... FEBRUARY 7. 1918. iNEW . FRANCHISE I ACT Peers Stand Finn on P.R. and Alternative Vote PROVISIONS DROPPED Commission to Form Scheme of Proportional Representation THE SESSION ENDS The Representation of the People Act, with the l'roportional ...

... Vice-Chairm an , presiding, have approved of a draft scheme of go polling districts under the Representation of the People Act, and the Redistribution of Seats Act, the figures being in the several constituencies : East Down, 2 4; West, r 9; South, 16; North ...

... Division under the Representation of the People Act is included in the present North Belfast Division, and the. voters largely belong to the working classes. (Continued from Previous Column.) appear in a false position before the people of America, in the ...

... yesterday that the fees for pre , iding officers and poll clerk, at Parliamentary elections are Axed under the Representation of the People Act by Order in Council, which Order, both as regards England and Ireland. was issued by the English Privy Council ...

... him was dismissed. On the order dismissing the charge, an order was made by Mr. Swift.. under Section 96 of the Representation of the People Act, by wh'cli he awarded £lO compensation to his (counsel's) client. The essential part of that section before it ...

... Committee, and stated that in view , of the change brought about in the old divisions liv the operntion of the Representation of the People Act, the settetmg unanimously derided that the repos Notation of the forty members of the Coin mittee should be ...

... seconded by the president (Mr. Moran), it was unanimously resolved :—'* That this association regrets that the Representation of the People Act, 1918, contains no provision for the extending of the franchise to limited liability companies, private or otherwise ...

... (Ireland) Act, IMO. That Act applies only to Ireland. and there is no eerrelpooding section in any English Act. section, omitting unneresesty words, reads as follows— Far the purview of household qualification created by tie Representation of the ...

... }IOW* %molly lot out to um dar tenancies was not the less the inhabitant occupier of the dwell. bonne within the Representation of the, People Act, 1867 by ersaou of the landlord ls'ing rated and paying taxes, but not residing' the burs* no eteining control ...

... A new situation, however, has now arisen, brought about by the passing into law of the Representation of the People Act and the Redistribution of Seats (Ireland)'Act. The electorate has been practically doubled. For the first time women have been admitted ...

... apt year, be must bold that Alderman Kelly his co-lessees were trustees within the meaning of Section 9 of the Representation of the PeOple Act, 1860, and disallow their claims. Mr. Corrigan. who appeared for the claimants, raid be twoold intimate to the ...

... Pembroke Urban Council also in attend- The Regigratk.i; Mick, iiopening the proceedings, mentioned that the Representation of the People Act had made far-reaching changes both in law and in procedure. It had practically abolished the system of registration ...