The Elementary Education Acts, 1870, 1873, 1874 & 1876: With Introduction, Notes, and Index

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Page 213 - Acts before a court of summary jurisdiction. The term "Summary Jurisdiction Acts" means as follows : As to England, the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled "An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales with respect to summary convictions and orders...
Page 167 - Consideration, to or for any Voter, or to or for any Person on Behalf of any Voter, or to or for any other Person in order to induce...
Page 168 - ... any meat drink entertainment or provision to or for any person, for the purpose of corruptly influencing that person or any other person to give or refrain from giving his vote...
Page 17 - ... attend the school on any day exclusively set apart for religious observance by the religious body to which his parent belongs.
Page 168 - The following persons shall also be deemed guilty of bribery, and shall be punishable accordingly:— (1.) Every voter who shall, before or during any election, directly or indirectly, by himself or any other person on his behalf, receive, agree, or contract for any money, gift, loan, or valuable consideration, office, place, or employment, for himself or for any other person, for voting or agreeing to vote, or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting at any election...
Page 33 - It shall be the duty of the parent of every child to cause such child to receive efficient elementary instruction in reading, writing, and arithmetic, and if such parent fail to perform such duty, he shall be liable to such orders and penalties as are provided by this Act.
Page 518 - Now therefore, We the Local Government Board, in pursuance of the powers given to Us by the Statutes in that behalf, hereby order as follows : — "ARTICLE I.
Page 507 - Board. 1. The board shall meet for the despatch of business, and shall from time to time make such regulations with respect to the summoning, notice, place, management, and adjournment of such meetings, and generally with respect to the transaction and management of business, including the quorum at...
Page 187 - Every question at a meeting shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members present and voting on that question, and in case of an equal division .of votes the chairman shall have a second or casting vote.
Page 165 - ... applies for a ballot paper in the name of some other person, whether that name be that of a person living or dead or of a fictitious person, or who having voted once at any such election applies at the same election for a ballot paper in his own name.

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