Arrangement of the petitioner's cafe, 2. Evidence of the misconduct of the Sheriffs, 4. Objection to evidence of facts not alleged in the petition, ib. Question upon dividing the cafe, 7. Further proceedings, 11. Land-tax affeffments put in, ib. Petitioner's cafe fummed up, 13. Argument upon the nature of the Sheriff's Office, ib. Defence of the Sheriffs, 15. Mill-Voters, 23. Special report of the Committee, 28. Proceedings in the House thereupon, ib. Proof of agency, ib. Agency of an Evidence of Analysis of the fcrutiny, 36a. Ad- Petition frivolous and vexatious, 147. Profeffional confidence, Petitioner's cafe, 150. Call of the House, 149, note. For the contents of this part of the cafe, the reader is referred to the W. Vince, 160. Payment of the rates by the Landlord, 161. Production of rates by the parish office at the election, 166. Exclufion of witnesses; agents, barristers: 167. Cafe and opinion refpecting the tender of votes at the poll, ib. Note (A.) Of inspections granted by the House of Commons, and forms of the Speaker's warrants, 171. note (B). Expences of non-refident voters, 178. Arguments, whether or not they may legally be paid by the voter, ib. Agency, general and particular, 185. Charge of bribery, &c. against a petitioner who has abandoned bis claim to the feat, 188. Proof of Agency, 194 CASE XXXVII. The Borough and Town of Weymouth and • Melcombe Regis, 195 Right of election agreed at the election, difputed before the Committee, 196. Electors heard, although not Petitioners, 197. Trial of the right of election, 198. Conftruction of ftat. 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 25. with respect to the divifion of freeholds, 202. 207. Occafionality discussed, 210. Decifion and report, 225. Evidence of reputation, 226. refted perfons, ib. Declarations of voters against their own titles, made after the election, 227. Evidence of the contents of title deeds, 228. Titles of voters not impeached by quo warranto, 229. Cafe of Mountain v. Adkin, 231, Note (A). CASE XXXVIII. The Borough of Ilchester, Hearfay of inte 237 Right of election, 238. Petition against the pretenfions of a petitioner, 239. Evidence not admiffible, to alter a right agreed before a committee, 239. To fhew the fenfe of the quord householder' in a particular place, 241. Argument upon the meaning of that word, 243. Decifion, 244. Bribery of a voter at a former election, 245. Decifion of the committee upon the effect of it, 250. Settlement by paying rates, 251. Decifion and report of the committee, ib. Voter, where a witness against his own vote, ib. Prifoner a witness, ib. Note (A.) upon the fituation of candidates not petitioning, who have a majority on the poll over the petitioner, 252. Note (B.) form of a writ for a fecond election, the first having been declared void, Page 254 CASE XXXIX. The Borough of Malden, 255 ib. CASE XLV. The Borough of Aylesbury, 258 Right of election, 259. Parliamentary history of the borough, Bribery, ib. Decifion and report, 260. Special report, ib. No evidence against an unsuccessful candidate, who does not petition, 261. Proof of bribery of voters, ib. Witness's belief, ib. Exclufion of witnesses, 262. Commitment of witnesses, 256. Proceedings in Parliament, ib, Petition of appeal, ib. To defend the right, 277. State- ments, 278. Rejected, being inconfiftent with the petition, ib. When delivered in, 279. Evidence, ib. Argument for the oppofing petitioners, 302. Nature of elective right, ib. Bodies not incorporate, holding lands, 303. Inhabi- tants, 304. Returns, 308. Jurifdiction of H. of C. 310. Argument for the defending petitioner, 310. In- corporation of inhabitants, 311. Bye-laws of a corporation Double return, 325. One candidate abandons his return, ib. Facts of the cafe, ib. Authorities cited by the petitioner of Question, whether a petition fhould be voted frivolous and vexa- tious, in confequence of matters that have happened fince it Petition, ib. Facts of the cafe, 341. Defence of the fheriffs, 347. Argument for the fitting member, ib. What a poll is, 348. 388. St. 25 G. 3. c. 84, ib. The examination of votes by the Sheriff after 3 o'clock on the 15th day of the poll, 351. 363. Oaths at polling, 353. Relation, 355. 369. How far the returning officer bound by his own acts, 355 359. 361. Merits of the election, and return ment of the committee, ib. Return amended, ib. 352. 367. Adjourn- Note (A.) cafes of the diftinc- tion between questions upon the election and the return; and Special return, 382. Election prevented by riots, ib. of the cafe, 383. Decifion and Special report, ib. Pro- The fitting member declines to defend his feat, ib. Electors |