AT THE LAST GENERAL ELECTION. 281 CHICHESTER. Number of freemen on the register of 1837 as entitled to vote in the election of Members of Parliament - 12 Not otherwise qualified --------___ 9 Not municipal electors - - - - - _ _ _ . _ - 11 Number of municipal electors on the register after the revision of 1837 - - 905 Not qualified to vote for Members of Parliament ______ KJI Qualified to vote for Members of Parliament as freemen only - none. 19 February 1838. James Powell, Town Clerk. CHIPPENHAM. Number of freemen entitled to vote in the election for Members to serve in Par- liament on the register of 1837 - -- -- -- - 60 The whole of the above are not entitled to vote by virtue of any other qua- lification for Members of Parliament, and the whole of such freemen are municipal electors. The total number of municipal electors on the register after the revision of 1837 - 138 Number of such electors who are not also qualified to vote for members to serve in Parliament - -- -- -- -- -- - 22 Number of those who are so qualified as freemen only ----- 57 CLITHEROE. There are no freemen who are entitled to vote in the election of a Member of Parliament. The freemen are those persons who reside in and occupy certain ancient free burgage houses; are only freemen during such their occupancy, and who never exercised the right of voting for Members of Parliament, that right having been immemorially vested solely in the owners of such burgage tenements in fee, who are called burgesses of the borough. 20 December 1837. Robert Bradley, Town Clerk pro tem. COLCHESTER. Number of freemen on the register of 1837 entitled to vote in election of Mem- bers of Parliament - -- -- -- -- -- 457 Number of such freemen not entitled to vote by virtue of any other qualification for Members of Parliament ___----- - 457 The freemen are first entered by that designation only on the register, and are not in- cluded in the subsequent part of the register of new electors under the 10/. qualification, consequently the freemen, whether they actually possess the 10/. qualification or not, are not entered on the register as new electors, and, therefore, " are not entitled to vote by virtue of any other qualification for Members of Parliament; " therefore the whole number of freemen are inserted above. Number of such freemen who are not municipal electors ----- 262 The above number includes many freemen resident without the bounds of the borough, but within seven miles, who cannot, therefore, be municipal voters. Total number of municipal electors on the register after the revision of 1837 Number of such electors not qualified to vote for Members to serve in Parlia- ment -------- - - Number of such electors who are so qualified as freemen only - - - - 1,452 634 195 329. N N 3 W. Harding, Town Clerk.