This valuable measure has greatly increased the punishments for bribery, and has more strictly defined treating and undue influence, arranging for those crimes to be severely dealt with in future.

With regard to expenditure, it has prohibited all payments for the conveyance of voters to Poll or for the exhibition of placards. It has made punishable by heavy fines the employment of paid Canvassers, of Bands, and of Public-house Committee Rooms; has fixed one person only as Agent, through whom payments may be made, and has restricted expenditure to the following narrow limits:—