ditional member to a certain number of boroughs in this schedule,
taking the number to be included in it to be forty-one, as it had been
fixed last session, and dividing the rest of the twenty-three members,
with two exceptions, among the newly enfranchised towns which, under the
late bill, were to have only one representative.

Of the twenty-three members required to fill up the numbers of the
house, it was proposed that ten should be given to the most considerable
towns in schedule B, one to Chatham, so as to render it independent of
Rochester, and another to the county of Monmouth, from which there had
been several petitions, stating that there was only one district of
boroughs in that county, although its population exceeded 100,000. The
rest of the twenty-three, he continued, were given to the large towns to
which the late bill gave one representative each. The consequence of
all this was, that there would be only thirty boroughs in schedule B,
instead of forty-one, and that in schedule C. instead of twelve members,
there would be forty-two: instead of ninety-six places, as by the old
bill, there would be only forty-nine returning one representative each.
His lordship next proceeded to the ten-pound qualification clause. As it
stood in the last bill, he said, the right of voting in boroughs was
to be enjoyed by occupiers of houses assessed to the house-duty, or
poor-rates at ten pounds, or rented, or of the annual value of the same;
but then this right was afterwards limited thus:--that no one whose
landlord compounded for the rates should be entitled to vote unless he
claimed to be rated in his own name, and that no one should be entitled
to vote for airy premises, unless he had occupied them for twelve
calendar months, and had not been in the receipt of parochial relief
during that time. He now proposed that every one who occupied a lease
of the value of ten pounds should have a right to vote in behalf of it,
provided he was rated,--not that he should be rated at ten pounds, but
that he should be assessed to the poor-rates, and then the only question
to be decided would be, whether he was the occupier of a house or a
warehouse of the stated value. It would also be enacted, that any person
who was not rated to the poor-rates might demand to be placed upon them,
and being so placed upon them, might claim to be put on the registry.
In other matters, his lordship said, connected with the right of voting,
the present b