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Commissioners shall define limits of the respective cities and towns, and make out a registry of persons occupying houses of 5l. annual value or upwards, distinguishing houses of 20l.
Tickets shall be delivered to occupiers.
Occupiers not admitted to vote without exhibiting tickets.
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21. It shall be lawful for the commissioners for the time being for the execution of this Act in any city, town corporate, borough, market town, or other town, under this Act, and they are hereby authorized, empowered, and required, to determine the limits of such city, town corporate, borough, market town, or other town, respectively, and of the suburbs and liberties thereof respectively, to which the purposes of this Act shall extend; and to cause to be kept, and from time to time with all diligence and care, and upon reasonable requests at all times, to revise and amend, a registry of all the householders resident within such city, town corporate, borough, market town, or other town, or the limits of the suburbs and liberties thereof respectively determined by such commissioners as aforesaid, and occupying houses of the annual value of five pounds or upwards; and such registry shall distinguish such of the said householders as shall occupy houses of the annual value of twenty pounds or upwards, their descriptions and abodes; and such commissioners shall cause a ticket containing an extract from registry to be prepared and delivered to every person so registered who shall demand the same, and such ticket shall be subscribed by the chairman of the commissioners and by the clerk of the said commissioners for the time being; and no person shall be admitted to vote at any election, except the first election held pursuant to this Act, unless such persons shall exhibit such tickets at the time of voting, if required so to do; and it shall be lawful for such commissioners at their discretion to take measures to preclude the intrusion of any persons not provided with tickets into the place of meeting.
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