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Show CURIOSITIES OF THE ENGLISH. BALLOT. At Hemyock, Devon, there Is a small farm which cArrics six votes. Part of the farm Is In the Tiverton division, part in the Honiton and part in the Wellington, and the landlord and ten-nant, ten-nant, of course, get votes in each. Khyd, in Flintshire, has only three men within Its bounds as voters and these entirely rule tho village. There are five cottages, however, and one shop, together with a public house. Thus the parish council can only consist con-sist of the three voters. Nobody is ever troubled much by the rate collector col-lector in Rhyd. nor Is any householder household-er ever ejected for non-payment of his rates. An even more remarkable state of affairs prevails at Hardsey, at the southwestern end of Carnarvonshire It has a fair number of inhabitants, yet it elects one man to act as the leader of its council, and he has practically prac-tically the sole voice as -to what rates i-hall be levied or paid nnd what shall not; also as to how the money Is to be spent. Crcslow. a parish In the beautiful Vale of Aylesbury, Is another an-other lemarkahlo example of one-man nilo There stands but a single house in the whole parish, namely, Crcslow manor, whose owner, W. It. CreElow, has, therefore, the whole and sole' government of the district, electing himself by his own vote to form the parish council, making his own rates and paying them to himself, alter which he has the pleasure of spending spend-ing them as he ploises. |