time and mode of presentation of a petition complaining of a municipal election to the Common Pleas Division of the High Court. By s. 14 an election court for the trial of petitions under this Act is to be con- stituted of a barrister qualified and appointed as hereinafter provided, without a jury. A petition (s. 15) is to be tried in open court, and notice of the time and place at which it will be tried is to be given not less than seven days before the day on which the trial is held. It must be tried within the borough to which it relates ; unless it appears to the superior court that special circumstances exist which render it desirable that the petition should be tried elsewhere. This and the following section contain numerous provisions as to the mode of procedure, &c., at the trial, while s. 17 includes provisions for the withdrawal and abatement of petitions, enacting, amongst other things, that a petition shall be withdrawn without the leave of the court or superior court upon special application, to be made in and at the prescribed manner, time, and place. The remaining sections contain various provisions with respect to procedure, costs, &c. The Act 36 & 37 Yict., c. 86, disqualifies every person who, under the Education Act of 1870, is disqualified, by a conviction for corrupt practices at any election, from exercising any franchise for any term of years, from holding any municipal office. The Act 38 & 39 Victoria, c. 40, is a very important one, as it now constitutes the law regulating the mode of conducting municipal elections. It will, therefore, be necessary to state its provisions rather fully, and indeed to give the most important sections text- ually. By s. 1, the following provisions are enacted and apply to nominations at all municipal elections of councillors, auditors, and assessors after the passing of this Act: (1.) Nine days at least before THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMKNT. 101 any such election the town clerk shull prepare, sign, and publish a notice in the form No. 1 set forth in tlie first schedule to this Act, or to the like effect, by causing the same to be placed on the door of the town hall, and in some conspicuous parts of the borough or ward for which any such election is to be held. (2.) At any such election every candidate shall be nominated in writing ; the writing shall be subscribed by two enrolled burgesses of such borough or ward as proposer and seconder, and by eight other enrolled burgesses of such borough or ward as assenting to the nomination. Each candidate shall be nominated by a separate nomination paper, but the same burgesses, or any of them, may subscribe as many nomination papers as there are vacancies to be filled, but no more. Every person nominated shall be enrolled on the burgess roll of the borough, or a person whose name is inserted in the separate list at the end of the burgess roll, as provided by s. 3 of the Act 32 and 33 Victoria, c. 55, and shall be otherwise qualified to be elected. The nomination paper shall state the surname and other names of the person nominated, with his place of abode and description, and shall be in the form No. 2 set forth in the first schedule to this Act, or to the like effect. And the town clerk shall provide nomination papers, and shall supply any enrolled burgess with as many nomination papers as may be required, and shall, at the request of any such person, fill up a nomination paper in manner prescribed by this Act. (3.) Every nomination paper subscribed as aforesaid shall be delivered by the candidate himself, or his proposer or seconder, to the town clerk, seven days at least before the day of election, and before five o'clock in the afternoon of the last day on which any such nomination paper may by law be delivered; the town clerk shall forthwith send notice of such nomination to each person nominated. The mayor shall attend at the town hall on the day next after the last day for the delivery of nominations to the town clerk, between the hours of two and four in the afternoon, and shall decide on the validity of every objection made to a nomination paper, such objection to be made in writing. The candidate nominated by such nomination paper, and one other person, appointed by or on behalf of the candidate as hereinafter mentioned, and no person other than aforesaid, shall, except for the purpose of assisting the mayor, be entitled to altend such proceedings, and each candidate and the person appointed by him shall, during the time appointed for the attendance of the mayor for the purposes of this section, have respectively power to object to the nomination paper of everj- person nominated at the same election. The decision of the mayor, which 102 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; shall be given in writing, shall, if disallowing any objection to a nomination paper, be final, but if allowing the same, shall be subject to reversal on petition questioning the election or return. The appointment by or on behalf of candidates of persons as aforesaid shall be made in writing under the hand of the candidate, or, in case he is absent from the United Kingdom, then under the hand of his proposer or seconder, and shall be delivered to the town clerk before tive o'clock in the afternoon of the last day on which nomination papers may by law be delivered. The town clerk shall at least four days before the day of election cause the surnames and other names of all persons duly nominated, with their respective places of abode and descriptions, and the names of the persons subscribing their respective nomination papers as proposers and seconders, to be printed and placed on the door of the town hall, and in some conspicuous parts of the borough or ward for which such election is to be held. (4.) Section 8 of the Act of 22 Yict. c. 35, so far as the same is now in force, shall apply to nominations of councillors, auditors, and assessors, duly made and allowed under this Act. Section 3 of the Ballot Act, 1872, shall apply to nomination papers under this Act, and so applied, the words '^ returning officer " shall be taken to include town clerk in reference to the delivery of such nomination papers. By s. 2 the nomina- tion of a person who is absent from the United Kingdom is to be void, unless his written consent, given, within one month of the day of his nomination, before two witnesses, be produced at the time of his nomination. Section 3 authorises the mayor to appoint officers for taking the poll. By s. 4 the provisions contained in rules 16 and 19 of the first schedule to the Ballot Act, 1872, are not to apply to any such election, but the mayor is to furnish every polling station with such number of compartments in which the voters can mark their votes screened from observation, and furnish each presiding officer with such number of ballot papers as in the judgment of the mayor shall be necessary for effectually taking the poll at such election in other respects in the manner provided by the Ballot Act, 1872. Where more candidates are nominated than there are vacancies to be supplied, the mayor must at least four days before the day of election give such public notice as may be required by law, of the situation, division, and allotment of polling places for taking the poll at any municipal election, and of the description of persons entitled to vote thereat and at the several polling stations. Section 5 makes the fact of a person's name appearing on the burgess roll for the time being in force in the borough, or on the ward list for the THEIR CHOWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 103 time bcinf^ in force for the ward, conclusive proof of liis rif^lit to sign a nomination paper or vote at an election. Section 7 provides that where more candidates are nominated at any municipal election than there are vacancies to be filled at such election, any of such candidates may withdraw from his candidature by notice signed by him and delivered to the town clerk not later than two o'clock in the afternoon of the day next after the last day for the delivery of nomination papers to the town clerk ; that these notices are to take effect in the order in which they are delivered to the town clerk ; and that no notice is to have effect so as to reduce the number of candidates ultimately stand- ing nominated below the number of the vacancies to be filled. Sections 8 and 9 enact that notices by mayor or town clerk may comprise the several wards of borough, and fix the time of holding election on extraordinury vacancies; while s. 10 gives power to town councils to divide wards into polling places as they may think fit. The Act 41 and 42 Victoria, c. 2G, (The'Parliamentary and Muni- cipal Registration Act, 1878,) has been already fully noticed at pages 72-75. The extreme number of councillors named in 5 and 6 TVilliam lY., c. 76, is 48, and although special and local Acts of Parliament have, in some instances, varied the warding and representation, that num- ber has not been exceeded. (2) Election of Aldermen. — As to this, the 2oth clause of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1835, provides : — " That in eveiy borough shiill be elected, at the time and in the manner hereinafter mentioned, one fit person who shall be and be called ' the mayor ' of such borough ; and a certain number of fit persons who shall be and be called ' aldermen ' of such borough ; and a certain number of other fit persons -who shall be and be called ' the councillors ' of such borough ; and such mayor, aldermen, and councillors for the time being shaU be and be called the council of such borough ; and the number of persons to be elected councillors of such borough shall be the number of persons in that behalf mentioned in conjunction with the name of such borough in the schedules to tliis Act annexed ; and the number of persons to be so elected aldermen sh;dl be one-third of the number of persons so to be elected councillors ; and on the ninth day of November in this present year (1835) the councillors first to be elected under the provisions of this Act, and on the ninth day of November, 1838, and in every third succeeding year, the council for the time being of everj' borough shall elect from the councillors, or from the persons qualified to be councillors, the aldermen of such borough, or so many as shall be needed to supply the places of those who then shall go out of oflice according to the provisions hereinafter contained ; and that upon the ninth day of November in the year 1838, and in ever}- third succeeding year, one half of the number appointed as aforesaid to be the wliole number of the aldermen of every borough, shall go out of ofiice tirst ; and tlio councillors immediately after the first election of aldermen shall appoint who J 04 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS; shall be the aldermen who shall go out of office in the year 1838, and thereafter those who shall go out of office shall always be those who have been aldermen for the longest time without re-election : provided always that any alderman so going out of office may be forthwith re-elected if then qualified as herein provided ; provided also that the alderman so going out of office shall not be entitled to vote in the election of a new alderman." * Whenever an extraordinary vacancy takes place in the office of alderman of any borough, the council are, within ten days after such vacancy occurs, on a day to be fixed by the mayor, to elect either from the councillors or from the persons qualified to be councillors, and every person thus elected is to hold office until the time when the person in the room of whom he was chosen would regularly have gore out of office. The Act 7 William lY., and 1 Vict., c. 78, s. 14, enacts that elections of aldermen, after the passing of this Act, are to take place in the following manner : that is to say, every member of the council entitled to vote in that election may vote for any number of persons not exceeding the number of aldermen then to be chosen, by person- ally delivering at such meeting to the mayor or chairman of the meeting a voting paper containing the christian names and surnames of the persons for whom he votes, with their respective places of abode and descriptions, such paper being previousl}^ signed with the name of the member of council voting ; and the mayor or chairman of the meeting, as soon as all the voting papers have been delivered to him, is openly to produce and read the same, and is immediately afterwards to deliver them to the town clerk, to be kept amongst the records of the borough ; and in case of equality of votes amongst tliose entitled to vote, the mayor or chairman is to have a casting vote, whether or not he may have been entitled to vote in the first instance. By s. 16, in case of the illness or incapacity to act of any alderman of a ward, the mayor may appoint another alderman to act in his name. The Act 6 & 7, Vict., c. 89, provides that when a greater number of persons have been elected, or claim to have been elected aldermen of a borough, than are authorised by the Municipal Corporations Act, the council are, before proceeding to any other business, at the quarterly meeting held on the ninth of November, to declare which * Aldermen going out of office cannot vote for their successors, but they are entitled to vote in the election of mayor, although the candidate for whom they vote be an alderman, and the person elected be an outgoing alderman. It has also been held that although an outgoing alderman elected maj^or, and afterwards presiding at the election of aldermen, might at such election give a casting vote, yet he could not give an original vote. THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 105 of the persons so elected or elaimint;, to the number specified by the Act, shall be the aldermen of the borough. References to the election, qualifications, and duties of aldermen occur under the foregoing and succeeding subdivisions. (3.) Election of Mayor. — "We have now to describe the time and mode in which the head of a corporation is chosen. It is provided by the ^lunicipal Act, that on the ninth day of November the council of the borough shall hold one of their quarterly meetings (as to which see page 108), and that on that day the first business they transact shall be to elect out of the aldermen or councillors a fit person to be mayor * during the ensuing year ; f and in case a vacancy occurs in the office of mayor during any year, in consequence of the person who has been elected thereto not accepting the same, or dying, or ceasing to hold the said office, the council are, within ten days after such vacancy (notice of the meeting for that purpose being given by the town clerk), to elect another person to be mayor for the remainder of the current year. If any person act as mayor (this section also applies to the office of alderman, councillor, auditor, or assessor), for auy borough, without having made the required declaration, or without being duly qualified at the time of ruaking such declaration, or after he shall cease to be qualified, or after he shall have become disqualified, he is liable for every such ofience to a penalty of £50 (half to go to the informer), which may be sued for by any burgess within three months after the commission of the ofience. + But all the proceedings of any person * The mayor for the time being of everj' borough is a justice of the peace of and for such borough, and continues to be so during the next succeeding year after he ceases to be so, unless he becomes disqualified to act. During his mayoralty he has precedence in all places -n-ithin the borough, including by a subsequent Act (24 & 25 Vict. c. 75, s. 2) precedence at meetings of magistrates within the borough. In boroughs which return members of Parliament other than the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and cities and towns which are counties of themselves, he is the returning officer of all parliamentary elections ; and iu case he be dead, absent, or otherwise incapable of acting when he is required to perform the duties of that office, the council are forthwith to appoint one of the aldermen to act in his stead. The mayor may be paid such a salary as the council think fit. f Under 6 & 7 William IV. c. 105, s. 4, the mayor continues in office not only for the whole year from one month of November to the following one, but until his successor has accepted the office, and has made and signed the requisite declaration. X By G & 7 Will., c. 104, s. 7, no person enrolled on the burgess roll for the time being and who shall act as mayor, alderman, councillor.auditor. or assessor of a borough, shall be liable to any penalty for so acting, on the ground that he was not entitled to be on the burgess list of such borough. 106 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; in possession of the office of mayor, &c,, and acting as such, will be as valid as if he had been duly quahfied,* A person bribing, or receiving a bribe, in any election of a mayor or other municipal officer, is, by the Act, rendered liable to a penalty of £50, to be recovered by action in one of the superior courts ; and on being duly convicted of the offence, he is for ever disabled to vote in any election in such borough, or in any municipal or parliamentary election in any part of the United Kingdom ; and from holding, exercising, or enjojdng any office or franchise to which he then shall or at any time afterwards may be entitled as a burgess of such borough, as if such person were naturally dead. But if a person so offending does, within twelve months after the election, and before he has been himself convicted, discover another offender {" so that such other person be thereon convicted") he will be discharged from all penalties and disabilities which he may have incurred. The action for the penalty must in any case be commenced within two years after the commission of the offence. t The Act 6 & 7 Yict., c. 89, provides that no election of a mayor shall be liable to be questioned by reason of any defect in the title of the person elected to the office of alderman or councillor, unless by q^^o warranto within twelve calendar months after his election to the said office of alderman or councillor ; and all elections of corporate officers not thus called in question are to be deemed valid. The Act 16 and 17 Victoria, c. 79, pro^ddes, infer alia, that the mayor of a borough may, during his illness or absence from the The title of Ex-mayor is generally supposed to be confined to the immediate past mayor, but it would be difficult to logically dispute the claim of any person, who has held the office of mayor, to the designation, as the following quotation fi-om Littre will shew : — Ex: Particule qui se joint i)ar le trait d'union a. certains mots pour exprimer I'etat on la position anterieure d'xme personne : im ex-ministre, un ex-depute. Etym. : Lat. : ex ; Grec : it, hors. * It has been a subject of debate whether, in the event of the re-election of a person to the office of mayor, it is necessary for him to again take the oath as a justice of the peace (if he be not a permanent magistrate of the borough), when only half of the period for which he originally qualified to act has lapsed, but a strict interpretation of the statute seems to leave little room for doubt that if the office of mayor is held for two years in succession without the oath being again taken at the commencement of the second year, any magisterial acts which might be performed in the year after vaca- tion of office (as immediate ex-mayor) would be invalid, because of the application of the original oath of qualification only to the year of office being then entered upon and one year after. t See page 97 (as to 22 Vict., c. .35), and page 98 (as to 35 & 36 Vict., c. 60.) Four- teen days' notice of the intention to bring such action must be given to the person offending. THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 107 borough, appoint an alderman or councillor to act as his deputy ; * that if in any borough the number of aldermen docs not exceed the number of wards, the maj'or shall, in the case of the illness or incapacity to act of any alderman at an election, appoint a councillor (not being a councillor of the ward) to preside at the election ; that vacancies in the offices of councillor, auditor, or assessor, are to be filled up within ten days after notice given thereof, by two burgesses, to the mayor or town clerk ; that the mayor may appoint a substitute for a deceased assessor until his successor be elected ; and that in the case of an equality of votes for the election of alderman, the mayor shall have a casting vote. The Act 30 and 31 Victoria, c. 75, s. 4, provides that every person holding any corporate office may attend and be present at any place of public meeting for religious worship in England, Ireland or Scotland in his robe, gown, or other peculiar habit of his office, or with the ensign or insignia of or belonging to the same, without incurring any forfeiture of office or penalty for such attendance. The provisions of the law affecting any material point in the election of the members of a council have, thus far, been exhausted, but, as previously remarked, the present and two preceding sub- divisions comprise quotations which apply alike to mayor, aldermen, and councillors. (4.) The Council — its Meetings and its Chief Officers. — The Council being duly constituted, we have now to consider what are its powers, and what are the regulations laid down for the transaction of business. The Municipal Act prescribes the mode in which meetings are to be called, and in which their deliberations are to be conducted ; and it determines what business may or may not be transacted at any meeting. This is so important a section, that it will probably be most satisfactory to give it entire. It is as follows : — " And be it enacted that all acts whatsoever anthorised or required by virtue of this Act to be done by the Council of such borough, and ;xll questions of adjournment, or others that may come before such CouncU, may be done and decided by the majority of the members of the Coimcil who shall be present at any meeting held in pursuance of this Act, the whole number present at such meeting being not less than one-third part of the number of the whole Council ; * The d(>pnty maj' do nil that the mnyor could do in his oftioial capacity except act as justice of the peace (if he be not one), or preside at a meetiug of the council (unless specially appointed by the meeting so to do). 