HC Deb 13 March 1884 vol 285 c1372
MR. BIDDELL

asked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether, under the Representation of the People Bill, the present anomaly will be continued, under which a resident in a Parliamentary borough possessing a 40s. freehold in a county has a vote for it, while a resident in a county having a £50 freehold in a Parliamentary borough cannot vote for that borough?

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir HENRY JAMES),

in reply, said, that the Bill throughout maintained the distinction between the occupation vote for the borough and the property vote for the county.