Director of Bank of England; of East India Company; of Corporation for insuring Ships. Duchy Court, Judge of. Ecclesiastical Judge. Eldest son of Bishop, Lord of Parliament, Peer of England, Scotland, for Scotland or England, and of a Peeress, Peer is qualified to be a Knight of Shire. Envoy to a Foreign Court. Exchequer, Cursitor Baron of, Secretary of Chancellor of, Trustee of Auditor of. Expelled, but not declared ineligible. Foreign Court, Ambassador, Envoy, Consul to. Gibraltar and Minorca, Commissioned Officer in Regiment there. Governor or Deputy Governor of the Bank; of Corporation for Insuring Ships; of Fort in South Britain, being an Officer of the Army; of Guernsey, Jersey, Greenwich Hospital, South Sea Company. Greenwich Hospital, Governor, Master, Treasurer of. Imprisoned for Debt or Contempt of Court. India, Commissioners for Affairs of. Irish Peer, not of the House of Lords. Jersey, Governor of Fort in. Judges of Civil Courts, Duchy Courts, Ecclesiastical Courts, of Rolls Court. Knight of the Shire, eldest Son of one, qualified to be. Land Tax, Commissioner for Reduction or Sale of. Libel, convict of. Lord of Parliament, eldest Son of. Lieutenant General of Ordnance, Governor of any Fort. London Flour Company, Member of. Lunatic in lucid intervals. Master in Chancery, Mint, Ordnance, Rolls in England. Mayors and Bailiffs out of their Jurisdiction. Member elected before his Return. Militia, accepting Commission in England, Scotland, or Ire land. Mint, Master of the. Mortgagee in Possession Seven Years. Navy, Comptroller of, Officer in, Treasurer of. Non-Resident. Office, holding of, if no profit; resigning of Freehold. Officer of any Regiment in Gibraltar and Minorca; for life; of Freehold; of Army or Navy receiving New Com mission. Ordnance, Master General of; Master of; Lieutenant General of, at Woolwich; Commissioners as to Claim of Land in respect of. Outlaw in Civil Suit. Paymaster of Army, Deputy of. Peer or Peeress's eldest Son; so of Irish, except for places in Ireland. Petitioner for another place, pending Petition. Pensioner in right of Wife. Principal Secretaries of State (two only). Prisoners for Debt or Contempt of Court. Proposed after Election began. Quakers on Affirmation. Queen's Counsel and Serjeants. Redemption of Land Tax, Commissioners for. Resident, whether or not. Returning Officer out of his Jurisdiction. Rolls, the Master of; not in Ireland. Roman Catholics taking Oath. Sale of Land Tax, Commissioners for. Secretaries to the Admiralty; to Court of Assistants for Relief of Poor Widows of Officers; of Chancellor of Exchequer for England and Ireland; of Treasury; of Commissioners of Treasury in Ireland; to Principal Secretaries of State, one to each. Secretaries of State (two only). Secretary at War, not a New office. Serjeants, Queen's. Sheriff of any other County, or out of his Jurisdiction. Sheriffs and Sheriff's Deputy in Scotland, in like manner. Solicitor-General. South Sea Company, Governor or Member of. Treasury of the Navy; of Greenwich Hospital, and Secretary, and Vice-Treasurer of. Trustee of Auditor of Exchequer. Under-Secretary to any Secretary of State, one to each. Vice-President of Board of Trade and Foreign Plantations, with a Salary not exceeding 2007. Vice-Wardens of the Stannary Courts, (sed qu.) Woods and Forests, Commissioners of (only one). Woolwich Ordnance, Commissioners as to Claims on Lands in respect of. FORMS. 1. BY THE QUEen. A Proclamation for dissolving the present Parliament and declaring the calling of another. VICTORIA R. Whereas we have thought fit, by and with the advice of our privy council, to dissolve this present parliament, which was this day prorogued and stands prorogued to Friday, the twentieth day of August, next: we do for that end publish this our royal proclamation, and do hereby dissolve the said parliament accordingly; and the lords spiritual and temporal, and the knights, citizens and burgesses, and the commissioners for shires and burghs of the house of commons, are discharged from their meeting and attendance on the said Friday, the twentieth day of August, next: And we being desirous and resolved, as soon as may be, to meet our people, and to have their advice in parliament, do hereby make known to all our loving subjects our royal will and pleasure to call a new parliament; and do hereby further declare, that, with the advice of our privy council, we have given order that our chancellor of that part of our united kingdom called Great Britain, and our chancellor of Ireland, do respectively, upon notice thereof, forthwith issue our writs, in due form and according to law, for calling a new parliament: And we do hereby also, by this our royal proclamation under our great seal of our united kingdom, require writs forthwith to be issued accordingly, by our said chancellors respectively, for causing the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, who are to serve in the said parliament, to be duly returned to and give their attendance in our said parliament; which writs are to be returnable on Friday, the twentieth day of August, next. Given at our court at Buckingham Palace, this first day of July, in the year of our Lord 1852, and in the stxteenth year of our reign. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. FORMS. 2. BY THE QUEEN. A Proclamation, in order to the Electing and Summoning the Sixteen VICTORIA R. Whereas we have in our council thought fit to declare our pleasure for summoning and holding a parliament of our united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on Friday, the twentieth day of August, next ensuing the date hereof; in order, therefore, to the electing and summoning the sixteen peers of Scotland, who are to sit in the house of peers in the said parliament, we do, by the advice of our privy council, issue forth this our royal proclamation, strictly charging and commanding all the peers of Scotland to assemble and meet at Holyrood-house, in Edinburgh, on Thursday, the fifteenth day of July, instant, between the hours of twelve and two in the afternoon, to nominate and choose the sixteen peers, to sit and vote in the house of peers in the said ensuing parliament, by open election and plurality of voices of the peers that shall be then present, and of the proxies of such as shall be absent (such proxies being peers, and producing a mandate in writing, duly signed before witnesses, and both the constituent and proxy being qualified according to law), and the lord clerk register, or such two of the principal clerks of the session as shall be appointed by him to officiate in his name, are hereby respectively required to attend such meeting, and to administer the oaths required by law to be taken there by the said peers, and to take their votes; and, immediately after such election made and duly examined, to certify the names of the sixteen peers so elected, and to sign and attest the same in the presence of the said peers the electors, and return such certificate into our High Court of Chancery of Great Britain: And we do, by this our royal proclamation, strictly command and require the provost of Edinburgh, and all other the magistrates of the said city, to take especial care to preserve the peace thereof, during the time of the said election, and to prevent all manner of riots, tumults, disorders and violence whatsoever And we strictly charge and command that this our royal proclamation be duly published at the market-cross at Edinburgh, and in all the county towns of Scotland, ten days, at least, before the time hereby appointed for the meeting of the said peers to proceed to such election. Witness ourself at Westminster, this first day of July, 1852, in the sixteenth year of our reign. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN, 2. Her Majesty's Order* for convening a New Parliament. Her majesty having been pleased, by the royal proclamation, to dissolve the present parliament, is hereby pleased, with the advice of her privy council, to order that the Right Honourable the Lord High Chan This and several of the ensuing forms are taken from Mr. Atkinson's excellent Treatise on Sheriff Law (1847), and appear to have been collected with much care. |