1818 April 16 + §.9 (2)

Parl. Reform Bill

Reasons

§ {8}9 Election Districts

II Mathematical first

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Question Why require a survey upon a mathematical plan to be taken in the first instance?

Answer. Because considerable as may be the length of time that will have elapsed before an operation of this sort can have been performed, yet without it scarcely by any means could a demarcation such as the proposed plan it necessarily depends upon for its execution, be effected /made/. Altogether inadequate to this purpose is the whole stock of the materials /documents/ already in existence.

In the Population Tables are indeed given the population numbers expressive of the population of the several parishes, and where there are any such, of the divisions subordinate to {those distinguished by the name of} parishes. But, the order in which these as well as the superordinate divisions are ranged being alphabetical only, not topographical, by /from/ no such alphabetical order /document/ could any tolerably grounded determination be deduced either on the question which two in case of a thinly peopled spot should be put together, or into what parts in the case of a densely peopled spot, viz. as in a town too large for the population of it to be crowded /compressed/ together within the compass of a single district the territory of it should be divided.