All works car. ried on at the board of architect to superintend public build The Irish Stat. 33 Geo. 3. c. 34. 1793. An Act for the Support of the Honour and Dignity of His Majesty's Crown in Ireland, and for granting to His Majesty a Civil List Establishment, under certain Provisions and Regulations. § 21. AND be it enacted and declared, that all public expence public buildings or works of any kind whatsoto be under the ever, carried on solely at the public expence, control of the shall be hereafter in the execution of the same, works; under the sole management, inspection, and lord-lieutenant control of his majesty's board of works; and to to appoint an provide for the due and faithful execution of the work, the lord-lieutenant as soon as conveniently may be after the passing of this act, shall appoint by warrant an architect or inspector of civil buildings (he being bona fide an architect or builder), who shall superintend the execution of all public works, under the direction of the commissioners of the board of works, and who is hereby declared, and shall be incapable of sitting or voting in parliament. ings; such per son not to sit in parliament. The Irish Stat. 33 Geo. 3. c. 41. 1793. c. 52. U. K. An Act for securing the Freedom and Inde- See 41 Geo. 3. pendence of the House of Commons, by excluding therefrom Persons holding any Offices under the Crown, to be hereafter created, or holding certain Offices therein enumerated, or Pensions for Terms of Years, or during His Majesty's Pleasure. in a place of pro ing pleasure, "FOR the better preserving the constitution "and freedom of parliament;" be it enacted, by the king's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that no person who shall have in his own No person name, or in the name of any person or persons who shall have trust for him, or for his benefit, any office or place fit created of profit under the crown, at any time after the or having a passing of this act, created or erected; nor any pension for person having any pension from the crown dur- years, or during pleasure, or for a term of years; nor any per- or whose wife son whose wife shall have any pension from the crown during pleasure, or for a term of years; nor any surveyor-general in the revenue, nor nor any surany collector in the revenue, appointed by the veyor-general, commissioners of customs or excise, save only revenue, exthe collectors of the customs and excise in the cept in Dublin; port of Dublin, and in the county of, and city of Dublin; nor any of the secretaries to the nor secretacommissioners of customs, to the excise, to the ries to the dif commissioners of accounts, to the commissioners sioners herein of the barracks, to the post-office, or to the board mentioned; of ordnance; nor the paymaster of bounties on nor paymaster shall have such; or collector of ferent commis 41. Irish. of corn boun ties shall be 33 Geo. 3. c. corn coming coastways to the city of Dublin, shall be capable of being elected a member of the house of commons in this present parliament, or of being elected, or of sitting and voting as a ber of parlia-member of the house of commons, in any parliament which shall be hereafter summoned and holden. elected a mem ment. Offices revived after five years disuse, or 100l. a year added to sa lary, deemed new offices. If his majesty appoints commissioners of treasury they and their secretary may be elected members. Members who, after 31st De cember, 1793, accept offices of profit from the crown, shall vacate their seats. §2. And be it further enacted, that if any office under the crown hath been abolished or disused for the space of five years, before the passing of this act, shall be re-established, or if any additional salary exceeding one hundred pounds per annum, shall, after the passing of this act, be added to the salary of any office, or if a salary of one hundred pounds per annum shall be granted to any office to which no salary is now granted, every such office shall be deemed a new office, within the true intent and meaning of this act. § 3. Provided always, that if his majesty shall think fit to grant the office of high treasurer of Ireland, to be executed by commissioners, it shall and may be lawful for such commissioners, and for the secretary of such commissioners, to be elected members of, and to sit and vote in the house of commons. § 4. Provided also, and be it enacted, that if any person being chosen a member of the house of commons shall, after the thirty-first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, accept any office of profit from the crown, during such time as he shall continue a member, his seat shall thereupon become vacant, and a writ shall issue for a new election. 33 Geo. 3. c. 41. Irish. § 5. Provided nevertheless, that such person shall be capable of being again elected to be a member of the house of commons, for the place Such persons for which he had been a member, or any other may be replace sending members to the house of com mons. elected. commissioners § 6. Provided also, and be it enacted, that in No additional order to prevent for the future too great a num- may be ap ber of commissioners being appointed or consti- pointed. tuted for the execution of any office, no greater number of commissioners shall be made or constituted for the execution of any office, than have been employed in the execution of such office, at some time before the first day of the present parliament. sioners of § 7. Provided always, that it shall and may King may apbe lawful for his majesty, his heirs and succes- point commissors, to appoint commissioners for the purpose treasury. of executing the office of high treasurer of this kingdom. tend to officers 8. Provided always, that nothing herein Act not to excontained shall extend, or be construed to ex- in army, militend, to any member of the house of commons, tia, or navy, being an officer of his majesty's army, militia, &c. or navy, or who shall receive any new or other commission or warrant in the army or navy respectively; nor to any person having or accepting an office for life, or during good beha viour. deemed inca 9. And be it further enacted, that if any Elections of person hereby disabled or declared incapable of persons hereby sitting or voting in the house of commons, shall pabie shall be nevertheless be returned as a member to serve void; for any county, city, borough, town, or place in parliament, such election and return are hereby declared to be void, to all intents and purposes; and if any person so hereafter returned, and disabled or incapable by this act to be elected, shall presume to sit or vote as a member of the house of commons, such person so sitting or voting shall forfeit the sum of five hundred pounds, to be recovered by such person as shall sue for the same, in any of his majesty's courts of record in Dublin, by action, debt, bill, plaint, or information, wherein no essoin, protection, or wager of law shall be allowed, and only one imparlance. 10. And be it further enacted, that from and after the passing of this act, it shall not be lawful for any person who shall be appointed to any civil office, or place of profit under the crown, the salary and perquisites of which shall amount to two hundred pounds a year, which shall be hereafter created or erected, to execute the duties, or to receive the salary or profits of such office, until he shall have taken before a baron of the court of exchequer, the oath following, to wit: "I, A. B. do swear, that I have not accepted, " and will not hold the office of "in trust, or for the use or benefit, directly or indirectly, of any member of the house of 66 "commons. "So help me God." § 11. And be it further enacted, that from and after the passing of this act, every person who shall be elected a member of the house of commons, shall, at the time he takes his seat in the |