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 —universities and colleges,—to the right of returning representatives, will probably create many more constituencies than there are, or can be members in the House. All, or many of the contributory boroughs, also, instead of having one member to four or five towns, may apply for an order enabling them to act severally. Candidates will, therefore, frequently offer themselves for more than one constituency. The candidate for Ayr may be candidate also for Campbeltown and Irvine. If Trinity College, or Lincoln's Inn, had power to make a separate return of a representative, the candidate for Trinity College, of which he may be a distinguished member, might be also a candidate for his county, or a town adjacent to his estate; and the candidate for the Society of Lincoln's Inn might be a candidate also for the metropolis or for any parish in the metropolis, according as the metropolitan community should prefer to form aggregate or separate electoral bodies. In all cases in which one person might happen to be a candidate for more than one constituency, it would only be the returning officer for the first constituency, which he specifies in his notice to the registrar, and which is stated in the Gazette, who could, immediately after the close of the poll, return him. If this were otherwise, there might be a conflict in the action of two constituencies. If his quota be made up in the first constituency, he cannot be returned in the second until after his votes in that constituency shall have been forwarded to the registrar, and the result certified. If his quota be not made up on the first constituency, his votes will of course be also transmitted by that returning officer to the registrar.