108 E]S'GLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; and at all such meetings the mayor, if present, shall preside ; and the mayor, or in the absence of the mayor, such alderman, or in the absence of all the aldermen, such councillor, as the members of the Council then assembled shall choose to be the chairman of that meeting, shall have a second or casting vote in all cases of equality of votes ; and minutes of the proceedings of all such meetings * shall be drawn up and fairly entered in a book to be kept for that purpose, and shall be signed by the mayor, alderman, or councillor presiding at such meeting, and the said minutes shall be open to the inspection of any burgess at aU reasonable times on payment of a fee of one shilling : [By subsequent Acts the burgess is further permitted to copy or make extracts from the minutes.] Provided always that, previous to any meeting of the Council held by virtue of this Act, a notice of the time and place of such intended meeting shall be given three clem- days at least before such meeting, by fixing the said notice on or near the town hall of the borough, and siich notice shall be signed by the mayor, who shall have power to call a meeting of the council as often as he shall think proper ; and in case the mayor shall refuse to call any siich meeting after a requisition for that purpose, signed by five members of the council at the least, shall have been presented to him, it shall be lawful for the said five members to call a meeting of the council by giving such notice as is hereinbefore required in that behalf, such notice to be signed by the said members instead of the mayor, and stating therein the business proposed to be transacted at such meeting ; and in every case a summons to attend the council, specifying the business to be transacted at such meeting, signed by the town clerk, shall be left at tlie usual place of abode of every member of the council, or at the premises in respect of which he is enrolled a burgess, three clear days at least before such meeting ; and no business shall be transacted at such meeting other than is specified in the notice. Provided always that there shall be in every borough four quarterly meetings in every year, at which the council shall meet for the transaction of general business, and no notice shall need to be given of the business f to be transacted on such quarterly days ; and the said quarterly meetings shall be holden at noon, on the ninth, or, if the ninth day of November shall faU on a Sunday, on the day following, and at such hour on such other three days before the first day of November then next following as the council at the quarterly meeting in November shall decide : and the first business transacted at the quarterly meeting in November shall be the election of Mayor. The Council are empowered to appoint as many committees as they think fit, for any purpose which, in their discretion, would be better managed by such committees ; but the acts of such committees must be submitted to the Council for their approval. One of the most important powers conferred upon the Council * The minutes must be actually made at the meeting, and must be signed by the Mayor (or Chairman), there and then. ■f At an adjourned quarterly meeting notice must be given of any business which was not actually begun at the quarterly meeting ; but of business actually commenced no notice is requisite. THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 109 under the Act, is that of making bye-laws. With respect to this, it is enacted that — " It shall be lawful for tlio council of any borough to make such bye-laws as to them shall seem meet for the gotjd rule and government of the borough, and fur the prevention and suppression of all such nuisances as are not already punishaljle in a summary manner by virtue of any Act in force throughout such borough, and to appoint by such bye-laws such fines as they shall deem necessary for the prevention and suppression of such ofi'ences : Provided that no fine so to be appointed shall exceed the sum of £5, and that no such bye-laws shaU be made unless at least two-thirds of the whole number of the council shall be present : Provided that no such bye-laws shall be of any force until the expiration of forty days after the same, or a copy thereof, shaU have been sent, sealed with the seal of the said borough, to one of His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, and shall have been affixed on the outer door of the town hall or in some other public place within such borough ; and if at any time within the said period of forty days His IMajesty, with the advice of his Privy Council, shall disallow the same bye-law or any part thereof, such bye-law or the part thereof disallowed shall not come into operation : Provided also that it shaU be lawful for His Majesty, if he shall think fit, at any time within the same period of forty days, to enlarge the time within which such bye-law, if disallowed, shall not come into operation : Provided also, that it shall be lawful for His Majesty, if he shall think fit, at any time within the said period of forty days, to enlarge the time within which such bye-law, if not disallowed, shall not come into force ; and no sucli bye-law sliall, in that case, come into force until after the expiration of such enlarged time." The provisions of the Act relative to offences punishable upon summary convictions are applicable to all ofi'ences committed in breach of the bye -laws. With respect to the bye -laws, it is settled by decided cases that they must be reasonable and not inconsistent with any statute or with the general principles of the law of the land : that a bve-law can be made for the regulation of any trade carried on within tlie borough, but not in restraint of it ; that this power of all regulations still remains, notwithstanding s. 14 of the Act abolishes all exclusive rights of trading; and that the validity of a bye-law may be tested and tried in an action brought to recover the penalty, or, if the mode of enforcing the penalty be by distress, by an action of trespass. The selection of the public officers of the borough is also one of the principal duties of the Council. The Municipal Commissioners discovered in 1833 that the ancient regime boasted no less than 76 designations of principal and 286 designations of inferior officials ; or in all 302 different offices. Those of recorder and town-clerk (and tliat of sheriff in counties of cities and towns) were, however, naturally regarded as second in importance only to that of ma3-or. The Act of 1835 vested the appointment of recorders in the Crown no ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS; without reference to the councils; the previous manner of their election is described in the Tables of Section 6 of this Part (The Municipal Judges and Magistracy), and the subjoined classification shews the variety of the abrogated forms of appointing the town clerk in cities and boroughs now governed under the Act of 1835 : — I. — Cities and Boroughs in which the appointment of Town Clerk was vested in the self-elect council, by a particular class of it, or the whole of the self-elect corporation, with the period of duration of office (viz. — for life, annually, or during the pleasure of the council) : — a Signifies tliat the appointment was subject to the approval of the Crown. *^* The appoiiitments held subject to " good behaviour " are included in the term '■ during pleasure." Those not specifically defined, but which were presumably for life, are included in the term " life." Abingdon (during pleasure) Banbury (during pleasure) Barnstaple (during pleasure) Basingstoke (life) Bath (life) Beaumaris (during pleasure) Beccles (life) Beverley (annually) Bewdley (during pleasure) Bideford (during pleasure) Bodmin (life) Boston (during pleasure) Brecon (life) Bridgwater (during pleasure) a Bridport (life) Bristol (life) Bury St. Edmunds (life) Canterbury (life) Cardigan (life) Carlisle (life) Chard (life) Chester (life) a Chesterfield (life) Chichester (during pleasure) Chippenham (life) Chipping Norton (life) a Chijjping Wycombe (during pleasure) Congleton (life) Coventry (life) Dartmouth (life) Daventry (life) Deal (during pleasure) a Denbigh (life) Devizes (life) a Don caster (life) Dorchester (life) Dover (annually) Droitwich (life) Durham (during pleasure) Exeter (life) Eye (Hfe) Faversham (during pleasure) Folkestone (life) Glastonbury (life) a Gloucester (life) a Grantham (life) Gravesend (life) Guildford (annually) Hartlepool (during pleasure) Harwich (life) Haverfordwest (life) a Hedon (life) Hereford (life) a Hertford (during pleasure) Hythe (annually) Kendal (during pleasui'e) Kidderminster (life) Kingston-upon-Thames (life) Lancaster (life) Leicester (during pleasure) a Leominster (life) a Lichfield (dui'ing pleasure) Lincoln (life) THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. Ill Liskcai'd (during pleasure) Liverpool (life) Louth (life) a Ludlow (life) Lyme Ilc<^is (life) Lyminj>toii (life) Muidenliead (during pleasure) t Maidstone (life) Maldon (life) Marlborough (during pleasure) a Monmouth (life) Newark (during pleasure) Newbury (during pleasure) a Newcastle-under-Lyme (life) a Newcastle-upon-Tyne (life) Newport, Mon., (life) a Northampton (annually) Oxford (life) Pembroke (life) Penzance (during pleasure) Portsmouth (during pleasure) Preston (life) Hipon (during pleasure) a Reading (during pleasure) a Richmond (life) Rochester (life) Romscy (life) Rye (annually) a St. Albans fduring pleasure) St. Ives (liie) Salisbury (life) Scarborough (annually) Shaftesbury (life) a Shrewsbury (life) Southampton (during pleasui's) South Molton (life) Stafford (during pleasure) aStamford (lite) Stratford-upon-Avon (during pleasure) a Tamworth (life) Tenby (during pleasure) Tenterden (life) Tewkesbury (life) Tiverton (during pleasure) Torrington, Great (during pleasure) Totnes (during pleasure) Truro (life) Wallingford (life) Walsall (during pleasure) \ Wells (life) Weymouth (life) Winchester (life) Worcester (during pleasure) a York (life) IL— City and Boroughs in which the Town Clerks were appointed by a common council constituted by election of the freemen : — Godmanchester (life) Norwich (life) Wisbech (life) III. — Borough in which the Town Clerk was appointed by a common council, partly self-elect and partly constituted by election of the freemen : — Nottingham (life) IV. — Boroughs in which the Town Clerks were appointed by election of the whole body of freemen or burgesses : — Bedford (life) Bridgnorth (life) Berwick - on - Tweed (during Cambridge (during pleasure) pleasure) Carmarthen (life) t The appointment by the mayor and jurats only was alleged to be illegal, the com- monalty claiming the power of selection. 112 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS; a Grrimsby (life) a Poole (life) Hastings (annually) Sandwich (annually) Ipswich (annually) Southwold (life) Macclesfield (life) Wenlock (life) Plymouth (life) Y. — Boroughs in which the Town Clerks were appointed by the mayor or other head of the corporation : — * Clitheroe (life) Huntingdon (annually) a Pontefract (life) YI. — Boroughs in which the Town Clerks were appointed by the recorder or high steward. Andover (life) Launceston (life) Blandford (life) Penryn (life) Buckingham (during pleasure) Petford, East (life) a Derby (during pleasure) Thetford (life) Helston (during pleasure) Warwick (during pleasure) YII. — Borough in which the Town Clerk was appointed by a leet jury summoned by the head of the corporation : — Aberystwith (life) YIIL — Boroughs in which the Town Clerks were appointed by the Crown on the petition of the common council : — Falmouth (life) Newport, Isle of "Wight (life) Kingston-upon-Hull (life) Wigan (life) Leeds (life) IX. — Boroughs in which the Town Clerks were appointed by the lord of the manor : — Cardiff (life) Oswestry (life) Llandovery (life) Welshpool (during pleasure) X. — Boroughs in which the office of Town Clerk did not exist or the duties of such office were discharged by some other official : — Aberavon Flint Arundel Grateshead Calne Godalming Carnarvon Llanelly Conway Morpeth E vesham Neath The burgesses claimed the right of appointment; THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 113 Rutliin Sunderland Swansea AV^iudsor Stucktun Yeovil Stockport The Sheriffs of the counties of cities, boroughs, and towns were, almost without exception, chosen by the corporate body. In one or two instances where the shrievalty was vested in a plurality of persons, the mayor or mayors elect nominated one. Counties of cities, boroughs, and towns, with the number of slicrilfs in 1835 : — Bristol (two) Lichfield (one) Canterbury (one) Lincoln (two) Carmarthen (two) Newcastle-upon-Tyne (one) Chester (two) Norwich (two) *Coventry (two) Nottingham (two) Exeter (one) Poole (one) Gloucester (two) Southampton (one) Haverfordwest (one) Worcester (one) Kingston- upon-IIuU (one) Yoj-k (two) Under the Act of 1835 the Council must appoint a fit person (not being a member of the council) to be town clerk, holding that office during pleasure ; and they must also appoint another fit person (not being a member of the council) to be treasurer of the borough ; and also such other officers as have been usually appointed in such borough, or as they shall think necessary to enable them to carry into execution the various powers and duties vested in them by virtue of the Municipal Corporations Act; and they may, from time to time, discontinue the appointment of such officers as it appears by them not necessary to re-appoint. They are to take such securities for the due execution of their duties by their officers as they think proper ; and they are empowered to direct the payment to the mayor, town clerk, t treasurer, and other officers employed, of such salary or * See the second footnote on pngo 22. t The ToAvn Clerk is to be paid by salary, out of the borough fund ; but, whether he has or has not a fixed salary, he cannot make any claim against the corporation for payment in respect of the duties imposed upon him by the ^funicipal Corporations Act, or by the Keform Act. His salary is considered a compensation for all loss of time, &c. But he is entitled to be repaid money actually disbursed for the preparation of ward lists. &c. From the principles laid down it follows that he has no claim for charges in respect of revision of burgess lists, ward lists, election of councillors, assessors, or auditors, returns to Secretary of State, bye-laws, copying, Col. 1. Col. 2. Col. 3. Col. 4. Col. 5 Col. 6 CoL 7 Col. 8 Aberystwith . . . Mayor and Bnrgesses, in- detinite (not less than 12) a — h 12 — 4 12 16 Abingdon Mayor, 11 other principal and 16 secondaiy Bur- gesses, and 2 Bailifl's Life 30 4 12 16 Andover Bailiff, Steward, and 10 Approved Men Life 12 4 12 16 Arundel 1 Mayor and 12 Burgesses Life 13 """" 4 12 16 t On the 9th of November, by 6 & 7 Will. IV. c. 105. X The Council also appoint the clerk of the peace, who can, however, be removed for misconduct, \-c., bv the recorder. i2 116 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL IxNSTITUTIONS ; TABLE 1. (Part IV., Sec. 5.)—conf.inued. The Ancient Governing Body or Common The Governing Body Cities Council, 1835. in 1879. >-. 00 "^ AND BOEOUGHS. Composition of the Ancient Governing Body. Sec. 3. (The Municipal Franchise) Duration of Office by those elected to the il uumbei of the •iiing Bod 1 CM o s- o '" s o g O u 1^ details the system of election. 1_ 1 ^ 1 1 1 1 1 H 1 1 J Council. Totf Govei a ^< ^8 Col. 1 Col. 2. Col. 3. Col. 4. Col. 5 Col. 6 Col. 7 Col. 8 Banbury- Mayor, 11 other Aldermen, and 6 capital Burgesses Life 18 — 4 12 16 Barnstaple Mayor, 2 Aldermen, and 22 capital Burgesses Life 25 2 6 18 24 Basingstoke Mayor, 7 Aldermen, and 7 Burgesses Life 15 — 4 12 16 Bath Mayor, 10 Aldermen, and 20 Chief Citizens Life 31 7 14 42 56 Beaumaris Mayor, 2 Bailiffs, and 21 Chief Burgesses Life 24 — 4 12 16 Beccles ... Portreeve, 11 other Alder- men, and 24 Councilmen Life 36 — 4 12 16 Bedford Mayor, Recorder, Alder- men indefinite, 2 Bailifls, and 13 Coiincilmen Life 30 2 6 18 24 Berwick- on- Mayor, 4 Bailiffs, and Bur- a — 61105 3 6 18 24 Tweed gesses, indefinite Beverley Mayor, 12 Aldermen, and 13 capital Burgesses Life 26 2 6 18 24 Bewdley Bailiff", and 12 capital Bur- gesses Life 13 — 4 12 16 Bidef ord Mayor, 7 other Aldermen, and 10 capital Burgesses Life 18 — 4 12 16 Blandf ord Bailiff, and 10 capital Bur- gesses Life 11 — 4 12 16 Bodmin Mayor, 12 Councillors, and 24 capital Burgesses Life 37 — 4 32 16 Boston Mayor, 11 other Aldermen, the Recorder, and 18 Councilmen Life 31 2 6 18 24 Brecon ... Bailiff', and 14 other capital Burgesses Life 15 4 12 16 Bridgnorth 2 Bailiffs, 24 Aldermen, and Burgesses indefinite a — 6634 4 12 16 Bridgwater Mayor, 2 Aldermen, and 21 capital Burgesses Life 24 2 6 18 24 Bridport 15 capital Burgesses, in- cluding 2 or 3 Bailiffs Life 15 2 6 18 24 Bristol ... Mayor, 12 Aldermen, and 30 Councilmen Life 43 10 16 48 64 Buckingham ... Bailiff', and 12 capital Bur- gesses Life 13 — 4 12 16 Bury St. Ed- Aldermen, 6 Assistants, 12 Life 42 3 6 18 24 munds capital Burgesses (in- cluding Aldermen) and 24 Councilmen THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 1 17 TABLE 1. (Pakt IV., Sec. 5.}—conUimed • The Ancient Governing Body or Common The Governing Body Cities Council, ls35. in 1879. u. ^ ■P oi? AND Composition of the Ancient Dumtion of Office Ijy those elected to the 1 'rtTn virt /^n 51 ^ 1 « 1 a % « " fe II Boroughs. Governing Body. Sec. 3. (The Municipal Franchise I ill 11 dctiiils the system of election. l^IJlJllIi'JU Council. Totf Govei — a '^< ^5 Col. 1. Col. 2. Col. 3. Col. 4. Col. 5 Col. ( ! Col. ; ^Col.8 Calne ... 2 Guild Stewards, and Life 14 4 12 16 Burgesses indefinite 1 1 Cambridge Mayor, Bailifls, 12 Alder- men, 24 Councilmen, and Burgesses indefinite a — b 194 5 ! 10 30 40 Canterbuiy Mayor, 12 Aldermen, and 24 Councilmen Life 37 ! 3 6 18 24 Cardiff ' 2 Bailiffs, 10 other Alder- men, and 12 chief Bur- gesses Life 24 5 1 10 30 40 Cardigan Mayor, and 12 other Coun- cilmen Life 13 4 12 16 Carlisle Mayor, 11 other Aldermen, 2 Bailifls, and 24 capital Citizens Life 38 5 10 30 40 Carmarthen Mayor, 20 Councilmen, and Burgesses indefinite a — 646 2 6 18 24 Carnarvon Mayor, 2 Bailifl"s, and Bur- gesses, indefinite Life 344 2 6 ]8 24 Chard Portreeve, and 11 other Burgesses Life 12 — 4 12 16 Chester Mayor, 23 other Aldermen, and 40 Councilmen Life 64 5 10 30 40 Chesterfield ... Maj'or, G Aldermen, 6 Brothers, and 12 capital Burgesses Life 25 4 12 16 Chichester Mayor and Aldermen, and Councilmen indefinite Life 53 2 6 18 24 Chippenham ... Bailiff, and 12 Burgesses... Life 13 — 4 12 16 Chipping Norton 2 Bailifls and 12 Burgesses Life 14 — 4 12 16 Chipping Wy- Mayor, 2 Bailifls, and 2 Life 14 — 4 12 16 combe Aldermen (including IVIayor) and Burgesses indefinite Clitheroe 2 Bailifls and Burgesses indefinite a — b 25 4 12 16 Colchester ]\Iayor, 11 other Aldermen, Higli Steward, 18 Assist- ants, 18 Councilmen Life 49 3 6 18 24 Congleton Mayor, 8 Aldermen, and 16 capital Burgesses Life 25 3 6 18 24 Coventry Mayor, 10 Aldermen, and Councilmen indefinite Life 31 5 10 30 40 Dartmouth Mayor, and 12 Council ... Life 13 — 4 12 16 Daventry Bailiff, 12 other Aldermen, and 20 the Commonalty Life 33 4 12 16 118 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; TABLE 1. (Part IV., Sec. 5.)— continued. The Ancient Governing Body or Common | The Governing Body | Cities Council, 1835. in 1879. ►^ '2 °^ AND BOEOTTGHS. Composition of the Ancient Governing Body. Sec. 3. (The Municipal Franchise) Duration of Office by those elected to the Common CouncU. il numbei of the ■ning Bod 1 u o CM . Mi o II details the system of election. o > iS^ •3 g o o 1 HO Col. 1. Col. 2. Col. 3. Col. 4. Col. 5 Col. 6 Col. 7 Col. 8 Deal Mayor, 12 Jurats, and 24 Coun oilmen Life 37 2 6 18 24 Denbigh 2 Aldermen, 2 Bailiffs, and 21 other capital Burgesses Life 25 — 4 12 16 Derby Mayor, 9 Aldermen, 14 Brothers, and 14 capital Burgesses Life 38 8 16 48 64 Devizes... Mayor, 11 other capital Burgesses, and 24 capital Burgesses of the Common Council Life 36 2 6 18 24 Doncaster Mayor, 12 Aldermen, and 24 Councilmen Life 37 3 6 18 24 Dorchester Mayor, 2 Bailiffs, 6 Alder- men, and 6 capital Bur- gesses Life 15 4 12 16 Dover ... Mayor, 12 Jurats, and 36 Councilmen Life 49 3 6 18 24 Droitwich 2 Bailiffs and Burgesses, indefinite Life 30 — 4 12 16 Durham Mayor, 12 Aldermen, and Commonalty of 24 Life 37 3 6 18 24 Evesham Mayor, 6 other Aldermen, Recorder, 12 capital Bur- gesses, and Chaml)erlain Life 21 4 12 16 Exeter Mayor, 8 Aldermen, and remainder Councilmen Life 24 7 14 42 56 Eye ! 2 Bailiffs, 10 pi'incipal Burgesses, and 24 Coun- cilmen Life 36 " 4 12 16 Falmouth Mayor and 7 Aldermen . . . Life 8 — 4 12 16 Faversham Mayor, 11 other Jurats, and 24 Councilmen Life 36 — 4 12 16 Flint Mayor, 2 Bailifls, and Scot and Lot Inhabitants a — h 15 — 4 12 16 Folkestone 1 Mayor, 11 other Jurats, and 24 Councilmen Life 36 3 4 15 19 Gateshead i Stewards, Borough-holders and Freemen, indefinite a — &115 5 10 30 40 Glastonbury . . . Mayor, 7 capital and 16 inferior Burgesses Life 24 4 12 16 Gloucester Mayor, 11 other Aldermen, and 28 Councilmen Life 40 4 9 27 36 Godalming ... i Warden, and 8 other as- sistants Life 9 i — 4 12 16 Godmanchester 2 Bailiffs and 12 Assistants Life 14 : 1 — 4 12 16 TTIEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. TABLE 1. (Part IV., Sec. 5.)— continued. 119 The Ancient Governing Body or Common The Governing Body CiTiBa Council, 1H35. m l»7a. u h 1 °^ AND BOBOCGHS. Composition of the Ancient Governing Body. Sec. 3. (The Municipal Franchise) Duration of Office by those elected to the Common otal Numbe of the veruing Boc ■s II n ll 5'^ details the system of election. Council. ^ ^< ^8 5 > i^ ^8 Col. 8 Col. 1. Col. 2. Col. 3. Col. 4. Col. 5 Col. 6 Col. 7 Grantham Alderman, deputy ditto, 12 superior Burgesses, and 12 Burgesses Life 26 4 12 16 Gravesend Mayor, 11 other Jurats, and 24 capital Inhabitants Life 36 2 6 18 24 Grimsby (Great) Mayor, Kecorder, 12 Alder- men, 12 Councilmen and Freemen, indetiuite a — 6 3GG 4 8 32 40 GuUdford Mayor, Aldermen, and Ap- proved IVIen, indefinite Life 39 — 4 12 16 Harwich Mayor, 7 other Aklerineu, and 24 Councilmen Life 32 — 4 12 16 Hastings Mayor, 1 2 other Jurats and Freemen, indefinite a — 6193 6 6 18 24 Haverfordwest... Mayor and 24 capital Burgesses Life 25 4 12 16 Helston Mayor and 4 other Alder- men Life 5 4 12 16 Hereford Mayor and 30 other chief Citizens Life 31 3 6 18 24 Hertford Mayor and 9 other Alder- men Life 10 — 4 12 16 HuU Mayor and 12 other Alder- men Life 13 7 14 42 56 Huntingdon . . . Mayor, 11 other Aldermen, and Recorder Life 13 — 4 12 16 Hythe Mayor, 11 other Jurats, and 24 Councibnen Life 36 4 4 12 16 Ipswich 2 Baibfi's, 12 Portmen, 24 Councilmen and Free- men, indefinite a — 61130 5 10 30 40 Kendal Mayor, 11 other Aldermen, and 20 capital Burgesses Life 32 3 6 18 24 Kidderminster. . . High Bailili; 11 other Aldermen, and 25 As- sistants Life 37 2 6 18 24 Kings Lynn ... Mayor, 11 other Aldermen, and 18 CouncUinen Life 30 3 6 18 24 Kingston-upon- 2 Baibffs and Gownsmen Life 57 4 8 24 32 Thames and Peers, indefinite Lancaster Mayor, 7 Aldermen, 2 Baibfi's, 12 capitiU Bur- gesses and 12 Councilmen Life 34 3 18 24 Launceston Mayor and 8 Aldermen ... Life 9 4 12 16 Leeds ... Mayor, 12 Aldermen, and 24 Assistants Life 37 12 16 48 64 120 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS; TABLE 1. (Part IV., Sec. 5.)— continued. The Ancient Governing Body or Common The Governing Body Cities Council, 1835. in 1879. >i 'A "^ AND BOKOUaHS. Composition of the Ancient Governing Body. , Sec. 3. (The Municipal Franchise) Duration of Office by jhose elected to the 1 1 ci CM o O o a 3-§ II details the system of election. Council. Toti Gove: 1 'A Col. 5 i< ^8 1? o o HO Col. 1. Col. 2. Col. 3. Col. 4. Col. 6 Col. 7 Col. 8 Leicester Mayor, 23 other Aldermen, and 48 Councilmen Life 72 7 14 2 56 Leominster Bailiff and 24 other capital Burgesses Life 25 2 6 18 24 Lichfield 2 Bailiffs and 21 Brethren Life 23 2 6 18 24 Lincoln... Mayor, 12 other Aldermen, 2 Sheriffs, 4 Coroners, 4 Chamberlains, and 26 Councilmen Life 49 3 6 18 24 Liskeard Mayor and 8 other capital Burgesses Life 9 — 4 12 16 Liverpool Mayor and Aldermen and Councilmen, indefinite Life 41 16 16 48 64 Llandovery- Bailift" and Burgesses, in- definite Life 30 — 4 12 16 Llanidloes Mayor, 10 Aldermenf (in- definite) and Burgesses (indefinite) a — h 30 4 12 16 Louth ... Warden and 6 Assistants Life 7 2 6 18 24 Ludlow 2 Bailifts, 2 Justices, Re- corder, 12 Aldermen, and 10 Councilmen Life 37 4 12 16 Lyme Regis ... Mayor and 15 capital Burgesses Life 16 4 12 16 Lymington Mayor and Burgesses, in- definite Life 32 4 12 16 Macclesfield Mayor, 2 Aldermen, and 21 other capital Burgesses Life 24 6 12 36 48 Maidenhead ... Mayor, 2 Bridgemasters, and 8 other Burgesses Life 11 — 4 12 16 Maidstone Mayor, 12 Jurats, 40 Councilmen and Free- men, indefinite a — 6845 4 6 18 24 Maldon Mayor, 7 other Aldermen, and 18 capital Burgesses Life 26 — 4 12 16 Marlborough ... Mayor and 7 other Council- men Life 8 — 4 12 16 Monmouth Mayor and 15 capital Burgesses Life 16 — 4 12 16 Morpeth 2 Bailifts and Free Bur- gesses, indefinite a — 6217 — 4 12 16 Neath Portreeve, 12 Aldermen, and 8 capital Burgesses Life 21 ', 4 12 16 f The title of Alderman was purely honoraiy — all past Mayors being so designated. THEIR GKOWni AND DEVELOPMENT. 