The Returning Officers Act 1854
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Sixty-eight, it is amongst other things enacted, that the Writ for making any Election of Member to serve in Parliament for any Borough, Town Corporate, Port, or Place returning Members to serve in Parliament in England and Wales shall thereafter be directed to the Returning Officer of such Borough, Town Corporate, Port, or Place respectively: And wh...