HC Deb 12 June 1868 vol 192 c1477
LORD HENLEY

said, he would beg to call the attention of the Secretary of State for the Home Department to the fact that there are cases in which one part of a parish is in a borough, and the other part of the parish in a county, and to point out that confusion must arise if the overseers do not make out separate lists. He wished to know, Whether the right hon. Gentleman would cause the Clerks of the Peace to send instructions to the overseers to make out separate lists?

MR. GATHORNE HARDY

said, in reply, that provision was made in the Bill for separate lists of borough and county voters in those parishes which wore partly within boroughs and partly within counties. It was, however, impossible for him to give instructions to clerks of the peace which he had at present no legal authority to issue.