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xliv election, 267, 270—Suffrage to be treated as a valuable right, 271—Amendment of the registration system, 272—Removal of disfranchisements in respect of office, 273—Special facilities for voting by deposit of voting papers in special cases, 274— Voting by seamen, travellers, &., 274—by British subjects in the colonies, 275—Women’s suffrage, 275.

Reasons for increasing the functions and powers of local governing bodies 277, 279—Defects of the Municipal Corporation Act, 279—Arbitrary restriction of voters to particular wards, 279—“Gerrymandering,” 279—Impolicy of arbitrary qualifications of candidates, 280–282—Elections of a third every third year, 282—Absence of direct representation of property, 283–285—Form of proprietary voting-paper, 285—Indirect election of the Board of Works, 286—A metropolitan corporation, 286–289—Conclusion, 290.

Switzerland: Association Réformiste, Geneva. MM. Ernest Naville, Roget, and Morin, 292—Classification of Systèmes Empiriques, 293—and Systèmes rationnels, 294—La liste libre, 295.

Method proposed in 1863 in Frankfort, page 298.

Valuation of first and contingent votes, formerly proposed, but subsequently withdrawn (see p. 186), page 301.

Report of Mr. Lytton of the application of the system in Denmark, page 302.

Mr. Droop’s method of reducing the dividend and thereby the quota, page 305.