Author: REFORM BILL
Title: Programme of the Grand Jubilee Procession, to take place in Edinburgh on Friday 10th August, 1832, in Honour of the Passing of the Reform Bills.
Description: Edinburgh? Printed at the North Briton Office, 1832. Drop head title, 8o. bifolium, final page blank, disbound. A programme for a procession y all the different trades and public bodies in the city. The Reform Act of 1832 was the first of the great reformations of the parliamentary election process by abolishing small boroughs, some of which had a s few as a dozen electors, enfranchising the towns and cities and giving the vote to small landowners, tenant farmers, shopkeepers and householders who paid rent of £10 or more, as well as some lodgers. It specifically barred women from voting by defining a voter as a male person.

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