said writs shall enjoin each peer within fifty-two days from the teste of the writ, to return the same into the crown office of Ireland with the blank filled up, by inserting the name of the peer for whom he shall vote, as the peer to succeed to the vacancy made by Henry Charles, Viscount Dillon. Percy Clinton Sydney, Viscount Thomas Heron, Viscount Rane- James, Viscount Strabane. Richard Pigot, Viscount Molesworth. Richard Walter, Viscount Chetwynd. Gustavus, Viscount Boyne. George Edward Arundell Monck- Hervey, Viscount Mount-Morres. non. Thomas Anthony, Viscount South well. John, Viscount De Vesci. Henry, Viscount Clifden. Charles Stanley, Viscount Monck. ney. George Percy, Baron Carberry. curry. Robert, Baron Clonbrock. Henry Cavendish, Baron Water- Samuel, Baron Bridport. Beaumont, Baron Hotham. Robert, Baron Langford. John, Baron Henniker. Granville George, Baron Radstock. Frederick Thomas, Baron Ren- Richard, Baron Castlemaine. John Douglas, Baron Bloomfield. Fitz Gerald and Vesey. Denis St. George, Baron Dunsan- C. FITZSIMON, Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper.' demise or forfeiture as aforesaid; and the said writs and returns shall be bipartite, so as that the name of the peer to be chosen shall be written twice, that is, once on each part of such writ and return, and so as that each part may also be subscribed by the peer to whom the same shall be directed, and likewise be sealed with his seal of arms; and one part of the said writs and returns so filled up, subscribed and sealed as above, shall remain of record in the crown office of Ireland, and the other part shall be certified by the clerk of the crown to the clerk of the parliament of the United Kingdom; and no peer of Ireland, except such as shall have been elected as representative peers on the part of Ireland in the house of lords of the United Kingdom, and shall there have taken the oaths, and signed the declaration prescribed by law, shall, under pain of suffering such punishment as the house of lords of the United Kingdom may award and adjudge, make a return to such writ, unless he shall, after the issuing thereof, and before the day on which the writ is returnable, have taken the oaths and signed the declaration which are or shall be by law required to be taken and signed by the lords of the United Kingdom, before they can sit and vote in the parliament thereof; which oaths and declaration shall be either taken and subscribed in the Court of Chancery of Ireland, or before one of his majesty's justices of the peace of that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, a certificate whereof, signed by such justices of the peace, or by the register of the said Court of Chancery, shall be transmitted by such peer with the return, and shall be annexed to that part thereof remaining of record in the crown office of Ireland; and the clerk of the crown shall forthwith after the return day of the writs, cause to be published in the London and Dublin Gazettes, a notice of the name of the person chosen by the majority of votes; and the peer so chosen shall, during his life, be one of the peers to sit and vote on the part of Ireland in the house of lords of the United Kingdom; and in case the votes shall be equal, the names of such persons who have an equal number of votes in their favour shall be written on pieces of paper of a similar form, and shall be put into a glass by the clerk of the parliament of the United Kingdom, at the table of the house of lords, whilst the house is sitting, and the peer whose name shall be first drawn out by the clerk of the parliament shall be deemed the peer elected. And be it enacted, that in case any lord spiritual, being a temporal peer of the United Kingdom, or being a temporal peer of that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, shall be chosen by the lords temporal to be one of the representatives of the lords temporal, in every such case, during the life of such spiritual peer being a temporal peer of the United Kingdom, or being a temporal peer of that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, so chosen to represent the lords temporal, the rotation of representation of the spiritual lords shall proceed to the next spiritual lord, without regard to such spiritual lord so chosen a temporal peer, that is to say, if such spiritual lord shall be an archbishop, then the rotation shall proceed to the archbishop whose see is next in rotation, and if such spiritual lord shall be a suffragan bishop, then the rotation Recited act to be taken shall proceed to the suffragan bishop whose see is next in rotation." That the said act, so herein recited, be taken as a as a part of part of this act, and be deemed to all intents and purposes incorporated within the same. this act. II. STATUTE 3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 37, [14 August, 1833,] intituled An Act to aller and amend the Laws relating to the Temporalities of the Church in Ireland. S. 