[208:6] 48-49 Vic., c. 3. The Act also extended the household qualification—both for counties and boroughs—to men who occupy a dwelling-house not as owners or tenants, but by virtue of their office or employment, provided the employer does not also occupy the house, the object of that proviso being to exclude domestic servants. This qualification is known as the "service franchise."
[209:1] 48-49 Vic., c. 3, 6; and see also 2-3 Will. IV., c. 45, § 24, and 30-31 Vic., c. 102, § 59.
[209:2] Rogers on Elections, I., 64-66. The references to Rogers are to the 16th Ed. of Vol. I., to the 17th Ed. of Vol. II.
[209:3] The amount required for the qualification of freeholders in boroughs which are counties is not exactly the same as in counties; and the leasehold qualifications do not extend to them. In England there are now only four boroughs which retain these rights: Bristol, Exeter, Norwich, and Nottingham. Rogers on "Elections," I., 160 et seq.
[210:1] Rent charges, whether arising from the commutation of tithes or otherwise, are realty, and qualify a voter as land.
[210:2] If the land is copyhold or other tenure, it must in any case be of the yearly value of £5.
[210:3] The £50 leaseholders admitted by the Chandos Clause in the Act of 1832 were required to occupy the land, and are now included in the £10 occupation franchise.
[211:1] Rogers, I., 61-63, 125.
[211:2] Ibid., 27, 66.
[212:1] Rogers, I., 148-49, 162. In the City of London he may reside within twenty-five miles.