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County Councils.

[40 VIOT.]

A.D. 1886.

(d.) County electors shall be substituted for burgesses ; (e) Where a person is a fresholder and also an occupier he shall be entitled to be entered on the list of county electors as an occupier notwithstanding that he is registered as a parlia mentary voter in respect of his freehold.

(f.) The county council shall be the only local authority within the meaning of section twenty-one of the Municipal Registra- tion Act, 1878, and the only local authority having power to direct the arrangement of the lists and register of persons who are entitled to vote both for a parliamentary county and also as 10 electors of a county council, and unless any order is made by the county council the lists and register of voters shall be made out alphabetically, but shall be framed in parts for polling districts, divisions, and wards in such a manner that the parts may be conveniently compiled or put together to serve as lista 15 for polling districts, or as division lists or ward lists; (9.) The overseers of every parish in a municipal borough to which this section extends, shall send to the county clerk two copies of the lists of parliamentary voters at the same time at which they send copies to the town clerk, and the lists of par- 20 liamentary voters for a parish in such borough, when revised, shall be transmitted by the revising barrister to such county clerk, and dealt with by him as with other lists of parliamentary voters in his county; but save as aforesaid the town clerk of the municipal borough shall, until such transmission, act as, 25 and be deemed to be, the town clerk within the meaning of the Parliamentary Registration Acts, 1848, 1878, and 1885, and this Act, in relation to such parish, and the clerk of the peace shall not act in relation to the registration of occupation voters in such parish;

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(h.) The lists of burgesses in a borough to which this section applies, and the lists of parliamentary occupation voters, and of county electors in any parish not in a municipal borough shall be revised by the revising barrister for the parliamentary county in which such borough or parish is situate [and if such borough 85 or parish extends into more parliamentary counties than one, then by the revising barrister for the parliamentary county in which the greater part in extent of such borough is situate'], and such revising barrister shall hold a court in the said muni- cipal borough, and in the [petty sessional] division of the 40 county in which such parish is situate.

(i.) A non-resident list of persons qualified to be elected coun- cillors, although resident more than seven but not more than fifteen miles from the county, shall be made in like manner as in a municipal borough.

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