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1818 April 13 +

Parl Reform Bill

Reasons[?]

2. Electors Who

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{Art. 7. No person who, during the whole or any part of the time of his residence, in any such dwelling house as aforesaid, shall have been either Officer or Private, a in any branch of his Majesty's Military service ( ) whether by land or water shall in respect of such residence be entitled to a Vote, unless during the whole of such time he shall have ben the Householder thereof: (c) nor accordingly shall any Vote-making Certificate in his favour be received at the Posting Office, unless in the blank left for the insertion of the word Householder or the word Inmate as the case may be, the word Householder be inserted.}

(a) Question. Why on the part of a man engaged in the King's military service require householdership, rejecting Inmateship as insufficient.

Answer. Lest by stationing, in this or that Election District troops in sufficient numbers to constitute a majority of the whole number of electors in that district, the servants of the Crown in the military department should have the power of filling according to their own pleasure the respective seats: and by possibility even, by the same body of troops, seats more than one, by marching the same body in one and the same day, from one polling district to another polling district in a different Election District.

N.B. Supposing that Inmates are admitted to vote, Inmateship in the instance of the individual in question is the efficient cause of his title to vote, and that this clause stands part of the Act, a correspondent clause will require to be inserted in the blank Certificate. He has not during any part of this time been a Soldier in the regulars, a Sailor, a Marine or an Artillery man in his Majesty' service, either Officer or Private.