121 TABLE 1. (Part IV., Sec. 5.)—contimied. The Ancient Govci-ning Body or Common The Governing Body Cities Council, 1«35. in ltt79. t- ^■ '§■ ■s>. AND Composition of the Ancient Duration of Office by those elected to the Common ' CounciL 1 1 o •2 ca 1 ^ •Sfl •S2 s^ BOBOUGHS. Governing Body. Sec. 3. (The Municipal Franchise) details the sy.stem of election. Total nun of the overning 1 ■s s Nnmber Aldermc »-.2 Is 1^ St o o 1 o » Col. 7 Col. 8 Col. 1. Col. 2. Col. 3. Col. 4. Col. 5 Col. 6 Newark Mayor and 11 other Aldermen Life 12 3 6 18 24 Newbury Mayor, 12 Aldermen, and 12 capital Burgesses Life 25 2 6 18 24 Newcastle-under- Mayor, 2 Bailiffs, and 24 Life 27 2 6 18 24 Lyme capital Burgesses Newcastle - upon- Mayor, 10 Aldermen, Annually 36 9 16 48 64 Tyne Sheriff, and 24 Council- men Newport (Isle of Mayor, Recorder, and 11 Life 13 2 6 18 24 Wight) Aldermen Newport (Mon.) Mayor, and 12 other Alder- men Life 13 4 8 24 32 Northampton ... Mayor, 2 Bailiffs, Alder- men (indefinite), and 48 Councilnien Life 70 3 6 24 30 Norwich Mayor, 23 otlier Aldermen, 2 Sheriffs, and GO Coun- cilmen Annually 86 8 16 48 64 Nottingham Mayor, 6 other Aldermen, 18 senior, and C junior Councillors Life 31 16 16 48 64 Oswestry Mayor, 12 Aldei-men, and 15 Councilnien (includ- ing Mayor) Life 37 2 6 18 24 Oxford Mayor, 2 Bailiffs, 4 Alder- men, i)art Bailiffs, part Chamberlains, 8 Assist- ants, and 24 Councilnien Life 41 5 10 30 40 Pembroke Mayor and Councilnien in- definite Life 37 2 6 18 24 Penryn Mayor and 24 cliief Bur- gesses Life 25 — 4 12 16 Penzance Maj'or (fe 8 other Aldermen Life 9 2 6 18 24 Plymouth Maj'or, 12 Aldermen, and 24 Councilnien Annually 37 6 12 36 48 Pontcfract Mayor and 12 Aldermen Life 13 6 18 24 Poole ... Mayor, 2 Bailiffs, Alder- men and Burgesses in- definite Life 138 2 6 18 24 Portsmouth , , . Mayor, 12 Aldermen, and Recorder Life 14 6 14 42 66 Preston Mayor, 7 Aldermen, and 17 capital Burgesses Life 25 6 12 36 48 Pwllheli Mayor, 2 Bailitis, and Bur- gesses indefinite a — • 6 88 4 12 16 122 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; TABLE 1. (Part IV., Sec. 5.)— continued. The Ancient Governing Body or ComTnon The Govemimg Body Cities Council, 183c >. in 1879. ■-^ ^ -a "S^. AlfD BOBOUGHS. Composition of tlie Ancient Governing Body. Duration of Office by those elected 5 1 O S •S2 £ it Sec. 3. (The Municipal Franchise to the OnTnTnoTt -20 S o ;-, o "s _S 11 ^■B. details the system of election. \^'KJ I I I I I I KjlX Council. Tot! Govei g 1^ •^8 •3S ■4-3 "> ^1 Col. 1. Col. 3. Col. 3. Col. 4. Col. S Col. 6 Col. 7 Col. 8 Reading Mayor, 12 Aldermen, and 12 Assistants Life 25 3 6 18 24 Retford (East) 2 Bailiffs and 12 Aldermen (including senior Bailiff) Life 13 3 6 18 24 Richmond Mayor and 12 Aldermen Life 13 — 4 12 16 (Yorks) Ripon ... Mayor, 12 Aldermen, and 24 Assistants Life 37 — 4 12 16 Rochestei' Mayor, 11 Aldermen, and 12 Assistants Life 24 3 6 18 24 Romsey ... Mayor, 6 Aldermen, and 12 capital Burgesses Life 19 — 4 12 16 Rutliin 2 Aldermen, 16 Councd- men J Annually 18 — - 4 12 16 Rye Mayor, 12 Jurats, and Freemen indefinite a — 6113 — 4 12 16 Saflfron Walden Mayor and 12 Aldermen Life 13 4 12 16 St. Albans ... Mayor and 12 Aldermen Life 13 — 4 12 16 St. Ives (Corn- . Mayor and 10 Aldermen Life 11 — 4 12 16 wall) (with capital Burgesses) Salisbury ... ' Mayor, Recorder, Dep. Re- corder, 24 Aldermen, 30 Assistants Life 57 3 6 18 24 Sandwich 1 Mayor, 12 Jurats, 24 Councdmen, and Free- men indefinite a — 61,025 4 12 16 Scarborough . . . 2 Bailiffs, 2 Coroners, 4 Chamberlains, and 36 capital Burgesses in 3 classes Annually 44 2 6 18 24 Shaftesbury Mayor, Recorder, and 12 capital Burgesses Life 14 i — 4 12 16 Shrewsbury ... Mayor, 23 other Aldermen, and 48 As.sistants Life 72 1 1 5 10 30 40 Southampton ... Mayor, Sheriff, 2 Badiffs, and Aldermen and Coun- cilmen indefinite Life 45 5 10 30 40 South Molton ... i Capital Steward, Mayor, Life 20 — 4 12 16 and 18 Burgesses South wold 2 Bailiffs, and Commonalty indefinite a — 6 218 — 4 12 16 Stafford ... 1 Mayor, 10 Aldermen, and 10 capital Burgesses Life 21 i 1 2 8 24 32 J The constitution of the Ruthin corporation was very peculiar. The two aldermen were elected by the burgesses at large, and the aldermen appointed their own town council. THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 123 TABLE L (Part IV., Sec. 5.}—contimied. The Ancient Governinp: Bo ly or Common The Governing Body CITIB8 Council, 1H35 in lb79. u >? 1 *s^- AITD Boroughs. Composition of the Ancient Governing Body. Sec. 3. (The Municipal Franchise) Duration of Office by those elected to the r^rjTTiTTinTi So" 1 •s u »4 to u 11 II details tlie sy.stem of election. \_/ yj IIIIII \J LL Council. Toti Govei .0 B 55 ^^ ^0 Col. 1. Col. 2. Col. 3. Col. 4. Col. 5 Col. 6 Col. 7 Col. 8 Stamford Mayor, 12 other Aldermen, and 24 capital Burgesses Life 37 2 6 18 24 Stockport Mayor, Aldermen (inde- tiiiite) and Freeholders — not less than 12 a — 6 427 6 14 42 56 Stockton- on- Mayor, Aldermen (inde- a — : 71 4 8 24 32 Tees finite) and Burgesses (in- cluding foregoing) Stratford-on- Mayor, 11 other Aldermen, Life 24 __ 4 12 16 Avon and 12 capital Burgesses Sudbury Mayor, G Aldermen, and 24 Councilmen Life 31 — 4 12 16 Sunderland 12 Freemen and 18 Stallin- gers Life 30 9 16 48 64 Swansea Portreeve, 11 other Alder- men, and Burgesses in- definite a — 6 64 4 1 6 18 24 Tam worth 2 Bailifts, and 22 other capital Burgesses Life 24 4 12 16 Tenby Mayor, and Aldermen, and Councihuen indefinite Life 41 4 12 16 Tenterden Mayor, 12 Jurats, and Freemen indefinite Life 31 4 12 16 Tewkesbury ... 2 Bailifls and 22 other principal Burgesses Life 24 — 4 12 16 Thetford Mayor, 9 other principal Burges.ses, and Common- alty (20) Life 30 4 12 16 Tiverton Mayor, 12 capital Bur- gesses, and 12 Assistants Life 25 3 6 18 24 Torrington Mayor, 7 other Aldermen, Life 20 4 12 16 (Great) and 12 capital Burgesses Totnes Mayor, 13 other Masters, (tc, and 20 Burgesses Life 34 — 4 12 16 Truro 1 Mayor, 4 Aldermen, and remainder capital Bur- gesses Life 24 2 6 18 24 Wiillingford ... Mayor, 5 other Aldermen, and 18 Assistants Life 24 — 4 12 16 WaUall Mayor, and 23 other capi- tid Bxirgesses Life 24 3 6 18 24 Warwick ... i Mayor, and 11 other Alder- men Life 12 2 6 18 24 I The number of the Council was limited to 71. 124 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS; TABLE 1 (Part IV., Sec. 5.)—€onti7iued. Cities AND BOBOUGHS. Col. 1. Welclipool The Ancient Governing Body or Common Council, 1835. Composition of the Ancient Governing Body. Sec. 3. (The Municipal Franchise) detaUs the system of election. Duration of Office by those elected to the Common Council. Col. 2. 2 BailiflFs, Aldermen (in- definite) and Burgesses (indefinite) Wells I Mayor, 7 Masters, and 16 ! capital Burgesses Wenlock ... | BaUiif, Bailiff Peers, inde- finite, and Burgesses indefinite Wepnouth&Mel- Mayor, Aldermen (indefi- combe Regis [' nite), 2 Baili&'s, and 24 capital Burgesses Wigan ... "Winchester Windsor Wisbech Worcester Yarmouth (Great) York Mayor, 12 Aldermen, 2 Bailiffs, and Burgesses indefinite Mayor, 6 Aldermen, 24 " the men," and Free- men indefinite(in common haU) Mayor, 9 other Aldennen, 3 Benchers, and remain- der Younger Bretlu-en 10 capital Burgesses, and 40s. Freehold Residents Mayor, Aldennen, capital Councilmen,and Citizens and Free Citizens (latter indefinite) Mayor, 17 other Aldermen, and 36 Councilmen Lord Mayor, 12 Aldermen, 2 Sheriffs, Past Sheri&s, (indefinite) and 72 coun- cilmen Col. 3. a — Life Life Life Life Annually Life Life Life The Governing Body in 1879. . rn 1 1 t C3 «w . ■ • > — — 4 8 24 32 Asliton - under - ... ... — — 4 8 24. 32 Lyne Bamsley * ■ • • > * > • ■ ... — — 6 6 18 24 Barrow- in - Fur- . * • ... . . > ■ • . — — 8 8 24 32 ness Batley ... ' • • > . ■ . ■ * ■ • . — — 3 6 18 24 ! Birkenhead ... .. — — 9 i 14 42 56 Birmingham ... — — 16 16 48 64 Blackburn . • ■ . • • • > • • I — — 7 14 42 56 Blackpool ■ • ■ ... • • . ■ • — — 6 18 14 32 Bolton ... — — 9 16 48 64 Bootle-cum-Lin- ■ • • > ■ • . . ... — — 3 6 18 24 acre Bradford (Yorks.) • • • • • • . . ... — — 9 15 45 60 Brigliton . . ... — — 7 13 39 52 Burnley ... • . • ... — — 8 8 24 32 Burslem ... ... ... — — 3 6 18 24 Burton-upon- — — 4 8 24 32 Trent Bury (Lane.) ... • • . . • • — — 5 10 30 40 Cheltenham ... ; ... . . ... — — 6 6 18 24 Conway ... Mayor, 2 Bailiffs, and Bur- gesses indefinite — 36 — 4 12 16 Crewe ... *•■ ■•■ ... ••• — — 3 6 18 24 Darlington ... ■ • ■ > • • . . ... — — 6 6 18 24 Devonport • . • • • • — — 6 12 36 48 Dewsbury ... • • * ... — — 3 6 18 24 1 Dudley ... — — 7 10 30 40 Dunstable . • • ... — — — 4 12 16 Glossop ... ... — — 3 6 18 24 Halifax ... • • • — — 10 10 30 40 ' Hanley ... ■ ■ • . • • — — 3 6 24 30 Hartlepool Mayor, and 12 Capital Life 13 — 4 12 16 Burgesses Hedon ... IMayor, 2 Bailiffs and 9 Aldermen Life 12 — 3 9 12 Honiton — — 2 6 18 24 Huddersfield . . . ... ... ... ... — — 12 14 42 66 Jarrow ... ... ... ... — — 4 6 18 24 Leamington — — 1 3 6 18 24 126 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS', TABLE 2. (Part IV., Sec. 5.}—co7iUnued. The Ancient Governing Body or Common j The Governing Body i Cities Council, 1835 in 1879. 1 ^ ^ [ m -a oi" AND Composition of ;the Ancient Governing Body. Duration of Office by those elected 1 n O p3 |a *S2 f^ o BOEOrGHS. Sec. 3. (The Municipal Franchise) to the 1 ^ Am >'vi n^n o as £'3 qletMis'ttje system of election. ^^ mil [f ion Council. Totf Gover a 1^ ^3 1? o o Ha Col. 1. Col. 2. Col. 3. Col. 4. C 1. 5 Col. 6 Col. 7 col. 8 Longton ... ... ... . ■ ■ — — 3 6 18 24 Luton ... ••• ••• ... .•• — 3 6 18 24 Manchester ... ... ... ... — 15 16 48 64 Margate ... ... ... >•■ — — i 4 4 1 12 16 Middlesborongh ,,. — — i 5 10 30 40 Oldham... 1 — ! 8 8 24 32 Over Darwen ... ... ... .*• ■•• ' 6 6 18 24 Peterborough ... 1 - — - i 3 6 18 24 Reigate... ... — — i 2 6 18 24 Rochdale •*. .., ... ... — — 10 10 30 40 Rotherham ... ... ... . > > — — 6 6 18 24 Ryde ... ••• ••. ••• — — 2 6 18 24 St. Helen's ... ... — 6 6 18 24 St. Ives (Hunts) — — — 4 ' 12 16 ! Salford ... ... ... ... — 12 16 48 64 Sheffield — — 9 16 48 64 Southport .■• ... ... ••• — — 6 10 30 40 South Shields ... ... — — 3 8 24 32 j Stalybridge — — 3 6 18 24 Stoke - upon- ... ... ... ... — — . 3 6 18 24 Trent . TaiTnton »•• ... ... ... — — 3 6 ' 18 24 Tynemouth ... ... ... .>* — — 3 6 18 24 Wakefield ••• •■. .•• ... — ! 7 8 24 32 Warrington — i 5 9 27 36 Wolverhampton .•• ••* ... ••• — _ 8 12 36 48 Wrexham ■•• *•• >•• ■•■ — 4 4 12 16 Yeovil ... Portreeve, and 11 other Burgesses Life 12 ! 4 12 16 Totals ... 125 510|1496 2006 Grand Totals 13,287* * 16314876 6507 (Tables 1 and 2) 1 SUMMARY AND COMPARISONS. Tables 1 and 2. — Excess of number of Members of ancient Gfoverning Bodies over number of Members of present Governing Bodies 6,780 Proportionate representation by the present Governing Bodies of the 240 Municipal Cities and Boroughs of the estimated population for the present year (1879) : — Aldermen and Councillors — 1 representative to every 1,061| inhabitants. Councillors only 1 ,, ,, l,416ro „ * The total number of boroughs divided into wards at the present time (April^ 1879) is 154. THEHl GROWTH AND DEVELOl'MKNT. 127 (G.) The Municipal Judges and Magistracy. The Municipal Commissioners reported, in 1835, that in a great majority of the incorporated towns there prevailed a general distrust of the municipal magistracy, tainting with suspicion the local admin- istration of justice, and often accompanied with contempt of the persons by whom the law is administered. It is not sui-prising, therefore, that the Act of 1835 made a sweeping change in the mode of appointment to the judicial offices of the reformed municipalities. The Kecorder, sometimes called the Steward, was, under the ancient administration, mostly elected by the common council ; in some cases by the aldermen or superior body of the council ; and in others by the burgesses or freemen at large. The terms of the charters generally required him to be learned in the law — a condition frequently deemed to be complied with by electing a peer of the realm, whose status as a judge by the constitution of Parliament was held to come within that technical description. Where the office was held by the lord of the manor, or the individual commonly regarded as the " patron " of the borough, its functions were dis- charged, almost without exception, by a deputy ; the town clerk being invariably nominated in that capacity. This unrestrained delegation and oft-times anomalous combination of important duties not un seldom led to very mischievous results ; the nominal connection of many of the recorders with their boroughs being only a form to cover the exercise of an unhealthy control. Few of them resided within the jurisdiction with which they were identified, although looked upon as the principal legal advisers of the corporate bodies. They were mostly magistrates within their boroughs and quorum judges of the courts of general and quarter sessions and courts of record where those existed. Column 8 of Table 1 in this Section sets out the mode of election observed in the cities and boroughs named in the Act of 1835, and shows where the consent of the Crown was requisite to the appointment. It may be said that, universally, the municipal magistrates were, previous to the year 1835, locally elected. Their authority was, however, very irregularly distributed, and too often the persons selected to exercise it could only advance political partisanship as a reason for their elevation to a dignified and honourable position. The gross incompetence of many of the magistrates naturally rendered their administration of the law extremely defective, and excited just suspicion and indignation amongst the inhabitants. It was not often that persons outside the common council were chosen for the office, 128 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; and where there were aldermen they were usually the favoured class. The Mayor was always the chief magistrate wherever a criminal jurisdiction, however limited, was in practice ; the Mayors of Lancaster, Liverpool, and Preston being also ex-officio magistrates of the county. The borough jurisdictions were occasionally concurrent with those of the county magistrates, but mostly exclusive; even where they were not, the county magistrates rarely interfered. Column 2 to 9 of the Tables following hereon supply, with those of the next Section of this Part (The Criminal and Civil Jurisdictions), details descriptive of the composition, powers, and number of the abolished local tribunals, and magistracies. The uniform system of administering justice in the corporate towns as provided by the Municipal Act of 1885, has undergone but slight amendment. The borough justices at present consist of the mayor during his year of office and one year after his mayoralty determines, the recorder and such persons as the Crown may appoint by virtue of section 98 : — " and be it enacted that it shall be lawful for His Majesty from time to time to assign to so many persons as he shall think fit His Majesty's commission to act as justices of the peace in and for each borough, and in and for each of the counties of cities and towns respectively named in the schedules of this Act, to which His Majesty may be pleased upon the petition of the council to grant a commission of the peace : Provided, nevertheless, that every person so assigned shall reside within the borough for which he shall be so assigned, or within seven miles of such borough or some part thereof, during such time as he shall act as a justice of the peace in and for such borough." A borough justice need not have such qualification by estate as is required for a county justice, provided he be not disqualified by law to act as a justice of the peace from any other cause or on any other account than in respect of estate ; nor need he be a burgess of the borough in and for which he is assigned to act as a justice. Summonses and warrants issued by the borough justices may be served and executed within the county in which the borough is situated, or within seven miles from such borough, without the endorsement of a county justice. A sheriff, during his year of office, is disqualified from acting as a justice of the peace ; nor can a coroner act as a justice ; but attorneys, although disabled from acting as justices for a county whilst practising as attorneys, are permitted to act in boroughs and in counties of cities and towns. THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 129 If the council of any borough think it requisite that a salaried police magistrate or magistrates be appointed within such borough, they are empowered to make a bye-law * fixing the amount of the salary which such magistrate is to receive. Tliis bye- law is to be transmitted to one of Her Majesty's principal secretaries of state [in practice the Home Secretary], and it is thereupon lawful for the Crown to appoint one or more fi.t persons, according to the number fixed in the said bye-law (being barristers-at-law of not less than five years' standing) to be, during His (or Herj Majesty's pleasure, police magistrate or magistrates and a justice or justices of the peace for such borough, and to direct that the salar}' fixed by the council should be paid quarterly out of the borough fund to such magistrate or magistrates : provided always however, that in every case of the vacancy of the office of police magistrate in any borough no new appointment shall be made until the council shall again make application to one of Her Majesty's principal secretaries of state in that behalf, as in the case of the first appointment of a police magistrate in such borough. The Council of any borough to which a separate commission of the peace is granted are required to provide one or more fit and suitable office or offices, to be called ' the police office ' or ' offices ' of the borough, for the purpose of transacting the business of the justices ot such borough. No room in any house licensed as a victualling house or ale-house can, however, be used for the purposes of such police office. * Section 99 ; the following cities and boroughs have applied for and been granted a stipendiary magistrate in i)ursuance thereof. City or Borough. Birkenhead Birniingluini Brighton Carditf Kingston-on-Hull ... Leeds Liverpool Stipendiary magistrates adjudicate in the boroughs of Burslem, Hanley, Longton, Salford, Stoke-upon-Trent. and Wolverhampton, under special Acts of Barliament, as follows : — ^"Snat:^J.°' City or Borough. Present Salaryof Stipendiary. ... £1.000 Manchester £1.000 ... £1.000 Middlesborough .. £.-00 £8U0 Sheffield £1.000 £7r)0 South Shields £800 £900 Swan.^ea £7oO ... £1.000 Worcester £300 ... £1,750 Boroughs. Burslem Hanley Longton Stoke-upon-Trent Salford Wolverhampton } Acts of Parliament. 2 Vic, c. 13, (Staffordshire Potteries, &c., Act.) 17 Vic, c. 20, (Salford Borough and ilantdicster division, &.C., Act.) 9 and 10 Vic, c. 65, Wolver- hami)ton, kc, Act.) Present Salary of Stipendiary. £1,000 £1,200 £1,000 K 130 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS; The justices must appoint a clerk, to be removable at their pleasure ; but it is not lawful for them to appoint or to continue as their clerk any alderman or councillor of such borough, or clerk of the peace of the borough, or the partner of such clerk of the peace, or any clerk or person in the employment of such clerk of the peace. Nor is it lawful for the clerk to the justices to be by himself or his partner interested or employed in the prosecution of any offender committed for trial by the justices to whom he is clerk. Any person offending against this enactment is liable to a fine of £100, one half of which is to go to the borough fund, and the other half (with full costs of suit) to any person who will sue for the same in any of Her Majesty's courts of record at Westminster. JS^otwithstanding the grant of a separate commission of the peace to a borough, if it have not also a separate court of quarter sessions, the county justices can still exercise jurisdiction within its limits,* But no part of any borough in and for which a separate court of quarter sessions of the peace is holden is within the jurisdiction of the justices of any county from which such borough before the passing of the Act was exempt, any law, statute, letters patent, charter, grant, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. The council of any borough who desire that a separate court of quarter sessions should be holden for such borough, may signify their wish by petition to Her Majesty in Council, setting forth the grounds of the application, the state of the gaol, and the salary which they are willing to pay the recorder. Thereupon the Crown may grant a separate court of quarter sessions for such borough, and may appoint as recorder thereof a barrister of not less than five years' standing, who is to hold his office during good behaviour. If a vacancy in the office occurs, the Crown has also the right of filling it up. The recorder is to be a justice of the peace for the borough, and is to have precedence therein next after the mayor. He is ineligible to repre- sent the borough in Parliament, or to serve as an alderman, councillor, or police magistrate thereof. In case of sickness or unavoidable absence, he is empowered to appoint, under his hand and seal, a deputy recorder (being a barrister of five years' standing) to act for him at the quarter sessions of the peace then next ensuing. The council are to appoint the clerk of the peace ; but the recorder has nevertheless the power of removing him in case of misconduct in his office. Before entering upon their offices, both the recorder and the * In practice, the county magistrates, as such, never adjudicate in a borough which has a separate commission of the peace. THEIR GHOWTH and DEVELOPMENT 131 boroup^h justices are to make before the mayor, or anj' two or more of the aldermen or councillors of tlic boroupjb, a declaration that they will faitlifuUy and impartially fulfil their duties according to the best of their judgment and ability. The recorder is to hold, once in every quarter (or oftener if he thinks fit, or Her Majesty so directs), a court of quarter sessions, in which he is sole jndijc, and which has cognizance of all crimes cognizable by county quarter sessions.