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Title: [1818 May 9 Parl. Reform Bill]

Description: 1818 May 9

Parl. Reform Bill

{Text} 3 o Exposition

VIII. Penal Securities

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II Offences tending by means of forgery to produce Miselection by means of forgery

are as follows, viz.

4. Where, for the purposes of producing deception {in respect of the name of the

proposed Voter or the name of any Certifier, or any other word contained in it,} a

paper /document falsely/ purporting to be a Vote-conferring Certificate, is, {with

the view of producing deception} fabricated, or a paper /document/ truly purporting

to be a Vote-conferring Certificate, altered.

5. Where {for the purpose of producing deception}, a document falsely purporting to

be a Recommendatory Certificate delivered in favour of a proposed Member is

fabricated, or any document purporting to be a Recommendatory Certificate in favour

of a proposed Member, altered.

6. Where, {for the purpose of producing deception}, a document falsely purporting to

be a Voting-Card, duly signed by an Election Clerk, or by the Substitute of an

Election Clerk, or by an Assistant of such Clerk or such Substitute has been /is/

fabricated, or any document truly purporting to be a /such/ Voting Card, altered.

{ This apply to all

7. Guilty moreover of Election falshood is every person by whom for the purpose of

deception any such false assertion has been procured, or been endeavoured to be

procured. {Such false assertion is accompanied with criminal consciousness.}}

[marginal note:] { Postpone and render all comprehensive.}

{ 8. Guilty moreover of Election falshood is every person, by whom for the purpose

of deception, any untrue conception has been conveyed or endeavoured to be conveyed,

in and by any /his/ signature of his which has been attached the signature of his

name applied by him to the text of a Recommendatory Certificate.}

[marginal note:] { Superseded by p.1. note 5.}

JB_128_184.xml

Title: [1818 April 24 Parl. Reform Bill]

Description: 1818 April 24

Parl. Reform Bill

Text

VIII Penal Securities

1. Falshood

1. II Vote-conferring Certificate, by Certificate

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IV. Turning on an enraged Bull setting up a way[?] of mad dog &c. This is the

Explanations.

See the list of Costs: Offences correspond with them.

§.V. Penal Securities against Election Offences.

V. Offences producing a tendency to produce injury to the person, property, or

reputation of individuals on the occasion of the Election process.

Art. 1. Election Offences are as follows viz.

I. Election falshood.  include under this head 1. lies for or against Candidates. 2.

lies tending to prevent men entitled from giving their votes: i.e. to produce undue

exclusion.

II. Election forgery

III. Offences tending to produce wrong Election: i e the election of a wrong person:

of a person in whose favour the number of legitimate Votes greater /more in number/

than any that have been given in favour of any other proposed Member have all been

given.

IV. Practices having for their object or their effect, the preventing the completion

of the Election process – tending to produce void Election or Non-Election

Art. 2. Election falshood is commissible in any of the manners following viz.

1. On the occasion of a Vote-conferring Certificate, it is committed by a person

signing the same, it is committed in so far as any one or more of the distinguishable

assertions therein contained, and made in and by such signature fails of being

conformable to truth.

In any such case the falshood /utterance of evil/ may be either be accompanied

either with criminal consciousness, or chargeable only with rashness /temerity/ or

negligence.

It is accompanied with criminal consciousness, in so far as the falsity of the

assertion at the time of utterance is known by him by whom it is made /thus expressed

/asserted//

It is chargeable only with rashness or negligence in so far as though the individual

by whom the false assertion is uttered was not at the time of his uttering it

conscious of its being false, he is in this respect culpable to evil in respect of

his not having made that inquiry which he ought to have made, and after which, had he

made {it}, he could not without criminal consciousness have uttered the false

assertion so uttered as above

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Title: [1818 May 10 Parl. Reform Bill]

Description: 1818 May 10

Parl. Reform Bill

3 o Text Exposition

VIII Penal Securities

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III Offences tending by means of deceptious conduct /deportment/ /practice/ to

produce Miselection /{Wrong Election}/ are as follows, viz.

1. Where in any Election District for the purpose of causing {the} /an illegitimate/

vote {of a person not entitled to a vote therein} to be received and take effect as

if such illegitimate were a legitimate vote /it were legitimate/ any person causes or

endeavours to cause, himself or any other person to be in possession of some /any/

{such} Voting Card, or any written instrument purporting to be a Voting Card, {the

same not} with the intent /for the purpose/ that such Voting Card /Card or

instrument/ shall be applied to the purpose of voting in that same district by some

person in whose favour no genuine /legitimate/ Vote-conferring

Certificate has been obtained: and who therefore can not have it in his power

by the delivery of any such Certificate to the Voting Clerk to entitle himself to

{receive and} apply to use a Voting Card {by the delivery of any such

Certificate}.