evidence of the person therein named having duly taken and subscribed such oath. offices with 21. That if any person professing the Roman Catholic religion Penalty on shall enter upon the exercise or enjoyment of any office or place of acting in trust or profit under his majesty, or of any other office or franchise, out taking not having in the manner and at the times aforesaid taken and the oath. subscribed the oath hereinbefore appointed and set forth, then and in every such case such person shall forfeit to his majesty the sum of two hundred pounds; and the appointment of such person to the office, place or franchise so by him held shall become altogether void, and the office, place or franchise shall be deemed and taken to be vacant to all intents and purposes whatsoever. 22. Provided always, That, for and notwithstanding anything in Oaths by military and this act contained, the oath hereinbefore appointed and set forth naval shall be taken by the officers in his majesty's land and sea service, officers. professing the Roman Catholic religion, at the same time and in the same manner as the oaths and declarations now required by law are directed to be taken, and not otherwise. taken by 23. That from and after the passing of this act no oath or oaths No other shall be tendered to or required to be taken by his majesty's sub- oaths necesjects professing the Roman catholic religion, for enabling them to sary to be hold or enjoy any real or personal property, other than such as may Roman Caby law be tendered to and required to be taken by his majesty's tholics. other subjects; and that the oath herein appointed and set forth, being taken and subscribed in any of the courts, or before any of the persons above mentioned, shall be of the same force and effect, to all intents and purposes, as, and shall stand in the place of, all oaths and declarations required or prescribed by any law now in force for the relief of his majesty's Roman catholic subjects from any disabilities, incapacities or penalties; and the proper officer of any of the courts above mentioned, in which any person professing the Roman catholic religion shall demand to take and subscribe the oath herein appointed and set forth, is hereby authorized and required to administer the said oath to such person, and such officer shall make, sign, and deliver a certificate of such oath having been duly taken and subscribed, as often as the same shall be demanded of him, upon payment of one shilling; and such certificate shall be sufficient evidence of the person therein named having duly taken and subscribed such oath." assumed by 24. And whereas the protestant episcopal church of England and Titles to sees, Ireland, and the doctrine, discipline, and government thereof, and &c. not to be likewise the protestant presbyterian church of Scotland, and the Roman Cadoctrine, discipline, and government thereof, are by the respective tholics. acts of union of England and Scotland, and of Great Britain and Ireland, established permanently and inviolably; and whereas the right and title of archbishops to their respective provinces, of bishops to their sees, and of deans to their deaneries, as well in England as in Ireland, have been settled and established by law: be it therefor eenacted, That if any person, after the commencement of this act, other than the person thereunto authorized by law, shall assume or use the name, style, or title of archbishop of any province, bishop Judicial or of office at of any bishopric, or dean of any deanery, in England or Ireland, he shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred pounds.* 25. That if any person holding any judicial or civil office, or any other officers mayor, provost, jurat, bailiff, or other corporate officer, shall, after not to attend the commencement of this act, resort to or be present at any place with insignia of public meeting for religious worship in England or in Ireland, other than that of the united church of England and Ireland, or in Scotland, other than that of the church of Scotland, as by law established, in the robe, gown, or other peculiar habit of his office, or attend with the ensign or insignia, or any part thereof, of or belonging to such his office, such person shall, being thereof convicted by due course of law, forfeit such office, and pay for every such offence the sum of one hundred pounds. any place of worship other than established church. Penalty on in their usual 26. That if any Roman catholic ecclesiastic, or any member of tholic eccle- any of the orders, communities, or societies hereinafter mentioned, siastics offici- shall, after the commencement of this act, exercise any of the rites ating, except or ceremonies of the Roman catholic religion, or wear the habits of places of wor- his order, save within the usual places of worship of the Roman catholic religion, or in private houses, such ecclesiastic or other person shall, being thereof convicted by due course of law, forfeit for every such offence the sum of fifty pounds. ship. Not to repeal statute 5 G. 4. c. 25. For the suppression of jesuits and other religious orders of the church of Rome. 27. Provided always, that nothing in this act contained shall in any manner repeal, alter, or affect any provision of an act made in the fifth year of his present majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to Repeal so much an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of King William the Third, as relates to Burials in suppressed Monasteries, Abbeys, or Convents in Ireland, and to make further Provision with respect to the Burial in Ireland of Persons dissenting from the Established Church." 28. And whereas jesuits and members of other religious orders, communities, or societies of the church of Rome, bound by monastic or religious vows, are resident within the United Kingdom; and it is expedient to make provision for the gradual suppression and final prohibition of the same therein be it therefore enacted, That every jesuit, and every member of any other religious order, community, or society of the church of Rome, bound by monastic or religious vows, who at the time of the commencement of this act shall be within the United Kingdom, shall, within six calendar months after the commencement of this act, deliver to the clerk of the peace of the county or place where such person shall reside, or to his deputy, a notice or statement, in the form and containing the particulars required to be set forth in the schedule to this act annexed; which notice or statement such clerk of the peace, or his deputy, shall preserve and register amongst the records of such * See stat. 14 & 15 Vict. c. 60, extended to the cases of persons assuming the title of archbishop or bishop, or dean of any pretended province, diocese or deanery in England or Ireland, not being such as are now recognised by law, and declaring all such assumptions unlawful and void. This act is applicable to the United Kingdom. county or place, without any fee, and shall forthwith transmit a copy of such notice or statement to the chief secretary of the lord lieutenant, or other chief governor or governors of Ireland, if such person shall reside in Ireland, or if in Great Britain, to one of his majesty's principal secretaries of state; and in case any person shall offend in the premises, he shall forfeit and pay to his majesty, for every calendar month during which he shall remain in the United Kingdom without having delivered such notice or statement as is herein before required, the sum of fifty pounds. the realm, to 29. That if any jesuit or member of any such religious order, com- Jesuits, &c. munity, or society as aforesaid, shall, after the commencement