APPENDIX 167 



I. STATUTES RELATING TO GOVERNMENT AND 



RIGHT OF VOTING AT PARLIAMENTARY 



ELECTIONS 



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1429 8 Henry V, c. 7. Disqualified persons 'of small 

 or estate' from voting for Knights of the Shire and 



1430 limited the county electorate to freeholders holding 

 estates of and above the annual value of 40 shillings ... 89 



1710 9 Anne, c. 5. Enacted that no person should be 

 returned to Parliament as a Knight of the Shire who 

 had not a landed estate worth ^600 a year 109 



1832 2 & 3 William IV, c. 45. The first Reform Act ... 152 



1858 21 & 22 Victoria c. 26. Abolished the property 

 qualification for members of Parliament 



1884 48 & 49 Victoria, c. 3. Extended the right of 

 voting in Parliamentary elections to householders in 

 the counties 159 



1888 51 & 52 Victoria, c. 41. Local Government Act. 

 Vested County administrative business in Elected 

 County Councils ; the management of the police re- 

 mained in the hand of the justices 160 



1894 56 & 57 Victoria, c. 73. Local Government Act. 

 Vested local administrative business in Rural District 

 Councils, Parish Councils and Parish Meetings ; re- 

 formed methods of election of Guardians 160 



II. STATUTES. ETC., RELATING TO WAGES 

 AND OTHER LABOUR QUESTIONS 



1349 23 Edward III. The Royal Ordinance quoted in 



the text 56 



135 2 5 Edward III, s. i. The first of the series of 

 or Statutes of Labourers : stated to be made necessary 



1351 as the ordinance had been ignored 56 



1388 12 Richard II, c. 4. Laid down a scale of wages 



for labourers 72 



1388 i2 Richard II, c. 5. Forbade those who had served 

 in agriculture up to 12 years of age to be apprenticed 

 in the towns 73 



