Page:A Few Plain Observations Upon the End and Means of Political Reform.djvu/29

 In Counties, and Cities which are Counties of themselves, copyhold or leasehold property of a certain amount, combined with actual residence, might also confer the same franchise under the same condition of registry.—And in the former I do not consider it difficult to establish an unexceptionable method of collecting the votes for the several districts of a county in the principal town of each district, and transmitting them to the Sheriff at the county-town, which would considerably diminish the confusion and expence of such elections. To this I would wish to add the transfer of the privilege of a few of the most ruinous and decayed Boroughs, now almost if not entirely destitute of inhabitants, to populous and opulent towns which at present possess not the elective franchise, subject however to the same restrictions as I have before proposed.