* The recorder, has, however, no power to make or levy a county rate, or a rate in the nature of a county rate, or to license houses for the sale of excisable liquors, or generally to exercise any of the powers vested in the town council. In the absence of the recorder or deputy recorder at the time fixed for holding the quarter sessions, the mayor may open and adjourn the court, and may respite all recognizances entered by persons for their appearance there ; but he cannot do anything else. The authority of the recorder of a borough is not determinul by Her Majesty's judges coming into the county, and acting there under their commissions of o>/er and terminer and general gaol delivery ; he may, therefore, hold his quarter sessions of the peace during the time of the assizes in the same couuty. Schedule A of the Act prescribes, as before observed (page 40), that the cities and boroughs named therein are to have a commission of the peace; those comprised in Schedule B not being permitted one unless on petition or grant. No commission has, however, been issued to Neath, although that borough is included in Schedule A ; the reason for this exclusion has not transpired. The Act 6 and 7 AYilliam IV., c. 105, intituled ' An Act for the better administration of Justice in certain Boroughs,' gave the couuty justices power to contract with the council of a borough in which there is a sufficient gaol, for the committal of county prisoners thereto, and authorised the trial of such persons by the court of quarter sessions, if there be one ; enabled the recorder of a borough to try persons at the borough sessions, although they might have been com- mitted for trial to a county prison more than two miles from the borough ; and enacted that the oaths to be taken by the recorder or the borough justices might be taken before the mayor or any two councillors without suing out or obtaining any special dcdimus or other commission or authority for administering such oaths ; and that the powers heretofore vested by local Acts in the justices in quarter * See page 153 as to oflEences which are not within the cognizance of these Courts. K 2 132 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS. sessions, and not coming within the scope of the recorder's authority, should be exercised by the town council. This Act also contains provisions in reference to courts of request, to courts of record, to the courts of quarter sessions of the Cinque Ports, and to the appointment of the vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge to be a justice of the peace for the town. The Act 7 William IV. and 1 Victoria, c. 78, s. 31, provided that all offences committed within any borough, or the precincts thereof, against the provisions of any local Act of Parliament were in future to be cognizable by the borough magistrates. The Act 30 and 31 Victoria, c. 115, s. 2, enacts " that a justice of the peace shall not be incapable of acting as a justice at any petty, or special, or general, or quarter sessions on the trial of an offence arising under an Act to be put in execution by a municipal corporation or a local board of health, or improvement commissioners, or trustees, or any other local authority by reason only of his being as one of several ratepayers, or as one of any other class of persons liable in common with the others to contribute to, or to be benefited bj-, an}" fund to the account of which the penalty payable in respect of such offence is directed to be carried, or of which it will form part, or to con- tribute to any rate or expenses in diminution of which such j)enalty will go." The Act 32 and 33 Victoria, c. 23, extended the power of recorders to appoint deputies in certain cases, but it was practically superseded by a larger enactment — 35 and 36 Victoria, c. 86, s. 9.* Column 12 of Tables 1 and 2 in this Section does not, by the omis- sion of the mayors, immediate ex-mayors, and recorders, give the possible or actual numerical strength of the corporate magistracy for the present year (1879), but if three (mayor, immediate ex-maj'or, and recorder) be added to the numbers for the quarter sessions cities and boroughs, and two (mayor and immediate ex-mayor) to the cities and boroughs not having quarter sessions, an increase of 577 is given, thus bringing the total possible strength to 3,264. The actual strength for 1879 may be stated at 3,170, which is the nearest approach to absolute accuracy that the individual inquiries which have been made permit of. The foregoing abstract of statutes ajjplies in some points to the next Section, commencing on page 149. 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Stalybridge Stoke-upon-Trent Tannton ... Tynemouth Wakefield Warrington Wolverhampton . . . Wrexham Yeovil 1 I-H t Grand Totals ... (Tables 1 & 2) 00 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS. 149 SUMMARY AND COMPARISONS. Taiu.es 1 AND 2. — Number of Cities and Borou<^hs named therein witli Recorders previous to the passing of 5 and 6 William IV,, c. 76 ... ... 159 Number of Cities and Borouglis with Recorders under the Act in 1879 *96 Excess of number of ^lagistratcs (including Maj'ors, Recorders, and Ex-Mayors) in 1879 over the number of Magistrates under the ancient constitution ... 2,198 (7) The Criminal and Civil Jurisdictions. The ordinary Criminal Courts of the corporate towns previous to 1835 were those of gaol delivery and of general and quarter sessions.! Their jurisdiction was extremely defective, and in some cases totally disproportioned to the importance of the town, or to the probable intelligence and respectability of its magistrates. For example, the borough of Dunwich, in Suft'olk, with a population of 232, had a jurisdiction extending to capital felonies,! whilst the city of Bath, with a population of 50,817, had only a jurisdiction confined to offences cog- nizable at petty sessions. The condition of concurrent or exclusive authority corresponded as little as the extent of the jurisdiction itself with the modern importance of the towns, or with the principles of expediency arising out of their situation, and their means of commu- nication with the seat of county jurisdiction. The grant of exclusive power appeared to have depended entirely on accident or caprice. The practice of the Criminal and Civil Courts, the method of summoning and qualifications of jurors, and the mode of payment of prosecution expenses, will be best described in the identical words of the Municipal Commissioners in their report on these points. ** The courts of gaol delivery are found in very few plitces ; where they exist they are sometimes held under the charters, without any commission issuing from the Crown. Where no commission issues the magistrates are the sole judges. The time of holding these courts is sometimes discretionarj' with the corporate magistrates, sometimes regulated by the charter, and are, in practice, * The ninety-six Eecorderships are now held by ninety persons — one person holding three appointments, and four persons two appointments each. f The terms " general sessions '' and " quarter sessions " have frequently been held to imply a " distinction without any practical difference," but that is not strictly so. The term " quarter" is applicable only to those sessions which were, or are held at four even periods within the year. Although the jurisdiction of the general sessions was the same as the quarter sessions, the former were sometimes (and in the case of some of the unreformed boroughs still are) held once, twice, or three times a year only. X Most of the ct)rporate courts sent all serious cases to the county sessions or assizes, but some few (Berwick-upon-Tweed, Bristol, Canterbury. Exeter, and Eochester among the number) ret;uned down to 1835, their chartcKd privileges of trying and executing criminals for capital offences. 150 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; opened at the same time as the quarter sessions. The same remark applies to the courts of general sessions.* The borough sessions seldom differ as to the times and manner of holding them from the county quarter sessions." * * * " These (the local civil courts) in general have their origin in particular charters, but occasionally they exist by prescription. They vary considerably with regard to the nature of the actions which they may entertain. In some actions, real, personal, and mixed may be brought, and in general they have cognizance of aU personal actions. The amount for which such actions can be brought is often unlimited (subject to the power of removal), while in several of the courts it is restrained to the recovery of debts under a given sum. Those courts, whose powers are most limited, are confined to suits where the debt or damage does not exceed 40s. In practice, suits for any other cause of action than debts, are seldom instituted in these courts, unless in some of the larger boroughs, where the ordinary kinds of action which occur at assizes are tried. * * * It is only in the civil courts of the larger boroughs that the attendance of a jury is frequently required. * * Frequently not more than two or three actions are Ijrought to trial in the course of a year, although more than a hundred writs may have been sued out." " The juries are generally summoned from the inhabitants at large, without strict reference to any qualifications ; sometimes from the freemen alone. In the latter case, the number out of whom they are chosen is often inconveniently small. (At Pontefract the number was 26.) The members of the ruling body sometimes claim an exemption from serving on any of the borough juries ; in other cases the grand jury is summoned exclusively from them. * * In corporate counties the lists are commonly made out by the Sherifis in the usual manner ; in other boroughs they are commonly struck in the office of the town clerk. In some towns one of the judges of the court has the power of striking the jury ; the mayor in several towns iiominates the foreman of the grand jury, and very frequently settles the whole list after it comes from the town clerk' s office. ' ' " In many boroughs no fund is provided for the payment of the expenses of prosecutions ; in some they are paid out of the county rate ; in others out of a borough rate in the nature of a county rate ; in others out of the poor rate." The following classification shows the distribution of the criminal and civil jurisdictions previous to 1835. Criminal Jurisdictions (in existence in 1835) : — I. — Criminal jurisdictions of Municipal Corporations exclusive of the County Magistrates. Number of Boroughs. 1. Extending to all offences, inclusive of high treason 1 2. Extending to all felonies ... ... ... ... 41 3. Extending to all felonies, except murder and man- slaughter ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 4. Extending to all felonies, not aifecting life or member 59 5. Extending only to misdemeanours ... ... ... 11 6. Extending (except for committals) only to offences punishable in Petty Sessions ... ... ... 11 124 THEIR GROWTH AN1> DEVELOPMENT. 151 II. — Criminal jurisdictions concurrent with the County Magistrates. 1. Extending- to all felonies ... ... ... ... .'j 2. Extending to all felonies not ali'ecting life or limb 20 3. Extending only to misdemeanours ... ... ... 2 4. Extending (except for committal) only to offences punishable in Petty Sessions ... ... ... 33 G7 The criminal jurisdiction was obsolete or in abeyance in four boroughs, and thirty-nine corporations were unendowed with a criminal jurisdiction. Civil Jurisdictions (in existence in 1835) : — I. — Civil jurisdictions of Municipal Corporations in all kinds of actions, " Real, Personal, and Mixed." Number of Boroughs. 1. Extending to actions for any amount ... ... 53 2. Extending to actions for £100 ... ... ... 1 3. Extending to actions for £40 ... ... ... 2 4. Extending to actions for £20 ... ... ... 1 57 II. — Civil jurisdictions only in actions " Personal and Mixed." 1. Extending to actions for any amount ... ... 7 2. Extending to actions for £200 1 3. Extending to actions for £100 ... ... ... 1 4. Extending to actions for £50 ... ... ... 2 5. Extending: to actions for £40 ... ... ... 2 '& III. — Civil jurisdictions only in actions " Personal." 1. Extending to actions for any amount 2. Extending to actions for £200 3. Extending to actions for £100 4. Extending to actions for £6(3 13s. 4d. (100 marks 5. Extending to actions for £60 6. Extending to actions for £50 7. Extending to actions for £40 8. Extending to actions for £20 9. Extending to actions for £13 6s. 8d. (20 marks) .. 10, Extending to actions for £10 11. Extending to actions for only £2 ... 13 20 1 3 1 1 5 4 2 1 3 5 46 152 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; The civil jurisdiction was obsolete or in abeyance in sixty-nine boroughs, and forty-nine corporations were unendowed with a civil jurisdicton. The annexed Table gives the local designations of the various Civil Courts, in existence in 1835 : — TABLE 1. (Part IV., Sec. 7.) Local Names of Borough Civil Courts. Number of Boroughs in which so designated. Local Names of Borough Civil Courts. Number of Boroughs in which so designated. Bailiffs' Court 1 Mayor and Bailiffs' Court Borough Court... 4 Mayor and Sheriffs' Court 1 Borough mote Court 2 Much Court 1 Cheney Coiu-t ... 1 Passage Court ... 2 Civil Court 1 Pentice Court ... 1 County Court ... 13 Pleas Coui-t 18 Crownmote 1 Portmote Court 4 Fen Court 1 Provosts' Coiu't 1 Foreign Court ... 2 P^ecord Court ... 113 Fortnight Court Guildhall Court 2 2 Bequests Court... Sheriffs' Court 32 10 Hustings Court 6 Town Court 2 Intrinsical Court 1 Tolzey Court 1 Mayor's Court ... 11 The references and abstract of statutes in the preceding Section, extending from page 127 to page 132, apply, as previously remarked, to this Section, and should be read in conjunction with it. Some other points however, require to be noticed, more particularly that by which the county justices are excluded from intervening in a borough, and those relating to the prosecution of offenders and liability to serve on juries. Within ten days after the grant of a separate court of quarter sessions* to any borough, the council are to send a copy of such * The oifences triable at borough quarter .sessions are the same as those of which the county quarter sessions have cognizance, (^see s. 105 of the Municipal Act of 1835.) viz., felonies — with certain limitations — and misdemeanours. The Criminal Code (Indictable Offences) Bill, as amended in Committee (May, 1879) proposes by s. 431, the abolition of the distinction between felony and misdemeanours. Under the original County Commission of the Peace which, almost in its present form, was settled by a conference of judges in 1590, and commanded by the then Lord Chancellor to be used, any one or more justices have not only all the ancient power touching the peace which the conservators of the peace had at the common law, but also that whole authority which has been added thereto by subsequent statutes. — ( Vide Pritchard's " Practice and Procedure at Quarter Sessions, &c.") 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Tables 2 & 3. — Cities and Boroughs set out therein with a Quarter Sessions jurisdiction in 1879 ... ... ... 97 Cities and Boroughs set out therein which have a Commission of the Peace only in 1879 99 Cities and Boroughs set out therein where the Mayor and Ex-Mayor are the only Borough Magistrates, and the County Magistrates have an active concurrent jurisdiction 44 Excess of exclusive jurisdictions in 1835 compared with 1879 10 (8.) The Police and Criminal Statistics. The police organization of the corporate towns, previous to 1835, was in the most deplorable condition. Few of the corporations had under their direction other than the leet constables, and where a police worthy of the name did exist, it was invariably under the control of an independent body, acting in avowed rivalry with the undisciplined corporate officials, and owing its authority to local Acts of Parliament. In some towns the evils resulting from the want of a well organized system were attempted, unsuccessfully, to be obviated by the appointment of privately-paid watchmen. Generally speaking, the municipal police may be said to have been wretchedly insufficient and ineffective. The almost unexceptional absence of uniformity in the ancient police arrangements, and the non-existence of criminal statistics for so early a date as 1835, render a tabular comparison of any value, in this Section, out of the question. The character of the old police organiza- tions of such of the cities and boroughs as are now governed under the Act of 1835, are therefore set out in a separate form, as follows : — CiTiBs AND Boroughs. The Akcibnt Police Okganizations. Aberystwith Abingdon Andover Arundel ... Ashton-ii n der- Lyne Banbury ... Six constables of leet held before the mayor ; one paid by tlie paris}i. Three tithingmen, appointed by justices and sworn at leet ; and watchmen appointed by conoimissioners under local Act. Two corporation constables ; and night-watch appointed by commissioners under local Act. Two constables elected from inhabitants in rotation by lord's leet ; service by paid deputy. Head constables and assistants annually appointed for town's division and police force, under Acts 7, 8, & 9, Geo. IV. Five constables appointed by corporation ; street-keejier and watclimen, by commissioners under local Act, in- cluding corporation. 186 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS; TABLE 1. (Part IV., Sec. S.)— continued. Cities ajtd Boroitghs. The Ancient Police Obganizations. Barnstaple Twelve constables appointed by mayor from resident householders. Basingstoke Two constables ; watchmen appointed by paving com- missioners. Bath Under three police boards of commissioners. Beaumaris Serjeants-at-mace and six constables appointed by cor- poration. Beccles Four parish constables. Betlf ord ... Mayor's serjeant and fifteen other constables, including bellman, beadle and governor of the poor-house. Berwick-upon- High constable and six others appointed at leet court ; Tweed no night-watch. Beverley Serjeants-at-mace, and eighteen constables — two for each ward ; seven watchmen with assistant constables for night police under commissioners of Watching and Lighting Act. Bewdley Four constables appointed by magistrates ; no night police. Seventeen constables, including the cliief constable, ap- Bideford pointed annually by mayor. Blandford No watch ; two constables yearly appointed by baUiflf. Bodmin ... Four constables appointed at leet by mayor. Boston Chief and eleven petty constables appointed by magis- trates ; watchmen under local commissioners. Bridgnorth Cliief constable and six petty constables appointed at court leet ; no night watch. Bridgwater Thirty-four constables annually appointed by council; pro-^asion for watching under local Act not availed of. Brecon Two serjeants-at-mace, and twenty-four leet constables ; unpaid. Bridport ... Two leet constables and a watcliman. Bristol Twelve policemen. Buckingham Eight constables appointed by bailiff ; subscription watch- Bu rt on- u pen- men. Tliree leet constables, and six assistants. Trent Bury St. Edmund's Two chief police officers ; night-watchmen under commis- sioners. Calne Borough constable and town constable, chosen by corporators and hundred jury. Cambridge Constables annually appointed by the parishes. Canterbury Twelve constables appointed at the leets of the different wards, by the several aldermen, one from list of house- holders furnished by the constable of ward ; nine watch- Cardiff men. Cliief constable or police officer appointed by bailifis and paid by corporation ; twelve constables appointed by constable of castle from list returned. Cardigan Four leet constables. Carlisle Constables for respective townships ; small police force under local Act. Carmarthen Chief and twelve petty constables, appointed by magis- trates. Chard Leet constable unpaid ; watchmen paid by subscription. THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 187 TABLE 1. (Part IV., Sec. 8.) — continued. Cities and Boroughs. Chester ... Cliesterfiekl Chichester Chippenham Chipping Norton Chipping Wycombe Clitheroe ... Congleton Coventry ... Dartmoutli Daventrj' ... Deal Denbigh ... Derby Devizes Doncaster. . . Dorchester Dover Droit wich... Durham ... East Retford Evesham ... Exeter Eye Falmouth... Faversham Flint Folkestone Glastonbury Gloucester Godalming Godmanchester Grantham Grimsby ... Guildford . . . Thb Akcibitt Police Ohganizatiows. Unpaid ward constables nominated by mayor. Five constables. Eleven constables appointed by steward at leet, from householders, one for each ward ; city watch under local Act, by four watchmen. Watchmen and police othcer, paid by subscription. Constables appointed and paid Ijy the parish. Four constables and four tithingmen appointed by court- leet ; two watchmen under local Act. Constable appointed at court-leet, and an assistant by magistrates. Leet constables ; special peace officers ; watchmen under local Act. One chief, and sixty to eighty ordinary constables. Twelve constables and two serjeants-at-mace, appointed by mayor and council. Two constables and three headboroughs appointed by lord of manor, under control of magistrates. Twenty-three constables, householders, appointed by justices ; watchmen, by Paving Act Commissioners. Superintendent and twelve to fifteen constables. High constable and six petty constables. Two constables ; police under local board. Gaoler, under-gaoler, two serjeants-at-mace, street-keeper and mai'ket policeman ; twenty-one constables for seven- teen wards. Watchmen. Twenty-uine constables appointed for several wards ; three day policemen ; nine night watclimen. Constables sworn in by burgesses ; two serjeants-at-mace. Four constables annually chosen by corporation; four peace officers under Paving and Lighting Act. Two serjeants-at-mace and ten constables. Constables from each parish appointed by mayor. Serjeant-at-mace and forty-six constables ; appointed annually by common council. Serjeants-at-mace ; seven constables. Four constables appointed by maj-or ; no watch. A leet constable and a borsholder, appointed yearly at court leet, juiy presentment, from resident householders ; watchmen appointed by Pavement Act Commissioners. Four leet constables. Eighteen constables appointed by grand jury at yearly sessions. Watchmen and beadle. Twelve constables appointed at court-leet, from six wards of city, night- watclimen appointed under local Act. Leet constable and watchmen. Two constables ; watch paid by subscription. Ten constables appointed for each ward, parish and town- ship by the alderman's court and the magistrates. Chief and three petty constables ; appointed by magis- trates and leet jury. Constables only ; appointment of housekeepers at leet. 188 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS; TABLE 1. (Part IV., Sec. 8.)— continued. CiTiBS AND Boroughs. Hartlepool Harwich . . Hastings . . Haverfordwest Hedon Helston . . . Hereford ... Hertford ... Huntingdon Hythe Ipswich . . . Kendal Kidderminster Kingston-upon HiiH Kingston-upon Thames Lancaster ... Launceston Leeds Leicester ... Leominster Lichfield . . . Lincoln . . . Liskeard ... Liverpool . . . Llandovery Louth Ludlow . . . Lyme Regis The Akcient Police OfiGiNizATioNs. Two constables ; annual appointment. One high constable and twelve petty constables. Serjeants-at-mace, and twenty-four constables sworn at hundred court, under local Act ; two parishes and part of a third regulated by commissioners ; two other pai'ishes by commissioners under Act for St. Leonard's. Two high and fourteen petty constables, appointed at sessions. Five constables, including the serjeant-at-mace. Four constables appointed by justices. Two chief and four petty constables for each ward, annually appointed by magistrates from names given by otitgoing constables ; watchmen under paving and lighting commissioners. Two serjeants-at-mace, seven constables, two watchmen and two patrols. Watchmen and four parish constables. Six constables nominated by grand jurj^, (fee. Parish constables. Constable and day policeman. Two constables ; appointed by bailiff from year to year. Forty-four constables appointed by mayor ; seventy-two watchnien under local Act. Two high constables ; three constables ; three watchmen and fourteen headboroughs and constables. Two constables appointed by borough magistrates ; sub- scriptions for private watchmen. Serjeants-at-mace and four constables appointed by mayor. Chief constable and five assistants ; seventy watchmen and patrol for winter ; (reduced number for summer). Chief constable ; thirty constables or headboroughs for particular wards, and from thirty-seven to forty general constables ; annually appointed by magistrates. Two serjeants-at-mace and twelve constables ; three watchmen maintained by subscription. Nineteen constables called "dozener"; appointed by different wards for the whole city ; police officers by corporation ; and two high constables by burgage-holders. Watchmen, superintendents, and inspectors appointed under local Act. Four constables, appointed by mayor. Police force numbering 130 of all ranks, and constabulary force numbering 53, under the control of the corpora- tion, and paid by them. A separate police force num- bering 155 of all ranks was maintained by the Dock Estate Trustees. Six constables ; appointment of one for each of the six wards by the bailiff. Unpaid constables appointed by magistrates ; and three policemen under local Act. Chief and eight leet constables ; serjeants-at-mace ; watch- men paid by subscription. Four constables and hayward. THEIR GROWTH AM) DEVELOPMENT. 