of coming into this act, come into this realm, he shall be deemed and taken to be be banished. guilty of a misdemeanor, and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be sentenced and ordered to be banished from the United Kingdom for the term of his natural life. being 30. Provided always, that in case any natural born subject of Natural-born this realm, being at the time of the commencement of this act a subjects, jesuit or other member of any such religious order, community, jesuits, may or society as aforesaid, shall, at the time of the commencement of return into the kingdom this act, be out of the realm, it shall be lawful for such person to and be regisreturn or to come into this realm; and upon such his return or tered. coming into the realm he is hereby required, within the space of six calendar months after his first returning or coming into the United Kingdom, to deliver such notice or statement to the clerk of the peace of the county or place where he shall reside, or his deputy, for the purpose of being so registered and transmitted, as hereinbefore directed; and in case any such person shall neglect or refuse so to do, he shall for such offence forfeit and pay to his majesty, for every calendar month during which he shall remain in the United Kingdom without having delivered such notice or statement, the sum of fifty pounds. state may &c., to come voke the 31. Provided also, That, notwithstanding any thing hereinbefore The principal contained, it shall be lawful for any one of his majesty's principal secretaries of secretaries of state, being a protestant, by a licence in writing, grant licences signed by him, to grant permission to any jesuit or member of any to jesuits, such religious order, community or society as aforesaid, to come into the into the United Kingdom, and to remain therein for such period kingdom; as the said secretary of state shall think proper, not exceeding in any case the space of six calendar months; and it shall also be lawful for any of his majesty's principal secretaries of state to revoke and may reany licence so granted before the expiration of the time mentioned therein, if he shall so think fit; and if any such person to whom such licence shall have been granted shall not depart from the United Kingdom within twenty days after the expiration of the time mentioned in such licence, or if such licence shall have been revoked, then within twenty days after notice of such revocation shall have been given to him, every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and being thereof lawfully convicted shall be sentenced and ordered to be banished from the United Kingdom for the term of his natural life. same. Accounts of 32. That there shall annually be laid before both houses of parlicences to be liament an account of all such licences as shall have been granted for the purpose hereinbefore mentioned, within the twelve months parliament. then next preceding. laid before Admitting persons as members of such re deemed a misdemea nor. 33. That in case any jesuit or member of any such religious order, community or society as aforesaid, shall, after the commencement of this act, within any part of the United Kingdom, admit ligious orders any person to become a regular ecclesiastic, or brother or member of any such religious order, community or society, or be aiding or consenting thereto, or shall administer or cause to be administered, or be aiding or assisting in the administering or taking any oath, vow or engagement purporting or intended to bind the person taking the same to the rules, ordinances or ceremonies of such religious order, community or society, every person offending in the premises in England, or Ireland shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and in Scotland shall be punished by fine and imprisonment. Any person 34. That in case any person shall, after the commencement of this act, within any part of this United Kingdom, be admitted or so admitted a become a jesuit, or brother or member of any other such religious order, community or society as aforesaid, such person shall be deemed and taken to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being thereof lawfully convicted shall be sentenced and ordered to be banished from the United Kingdom for the term of his natural life. member of a religious order to be banished. 35. That in case any person sentenced and ordered to be baThe party of- nished under the provisions of this act shall not depart from the fending may United Kingdom within thirty days after the pronouncing of such sentence and order, it shall be lawful for his majesty to cause such person to be conveyed to such place out of the United Kingdom as his majesty, by the advice of his privy council, shall direct. be banished by his ma jesty; after three months, may 36. That if any offender, who shall be so sentenced and ordered and if at large to be banished in manner aforesaid, shall, after the end of three calendar months from the time such sentence and order hath been be trans- pronounced, be at large within any part of the United Kingdom, without some lawful cause, every such offender being so at large as aforesaid, on being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be transported to such place as shall be appointed by his majesty, for the term of his natural life. ported for life. Not to extend to fe male societies. Penalties 37. Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend in any manner to affect any religious order, community or establishment consisting of females bound by religious or monastic vows. 38. That all penalties imposed by this act shall and may be recovered as a debt due to his majesty, by information to be filed in how to be re- the name of his majesty's attorney-general for England or for Ireland, as the case may be, in the Courts of Exchequer in England or Ireland respectively, or in the name of his majesty's advocategeneral in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland. covered. Act may be altered this session. 39. That this act, or any part thereof, may be repealed, altered or varied at any time within this present session of parliament. 40. That this act shall commence and take effect at the expirament of act. tion of ten days from and after the passing thereof. Commence This statute is of general and great importance, and likely to be so frequently referred to in parliamentary and legal discussions, that it has been deemed expedient to print it entire. XLVII. STATUTE 2 Will. 4, c. 45, [7 June, 1832,] intituled An Act to amend the Representation of the People of England and Wales. The reader is again reminded that this act has been repeatedly altered by subsequent enactments, and especially in the year 1843, by the important act 6 & 7 Vict. c. 18, which has remodelled the whole machinery of registration and the procedure at the poll, as well as effected other extensive changes in respect of the franchise, the judicial adjudication upon it, and the functions of election committees. In addition to this, several statutes have been passed, some previously, but most subsequently to the act last mentioned, materially affecting the provisions of the Reform Act of 1832. For this reason, such of its sections and schedules as were of only a temporary character, and also those which appear to have been clearly superseded by subsequent enactments, have been omitted; but where there seemed any reasonable doubt on the subject, the particular section occasioning it has been retained, generally with some cautionary reference to subsequent statutes. WHEREAS it is expedient to take effectual measures for correcting divers abuses that have long prevailed in the choice of members to |