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35 Geo. 3. c. hold on account of having sold, aliened, or disposed of any part of the freehold he shall have registered between the date of such registry and the day he shall offer his vote, if he shall have retained thereof to the annual value sworn in such registry.

posed of a part of freehold, if they retain as much

as sworn to.

None precluded voting by virtue of a rent-charge accrued by descent, &c.

within fifteen another free

months, or for

hold so ac-
crued within
nine months
because not
registered.
(See post, 37
Geo. 3. c. 47.
§ 4. by which
such rent-
charges and

other freeholds

are required to be registered.) obliged to register ecclesi

astical freeholds.

Clerks of

registry to freeholders as herein;

§ 39. Provided also, that no person shall be precluded from voting by virtue of a freehold on account of its not being registered pursuant to the provisions of this act, if it consists of a rent-charge, and shall have come to him by descent, devise, marriage, or marriage-settlement, within fifteen months previous to the test of the writ for holding the election at which he shall offer to vote, or if it does not consist of a rentcharge, and shall have come to him in like manner within nine months previous to such test.

§40. Provided also, that no rector, vicar, or curate, shall be obliged to register his freehold arising from his rectory, vicarage, curacy, or other ecclesiastical preferment, or be precluded from voting at any election on account of his not having registered the same.

41. And be it further enacted, that every certificates of clerk of the peace shall give to every person immediately on the registry of his freehold, if he shall demand it, a certificate signed by himself, certifying such person having duly registered on penalty of the same, and reciting his oath or affirmation exactly therein, under a penalty of five pounds for every neglect or refusal, for which certificate he shall be paid by such freeholder the sum of three pence, and every such certificate, when signed in open court by two justices, and countersigned by the acting clerk of the peace, shall

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freeholders to pay 3d.

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city with ori

in case of the

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be, and is hereby declared to be, of equal 35 Geo. 3. c. authenticity with the original oath or affirmation, in case the same shall be lost or mislaid.

Clerk to enter

freeholders in

book,

§ 42. And be it further enacted, that the acting clerk of the peace shall, during every sessions, enter into a book in alphabetical order, according to the surnames of the persons registered, the substance of every such oath or affirmation delivered to him, in the form follow- in the form ing:

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And he shall in every county likewise enter the same, in like alphabetical order and form, into separate books, one for each barony or half- The like in barony, according to the barony or half-barony every county, in which such freehold shall be sworn or affirm- each barony or ed to lie, which books he shall attend with with which he half-barony, at every election for a knight or knights of shall attend the shire, and deliver in court to the sheriff, knights of the previous to the commencement of the poll, shire, making making oath at the same time before a justice truth of the of the peace, that all the entries in the said entries. books are truly and exactly made according to the directions of this act.

at elections for

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questing, at

43. And be it further enacted, that every clerk of the peace shall, from time to time, within ten days after every sessions, deliver to the treasurer of the county a true copy of entry of registry by him made at such sessions, of the counwhich shall be kept by the said treasurer be given to copy amongst the accounts of the said county, and freeholders re that, at the request of any freeholder of the sd. per one said county to the clerk of the peace or trea- hundred surer, the said clerk of the peace or treasurer shall, within. ten days from such request, deliver to such person a true copy of the registry of all the freeholders which shall have been registered in such county at the time of such request being made, on receiving a sum at the rate of three pence for every hundred persons names contained in said copy.

names.

neglecting to

§ 44. And be it further enacted, that if any Clerk of peace clerk of the peace shall omit or neglect to keep do as herein, any of the books hereby required, or to make to forfeit 1007. due entries therein, in the order and form re- qualified; quired, or to file any oath and affirmation delivered to him to be filed, and to preserve the

and to be dis

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35 Geo. 3. e. same free from erasure, blot, interlineation, or damage, or shall omit to give the copies hereby required within the time limited to the treasurer of the county, he shall, for every such offence, forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds, and be incapable of serving as clerk of the peace for for neglecting any county, and if he shall neglect or refuse to

to attend at

sessions, &c.

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attend at any sessions whereat freeholders may be registered by virtue of this act, or shall omit to give copies of the registry or any pollbook lodged with him within a reasonable time after demand, he shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of fifty pounds to any person suing for the same.

$45. And for the greater ease of registering freeholders, be it enacted, that the general or quarter-sessions may be adjourned from time to time, to be held either at any usual place of sessions, or at any market town within the county, and that every such sessions, and every such adjournment thereof, or adjournment of any adjournment, shall be deemed a sessions within the meaning of this act, for the purpose of registering freeholders, but that no special sessions held for any purpose of the militia, or for licensing persons to sell ale, beer, or spirituous liquors, shall be deemed a sessions within the meaning of this act, for the purpose of registering freeholders.

§ 46. And be it further enacted, that every chargers and person who shall offer to vote as a freeholder, freeholders if shall, before he shall be admitted to poll at any fore they poll. election, declare whether his freehold arises from a rent-charge or not, and if it arises from a rent-charge, he shall, before he shall be admitted to poll, take the oath hereafter following, intitled,

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