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The Daily Dispatch: November 12, 1860., [Electronic resource], The Press on the State of the country. (search)
No. 1 is not a pleasant expedient for a discontented member, desirous of evading the cares of State. Nos. 2 and 3, if not open to objection, are not always open to uneasy members. Nos. 4, 5, and 6 are intended for a different class. Therefore No. 7 is the only ordinary mode of relief. A rather roundabout one it is, too. In the southern part of the county of Buckinghamshire is a range of chalk hills, embracing a tract of country fifteen or twenty miles wide, which are called the "Chiltern Hills." The country was once covered with forests, which were infested 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