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The Daily Dispatch: November 12, 1860., [Electronic resource], The Press on the State of the country. (search)
by robbers, to suppress whose depredations the office of "Stewards of Chiltern Hundreds" was established by the Crown. There are three of these stewardships. The duties of the office are now merely nominal, and the pay only forty shillings a year. The office is at the disposal of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and is retained only as a convenience for the members of the House of Commons. When a member wishes to vacate his seat he writes to the Chancellor, asking for an appointment as Steward for Chiltern Hundreds; and when the appointment is completed, a member of Parliament, usually connected with the government, moves that a writ of election be issued to choose a new member. In addition to the stewardships of Chiltern Hundreds, there is another sinecure, the "Escheatorship of Munster," which is usually conferred upon Irish members desirous of resigning. To expel a member of our Congress requires a two-thirds vote of the branch to which he belongs. In the British House