Sect. 1, 2, 3.

Mar. 7,

1861.

Nov. 25, 1858.

PRIZE EXERCISES.

Placeat vobis ut relatio Concilii Senatus de Præmiis et Prolusionibus in senaculo recitandis 4to Martii 1861 data, suffragiis vestris comprobetur.

tion at which

Prize Exer

cises are to

be recited.

The Council of the Senate recommend (March 4, 1861):
That a Congregation should be held every year in the Congrega-
Easter Term on the Tuesday before the commencement of the
Examination of Candidates for the Ordinary B.A. Degree; and
that at this Congregation those Prizes, which have been usually
distributed in the Senate-House, should be given by the Vice-
Chancellor to the several successful Candidates, and at the same
time should take place the recitation of those Exercises to the
Authors of which the following Prizes have been awarded:

The Chancellor's Medal for English Verse
The [Powis] Medal for Latin Hexameters.

Sir William Browne's Medal for Greek Verse.
for a Latin Ode.

The Porson Prize for Greek Verse.

The Council further recommend that at this Congregation no Degree should be conferred except such as may be granted in pursuance of the provisions of Stat. [A. 11. 18.]

SECT. 2. Graces for Degrees in Divinity.

SECT. 3. Right of Voting.

Placeat vobis ut relationis Concilii Senatus de Registro suffragii jus habentium, datæ Nov. 17, 1858, clausula quarta suffragiis vestris comprobetur.

Idem conceditur de clausulis 5, 6 et 7.

The Council of the Senate recommend (Nov. 17, 1858):
4. That any Person, [who, having taken a Degree quali-
fying him for voting in the Senate, but not having hitherto
obtained the right of voting from his name not having been kept
on the boards of his College, makes] application after March
25, 1859, may have his name placed upon the Register and

Only Hono to be con

rary Degrees

ferred at this Congregation.

How a perby degree,

son qualified

whose name is not on the

boards of his

College, may

obtain a

vote in the Senate.

Distribution

of payments received from such persons.

Personal at

tendance at Creation unnecessary.

Register of
voters in the

Senate to be
revised
every year.
Vice-Chan-

cellor to pub

to fix a day for hearing objections,

obtain the right of Voting by paying to the Vice-Chancellor a
sum of money equal to the sum of all the payments, which he
would have made to the University if his name had continued
on his College Boards up to March 25, 1859, together with the
sum of all the payments which he would have made to the
University, if his name had been placed on the Register imme-
diately after March 25, 1859, and continued on it up to the
time of his application.

5. That the sums of money, so received by the Vice-Chan-
cellor, be applied by him to the same purposes as the several
payments would have been applied, if the names of the Appli-
cants for Admission to the Register had continued on the Boards
of their respective Colleges and on the Register.

6. That Persons, who have not yet completed their Degrees by Creation, may be created without personal attendance at the Magna Comitia of 1859 or any subsequent year, on application being made to the Registrary for that purpose.

7. That the Register of Voters be revised and promulgated by the Vice-Chancellor, so as to give publicity to it, as soon as conveniently may be after the magna comitia in every year; lish list and and that at the time of such promulgation the Vice-Chancellor fix some convenient time and place for publicly hearing objections to the Register, which any member of the Senate may make on the ground of any Person being improperly placed on or omitted from it, when, if such objection shall appear to the Vice-Chancellor to be well founded, he shall correct the Register accordingly and shall thereupon sign and promulgate it, as the correct List of Persons, who have the right of Voting in the Senate.

then to correct it and to sign and promulgate it as the Register.

Sect. 3.

Those not making quarterly

payments

Placeat vobis ut relatio Concilii Senatus data 16mo Novembris 1863 de pecuniis a quibusdam suffragii jus habentibus debitis et in usum Academiæ colligendis suffragiis vestris comprobetur.

