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Parl. Ref. Supplemental Resolutions

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3. That the whole number of the Representatives of the people

having as such seats in this House ought for the present to remain unchanged: but

that no more than one Member ought to serve for any one place.

4 That for the purpose of practical equality and prevention of

disorder the whole surface of the /this/ United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

being by a mathematical operation be measured out and laid

out upon a Map or competent number of Maps be divided into 658 Districts as nearly

equal as may be: and that for such subsequent division as should thereupon and

thereafter be made this primary division made upon the purely territorial principle

should serve and be[?] employed as a standard of reference

5 That for the formation of the ultimate and practical division,

a Map or set of Maps should be made of the Island of great Britain in which the

districts comprising the result of a division made upon the above mathematical,

topographical, purely territorial principle of division being marked by lines of one

colour and appearance {for example by these red lines under continued} the existing

sections and sub-sections and sub sub sections /of the first, second and third

orders/ viz Counties, Hundreds or other such parts of Counties, and Parishes or other

such parts of Hundreds and where the Parishes are large, Hamlets or other such parts

of Parishes should each such order of division be distinguished by a set of lines in

form or colour different from the rest