to the office of county councillor (for
this qualification no property qualification is required, but the
office of a councillor elected on this qualification only becomes
vacant if for six months he ceases to reside within the county); (4) a
peer owning property in the county; (5) registered as a parliamentary
voter in respect of the ownership of property in the county. Clerks in
holy orders and ministers of religion are not disqualified as they are
for being borough councillors, but in other respects the persons
disqualified to be elected for a county are the same as those
disqualified to be elected for a borough. Such disqualifications
include the holding of any office or place of profit under the council
other than the office of chairman, and the being concerned or
interested in any contract or employment with, by or on behalf of
the council. Women, other than married women, are eligible.

[Illustration: Map of ENGLAND & WALES--Section V.]

County councillors are elected for a term of three years, and at the
end of that time they retire together. The ordinary day of election is
the 8th March, or some day between the 1st and 8th March fixed by the
council. Candidates are nominated in writing by a nomination paper
signed by a proposer and seconder, and subscribed by eight other
assenting county electors of the division; and in the event of there
being more valid nominations than vacancies a poll has to be taken in
the manner prescribed by the Ballot Act 1872. Corrupt and illegal
practices at the election are forbidden by a statute passed in the
year 1894, which imposes heavy penalties and disqualifications for the
offences which it creates. These offences include not only treating,
undue influence, bribery and personation, but certain others, of which
the following are the chief. Payment on account of the conveyance of
electors to or from the poll; payment for any committee room in excess
of a prescribed number; the incurring of expenses in and about the
election beyond a certain maximum; employing, for the conveyance of
electors to or from the poll, hackney carriages or carriages kept for
hire; payments for bands, flags, cockades, &c.; employing for payment
persons at the election beyond the prescribed number; printing and
publishing bills, placards or posters which do not disclose the name
and address of the printer or publisher; using as committ