| Administrative history | An Act of 1832 (2 & 3 William IV cap. 45) abolished the assessments to land tax as an electoral qualification and required an annual register to be made. Claims in the prescribed form were to be sent to the overseers of the poor who complied the lists which were then submitted to a revising barrister for claims and objections. The revised list was then printed by the Clerk of the Peace.
After 1889 and the creation of the County Council, the Clerk of the County Council acts as returning officer, but the records have been kept together in one series. |