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BUITAIN. 



which returned four), the qualifications of the voters 

 were also modified, so Us to extern! the elective fran- 

 chise to every male person in actual occupation of a 

 freehold for life, or of lands, or tenements of copy- 

 hold, of the clear yearly value of not less than ten 

 pounds above all rents and charges. The following 

 tablte will show the changes which have been made 

 in the representation of cities and boroughs. From an 

 examination of these tables, it will appear that fifty- 

 six rotten boroughs have been wholly disfranchised ; 

 thirty boroughs have been deprived of one member; 

 and one borough (Melcombe Regis and Weymouth) 

 of two members ; twenty-two boroughs have been 

 created in England, which return two members each ; 

 nineteen boroughs returning one member each. Be- 

 sides taking away the right of election from a stone 

 wall in one place, from a green mound in another, and 

 a ruined house in a third, and vesting it in large, or, 

 at least, in tolerably numerous constituencies in new 

 borouglis, the act has introduced something like uni- 

 formity in the qualifications of the voters of the old 

 borouglis and cities, and extended the elective fran- 

 chise trom close corporations, or privileged bodies, to 

 the citizens at large. It gives the right of voting in 

 the elections to every male person of full age, not 

 subject to any legal incapacity, who occupies, in the 

 city or borough, as owner or tenant, any house, ware- 

 house, counting-house, shop, or other building, of the 

 clear yearly value of not less than ten pounds, pro- 

 vided such person shall have paid the poor rates and 

 assessed taxes. 



English Boroughs disfranchised by the Reform Act. 



All these boroughs (Higham Ferrers excepted, which re- 

 turned but one member) formerly sent two members each 

 to parliament. 



Old English Cities and Boroughs which still return 



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With regard to the number of members returned by tlH) 

 following boroughs, no change has been made by thu reform 

 bill, except that the united borough of Weymouili ami Alel- 

 combe Regis, which formerly returned four members, now 

 returns only two. The city of London sends four numbers, 

 and all the others two each, except Abingdou, Uaiibury, 

 Bewdley, and Moumoutb, which return only one each. 



English Boroughs which formerly returned two Members 

 to Parliament, but are hereafter to send only one. 



