section 4 effectively lists the crown stewards and bailiffs of the chiltern hundreds and of the manor of northstead in part ii to schedule 1, thus naming them as offices whose holders are disqualified. these offices are sinecures, used in modern times to effect resignation from the house of commons. prior to 1926, this disqualification was due to them being "offices of profit under the crown", but that disqualification was abolished in 1926 and by s. 1(4) of this act.