From June 1, of the reve nue herein capable of election of one; for the town of Mallow one; for the borough of Athlone one; for the town of New Ross one; for the borough of Tralee one; for the city of Cashel one; for the borough of Dungannon one; for the borough of Portarlington one; for the borough of Enniskillen one. [See now stat. 2 & 3 Will. 4, c. 88, s. 11, post, p. 69.] V. STATUTE 41 Geo. 3, c. 52, [20 June, 1801,] intituled An Act for declaring what Persons shall be disabled from sitting and voting in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and also for carrying into effect Part of the fourth Article of the Union of Great Britain and Ireland, by providing in what cases Persons holding Offices or Places of Profit under the Crown of Ireland shall be incapable of being Members of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the said United Kingdom. [This act will be found in its order among the statutes relating to England and Wales. Post.] VI. STATUTE 45 Geo. 3, c. 25, [24 March, 1803,] intituled An Act for better securing the Freedom of Elections of Members to serve in Parliament for any Place in Ireland, by disabling certain Officers employed in the Collection or Management of His Majesty's Revenues in Ireland from giving their Votes at such Elections. For the better securing the freedom of elections of members to 1803, officers serve in parliament: be it enacted by the king's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual specified, in- and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day voting in any of June, 1803, no commissioner, collector, surveyor, supervisor, gauger, or other officer or person whatsoever concerned or emserve in par- ployed in the charging, collecting, levying or managing the duties of excise in Ireland, or any branch or part thereof; nor any commissioner, collector, surveyor, comptroller, searcher or other officer or person whatsoever concerned or employed in the charging, collecting, levying or managing the duties of customs in Ireland, or any branch or part thereof; nor any surveyor, collector, comptroller, inspector, or other officer or person whatsoever concerned, engaged or employed by or under the commissioners of his majesty's revenue in Ireland, in the charging, collecting, levying or managing any of the duties, taxes or impositions in Ireland paid or levied under the direction of such commissioners, or any of them; nor any commissioner, officer or other person concerned or employed members to liament for Ireland. for twelve offices, to be in collecting, receiving or managing any of the duties on stamped vellum, parchment, and paper in Ireland; nor any person appointed, by the said last-mentioned commissioners, for distributing of stamps in Ireland: nor any postmaster or postmaster-general, or his or their deputy or deputies; nor any person employed by or under him or them in receiving, collecting or managing the revenue of the post-office in Ireland, or any part thereof; nor any captain, master or mate of any ship, packet, or other vessel employed by or under the postmaster or postmasters-general in Ireland, in conveying the mail from and to Ireland, to or from Great Britain, or to or from any other place whatever, shall be capable of giving his vote in any election for the choice of any representative in parliament for any county, city, county of a city, borough, town corporate, university, or other place whatever in Ireland; and if any person Vote of such hereby made incapable of voting as aforesaid shall nevertheless officers, and presume to give his vote during the time he shall hold, or within months after twelve calendar months after he shall cease to hold or execute any holding such of the offices aforesaid, contrary to the true intent and meaning of void, and the this act, such votes so given shall be held null and void to all intents offenders to and purposes whatsoever; and every person so offending shall forfeit £100, forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds Irish currency, one moiety pacitated. thereof to the informer, and the other moiety thereof to be paid into [Vide post, the hands of the treasurer of the county, city, town or place in W., 2 & 3 4, Ireland, within which such offence shall have been committed, to c. 88, s. 59.] be applied and disposed of to the use of some public charitable institution, or to such other charitable purposes, within the said county, city, town or place, as the justices at the next general quarter session of the peace to be held for such county, city, town or place in Ireland, shall think fit, and to be recovered by any person that will sue for the same by action of debt, bill, plaint or information in any of his majesty's courts of record in Dublin; and the person against whom any such penalty shall be recovered, shall become and is hereby declared disabled and incapable of ever bearing or executing any office or place of trust whatsoever under his majesty, his heirs or successors. and be inca 2. Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall extend or Act not to be construed to extend to any office in Ireland now held or usually extend to pa. granted to be held by letters patent for any estate of inheritance or freehold. tent offices, 3. Provided, That nothing herein contained shall extend to any nor to perperson who shall resign his office or employment on or before the sons resignsaid first day of June, 1803. ing before June 1, 1803. 4. Provided, That no person shall be liable to any forfeiture or Limitation of penalty by this act laid or imposed, unless prosecution for the same actions. be commenced within twelve calendar months next after such penalty or forfeiture shall be incurred. VII. STATUTE 45 Geo. 3, c. 59, [27 June, 1805]. S. 8. If any person or persons shall fraudulently and knowingly grant any interest importing to be a freehold which really is not so, with intent to enable any person to vote, such grant shall be good and valid against the grantor thereof for every purpose but enabling the grantee to vote. 9. If such grantor shall be possessed only of a term of years therein, and shall demise the same, or any part thereof, for a life or lives, with intent to induce the lessee therein to register such as a freehold or vote as a freeholder thereout, he shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds to any person who shall sue for the same, by action, plaint, or information in any court of law. VIII. STATUTE 4 Geo. 4, c. 55, [8 July, 1823,] intituled An Act to consolidate and amend the several Acts now in force, so far as the same relate to the Election and Return of Members to serve in Parliament, for Counties of Cities and Counties of Towns in Ireland, recites That it is expedient to consolidate and amend the several acts now in force, so far as the same relate to the election and return of members to serve in parliament for counties of cities and counties of towns in Ireland. This act, which has been already referred to (ante, p. 56), it will be observed, relates only to "counties of cities, and counties of towns," in Ireland. Most of its provisions appear superseded by the statutes which follow. IX. STATUTE 