Bemsvng Barristers (Payment). 37 " 38 Vict.

Amendment of section 59 payment of for revisingiB. o thftynthctio ofhe Prliamentary Electors Eegis- bste appointed to revise any list of voters in addition to the of substitutes appointed in case o theat illnss, or absence of6"7 Vict,fe j"-ni sen ta tration Act, 1843, with respect to the payment ofarrirs c. 18. as to subfitimtes

barrster

Same meanings as in 86 " 37 Vict, Revising Barristers Act, 1873.

c. 70.

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Provisions of Acts in CHAPTER 53.

An Act to amend the Law relating to the payment of [30th July 1874.] BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, Toy and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and ^Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. Whereas doubts have arisen as to whether the provisions Eevising Barristers. revising barristers originally appointed, apply to the paymentfe dh,e of any revising barrister, or from any other cause, and it isfi to remove such doubts, and to provide for the expe"ent payment of such substitutes: Be it therefore enacted that " Where by reason of the death, illness, or absence of any barrister appointed to revise the lists of voters for any county, city, or borough, or from any other cause, a barrister is after the passing of this Act appointed to act in the place of the barrister so originally appointed, there shall be paid to him out of the sum which under section fifty-nine of the Parlia mentory Electors Registration Act, 1843, would otherwise be payable to the barrister originally appointed, such sum for his remuneration and travelling expenses as to the Lord Chief Justice or judge who appointed him may seem reasonable. Every barrister so originally appointed, in forwarding toj's Tasury his appointment, and the statement of having completed his sittings, shall state whether any barrister has or has not been appointed as the Commissioners of Her Maestyre above mentioned to act in his place.

2. Terms in this Act have the same meaning as in the 8. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland 4. This Act may be cited as the Revising Barristers Act,fhdirt sixth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter eighty-foiu*, intituled " An Act to amend the law relating to " the appointment of revising barristers," may be cited as the 1874. The Act of the session of the thirty-fit an thy-

Revising Barristers Act, 1872.

This Act and the Revising Barristers '^ Act, 1872, and the Revising Barristers Act, 1873, may be cited together as the Revising Barristers Acts, 1872 to 1874.

5. The Acts specified in the schedule to this Act are hereby repealed from and after the passing of this Act to the

extent crpecified in the third column of that schedule, without schedule prejudice to anything done or suffered before the passing of repealed, this Act under the enactments hereby repealed.

6. No barrister shall be appointed after the passing of this Qualification Act to revise any list of voters for any county, city, or of revlsiiig borough in England who is of less than seven years standing, ""**^' imless he has been appointed in any year previous to the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three to be such revising barrister.

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6 " 7 Vict. c. 18. An Act to amend the Section twenty-nine iromdd always thathd 35 " 36 Vict. c. 84. An Act to amend the The whole Act.

Law for the Registration of Persons entitled to vote, and to define certain Rightsd reg-dings in te Ectionf Members to serve in Parliament for England and Wales. of voting, an toulate certain procee-hle Law rdating to thef Revisngrrirs. appointment oi Baste " Provie whenever " to te en of the section, and so much of the rest of the section as relates to the appoint-diiiu barristers in case of the insufficiency of the numberrirsriall appointed; an secnti from '* Provide alws that in the case o an barrister " to the en o ment of adton of barste oginydtio fify-dayfydf the section.

CHAPTER 54.

An Act to amend the Law respecting the Liability fhr and Valuation of certain Propertyor te pupose [7th August 1874.] BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as foUows: L This Act may be cited as " The Rating Act, 1874." 2. This Act shall not apply to Scotland or Ireland. T 2 of Rates.

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