189 TABLE 1. (Part IV., Sec. 8.) — continued. Cities asd Bououghs. TnK A.vciE.NT Police Oboanizatioxs. Lymington Lynn Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Marlborough Monmouth Morpeth Neath Newark ... Newbury ... N e w c a s tle-under- Lyne Newcastl e-upon- Tyne Newport (I. of W.) Northampton Norwich ... Nottingham Oswestry ... Oxford Pembroke... Penryn Penzance ... Plymouth ... Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Preston ... Reading ... Richmond (Yorks.) Ripon Two leet constables ; watchmen appointed by the parish, under Police Acts. Two constables appointed by aldermen for each ward ; six corporate officers. Two constables ai)pointed and paid by the corporation. Constable annually appointed by justices, from present- ment of persons by leet jury. Seveu constables appointed and paid by parishes. Two high, aiKl five ordinary constables, appointed by justices at borough quarter sessions. Serjeants-at-mace and beadles ; cliief and nine petty constables — appointed by magistrates. Four constables. Six constables appointed by portreeve from twelve bur- gesses. Chief constable, two policemen, twenty-four petty con- stables, besides serjeant's-at-mace and beadle. Commissioners under Local Act appointed suijcrintendent and watchmen ; corporation court leet appointed two constables and a titliingnian for each street. High constable and four ordinary constables appointed by magistrates. Seven serjeants-at-mace, and eighty constables ; night- watch under local Act^twenty-four watchmen and four night constables. Two high constables and potty constables, indefinite in number, ap])ointed by mayor, on selection of town clerk. High constable and twenty-three headboroughs and ordi- nary constables appointed by aldermen. Two constables elected for each ward by the assembly ; watchmen under Paving Act. One hundred constables appointed by magistrates at sessions ; nominally for distinct wards — in practice for the whole town. Sixteen ward constables. University claimed the privilege of night watch ; city appointed peace constables. Eight constables appointed by mayor. Town Serjeants and six constables. Four constables appointed by corporation. Constables assigned to each district. Nine petty constables. Four constables, variously appointed ; watchmen under local Act. One high and an indefinite number of petty constables ; appointed by magistrates at (quarter sessions. Superintendent and ten policemen under local Act. Thirteen watchmen witli otlier constables appointed by mayor. Six constables chosen by mayor and burgesses; a paid establishment under joint management of magistrates and vacant committee comprised superintendent and three constables. Seven constables ; two night watciunen. 190 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; TABLE 1. (Part IV., Sec. 8.)— continued. Cities and Boroughs. The Ancient Police Oeganizations. Rochester ... Romsey ... Rutliin Rye Salisbury ... Sandwich ... Scarborough Shaftesbury Shrewsbury Southampton South Molton ... Southwold Stafford St. Alban Stamford ... St. Ives Stockton ... Stratford- upon- Avon Swansea ... Tamworth Tenby Tenterden Tewkesbury Thetford Tiverton ... Torrington Totnes Wallingf ord Two constables elected by resident freemen from their own number. Two serjeants-at-mace, two constables, and three tithing- men. Crier ; four Serjeants ; four constables ; three lordship bailiffs. Four constables annually appointed by justices, from householders, presented by previous constables ; two watchmen. Four high and thirteen petty or sub-constables under local Act ; day and night watch. Twelve constables and twelve deputy constables, appointed yearly by justices from householders. Ten constables. Common constables. Three serjeants-at-mace and three Serjeants yeomen ; fourteen ordinary constables for towns and suburbs ; about sixty constables for the whole of the borough liberties. Four constables elected by self-elect from lists by retiring officers ; watchmen, in sunmier and in winter. Eight constables appointed by mayor. Six leet constables. Four leet constables and two deputy constables appointed by magistrates. High constable, foi;r common constables, two beadles and three night watchmen selected from each ward for the borough generally. Chief constable and parochial and special constables appointed by magistrates. Eight constables annually appointed by mayor. Superintendent, serjeant-at-mace, two constables, and two watchmen under local Act. Seven constables, watchmen and superintendent. Three watclunen under Paving and Lighting Act ; parish constable ; constable employed by association. Two constables and two headboroughs appointed at court-leet ; one special constable appointed by magis- trates. Two serjeants-at-mace ; twelve constables appointed, one for each ward, by borough justices. High constable, six borsholders, and six deputy borsholders, appointed yearly by justices at general sessions. Borough constables, appointed by council annually, and four assistant constables. Chief constable and parish constables appointed by magistrates. Power under local Acts to appoint night watch not exercised. Chief and four sub- constables appointed by mayor. Twelve leet constables, and two serjeants-at-mace. Two constables, four tithingmen, beadle and two watch- men. THEIR GROWTH AND T)EVKI,OPMENT. 191 TABLE 1. (Part IV., Sec. 8.) — contiivued. OlTIBS A.ND BOBOUGHS. The Akoieitt Policb OBGAWiziTiOMS. WalsaU Warwick ... WeUs Weulock ... Weymouth Wiuchelsea Winchester Windsor ... Wisbech . . Worcester. . Yeovil York Superintendent and three permanent police officers ap- pointed by magistrates during pleasure and paid by subscription ; also two serjeants-at-mace, two constables, sixteen deputy constables for the borough, and twenty for the " foreign." Permanent liead officer and ten couunon constables annually appointed at leet. Two chief constables and verderers. High constable and several common constables. Six constables appointed during pleasure by council ; eight watchmen under trustees. Six constables appointed by justices. Four constables. Constables and tithingmen ; and night constable and six watchmen. Two beadles ; superintendent and four night watchmen. Eighteen men, organized by commissionei'S under 4 Geo. iV. in aid of four mayors' officers, and two constables from each of seven wards. Watchmen under local Act ; two leet constables. Constables for different townsliips and parishes appointed by the magistrates. The Municipal Corporations Act, 1835, directs the Council of a borough to appoint a sufficient number of their own body, who, together with the mayor for the time being, shall be and be called ' the Watch Committee ' of such borough. The powers given by the Act to such committee may be exercised by the majority of those present at any meeting thereof at which not less than three members are present. The committee is from time to time to appoint a sulficient number of constables for the borough, who shall not only within such borough, but also within the county in which such borough or part thereof is situated, and also within every county being within seven miles of any such borough, and within all liberties in any such county, have all such powers and privileges, and be liable to all such duties and responsibilities, as any constable duly appointed had at the time of the passing of the Municipal Corporations Act, or thereafter might have, within his con stable wick by virtue of the common law, or of any statutes made or to be made, and shall obey all such commands as they may from time to time receive from any of the justices of the peace having jurisdiction within such borough, or within any county in which they shall be called on to act as constables. The watch committee are empowered to make regulations for the management of the constables, who are empowered while on duty to apprehend all idle and disorderly persons whom they find disturbing the public peace, or w'hom they have just cause to suspect 192 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; of an intention to commit a felony. Constables attending at the watch houses in the night may take bail by recognizances from persons brought before them for petty misdemeanours, such recognizances to be conditional for the appearance of the parties before a magistrate, and the recognizances to be forfeited if the parties do not duly appear. If a constable of any borough is guilty of neglect of duty or disobedience of any lawful order, he is liable, on conviction before any two justices of the peace, to be imprisoned for any time not exceeding ten days, or to be fined not exceeding 40s., or to be dismissed from his office, as the justices shall think fit. Persons assaulting constables in the execution of their duty are rendered liable to a fine not exceeding £5. The watch committee are authorised to fix the pay of the constables, to defray their expenses in apprehending ofienders, to reward them for activity in the discharge of their duties, to compensate them for injuries received in the performance of their duties, or to make an allowance to such as shall be disabled by bodily injury or worn out by length of service.* The magistrates having jurisdiction within any borough are also authorised and required to appoint a number of persons to act as special constables. The watch committee are required to transmit a report on the 1st of January, 1st of April, 1st of July, and 1st of October, in every year, to one of the secretaries of state (the Home Secretary), the number of men appointed to act as constables or policemen in such borough ; and of the descrij^tion of arms, accoutrements and clothing, and other necessaries furnished to each man ; and of the salaries, wages, and allowances payable to such constables or policemen ; and of the number and situation of all station houses in such borough; and also a copy of all rules, orders, and regulations which shall from time to time be made by such watch committee, or by the council of such borough, for the regulation and guidance of such constables or policemen. Power is given to the council to order parts of a borough not within a local Act as to lighting to be included in such Act ; and the council are also authorised to assume the powers of inspectors, under 3 & 4 William IV. c. 90, for lighting any part of the borough. The Act, however, is not to interfere with the regulations for the government, &c., of dockyards, arsenals, &c. It also provided that in every case in which, before the 9th September, 1835, any rate might be levied in any borough, or in any parish or place made part of a borough, by that Act, for the purpose of watching by day or by night conjointly with any other purpose, it should be lawful for the council to levy a watch rate sufficient to raise any sum of money not greater than the average * As to police superannuation and matters incidental thereto, see 22 & 23 Vict., c. 32 (1859), and 28 i: 29 Vict., c. 35 (1865). TIIKTK GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 193 yearly sura which, during the previous seven years (or when any such rate should not have been levied during seven years, then during such less number of years as such rate had been levied), had been expended in the maintenance and establishment of watchmen, constables, patrol, or policemen, within the district in which such rate was levied. It having, however, been found that the amount of watch rate leviable under these powers was in many cases insufficient, the legislature subsequently, by the 2 & 3 Yict. c. 28, empowered the council of every borough named in the schedules of the Municipal Corporations Act to levy a watch rate on " The occupiers of all messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments within those parts of the borough which shall be watched by day and by night, and which from time to time, by any order of the council, shall be declared liable to such watch rate ; and every such rate shall be made upon an estimate of the net annual value of the several hereditaments rated thereto, that is to say, of the rent at which one year with another the same might in their actual state be reasonably expected to let from year to year ; the probable annual average cost of the repairs, insurances, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain the hereditaments in tlieir actual state, and all rates, taxes, and piiblic charges, except tithes or tithe commutation rent charges, if any, being paid by the tenant, and either by one rate made yearly, or by two or more rates made half-yearly, or otherwise." The amount of such watch rate is to be at the discretion of the council, but is not to exceed in any one year the sum of 6d. in the pound. But, by the 3 & 4 Yict. c. 28, it was provided that the Act last quoted should not apply to any borough in which the borough fund was sufficient, with the aid only of the amount of watch rate which could be raised under the Municij^al Corporations Act, and without the aid of any borough rate, to defray the expense of the constabular}' force of the borough, together with all the other expenses legally payable out of the borough fimd by virtue of the said Muni- cijial Corporations Act, or any other Act or Acts of Parliament. There are one or two subsequent enactments relating to the better collecting of watch rated, but they are not of such an important character us to require more than a passing notice. Some important provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act which indirectly apply to the borough police establishments are quoted in the introductions to Sections G and 7 of tliis Part.* The Police Acts passed subsequent to 1835 have always encouraged a consolidation of the police forces of the boroughs with those of the counties in which they are situated. The County Police Act of 1840 (3 & 4 Victoria, c. 88) enables a municipal borough to agree with the county authority for consolidation on tlie terms that the county chief constable shall have the control and dismissal of the borough * See pages 127 and 149. 194 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; police. By the County and Borough Police Act of 1856 (19 & 20 Victoria, c. 69) it is enacted that such an agreement cannot be termi- nated without the consent of the Secretary of State, and that a borough with not more than 5,000 population shall not receive any Treasury subvention unless it has so consolidated ; the terms of consolidation may be imposed on a county by an order in council. The County and Borough Police Act of 1859 (22 & 23 Victoria, c 32) enacts a variety of regulations affecting the internal and external control of the police establishments. The repeated recommendations of the Inspectors of Constabulary in recent years upon the desirability of a much larger measure of consolidation than has taken place under the Acts just mentioned, have been couched in strong and emphatic language, with the result that the new Charters Act (40 & 41 Victoria, c. 69, s. 8) prohibits the establishment in a borough to which a charter is granted under the Act, of " a new separate police not consolidated with the county police, unless the district incorporated by such charter contained not fewer than twenty thousand (20,000) inhabitants, according to the census taken next before the date of such incorporation." Tables 2 and 3 in this Section have been compiled from the latest Reports of the Inspectors of Constabulary and information supplied by the local officials of each city and borough. Table 2. (Part IV. Sec. 8.) — Cities and Boroughs named in Schedules A AND B OF 5 & 6 William IV., c. 76, wtbich Maintain a Separate. Police Establishment in 1879. Explanations. — f Indicates establishments reported inefficient; all others with no Government grant include a population below 5,000. The rule (in any of the Columns) indicates a negative answer. The Petty Offences (Cols. 7 and 8) incliKle every class of offence within the cognizance of individual magistrates or Petty Sessions. Cities AND BOKOUGHS. Total strength of the Police Force, year ending 1878. Cost of the Police Force, year ending 1878. Proportion of the cost of Police borne by Government. Number of indictable offences com- mitted, year ending 1878. 8 offl Number of prosecutions for petty ofCcnieos, year ending 1878. Number of convictions for jietty offences, year ending 1878. Col. 1. Col. 2. Col. 3. £ Col. 4. £ Col. 5. Col. 6. Col. 7. Col. 8. Abingdon 6 514 204 3 5 84 62 Arundel 3 215 Nil 1 2 38 30 Banbuiy 5 492 Nil 11 7 152 124 Barnstaple 12 804 778 20 4 248 199 Basingstoke 7 513 246 6 2 191 149 Bath 86 6,664 3,106 70 56 1,897 1,164 Bedford 18 1,559 698 25 9 307 225 Berwick-on- Tweed 13 1,023 503 86 69 4,037 3,749 Beverley 11 868 427 23 16 359 316 Bewdley 1 112 Nil 3 — 79 59 Bideford 3 147 t Nil — 70 40 THEtR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 195 TABLE 2. (Part IV., Sec. S.)—contimied. Cities AND BoBOUGHS. Total strength of the Police Force, year ending 1878. Cost of the Police Force, yeai- ending 1878. Proportion of the cost of Police borne by Government. a^si^.s Niunber of convictions for l)etty ofTences, year ending 1878. Col. 1. Col. 2. Col. 3. £ 183 Col. 4. £ Nil Col. 5. Col. 0. Col. 7. Col. 8. Bhuulf ord 3 2 2 23 15 Boston 15 1,232 653 24 8 359 314 Brecon 4 454 225 4 5 347 242 Bridgnorth 5 430 203 7 2 197 135 Bridgwater 12 949 470 38 8 357 312 Bristol 374 30,055 13,848 830 132 7,275 5,346 Buckingliiini 4 347 Nil 12 10 37 36 Cambridge 48 4,063 1,978 24 9 325 266 Canterbury 23 1,715 813 10 5 379 300 Cardirt' 90 7,919 3,145 170 66 3,379 2,207 Carlisle 34 3,006 1,403 127 22 1436 1,131 Carmarthen 12 854 436 9 3 289 176 Chard 2 108 Nil 2 — 18 15 Chester 38 3,169 1,477 50 27 2,114 1,613 Chesterfield 16 1,452 679 9 6 455 409 Chichester 8 718 321 14 3 108 79 Chipping Wycombe 4 315 Nil 10 6 38 36 Colchester 30 2,221 1,028 56 31 617 529 Congleton 5 430 t Nil 20 10 172 145 Coventry 40 3,526 1,590 47 24 943 736 Daventry 2 139 Nil — — 63 48 Deal 8 576 244 11 13 219 156 Derby 85 6,358 2,117 134 58 2,361 1,545 Doncaster 20 1,880 906 37 13 062 550 Dorchester 8 616 864 15 7 151 97 Dover 31 2,609 1,187 34 21 548 434 Droitwich 2 178 Nil 3 — 143 76 Durham 16 1,323 660 49 10 700 564 Exeter 62 4,396 1,756 110 27 581 484 Falmouth 3 231 iNii 10 6 228 176 Faversham 8 713 313 7 4 168 139 Folkestone 16 1,260 546 29 13 254 208 Gateshead 65 5,612 2,535 93 20 3,289 2,857 Godahning 3 254 Nil 1 34 22 Grantham 6 513 260 20 9 199 152 Gravesend 28 2,435 1,148 20 15 655 557 Grimsby (Great)... 28 2,310 979 56 31 2,076 1,664 Guildford 12 582 385 16 13 315 232 Hastings 38 3,201 1,509 51 24 546 470 Haverfordwest ... 4 343 iNii 5 2 201 126 Helston 1 125 Nil 31 26 Hereford 30 2,343 1,048 62 21 770 435 Hertford 7 630 277 8 1 217 190 HuU 207 15,726 8,338 282 87 6,102 5,711 Hythe 3 418 Nil 2 — 39 25 Ipswich 43 3,000 1,515 75 43 708 469 Kendal 14 1,148 540 11 7 398 316 Kidderminster . , . 19 1,519 691 32 16 451 357 King's Ljnin 19 1,823 731 17 10 446 341 Lancaster 17 1,465 676 16 7 471 376 o2 196 ENGLISH MUNICIPA], INSTITUTIONS TABLE 2. (Part IV., Sec. 8.)— continued. Cities AND BOEOUGHS. Total strength of the Police Force, year ending 1878. Cost of the Police Force, year ending 1878. Proportion of the cost of Police borne by Government. Number of indictable offences com- mitted, year ending 1878. Number of committals for indictable offences, year ending 1878. Number of prosecutions for petty offences, year ending 1878. Number of convictions for petty offences, year ending 1878. Col. 1. Col. 2. Col. 3. £ 81 Col. 4. £ Nil Col. 5. Col. 6. Col. 7. Col. 8. Launceston 1 36 32 Leeds 356 32,209 13,114 672 289 6,810 5,606 Leicester 120 9,043 4,195 245 99 3,523 2,919 Leominster 8 003 282 11 11 230 154 Lichfield 7 711 266 16 5 452 349 Lincoln 30 2,887 1,229 51 28 895 716 Liverpool 892 82,110 36,723 1,630 818 45,139 34,856 Lonth 9 757 348 15 6 148 128 Ludlow 5 477 198 6 3 269 194 Macclesfield 36 3,084 1,406 51 28 772 540 Maidenhead 6 411 iNil 7 7 139 90 Maidstone 30 2,685 1,221 46 21 475 319 Maldon 5 366 177 1 1 33 28 Monmouth 6 484 249 4 1 241 189 Neath 10 882 441 24 13 358 207 Newark 12 1,103 1,015 12 10 323 270 Newcastle - under - 15 1,128 1,529 28 11 640 571 Lyme Newcastle - upon - 200 20,003 8,126 607 78 9,169 1,650 Tyne Newport (I. of W.) 9 782 261 13 7 334 202 Newport (Mon.)... 50 4,459 1,496 129 33 2,472 1,821 Northampton 52 4,216 1,951 116 83 1,471 1,368 Norwich 90 7,858 3,376 65 54 566 445 Nottingham 188 16,431 4,956 286 55 5,074 3,989 Oxford 37 3,802 1,374 54 25 679 572 Penryn 2 125 Nil 2 2 22 16 Penzance 11 515 jNil 3 3 127 106 Plymouth 86 6,239 2,901 57 9 971 797 Pontefract 8 833 380 12 6 509 430 Poole 14 1,102 472 13 12 323 259 Portsmouth 130 10,307 4,482 188 95 1,777 1,396 Preston 90 7,732 3,643 279 135 2,555 2,019 Pwllheli 1 83 Nil — — 50 49 Reading 40 3,380 1,550 33 9 693 511 Richmond (Yorks.) 2 207 iNii 4 3 124 105 Ripon 4 380 iNil 9 2 252 165 Rochester 28 2,301 1,041 23 21 415 333 Rye 2 147 Nil 1 1 74 60 St. Albans 8 736 333 14 7 132 108 St. Ives (Cornwall) 1 68 iNil — — 84 60 Salisbury 13 1,125 500 7 7 251 200 Sandwich 1 58 Nil 7 7 77 73 Scarborough 30 2,815 1,215 71 27 1,207 804 Shrewsbury 25 2,022 923 73 5 748 626 Southampton 64 4,575 2,348 58 45 1,648 953 Southwold 1 63 Nil 2 5 28 20 Stamford 9 774 346 — — — — Stockport 53 4,537 2,188 216 61 2,647 2,325 Stratford-upon- 4 420 Nil 6 5 71 47 Avon THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 197 TABLE 2. (Part IV., Sec. 8.}— continued. CiTIBS AND BoBouaHs. al strength the Police Dree, year ding 1878. Dst of the lice Force, ar ending 1878. portion of le cost of :c borne by vernment. Hilt " 2 S -s"^ s 5 S tT V llpl L'£ Sx ^ CP z^ ° X i a £1^ «-"«§§ ^ri3 ^1 tog ■^ o o — Col. 1. Col. 2. Col. 3. £ 580 Col. 4. £ 283 Col. 5. Col. 0. Col. 7. Col. 8. Sudbury 7 1 1 31 24 Sunderlaiul 110 9,200 4,588 194 87 3,982 3,114 Swansea G4 7,21G 2,749 164 47 2,253 1,448 Tenby 4 290 Nil 2 — 129 91 Tenterden 4 256 Nil — 36 30 Tiverton 7 478 iNil 2 2 134 106 Torrington (Great) 2 101 Nil 1 3 8 5 Totnea 3 185 Nil — — 56 47 Truro 12 424 t Nil 8 3 110 90 WalsaU 49 3,983 1,676 52 21 1,703 1,035 Weymouth and 16 1,532 591 18 9 464 353 Melcombo Regis Wigan 49 4,397 1,933 139 69 2,167 1,793 Winchester 17 1,182 626 20 6 403 258 Windsor 18 1,721 639 18 18 335 267 Wisbech 11 1,006 396 13 10 262 110 Worcester 33 1,519 1,343 51 29 1,085 750 Yarmouth (Great) 43 3,343 1,657 65 39 1,526 1,184 York 49 4,679 1,961 60 19 1,269 1,082 Totals 5,03G 427,991 188,153 8,894 3,543 160,342 119,426 Table 3. (Part IV., Sec. 8.) — Cities and Boroughs incorporated since the PASSING OF 5 cfe 6 William IV., c. 76, which Maintain a Separate Police Establishment in 1879. 1 .d .. 1 . \ ^ !>» _ 1 1 <- tH 1 I, 1 t. .. I Cities AND BOBOUGHS. Total strengt of the Police Force, year ending 1878. Cost of the Police Force 3'ear ending 1878. Proportion o the cost of Police borne b Government Number of indictable offences com mitted, yeai- eudine- 1878. Number of committals fc indictable offences, yea ending 1878. Number of jirosecutions for petty offences, yea ending 1878. Number of (vjnvictions fc I ictty offences jear ending 1878. Col. 1. Col. 2. Col. 3. £ 2,887 Col. 4. £ 1,428 Col. 5. Col. 6. Col. 7. Col. 8. Ashton- under- 34 69 24 1,193 1,103 Lyno Birkenhead 111 11,978 2,935 293 62 4,148 3,367 Birmingham 520 41,085 19,400 1,746 349 16,552 12,736 Blackburn 89 8,070 3,455 208 117 4,681 2,825 Bolton 113 8,627 4,368 154 108 3,949 3,205 Bradford (Yorks.) 220 18,975 7,811 145 56 4,620 2,928 Brighton ... 142 11,555 4,995 99 52 1,471 1,347 Devonport 50 3,551 1,723 25 7 728 652 Dewsbury 25 2,229 993 20 14 1,391 1,277 Dunstable 3 244 Nil 13 8 77 48 Glossop 17 1,488 633 6 5 408 380 Halifax 70 5,847 2,760 98 67 2,091 1,805 198 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; TABLE 3. (Pakt IV., Sec. 8.)