61. Irish.

for ever dis qualified from voting at any

election;

38 Geo. 3. c. spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, that the said Gilbert Roycroft, Richard Tyler, senior, Richard Tyler, junior, and Edward Jones, shall be for such their conduct, disqualified, and they are hereby disqualified for ever hereafter from voting at any election for any member or members to serve in parliament in this kingdom; and if any sheriff, or other returning officer or officers, shall accept at any such election the vote of any of the said persons, or permit his poll to be entered on the poll-book, such vote and entry shall be void, and such sheriff, or 5001. penalty other returning officer or officers, shall forfeit the sum of five hundred pounds, to be recovered by action, bill, plaint, or information, in any of his majesty's courts of record in this kingdom, to the use of any person who shall sue for the same, in which no essoin or wager at law, nor more than one imparlance, shall be allowed (a).

on returning

officer for accepting a vote from any of

them, and vote void.

(a) The act of union passed 2d July, 1800, but the union was not to take effect till the 1st January, 1801. The acts 40 Geo. 3. c. 43. and 43 Geo.

3. c. 80. passed in the Irish parliament during this interval. In order to preserve a chronological order they are inserted after the act of union.

The Stat. 39 & 40 Geo. 3, c. 67. U. K.

An Act for the Union of Great Britain and
Ireland.

[2d July, 1800.]

"WHEREAS, in pursuance of his majesty's Preamble. "most gracious recommendation to the two "houses of parliament in Great Britain and "Ireland respectively, to consider of such "measures as might best tend to strengthen "and consolidate the connection between the "two kingdoms, the two houses of the parlia"ment of Great Britain, and the two houses "of the parliament of Ireland, have severally "agreed and resolved, that, in order to pro"mote and secure the essential interests of "Great Britain and Ireland, and to conso"lidate the strength, power, and resources of "the British empire, it will be advisable to "concur in such measures as may best tend "to unite the two kingdoms of Great Bri"tain and Ireland into one kingdom, in such

manner, and on such terms and conditions, "as may be established by the acts of the respective parliaments of Great Britain and "İreland:

"And whereas, in furtherance of the said The parliaments of Eng. "resolution, both houses of the said two land and Ireparliaments respectively have likewise agreed land have upon certain articles for effectuating and the articles establishing the said purposes, in the tenor following: following:

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agreed upon

39 & 40 Geo.

3. c. 67. U. K.

That the united kingdom be represented in one parliament.

ARTICLE THIRD.

That it be the third article of union, that the said united kingdom be represented in one and the same parliament, to be stiled The parliament of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

That the number of lords spiritual and

temporal, and

of commoners, herein speci

fied, shall sit

and vote on the part of

ARTICLE FOURTH.

That it be the fourth article of union, that four lords spiritual of Ireland by rotation of sessions, and twenty-eight lords temporal of Ireland elected for life by the peers of Ireland, shall be the number to sit and vote on the part of Ireland in the house of lords of the parliaIreland in the ment of the united kingdom; and one hundred commoners (two for each county of Ireland, two for the city of Dublin, two for the city of Cork, one for the university of Trinity College, and one for each of the thirty-one most considerable cities, towns, and boroughs), be the number to sit and vote on the part of Ireland in the house of commons of the parliament of the united kingdom:

parliament of the united kingdom.

That such act as shall be

passed in Ireland to regu

of summoning

That such act as shall be passed in the parliament of Ireland previous to the union, to regulate the mode by which the lords spiritual late the mode and temporal, and the commons, to serve in and returning the parliament of the united kingdom on the commoners to part of Ireland, shall be summoned and returned to the said parliament, shall be conparliament of sidered as forming part of the treaty of union, kingdom, shall and shall be incorporated in the acts of the

the lords and

serve in the

the united

be considered

respective parliaments by which the said union 59 & 49 Geo. shall be ratified and established:

3. c. 67. U. K.

as part of the

union.

the rotation or

tions touching election of lords of Irethe united shall be decided by the

land to sit in

parliament

house of lords thereof.

That all questions touching the rotation or treaty of election of lords spiritual or temporal of Ireland That all questo sit in the parliament of the united kingdom, shall be decided by the house of lords thereof; and whenever, by reason of an equality of votes in the election of any such lords temporal, a complete election shall not be made according to the true intent of this article, the names of those peers for whom such equality of votes shall be so given, shall be written on pieces of paper of a similar form, and shall be put into a glass, by the clerk of the parliaments at the table of the house of lords whilst the house is sitting; and the peer or peers whose name or names shall be first drawn out by the clerk of the parliaments, shall be deemed the peer or peers elected as the case may be:

commons of

kingdom, un

in the house of

That any person holding any peerage of Ire- That any peer land now subsisting, or hereafter to be created, of Ireland may shall not thereby be disqualified from being serve in the elected to serve if he shall so think fit, or from house of serving or continuing to serve, if he shall so the united think fit, for any county, city, or borough of less previously Great Britain, in the house of commons of elected to sit the united kingdom, unless he shall have been lords, but shall previously elected as above, to sit in the house not be entitled of lords of the united kingdom; but that so of peerage, to the privilege long as such peer of Ireland shall so continue &c. to be a member of the house of commons, he shall not be entitled to the privilege of peerage, nor be capable of being elected to serve as a peer on the part of Ireland, or of voting at any such election; and that he shall be liable to be sued, indicted, proceeded against, and tried

39 & 40 Geo. as a commoner, for any offence with which he may be charged:

3. c. 67. U. K.

Questions

touching the

election of

commons of

the united kingdom on the part of

That all questions touching the election of members to sit on the part of Ireland in the members to sit house of commons of the united kingdom, shall in the house of be heard and decided in the same manner as questions touching such elections in Great Britain now are, or any time hereafter shall by law be heard and decided; subject nevertheless to such particular regulations in respect of Ireland as, from local circumstances, the parliament of the united kingdom may from time to time deem expedient:

Ireland, shall

be decided as questions

touching such

elections in

Great Britain;

and their qualifications in respect of property shall be

the same as in England.

When his ma

clare his plea

ing a parlia

ment of the

That the qualifications in respect of property of the members elected on the part of Ireland to sit in the house of commons of the united kingdom, shall be respectively the same as are now provided by law in the cases of elections for counties and cities and boroughs respectively in that part of Great Britain called England, unless any other provision shall hereafter be made in that respect by act of parliament of the united kingdom:

That when his majesty, his heirs or successors, jesty, shall de- shall declare his, her, or their pleasure for holdsure for holding the first or any subsequent parliament of the united kingdom, a proclamation shall issue, united king under the great seal of the united kingdom, to dom, a procla- cause the lords spiritual and temporal, and comissue to cause mons, who are to serve in the parliament thereof on the part of Ireland, to be returned in such are to serve on manner as by any act of this present session of re the parliament of Ireland shall be provided; turned as shall and that the lords spiritual and temporal and

mation shall

the lords and

commons, who

land, to be re

be provided by