THE CHILTERN HUNDREDS.
APPLICATION BY SIR E. CLARKE.
Received June 8, 10 p.m. LONDON, June 8.
Sir Edward Clarke, M.P., has applied for the Chiltern hundreds. He informed the electors that he had retired because he had been medically warned that he could not continue his political career unless at serious risk to his health.
(At one time the Ghilfcern Hills, between* Bedford and Hertford, were covered with beech (trees whioh formed shelter for robbers. So a steward was appointed by the Crown to put down those marauders and protect the inhabitants of the neighbourhood from depredations. The necessity of such watoh and ward has long since ceased, but the office remains; and, since 1870, when a Member of Parliament wishes to vacate his seat one way of doing so is by applying for the stewardship of the three Ohiltern Hundreds (Stokes, Desborough, and Bonenham). The application being granted, the member is advanced to an office under the Crown, and bis seat in the House is ex-offioio vacated. Immediately the member has effected his object, he resigns his office again. The gift is in the bands of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It was refused to a member for Beading in 1842).
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8156, 9 June 1906, Page 5
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202THE CHILTERN HUNDREDS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8156, 9 June 1906, Page 5
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