§ 20. And be it further enacted, that no candidate for a county shall employ at, or for any election for said county, where a poll shall take place, more hired agents or hired clerks than after the rate of one agent and one clerk for each barony or half-barony in said county, and that no candidate for any city, town or borough, shall employ at, or for any election which shall be held there, where a poll take place, more hired agents or hired clerks than one agent or one clerk for every one hundred voters who polled at the last, or any previous election held there, and that no higher sum shall be paid to any such clerk or agent than five guineas for the first day, and two guineas for every further day which the poll shall continue; and if any candidate shall employ at, or for any election, more hired clerks or agents than is hereby allowed, or pay, or promise to pay, directly or indirectly, to any clerk or agent more than the wages herein specified, he shall for every such offence forfeit to any person who shall sue for the same the sum of one thousand pounds. § 21. And be it further enacted, that no barrister or counsel, or friend, or adviser of the court, although an elector, shall be permitted to plead before, or be heard as counsel by, any returning officer, or any deputy at any election, on the part of any candidate or elector, either for or against the right of any person to vote at such election or otherwise. § 22. Provided always, that it shall and may be lawful for any returning officer to employ a barrister or counsel to assist him in the execution of his duty, and that every candidate may pay any sum he thinks proper towards defraying 35 Geo. 3. c. the expences thereof. 29. Irish. shall ask or themselves or ward, &c. § 23. And be it further enacted, that if any Persons who person who shall have, or claim to have, any receive any right to vote in any election of a member or mem- reward for bers of parliament, shall, directly or indirectly, others, or whe ask, receive, or take any money or other reward influence by way of gift, employmeut, or other reward others for rewhatsoever, for himself or any of his family or kindred, to give his vote, or to abstain from giving his vote in any such election; and if any person by himself, his friends, or by any person employed by him, shall, by any gift or reward, or by any promise or agreement, or security for any gift or reward, corrupt or procure any person or persons to give his or their vote or votes in any such election, or to abstain from giving the same, such person shall, for every such offence, forfeit the sum of five hundred pounds sterling to forfeit 5001. to the person who shall first sue for the same, to be recovered as hereinafter directed, and every person offending in any of the cases aforesaid, from and after judgment obtained against him, after judgment in any action or information grounded on this such persons act, shall for ever be disabled to vote in any chised. election of any member or members to serve in parliament, and also shall be for ever disabled to hold, exercise, or enjoy any office or franchise to which he or they then shall, or at any time afterwards may be entitled, as member of any city, borough,. or town corporate, as if such person was naturally dead. to be disfran made fraudu $ 24. And be it further enacted, that from. Conveyances and after the passing this act, all estates, grants, lently to quaand conveyances whatsoever, made to any per- lify voter, son or persons in any fraudulent or collusive shall be deem ed absolute 35 Geo. 3. c. 29. Irish. against persons who grant them; manner, on purpose or with intent to qualify him or them to give his or their vote or votes at any election or elections of knights of the shire, or citizens for counties of cities, or burgesses for counties of towns, or any other boroughs, subject to conditions or agreements, to defeat or determine such estates, grants, and conveyances, shall be deemed and taken against the person or persons who granted such estate as free and absolute, and be holden and enjoyed by all and every person and persons to whom such conveyance or grant shall be made as aforesaid, freed and absolutely acquitted, exonerated, and discharged, of and from all manner of trusts, conditions, clauses of re-entry, powers of revocation, provisoes of redemption, or other defeazances whatsoever, between or with the said parties, or any other person or persons in trust for them; and that all bonds, covenants, collateral or other securities, contracts or agreements, between or with the said parties, or any other person or persons in trust for them, or any of them, for the redeeming, revoking, or defeating such estate or estates, or for the restoring or re-conveying thereof, or any part thereof, to any person or persons in trust for them, or any of them, shall be null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever; and that every person who enting or pre- shall make and execute such conveyance or conconveyances, veyances as aforesaid, or being privy to such such, to forfeit purpose, shall devise or prepare the same, and every person who by colour thereof shall give any vote at any election for any such member to serve in parliament, shall, for every such grant and conveyance so made, or vote so created or given, forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds sterling to any person who shall sue for covenants for persons exe paring such or voting under 1007. the same, to be recovered in manner herein after 35 Geo. 3. c. directed. 29. Irish. None to vote under twenty one years old, nor by virtue of a rent § 25. And be it further enacted, that no person shall be admitted to vote at any election of a member or members to serve in parliament who is under the age of twenty-one years, nor charge, by virtue of any freehold arising from a rentcharge, unless such rent-charge be of the full clear yearly value of twenty pounds at the least, nor unless he shall have been in possession unless he shall thereof for one whole year, and shall have been have been in entitled to receive one whole year's rent and year, and been profit thereof, before the test of the writ for entitled to one holding such election, unless said freehold shall except as herehave come to him by descent, devise, marriage, or marriage-settlement, within the said year. possession one year's rent, in. Persons not to frecholds are let or dised from whom they hold, if vote whose to persons under 201. § 26. And be it enacted, that no person shall be admitted to vote at any election, by virtue of any freehold which shall be let or demised to the person or persons from whom he holds or derives the same, or to any person in trust for him or them, or to his or their heirs or assigns, if the yearly value thereof be under the sum of twenty pounds; and that no person shall be ad- nor if let to mitted to vote at any election, by virtue of a the term he freehold which shall be let or demised to any holds, if under person or persons for the same term for which . he holds the same, if the value thereof be under the yearly sum of twenty pounds. any other for 201. vote, unless in § 27. And be it further enacted, that no per- No trustee or son shall be admitted to vote at any election, mortgagee to by reason of any trust, estate, or mortgage, un- possession less such trustee or mortgagee shall have been in twelve months the actual possession or receipt of the profits writ; thereof, for his own use, twelve calendar months before test of 29. Irish. 35 Geo. 3. c. before the test of the writ for holding such election, and the mortgagor or cestui que trust in possession (or both, as the case may be), may vote out of such estate, notwithstanding such mortgage or trust. mortgagor may vote. None to vote by virtue of change, &c. or in consideration of in § 28. And be it further enacted, that no perfreehold in ex- son shall be admitted to vote at any election, by virtue of any freehold granted fraudulently or in exchange for a freehold in any other county, crease of rent, or in consideration of any increase of rent out of any other lands in the same, or in any other county, held by such person from the grantor, though consi- though such consideration be not expressed in the deed of grant. out of lands held by such person from grantor, deration not expressed, &c. Freemen not to vote, unless admitted six election, unless by birthright, &c. § 29. And be it further enacted, that no person shall be admitted to vote as a freeman at any months before election of a member to serve in parliament, whose freedom shall not have come to him by service, birth-right, or marriage, unless he shall have been admitted to his freedom, or his freedom shall have been granted to him six calendar months at the least before the test of the writ for holding such election. Freeholders under 201. to occupy by re siding, or tilling or grazing to amount of 40s. when registered; (For further provisions see § 30. And be it further enacted, that no person shall be admitted to vote at any election of a member or members to serve in parliament, by virtue of a frechold under the yearly value of twenty pounds, unless such freehold shall have been in his actual occupation, either by his residing thereon, or tilling or grazing the same to the amount of forty shillings yearly value thereof at the time of his registering the same (pursuant to the provisions of this act hereafter mentioned), and also for six successive calendar before test of months at the least, between the date of such 37 Geo. 3. c. 47. Irish; and 45 Geo. 3. c. 49.) and six months |