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upon any engagement, contract, or agreement, that such person to whom, to whose use, or on whose behalf such gift, &c. shall be made, shall by himself, or by any other person at his solicitation, request, or command, procure or endeavour to procure the return of any person to serve in parliament for any county, stewartry, city, town, borough, cinque port, or place, be shall, for every such gift, &c. forfeit £1000. to be recovered in such manner as is hereinafter provided with respect to the sum of £500.; and every person so returned, and so having given or promised to give, or knowing of and consenting to such gifts, &c. upon any such engagement, &c. shall be incapacitated to serve in that parliament for such county, &c. as if he had never been returned; and any person who shall receive, by himself or any person in trust for, or to the use, or on behalf of him, any money, gift, or reward, or any such promise, upon any such engagement, &c. shall forfeit to his majesty, the value and amount of such money, &c. above the sum of £500.; which £500. he shall forfeit to any person who shall sue for the same, to be recovered, with full costs of suit, by action of debt, &c. in any court of record at Westminster, if the offence be committed in England and Wales; and in any court of record in Dublin, if committed in Ireland; and if the offence be committed in Scotland, then to be recovered with full costs of suit, by summary action or complaint before the court of session, or prosecution before the court of justiciary there. Provided (s. 2.) that nothing in this act shall extend to any money paid or agreed to be paid to or by any person, for any legal expense, bona fide, incurred at or concerning any election. And by s. 3. if any person shall, by himself, or by any other person, for or on his behalf, give or proPenalty on persons giving, &c. cure to be given, or promise to give, &c. any office, any office, &'c. place, or employment, to any person, upon any express contract or agreement that such person, to whom, or to whose use, or on whose behalf, such gift or promise shall be made, shall, by himself, or by any other person at his request, or command, procure or endeavour to procure the return of any person to serve in parliament for any

s. 2.

Proviso.

s. 3.

in order to pro

cure a return to parliament.

county,

office, &c. upon

such contract,

c.

county, &c. such person so returned, and so havg given or procured to be given, or so having promised to give, &c. or knowing of and consenting to such gift, &c. upon any such express contract or agreement, shall be incapacitated to serve in that parliament for that county, &c. as if he had never been returned, &c.; and Penalty for accepting such any person who shall receive by himself, or by any other person in trust for, or to the use or on behalf of such person, any such office, &c. upon such express contract, &c. shall forfeit such office, &c. and be incapacitated for holding the same, and shall forfeit £500. which shall be recovered as is herein-before enacted; and any person holding any office under his majesty, who shall give such office, &c. upon any such express contract, &c. that the person to whom or for whose use such office, &c. shall have been given, shall so procure, or endeavour to procure the return of any person to serve in parliament, shall forfeit £1000. to be recovered as hereinbefore provided. By s. 4. no person shall be liable to any forfeiture or penalty by this act imposed, unless some prosecution or suit for the offence committed, shall Limitation of be actually and legally commenced against such person, penalties. within 2 years after such offence, and unless he shall be actually and legally arrested, sumnioned, or otherwise served with any original, or other writ or process, within the same space of time, so as such arrest, &c. shall not be prevented by such person absconding or withdrawing out of the jurisdiction of the court out of which such original or other writ or process shall have issued; and in case of such prosecution, &c. the same shall be carried on without wilful delay; and all statutes of jcofailes and amendments shall extend to all proceedings in any such prosecution, &c.

s. 4.

actions, &c. for

G. B.

Bribery oath

P. 93. l. 24.-The 43 Geo. 3. c. 74. G. B. provides, 43 Geo.3. c.74. that the oath or affirmation prescribed by the 2 Geo. 2. c. 24. (against bribery) shall, notwithstanding the 42 when and how Geo. 3. c. 62. be taken in manner prescribed by the 2 taken. Geo. 2. c. 24.

P. 99. 1. 7.-The 25 Geo. 3. c. 84. Eng. provides 25 Geo.3.c.8). (s. 6.) that upon every election of any member to serve ». 6. Eng.

Returning officer may administer oath upon scrutiny.

9 Ann. c. 20. s. S. Eng.

cer not to be elected for 2 years succes

sively.

in parliament for any county, &c. within England, &c. it shall be lawful for the returning officer, if he see cause, during the continuance of any scrutiny, to administer an oath to any person consenting to take the same, touching the right of any person having voted at such election, or touching any other matter material towards carrying on such scrutiny.

P. 100. l. 18.-The 9 Ann. c. 20. Eng. recites (s. 8.) that in divers counties, boroughs, towns corporate, and Returning of cinque ports, where the mayor, bailiff, or other officer, to whom it belongs to preside at the election, and make return of any members to serve in parliament, ought to be annually elected, the same person hath been reelected into such office for several years successively, which hath been found inconvenient; and therefore enacts, that no person who shall be in such annual office for one whole year, shall be capable to be chosen into the same office for the year immediately ensuing and where any such annual officer is to continue for a year, and until some other person shall be chosen and sworn into such office, if any such officer shall voluntarily and unlawfully obstruct and prevent the choosing election of a suc- another person to succeed into such office at the time office. appointed for making another choice, [*he] shall forfeit *not printed. £100 for every such offence, to be recovered with costs of suit, by such person as will sue for the same in any court of record before mentioned,† by action of debt, &c. one moiety to the crown, and the other to him that will sue for the same.