10 Geo. 4, c. 8, [13 April, 1829,] intitituled An Act to amend certain Acts of the Parliament of Ireland relative to the Election of Members to serve in Parliament, and regulate the Qualifications of Persons entitled to vote at the Election of Knights of the Shire in Ireland. This act was passed on the day on which the Roman Catholic Relief Bill (10 Geo. 4, c. 7) was passed; and after reciting stat. 33 Hen. 8, (Irish Act), and repealing so much of it as related to the amount or value of freehold [i. e. "the yearly value of 40s. above all charges"], enacted, S. 2. That from and after the commencement of this act no person shall be admitted to vote at any election of any knight of the shire to serve in the parliament of the United Kingdom for any county in Ireland (save as hereinafter is provided), unless such person shall have an estate of freehold, in lands, tenements, or hereditaments in such county, of the clear yearly value of 10l., at the least, over and above all charges, except only public or parliamentary taxes, county, church, or parish cesses or rates, and cesses on any townland or division of any parish or barony. 3. That from and after the commencement of this act no person shall be admitted to vote at any election of a knight of the shire to serve in the parliament of the United Kingdom for any county in Ireland by virtue or in respect of any estate of freehold of less annual value than 207. of the late currency of Ireland, unless such freehold shall be registered pursuant to the provisions of this act, save only as hereinafter provided. 7. That the assistant barrister shall inspect and examine every deed, lease or instrument so produced, and investigate the title so made, as also the title which any claimant shall in any other manner seek to establish, and shall determine whether the same is or is not sufficient to entitle the person claiming thereunder to an estate of freehold; and shall also examine and inquire, as well by the oath of the person so claiming as by any evidence offered either in support of or in opposition to such claim, whether a solvent and responsible tenant could afford to pay fairly and withcut collusion, as an additional rent for such freehold, the annual sum of 20l., or 10l. as the case may be, over and above all charges, save such as are hereinbefore excepted, and over and above any rent to which the person so claiming may be liable in respect of the same; and shall also inquire by any of the means aforesaid. X. STATUTE 2 & 3 Will. 4, c. 88, [7 August, 1832,] intituled An Act to amend the Representation of the People of Ireland. counties at Whereas it is expedient to extend the elective franchise to many of his majesty's subjects in Ireland who have not heretofore enjoyed the same, and to increase the number of representatives for certain cities and boroughs in that part of the United Kingdom, and to diminish the expenses of elections therein; be it therefore enacted, &c. That, in addition to the persons now by law qualified Right of to vote at the election of knights of the shire for the several counties Voting in in Ireland, every male person of full age, and not subject to any large extendlegal incapacity, who shall be entitled, either as lessee or assignee, ed to leaseto any lands or tenements, whether of freehold or of any other tenure whatever, for the unexpired residue, whatever it may be, of any term originally created for a period of not less than sixty years, whether determinable on a life or lives or not, and having a beneficial interest therein of the clear yearly value of not less than ten pounds over and above all rents and charges, or for the unexpired residue, holders, and to copyholders. Not to affect present voters in counties. No vote out in a county town, or borough. whatever it may be, of any term originally created for a period of not less than fourteen years, whether determinable on a life or lives or not, and having a beneficial interest therein of the clear yearly value of not less than twenty pounds over and above all rents and charges, or for the unexpired residue, whatever it may be, of any term originally created for a period of not less than twenty years, and having a beneficial interest therein of the clear yearly value of not less than ten pounds over and above all rent and charges, shall be entitled to vote in the election of a knight or knights of the shire for the county in which such lands or tenements shall respectively be situate: Provided always, that no person, being such lessee or assignee of such term of twenty years, and no person, being only a sub-lessee, or the assignee of any underlease, shall have a right to vote in respect of any such term of sixty years, or fourteen or twenty years as aforesaid, unless he shall be in the actual occupation of the premises; and provided also, that any renewal or new lease of the same premises, for the same rent and for a term not less than such original term, shall for the purposes of this act be deemed to be a continuance of the same qualification as aforesaid. 2. That every male person of full age, and not subject to any legal incapacity, who shall be seised at law or in equity of any lands or tenements of copyhold tenure, for his life, or for the life of another, or for any lives whatsoever, or for any larger estate, of the clear yearly value of not less than ten pounds over and above all rents and charges payable out of or in respect of the same, shall be entitled to vote in the election of a knight or knights of the shire to serve in any future parliament for the county in which such lands or tenements shall be respectively situate. 3. That nothing in this act contained shall take away or in any manner affect the rights of voting for knights of the shire at present enjoyed by, or which may hereafter accrue to, any person by virtue of any law now in force, except so far as herein specially provided. 4. That notwithstanding any thing herein contained, no person of tenements shall be entitled to vote in the election of a knight or knights of which give a the shire to serve in any future parliament in respect of his estate right to vote or interest in any house, warehouse, counting-house, or shop occuin a city, pied by himself, or in any land occupied by himself together with any house, warehouse, counting-house, or shop, such house, warehouse, counting-house, or shop being, either separately or jointly with the land so occupied therewith, of such value as would, according to the provisions hereinafter contained, confer on him the right of voting for any city, town or borough, whether he shall or shall not have actually acquired the right to vote for such city, town or borough in respect thereof. Right of voting in counties of cities and counties of towns: £10 freeholders. 5. That in every city or town, being a county of a city or county of a town by itself, and which shall return a member or members to serve in any future parliament, in addition to the persons now by law qualified to vote at the election of such member or members, every male person of full age, and not subject to any legal incapacity, who shall be seised at law or in equity of any freehold |