Corrupt Practices (Suspension of Elections) Act 1881
WHEREAS, in pursuance of addresses to Her Majesty from both Houses of Parliament in relation to elections of members to serve in Parliament for the cities and boroughs mentioned in the schedule to this Act, commissioners were appointed by commissions, dated the ninth day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighty, for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices at the elections of members to serve in Parliament for the said cities and boroughs: And whereas th...