- - continued. Cities AND BOEOUGHS. Total strength of the Police Force, year ending 1878. Cost of the Police Force, year ending 1878. Proportion of the cost of Police borne by Govei'nment. Number of indictable offences com- mitted, year ending 1878. Number of committals for indictable offences, year ending 1878. Number of prosecutions for petty offences, year ending 1878. Number of convictions for petty offences, year ending 1878. Col. 1. Col. 2. Col. 3. £ 3,791 Col. 4. £ 1,529 Col. 5. Col. 6. Col. 7. Col. 8. Hanley 39 120 35 1,533 1,202 Hartlepool 14 1,198 565 23 5 621 528 Huddersfield 81 7,695 3,103 88 39 2,571 2,123 Leamington 25 2,369 1,148 15 13 312 272 Luton 22 2,122 891 18 14 487 447 Manchester 795 69,313 32,097 4,625 596 23,735 19,959 Margate ... 19 1,496 681 12 6 287 221 Middlesborougli ... 52 5,503 2,399 78 51 1,943 1,826 Oldham ... 88 7,642 3,527 228 87 2,641 2,038 Peterborough 18 1,712 1,359 18 6 285 239 Reigate ... 20 1,768 758 14 8 236 189 Rochdale ... 63 5,476 2,697 141 35 2,168 1,631 Rvde 13 1,075 473 6 5 267 209 Salford 281 26,450 9,771 653 156 6,807 5,577 Sheffield 320 27,718 12,231 623 220 6,251 5,339 Southport... 28 2,791 1,127 70 25 857 693 South Shields ... 53 4,652 2,112 268 39 3,152 2,843 Stalyb ridge 21 1,792 837 47 26 723 577 Tynemouth 48 4,018 1,992 68 15 2,700 2,130 Wakefield 37 3,397 1,481 96 58 1,470 1,160 Warrington 36 3,116 1,317 86 33 2,022 1,428 Wolverhampton . . . 73 6,239 2,911 170 43 3,386 2,316 Totals 3,540 307,869 135,507 10,343 2,384 105,763 84,620 Grand Totals 8,576 735,860 323,660 19,237 5,927 266,105 204,046 (Tables 2 and 3) SUMMARY AND COMPARISONS, Tables 2 and 3. — (161 cities and boroughs) Proportionate individual cost of the police establishments in 1878 {omitting fractions in each case) ... ... ... £85. 16s. Id. per each officer. Proportionate cost borne by Grovern- ment in 1878 ... ... ... £37. 14s. 9fd. per each officer. Proportion of the estimated popula- tion to each constable in 1878 ... 950 Proportion of committals for indict- able offences to the estimated popu- lation in 1878 ... ... 1 committal to every 1375 persons. Proportion of convictions for petty offences to the estimated popu- lation for 1878 (approximately j.e. 1 conviction to every 40 persons. their growth and devklopment. 199 (9) The Corporate Hevenue, Expenditure, Indebtedness, and Rateable Value. The Municipal Commissioners reported, in 1835, upon the subject of Municipal Finances, that many of the Corporations possessed considerable revenues, derived from various sources ; from lands, leases of tithes, and other property ; from tolls of markets and fairs ; from duties or tolls imposed on the import or export of goods and merchandise ; from quay and anchorage dues, &c. ; and from fees payable on the admission of officers and burgesses, as well as from fines imposed on persons refusing to perform the duties of corporate offices. The application of the corporate revenues under the old adminis- tration was found, in a majority of cases, to be but little actuated by a concern for public requirements or advantages. In numerous instances ■ the corporate income was secretly diverted from its legitimate use and wastefully bestowed for the benefit of individuals ; sometimes it was openly squandered for purposes injurious to the character and morals of the people. In the 64th paragraph of their report, the Commissi'iners observed that — " In many of the Curporations the revenues are sufficient for the maintenance of all necessary municipal institutions. In many, although amply sufficient for supporting the various purposes for which municipalities were instituted, they are but partijJly applied to them. In most, however, the revenues would be inadequate to these purposes, though they should be entirely expended upon them. In sever;il boroughs a rate is levied upon the inhabitants in the nature of a county rate. There are many instances among the boroughs returning members to Parliament, in which the revenues are inadequate to the wants of the munici- pality, and in which the deficiency has been siip plied either from the funds of the patron, or by the members for the borough. In some, before the passing of the Reform Act (1832), the members for the borough or the patron paid :ill the municipal expenses. Since that epoch these contributions have ceased, and such corporations have no longer the means of maintaining municipal institutions of any kind." The "common " or "pastui'e" rights of the freemen of many of the corporate towns were of the most extensive character. Some- times the land was farmed out and the profits divided amongst the freemen ; at Berwick-upon-Tweed the freemen administered their own proprietary aft'airs, and the value of their profits amounted to nearly £6,000 per annum. The Table at pages 49 and 50 shows the nature of the proprietary rights of the burgesses in several of the cities and boroughs now amenable to the Municipal Corporations Act. In not a few cases the governing bodies were the uncontrolled trustees of property vested in them for exclusively charitable j urposes ; sometimes estates were held upon the responsibility of maintaining public works and supporting specific objects for the welfare of the 200 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; burgesses. But it cannot be said that the last-named obligations were very often acknowledged. Upon these points the Commis- sioners remarked : — " Some corporations consider that their property has been vested in them, solely as trustees for the public ; but in most cases this truth is acknowledged only when forced on their attention, is received with difficulty and qualification, and is continually forgotten. Few corporations admit any positive obligation to expend the surplus of their income for objects of public advantage. Such expenditure is regarded as a spontaneous act of private generosity, rather than a well-considered application of the public revenue. * * * From this erroneous but strongly rooted opinion that the property of the corporation is held in trust for the benefit of the corporate body only, distinguishing that body from the community with which it is locally connected, the transition is not difficult to the opinion that indi\ddual corporations may justifiably derive a personal benefit from that property. At Cambridge, the practice of turning the corporation property to the profit of individuals, was avowed and defended by a member of the council." The indebtedness of many of the corporations was extremely heav}'', and generally brought about by negligent and questionable management. The patrons of the small and " close " boroughs fre- quently held mortgages of the whole of the corporate property as security for monetary advances ; and in many places such a large proportion of the revenue was absorbed by way of interest, that the corporation had to declare itself absolutely insolvent. With such ideas as these in the ascendant, combined with a reckless extravagance of outlay in every branch of the corporate service, it is not to be wondered at that the local taxation, by which the permanent income was supplemented, was widely felt to be an intolerable and unjust burden. The main provision relating to Municipal Finance in the Municipal Corporations Act is contained in the 92nd section, which in substance enacts that the rents and profits of all hereditaments, and the interest, dividends, and annual proceeds of all moneys, dues, chattels, and valuable securities, belonging or payable to any body corporate named in conjunction with the boroughs in the schedule to the Act, or to any member or officer thereof in his corporate capacity, and every fine or penalty for every offence against the Act (the applica- tion of which is not otherwise provided for) shall be paid to the treasurer of such borough. All the moneys which he so receives are to be by him carried to the account of a fund to be called " The Borough Fund," and such fund — subject to the payment of any lawful debt due from such body corporate to any person, which shall have been contracted before 9th September, 1835, and unredeemed, or of so much thereof as the council from time to time shall be required, or shall deem it expedient to redeem ; and to the payment, THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 201 from time to time, of the interest of so much thereof as shall remain unredeemed ; and saving all rights, interests, claims, or demands of all persons or bodies corporate in or upon the real or personal estate of any body corporate, by virtue of any pro- ceedings either at law or in equity which have been already instituted or which may be hereafter instituted, or by virtue of any mortgage or otherwise — shall be applied towards the payment of the salary of the mayor, of the recorder, and of the police magistrate (when there is a recorder or police magistrate), and of the respective salaries of the town clerk and treasurer, and of every other officer whom the council shall appoint ; and also towards the payment of the expenses incurred from time to time in preparing and printing burgess lists, and lists, and notices, and other matters attending such elections as are mentioned in the Act; and in boroughs which have a separate court of sessions of the peace, towards the prosecution of offenders, towards the expense of main- taining the, borough gaol, house of correction, and corporate buildings, and of all other expenses not specially provided for, which are necessarily incurred in carrying into effect the provisions of the Act. The corporate property being thus charged with all expenses of carrying into effect the Municipal Corporations Act, two cases immediately arise — Jird, where there is a surplus in the borough fund, after all the ordinary payments of salaries and other fixed burthens upon the fund have been met; and second, where the amount of the borough fund is not adequate to the claims upon it. Now : — 1. In the first place, it is provided that in case the borough fund be more than sufficient for the purposes above mentioned, the surplus is to be applied, under the direction of the council, for the i)i^ihlic benefit of the inhabitants and improvement of the borough. It has been held, for instance, that the council may devote this surplus to the defence of proceedings on informations, having for their object the destruction of the corporation, although they may be directed against individuals. But it must clearly appear to the Court that the money has been applied for public purposes ;* therefore the surplus cannot be applied to defend a quo u-arranfo information against an individual whose own interests only were concerned ; nor * Section 44 of 7 Will. IV. and 1 Vict. c. 78 enacts that any order of the council of any borough for the payment of money out of tiie Borough Fund may be remove into the Court of Queen's Bench by writ of certiorari, and may then be disidlowed or confirmed by the Court. The Court, however, is not obliged under the section to disallow payments actually made, even although the charges be so far irregular that payment could not have been enforced. 202 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS; can the surplus be properly applied in defending a criminal informa- tion against a person for misdemeanours in his office of alderman ; for it can never be the interest of the borough that a person who has committed a delinquency should not be punished, Nor will one party in the corporation be permitted to fight the other by means of legal proceedings defrayed with the corporation money. And the public purposes to which the surplus may be applied are those of the borough and not of the public at large. Several Acts have specified objects on which it may be expended. As to the establish- ment in boroughs of baths and washhouses, see 9 & 10 Yict. c. 74, and 41 & 42 Vict. c. 14; as to lunatic asylums for boroughs, see 16 & 17 Yict. c. 97; as to the establishment of libraries and museums, see 18 & 19 Yict. c. 70 ; of institutions for the promotion of literature, science, and the fine arts, see 17 & 18 Yict. c. 112 ; and as to the adoption and repair of highways by the council, see 25 & 26 Yict. c. 61.t 2. If the borough fund be not sufficient for the purposes to which it is primarily applicable, then the corporation are authorised and required from time to time to estimate as correctly as may be what amount in addition to such fund will be sufficient for the payment of the expenses to be incurred in carrying into efi^ect the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act ; and in order to raise the amount so estimated, the council is authorised and required from time to time to levy a borough rate within the borough. For this purpose they are invested with all the powers, so far as they are applicable, given to the justices at quarter sessions by the 55 Geo. III. c. 51, with respect to the county rate. All warrants required by that Act to be issued under the hands and seals of two or more justices, are in the case of the borough rate to be signed by the mayor and sealed with the common seal. An appeal against the rate lies to the recorder sitting in quarter sessions. The council being thus authorised to levy a borough rate in order to meet any deficiency of the borough fund, it is no excuse for the non-payment of a debt justly chargeable on that fund that it will not suffice to pay the amount without a borough rate. But in general a borough rate will be bad if it be retrospective, as in that case succeeding inhabitants would have to pay for services, &c., of which their predecessors had enjoyed the whole benefit. The treasurer of every corporation is to keep a true account of all sums of money received and paid ; and the books containing such t See also page 14 for enumeration of other objects of public utility, &c., upon which a corporation may expend. THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 203 accounts are at all times to be open to the inspection of any of the alucrmeu or councillors of such borough ; and all the vouchers relating thereto are, in the months of March and September in every year, to be submitted by the treasurer of the borough to the auditors elected by the burgesses, and to such member of the council as the mayor may name, for the purpose of being examined and audited for the previous half year. If the accounts are found correct, the auditors arc to sign them. And after the September audit the treasurer is to make out in writing and cause to be printed a full abstract of his accounts for the year. A copy of this document is to be open to the inspection of all ratepayers of the borough, to whom also copies are to be supplied on payment of a reasonable price. "With respect to the real property of the corporation, it is provided by s. 94 of the Act, that except in the cases thereinafter mentioned, or in pursuance of contracts entered into before June 5, 1835, it shall not be lawful for the council of a borough to sell or mortgage their lands and hereditaments, or to lease them for any longer term than thirty-one years. In every lease granted by the corporation there shall, moreover (except as hereinafter mentioned), be reserved and made payable during the whole of the term granted such clear yearly rent as to the council may appear reasonable, without taking any fine for the same. As, however, it may sometimes be expedient that the stringency of these restrictions should be relaxed, the council are in such cases authorised to apply to the Lords of the Treasury, who will consider the circumstances ; and with their approbation, or with the approbation of any three of them, * it will be lawful for the corpo- ration to sell, alienate, and demise [or to ' mortgage,' vide 6 & 7 Will. IV. c. 104, s. 2] any of their lands, tenements, and hereditaments in such a manner and on such terms as have been approved by the said lords commissioners. Before, however, any application is made to the Treasury, notice of the intention of the council to make such application must be fixed to the outer door of the town hall, or in some public and conspicuous place within the borough, one calendar month at least before such application. A copy of the memorial intended to be sent to the Treasury must also be kept in the town clerk's office during such calendar month, and must be open to the inspection of every burgess at all reasonable hours during that time. There are, however, two cases in which a corporation may, without * The consent or approval of the Lords of the Treasury is sufficiently signified by a letter from their secretary. They can £;ive no consent to any alienation or change of the corporate property further than such as is specified in the memorial presented to them. 204 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS. the previous consent of the Lords of the Treasury, grant leases for other or longer terms than thirty-one years. In all cases in which, before the passing of the Municipal Corpo- rations Act, it had been the ancient custom of the corporation to grant and renew leases for lives or for years determinable on lives, &c,, at a fine certain, or under any special or specific terms or con- ditions, &c,, it is still lawful for the council to renew such leases on the terms on which they were held before. It is also lawful for the corporation to lease for any term not exceeding twenty-five years [' either at a reserved rent or fine or both, as the council shall think fit,' ride 6 & 7 "Will. lY. c. 104, s. 2] tenements or hereditaments, the greater part of the yearly value of which consists of any building or buildings, or land or ground proper for the erection of any houses or other buildings, and where the lessee covenants or agrees to erect a building or buildings thereon of greater yearly value than such land or ground, or of land or ground proper for gardens, yards, curtilages, or other appurtenances to be used with any other house or other building erected or to be erected on any such ground, belonging either to such body corporate or to any other proprietor, or proper for any other purpose calculated to afibrd convenience or accommodation to the occupiers of such house or building. It only remains to notice one other provision which afiected the corporate property at the time the Act was passed. Municipal Corporations were then extensive holders of ecclesiastical patronage. It was, however, thought very desirable that this should not continue to be the case, and it was accordingly enacted that in cases where corporate bodies were seized in their corporate capacity and not as charitable trustees of any advowson, or right of nomination or presentation to any benefice, either appendant or in gross, every such advowson and right of presentation should be sold at such time and in such manner as the Ecclesiastical Commissioners might direct, and that the proceeds of such sale should be paid to the treasurer of the borough, and should be by him invested in Government securities for the use of the body corporate, the annual interest payable thereon being carried to the account of the borough fund, f The annexed Table shews, in alphabetical order of subjects, the various purposes for which a Municipal Corporation is empowered to borrow money under public general Acts, but ver}' large powers of borrowing have from time to time been authorised by Parliament for special and pressing reasons by means of local Acts. t The 6 & 7 Will. 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IV. c. 104, intituled " An Act for the better Administration of the Borough Fund in certain Boroughs," enabled councils to give new securities for debts contracted before the passing of the Municipal Corporations Act; extended the power of the council in granting building leases, or (with the consent of the Lords of the Treasury) in mortgaging their real estate, in the manner we have indicated ; gave the mayor power to issue distress warrants for the levy of borough and watch rates ; enabled any person elected to a corporate office to resign the same on payment of the fine which he would have been liable to pay for non-acceptance of the same office, with a proviso that no person enabled by law to make an affirmation instead of taking an oath should be liable to any fine for non- acceptance of office in any borough by reason of his refusal on conscientious grounds to take any oath or make any declaration required by the said Act, or to take upon himself the duties of such office ; and directed that the accounts of corporations should be annually transmitted to one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of state, before the 1st of March in each year,* and that abstracts of these should be laid before Parliament. The Act 7 Will. IV. & 1 Victoria, c. 81, intituled " An Act to provide for the levying of Hates in Boroughs and Towns having Municipal Corporations in England and Wales," has its effect clearly and succinctly explained in the following notef : — " This Act was passed in consequence of the Municipal Corporations Act, 5 & 6 Will. IV. cap. 76, having omitted (in s. 92) to extend to borough rates some of the provisions of the 55 Geo. III. cap. 51, respecting county rates. By the twelfth section of this last-mentioned Act (now repealed by 15 and 16 Vict. cap. 81), three distinct powers were given. First, the power in the justices in sessions to make the rate, and to issue warrants for its collection by the high constable ; secondly, the power given to the justices out of sessions to issue a warrant for the levy of the rate upon the goods of any overseer, &c., refusing to pay the assessment to the high constable ; and, thirdly, the power to the overseers, or persons appointed to act as such, to levy by rate the sums assessed, or to reimburse themselves by a special rate such sums as they shall have paid on account of the county rate. But the ninety-second section of the Municipal Corpo- rations Act, though it gives the same powers to the council to make * See also 2.3 & 24 Vict., c. 51 ; 34 & 35 Vict., c. 70 ; and 40 & 41 Vict., c. 66. The last-named Act directs that the annual abstract of accounts shall be mnde up to the 25th March in each year, with power to the Local Government Board to temporarily vary the date. t See " Rawlin son's Municipal Corporations Act" (Welsby). THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 207 the rate, and confers upon the mayor the power of levying by distress the assessment upon the overseers and other collectors of rates, makes no express provision authorising the overseers of the poor to pay such assessment out of the poor rates, or to make any special rate to reim- burse themselves the amount paid over to the borough rate; and doubts having arisen whether, in the absence of such express provision, the overseers would be justified in so applying the rates in their hands, or in levying a special rate to reimburse themselves according to the provisions of the County Rate Act, this statute was passed, the first section of which authorised the council to order the overseers to pay the assessment of the borough rate out of the poor rate, or to make and collect a pound rate for the purpose. And then, inasmuch as this provision would not apply to extra-parochial places, or to parishes and townsh.i])s parti// u'i thin and partly without the horough, the third section expressly provided for such cases, and thus the borough rate and county rate appeared to be placed on the same footing in respect of extra-parochial places and divided parishes. However, the case of divided parishes and places is now further provided for by the 12 and 13 Yict. cap. 65, by the Gth section of which so much of this Act as applies to the making, levying, and collecting the county and borough rates in divided parishes and places, is repealed except as to rates theretofore made." The Act 4 & 5 "Victoria, c. 48, rendered lands, tenements, and hereditaments, the property of, and in the occupation of municipal corporations, rateable to the relief of the poor in the same way as if they were not corporate property ; providing, however, that when such property lies in any