1. That all persons who under the Grace of the Senate of 10th May 1860 are chargeable with certain quarterly paythrough Col- ments to the University, and who do not provide for the making of the said payments through their respective Col

leges

Nov. 26, 1863.

leges, be required to leave their addresses from time to time
with the Registrary.

2. That it be the duty of the Registrary to receive and
to apply for such payments, and to pay the same over to the
Vice-Chancellor.

Note. For the Grace of 10 May 1860 is now substituted Grace 31 May 1866 confirming a Report dated 9 May 1866. See p. 298.

3. That any Member of the Senate who shall allow the said payments to fall into arrear, shall receive from the Registrary a notice of such arrear; which notice shall be deemed sufficient if it shall have been sent by post or otherwise to the address last left by such Member of the Senate with the Registrary; and if, after the expiration of six months from the date of the notice, the arrear remain still unpaid, the Vice-Chancellor shall be empowered to remove the name of the person so in arrear from the Register of Members of the Senate.

Residence required by Stat. A. III. 3, par. 2.

Report 5 June 1884. Grace 12 June 1884.

The residence of persons who reside for the purpose of acquiring a vote in the Senate under the provisions of Statute A, chap. III. § 3, par. 2, shall be reckoned by days. They must reside within the precincts of the University, and shall not be considered to have resided on any day unless they have spent the following night within the precincts of the University.

are to pay

the Regis

trary.

Member of arrear liable name re

Senate in

to have his moved from

Register.

Residence

for acquiring

a vote.

STATUTE A. CHAPTER IV.

ELECTIONS.

SECT. 1. Election of Chancellor.

SECT. 2. Election of the Vice-Chancellor.

Note. As to the power of the Vice-Chancellor to appoint Pro ViceChancellors at Elections of Representatives of the University in Parliament, see 16 and 17 Vict. c. 68. Sect. 5, and 24 and 25 Vict. Sect. 2.

1. That the Vice-Chancellor be elected on the first day of November, or if that day be a Sunday or a Monday, on the third day of November.

2. That the meeting of the Council for the nomination of two Heads of Colleges for the office of Vice-Chancellor be held at 10 A.M.

3. That on the day of election of the Vice-Chancellor votes be received from 1 till 3 P.M.: provided that if ten minutes have elapsed without any vote having been tendered it shall be lawful for the Proctors to declare the Poll closed before 3 P.M. After the close of the Poll the Senior Proctor shall declare the result of the election.

4. That the Vice-Chancellor enter upon office on the 10th day of January, or if that day be a Sunday, on the 11th day of January in each year.

Sect. 1, 2.

Sect. 2, 3, 4.

Jun. 3, 1858.

April 29, 1818.

and admis

5. That a Congregation be held at 10 A.M. on the day Resignation appointed for the Vice-Chancellor's entering upon office at sion. which the outgoing Vice-Chancellor shall deliver the keys and other insignia of his office to the Proctors, and, after the Vice-Chancellor-elect has made the declaration prescribed in the Statute for the admission of the Chancellor or any other officer to his office, the Senior Proctor shall forthwith admit the Vice-Chancellor-elect to the office of Vice-Chancellor, and shall deliver to him the insignia of the office.

6. [A temporary provision.]

SECT. 3. Election of the High Steward and his
Deputy.

SECT. 4. Election of the Proctors.

1.

Form of Certificate of residence.

Placeat vobis ut formula litterarum certificatoriarum de commoratione procuratorum designatorum, a Concilio Senatus 21° Mail edita, suffragiis vestris comprobetur.

I hereby certify that A.B. of

College has resided

Form of

in the University during the major part of each of the three
Terms following, viz.

certificate of residence

for Proctor

nominate.

Witness my Hand and Seal this

day of

C.D., Master of

College.

2. Appointment of Pro-Proctors.

Proctors.

Cum numerus discipulorum in hac Academia magnopere augetur, ideo- Proque necesse est ut plurimi extra collegiorum moenia cubicula teneant; placeat vobis ut quo viri singulis annis a Senatu eligantur, qui Vice- Two.