2. The miscellaneous duties now imposed by statute on overseers, over and above their original duty of relieving the poor, are numerous. The most prominent, perhaps, is that of making out the list of voters for members of parliament. This duty is clone in obedience to certain precepts issued by the,elerk of the peace each year. who gives the overseers full instructions how to make out the lists, and what elanns and objections to receive, and how to deal with them. The overseers must also attend the court of the revising barrister, when he revises the lists, and disposes of legal objections. Another duty of the overseers is to make out the list of persons in the parish qualified to serve as jurors. So they must make out the burgess lists when the parish is situated within borough. They must also make out the list of persons qualified to serve as parish con stables. They are also bound to appoint persons to enferce the vaccination acts; they must give notice to justices of all lunatics within the parish, and pauper lunatic's ale removed to the county asylum. They must also collect and enforce payments of the
rates levied to pay the expenses of school-boards. The overseers must also perform cer tain duties as to the election of guardians for the union. They must also bury the dead bodies of persons cast on shore, and of all paupers who die in the parish. They also are the proper parties to protect village greens from nuisances; and in general, where there is no local board of health, the overseers arethe parties bound to act in carrying out the nuisances removal nets (see NUISANCE) within the parish, which of itself is au onerous duty. In general, whenever overseers are bound to do miscellaneous ditties of this kind, they are authorized to pay the necessary expenses and disbursements out of the poor•rate: but, as already stated, their services are gratuitous. The duties which in England are performed by overseers, devolve, in Scotland, upon the parochial board, the sheriff-clerk of the county, session-clerk, and others.