Penalty for obstructing the

Cesson in his

43Geo.3. c.106 U. K.

from what I me

P. 103. l. 10. The 31 Geo. 2. c. 14. s. 4. Eng should have been here referred to.

any

P.145.7. 12. By the 48 Geo. 3. c. 106. U. K. where bill shall be introduced into parliament, for the conContinuing acts tinuance of any act which would expire in such sessions, and such act shall have expired before the bill for continuing the same shall have received the royal assent, such continuing act shall have effect from the date of the expiration of the act intended to be continued, as if

to take effect.

such

The courts mentioned in this act (s. 1.) are the courts of queen's bench, the courts of sessions of counties palatine, and of grand sessions in Wales,

;

such continuing act had actually passed before the expiration of such act, except it shall be otherwise provided in such continuing act: Provided that nothing herein shall affect any person with any punishment, penalty, or forfeiture, by reason of any thing done or omitted to be done by any person contrary to the provisions of the act so continued, between the expiration of the same, and the date at which the act continuing the same shall receive the royal assent.

Eng.

faith, &c. es

P. 164. l. 18.-The 35 Hen. 8. c. 3. Eng. is to be 35 Hen.8. c. 3. also here stated, which enacted, that his majesty's stile should be in Latin: "Henricus octavus, dei gratia, An- King's title of glie, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ rex, fidei defensor, et, in defender of the terra, ecclesiæ Anglicanæ et Hibernicæ supremum caput ;" tablished. and in the English tongue: "Henry the eighth, by the grace of God king of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, and of the church of England and also of Ireland, in earth the supreme head;" and that the said stile shall be united and annexed for ever to the imperial crown of the realm of England.

40 Geo.3.c.46.

P. 170. l. 20.-The 40 Geo. 3. c. 46. Ir. amends the 2 Geo. 1. c. 15. Ir. by providing that 4 or more of the Ir. trustees or commissioners of first fruits shall be a quo- fruits.

rum.

Board of first

P. 174. l. 21.—The 46 Geo. 3. c. 60. I. also provides, 46 Geo.3. c.60. for the better regulation and management of the charitable bequest of Archbishop Boulter for augmenting the maintenance of poor clergy in this kingdom,

P. 173. last line.-The 49 Geo. 3. c. 103. I. is an act to amend the 48 Geo. 3. c. 65. for making provisions for the building and rebuilding of churches, chapels, and glebe houses in Ireland.

Archbishop
Boulter's be-

quest further re-
gulated.

49Geo. 3. c. 108

I.

Churches, &c.

398 40 Geo. 3.

P. 175. l. 22.-The 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 88. Eng. contains several provisions empowering the king and queen c. 83. Eng. to alienate such estates, real and personal, as shall not have come to them in right of the crown.

Private estate of king, &c. alienable.

51 Geo. 1. c.79.

P. 191. l. 22.-The 51 Geo, 3. c. 79. E. is an act to amend the 48 Geo. 3. c. 96. for the better care and maintenance of lunatics, being paupers or criminals, in Lunatics. England,

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Land tax.

Malt duly.

Prisage and butler age.

Light houses.

Puslims consolidated.

Excise on tobacco.

Postage duties.

Stamp duties.

Duties on haw

P. 191. l. 37.-The 50 Geo. 3. c. 58. G. B. is the last statute which amends the several acts for the redemption and sale of the land tax.

P. 192. l. 9.-The 51 Geo. 3. c. 2. G. B. continues the annual malt duty to 24 June, 1812.

P. 194. I. 4.The 50 Geo. 3. c. 101. I. is an act for confirming an agreement for the purchase of prisage and butlerage of wines in Ireland, entered into by the commissioners of his majesty's treasury in Ireland, and the earl of Ormonde and his trustees, in pursuance of the 46 Geo. 3. c. 94. I. And the 51 Geo. 3. c. 51 I. is an act for abolishing the duties of prisage and butlerage of wines in Ireland.

P. 195. l. 6.-The 50 Geo. 3. c. 95. I. is an act to enable the corporation for preserving and improving the port of Dublin, to erect, repair, and maintain lighthouses round the coasts of Ireland, and to raise a fund for defraying the charge thereof.

P. 195. l. 29.-The 49 Geo. 3. c. 98. G. B. recites the 43 Geo. 3. c. 68. G. B. and repeals the several duties of customs chargeable in Great Britain, and grants other duties in lieu thereof. And by the 51 Geo. 3. c. 86. I. certain new and additional duties are granted. P. 196. l. 16. The 51 Geo. 3. c. 56. I. has granted additional duties of excise on tobacco manufactured in Ireland.

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P. 197. l. 3.-By the 50 Geo. 3. c. 74. I. additional duties are granted upon letters and packets sent by the post within Ireland.

P. 197. l. 14.-New and additional stamp duties in Ireland have been granted by the 49 Geo. 3. c. 73. I. and 50 Geo. 3. c. 76. I. and certain stamp duties are repealed by the 51 Geo. 3. c. 70. G. B. and 51 Geo. 3. c. 60. I.

P. 197. l. 18.-The 50 Geo. 3. c. 41. I. repeals the zers and fedlers. 9 & 10 W. 3. c. 27. Eng. and all other acts relative to the duties of hawkers and pedlers, and places the duties herein mentioned under the management of the commissioners of hackney coaches.

P. 198.

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