curity, for any money, office, or employment, "in order to give my vote at this election. "So help me God." the 35 Geo. 3. c. 29. Irish. At quarter ses sions next after 1st August in any county partis situated, ed in inhabit others, justices § 61. And be it further enacted, for greater convenience of persons by the said act required to register, that from and after the every year, for passing of this act, at every quarter-sessions to wherein any be held next after the first day of August in borough or every year, and for any county wherein there is here right of situated any borough, or part of any borough, voting is vestwhere the right of voting is vested in the inha- ants, or in inbitants in general, or in the inhabitants and habitants and others, that the justices holding such quarter- to adjourn the sessions are hereby required and directed to same as herein, make an adjournment of the same on some of registering convenient day within three weeks from the voters. holding of such sessions, to such borough as aforesaid, for the purpose of there registering the names of the persons who shall desire to be registered, as claiming a right to vote in such boroughs, and that such adjournment shall be held accordingly, in some convenient place for the purpose aforesaid. for the purpose ceiving writ such borough, try-book to dens; § 62. And be it further enacted, that the Sheriff, on resheriff of the county in which such borough for election at shall be, shall, at all times, upon receiving a writ for the election of a member or members to require clerk of peace to to serve in parliament for such borough, require deliver regisof the clerk of the peace, that he do deliver to church-war the church-wardens, or one of them, of the rish or parishes wherein said borough lies, his said book so by him kept as aforesaid; and that the said church-wardens, with the said book, and the duplicate thereof in their possession kept, shall attend on the returning officer in the said borough, in the court where the poll shall pa church-wardens with said plicate to attend returning as herein; book and du officer, unless 35 Geo. 3. c. 29. Irish. be taken, throughout the whole of every election of members to serve in parliament for said borough, unless one of them shall by any elector be required to attend in a deputy's court, registry-book with his respective book of registry before mento be inspected tioned, which requisition he is hereby required to comply with, to be freely inspected in their hands during the election, by any person concerned therein. during elec tion. Voter, in right of being an in habitant ed as above, dar months beforeelection, (i.e. before test except as here § 63. And be it further enacted, by the auonly, thority aforesaid, that no person whatsoever to be register claiming to vote in right of being an inhabittwelve calen- ant only, shall vote for any member or members to serve in parliament, where a right of voting is vested in the inhabitants in general, or inhabitants and others, who shall not appear to have been first registered in said books, or one of them, in the manner above prescribed, twelve calendar months at least before the time of holding such election, except in the case hereinafter particularly excepted, which being found upon inspection of the returning officer, or his deputy, the returning officer, or his deputy, shall then, and not before, if thereto required by any electors, administer to such person the oath or affirmation following, that is to say, riding for the case of books having been destroued.) Oath to be taken by such voter that he has been resident for last twelve months, "I, A. B. do swear, [or, if a quaker, do affirm] that I am a resident inhabitant in the "borough of in the county of and that I have been so for that he is regis-"these twelve months last past, and duly proved house, and who "and registered my residence twelve calendar his neighbours, "months before the present vacancy, and that my house is situate in tered, where his 66 my next neighbours are and that "and that I am not an inmate or lodger with " 35 Geo. 3. c. 29. Irish. not a lodger, paid taxes, has house to multiply votes, not dence since the not divided his come to resi order to vote; vacancy, nor in any other person in said borough, nor have I "been so at any time within these twelve "months last past, but have paid the usual and "customary taxes and cesses in said borough, as an householder, which have been legally "demanded of me, and that I did not divide my house or out-houses, or suffer my house or "out-houses to be divided, in order to multiply "votes at this election, and that I did not come "to reside in said borough since the present va"cancy happened, nor in order to give my vote at this election, and that my said house, ex- house, &c. "clusive of my land annexed to, or let with it, except that whereon it stands, with its of fices, and back, or other yard, is, to the best "of my knowledge and belief, worth the sum "of five pounds yearly rent, and that I believe "the same may be let for said sum of five pounds 'yearly to a responsible tenant. 66 "So help me God." And if any candidate, or any person having a right to vote at such election, shall require it, these words shall be added to said oath, videlicet, worth 51. per ann. "And that I am of the age of twenty-one years, also, if requir "as I verily believe." ed, that he is twenty-one ; seneschal, or cer, to adminis ter said oath; Which oath or affirmation, the seneschal, or returning officer of such borough, or his, or returning offi their deputy or deputies appointed as aforesaid, is, and are hereby empowered and directed to administer to such voter, at the request of any elector, and on such voter so taking the said oath, or, if a quaker, the said affirmation, then, and not before, such seneschal or returning officer shall admit such votes; and said oath 35 Geo. 3. c. 29. Irish. oath conclusive evidence of qualification. Where bo rough wherein is in inhabit ants in ants and others, is situated in two ties, or affirmation, if a quaker, shall be absolutely final and conclusive evidence to said seneschal or returning officer of such borough, or his deputy, that the person so taking said oath, or making said affirmation, is qualified to vote at such election, and no such voter shall be liable to any further scrutiny or examination whatsoever before such seneschal or returning officer, or his deputy, at such election. § 64. Provided always, that in all and every right of voting such borough or boroughs in this kingdom, where the right of voting is vested in the inor in inhabit-habitants in general, or inhabitants and others, which are situated in two different counties, every inhabitant of such borough qualified to different coun- vote at elections for any member or members to serve in parliament for such borough, may, if he thinks proper, in the oath or affirmation required by the said act to be by him taken at the time of his being registered, and likewise in the oath or affirmation which he may be called upon to take pursuant to said act, at any election for a member or members to serve in parliament for such borough, instead of the words "resident inhabitant of the borough of oath may be altered as herein. Inhabitant of such borough may recover 201. from clerk every neglect of peace for or disobedi ence of the act as herein; in the county of substitute the words, "resident inhabitant of 65. And be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that if any such inhabitant of such borough shall find that the acting clerk of the peace has wilfully or negligently acted in disobedience thereto, by not registering his residence in the manner hereby, directed, having 29. Irish. been thereunto duly required, and by not giving 85 Geo. 3. c. to the church-wardens of said borough a copy of the registry-book, in the manner and at the time herein before mentioned, or by erasing, tearing out, or designedly making the same, or any part thereof, illegible; or designedly, or through neglect, suffering any person to do so, the said inhabitants shall be entitled to recover from the said acting clerk of the peace, by civil bill, the sum of twenty pounds for every such offence, process being served twelve days inclu- served twelve sive before the first day of the assizes. process to be days inclusive before the first day of assizes. 6d. to deliver § 66. And in order that the said inhabitant Clerk of peace, or inhabitants may the more easily recover the on payment of aforesaid sum or sums in the manner herein be- certificate as fore mentioned, be it enacted by the authority herein. aforesaid, that the said acting clerk of the peace, upon the receipt of sixpence as aforesaid, shall deliver to the inhabitants a certificate, signed by the court, and countersigned by himself, who are hereby required to sign the same, of his having been duly registered on that day, which certificate, although no part of the registry, shall, when proved, be sufficient evidence upon any civil bill brought for the penalty aforesaid. to be sufficient lost or defac ed, &c. § 67. And be it enacted, that if the registry- Certificate, book to be kept by the clerk of the peace, and when proved, the copy thereof to be kept by the church-war- evidence if redens, shall both be proved upon oath before the gistry-book is returning officer of said borough, who is hereby authorized to administer the same, to have been lost, destroyed, or withheld, or so defaced that the affidavits shall be illegible, either previous to or during the election, in such case any of the said certificates, when proved, shall be sufficient evidence upon the election, that the in |