51, after reciting the provisions in the Act of Union relative to the sitting in the house of lords, as between the lords spiritual of Ireland; and that the enactments made by the said act of 3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 37, for reducing the number of the archiepiscopal sees in Ireland, and for the union of certain of the episcopal sees, render it necessary to make provision so as to accommodate the said rotation to such enactments, enacts, That when and as the now archiepiscopal sees of Cashel and Tuam shall severally become void, they and each of them respectively shall henceforth cease to be included in the rotation by the said acts established amongst the archiepiscopal sees, and shall be included in the rotation by the said acts established to be observed amongst the episcopal sees, and therein take place next before the episcopal see last in the order of rotation of the episcopal sees, the bishops whereof may have sat in parliament for the session last previous; and the rotation by the said acts appointed to take place amongst the archiepiscopal sees shall, in case of each such avoidance as aforesaid, proceed to the archbishop whose see is next in rotation to the archiepiscopal see becoming void as aforesaid. 52. That in the case of the bishopric of Waterford now void, and in the case of each and singular of the other bishoprics named in the first column of the schedule to this act annexed, when and as they shall become respectively void, or united to any other bishopric, the rotation by the said recited acts appointed to take place among the episcopal sees shall proceed to the bishop whose see is next in rotation to the said see of Waterford, or other see being or becoming void, or united to any other bishopric as aforesaid; and such see of Waterford or other see being or becoming void, or united to any other bishopric as aforesaid, shall for ever thereafter be excluded from and omitted out of such rotation. 53. Provided always, that, save as herein specifically provided, the order of rotation, by the said recited acts established, shall remain unchanged, but subject always to the regulation thereby made, in case any spiritual lord should be a temporal peer of the United Kingdom, or being a temporal peer of that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, should be chosen by the lords temporal to be one of the representatives of the lords temporal. The following are the columns referred to in the above sections. II. ACTS RELATING TO THE ELECTION OF MEMBERS LAND. In "Hudson's Treatise on the Elective Franchise, and the Registration of Electors in Ireland under the Reform Act," published in Dublin, A.D. 1832, will be found a copious Appendix, "containing the acts in force and unrepealed, relative to electors and elective rights in Ireland," arranged under the following heads: I. Acts of the Parliaments of England and Great Bri- II. Acts of the Parliaments of Ireland. III. Acts of the Parliaments of England and Great Britain, adopted by Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. IV. Acts of the Parliaments of the United Kingdom. I. STATUTES 1 Hen. 5, c. 1; 8 Hen. 6, c. 7; 10 Hen. 6, c. 2; 23 Hen. 6, c. 14, were wholly, or to a great extent, repealed in the year 1774, by stat. 14 Geo. 3, c. 58, because "several provisions contained in them had been found, by long usage, to be unneces sary, and are become obsolete." As however these statutes are still possessed of interest and importance, if only for the purposes of reference and illustration, and are continually cited and commented upon in modern, and indeed the most recent English discussions on election law, all but the first will be found in their proper place, in the collection of English statutes, post. II. STATUTE 35 Geo. 3, c. 29, [5 June, 1795,] intituled An Act for Regulating the Election of Members to serve in Parliament, and for repealing the several Acts therein mentioned; has been already adverted to. [It repeals fifteen acts passed during the interval between 1715-1793; viz. 2 Geo. 1, c. 19. (With an exception now immaterial.) 1 Geo. 2, c. 9. On the 8th July, 1823, this act was itself altogether repealed, so far as related to cities and towns being counties, by stat. 4 Geo. 4, c. 55.] The act 35 Geo. 3, c. 29, was a general act applying to elections for counties, as well as cities and towns being counties; and commenced with the recital that "the laws for regulating the election and return of members to serve in parliament have been found inadequate to the purposes intended." S. 9. Contains the oaths to be taken by the returning officer and his deputies. 12. Provides for the case of rioting (see now stat. 13 & 14 Vict. c. 18, s. 18), and enacts, that every person who shall be by due course of law convicted of having violently, riotously or outrageously disturbed the court, or otherwise misbehaved, so as forcibly to interrupt the proceedings of the poll, or of having wilfully effaced, obliterated, torn, |