1818 May 9 +

Parl. Reform Bill

{Text} 3 o Exposition

VIII. Penal Securities

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Causes /Offences/ by which Miselection may be produced are – 1. Forgery. 2.

Fraudulent personation. 3. False assertion in writing or by word of mouth. 4.

Deceptive deportment 5. Delivery or purveyance[?] of unfree suffrage. 6. Undue

exclusion of Votes. 7 Undue introduction of Votes.

I Offences tending by means of simple falshood to produce Miselection are as follows,

viz.

1. Where, by means of his signature an assertion, made by a proposed Voter is in

respect of any of the matters so asserted by him in the tenor of his Vote-conferring

Certificate, {not conformable to the truth} /{untrue}/ in any material particular,

untrue

2. Where, by means of his signature, an assertion made by a Certifier, in the tenor

of a Vote-conferring Certificate is in relation to /respect of/ any of the matters so

asserted by him, in any material particular, untrue

3. Where, by means of his signature an assertion made by a Recommending Nominator in

the tenor of a Recommendatory Certificate, framed for the purpose of nominating a

proposed Member, is in relation to any of the matters so asserted by him, in any

material particular untrue.

Any such false assertion {i.e. made /conveyed/ as above,} is /was/, if made for the

purpose of deception and thereby of producing the mischief /evil/ in question,

accompanied with criminal consciousness and intention.

Any such false assertion so made is, if not made for the purpose of deception,

liable to have been produced by culpable heedlessness or rashness.