AT THE LAST GENERAL ELECTION. 1/ / 57 As to the qualifications of the electors, I am led to conclude, from your circular of the same date to the town- clerk of this borough, that the classification intended is freemen, as distinguished from other qualifications. If I am right in that conjecture, that part of the inquiry will be answered by the fact, that in this borough there are no freemen, and conse- quently all the electors here are entitled to vote as occupiers of houses, or mills, or ware- houses, or shops, or counting- houses, or for foundries, or beer- shops, or workshops, or dye- houses, or some combinations of these several kinds of tenements. To select the number of each of these would not only require considerable time, but would be fallacious, because the different overseers of the many townships or divisions of this borough make out their lists with a different specification of the same kind of property; as, for example, one overseer will describe in his list a building, consisting of a house, shop, and warehouse, as a house; another will describe it as a shop, and a third as a warehouse ; and although the whole may be rated as house, shop, and warehouse, in making out the list the overseer considers him- self only required to insert one of the three, and very generally selects that which is of greatest annual value. 20 December 1837. Thos. Wm. Tottie, Mayor and Returning Officer. LEICESTER. Parliamentary Electors for 1836 : Freemen without any other qualification - resident - — ______ non- resident Freemen with 10 /. qualification - — with scot and lot qualification - — with scot and lot and 10/. qualifications Total Number of Freemen Persons having the 10 I. qualification ------ — having the scot and lot qualification - — having the scot and lot and 10/. qualifications Total Number of Electors Parliamentary Electors for 1837 : Freemen without any other qualification - resident - — _-_--_ non- resident Freemen with the 10/. qualification - — with scot and lot qualification - —• with scot and lot and 10/. qualifications Total Number of Freemen - - Persons having the 10/. qualification ------- — having the scot and lot qualification - — having the scot and lot and 10/. qualifications - Total Number of Electors - - 329. H 3