parish which is situate wholly within the boundaries and limits of a city or borough, and in which city or borough the poor are relieved by one entire poor rate, or in which city or borough the poor within the boundaries or limits thereof as existing for municipal purposes at the time of the passing of the Municipal Corporations Act (1835) were then relieved by one entire poor rate, the exemption of such property from rateability should continue as if this Act had not passed. Municipal corporations are to be deemed the beneficial occupiers for rating purposes of all lands, «Jcc., which they occupy. The Act 8 & 9 Victoria, c. 110, which is intituled " An Act for the better collecting Borough "Watch Rates in certain Places," it is provided that in every case in which any parish or place liable to support its own poor lies partly within and partly without any borough, and the council of such borough have appointed, or here- after shall appoint, one or more persons to act as overseer or overseers 208 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; within that part of such parish or place, or those parts of such parishes or places, which is or are within the same borough, for making, levying, and collecting borough rates or watch rates, made or hereafter to be made therein, the person or persons so appointed ma}'^ levy and raise by an equal rate of assessment upon all the pro- perty within each of the parts of parishes or places for which he or they shall be so appointed, which if such part were a parish main- taining its own poor would be rateable to the relief of the poor, such sums of money as are required in order to raise the several sums assessed upon such parts of parishes or places respectively, or to reimburse such person or persons as aforesaid such sums of money as he ov they shall have paid for any borough or watch rate made by the council of the borough wherein such part of a parish or place shall be situate. The several clauses of the Act point out the way in which this is to be done, and the mode in which such district rates are to be levied. Further provisions in reference to the same subject are also contained in the 12 and 13 Vict. c. 65. The Act 23 & 24 Victoria, c. 16, gives the Treasury power in approving mortgages by municipal corporations to require that the money borrowed be repaid within a limited time by instalments, by a sinking fund, or by both means. When money paid into the Bank of England or Ireland, under any Act of Parliament, for the purchase of lands, &c., of the municipal corporation is paid out, the Treasury may require provision to be made for replacing the amount ; but this does not apply to cases in which provision is made in any local Act for the application of such money. The Treasury, when they authorise the sale of any land belonging to a municipal corporation, may direct the investment of the proceeds, and may afterwards authorise the application of such investments for the benefit of the borough. Town councils are authorised to acquire land with the consent of the Treasury, The council of any borough is authorised to submit a scheme to the Treasury for the payment of the borough mortgage debt, and the Treasury is empowered to sanction its being carried out. The Act contains some other provisions, but those we have given are the most important. The Act 32 & 33 Victoria, c. 81, amends the law with respect to the rating of occupiers for short terms, and the making and collecting of the poor's rate. Although its provisions with respect to the composition by owners for tenants' rates, and the retention of the franchise by the occupier notwithstanding such composition, apply to the municipal as well as the parliamentary suffrage, the measure forms part rather, on the one hand, of the general electoral THEIR GROWTH ANIJ DEVELOPMENT. 209 law, and on the other of the general poor law of the country than specifically of the law relating to municipal corporations. The Act 35 & 36 Victoria, c. 01, better known as the Borough Funds Act, is an important one. After reciting that it is expedient to extend the powers of governing bodies of boroughs, including municipal corporations, so as to enable them to employ the borough or other funds under the control of such governing body towards such costs, charges and expenses as may be incurred for the purposes and in the manner afterwards provided, it enacts by the second section that * When in tlie judgment of a governing body in any district it is expedient for such gQverning body to promote or oppose any local and personal Bill or Bills in Parliament, or to prosecute or defend any legal proceedings necessary for the promotion or protection of the interests of the inhabitants of the district, it shall be lawful for such governing body to apply to the borough fund, borough rate, or other the public funds or rates under the control of such governing body to the payment of the costs and expenses attending the same ; and when there are several funds or rates under the control of the governing body, such governing body shall determine out of which fund or funds, rate or rates, such expense shall be payable, and in what proportions : Provided that nothing in this Act contained shall authorise any governing body to promote any Bill in Parliament for the establishment of any gas or water works to compete with any existing gas or water company established under any Act of Parliament : Provided that no powers contained in this clause shall apply in any case where the promotion of or opposition to a Bill by a governing body has been decided by a Committee of either Houses of Parliament to be unreasonable or vexatious. By s. 3 no payment to any member of a governing body for acting as council or agent in promoting or opposing any such bill is to be charged as aforesaid ; while it is provided by s. 4 that no expense in relation to promoting or opposing any Bill or Bills in Parliament is to be charged as aforesaid, unless incurred in pursuance of a resolution of an absolute majority of the whole number of the governuig body at a meeting of the governing body, after ten clear days' notice by public advertise- ment of such meeting, and of the purpose thereof, in some local newspaper published or circulating in the district, such notice to be in addition to the ordinary notices required for summoning such meeting, nor unless such resolution has been published twice in some newspaper or newspapers circulating in the district, and has received, in respect of matters within the jurisdiction of the Local Government Board, the approval of such board, and in respect of other matters, p 210 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS; the approval of one of Her Majesty's secretaries of state, and in case of the promotion of a Bill in Parliament, no further expense shall be incurred or charged as aforesaid after the deposit of the Bill, unless the propriety of such promotion is confirmed by such absolute majority at a further special meeting to be held in pursuance of a similar notice not less than fourteen days after the deposit of the Bill in Parliament : Provided further, that no expense in promoting or opposing any Bill in Parliament to be charged as aforesaid unless such promotion or opposition has had the consent of the owners and ratepayers of that district, expressed by resolution in the manner provided in the Local Government Act (1858) for the adoption of that Act. Then, passing over two intermediate clauses, s. 7 empowers the Local Government Board, or one of Her Majesty's principal secretaries of state, to direct a local inquiry to be held upon any application under this Act, by any person or persons whom they may respectively nominate for the purpose, and to charge the costs and expenses of such local enquiry upon the governing body, or the person by whom such application shall be made. The preceding abstracts are, however, far from exhausting the provisions of the law in its relation to the financial powers of municipal corporations. As authorities charged with the promotion of sanitary and public works, and other objects of a comprehensive character, they are endowed with numerous facilities for the pro- curation and disbursement of vast funds; but the references in Table 1 of this Section, and the Introduction and Tables of the succeeding Section, aiford additional information upon this topic. 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There can be no more striking proof of the extent to which the unreformed corporations evaded one of the foremost duties associated with the principles of municipal organization, than the disproportion between the corporate expenditure upon sanitary and public works, and the amounts levied and expended under the vast number of local Acts which came into operation as a consequence of the alienation of the self-elected councils from their fellow-citizens. The approxi- mate annual corporate expenditure upon works of paving, lighting, cleansing, &c. was reported in 1835, to be £38,319 ;* the approximate annual sum, levied by Commissioners under local Acts, was stated at £142,594. The annexed Table shows the course and application of these local Acts to the date of the passing of the 5 & 6 William IV., c. 76 : — Table 1 (Part IV., Sec. 10.) Rbigxs iif WHICH Local Acts wkeb gbantbd. Number of Boroughs which obtained Local Acts. Number of Local Acts obtained. Edward III Richard II Henry V. Henry VI. Henry VII Henry VIII Elizabeth Charles II William and Mary William III Anne George I. George II. George III George IV. William IV 1 1 1 3 4 t f) 4 3 10 9 10 31 119 81 18 1 1 1 4 3 18 12 6 4 7 10 15 46 401 154 26 Totals ... ... 311 700 * Many of the still unreformed boroughs were included in this approximation. 222 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; The 75th section of the Municipal Corporations Act enacted, that the " Trustees appointed under sundry Acts of Parliament for paving, lighting, cleansing, watching, regulating, supplying with water and improving " the whole or certain parts of the boroughs named in its schedules, which possessed local Acts for sanitary purposes " may, if it shall seem to them expedient," transfer their powers to the remodelled corporations. For a long time after the passing of the Act the instances of these transfers were very few, but at the present moment the sanitary authority is administered by a body independent of the Town Council in only fourteen* of the 240 cities and boroughs governed under it; in some of these places peculiar circumstances have operated to prevent the corporation assuming the sanitary jurisdiction. The New Charters' Act (1877) enacts, by section 7, that a "scheme" for incorporating a district shall, in every case, provide for placing the new borough within the jurisdiction of the Council as the sanitary authority. An exhaustive abstract of the miscellaneous Acts of Parliament,! which affect municipal corporations as sanitary and educational authorities, will hardly be looked for here. To give portions of the Acts might be misleading rather than useful, and to insert them in their entirety would be an undue encumbrance on our space. The annexed analysis sets out in a comprehensive form the subjects arising under them, and the necessary particulars for facilitating reference. l._POWEES AND DUTIES FOR SANITARY PURPOSES. (a) Sewage, Privies, Hcavetujing, Nuisances. Providing and regulation of sewers and drains Use of sewers by manufacturers... Disposal of sewage Sewage works without district ... Enforcement of privy accommodation ... Public necessaries in urban disti'icts ... Cleansing streets and houses Cleansing ditches and removal of manure Delinitiou of nuisances ... Procedure for abatement of nuisances . . . Jurisdiction as to nuisances on ships ... Proceedings in case of joint nuisance ... Other I'emedies not affected 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55, ss. 13-26 39 and 40 Vict. 38 and 39 Vict. 38 and 39 Vict. 32-34 38 and 39 Vict. 38 and 39 Vict. 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55', ss. 42-47 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55, ss. 48-50 38 and 39 Vict. c. 10, s. ( c. 55, ss. 27-31 c. 55, ss. 16, 28, c. 55, ss. 35-41 c. 55, s. 39 c. 00, s 91 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55, ss. 92-109 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55, s. 110 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55, 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55, 110 255 111 * Banbury, Blandford, Calne, Cambridge, Chippeuham, Faversham, Folkestone, Launceston, Lyme Regis, Lymingtou, Morpeth, Oxford, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Wenlock. t See page 1 4 and the Appendix. THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 223 1, — Powers and Duties for Sanitary Purposes — continued. (a) Smxifje, dx. — continued. Olfonsive triidos in urban districts Seizure of unsound food exposed for sale Sanitary regulations as to factories and workshops Provisions of Public Health Act to extend to all buildings -where persons em- ployed, wliatever their number (6) Water. Powers for supply of water Power to invest urban authority with powers of rural authority Pollution of stream or well (c) Cellar .Dwelliiujs and Lodijliuj -houses. Occupation of cellar dwellings ... Commou lodging-houses, registration, re- gulation, and inspection of Houses (not common lodging-houses) let in lodgings (d) Infectious Disease, Uospitals, Mortuaries. Provisions against infection generally ... „ „ „ in lodging-houses „ „ „ in canal boats ... Prevention of epidemic disease ... Providing hospitals and medicine Removjil of infected persons to hospital Providing mortuaries and places for post- mortem examinations Returns to authorities as to deaths 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55, ss. 112-115 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55, ss. 110-119 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55, s. 38 ; 39 and 40 Vict. c. 75, s. 7 ; and 41 and 42 Vict. c. 16 gener- aUy 41 and 42 Vict. c. IG, s. 101 ; See also 41 and 42 Vict. c. 74, ss. 7-53 ; and 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55, 88. 91-92 38 and 39 Vict .c. 55, ss. 51-07 ; 41 and 42 Vict. c. 25, ss. 8, 10 41 and 42 Vict. c. 25, s. 11 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55, ss. 08-70 ; 39 and 40 Vict. c. 75. See also 10 and 11 Vict. c. 15, ss. 21-23; 10 and 11 Vict. c. 17, ss. 61-07 ; and 10 and 1 L Vict. c. 05, ss. 20-22 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55, ss. 71-75 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55, ss. 76-89 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55, s. 90 and ss. 10, 91, 97, 109, 128, 129, 157. See also 40 and 41 Vict. c. 00, ss. 4-5 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55, ss. 120-130 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55, ss. 80, 84, 80,90 40 and 41 Vict. c. 6i\ ss. 4-5 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55, ss. 134-140 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55, ss. 131-133 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55, ss. 123-125 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55, ss. 141- 143. See also 15 and 16 Vict. c. 85, ss. 42, 44 ; and 18 and 19 Vict. c. 128, ss. 6, 8 37 and 38 Vict. c. 88, s. 28 2.— CONSTITUTION OF THE DISTRICTS, «feo. (c() Constitution and General Provisions. Constitution of districts and authorities Powers and duties i>f urban authorities Vesting of property in authorities Combination for preventit.)n of epidemics ,, for execution of works 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55, ss. 5-9. See also 40 and 41 Vict. c. 69, s. 7 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55, s. 10 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55, s. 12 j 38 and 39 Vict. c. 55, s. 139 ! 38 and 39 Vict. o. 55, s. 285 224 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS ; 2. — Constitution of the Districts, &c. — continued. (a) Constitution, Sc. — continued. Combination for appointment of medical officer of liealth Union of districts under joint board Formation of special drainage districts... Transfer of powers of improvement com- missioners and local boards to councils of boroughs in districts constituted municipal boroughs Transfer to local authorities under Public Health Act of powers of trustees under local Acts Contracts by authorities ... Purchase of lands, and power to let lands Arbitration in disputes ... 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Tables 2 and 3. — Cities and Boroughs, in which the Town Council is the Urban Sanitary Authority ... ... 22G Cities and Boroughs in which the Town Council is the Port Sanitary Authority ... ... ... ... ... 28 Cities and Boroughs in which the Urban Sanitary Authority, the supply of Gas, the supply of Water, and the Burial Board is wholly vested in the Town Council ... ... 24 Cities and Boroughs in which the Town Council control the supply of Gas ... ... ... ... ... ... 56 Cities and Boroughs in which the Town Council control the supply of Water ... ... .., ... ... ... 113 Cities and Boroughs in which the Town Council act as the Burial Board ... ... ... ... ... ... 65 Cities and Boroughs with a School Board ... ... ... 129 Cities and Boroughs with a School Attendance Committee ... Ill Excess of the Sanitary Authority Income for Public Health purposes in the year ending 1878 over the In- come raised under local Acts in 1834 ... ... £14,169,666 Total Income of the 240 Cities and Boroughs, as Corpor- ate and Sanitary Authorities, for the year ending 1878 £18,143,070 Total Expenditure of the 240 Cities and Boroughs, as Cor- porate & Sanitary Authorities, for the year ending 1878 £ 17,263,178 Total Indebtedness of the 240 Cities and Boroughs, as Cor- porate & Sanitary Authorities, for the year ending 1878 £44,419,350 PAET V. The Unreformed Corporations. The Table in this Part contains the names of all those corporations or municipal organizations which were reported upon by the Inquiry Commissioners in 1835, excepting those which were included in the schedules of 5 & 6 William TV., c. 76, and those which have since been incorporated under that statute. The number of places wherein an inquiry was instituted was 285, of which 178 were comprised in the schedules of the Municipal Act, and 7 (Aberavon, Ashton-under- Lyne, Burton-on-Trent, Conway, Hartlepool, Hedon, and Yeovil) have, since it passed, been granted a charter under the provisions of TllEIll GHOWTll AND DEVELOPMENT, 239 the Act. The remaininj^ 100 — many of which were municipalities only in name — are set out in the Table following. Tlie powers, privileges, and jurisdictions of the boroughs which were not subjected to the process of reformation were, under the old charters or prescriptive customs, retained, and have, in some cases, continued to be exercised to the present time. Little or no notice — legislative or otherwise — was taken of them, outside local circles, until the 29th of February, 1876, when Sir Charles Dilke attracted general attention to their anomalous position by a speech in the House of Commons, which he closed with a motion for the imme- diate abolition of their criminal jurisdictions. The Home Secretary* undertook to consider the question raised, and to ascertain the best mode of dealing with what were, by common acquiescence, described as " the unreformed boroughs," and the motion was thereupon withdrawn. A few weeks later Mr. Cross announced that a Royal Commission would be issued for a renewed inquiry into the state and practice of the corporate bodies named in the First f Report of the Municipal Commissioners of 1835. The Commission was issued in May, 1876 ; and in the early part of the present session (Feb. 24, 1879) the chairman (the Right. Hon. S. Cave, M.P.) expressed the hope, from his place in the House of Commons, that the Commis- sioners would be able to present their Report by the following Whitsuntide. On the 4th of December, 1877, the appended Report was for- warded to the Treasury by the Secretary of the Commission (Mr. A. G. Liddell) :— " A list of 101 boroughs not incorporated under the Municipal llefomi Acts was submitted to the Commissioners by Mr. Secretary Cross. Up to the present date, witnesses have been examined in respect of 79. As to these the investigation is practically concluded except in those instances where, upon further con- sideration, the Commissioners may find fresh evidence or explanation necessary. Separate di-aft Reports have been written on all tlie 79 cases, of which 10 liave been fin.illy agi-eed upon, while the rest are in the course of being settled bj' the Commissioners. In 22 instances where Corporations without possessions have become extinct, or where there is a manorial rather than a municipal body holding no property, the Commissioners have made inquiries by means of letters. In addition to the above-mentioned places, 10 others have, since the commence- ment of the investigation, been suggested to the Commissioners as being of a municipal character. The Commissioners have reserved the consideration of these cases until they have gone through the list furnished by Mr. Secretary Cross." * Right Hon. R. A. Cross. t The second Report of the Coiniiiissioners of 1835 was confined to the Corpor- ation of the City of London and the City Guilds. 240 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS j The list of 101 places submitted by Mr. Cross is the same as that contained in this Part, excepting only the borough of Burton- upon-Trent, incorporated under the Municipal Acts on Septerober 3rd, 1878. The 10 other places suggested to the Commission as being of a municipal character are as follows : — PART V. — Table 1. — Places where a Quasi-Municipal Organization IS alleged to be in Legal Existence. Places. Counties. Population IN Kemaeks upon the alleged cohpoeate 1871. Chaeactee. Alresford ... Southampton 581 Believed to be a Court Leet, with extended functions Bovey Tracey Devon 2,133 Believed to be a Court Leet only Bridlington York (E.R.) 6,203 A peculiar manor fief Chipping Camden Gloucester .. 2,013 Believed to be a Court Leet only Hartland ... Devon 1,871 Believed to be a Court Leet only Lewes (Pari. Boro.) Sussex 110,753 A Manorial Corporation ; the chief officers are appointed at a Court Leet Midhurst (Pari. Sussex t6,753 A Court Leet only Boro.) Tavistock (Pari. Devon §7,725 Believed to be a Manorial Court Boro.) Westminster (Pari. Middlesex ... 246,606 A Chartered Incorporation, in City) which the ecclesiastical au- thorities of the Abbey have the controlling influence Winchcomb Gloucester . . 2,293 Believed to be a Court Leet only In view of the probable simultaneous appearance of the Report of the Commissioners and this book, no attempt has been made to give any recent statistics in this Part beyond those of the population in 1871. The information contained in the Table may, however, provide useful and convenient points for comparison with that of later date obtained by the labour and inquiries of the Com- missioners. t Population of the Parliamentary borough; that of Lewes proper is 10,431. 