1818 April 27 +

Parl. Reform Proposed Resolutions

Concluding Details

1

{  This to be substituted to the commencement of the Resolutions of Detail as they

stand in a former draught }

Concluding Resolutions exhibitive of the outline of the plan

ar 1. That for the production and application of the

abovementioned salutary and indispensable counterinfluence, it will be expedient and

necessary, to admitt, to a participation in the Election suffrage, all such persons,

as, being of the male sex and mature age, shall at the time of giving their

respective votes, be in possession of such income of appropriate intellectual

aptitude, the possession of which is capable of being established by an

unquestionable test: which test is, in the instance of each individual constituted by

the faculty of reading, considered as applicable to the purpose of taking and keeping

under his view the tenor laws all such documents as may be necessary to enable him to

form a well-grounded judgment concerning the aptitude, absolute and comparative, of

the several persons among whom in the character of proposed Representatives he will

have to choose.