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SUMMARY AND COMPARISONS.
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. The more recent
information has been secured by direct application to the chief
officials of each city and borough.
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88 ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS;
SUMMARY AND COMPARISONS.
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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
The Tables in this Section have been compiled from the Municipal
Commissioners' Reports, several Parliamentary papers, and infor-
mation supplied by the Crown Office and the chief officials of each
city or borough.
* See also 40 & 41 Vict. c. 17 (page 162) as to division of Courts.
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Sheffield
Soiithport
South Shields ...
Stalybridge
Stoke-upon-Trent
Tannton ...
Tynemouth
Wakefield
Warrington
Wolverhampton . . .
Wrexham
Yeovil
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(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
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4
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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.") Until the passing of
the Act 5 & 6 Victoria, c. 38, the justices in general and quarter sessions exercised
jurisdiction over felonies with no limitation except that which sprung up, in practice,
of abstaining from the more difficult and important cases, and sending them to the
THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMEXT. lo3
grant, sealed with the common seal of the borough, to the clerk of
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ENGLISH MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS. 185
SUMMARY AND COMPARISONS.
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. IV. c. 104, sec. 3, enabled the treasurer to apply the proceeds of
.the sale of any advowson, &c., in discharge of corporate debts contracted before the
passing of the Act.
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The Act 6 & 7 Will. 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.
Tables 2 & 3 of this section have been compiled from the Municipal
Commissioners' Report, the Abstract of Municipal Accounts last
presented to Parliament, and information supplied by the local
municipal officials.
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