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Cities, towns. &c. with a population exceeding 10,000 according to accounts taken under 55 Geo. 3. c. 120., &c. may be constituted electoral divisions;
and may be divided into wards for election of guardians.
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2. Where in the abstract of the accounts of the population taken by authority of Parliament under an Act made in the fifty-fifth year of the reign of King George the Third, and the several Acts amending the same, the population of any city, borough, or town, and the suburbs thereof, shall be stated to exceed ten thousand, or where the population of any other place shall be so stated to exceed ten thousand, and the area of such place shall not exceed three miles for every ten thousand persons, it shall be lawful for the said commissioners to constitute such city, borough, or town, and the suburbs thereof, or such other place, or any part or parts thereof respectively, an electoral division for the purposes of the said Act, and, for the purpose of conducting the election of guardians, from time to time to divide such electoral division into such and so many wards, and to alter the same, as they may see fit, and to determine and alter the number of guardians to be elected by the rate-payers in every such ward.
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