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19 & 20 Geo.3.

c. 25. Irish. member not

superseded within six months, and creditors proving debts not fully paid within six

months, or if

not entering

sums recover

commissioners

the same to

the speaker.

"hereafter issue and be awarded, continuing to "hold their seats in parliament:" be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that in all cases where a commission of bankruptcy shall issue and be awarded against any such member or members, and shall not be superseded within six months from the time of issuing thereof, and the creditors proving their debts under the debts disput- same shall not be paid or satisfied to the full ed, bankrupt amount thereof, under the said commission, into bond with within six months after the issuing of such sureties to pay commission or otherwise, with respect to such ed or establish- of the debts, (if any) as shall be disputed by ed, with costs, such bankrupt or bankrupts, he or they shall shall, after six not, within the time aforesaid, enter into a months,certify bond or bonds in such sum and sums, and with two sufficient sureties, as the said commissioners, or the major part of them shall approve of, to pay such sum or sums as shall be recovered or established in any action, suit, or other proceeding in law or equity, concerning such debt or debts, together with such costs as shall be given in the same, that then the commissioners, or the major part of them named in such commission, shall, and they are hereby required, immediately after the expiration of six months from the issuing of the said commission, to certify to the speaker of the house of commons, that such commission had issued, and was not superseded within the time aforesaid; and that the creditors proving their debts under the said commission were not paid or satisfied to the full amount thereof under the said commission within six months from the time of issuing thereof; and that such bond or bonds as herein-before mentioned had not been entered into within that time, with respect to such of the debts, (if any) as the bankrupt or

c. 25. Irish.

elect another

bankrupts shall dispute, and thereupon the seat 19 & 20 Geo.3. of such bankrupt or bankrupts shall be considered vacant în all respects, and the speaker Bankrupt's shall issue his writ or writs to elect a member seat thereupon vacant, and or members to serve in parliament, in the speaker to isplace of such bankrupt or bankrupts, and sue writ to such bankrupt or bankrupts, or any person member. against whom a commission of bankruptcy shall issue, shall, from thenceforth be rendered incapable of being elected to serve in parlia- Bankrupt inment, until his or their creditors shall be paid capable of being elected or satisfied, the full amount of their several till creditors debts claimed and proved, under the several paid fully, debts proved commissions of bankruptcy, as as shall issue under commis against them.

sion.

The Irish Stat. 19 & 20 Geo. 3. c. 29. 1779-80. An Act for naturalizing such foreign Merchants, Traders, Artificers, Artizans, Manufacturers, Workmen, Seamen, Farmers, and others, as shall settle in this Kingdom.

See post the stats. 23 & c. 38. Irish.

24 Geo. 3.

36 Geo. 3.
c. 48. Irish.

Persons na

§ 2. PROVIDED always, that no person, natu- 42 Geo. 3. ralized by this act, shall be enabled to serve in c. 61. U. K. the present or any future parliament, nor to turalized by be of his majesty's privy council, nor to hold by act, not to any office of trust, civil or military, in this liament. kingdom.

serve in par

The Irish Stat. 21 & 22 Geo. 3. c. 48. 1781-2.

10 H. 7. c. 22. An Act for extending certain of the Pro

Irish.

Provisions in

English statutes as to

oaths, &c. in

Ireland hereby adopted.

visions contained in an Act intituled, An Act confirming all the Statutes made in England.

§3. AND be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that all such statutes made in England or Great Britain, as concern the stile or calendar, and also all such clauses and provisions contained in any statutes made as aforesaid, as relate to the taking any cath* or oaths, or making or subscribing any declaration or affirmation in this kingdom, or any penalty or disability for omitting the same, or relate to the continuance of any office civil or military, or of any commission or of any writ, process, or proceeding at law, or in equity, or in any court of delegacy or review, in case of a demise of the crown, shall be accepted, used, and executed in this kingdom according to the present tenor of the same respectively.

The alterations in the abjuration oath are noticed in the second part of this volume. The abjuration oath

was given, as it now stands, by
the stat. 6 Geo. 3. c. 53. §
& 2, of the statute.
xxvii. ccix.

See also

The Irish Stat. 23 & 24 Geo. 3. c. 38.

1783-4.

29. Irish.

42 Geo. 3. c.

An Act for extending the Provisions of an See stats. 19 & Act passed in this Kingdom in the Nine- 20. Geo. 3. c. teenth and Twentieth Year of His Majesty's 36 Geo. 3. c. Reign, entituled, An Act for naturalizing 48. Trish such foreign Merchants, Traders, Artifi- 61. U.K. cers, Artizans, Manufacturers, Workmen, Seamen, Farmers, and others, as shall settle in this Kingdom.

(By § 1. All foreigners, of any sect, except Jews, coming to settle in Ireland, and taking the oath therein, to be deemed natural subjects.)

not entitled to

protestants,

§ 2. Provided always, that no persons so Persons natunaturalized by this act, shall have power, or be ralized act entitled to serve in the present, or any future be in parlia parliament, nor be of his majesty's most ho- ment, unless norable privy council, nor be a peer of this and resident realm, nor shall be entitled to hold any office of trust or profit, civil or military, unless he shall be a protestant, and shall have resided in this kingdom three years at one or different periods, from the day of passing this act.

three years.

elections of

unless such

§3. Provided also, that no person so naturalized Nor to vote at by this act, shall be entitled, by virtue of such na- members of turalization, to vote in any election for the choice parliament, of any representative in parliament for any city, right obtained county of a city, borough, or town corporate, or in as by other any election for the choice of any magistrate for

subjects.

c. 38. Irish.

23 & 24 Geo. 3. any city, county of a city, borough, or town corporate, of which, by virtue of this or any former act of naturalization, he shall have been made free, unless he shall have obtained such right of voting, by such ways, means, and methods only as all other his majesty's subjects of this kingdom have hitherto, or shall hereafter obtain the same, any thing in this act to the contrary notwithstanding.

The Irish Stat. 23 & 24 Geo. 3. c. 49. 1783-4.

(See 5 Geo. 2. An Act for making appropriate Parishes be

c. 4. Irish.

ante ccvii.)

Archbishop or bishop on en

dowments under the act, may allocate land not exceeding six acres, for

longing to Archbishops and Bishops perpetual Cures, and the better to enable such Archbishops and Bishops to endow and augment the Endowments of Vicarages and Curacies to them respectively appropriate, and to render more effectual the several Acts now in force, to enable the Clergy having Cure of Souls to reside upon their respective Benefices, and to build on their respective Glebe Lands.

9. AND be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that it shall and may be lawful for the archbishop or bishop of the diocese wherein any such endowment as aforesaid shall be granted, or shall, in pursuance of any act of parliament master of free now in force, be hereafter granted by writing under his hand and archiepiscopal or episcopal seal, to allocate and appoint any part of any lands so to be granted as a perpetual glebe, not exceeding six acres, as and for demesnes for a master of a free school, and sexton of the pa

school, and

sexton.

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