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... considerable number of freeholders of land in towns who had hitherto voted for knights of the shire were proposed to be transferred to the borough registers . On the 10th of March , 1859 , Lord John Russell gave notice that on the ...
... considerable number of freeholders of land in towns who had hitherto voted for knights of the shire were proposed to be transferred to the borough registers . On the 10th of March , 1859 , Lord John Russell gave notice that on the ...
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... considerable surprise . It appeared from the statistics , that out of the 488,920 persons entitled to vote in English and Welsh boroughs , 128,603 , or about twenty - six per cent . * were electors who come within the description of ...
... considerable surprise . It appeared from the statistics , that out of the 488,920 persons entitled to vote in English and Welsh boroughs , 128,603 , or about twenty - six per cent . * were electors who come within the description of ...
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... considerable number of persons , occupiers of 107. houses whose rates were paid , not by themselves , but by their landlords . In many parishes , either under the various Acts relating to the collection of rates , or by private ...
... considerable number of persons , occupiers of 107. houses whose rates were paid , not by themselves , but by their landlords . In many parishes , either under the various Acts relating to the collection of rates , or by private ...
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... householders . " This system of composition prevails most extensively with respect to the lowest class of houses . Of persons D rented at 107. and upwards a considerable majority pay their THE FRANCHISE BILL OF 1866 . 33.
... householders . " This system of composition prevails most extensively with respect to the lowest class of houses . Of persons D rented at 107. and upwards a considerable majority pay their THE FRANCHISE BILL OF 1866 . 33.
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Homersham Cox. rented at 107. and upwards a considerable majority pay their own rates . But below the 107. line , the practice of vicarious payment by the landlord is very general . Hence any provision for reducing the occupation fran ...
Homersham Cox. rented at 107. and upwards a considerable majority pay their own rates . But below the 107. line , the practice of vicarious payment by the landlord is very general . Hence any provision for reducing the occupation fran ...
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