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in the preparation of the Lists of Voters for Members of
Parliament, the County Council, School Board and Vestry
Elections. The name of the Ward is printed on the rate
receipt of each ratepayer.
For Ecclesiastical Purposes the Parish has been
sub-divided into five districts, the mother church being St.
James's, Piccadilly, of which the Right Rev. Bishop Barry
is Rector.
Representation in Parliament. — The Parish of St.
James was formerly comprised in the Parliamentary
Borough of the City of Westminster, which returned two
Members to Parliament; it now, however, forms a part of
the Borough of Strand, which returns one member, the
present representative being the Hon. W. F. D. Smith.
The Register prepared in 1896 contains the" names of 3,875
Pai'liamentary Electors, viz., 196 Lodgers, and 3,679
possessing other qualifications. There are also 637 County
and Parochial Electors who have been placed on the Register
under the Local Government Acts, 1888 and 1894, but are
not qualified to vote for Members of Parliament.
Parliamentary voters for the County of Middlesex, in
respect of property situate wholly or in part in the Parish
of St. James, number 199.
By the Elementary Education Act, 1870, the Parish
is included in the Westminster Division of. the School
Board for London. Five members of the School Board are
elected by the ratepayers of the Division, the present
members being General Sim*, Mr. David Laing, Mr. William
Winnett, J. P., Rev. A. W. Oxford and Captain Skinner.
* Recently deceased.