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They comprised municipal boroughs, places under Improvement Acts for sanitary purposes, and places of 2,000 or more inhabitants. Of the 938 towns in 1871, only 224 had a true municipal organiza- tion, or, rather were governed under the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835. It is difficult to conceive the reason for so small a growth of municipal organizations from 1835 to 1871 ; the increase being only forty-six in thirty-six years. The Public Health Act, 1875, forms so complete a code of sanitary self-government law for local adminis- tration by "Urban" authorities, which it also established in principle, that a certain indiiference to the acquirement of corporate privileges could not now be regarded as affording matter for much surprise ; but, curiously enough, the three years following the passing of that Act shew a greater increase in the applications for and grants of municipal charters of incorporation than any like period from the year 1835. The charters issued in 1876 were four; in 1877, three; and in 1878, four. With the exception of the year 1868, when five charters were granted, the numbers for 1876 and 1878 have not been exceeded. The liability of the promoters of a corporate establishment to be saddled with the whole of the costs of an a23plica- tion for a charter, if it proved to be unsuccessful, no doubt contributed to the apathy regarding the acquisition of the large advantages offered by the Municipal Act. The New Charters Act of 1877 lessened this liability by enacting that (s. 7) "if the committee of Council (Privy Council) are satisfied that a local authority or other petitioners have properly promoted or properly 023posed a scheme before them, and that for special reasons it is right that the reasonable costs incurred by the authority or other petitioners in such promotion or opposition should be paid as expenses, properly incurred b}^ the local authority in the execution of their duties, the Committee of Council may order such costs to be paid, and these costs shall be paid accordingly." The facilities for obtaining a charter provided by this Act will, it is believed, eventually lead to a large addition to the number of petitions for charters of incorporation. THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 255 The number of Urban Sanitary Authorities in England and Wales in December, 1878, exclusive of the Metropohtan Sanitary Authori- ties, was 945. Deducting the 240 boroughs, governed under the 5 & G William IV., c. 70, there would be 705 "urban " districts in which a corporate organization under the Act was unknown, but as fourteen out of the 240 borouglis have a sanitary authority distinct from tlie town council, the total number of urban sanitary authorities, exclusive of those vested in town councils, was 719. The annexed List gives the whole of the urban sanitary authorities with a population above 3,000, in each county of England and Wales, with the exception of those vested in town councils and those co-existing with a town council, but distinct from it. The municipal and sanitary districts of the last-named authorities are in almost every case conterminous. The parliamentary boroughs of the metropolis are set oiit in preference to the sanitary authorities, which are very numerous and, in some instances, extremely circumscribed. The municipal borough with the smallest population is Iledon, where the inhabitants in 1871 numbered 996. The municipal boroughs, with a population (according to the census of 1871) under 3,000, are seventeen in number. URBAN SANITARY DISTRICTS (exclusive of Municipal Boroughs GOVERNED UNDER 5 AND 6 WiLLIAM IV., C. 76) IN ENGLAND AND WaLES, WITH A POPULATION EXCEEDING 3,000, ACCORDING TO THE CeNSUS OF 1871. i^° The Boroughs of Banbury, Blandford, Calne, Cambridge, Chippenham, Favershaui , Folkestone, Launceston, Lyme Regis, Lymington, Morpeth, Oxford (City), Stratford- on-Avon and Wenlock have the Urban Sanitary Autliority vested in a Local Board or Improvement Commissioners, independent of the Town Council ; the names of these places are, however, omitted in this List. (d) I'arli.inientary Boroughs. Bedford ... None Chester Altrincham ... ... 8,478 Berks Wantage 3,295 Buckingham (a) Aylesbury ... ... 6,962 t Chippiug\Vvcombe(Parish) 5,681 Slough ...' 4,509 Camrridge Chatteris 4,749 Ely (City) 8,166 March 5,854 Wliittlesey . ... 4,297 Bollingtoii 3,668 Bredbuiy Dukinlield 3,596 .. 14,085 Higher Bebington 3,172 Hyde Lower Bebington Lymm ... Marple Middle wich .. 28,347 3,768 4,541 4,100 3,085 Nantwich North wicli Runcorn... ... 6,673 ... 10,500 ... 12,443 Side 5,573 f This District is in addition to that of tiie Municipal Borough, and forms part of the Parliamentiiry Borougli of the same name. 256 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS J Chester — continued. Durham Sandbach 5,259 Barnard Castle ... 4,306 Wallasey... 14,944 Benfield Side ... 4,432 Winsford 7,615 Bishop's Auckland 8,736 Cornwall Camborne t Falmouth (Local Board) Phillack Redruth ... St. Austell Blaydon... 8,875 14,928 5,177 4,165 10,685 3,803 Brandon and Bysliottles Consett ... Dawdon ... Felling Hebburn Houghton-le-Spring ... 4,273 5,991 9,031 13,755 8,000 5,276 Cumberland Ledgate ... 3,677 Cleator Moor ... 5,529 Ryton 3,351 (a) Cockermouth ... 5,115 Shildon & East Tliicklay 10,000 Holme Cultram 4,087 South wick 5,937 Maryport 7,443 Spennymoor 4,627 Millom 3,500 Stanhope 7,000 Penrith ... 8,317 Tow Law 4,968 (a) Whitehaven 17,003 West Hartlepool 21,110 Wigton ... 3,425 Wickliam 6,483 Workington 7,9 r9 Essex Derby Braintree 4,790 Alf reton ... 3,680 Chelmsford 9,209 Belper ... 8,527 Halstead... 5,783 Brampton and Walton... 7,043 Leyton ... 11,000 Buxton ... 3,717 Romford... 6,335 Clay Lane 4,802 Waltham Holy Cross ... 5,197 Heauor 4,888 Walthamstow ... 11,094 Ilkeston ... 9,662 Wanstead 5,113 Long Eaton 3,200 West Ham 62,919 Matlock... 3,834 Witham ... 3,347 Newbold and Dunston... 4,590 Woodford 4,609 New Mills 6,600 Ripley ... 5,639 Gloucester Whittington 5,578 Bisley 4,985 Wirksworth 3,338 Charlton Kings 3,680 Devon («) Cirencester 4,685 Crediton 4,222 Leckhampton ... 3,265 Dawlish ... 3,622 St. George 16,209 JEast Stonehouse 14,585 (a) Stroud ... 7,082 Exmouth 5,;i4 Ilfracombe 4,721 Hereforp Lower Brixham ... 4,941 Kington... 3,110 Northam... 4,330 Ottery St. Mary 4,110 Hertford Paignton 3,590 Barnet ... 3,720 St. Mary Church 4,472 Bishop Stortford 6,250 St. Thomas Apostle 5,156 Cheshunt 7,518 Sidmouth 3,360 Hitchin ... 7,630 Teignmouth 6,751 Tring 4,045 Torquay... 21,657 Ware 4,917 Wolborough 6,082 Watford 7,461 Dorset Portland... 9,907 Huntingdon Sherborne 5,545 St. Neots 4,598 t This District is in addition to that of the Municipal Borough, and forms part of the Parliamentary Borough of Penryn and Falmouth. J Forms p.irt of the Parliamentary Borough of Devonport. THEIR GROWTH AM) DEVELOPMENT. 257 Kent L AN CAST E R — continued. Parliamentary Borowjh (which in- Haslingden 14,000 chides 4 Metropolitan Sanitary Haughton-by-Denton ... 4,276 Authorities). Haydock... 5,286 (a) Greenwich 169,361 Heaton Norris ... 3,294 Hey wood 21,248 Extra - Metropolitan for Urban) Hindley 10,627 Sanitary Antkorities. Horwich... 3,671 Asliford ... 8,458 Hur.st 5,342 Beckenliam 6,090 Huyton-with-Roby 3,225 Bromley ... 10,674 Ince-in-Makertield 11,989 (a) Cliatham... 26,184 Kearsley... 5,830 Dartford... 8,298 Kirkhani 3,593 Erith 8,289 Lathom ... 3,659 Gillingham 19,757 Leigh 17,621 Milton-next-Sittingbourne 3,463 Leyland ... 3,839 Northfleet 6,515 Littleborough ... 7,934 Ramsgate 20,000 Little Hulton 4,085 Sevenoaks 4,118 Little Lever 4,204 Sheerness 13,956 Lytham ... 3,257 Sittingboume 6,148 Middleton and Tonge ... 14,587 Soutliborough 3,468 Milnrow 5,505 Tunbridge 8,209 Mossley ... 10,578 Tunbridge Wells 19,410 Moss Side 5,311 Walmer ... 3,816 Much Woolton ... 4,643 Woolwich 35,548 Nelson ... 5,580 Wrotham 3,201 Newton Heath 18,103 Newton-in-Makerfield ... 8,244 Lancaster Openshaw 11,108 Ashton-in-Makerfield ... 7,463 Onuskirk 6,1-27 Aspull ... 6,390 Orrell 3,561 Astley Bridge 4,559 Oswaldtwistle 10,283 Atherton 7,531 Padiham... 6,675 Audenshaw 6,000 Pemberton 10,374 Bacup 17,199 Poidton, (ire. 3,005 Barton, Eccles, Wintou Prescot ... 5,990 and Monton ... 18,915 Prestwich 6,820 Billinge ... 3,830 Rudclifl'e... 11,446 Birkdale 3,375 Rainford... 3,170 Blackrod 5,796 Ramsbottom 4,204 Bradford... 7,168 Rawtenstall 13,000 Brierlield 3,115 Royton 7,794 Castleton 4,000 Rusholme 7,430 Chadderton 12,205 Skelmersdale 3,171 Chorley ... 16,864 Standish-with-Langtree 3,698 Clayton-le-Moors 5,390 Stretford 11,945 Colne and Marsden 7,335 Swinton and Pendlebury 14,052 Crompton 7,302 Todmorden 11,998 Crumpsall 5,342 ToxtethPark 5,450 Dalton-in-Furnes3 11,000 Turton 5,000 Denton 5,117 Tyldesley, ealecl by Babsequent legislation. ] 38 and 39 Victoria (1875)... 17 Explosives 38 and 39 Victoria (1875)... 36 M. B. Labrs.' Dwllngs. 38 mid 39 Victoria (1875)... 40 M. B. Elections 38 and 39 Victoria (1875)... 55 Public Health In part 38 and 39 Victoria (1875)... 63 Adulteration 38 and 39 Victoria (1875)... 83 Loans 38 and 39 Victoria (1875)... 89 Public Works Loans 39 and 40 Victoria (1870)... 20 Misappropriation 39 and 40 Victoria (1876)... 30 Rates 39 and 40 Victoria (1876)... 79 M. B. Education In part 40 and 41 Victoria (1877)... 17 M. B. Quarter Sessions WTiolly 40 and 41 Victoria (1877)... 54 Libraries 40 and 41 Victoria (1877)... 60 Canal Boats 40 and 41 Victoria (1877)... 66 Local Taxation 40 (Hid 41 Victoria (1877)... 69 New Charters 41 and 42 Victoria (1878)... 14 Baths, &c. 41 and 42 Victoria (1878)... 16 Public Health, &c. 41 and 42 Victoria (1878)... 25 Ditto (Water) 41 aiid 42 Victoria (1878)... 26 M. B. Registration INDEX. The Objects and Effect op Municipal Local Government PART I.— The Nature and Constitution of Municipal Corporations The Powers, Rights, Capacities, and Incapacities of Municipal Corporations ^ PAGE 1 PART II.— The History of the English Municipalities The Anglo-Saxon Miinicipal Organizations The Anglo-Norman „ „ The Exidence of Domesday Book The First Incorporations Municipal Pri-\'ileges and Freedom in the Reign of Henry VI. Henry VIII. „ „ „ „ „ Elizabeth James I. ... James II.... General Condition of the English Municipalities previous to 1835 PART III.— The Acts of Parliament relating to the English Muni- cipal Corporations prom 1835 to 1878 inclusive, with AN Outline op their General Purport The Municipal Corporations Acts Acts of Parliament indirectly affecting Municipal Corporations The General Purport of the Municipal Laws The Functions of a Municipal Corporation PART IV.— The Growth and Development of the English Munici- palities (subject to 5 AND 6 WILLIAM IV. C. 76) BETWEEN 1835 AND 1879, Statistically Illustrated Section I.— Area Table 1 (Cities and Boroughs named in Schedules A and B of the^ Mimicipal Act of 1837) and Table 2 (Cities and Boroughs incor- porated since 1835) English Municipal Cities and Boroughs Counties in which the Cities and Boroughs are situate Area in Statute Acres of Ancient Municipal Limits in 1835 Area in Statute Acres of Municipal Limits in 1879 Summary and Comparisons — Number of Cities and Boroughs named in Schedules A and B of 5 and 6 William IV. c. 76 Niunber of Cities and Boroughs incorporated since 1835 Number of Cities and Boroughs which are Coimties of themselves Approximate extent in Square Miles and Statute Acres of the Areas of Cities and Boroughs named in the Municipal Act of 1835 Approximate extent in Square Miles and Statute Acres of the Areas of Cities and Boroughs incorporated since 1835 Increase in the Municipal Area of the Country since 1835 4 4 4 5 6 6 7 8 8 9 10 10 12-13 14 14 15 16 16 Y 21-26 V 27 INDEX. 267 ;. Section 2. — Pn^ulation und Jnluihited Ilinixrx Table 1 (Cities and BoroiiRhs named in Schedules A and B of the " Municipal Act of 1835) and Trible 2 (Cities and Boroughs incorporated since 1835) Poi)ulation within the Ancient Municipal Limits (as per census of 1831) Inhabited Houses within the Ancient Municipal Limits (as per census of 1831) Population within the Limits adopted under the Act of 1835 (as per census of 1831) Population within the Municipal Limits (as per census of 1871) Inhabited Houses witliin the Municipal Limits (as per census of 1871) p]stimated Population within the Municipal Limits in March, 1879 Summary and Comparisons — 'I Increase in the Population of Municipal Areas in 1879 as com- | pared with 1831 ^ Increase in the Population of Municipal Areas in 1879 as com- i pared with 1835 ' Section 3.—Tfw Municipal Franchisr Table 1 Reigns in which Cities and Boroughs obtained Charters of " Privileges " or " Incorporation "' Number of Charters obtained Governing Charters in force in 1835 The Incorporation of Boroughs The Qualification for the Municipal Franchise The Burgess Roll and its preparation Table 2 Boroughs in which " Rights of Property " were claimed by Freemen in 1835, and character of the claims to Freedom Table 3 (Cities and Boroughs named in Schedules A and B of the Municipal Act of 1835) and Table 4 (Cities and Boroughs incor- porated since 1835) Date of First Record as Boroughs Date of Grant of First Charter of definite Municipal Privileges Date of Grant of First Charter of definite Incorporation Governing Charters in 1835 Method of Election to the Council under the Ancient Constitution Number of Electors in 1835 Number of Freemen, including Council, in 1835 Number of Burgesses on the First Roll in 1835 Number of Burgesses on the Roll 1878-9 Summary and Comparisons — Number of Boroughs named in Domesday Book Excess of Number of Burgesses on the First Rolls in 1835 over the Number of Individuals possessing Elective Powers under the Ancient Constitution in the same year Excess of Number of Burgesses on the Rolls of 1879 over the number on the First Rolls in 1835 SECTlOii 4.— The Pctrlianu'iitari/ Franchise Documentary Definitions of the British Constitution The Course of ParlianiL'iitary Representation from 12Go to 1832 ... Distribution of Seats in the House of Commons previous to 1832 "] Distribution of Seats in the House of Commons after the passing of | the Reform Act of 1832 y 27 29-34 35 35 38-39 . 40 . 43 . 46 49-50 )2-62 63 (53 04 64 05 Distribution of Seats in the House of Commons after the passing of the Reform Act of 1867 J- 268 INDEX. Proportionate Representation of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland Table 1 (Cities and Boroughs under the Municipal Act, which returned ' Members to Parliament in 1866) Number of Electors on the Register of 1866, classed according to ?■ Qualifications as £10 Occupiers, Freemen, Scot and Lot Voters, Potwallers, and Ancient Rights Qualifications, under existing law, for the Franchise Procedure for Registration Procedure in Elections Table 2 (Cities and Boroughs named in Schedules A and B of the ' Municipal Act of 1835) ; Table 3 (Cities and Boroughs incorporated since 1835); and Table 4 (Municipal Cities and Boroughs which have been deprived of the Parliamentary Franchise since 1832) Number of Members returned by Borough Constituencies Appro -dmate Area of Parliamentary Limits in Square Miles, 1879 Area in Statute Acres of Parliamentary Limits, 1879 In whom the Suffrage was vested previous to the passing of the Parliamentary Reform Act of 1832 Number of Parliamentary Electors immediately preceding the passing of the Reform Act of 1832 Population within the Parliamentary Limits adopted under the Reform Act of 1832 Number of Electors and Freemen on the First Register after the passing of the Reform Act of 1832 Population ^\^thin the Parliamentary Limits according to the Census of 1861 Number of Electors on the Registers of 1866 Number of Electors on the Registers of 1868 Population within the Parliamentary Limits according to the Census of 1871 Number of Electors and Freemen on the Registers of 1879 Summary and Comparisons — Number of Constituencies Number of Contributing Boroughs Excess of Number of Electors in 1879 over the Number imme- diately preceding the passing of the Reform Act of 1832 Excess of Number of Electors in 1879 over the Number on the First Register in 1832 Excess of Number of Electors in 1879 over the Number on the Registers of 1866 Excess of Number of Electors in 1879 over the Number on the Registers of 1868 Proportionate Representation of the English Municipalities in the House of Commons Section 5. — The Governing Body Election of Councillors Election of Aldennen Election of Mayor The Council— its Meetings and its Chief Officers To-wn Clerks under the Ancient Constitution Sheriffs under the Ancient Constitiition ... PAGB 66 67-69 69 72 75 76-87 88 . 88 . 90 . 103 . 105 . 107 . 110 . 113 INDEX. 269 Tkon Table 1 (Cities and Boroughs named in Schedules A and B of the ' Municipal Act of 1835) and Table 2 (Cities and Boroughs incor- porated since 1835) Composition of the Ancient Governing Body Duration of Office by Common Councils elected under the Ancient Constitution Total Number of the Governing Body Total Number of Boroughs divided into Wards and Number of Wards, 1879 Total Number of Aldermen in 1879 Total Number of Councillors in 1879 Total Number of the Governing Body in 1879 M15-126 Summary and Comparisons — Excess of Number of Ancient Governing Bodies over Number of Present Governing Bodies Proportionate Representation of the Estimated Population of 1879 in the Town Councils 126 Section 6. — Tlie Municipal Judges and Magistracy 127 Stipendiary Magistrates under the Municipal and other Acts of Parliament 129 Table 1 (Cities and Boroughs named in Schedules A and B of the Municipal Act of 1835) and Table 2 (Cities and Boroughs incor- porated since 1835) The Judges (their number and tlie quorum) of the Criminal Courts under the Ancient Constitution The Judges (their number and the quorum) of the Civil Courts under the Ancient Constitution Recorders (by whom and for what term appointed) under the Ancient Constitution Total Number of Municipal Magistrates in 1835 Number of Magistrates named in the First Commissions of the Peace of the Boroughs named in Schedule A of the Municipal Act Recorders in 1879 Total Number of Magistrates (exclusive of Mayor, Recorder, and Ex-Mayor, in December, 1878 M33-148 Summary and Comparisons — ") Number of Boroughs with Recorders under the Ancient Con- I stitution y Excess of Number of Magistrates in 1879 over Number under the I Ancient Constitution J 149 Section 7. — Tfie Criminal and Civil Jurisdictions Character and Number of the Criminal Jurisdictions inl835 n n >i L/lVll „ „ Table 1. — Local Names of Borough Civil Courts and the Number o Boroughs in which so designated The Existing Cognizance of Quarter Sessions Offences 149 150 151 152 153 270 INDEX. PAGE Table 2 (Cities and Boroughs named in Schedules A and B of the Municipal Act of 1835) and Table 3 (Cities and Boroughs incor- porated since 1835) Exclusive Criminal Jurisdictions in 1835 Concurrent „ „ „ Admiralty Jurisdictions in 1835 Names and Number of Criminal Courts, and how holden, in 1835 Character of Offences Triable Names and Numbers of Civil Courts, and how holden, in 1835 Character of Actions Triable, and to what Amount in Money Value Nature of the Criminal Jurisdictions in 1879 — distinguished Cities and Boroughs with Quarter Sessions, Commissions of the Peace, and Active Concurrent Jurisdictions Number of Indictments at Quarter Sessions in 1879 Character and Extent of the Criminal Jurisdictions in 1879 Number of Plaints entered in 1879 M63-184 Summary and Comparisons — Number of Exclusive Jurisdictions in 1835 Number of Cities and Boroughs with Quarter Sessions, Commis- . „ sions of the Peace, and Concurrent Petty Sessions Juris- dictions in 1879 Excess of Exclusive Jurisdictions in 1835 compared with 1879 Sections. — The Police and Criminal Statistics Table 1 (The Ancient Police Organizations of the Cities and Boroughs) 185-1 91 Table 2 (Cities and Boroughs named in Schedules A and B of the - Municipal Act of 1835) and Table 3 (Cities and Boroughs incor- porated since 1835) Strength of Police Force, Year ending 1878 Cost ,, „ „ ,, Proportion of Cost borne by Government Number of Indictable Offences committed in the Year ending 1878 )> 194-198 Number of Committals for Indictable Offences in the Year ending 1878 Number of Prosecutions for Petty Offences in the Year ending 1878 Number of Convictions for Petty Offences in the Year ending 1878 i Summary and Comparisons — Proportionate Individual Cost of Police Proportionate Cost borne by Government Proportion of Estimated Population to each Officer Proportion of Convictions for Indictable Offences to Estimated Population Proportion of Convictions for Summary Offences to Estimated Population J Table 1 (The General Borrowing Powers of Municipal Corporations) ^ Purposes for which Loans may be Raised | What Sanction is required for Loans Periods over which Repayment of Loans may be spread General Provisions of the Law applicable to Loans 198 Section 9 . — The Corporate Revenue, Expenditure, Indebtedness, and Ratea hie Value 199 201 INDEX. 271 Table 2 (Cities and Boroughs named in Schedules A and B of the Municipal Act of 1835) and Table 3 (Cities and Boroughs incor- porated .since 183i5) The Approximate Annual Corporate Revenue in 1835 „ „ „ „ Expenditure in 1835 „ „ Indebtedness by Loans in 1835 The Rateable Value— 1878 Income by Borough Rate — 1878 Income by Rents and Tolls — 1878 Total Corporate Income — 1878 Total Corporate Expenditure — 1878 Corporate Indebtedness by Loans — 1878 Summary and Comparisons — 1 Excess of Corporate Revenue, Expenditure, and Indebtedness in 1878 compared with 183") J-211-220 Section \0.—T]ie Public Health and Educational Jurisdictions Table 1. — Reigns in which Local Acts were granted Numbpr of Boroughs which obtained Local Acts Number of Local Acts obtained 1 221 221 221 Legislative Powers and Duties for Sanitary purposes (with references) ... 222 Constitution of the Sanitary Districts (with references) 223 Special Powers of Urban Sanitary Authorities (with references) 225 Local and Special Powers in relation to Sanitary Objects (with references) 225 Table 2 (Cities and Boroughs named in Schedules A and B of the Municipal Act of 1835) and Table 3 (Cities and Boroughs incor- porated since 1835) Town Councils exercising the powers of an Urban Sanitary Authority Town Councils owning or supplying and controlling Gas Town Coimcils owning or supplying and controlling Water Town Councils in whom the Burial Board (or Control of Inter- ments) is vested Income by Local Rates in 1834 Income of Sanitary Authority by Rates in 1878 Total Income of the Sanitary Authority in 1878 Total Expendiutre of the Sanitary Authority in 1878 Indebtedness by Loans of the Sanitary Authority in 1878 Cities and Boroughs with School Boards Cities and Boroughs with School Attendance Committees 227-237 Summary and Comparisons — Number of Town Councils acting as the Urban Sanitary Authority „ „ „ Port Sanitary Authority Number of Town Councils owning or supplying and controlling Gas Number of Town Councils owning or supplying and controlling Water Number of Town Councils acting as the Burial Board Number of Cities and Boroughs with a School Board ,, „ „ „ Attendance Com- mittee Excess of the Sanitary Authority Income for Public Health pur- poses in 1878 over the Income under Local Acts in 1834 238 272 INDEX. 238 238 239 240 Total Income, Expenditure, and Indebtedness for the year ending 1 878 ■^ of the 240 Cities and Boroughs, both as Corporate and Sanitary y Authorities J PART v.— The Unrepormed Corporations The Appointment of the Second Royal Commission for inquiring into Municipal Corporations in 1876 Table 1 (Places where a Quasi-Municipal Organization is alleged to be in legal existence) Population in 1871 Remarks upon alleged corporate character Table 2 (Cities, Boroughs, and Towns reported upon in 1835, but not included in the Schedules of the 5th & 6th William IV., c. 76, or since incorporated under it) Cities, Boroughs, Towns, and Counties The Governing Charters The Corporate Body Total Number of the Governing Body The Criminal Jurisdiction in 1835 The Civil Jurisdiction in 1835 Population within the Municipal Limits in 1835 Population within the Municipal Limits in 1871 The Approximate Corporate Revenue in 1835 The Approximate Corporate Expenditure in 1835 The Approximate Corporate Indebtedness in 1835 Remarks PART VI.— Populous Districts not under Municipal Government ... 254 Public Health Districts in England and Wales, with a Population above 3,000, not under Municipal Government 254-261 APPENDIX. — Acts of Parliament directly and indirectly affecting Municipal Government under the 5th & 6th William IV., c. 76, in their chronological order 263 241-253 INDEX ... 266 i; tJNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA AT TS Tr r '3-\in ■r^syr &AHvaaiii^ ^ %u: ■ llttl^ jrrii^. 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