apply to every person disqualified under this section for being registered as a voter. (3.) Any person named in any of the said schedules to the said commissioners' reports against whom any criminal proceeding has been instituted for the corrupt practice referred to in the schedule, within the time limited for the purpose, and who has been acquitted, shall not be subject to any disqualification under this Act. (4.) Any copy of a report of the said commissioners, and of the schedules annexed to that report, if purporting to be printed by any printer to Her Majesty, or under the authority of Her Majesty's Stationery Office, shall be sufficient evidence of the said report and schedules. PART III. DISQUALIFICATION OF VOTERS FOR CORRUPT 27. The Acts mentioned in the first part of the Eighth Schedule to this Act, whereby certain persons reported guilty of corrupt practices are declared not to have certain rights of voting, are hereby repealed to the extent in the third column of that schedule mentioned. 28.-(1.) Whereas commissioners appointed by Her Majesty, in pursuance of Addresses from both Houses of Parliament in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty, reported that at Parliamentary elections for the boroughs named in the second part of the Eighth Schedule to this Act, the persons named in the schedules to the said reports had been guilty of corrupt practices, be it therefore enacted, that— Where in any of the schedules to the said reports a person is named as having been guilty of any bribery, treating, or personation at an election held in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty for the Parliamentary borough therein mentioned, that person shall be incapable during the period of seven years next after the presentation of the said reports respectively: (a.) Of being registered as a voter and of (2.) Section thirty-nine of the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act, 1883, shall PART IV. ACCELERATION OF REGISTRATION IN 1885. 29. If in the present year it is made to appear to any judge of the High Court of Justice, sitting in Chambers at any time after the fifth day of September, that the lists of voters for any Parliamentary county or borough in England cannot by reason of the insufficient number of barristers be revised within the period fixed by this Act, such judge shall appoint one or more duly qualified barristers to act in addition to the barristers originally appointed for such county borough, and a barrister so appointed shall have the same duties, powers, and authorities as if he had been originally appointed. or Where the Lord Chief Justice or judge appoints in the present year barristers for counties and boroughs, he shall appoint them to act for all the counties and boroughs for which he has power to appoint revising barristers; and each barrister, when acting for any county or borough, shall have the same duties, powers, and authorities as if he had been appointed sole revising barrister for such county or borough. The duties of barristers so appointed shall be distributed among them as the Lord Chief Justice or judge who appoints them, or, after the fifth day of September, any judge of the High Court of Justice sitting in Chambers, may direct. eighth day of September and the eighth day of October both inclusive, and shall be revised as soon as possible after the seventh day of September, and the eighth day of September shall be substituted in the Acts relating to the registration of parliamentary voters for the fifteenth day of September; and the declarations under section ten of the County Voters Registration Act, 1865, and section twenty-four of the Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act, 1878, shall be sent to the clerk of the peace or town clerk on or before the fifth day of September. (b.) The printed book or register containing the lists of voters, when revised, shall be delivered to the returning officer for the parliamentary county or borough to which such book or register relates on or before the seventh day of November, and shall be the register of persons entitled to vote for the county or borough at any election of a member to serve in Parliament which takes place after that day, or if this present Parliament is not then dissolved, then after the date of such dissolution, and before the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven. (c.) In sections sixty-two and sixty-three of the Act of the session of the sixth and seventh years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter eighteen, relating to appeals from revising barristers in England, "the Michaelmas sittings of the 66 High Court of Justice" shall be substituted for "the Michaelmas term," and forthwith after the fourth day of the Michaelmas sittings a court or courts shall sit for the purpose of hearing such appeals, and those appeals shall be heard and determined continuously and without delay, and any statement by the barrister for the purpose of any such appeal made in pursuance of section forty-two of the said Act may be made at any time within ten days after the conclusion of the revision, so that it be made not less than four days before the first day of the said Michaelmas sittings, and the statement need not be read in open court, but shall be submitted to the appellant, who shall sign the same as directed by the said section, and return the same to the barrister. (d.) In section five of the Ballot Act, 1872, relating to polling districts, the first day of October shall be substituted for the first day of November, as respects the date at which orders relating to polling districts apply to registers of voters. 31. In Scotland, notwithstanding anything contained in section thirteen of the Representation of the People Act, 1884, the register of voters made in the present year shall come into force on the first day of November one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five. 32. In Ireland, in the present year (a.) The lists of voters shall be revised between the first day of September and the eighth day of October, both inclusive, and shall be revised as soon as possible after the first day of September, and that day shall be substituted in the Parliamentary Registration (Ireland) Act for the eighth day of September. (b.) Notice of the holding of a revision court may be given by the chairman or revising barrister to the clerk of the peace at any time not less than five days before the holding of the court, and shall be published and posted by the clerk of the peace forthwith. 66 (c.) The book or books constituting the register of voters for every county and borough shall be signed and delivered to the sheriff or returning officer not later than the seventh day of November. Such register shall commence and come into force on the seventh day of November, or if this present Parliament is not then dissolved, then on the day of such dissolution, and shall be the register of voters in force between the day on which it commences and the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven. (d.) In sections seventy-five and seventy-six of the Act of the session of the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter sixty-nine, relating to appeals from chairmen or revising barristers, the Michaelmas sittings of "the High Court of Justice in Ireland" shall be substituted for "the Michaelmas term," and forthwith after the fourth day of the Michaelmas sittings, a court or courts shall sit for the purpose of hearing such appeals, and those appeals shall be heard and determined continuously and without delay, and any statement by the chairman or revising barrister for the purpose of any such appeal made in pursuance of section fifty-eight of the said Act may be made at any time within ten days after the conclusion of the revision, so that it be made not less than four days before the first day of the said Michaelmas sittings, and the statement need not be read in open court, but shall be submitted to the appellant, who shall sign the same as directed by the said section, and return |