§ MR. RATHBONEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If 625 the Government will introduce a Bill to create only one register for both Parliamentary and Municipal Franchises, and otherwise remedy defects in the Registration Acts affecting Boroughs?
MR. ASSHETON CROSSIt is not the intention of the Government to bring in a Bill to create one Register for the Parliamentary and Municipal franchises, which would involve increase of the work, and therefore pay, of the Revising Barristers, and alterations in the times of revision or of municipal elections, and would at best produce two lists on one piece of paper so long as the franchises are distinct. But with regard to the last part of the Question, which chiefly relates to "frivolous objections," that matter is under the consideration of the Government.